The Astrological New Year
On March 21st, the astrological landscape shifts dramatically when the Sun moves into the zodiacal sign of Aries. The movement of the Sun into the zodiacal sign of Aries is highly spiritually significant as it signifies the Astrological New Year. This is the time of the year when we have the opportunity to begin afresh on a positive, dynamic and purposeful note.
The astrological sign of Aries is the cardinal fire sign of the zodiac, indicating that fiery and initiating forces are present. It is also one of the six ‘masculine’ signs of the zodiac, indicating that it is a zodiacal sign of active, yang energy.
As the famous esoteric scholar Alice Bailey wrote:
“Aries is the sign of beginnings – the beginning of the creative process, the first step of the soul… towards incarnation, the beginning of recurring and constant cycles of experience, the beginning of the period wherein the soul changes its direction, its purpose and its method, and finally enters upon that definitely defined process which we call spiritual regeneration and initiation.”
Sun In Aries: Regenerative and Initiatory Power
Our souls naturally wish to grow and experience life. The initiating pulse occurring during the Sun’s annual entrance into the zodiacal sign of Aries creates a natural drive and desire that emanates from the soul to fully engage with life and experience regeneration.
The zodiacal lens of Aries when expressed primarily through an untransmuted personality expresses as undesirable negative devolutionary emotions of anger and behaviour such as cruelty, aggression, violence and rage.
Engaging actively, dynamically and purposefully with the spiritually regenerative and initiatory energies of the zodiacal sign of Aries gives us as powerful opportunity to actively work to help expiate the karma specific to the negative side of Aries energy.
Ritual: Eighth Ray Spiritual Transformation Ritual
The Eighth Ray Spiritual Transformation Ritual is an Eighth Ray solar ritual that works with the powers of the Sun and the divine masculine. We use the Eighth Ray Spiritual Transformation Ritual to help transmute the karma of your personal world, the world and the greater universe.
The Eighth Ray Spiritual Transformation Ritual is always conducted by working with the ‘celestial song’ or frequency of the current zodiacal month and is ideally begun on the day the zodiacal month begins.
Working With ‘Celestial Song’
The Astrological New Year is a uniquely powerful time to begin your work with the Spiritual Transformation Ritual. Aries’ initiating, regenerating and masculine energies provide an ideal starting point for you to step forth with this life-affirming and co-creative Eighth Ray ritual. You will work with the alchemical frequency or ‘celestial song’ of the zodiacal month of Aries, from March 21st – April 19th. The ‘celestial song’ of Aries is composed of the interwoven frequencies of the planet Mars, the zodiacal sign of Aries, and the 1st mansion of life.
The Eighth Ray Spiritual Transformation Ritual is a spiritual practice that sends out magical power and blessings to the world on a daily basis and works to help expiate personal and collective karma. This powerful daily spiritual practice is ideally worked with as a morning ritual.
Working With The Powers Of The Sun
Conducting a morning ritual associated with the Sun is a very ancient practice used in various forms by holy men and women throughout the world. The Sun has a life-giving influence and is inseparably associated with the magical activities of creation. It works with the yang and creation power of the divine masculine as the animating solar principle to actively change the fabric of the universe for the greater good.
Each month, as the zodiacal sign changes, you can easily move into working with the Eighth Ray Spiritual Transformation Ritual for the next zodiacal ‘celestial song’. For example, when the Sun moves into the zodiacal sign of Taurus on April 20th, you can then work with the ‘celestial song’ of Taurus – the zodiacal sign of Taurus, the planet Venus and the 2nd mansion of life. You can read more about the magical timing of the Eight Ray Spiritual Transformation Ritual on page 279 of my book Eighth Ray Magic: The Magic of the Goddess – The Magic of Co-Creation.
Ritual Steps
Six-Step Eighth Ray Spiritual Activism Ritual©
ritual prayer of magickal intent
Your Magickal Focus:
'“To transform personal and collective karma generated from anger, aggression, violence and cruelty.”
Before you Begin:
In Eighth Ray ritual we call upon the powers of the planets (the WHAT), zodiacal signs (the HOW) and mansions of life (the WHERE) to help create magickal change in our personal life and to purpose good in the world.
Put on your altar the Porta Alchémica® magickal formulations that correlate with your magickal objective:
- ‘WHAT’: Mars planetary elixir and Mars planetary anointing oil – healing, integrity and wholeness
- ‘HOW’: Aries zodiacal elixir and Aries zodiacal anointing oil –initiative and confidence, click here to view more keywords for Aries, feel free to add or replace any keywords to make this ritual really ‘sing’ for you
- ‘WHERE’: 1st mansion of life elixir –personal identity
- Mars planetary incense
- Aura Mist (optional)
You will also need:
- Small dish to contain the anointing oils
- Incense burner and charcoal
- Specially dedicated chalice or goblet
- Matches or lighter
- White or beeswax central candle
- Crystal wand (optional)
Put a small amount of pure water in your chalice. Make sure the charcoal tablet is glowing and ready in the incense burner before you add the incense. Place three drops of each anointing oil into the small dish.
Step 1:
Burn the ritual incense
Put a pinch of ritual incense on the glowing charcoal. When the incense is smoking say:
“I bridge the worlds with this sacred suffumigation of Mars”
Step 2:
Light the ritual candle 🕯
Light the central candle. Your intent is also to project light into the world powerfully, intelligently and purposefully and to be one with the energies of co-creation to ‘purpose good’. The four statements that you make as you light the ritual candle create an arrow of light that forms a pathway for the projection of light. The projection of light expresses as a manifestation of divine will, divine mind and divine love to create a magical outcome that is a manifestation of the restorative power of the co-creative feminine.
Say:
“Light victorious, light triumphant, light eternal, light in extension!”
Step 3:
Anoint Yourself
Use your index finger and dip it into the anointing oil in the dish that contains Mars planetary anointing oil and Aries zodiacal anointing oil. Anoint the mark of the solar cross, the equiarm cross, on the centre of your forehead just above the bridge of your nose.
Say as you do so:
“The mark of solar magick”
Then place three drops of each of the anointing oils directly from the bottles in a triangle pattern on your inner left wrist. Then bring your inner wrists together with your wrists in a cross symbol in front of your body. Rub your wrists together and then inhale the fragrance deeply three times.
Step 4:
Ingest Alchemical Elixirs ⚗️
Start with the Mars planetary elixir, then add the Aries zodiacal elixir and finally add the 1st house mansions of life elixir. There will be nine drops of alchemical elixir added to the chalice.
As you add the three drops of each elixir in a successive triangular pattern into the water in your chalice, see in your mind how you are magically creating and extending a bridge of light in order to send up the energies of pain, sorrow, suffering and negativity to the Sun to be transmuted. You are doing this through the power of magical invocation using your ritual prayer of magical intent. This work is being supported by the Sun itself and you are co-creating this work with the ‘magic of the Sun’ whose ‘mark’ you have anointed yourself with.
Sending up the negative energy to the rays of the Sun to be transmuted by working ‘Sun Magic’
As you are placing the drops of each planetary, zodiacal and mansion of life elixir into the chalice you are reciting your ‘ritual prayer of intent’. This is a formal and structured three-part invocation and is a very important part of the Eighth Ray Spiritual Transformation Ritual process. It is the applied power of magical invocation used as a dynamic magically co-creative act. The ‘ritual prayer of magical intent’ is an invocative magical statement or commentary of magical intent and purpose created based on Mars, Aries and the 1st mansion of life.
- As you place the Mars planetary elixir drops in the chalice say,
“I call upon the power, intelligence and purposeful action of the planet Mars”
- Add the Aries zodiacal elixir drops and say,
“to express powerfully, intelligently and purposefully through the zodiacal sign of Aries”
- Then add the 1st house mansion of life elixir drops and say,
“and work powerfully, intelligently and purposefully through the first mansion of life.”
- Then say,
“To create a bridge of light.”
- Then place your hands in a triangular shape, thumb to thumb, index finger to index finger over the top of the chalice. Blow through the triangle onto the water and say,
“The breath of life quickens the waters of transformation and transmutation.”
- Then slowly drink the potentised water that has been alchemically transformed to now become the ‘living waters of expiation’. Say decisively and powerfully,
“With the assistance of my celestial allies I create a bridge of light, I send all that is ready to be transformed and transmuted in my world to the rays of the central Sun where it will be cleansed, and peace will reign. I send all that is ready to be transformed and transmuted in the world to the rays of the central Sun where it will be cleansed, and peace will reign. I send all that is ready to be transformed and transmuted in the greater universe to the rays of the central Sun where it will be cleansed, and peace will reign.”
- Pause, then say,
“Behold the heavens. Behold the earth. Behold the child!”
Step 5:
Send the energy out 🪄✨
Send the energy out and magically open the eighth ray magic portal on the selected frequency.
To the alchemist, who is the eighth ray ritual magician, the breath, as well as being the essence of life itself is magically understood to be the ‘spirit breath’ and is one of the key animating and vivifying principles in alchemy.
If you have the Eighth Ray Isis-Urania crystal wand, pick it up in readiness to send the energy out and magically open the eighth ray magic portal. Hold the Isis-Urania crystal wand with both hands in front of you, eight fingers to the front of the crystal wand and your two thumbs at the back.
If you do not have the Eighth Ray Isis-Urania crystal wand, just proceed with the breath sequence. Take three slow deep breaths to alchemically and magically weave the energies that you have ingested in the Eighth Ray Spiritual Activism Ritual libation into a unified light power and to open the eighth ray magic portal. Each time you breathe out after taking an in breath, blow the breath out before you like a wind by exhaling strongly through slightly pursed lips. If you have an Isis-Urania crystal wand then blow your intent four times into the crystal ball at the top of your Isis-Urania crystal wand and say:
“I blow it through my world
(THEN BLOW YOUR FIRST SPIRIT BREATH)
I blow it through the world
(THEN BLOW YOUR SECOND SPIRIT BREATH)
I blow it through the greater universe
(THEN BLOW YOUR THIRD SPIRIT BREATH)
I blow it through the worlds”
(THEN BLOW YOUR FOURTH SPIRIT BREATH)
Step 6: (optional)
Lock in the magickal frequency
Lock in the magical frequency and seal the aura.
Spray the Porta Alchémica® Alchemist Aura Mist three times in the shape of a triangle: above the head, then above the right and then left shoulder to lock in your intent and seal the aura to hermetically contain the energies and powers you wish to express or make manifest.
Then say decisively and forcefully,
“Consummatum est! It is done.”
Your Eighth Ray Spiritual Activism Ritual© is now complete.
This Eighth Ray Spiritual Activism Ritual© is very powerful and can be conducted daily and as often as you feel called to magically send healing light to the waterways of the earth.
Summary of Everything You Need for This Ritual
- view detailed instructions for how to create a ritual altar here
- Dedicated chalice
- Incense burner
- Aura mist (optional)
- Crystal wand (optional)
- Mars planetary elixir
- Mars planetary anointing oil
- Aries zodiacal elixir
- Aries zodiacal anointing oil
- 1st mansion of life elixir
- Mars planetary incense
- Crystals and gems: carnelian, red jasper, diamond
- Colours: red, magenta, gold
- Click here to view more colours and crystals associated with the zodiacal sign Aries
Get access to the keyword reference tables for all 12 zodiacal signs, 12 planets, 12 mansions of life and much, much more in my FRЕЕ Live Magickally© The Little Book of Esoteric Astrology Quick Reference Guide – the ABC of Astrology for the Soul.
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About the Author
Franchelle Ofsoské-Wyber
MASTER SHAMANESS, SPIRITUAL TEACHER, GLOBAL ESOTERIC HYPNOSIS AUTHORITY AND THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF THE HOUSE OF THE BEE MYSTERY SCHOOL®
For over 50 years my teachings have inspired and empowered thousands of clients and students around the world to heal themselves and help others. As a master soul shamaness, spiritual teacher and matriarch of magic my life is dedicated to supporting souls like you who are serious about their personal, professional and spiritual growth.
On my blog, in my books and training programs and courses I share ancient wisdom teachings on shamanism, healing and magick to enable you to step into the magick and mystery of your soul and spirit.
If you have heard the call to discover the magick within and effect positive powerful transformation in your own world, the world and in the greater universe, then I look forward to travelling this journey with you.
