Moon/Scorpio skrying

Moon/Scorpio (Monday, Sun in Scorpio)

11:54 PM 10/26/2009

Luna and Jupiter are exactly conjunct in the 7th house. I saw them together in the sky tonight. Luna is more widely conjunct Neptune.

I am in a wood filled with bare birch trees and dry leaves, very stark and still. I see beetles on the ground, and then many of them, a flood, all running past and behind me. I am caught up in a swell of emotion and turn to follow them. It is then that I sink into the earth, earth folding all around me and embracing me in its solidity, and when I see again I am in a very dark downward-sloping passageway. I am alone, and I feel the danger of the place; it is fetid, not clean, the entrance to a sewer. I descend until I am in the water, still in a dark passageway. I gigantic crocodile lunges towards me and past; I think it must be Sobek, and wonder why it did not challenge me. He said that it indeed was he, and that I may pass because I have honored him (on an altar I have his figure).

I emerge in a dry, dusty place of harsh sunlight, with ridges here and there, nothing growing. There is an excavation, and I see an ancient skeleton still half-buried in the dirt. Scorpions come toward me from the empty desert, and one offers me a scroll. I take it and open it, and it is full of glowing letters that I can't read but that seem to enter me as I unroll the paper and look at it. I feel filled with power. The Scorpion says these are the words by which one may pass unto immortality.

A dust storm arises from behind me, and I crouch over the scroll, thinking that I must protect it. The dust howls all around me, and then a see a figure coalescing in it, made of dust and wind. I think this must be Set, and am in awe that I have encountered him at last - never have I in all this time. I greet him, lord of storm and wasteland, lord of chaos, and he asks if I am an enemy of Horus. I do not say yes, but instead whose enemy I am. He is silent for some time and I wait. Then the storm vanishes.

I am aloft in the air in beautiful sunlight over a green and rolling land, where there is agriculture. I feel uplifted and joyous, free. I keep rising, and rise into a night sky filled with stars, and I think it is the velvet body of Nuit. I rise until I am alone in space. I am still holding the scroll protectively. I call for Barkiel Levanael and see a glowing form. I ask what is her nature, and she says,

"The gate of Hell and the gate of Heaven. Through me, a spirit can leave the chain of successive incarnation on the earth and enter an underworld, or the realm of the stars. I am the gate past which - if one can pass - all the concerns of your reality no longer exist."

And she shows me the swirling center of a galaxy, and lets me feel the massive forces, the stars interacting.

After I come out of this vision I feel jittery and there's a sense of surreality. It is quite different from my usual aftermath of invocation. I rarely feel ungrounded when I do these.