Listen…
I consider myself a n00b-o-phyte still with regards to ceremonial magick. I had been working through the rudimentary Kraig book (vilified by some, recommended by others, but I digress) and practicing banishings and middle pillar exercises, when I find many posts on this forum regarding Elubatel and success. Of particular interest to me was Vovin’s excellent exchange found here http://www.studioarcanis.com/viewtopic ... 3987#p3987 . I have been in serious financial stress for the last couple of years, desperate for a steady job, and so I decided to try for an appeal to Elubatel, even though I was (and still am
) quite inexperienced at practical magick.I based my ritual on a synthesis of posts found here at EM, and also naturally on the NAP book. Using a double-cube altar adorned with rudimentary elemental tools, for one week on the waxing moon I prepared with a Relaxation, LBRP, BRH, middle pillar, then to the opening NAP ritual (the arzael bit) and the Bornless ritual as outlined in the NAP. I then made a simple appeal to Elubatel, asking at first for a specific position at a specific company at which I’d already applied. As the full moon approached, I altered my request to a more generalized “employment at a real company with benefits, etc.”
On the night of the full moon, I really performed the whole shebang as “enflamed with prayer” as I could muster. I had been living on rice and beans (oatmeal in the morning
) for a long time, and had no sweet treats to offer as a thanks, although I did dedicate extra incense for Elubatel during this time.This was in March 2010. For several months I was able to pick up the odd temp job or under-the-table project, but nothing even close to my “target” request/demand, so I sort of wrote it off to being too much of a probationer to expect much.
Then, last February, I get a call from a prospective employer. (This entire time I had been sending out resumes daily—magick doesn’t happen to the idle, from what I’ve read, and certainly based on the post cited above Elubatel ignores the idle…) I take the interview, it goes a lot like the dozens I’d had over the past year.
A week follows, then I get an email from the company asking for confirmation of my name as it appears on my driver’s license, because:
--they want to fly me out for training
--limo to and from the airport
--plush hotel room
--per diem
--all expenses paid
--job with benefits, full medical/dental.401k
--choice of shift and days off (so’s I can keep the band I’m in
)--paid time off
--no drug test ( number6 likes the occasional toke)
--no dress code (number6 is an old hippie, and the company is staffed by the pierced and tattooed )
“FUCKIN A “ sez I …I finally made it!!
I’m typing this up on my last day at the hotel where they put me up. I return tomorrow, employed, badged, paid, and grateful as hell.
The day before I embarked, I dedicated a special ritual to Elubatel, full of thanks, and this time with an offering of my favorite dried fruit and chocolate.
I feel that the lag in time is likely due to the points outlined in Vovin’s post: Elubated grants to those who try to help themselves and/or who have sacrificed. My forced diet of simple foods yielded a weight loss of 80 lbs over the course of the last year, so that, coupled with my n00bness, I think resulted in almost a year passing until I got results.
…or, maybe it’s all just dumb luck. I prefer to know that magick works though; I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to decide for yourself!
