When I was working with Michael, I simply did the LRBP/circle casting daily for a few weeks. The practice included focusing on the southern quarter (since the time of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Michael has been associated with the south, fire, the full sun, but in medieval times --according to Agrippa and others--he was associated with the east, air, sunrise.) I would visualize and meditate on the idea and symbols of Michael and feel in the presence of the archangel and ultimately merged with the angel (during the practice--I didn't go about my daily ordinary life (IMG:
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