>>why would the clockwise rotation of the sun have anything to do with a magickal ritual? Why is the sun's rotation important by magickal means to a ritual?
in old belief, based on perception, clockwise went with the sun (and thus forward in time) so it went with growing things - anti-clockwise was the reverse, or diminishing
deosil vs widdershins, right hand path vs left hand path - i've read that some stupid televangelists won't even make left turns cause its 'sinister', the old latin word for 'left hand'
check out some threads on the 'left hand path'
of course we now know that the apparent deosil motion of the sun is because of a widdershins spin of the earth! - someone once said that when they were initiated, i believe it was into the masons, rhey went 'shhhhh!', held their finger to their lips, and whispered 'the earth revolves around the sun!' - saying shit like that in the old days without being very quiet or not knowing who you were saying it to, in those times of the church persecutions, was enough to get you tortured, or hanged, or even burnt - hence the secret societies that grew up among scholars and the learned to preserve that knowledge - to some, deosil may indeed be positive to widdershins negative, others may just accept it and run with it, and others my seek the in-between, the balance between right and left, which is stillness - advanced: if you crave a personal teacher and cannot find a cm person willing to teach and/or initiate you (they do exist - google oto), seek that stillness and ask it of the universe, and you never know - you should always discern what comes, but what comes may just be enlightenment, or at least a teacher (i just call them my 'astral friends') - they can be a pain since they never sleep or eat and make crazy demands (all for a purpose), but boy do you learn!
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