Anointing

This is an experimental subset, designed to [ juice / milk ] the Sun and Moon coming together as One.

Sol is the Spirit and the animating, Apollonian force, governing over all that is visible and apparent.

The Moon is the Body, the animalic, and the subconscious, holding sway over what is hidden, esoteric, and mysterious.

Each Luminary is arguably twice as important as a normal planet, as Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn all rule two signs (one yin, and one yang), while Moonstruck Cancer and Sun-soaked Leo serve as their own primal pairing, responsible for single, respective domains.

Cancer and Leo, the two signs which just so happen to initiate creation in the Thema Mundi.

The name, “Torch of First Light”, is a double entendre — acknowledging the quality of the Solar charge in our Sun Without Sin election — like the first rays of sunlight meeting the morning dew, full of hope and the promise of a new day.

Torches are smoll, portable fires carried to help escort their bearer through whatever darkness engulfs them, whether through a cramped, dungeonous corridor or a Moonless wood.

The idea here, is to carry that Torch — that touch of Sunlight, within.

Within the necessary darkness of the Mind, and density of the corporeal form — into the Body entire.

To light recesses never before seen, and to facilitate cohesion and coherence of Self, from the inside out.

Rather than outside in, as is the norm.

This is a subset of introspection and of meditation.

It ultimately heals, as gentle rays of sunlight do, but first — one must process what has been revealed.

One must feel that which has been excavated, to eat and to digest and to metabolize it, to incorporate it into the One.

For it is by becoming Whole and Unified in and of ourselves that the Fall is picked back up — Kintsugi’d — and the Garden, restored.

The effects of this subset are, especially at first, heavy. The Descending Heart of the Sun.

The Dark Moon of our election.

They are also deeply activating, as one mentally escorts the Torch of First Light to various points within the Body and Mind, starting at the crown of the head, and descending… then stoking, until the entire vessel is consumed with the most brilliant rays of golden light, shining in perpetuity throughout space and time.

Integration follows.

The Spirit and Body come into closer, more conscious dialogue. The inner voice strengthens. The narrator within speaks will and wisdom at a volume we can perceive, more and more often.

We piece ourselves together again.

Includes suggestions for working with this subset specifically, and The Torch of First Light’s own prayer.

As a sequence, we highly suggest a Kolonía cleanse or full Ritual Bath before engagement.

Note: This subset is for inner transformation, not exterior results typical of Solar Talismans or Materia. For that, see the main series, rather than this subset. It is not recommended for newcomers, or people who are wanting to enjoy casual application. It is Work, in the highest and truest sense. It is intended as a therapeutic and requires guidance from the wearer. It is not intended for passive application. You have been warned!