Invocation Rites

[anosognosia]

I copied this from an answer in Evocation Experience because it seemed appropiate over here. Maybe we can use this thread for posting the custom invocations we come up with?

Simplified Fotamecus Rite

I did a seated GPR (more on that below) including visualization of a circle.

I stared at his sigil and imagined it alive and huge behind me as I said:

Fotamecus, time expander, I invoke thee.
Fotamecus, time compresser, I invoke thee.

(here I visualized the sigil looming  close behind)

Fotamecus, you who are master of time and friend of Man, I invoke you.
Fotamecus, you who are able to squeeze the hour into an instant, I invoke you.
Fotamecus, you who are able to stretch an hour from an instant, I invoke you.

Fotamecus!
Fotamecus!
Fotamecus!

(here fotamecus merged with me enveloping and filling me)

I have become Fotamecus, time expander, time contractor!
I squeeze the hour from the instant!
I stretch the instant into an hour!
I am Fotamecus! I am Fotamecus! I am Fotamecus!
Chronos your time has come!
(I got into it here and laughed spontaneously but it wasn't banishment. I felt like I was laughing with cosmic power... or caffeine, I'd had alot of coffee.)
I expand time until this task is done. I dump the compressed time into my network!
Expand! Expand! Expand!

I did a seated GPR and broke the circle.

Then I got back to work.

Context and Notes on the Ritual
The context was a late night editing session under a deadline. I felt I needed more time to do things right and decided to work with Fenwick Rysen's Fotamecus egregore. I had done this before in the same context through evocation and felt an unusual fatigue latter. I decided to do an informal invocation instead on the spot.

I call this informal in that I came up with it and then performed it right away, "off the cuff." I didn' t use incense or sounds and I didn't get up from my keyboard. I did banish before and after with a seated GP (turning around in my seat for the pentacle behind). The elapsed time from the idea to the end of the ritual was probably about twenty minutes.

When I said "this task" I thought of typing at the keyboard. The Friend of Man bit could use work to make it seem less sexist but I meant the human race at that point.

Results
I finished all of the edits and seemed to have "time to spare." I had a strong feeling that I couldn't make the clock reach midnight, although during my work I made a point of not looking at the clock. When I finished and looked up (really switched desktops to the one with the clock showing) I saw that it was about 11:50pm. I slept well and had no unusual fatigue the next day like the fatigue I had experienced earlier with evocation. This is how I will work with F in the future. I may even shorten the Invocation as we become more familiar with each other, and next time I will state my intent before invoking rather than at the end.

[anosognosia]

Since access to the MLA site ends soon, I have movedthe invocation of Ganesha I posted  during the class to this forum.
Looking at how I presented this, I think I will go back and add some of these details about context to the Fotamecus invocation above because that does seem to help understand effects.:

Invocation of Ganesha, Ganapati, Remover of Obstacles

I call by visualization Ganesha, bathed in the red and orange light of victory's flame.  His fawn-colored eyes stare directly at me from his elephant face, opening the hidden doors in my mind.

His twisted trunk holds the tusk which writes the universe into being.

Magician and Scribe of the Gods, he brings knowledge and wisdom.

He is Ganapati the beloved god.

He is Vigneshwara, the Lord and Remover of Obstacles who will open the way before me.

He is the bravest of warriors who will open the doors of the cosmos and give me the knowledge and skill to withstand what might enter.

Ganesha, Favorite of Parvati, I invoke thee
Ganapati, Scribe of the Gods, I invoke thee
I invoke thee, Vigneshwara, Remover of Obstacles

Ganesha! Ganapati! Vigneshwara!

Ganesha, you the beloved God of the Fawn colored eyes, I call you
Ganesha, you the elephant faced god, I call you
Ganesha, you who's single tusk is like a sword, I call you
Ganesha, you the Trickster with the Twisted Trunk, I call you
I call you, Ganesha, Opener of the Way

Ganesha! Ganapati! Vigneshwara!

(Repeat 8 times)
Om Gam Ganapatiya Namah!
(/Repeat)

Ganesha! Ganapati! Vigneshwara!

I am become Ganesha, Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Crowds, Scribe who writes the Universe.

I am become Ganesha, Opener of the Way and Lord of Magic
Ganesha! Ganapati! Vigneshwara!

Ganesha! Ganesha! Ganesha!

Context and Notes on the Ritual
I had worked until 4:00am Tuesday night, then flew to a test facility and had to work through Wed night to solve some problems due to a power surge. I ran into obstacle after obstacle and I had come to  town only prepared  to give a presentation. Just before leaving, I did some reading about Ganesha and wrote this invocation on the plane, thinking I would perform it just before bed at the hotel. By 5:00am I felt ready for some help from the "Remover of Obstacles." I invoked him by performing the GP then doing the ritual followed by another GP and absolutely maniacal laughter.

Part of the ritual was adapted from a similar ritual here:
http://www.egnu.org/rites/invocations/nathpuja.mhtml

Results
During the invocation, I had no sense of having accomplished anything. I had trouble remembering my lines and visualizing at the same time while projecting my voice theatrically. But it felt refreshing to do something that bizarre amid the frustration and fatigue.

After invoking, I went to the hotel and took a shower and came back. The original developer of the system I was fighting with showed up at the test facility.  We had the place to ourselves, and it took him five minutes to clear things up! I don't know if the invocation had anything to do with it, but I was not expecting him to show up at all. He lives 1100 miles away (Florida and this was Texas). He was there also to help with the same presentation I came to give, relieving me from taking the whole load in my woozy condition.

That evening, weather delayed my flight home, then cancelled it. I was up until about 2:00am other than dozing uncomfortably (and unintentionally) at the gate at the airport. I had to wait for a very long time for a bus to the motel proivided by the airline. The next morning, I overslept missing my rebooked flight. Realizing rushing wouldn't help, I invoked ganesha less formally, ate a nice breakfast and didn't hurry to the airport. They rebooked me again and I flew home without incident. I tell this story because it may pay to remember tha Ganesha *is* the Lord of Obstacles and not just the remover. A dead and resurected god, conceived without a father, he got the name when, as a child, he stood and defended his mother's doorway to the death against all of the gods and demons in the universe. After the help at the test center I took all the delays as in good humor as a practical joke.

[Ante]

Check this out
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1896/summonAC.html
 

[Thinair]

ROTFL

Nice one