Insights and Art by Kerstin Hern of The Mirrored Lantern
The Lion’s Gate portal takes place on August 8th when our sun aligns with the brightest star in our sky, Sirius, a fixed star in the constellation Canis Minor. Sirius is also called the “Dog Star.”
Doing work—be it ritual, meditation, journaling—with the intention to align your energy with this open portal’s vibration will speed up and expand the energy and intentions you are putting out. This is a big “leveling up” shift with a sort of a pulsing, electrical feel to it.
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Using a green, gold, or yellow candle, carve two “8”s on your candle and acknowledge Sirius in your petition when you state your intentions. For example: “May the power of Sirius and the Lion’s Gate portal accelerate my intentions with extra luck and abundance!”
8/8: Eights represent infinity, flow, prosperity, and spirituality. With two eights, we can think of it like an “as above, so below” flow cycling up and down and back up to the heavens, in a stream of elevated consciousness and wisdom. This energetic flow is fueled by the fire of the Leo lion sun, the Dog Star Sirius.
The sigil represents the star Sirius. You can use this sigil on your altar to get maximum dual star energy and the intuitive magick energy of the moon in your ritual!
May you walk through the Lion’s Gate with fire wings carrying you through your divine transformation and into abundance, my friends!
Kerstin from The Mirrored Lantern has practiced right hand path magick and tarot for over 28 years and has been a lover and learner of astrology for just as long… She is currently in graduate school for Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Spiritual & Depth Psychology. Follow her on instagram @themirroredlantern for witch tips, occulture, and depth psych tidbits!
The fierce and powerful Freyja was the Norse goddess of many dueling aspects! While she was the goddess of love, sexuality, fertility and beauty, she was also a warrior goddess of death, strength, lust, and war itself. Freyja is also viewed as the Goddess of magick, because she was believed to be magick itself!! She was a force of untamed nature and desires. If there was something that Freya wanted, she was above no moral standard to obtain her desires. One of Freya’s most notable correspondences is a
