“Humble Saturn, grant us the serenity to accept the things we can not change,
The Courage to change the things we can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.’
It’s Mars Day and Hour I’m Reverend Devon Malone and your listening to Selene’s Gateway: Morning Edition.
Helios is at 11’ and 52” of Aries, Selene is at 6’ and 18” Libra, and the Ascendant is at 24’ and 46” of Gemini. The chart is cast for Washington D.C.
The Final Depositor for today lands on Venus. Venus is in Taurus and is hosting tonights full moon. Her condition, from a hellenistic perspective, is pretty great. She’s an evening star, in her nocturnal domicile. She is unafflicted by Saturn and is in a loose whole sign sextile with Mars. Her closest companions are the sextiles from Mercury in Pisces (her sign of exaltation) and exalted Jupiter in Cancer.
When we bring in the 3 outer planets we end up with some other issues. First of all she’s applying a tight square to Pluto. So there’s a relationship tension around power struggles or maybe an cathartic release through art is being needed. Uranus is in a Contra Anticia with Pluto, so something bottled up might need a dramatic release. Venus is overseeing this tension as well since Uranus is one of the closest aspects she’s participating with. Uranus is approaching the degree of Alcyone and the Pleiades can add confusion as well as other tragedies. I know an astrologer that’s doing a lot of research on the Pleiades and I’m excited for their work to mature.
All of this is to say that if Venus in Taurus doesn’t feel like bubble baths and orgasmic bites of food. This is partially the case. The other reason is I feel the collective is seeking activation of her other significations of Divine Justice in order to create Harmony and Pluto is going to be a big part of that.
As far as the Full Moon itself, you can check out the Almanac since I’ve already written about it there while bringing in the constellations it’s drawing from as well as a Tarot Card for it.
Today I’m mostly here to offer the prayer that I’ve been using for several years now for the Full Moon. This comes from the “Greek Magical Papyri” 2nd edition edited by Hans Dieter Betz. This is a collection of translations of grecko/roman texts from egypt mostly dated from 2nd Century BCE to the 5th Century C.E. and its sole focus is religious/magical operations and incantations. This is a scholarly collection so there is no speculation or frills. That is left up to anyone that chooses to engage with the work.
In it we find the catalogue number of PGM IV. 2785 - 2890 “Prayer to Selene for any spell” (pg. 90). In this passage you find a different side of Selene. Most of our astrological significations for the Moon involve mothers, caretaking, emotions, and the home (and others). In astrological magick we see her as important to every operation for the ancients teach us that if we wish to draw upon the celestial powers into our lives that the moon is the final prism that all the light is filtered through into manifest reality in our world.
In this prayer we find a fierce Titan Goddess who becomes associated with things most “common inclinations” may find dreadful. To me it speaks of the Queen of the Night and the anxieties that come with that darkness. However, there is much power in the piece and I will speak on it no more and allow the ancient text to speak for itself. As always you can find the written version of the prayer on my patreon.
So without further adieu.
The Prayer to Selene For Any operation
And so it goes
Come to me, O beloved mistress, Three-faced Selene;
kindly hear my sacred chants;
Night’s ornament, young, bringing light to mortals,
O child of morn who ride upon fierce bulls,
O queen who drive your car on equal course
With Helios, who with the triple forms
Of triple Graces dance in revel with
The stars. You’re Justice and the Moira’s threads:
Klotho and Lachesis and Atropos
Three-headed, you’re Persephone, Megaira,
Allekto, many-formed, who arm your hands
With dreaded, murky lamps, who shake your locks
Of fearful serpents on your brow, who sound
The roar of bulls out from your mouths, whose womb
Is decked out with the scales of creeping things,
With pois’nous rows of serpents down the back,
Bound down your backs with horrifying chains
Night-Crier, bull-faced, loving solitude,
Bull-headed, you have eyes of bulls, the voice
Of dogs; you hide your forms in shanks of lions,
Your ankle is wolf-shaped, fierce dogs are dear
To you, wherefore they call you Hekate,
Many-named, Mene, cleaving air just like
Dart-shooter Artemis, Persephone,
Shooter of deer, night shining, triple-sounding,
Triple-headed, triple-voiced Selene
Triple-pointed, triple-faced, triple-necked,
And goddess of the triple ways, who hold
Untiring flaming fire in triple baskets,
And you who oft frequent the triple way
And rule the triple decades, unto me
Who’m calling you be gracious and with kindness
Give heed, you who protect the spacious world
At night, before whom daimons quake in fear
And gods immortal tremble, goddess who
Exalt men, you of many names, who bear
Fair offspring, bull-eyed, horned, mother of gods
And men, and Nature, Mother of all things,
For you frequent Olympos, and the broad
And boundless chasm you traverse. Beginning
And end are you, and you alone rule all.
For all things are from you, and in you do
All things, Eternal one, come to their end.
As everlasting band around your temples
You wear great Kronos’ chains, unbreakable
And unremovable, and you hold in
Your hands a golden scepter. Letters ‘round
Your scepter Kronos wrote himself and gave
To you to wear that all things stay steadfast:
Subduer and subdued, mankind’s subduer,
And force-subduer; Chaos, too, you rule.
ARARACHARARA ÊPHTHISIKÊRE.
Hail, goddess, and attend your epithets,
I burn for you this spice, O child of Zeus,
Dart-shooter, heav’nly one, goddess of harbors,
Who roam the mountains, goddess of crossroads,
O nether and nocturnal, and infernal,
Goddess of dark, quiet and frightful one,
O you who have your meal amid the graves,
Night, Darkness, broad Chaos: Necessity
Hard to escape are you; you’re Moira and
Erinys, torment, Justice and Destroyer,
And you keep Kerberos in chains, with scales
Of serpents are you dark, O you with hair
Of serpents, serpent-girded, who drink blood,
Who bring death and destruction, and who feast
On hearts, flesh eater, who devour those dead
Untimely, and you who make grief resound
And spread madness, come to my sacrifices,
And now for me do you fulfill this matter.
Please guide us through our darkest hours,
Aide us to find truth in the shadows
Adorn us in your fierce and glorious light
May we be unapologetic in our seeking
May we be unapologetic in our truth
May we revel in the beauty of the night
In the beauty of your light
Instead of fearful of its shadows and unknown
May we be torch bearers to those that are lost in darkness
May we be torch bearers to the darkness of our own hearts
And so it is.
