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Merry Meet!

As I begin class two it’s only Wednesday and I just finished reading all the responses from last week’s class, and must say I am inspired and fascinated by the data so far.

Today as the scene opens I am again in ritual space, quarters were drawn in absolute silence while sitting in a stationary position. I have downloaded the Brain Wave Generator for my home machine, it’s only shareware but with a little hacking I was able to rig one of their creativity enhancing presets to also vibrate a sub audible tone for the Moon (which you already know is around 420), the frequency associated with the orbit of Mercury 141.27hz which of course is a C-sharp or a D and just for kicks a sweeping tone from the Psychic center chakra 416.0hz A-flat which I am transmitting at myself in a triangular wave cause it seemed cool. The audible part of the preset is the sound of Night, or more realistically, computer generated Crickets and bugs, which actually has quite a rhythm to it since it never changes. No telling what this might do to me but at least I’m in control of the buttons and not that this all makes much sense to you yet but I hope the endless curiosity of ” what the hell is he talkin about” will inspire you to search. It is an old saying with people of my ilk that Wisdom comes through the Pursuit of Knowledge not in the obtaining of it.

The first thing we must cover for our purposes here is the concept of Resonance, whether we are using sound, voice, music, percussion or a brain wave generator. In a similar way to how we use the rule of Sympathetic Magick (Like Attracts Like), a vibration put out causes a vibration of the same frequency to occur in any exterior body capable of producing that vibration, even over long distances.

Physics teaches that all things are made of atoms which contain protons and electrons, electrically and magnetically charged particles. They are in constant motion at times with different speeds which makes their movement audible. These vibrations cause the air around them to shift, causing pressure changes that, if we could see it, would look like the ripples in a stream. The ripples are the movement of more air atoms being caused by the movement of the first, with each atom in turn sending out its own ripples.

Now we have quite a lot of them atoms that make us up, hence the power to make quite a bit o’ ripples. The easiest way to describe resonance would be to take a tuning fork to the tone of Middle-C; if we strike it, it vibrates with a tone we can’t quite hear very well. If we had a piano nearby, or even not so near, and we opened it up to look, we would find the Middle-C string vibrating.

Every cell in our body is a resonator of sound that is capable of responding to and does without our say so to vibrations outside the body. The part within us that resonates to that note outside of us will be affected/stimulated. Not every vibration produces a sound. Places have a vibration, things, and yes, even people. Suddenly the words “I don’t like his vibe” or “Quit vibing me, dammit” take on a new meaning. People have a vibration that alters with mood, physical activity, and health; the note we are vibrating at, even if we don’t hear it.

Perhaps it can be considered that we are sometimes out of tune with others or are not in harmony with them. In these cases we can become averse to the vibration/person that is displeasing to us. Or we can try another note and see if we can cause a harmonious vibration of another kind with that person. To psychically change the subject, in a way.

There is, of course, much more than anyone can grock on any of these subjects. Although I am a musician and have carved an interesting little career for myself I still to this day when talking other musicians through a song say things like “it’s an A-somthin followed by a D-with the pinkie up” or “that D-ish cord”. I know them and can feel them but haven’t really done much of the musical theory homework. Guess I was more interested in the magickal theory. So as D-ish won’t work here I have done some research and found www.xs4all.nl/`xenophon/music/theory to be quite handy for getting up on the music theory. So go look around and come back and let’s get to playing right away.

As above So Below, As the Universe So the Soul:  We can use our vibrations or crude technologies to produce vibrations that cause other vibrations and create great change in the world with those vibrations but first let’s start at the starting place: You.  Now let’s say you’re one of those people with the non-harmonious vibrations or are just in a state where you want to alter your vibration, change your mood, enter a trance state etc. Well, the Key is The Key, you see. Mantras, chants, songs or Enochian god names are all just fine but are far more effective when done in a harmonious note. If you can use your voice that’s great, or use your chosen device. Even if you think your tone deaf, it doesn’t matter.

If you’re using voice, check your pitch with a pitch pipe or other device and sing a tone in the deepest most vibratory way you can. Tone is tone but aim for vibration you can feel deep down. If you know where your diaphragm is, aim there.

Regardless of what you may hear, try and match the feel of the tone in your bones. It’s hard to explain but even the tone deaf can feel it. For me, I take my instrument, pluck the note and alter my voice trying to match it. The point where it matches is more a feel for me, though. When I vocalize the note, I feel a wave coming back from the instrument when I hit the proper pitch. This will only make so much sense until you feel what I’m talking about.

When you can find that feeling you have found the resonating frequency. When I try it against a speaker playing the note there is a point I hit where suddenly, although there are only two notes, the room sounds and feels like it is filled with music, even from far across the room. I shift though the notes and when I hit the right note it’s unmistakable; it all begins to sound very big. Try this a bit and we’ll go on.

Now that we are capable of producing the notes from our body or have a tool for doing, we will begin with C.

C or C-sharp resonates with the energies of the Sun and can be used against depression. It brings warmth and joy, is calming, meditative, relaxing, healing and centering. The Indians called it “father to others” and is the traditional note for ‘OM’ and “AMEN’. C is also associated with Pluto’s orbit which can be used for power, to overcome crisis and change and is also associated with Mercury.

So we add another note: Intent. Concentrate with intent on the energies you want when toning.

D is also associated with Mercury as is the top half of C, so different levels of speech and communication are affected depending on the note. D is also associated with activity, freedom and humor, and has some associations with the orbit of Mars.

E is for centering, the solar plexus and can be used for healing. Perhaps you can tell me any planetary associations that it has.

F and F-sharp are for creativity, generosity, used to overcome boundaries, and has associations with the orbit of Jupiter.

G is for Earth and grounding, it stimulates and energizes the mind, promotes harmony with nature, and attracts money. G-Sharp also has associations with Venus, Uranus, and Juno, is said to decongest, and resonates with the frequency of Manganese (a mineral nutrient).

A is, of course, the Moon, but F-sharp is also associated with the Moon. A is a bit all over the place, used to overcome fatigue, associated with Venus, the third eye and psychic matters, decisiveness, balance and vitality, sensitivity and other world experiences.

B is associated with copper, useful for sinus infections and colds, stimulates the crown chakra and the communication with God/Dess, and stimulates the adrenal glands, intelligence and matters of the head.

As we can see, the notes are harmonics of the frequencies with which they vibrate, and that’s why one note can be associated with several planets. Can you see why some planets act in harmony with each other and some don’t? Can the musicians see some new chords? There are also color associations with each note which can be utilized for everything you use color magick for, which correspond as follows, in the same order as above: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

Timbre is described in music as the color of the tone and the distinguishing mark of all tone. It helps to identify one tone from another and pick one instrument out of an orchestra.  Pitch is the high or low of a sound; the faster sound vibrates the higher the pitch. Low pitches bend around objects, this is why the drums are the last thing you hear when you’re walking out of the building. High pitches are more intense and focused, cutting through other tones. There’s much more to say about pitch but we will go on.

Melody is the relation of tones to each other, a progression of notes that moves energy in a specific pattern. Melody is about relationships.

Harmony speaks to the relationship of tones on top of, underneath, and in the middle of each other, the combining of more than one note to produce a specific ‘other’ tone. The uniting of vibration.

Rhythm has been called the pulse of life. Being exposed to a rhythm can alter your pulse and your heartbeat due to a rhythmic resonance factor. Depending on the situation, altering your heartbeat can be good or bad and some rhythms are abnormal, unnatural and can cause problems.

One such rhythm is Anapestic which they say was used by the Rolling Stones in some early sixties numbers and is often used in punk and metal. In the sixties some people were hospitalized with breathing and heart problems associated with the music because a normal heartbeat is 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 and anapestic 1-2-3 1-2-3 with emphasis on the 3. There is a lot more to cover in rhythm later.

Burning the History Books-

The problem with research of this kind is although many ancient societies had stumbled on these concepts long ago and developed complex models around them, they tend to disagree on the actual association of the notes. Completely different models for the planets and other attributes exist with different notes assigned. Finding a point where the research agrees can be a staggeringly difficult process (not that I’m saying any of the old sources are wrong; it is possible they all came up with sub-harmonics of the actual frequencies…I haven’t yet done the math).

So I have chosen to throw the majority of that out and turn to science for the answer. Each planet, object, being or body has a vibration, a frequency and tone, which can be documented and traced through elements of radio theory, a theory which, as far as we can tell, is a constant in the universe. Science as it stands does not disagree much on these frequencies and most data I’ve collected seems to link up quite nicely. At times where science has not tracked or observed an object I have reverted to the old data wherever necessary. Basically, when I have nothing better, I look at what ‘they’ say.

Assignment

1.      Play with this and let us know what you find. Experiment with it for a week.

2.      Research these concepts, see what knowledge the ancients had, and then enact our prime directive: Change Your Perspective!

Reading Possibilities:

The 21 Lessons of Merlin

Sacred Sounds

The Magicians Companion

Google searches with “musical note planets” or “frequencies” as keywords brought up a lot to sift through.
Blessed Be,
Birch

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