Modern Sorcery & Old Magic, by Elhoim Leafar.

Modern Sorcery & Old Magic, by Elhoim Leafar.

Hugs to all the readers who came to this little virtual corner, the place where I feel more like sharing my ideas and the occasional experience.

In this short post, far from debating trivialities like "what kind of magic is better?", I am going to focus on making clear some ideas on the subject that I would like to share about it, especially towards my followers and readers who are keeping me positive. busy in the course of the day.

Remember that in this post, as in all the posts on this blog:

1. We do not seek to please anyone, simply to clarify some points of view from the practical.
2. There are no editors, so the ideas are written as they should be, completely "raw" and without filters.
3. This post is written by an individual who was born in a tiny Amazon town next to the Orinoco River, was raised between the cities of Caracas and Cumana in Venezuela, and currently resides in another city different from the world, if your vision and mine do not match, that is completely normal.
4. In this as in all my blog posts, I do not seek to sell my ideas to anyone, my job is not to convince you, my job is simply to make others understand my position regarding certain topics so that they know and understand that thinking differently does not It means being isolated, you can think differently from the rest and still be part of a civilized society.

Now yes, entering the matter, we are going to define certain points for your understanding.

Modern Sorcery vs Old Magic.

Do you remember Merlin the magician? Imagine Merlin for a moment, the old man with the long beard, the king's advisor, a well-known alchemist and sorcerer who guarded the folklore of Camelot, cared for the holy sword of Excalibur and fulfilled practically all characteristics of a druid.

Merlin revered the forests in order to win the favor of the old spirits, read fate in the stars and clouds, so he would be prepared for all events. Merlin studied folklore in order to understand the past, taking care of King Arthur, to whom he gave advice when necessary, since being the King's guide allowed him to fulfill his greatest task, protect and bring prosperity to the kingdom of Camelot.

Now let's analyze for a moment the practice that was carried out by the witches of Salem and New Orleans, in the US. They were mostly women who lived repressed because of a society that did not understand them, and slaves who unfortunately suffered the contempt of a class and racist society (the latter has not changed much), and therefore, in both cases, resorted to the spirits and the old deities to ask for protection, in a time when everyone came against them, to pray for protection, in times much more difficult than ours, to pray for love, because for young women, marrying a young man was the best way not to be “sold” by his parents to a wealthy man much older than them for economic gain, as well as prosperity, veneration of his ancestors, and even to become pregnant and thus ensure the well-being of the family.

I do not know much about the historical origins of witchcraft and voodoo in North America, that is not my area, and even if I studied it, it is not for me to carry out that analysis. But what I do know well, and could say that it corresponds to my area of experience, are the origins of these practices in the Caribbean and the Amazon.

Umbanda, Quimbanda, Palo Mayombe, Candomble and Santeria have gained enormous relevance in Latin America in these two recent decades. While Amazonia has become popular among tourists who go there to perform Ayahuasca sessions and Cocoa ceremonies at a good price. Cuba and Brazil are the destinations of all those magic seekers who want to enter the esoteric world of Afro-Caribbean mysticism.

All these recent practices have ended up merging with each other to the point of being almost impossible to differentiate, however, although superficially they look quite similar to each other, internally each of these comes loaded with a whole historical legacy, which walks through the first times of the slaves that were brought to the Caribbean from Africa, until the fusion that naturally arose from the practices of these men and women from Africa, and those natives * of South America.

Now, taking distance from the whole historical issue. The practice of magic in old America was very different from ours, it was more based on the connection with nature, on the study of clouds and stars, on divination methods, on the veneration of the dead and the ancestors, and in daily practice, as well as in the constant study and oral transmission of folklore.

The old witches used natural, single-colored, homemade candles, lighting them to win the favor of spirits, venerate the spirits of the night, ward off evil spirits, ask for protection and happiness, or ask for any kind. of wishes.

The witches of New Orleans and Salem gathered the herbs in the forest to prepare ointments, medicinal oils, and burn them as votive incense to the spirits. In Latin America, specifically in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, and Venezuela. Shamans and witch doctors healed with herbs, ointments, and oils, burned herbs to dispel illnesses and evil spirits, and animal sacrifices were the order of the day. All this without mentioning the human sacrifices that were historically contemplated in Central America and Mexico.

The Magic of our time.

Yes, it is very different from the more traditional methods, but it is not "plastic magic" as some call it, although many "neo witches" are more focused on collecting books and buying a hundred herbs and beautiful bottles of oils on Amazon to post very nice photos on IG / FB. Out there you can find many great magicians and sorcerers who make use of these facilities to instruct others in the magical art of sorcery, to form appropriate Coven for the performance of rituals collectively, for the veneration of the ancestors and various gods, to conjure powers and consecrate various rituals.

Of course, the witches of the old-time did not use glitter in their spells, they did not decorate their altars with mirrors because they would rather remain hidden, they did not have two thousand different incense fragrances or used colored candles, all their candles were white and white.

But just as everything in the world continues to advance, sorcery has also advanced, and we who have had the opportunity to embrace this change can now perform magic (which at least I consider) much more powerful. Complementing our candles with symbols that direct all the energy to a more specific goal, incenses that evoke the power of our purpose, and we place all kinds of oils and herbs in our shower soaps to include small rituals of love and protection.

We have the opportunity to do all that magic that our predecessors did not have, we have the opportunity to carry out our practice openly and in broad daylight, and that has led us to study new and different techniques that combine different types of magic in one more modern, more complicated, more complex, and richer sorcery.

For the witches and wizards who preceded us, surely it was also a great change, having to go from the fires of a huge bonfire and a cauldron in the middle of the forest to working with candles between caves and huts to get discretion.

Is Truly Old Magic?

If you have had the opportunity to read the greatest magic and sorcery books ever written, such as the "Greater Key of Solomon the King", "The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King", or "the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage". You will know that those great magicians used a quite complex esoteric science, rich in symbolism and with long and very well structured rituals, their rituals were more based on ritualism and less on "that's what you attract" and these more modern elements.

Those books were loaded with enormous symbolic, kabbalistic, esoteric and astrological knowledge at the same time, all of them not to mention Saint Cyprian the witch-sorcerer "Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic", which was more based on direct practice and less on theoretical study, without stopping being one of the great books that every magician, sorcerer, and sorcerer should have in his library.

All of the above are examples of powerful magicians and summoners who were true idealists and pioneers in magic, and those practices they carried out several centuries ago still remain with us, intuitively linked to hundreds of more modern spells and rituals that we can find in the books of many modern authors.

While for many who call themselves "real witches" the modern magic seems to make little sense, or see it as a modern excuse to make money, these same individuals should discuss two important things here, the first, which probably all those magicians were also considered by theirs as "very advanced for their time", as well as those of today, and second, that everything in this world, absolutely everything that is created by man, and that includes from the sciences and the philosophy, even religion, and art, everything is linked to money in one way or another, because it is the way in which the universal law of exchange takes shape in our hands.

While many modern authors may seem quite extreme in their practice, and many other individuals are more focused on "practicing to look cool." There are still very good authors out there who combine magical modernism with traditional sorcery, achieving very good results, not only good books but also beautiful rituals rich in cultural symbolism and elements typical of traditional magic, which combine with each other to give good results, all these, fruits of his incredible study and years of practice.

Now, it is not to forget an important factor, all the magic that today many people superficially classify as "modern magic", in two or three decades it will be rather classic, which will inevitably influence the practice of many other magicians and younger and more modern sorcerers.

Note: Regarding the use of the word "indigenous", I must always repeat this to avoid the discomfort of the readers (especially American whites who often reproach me for the use of these terms), where I come from the words like black or indigenous, they do not have no negative connotation, in fact, my sisters call me black for love, and we call my nieces "negritas" (little girls), I am the whitest of my brothers and my two grandmothers are native to the Wayuu tribe in the surroundings of Venezuela, the words like "Indian" or "Indian" are not offensive to us.

From Elhoim Leafar Made With Love.

Elo.

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My Seven Incenses.

My Seven favorite incenses and their different uses.

+ Recommendations below as every week.

Greetings and hugs to all readers who walk here, continuing the line of recent posts, here I will share my seven favorite incenses and their uses.

Incense is often used in its different presentations to achieve three objectives:

• Aromatize the place in a less chemical and a much more traditional way.
• Positively change the energy of the place and its eonic frequency.
• Venerate some specific spirit or deity.

Now, the incense can be acquired in various presentations, although the incense in the form of wands is usually the most popular and offers a greater variety of fragrances, the cone-shaped incense leaves less waste and is practical “cleaner”, in fact, it is My favorite presentation, from my point of view, the way it burns and releases the incense is usually much less aggressive and that triangular shape, stimulates energy better by raising the frequency around it.

The energy of the incense is found in its special oils that when having some contact with the fire activate their energy and begin to change the frequency of the place. However, if you want to have a greater amount of energy for some ritual, I will advise you the same as I advise all those who attend my workshops, burn dry herbs in a cauldron or saucer, their energy is more concentrated and “less processed ”, Is a good way to channel the energy you are looking for to perform some kind of specific ritual.

In my book "The Magical Art Of Crafting Charm Bags" I included a complete list of incenses and their various uses, and also a shortlist of incenses that best activate your personal energy according to your zodiac sign and the days of the week.

My favorite incenses for each occasion:

• To meditate and create calm

Azucena (lily) and Copal: Both are excellent for attracting peace and tranquility, they help you relax your mind and slightly detach your focus on your surroundings and any distractions, both are highly recommended for meditation, but together they are excellent.

• To protect the home and homes of my loved ones

Myrrh and sandalwood, if you are a regular reader of my blog you will know that I use them in most of my rituals. Myrrh stimulates clairvoyance and practically strengthens any ritual you perform, while the sandalwood is more associated with spiritual strength, clairvoyance and economic wealth. If you put them together as cone incenses and burn them in every corner of the room, you are creating an atmosphere highly resistant to bad vibes and ill-intentioned spirits.

• To combat an anxiety attack and stimulate mood and good mood

Bergamot has an incredible and very organic aroma, has powers to combat depression and anxiety, I usually recommend its use in spells and rituals to strengthen self-esteem. You can combine it with Frankincense (Olibanum) to prevent panic attacks and nullify anxiety.

• To combat insomnia and maximize rest time

If you are a night owl just like me and you usually sleep for a few hours, you may have the same problem that I have, I sleep for a few hours and I have a hard time replenishing my energy, I don't feel completely exhausted, but I don't feel rested either.

For this, I recommend burning geranium, lavender or thyme incense a couple of hours before going to sleep, either together or separately.

1. The geranium incense provides an energy of calm, tranquility and confidence.
2. Lavender incense cleanses the psychic energy of the atmosphere and reduces stress.
3. Thyme incense prevents against psychic attacks and nightmares.

• To generate concentration and focus

Unlike the "incense for meditation", here we do not seek to clear the mind and relax the thoughts, here we try to generate a sense of focus and full attention on a goal. To focus your mind the ideal incenses are those of Eucalyptus, mint, and rue.

If you want it and it is in your possibilities, to focus your attention for a long period of time on the same objective, you can burn a combination of dried leaves of mint, rue, and eucalyptus, thank me later!

• To purify places, rooms, and altars

Camphor and sage are the most suitable for this job, they change the energy of the place, transmute negative vibrations into positive ones, and clean the entire environment against astral larvae and negative energy formations. But if you use plants as votive incense, you can add garlic skin to clean the atmosphere in its entirety against all negativity.

• For good fortune and make wishes

Almond, Amber & Cinnamon, I have used this combination since the age of 12, and it has never failed, it is a magical combination to stimulate your own energy and focus on the proper fulfillment of your desires, the most important thing is to stay focused during your requests, very good also to accompany your prayers.

My Monthly Recommendation: Here I attach the links to some of my favorite stores that sell incredible products and have a wide variety of incenses, I have also included some of my favorites.

• Authentic Roots Incense Cones by Madame Pamita & The Parlour of Wonders

Each of these Incense Cone styles is named after an old-time song performed by amazing musicians.

These small-batch cones are top quality incense in a convenient and easy to use the form and made right here at the Parlour of Wonders.

•  Blue Sage Smudge - Wildharvested by Madame Pamita & The Parlour of Wonders

A powerful Blue Sage is excellent for healing and cleansing rituals.

It can be used to aid meditation and is not as pungent as White Sage.

• The House Blessing Stick Incense by Omen Psychic Parlor & Witchcraft Emporium

A majestic and delicious fragrance to fill every corner of your home with blessings,

if you want to do a cleaning, this is the item you need.

• Full Moon Ritual Incense by Omen Psychic Parlor & Witchcraft Emporium.

To stimulate your visions and the strength of your dreams, ideal for predictive dreams and clarity, especially during those magical full moon nights.

Folk Magic, Tradition and Reality.

These difficult days, among incredulous magicians and inexperienced experts.

Change forms, Astral Projection, Out-of-body experience, The art of flying, and other forms of Magic that the "new currents" of Bruges fear to practice or share in public.

The world of sorcery is full of fables and myths about the powers of witches, about their special abilities to change shape or be in two places at once, about their power to remain hidden at night under a veil of shadows, or levitate on the roofs at night under the moon.

In the literary world all this happens to become things associated with “context”, tradition and folklore, even in some of my books I have felt obliged to censor (or rather, self-censor) when trying to write an anecdote about it, and then limit myself to writing "according to folklore, if you make use of this gem on the eve of the new moon, you can...", and I'm not the only one doing it, and this topic came up recently in a conversation that I kept private with one of my readers via telephone.

The truth is that even many times, my own partner has read my books, and although he likes my books and considers them to be quite complete, he also usually comments “you should try to write a little more about things that you do and others don't”, to the point that recently talking with Karen, who is my friend from Peru, and a complete expert in transformations, we were remembering that day when inside a Coven in Venezuela (she visited me and stayed to sleep at my house), and in Coven, after having participated in a ritual of (I really don't remember that ...!) We invited the boys to participate in our practice session of astral unfolding and projection, and most of them simply saw us with a very expensive face rare and refused to go for different reasons, although most of these reasons agree that "astral projection and those things are only an interpretation of the magic of witches", to which Karen and I simply stare at each other, thinking "what kind of magic do these people who don't even try something so basic practice?"

And unfortunately, the modern world is full of abstract answers like these, today, where for many "the gods are nothing more than simple archetypes," magic is only "a form of energy that you seemingly develop with meditation and yoga," shamanism. and everything associated with it is "cultural appropriation without spiritual bases," and conventional spiritism is cataloged by "experts" as "a colonial way of misrepresenting and teasing old indigenous cultures," and another lot of nonsense like that, it's easy. get lost between theory and practice just for fear of being stupid.

Me,  Myself & I.

I have been a victim (so to speak) of cyberbullying many times, every time I publish something about transformations, astral projection, and other forms of practical magic in my blog or in my networks, there is always an Inbelief Witch (Incredible but true that yes they exist!), who only comments with ridicule and scorn by calling me “dreamer” or science fiction fan, which is quite ironic, considering that I am apparently the only sorcerer who is not a fan of wasting valuable hours of the day eating Cheetos and watching Sabrina on Netflix or The Magicians, or one of these science fiction series quite irrelevant to me.

The fact is that there are two very strong generations out there that are growing in the shadow of a true generation of real sorcerers and magicians, on the one hand out there there is a whole generation of young people with a lot of talent and magic skills, looking for ways to expressing their enormous power and trying to find others with their same talents, and on the other hand, there is a whole generation of Unbeliever Warlocks, who lack real practical talent or willingness to do things, who make fun of these others for trying to get out from the box and think differently, and with “think differently” I mean think like the witches and wizards of before, think that magic is something so real that it makes those science fiction movies look like something absurd.

It is quite difficult to master various forms of magic, it is not easy to levitate pens in the air, it is not easy to create fire from nothing on a saucer with water in the middle of the night, and no, it is not easy to master astral projection and unfolding, as I have commented in several previous posts and in one (maybe two) youtube videos, this requires years of study and practice, not to mention a lot of money, money that you will spend between books and books, looking for which are written by true experts and are full of real recipes, and which are written by inexperienced who simply expanded a Wikipedia article and put a title and cover, but once you get it, this is worth it.

Quoting my grandfather, "not all witches know how to fly, but at least some try, hold on to them," he always took esoteric practices seriously and his library was packed with these books, although as he said, the Most of these books were written by inexperienced people who really do not know what they are talking about.

And I am not going to apologize if this sounds arrogant, because it is disappointing to read entire blogs full of complete misinformation about it, where these “Wizards Unbelievers” (as I like to call them), have never tried in their life to make a split or a session of astral projection, but they force you to sympathize with their incredible ideas and sell you something like “magic is very powerful, you are unlimitedly powerful, here you have the love spell this week,” then they end up placing imaginary walls in the mind of others, making the less knowledgeable think that magic is limited to ethereal things, tarot readings, blurred dreams with doubtful meanings and Saturday meetings to talk about books.

Mixing the Magic

At 14 (I think I was 14, but I'm not entirely sure, maybe it was at 13 or 15 because I was new to military school), I borrowed from the collection of my mom's books the "Ars Goetia" and “the Manual of the Sorcerer of San Cipriano”, books that today most of these fashionable sorcerers have not dared to read.

And I remember something, I literally put into practice each and every one of the spells in those books, every invocation, every ritual, there I was, at 14, with a pretty ridiculous outfit, with an old and dull blade in one hand and a glass with wine in the other, burning sulfur, incense and feathers of a black chicken to invoke a spirit from beyond, and I remember that the first few times nothing worked, at some point I almost gave up thinking that none of this would work, my grandfather has always stressed: "the shamans are shamans and the witches do the rest".

Baba (grandpa) has always been really very prejudiced about it, but my mother, which is the perfect proof that if you can be and learn many things to the Once, it has always been a source of motivation in this regard for me, and with your help and many (literally too many) advice about it, I managed to continue implementing these various rituals, I added them to my personal practice as sorcerer and shaman, and I continued studying these books, even on vacation in the Amazon (where this type of western magic is prohibited by all tribes), I continued studying these books and deciphering those hidden codes that have written between the lines.

It was not until the age of 16, once out of military school, that my invocations began to give real results, the truth is that it is much easier to deal with conventional souls and ghosts and learn to master a spiritual possession than to conjure these "Gentlemen," I suppose it was not until they got tired of hearing my calls and realized that they could take seriously that they began to appear, and even today, 13 years later, some of them (three to be very specific) are still not taken seriously enough to manifest, but not for that reason I will stop trying.

The fabulous flying witches

My grandmother, who is an experienced healer, has always told us about how wonderful it is to fly at night, and although even at some point I came to doubt about it (I admit it), someday close to the traditional festival of devils of Yare (a festival of religious character in Venezuela), she spent the whole day preparing, my mother seemed to joke about it, but at night they both went “to talk” with my aunts in the courtyard, me from my window I saw them and heard them talk for several hours before midnight.

I remember that group of women sitting outside talking about politics, travel, fabrics, and other things, I remember my aunt Rosalba preparing a rare infusion with the smell of roses and cloves on the stove, I remember my aunt Samantha opening the two parts Chest of a white dove that pulled out of the cage and deposit the heart of it in a small cauldron with herbs and some flowers.

I remember everyone smearing this mixture with oils and reciting a spell (which at that time, before mastering the language properly seemed strange to me), and I remember seeing them lie on the floor in an extensive circle around the patio stove with dozens of roses decorating the ground, they seemed to fall asleep and minutes later, a group of blackbirds, similar to large crows, perched on the trees in the courtyard, six to be exact, six crows, or so they seemed to be, and what a strange coincidence that In the courtyard were my grandmother and her five daughters.

I could have shouted from my window asking for help to think that these rare blackbirds would do them some harm, but contrary to that, I felt a kind of fullness and calm to see them, shortly after they flew several times over the motionless bodies in a circle and departed together. I was stunned by this understanding of what they mean by "going out to fly," and it was not long before I woke up one of my many sisters to tell him what happened, she took it with total serenity and just made me promise that I didn't I would say nothing to anyone, at least until my Mom taught me in the future how to do it, which only generated a doubt in me that until today I have not resolved, because my sisters do not do it too ?.

I did not fall asleep that night, I stayed awake with a lot of encouragement, and shortly before dawn, around 4 am, a group of birds came back making a lot of noise, they settled on the bodies (not on the trees this time), they walked between them for a while and they left, I could swear (although I am not entirely sure of it) that these birds soon disappeared into the air, seemed to have vanished in the wind, and shortly after my uncles began to wake up, my mother among them, and my grandmother was the last to do so, after that they went to the kitchen to prepare coffee as if nothing had happened, as if they were not tired, and then, they would have no reason to be, if their bodies certainly rested all night.

It was only four years before I was the one who woke up in the middle of the night, because my cousins Alexander, Alejandra, and Daniela, though they saw their aunts sleeping in the patio while they drank something weird, so I just took them to the window and made them also promising not to talk about it, I showed them everything that happened, the birds soon arrived, and since then they also know what they are about.

Day by day

This kind of thing happens every day in our world, the world is full of secrets that only magic knows and that only through the study of sorcery could you explain, certain things are beyond our control (visa control and credit cards, for example), but magic is certainly capable of many more things than simply creating "love spells" and "divination sessions."

If for some reason, you as a practitioner are not willing to try something different for fear of what might happen, that's fine, it is no secret that many people have suffered a cardiac arrest while flying at night or while leaving their bodies to half day. But not for that reason you should limit yourself to thinking that magic is only decks of Tarot and celebrations of the equinox.

Taking up that conversation

That conversation from which this post came about via telephone, a follower of my Blog and Social media, he claims to have seen my video talking about astral projection several times, I imagined it was due to my accent and maybe he did not understand me, then He explains to me that for years he is living the same experiences unconsciously and involuntarily over and over again, I am quite accustomed to the fact that many times they are making fun of others, so at first I respond very kindly but without many details, each of his messages and the very insistent send me more and more messages explaining things that I usually know but that I have never read in a book about it, and that is where I take it seriously.

From that moment on we started contact via @mail, constantly sharing information about it, sharing experiences and anecdotes, and just as it happened with him, I have also been talking with a couple of people.

I do not read minds or move things in the distance, I have not even tried the truth, but I will not deny that others can do it, here (in this blog) I have constantly written about my experiences walking through dreams and knowing places that I do not find in the physical plane, and I am not the only one, we are rather many, and out there there is a huge tendency to believe misinformation regarding these issues.

Unfortunately, there are so many sorcerers and magicians, incredulous of their own power, out there, forcing others not to try different things for the simple fact that they cannot explain it.

In shamanic practices, we have a very simple and easy to understand scale, to be a shaman you must first be a sorcerer capable of creating real changes in the world, a student of the hidden arts and a connoisseur of language, ritual symbolism, and magic, but besides being a sorcerer, to be a shaman you must be a medium, you must be able to pass spirits between planes, between your body and other bodies, and that entails years of practice and constant work, to be a medium (and here Shamans differ with many "practitioners" of witchcraft and Western magic), you must be a spiritualist because through spiritualism you will know the world of spirits and you will enter into their practice, and to be a spiritualist and become a medium, you must first be a seer, because, to enter the spiritual world, and be able to conjure or possess spirits, it is necessary to be able to see and hear them properly, not just knowing that they are there.

In the same way, sorcery works in all its branches, constant study and practice until exhaustion only give good results after some time, although I have met a couple of quite talented individuals capable of achieving it quite quickly (unfortunately I am not one of them), in magic and sorcery, constant practice is the secret.

On astral projection and lucid dreams


This is my favorite subject, and it is the most difficult to talk about, because all the experiences are different, and it is not accessible to everyone, Hey! I have said accessible, I never said exclusive, so do not misunderstand me, what I try to explain here (and clearly I collapse in the process) is that it is quite difficult to explain to people, about something they cannot see or hear, and It takes them so many years of practice that it is simply easier to surrender in the process, especially when it comes to something that I did not learn from someone else, but happens constantly and involuntarily, and it has taken me years of treatments to prevent a possible cerebral palsy or cardiac arrest, it is much more difficult even perhaps to explain it to a doctor.

But contrary to popular thinking, these are not exclusive “gifts” that certain people have, it is like singing, only 2% of the world population lacks the ability to sing due to something called “deaf ear”, but while some individuals are born Practically singing, others learn in the process, some have great voices, others have a much more discreet vocal talent.

Well, it works with different types of magic and sorcery, everything is learned and magic is at your fingertips.

Moving in the world of dreams is not an easy task, but because it occurs during the unconscious, it is one of the most difficult ways to handle, while astral projection (voluntary and conscious practice) is easier to carry carried out over time and constant practice, although obviously, some take longer than others.

But as I have commented in some videos and posts before, there are many books out there that try to sell you an erroneous idea, like wanting to make you believe that this is something extremely accessible and easy to understand, almost without any effort, when the truth is It can take years of practice.

Trying the astral projection is for many as frustrating, as starting a diet and maintaining it for eight or nine years, even seeing that it has not given you results.

But far from seeking to discourage anyone, I simply try to make one point clear, and that is that constant practice is the result, and not giving up in the process, but 15 minutes of deep and slow breathing every morning, is a good way to advance the process.

Elhoim Leafar

Maria Lionza, Queen of Witches & Fairies.

Maria Lionza

The Queen of Witches & Fairies.

In my native Venezuela, we have a folklore full of spirits and witches so complex that it does not even fit in the books, but it is also so popular that it has been studied in different universities of USA, Germany, and England by the level of devotion and ritual practice of Their respective followers.

One of these cults, perhaps the most notable is the cult of Maria Lionza. Maria Lionza (Yara) or "Maria de la Onza & Yara" is one of the most iconic characters in Venezuelan folklore, her cult dates back to a little more than 500 years and began to be commented on in the history books from 1515, Almost two decades after the discovery of America, although it was in the early 1900s that the cult came to light and began to be documented by anthropologists and historians.

The cult of Queen Maria Lionza began in the vicinity of the mountains of Sorte in Chivacoa (Yaracuy), where the indigenous people of the region met to worship at that time to their ancestors, a cult that still prevails in Venezuela, Becoming more and more popular.

The American anthropologist Wade Glenn of Tulane University has studied and confirmed that more than half of the Venezuelan population has voluntarily participated in at least one ritual in honor of Queen Maria Lionza, being she the central figure of Venezuelan spiritualism, Cult similar to that of Maria Laveau in New Orleans, USA.

The cult of Maria Lionza is of Indian origin, but in spite of it, with the passage of the years its figure has been modified to adapt it to the figure of a white woman with a gold crown on its head, a white or red rose In a hand (symbol of peace or love respectively) and a banner in the right hand, just where he has written his mission as divinity as "Protector of the waters and Goddess of the crops."

Maria Lionza is the goddess who lives in the leafiest forests of Venezuela, between the caves enchanted by fairies and the flocks of wild animals, always surrounded by subordinate and obedient spirits. As divinity symbolizes femininity, love as a universal principle and the force of life and rebirth. For many modern pagans, the Queen Mary Lionza is an incarnation of Venus or Gea, as goddess of peace, love and nature. Among its attributes are mainly magic and divination linked to the element of water, thunder, natural perfumes based oils, forests, fairy courts and mountains.

The cult of Maria Lionza has spread outside of Venezuela, leading her to be venerated in Chile, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Guatemala. And it has also been mixed with elements of Santeria, Spiritism, magic with fairies and traditional witchcraft to lead him to develop his own form of witchcraft, which has led him to know him in different countries like "The Queen of fairies", "Matriarch of the Witches" and "the Patroness of the 21 Courts".

All these honorific titles have been awarded to the blessed Queen Maria Lionza, not only for her thousands of miracles granted but also for her different attributes as an autochthonous deity of the Latin American region.

The Queen of Fairies

The cult around Queen Maria Lionza has always been linked in Venezuela and Colombia to the worship of the fairies, due in great measure to the indigenous belief because the aboriginal Indians of Venezuela believed in the magic presence of spiritual beings of enormous power that They lived in the forests and could change their shape. Aboriginal peoples originating in Venezuela, such as the Wayuu, the Añu, the Wanikua, the Pemones, the Yukpa, the Timoto-cuicas and the Yanomami (just to mention a few) shared the belief in life after the Death, the presence of spirits and fairies in nature, although their belief in fairies (even today throughout South America) prevails untouchable in the face of the European belief in fairies and their concept of the "good fairies" of diminutive stature And character wise or in some cases childish.

In Venezuelan native folklore, the fairies are spirits that inhabit and care for the forest, the lagoons and the rivers, they take human form and they can become all kinds of animals, they live mainly in the night and after the Sunset, they are extremely intelligent and they know All the secrets of witchcraft, attend sorcerers and witches in their rituals and usually do not wear clothes. In the native folklore of Venezuela, sirens are another form that fairies take to mobilize by the rivers, make deals with the sorcerers of the night in exchange for all sorts of favors and kidnap to babies that are not baptized.

According to the myth, Queen Maria Lionza, at that time a virgin maiden, daughter of a powerful Cacique, pact with the fairies in exchange for knowing the secrets of the night, the fairies, who at that time had mourned the ascent of his Reigned in the world of spirits, saw the young maiden in the incarnation of her queen, bestowed beauty on her and all the secrets were revealed to her, upon her death she became the queen of the forests of the Amazon, queen of the fairies and All the spirits of the forest.

Since then, both myths have been intimately linked, in fact, it is very common to say in Venezuela that "to make deals with the fairies", you must first request the permission of your queen patron Maria Lionza. It is also popularly believed that the practice of the South American shamans to place the children a bracelet of red thread with a hanging jet to "ward off the Evil Eye" was a teaching of the fairies by order of their Indian queen.

The Matriarch of All Witches

"To understand Santeria you must first understand spiritualism".

The above is a common phrase of every home practitioner in Venezuela, because in magic and witchcraft, as in everything else, there are no fast roads or short roads, and this motto comes from the order of witches, an order ( A Coven) of many others that are maintained under the devotion of the Venezuelan people.

In traditional Venezuelan witchcraft it is common to work with one of the 21 magic courts to ask favors, being Maria Lionza the main character of the main of these (not all) but of the largest, for which has been considered the Queen Of witches.

A common practice is to bring white flowers, tobaccos, and aguardiente to the river to be left there in the name of Maria Lionza, who in return would grant favors to her devout servants.

The Legend of the Queen of Witches

"Maria Lionza (Yara) was a maiden Nívar, delighted daughter of a powerful cacique of Nirgua. The Shaman of the village had predicted that when a strange-eyed, water-green-eyed girl was born, she had to be sacrificed and offered as a sacrifice to the Waterman, the "Great Anaconda," and if not, Extinction of the Nívar. But his father was unable to do so. And he had the girl in a mountain cave, with 22 warriors guarding her and preventing her from leaving. She was forbidden to see herself in the mirrors of water. But one day a mysterious force numbed the guardians and the beautiful girl came out of the cave and walked to the lake, discovering her own reflection in the water.

She was delighted with her vision. Thus he awakened the Water Master to the Great Anaconda, who emerged from the depths, falling in love with her and drawing her to herself. On Lake Maria Lionza and the mighty serpent, they celebrated a spiritual and mystical communion. When his father discovered the union, he tried to separate them. Then the Anaconda grew, became huge and exploded causing a great flood that devastated the village and its people.

From that day Maria Lionza became the protective Goddess and owner of the lagoons, rivers and waterfalls, protector mother of nature, wild animals and queen of love. The myth of Yara survived the Spanish conquest, although it underwent some modifications. In this sense, Yara was covered by the Catholic religion with the mantle of the Christian virgin and took the name of Our Lady Mary of the Ounce of the Meadow of Talavera de Nivar. However, with the passage of time, would be known as Maria de la Onza, or Maria Lionza.

The Mother Goddess

Since it was published in her 1939 essay "The Spiritualist Service to the Queen" by Gilberto Antolínez, there have been more than 25 different accounts of the cult of Maria Lionza in Venezuela, all of them very popular in the circles of witches and Venezuelan spiritualists.

All these different accounts tell the same story of the myth of the Queen of fairies from different points of view, all concluding in the rise of the young maiden as queen of the Indians and protector of their devout witches.

The Venezuelan Trinity

As in most of the religions that have emerged from the Indo-European period, a trinity patron of the pantheon is often found, the case of Venezuela would not be the exception.

Maria Lionza is the central character of the Venezuelan trinity that represents the Latin culture of that time, known as "Las Tres Potencias" (The Three Powers) made up of blacks, Indians, and white Spaniards. In this case, the trinity is conformed by the Queen Maria Lionza, the famous "Cacique Guaicaipuro", a Cacique of the Caracas and other tribes that strongly opposed to the invasion of the Spaniards, and "El Negro Felipe", a soldier during the wars of Independence from Venezuela.

The courts

In the Venezuelan esoteric cult, the so-called "Three Powers" form a spiritual council of great power that governs a magical universe full of spirits and fairies divided in a total of 21 courts that assist the witches in the accomplishment of their magical works.

The main courts of Maria Lionza are:

• The Celestial Court: Led by Jesus of Nazareth and represented by the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it is conformed by all Catholic saints.

• The Venezuelan Indigenous Court: This order is presided over by Queen Maria Lionza, the Cacique Guaicaipuro and his sister India Cari Cara, is made up of: caciques, cacicas, and Indians.

• The Black Court: Directed by El Negro Felipe and la Negra Matea, is conformed by the souls of black slaves, witches, and sorcerers with colored skin.

• The Liberating Court: Presided by Simón Bolívar and General Francisco de Miranda, conformed by those who led the revolt against the Spanish crown.

• The Court of the Juanes: Conformed by various figures of Venezuelan folklore: Don Juan del Tabaco, Don Juan del Dinero, Don Juan de los Caminos, Don Juan de los Suspiros, etc ...

• The Medical Court: Led by Dr. José Gregorio Hernández (El Venerable) and conformed by the souls of doctors and nurses. It is a very popular order that is invoked to aid in healing processes.

• The Shaman's Court : Led by the Great Nicanor Ochoa Pinto Morillo (the sorcerer who cures and kills in 24 hours).

• The Court of Souls: Led by the Anima Sola (Maria de la Luz) and made up of the souls without rest of the popular belief of each country.

The other Courts

• The African Court.
• The Viking Court.
• The Cale Court.
• The Court of Students.
• The Court of Charms.
• The Court of the Witches (READ HERE)
• The Asian Court or Chinese Court.
• The Indian Apache Court.
• The Gypsy Court or court of the fortune tellers.
• The Red Court.
• The Barbara Court.
• The Egyptian Court.
• The English Court.

Amazing Symbol

The sculptor Alejandro Colina immortalized her for the world as a naked athletic musculature woman, an Indian Caribbean Goddess on a tapir (male tapir, worshiped by indigenous tribes), and with outstretched hands holding a female pelvis bone (Symbol of fertility) on her feet the tapeworm crushes snakes, symbols of envy and selfishness.