Solar Magician’s Spell

1.27.7.15: Blue Solar Monkey

In honor of the 76th Solar return of Jose Arguelles/Valum Votan, we offer a poem written by him.

I offer praise
To this day
As sacred and holy as every other day
And like every other day
The center
Through which the universe threads itself anew

and I pray
that the goodness accumulated by beings everywhere
might continue to gather
and that soon
even this very day
the flood-gates of this universal goodness
might burst upon this world

I pray
that my eyes
and all of my senses
might open ever wider
to the wizardry of every day earth
the dewdrop sheen of rainbow light unnoticed
on the drooping leaf

and I pray
that the magic that dissolves
the multiple appearances of things
into a luminous oneness
might burst like a flame in the deepest
most broken recesses of my heart
releasing a song of unutterable joy

I pray
that in the presence of all worldly things
I might stand nameless
a child of illusion
so that in all things
the circle of perfection might reveal itself
as the mirror of all-conquering emptiness
and most fervently I pray
that the great magicians
Merlin entombed in the Hawthorn Tower
Pacal Votan sealed in the Ninth Vault of the Holy Night
with their train of harmonic sorcerers
might suddenly return
appearing at first
from earths resonant core
as vibrating filaments of crystal light
phantom-spread
upon civilization’s
dark and crumbling wall

and I pray
that from that ghost-light manifestation
beheld by innocence
as truth itself
the sorcerer powers might spread
like angel flame
through warrior hearts
causing all those Lords and Ladies of the Cosmic Court
to awaken again
to their power
in time
to bless this planet
with the awesome splendor
of their tender might

by Jose Arguelles/Valum Votan, Kin 11: Blue Spectral Monkey

Valum Votan in Temple 13: Tomb of Red Queen, Palenque, Mexico, 2009. photo by Kin 185