Invoking Gods and Goddesses

[lovebrighteyes]

What are your experiences with invoking Gods , Goddesses, and elements? What does it feel like?

[Asch]

http://networkedblogs.com/d69Vt

[spook]

huh?
I don't understand your reply to this persons post?

[spook]

srry for duoble post,lagging Internet.

[JuniperBerry]

Spook isn't showing up as the last poster. Testing to see if mine does.


Edit:
Yup.


I was also a little confused by your reply, Asch.

[Veronica_Rose]

I have a question. What is Invoking? What's it suppose to do? Why do you do it? Do you have to do it? ...
((Sorry! So many questions! lol ))

[Asch]

Erm. I don't remember posting that reply. Like, at all. Hmm. Must've been a mispost. My bad! Apologies for confusion :/

[Ravencry]

Invoking is calling down the Goddess and God of your choosing (and in a very basic sense) using their power to work your spell.

[spook]

you can also EVOKE instead of doing an invoking.
it depends,do you want the god/goddess to merely be present or actually take their spirit in?

[C u l a i n]

I didn't think I'd have a patron God or Goddess, and perhaps that has something to do with how or why one found me. Hecate (or Hekate) quickly became as much Muse to me as Goddess, particularly in Greek representations.
Everything I've ever thought, felt and known, in terms of spiritual experience, are coalesced in her triplicate form.
The numbers one and three were always kind of embedded in my heart, but I never understood this personal significance until fairly recently. Some simple meditation led to envisioning a woman embracing the waxing, full and waning moon. She had an outline of stars like a constellation, and dissolved into the three moons. I researched and discovered historical reverence for her, and the similarities to what I'd experienced before knowing anything about her.

Now I simply meditate on her nature: one-in-three and three-in-one, physically at a crossroads of some sort whenever possible; if not, then I include a crossroads at the base of my thoughts. The key, cord and light are there. All I can say about how it feels is an undeniable (and mostly indescribable) sense of regeneration. As it should be, too, though this can't happen without first becoming aware of some negativities needing to be shaken. For Light to to shine, it needs to emerge from darkness. If the "connection" could be fully described, such things wouldn't be termed "the Great Mysteries." Besides, being a Solitary, some things about "the magick moment" should remain personal. Working tools aren't always necessary; but I do use them, particularly in honouring rituals. As spook stated before, be aware of both invoking and evoking.

When at home, I do it with open windows and no music. Hecate is the waxing, full and waning moon at once; so if I want to connect, I try to whenever I want/need it (or am just inexplicably drawn to do so at a seemingly random moment). This is what's been my experience, truly a case of "following your heart" (or as Joseph Campbell would say, "following your bliss").