So...It ended up working. Was NOT expecting this. So that's a total of 5 days I believe, of using the excite love spell.
Results were not boring, they were pretty full on.
Um, yeah, so in the interests of experimental magic I will go on to say that give the NAP spell a few days, repeat daily, have absolute faith in your abilities as a Magician to influence the Universe. I feel that with NAP, the true merit comes from the unique way it gets you to participate using your own 'magic power' with the spirits so to speak, whereas this is not brought up in many other books and traditions, which instead utilise the power of Light, God, supreme authority, LVX or whatever. This is Light as You, or 'New Avatar Power' as Cobb puts it cornily and yet effectively.
Wow.
I would not recommend the love spell unless you want full on declarations of love or desire. I honestly think the spirits of Venus invoked seriously imbalance the desired person in favor of romance towards you.
My result manifested specifically in a declaration of love, not lust, and whilst I will be taking things slow - I feel there was a certain fervor you would not ordinarily get at the start of a non-Venus-influenced relationship.
From now on, I will be taking it slow and careful
Don't think I will be using that one again in a hurry...This was almost as extreme as the time I summoned Sitri for a date, and it turned out to be someone only interested in a fling :/
Gotta say,
In the name of EL, whoah.