GUARDIANS and GODDESS of the DIRECTIONS

Guardians of the Directions

 Watchers from the edge of space
We call you from beyond the brink of time
To enter here our sacred twilight realm
And Guard our rites empyrean and wild.

The Guardians of the Feri tradition are celestial intelligences of tremendous power who came to us from beyond the stars to teach humankind the arts of magic.

While different lines of Feri have differing views on each of them (including their names and even their number) it is agreed that these ancient beings will come to assist us when they are called, to join, witness, and guard our rites. 

  

Guardian of the Zenith (above)
HeavenShiner

The HeavenShiner wields the power of Pure Consciousness in the spiritual realms and may appear as a humanoid frontal silhouette of indefinite gender whose blackness is blazing with a billion stars. S/he may also appear as a great star-filled eye with numerous wings.

-Text and sigil: copyright 2003, 2007 Storm Faerywolf

  

Guardian of the East:
StarFinder

The StarFinder wields the power of Knowledge. He may appear as vaguely humanoid, his body transparent golden yellow, the color of morning sunlight. His eyes are very bright, light blue stars, and he has enormous wings of pale violet. He stands or flies before the rising sun, his right hand holding a sapphire rod, bound at the top with gold, and bound at the bottom with silver. He may also appear as a slash of soft sunlight, carrying a gentle wind.

-Text and sigil: copyright 2003, 2007 Storm Faerywolf

  

Guardian of the South:
ShiningFlame

The ShiningFlame wields the power of Truth. He also may appear in humanoid form, his body transparent ruby red, surrounded by an aura of fire like a teardrop or candle flame. He stands or dances in a desert at noon, holding in his right hand a sword of polished blue metal. Alternatively, he may appear as a raging red star, or simply as an enormous explosive fire.

-Text and sigil: copyright 2003, 2007 Storm Faerywolf

 

Guardian of the Center:
Guardian of the Gates

Once we have aligned ourselves both with our own divinity as well as with the powers of the other Guardians, we can then step into the role of becoming the seventh Guardian; that nexus point of convergence between the worlds. Unlike the other Guardians that we have worked with, the Guardian of the Gates is actually a state of being that the practitioner cultivates within themselves in order to meditate and direct the powers in ritual, thereby “opening the gates” into the Otherworld, and the inner planes, so that we may travel them and learn. It is that perfect state of holding both one’s fullest divinity as well as our fullest humanity simultaneously, and in so doing becoming fully Fae. It is this state of being in which we are said to have become enchanted and it is this state from which magick is made. This is another way to approach what in Feri is called the Black Heart of Innocence; that presence in which we are completely aligned in our Three Souls, devoid of outside restriction, and are acting from our own Divine authorities.

-Text and sigil: copyright 2003, 2007 Storm Faerywolf

  

Guardian of the West: WaterMaker The WaterMaker wields the power of Love. She may appear as a great dragon rising out of the primal seas, surrounded by the colors of sunset. Her body is transparent green, with water gushing from her jaws. In her left paw she holds a silver chalice. She may also appear as a great octopus, a kraken, or as an enormous wave or whirlpool that comes from the depths of the dark sea. -Text and sigil: copyright 2003, 2007 Storm Faerywolf

  

 

Guardian of the North:
BlackMother

The BlackMother wields the power of Wisdom. She may appear as a jet-black goat with silver horns and golden eyes, surrounded by a halo of flickering blue fire and suckling a thousand offspring in a cave deep in the earth at midnight. Her left hoof rests upon a perfect cube of green stone upon which is carved a black pentacle. She may also appear as a bull, a large rock or boulder, or a monolith.

-Text and sigil: copyright 2003, 2007 Storm Faerywolf

  

Guardian of the Nadir (below)
Fire-in-the-Earth

The Fire-in-the-Earth wields the power of Pure Consciousness in the physical & sexual realms. S/he may appear as a great fish coiled in a circle deep in the earth, with dark brown scales speckled with blue and green iridescence, carrying a burning ember in its mouth. Alternatively, s/he may also appear as either a burning lump of coal or magma, or a hermaphroditic newt or toad with pale white skin and dark unblinking eyes.

-Text and sigil: copyright 2003, 2007 Storm Faerywolf

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Goddess of the Directions

From the underworld they come...
Beyond the world of space and time
Deep they are, to the very depth of the universe
And madness is their name. 

Some of the most strange and potent beings that are worked with in our tradition are the Goddesses of the Elements. These are beings of primal power that are quite beyond what is normally thought of when one considers the elemental powers invoked in the modern Craft. These deities are said to be older than matter itself, and provide the energetic blueprint for all of creation. 

 

I conjure open the Well of Space!
And peer into the Outer Dark!
Hail, Verr-Avna!
Black Veiled bride of death and renewal!
Cavernous tomb and womb in one!
You who stand with the strength of stone
Shining dark in The Crown of the North!
Reveal the truth of flesh and bone!
We salute thee, IAO!

This strange Goddess often appears as a decomposing corpse wearing a black wedding dress! She often will perform feats of physical prowess unattainable by the human form, such as walking on walls or the ceiling, as if to demonstrate that physical laws do not bind her, as she is physical law. She is the presence of earthly matter and space, and the processes of energy coalescing into a tangible form.

 
I conjure open the Well of Plasma!
And peer into the Eternal Flames!
Hail Tana!
Liquid Flame!
Scarlet Lust!
You who burn with growth and destruction
In the Passion of Life and Death
Reveal now your grand seduction!
We salute thee, IAO!

She appears as liquid fire, sometimes molten magma, but at others simply plasma in a liquid-like form. Sometimes she appears as lightning, arcing from the sky and into the earth. She is often dancing wild, ecstatic, sparks and flames jumping from her burning aura as she moves. She is the explosive power of all fire, whether that be in the smallest candle flame, or in a raging inferno, or the nuclear processes in the heart of every star. She is the geo-thermal power in the center of the earth, as well as the heat and adrenaline in our bodies. She brings both change, and destruction, as heat can cause chemical changes in objects (as in food being cooked, or stones changing characteristics when exposed to higher temperatures while forming) or even completely obliterate them (a forest or building burning to the ground in a raging fire).

 
I conjure open the Well of Stars!
To peer into the Black Hearted Vault of Heaven within the Earth!
Hail, Sugma’ad!
Infinite Darkness! Infinite Light!
Womb of the Universe!
From You all things emerge
And unto You all things return.
Reveal your starlight in my breath!
We salute thee, IAO!

Beyond even the pre-extant elemental forms lies the conscious possibility of them. This consciousness is the Sugma’ad; the Star Goddess. She appears in a multitude of forms, most notably a woman with jet-black skin with the head of a lioness and great wings of a bat. She sits on a throne of polished onyx with the silver egg of creation resting in her lap. She is the primal Goddess of creation; the great cosmic womb from which all things emerge and into which all things return. She is life and oblivion all in one; the beautiful and terrible explosion of chaos and possibility.

 

 
I conjure open the Well of the Watery Abyss!
And peer into the Whirlpool!
Heva Leviathan Tiamat!
Ancient Serpent!
World-Birther!
You who flow with primal waters
As the kraken rises from below
From the Deep come your sons and daughters!
We salute thee, IAO!

She often appears as a breaking of primal waters... opening up from the darkness below the waves and rising up to the surface. Sometimes she is the kraken itself; many tentacles stretching from the dark unknown waters below. She is the primal waters of birth; that which gave life to this planet and in fact sustains all life. But she is also the terrible unforgiving waves that lead to destruction.

 
I conjure open the Well of Space!
And peer into the Outer Dark!
Hail, Verr-Avna!
Black Veiled bride of death and renewal!
Cavernous tomb and womb in one!
You who stand with the strength of stone
Shining dark in The Crown of the North!
Reveal the truth of flesh and bone!
We salute thee, IAO!

This strange Goddess often appears as a decomposing corpse wearing a black wedding dress! She often will perform feats of physical prowess unattainable by the human form, such as walking on walls or the ceiling, as if to demonstrate that physical laws do not bind her, as she is physical law. She is the presence of earthly matter and space, and the processes of energy coalescing into a tangible form.  -Text and sigil: copyright 2011 Storm Faerywolf

SOURCE: http://www.feritradition.org/grimoire/lod/index.html