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This has to be one of my oldest rituals and as such, has quite a bit of history attached to it. It’s conception was all based around my desperation to completely leave my hometown and cut myself out of my own toxic narrative/everyone else’s narrative about me. I tried to leave my hometown for other towns and cities across the United States to no avail. I’d always end up worse for wear, back in Napa California, with all the old dogmas of the people who dwell in that town breathing down my throat. Telling me that nothing ever changes for people born in Napa and nobody will ever leave until they’re six feet in the ground. They said it was a curse that all people born in Napa must burden under. This frustration built up and fermented inside of my mind. Such was my hatred and determination to prove them wrong, cut myself out of the historical path, and paradigm of that town that I petitioned Hekate, She Who Stands at the Crossroads, for guidance. Because I felt truly lost on how to break my chains even if they were just inside my own mind like a million people told me.
It was the spirit of Hekate with dual torches blazing in the darkness that illuminated my mind outside of the box to assemble this ritual. It did not come immediately and was through a process of trial and error which I experimented with/applied my hypothesis. And even now there are still layers on this technique I have yet to uncover. Using this paradigm, with this technique, may you be granted freedom of movement. It was the desire for freedom that inspired this “Verse Shifting” ritual, after all. So if you’re desperate and stuck standing still…if you’d give anything to just leave the world you’re in for a new one of your own creation, keep reading.
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Verse Shifting is your freedom’s wings. And much like Icarus, this one urges caution lest you fly too close to the sun. It will allow you to move through all your possible time lines that you can imagine, focus in on, and create/articulate in your mind prior to using “Verse Shifting”. You are bigger than your body. Your body is small, a node in a complex web which is your complete overall soul. The only barrier is your mind which is housed within your body (and all articulations of it across time lines). Verse Shifting dislodges the mind to allow you to direct your current ego to overlap any node in the web of your soul so that you become the you that you imagined, living in the set of circumstances that you have designed. For if you can think of a version of you and the life they live in, it exists. It becomes true and accessible. It is/becomes the world you now dwell in.
The Earth and the creations that live upon it are always moving through different possible time lines. Unaware. When a major or even tiny change happens in your life or the world at large, it is due to a shift in the web of both the individual and collective time lines of this planet. When you can become fully aware of these time lines shifting and the warning signs pre-shift, you will become aware of how to move with/through/in-between/around/against them and into different sets of probabilities you might not have had access to if you remained casually drifting.
This is why Verse Shifting comes with a warning.
Once you start this ritual, once you begin to travel through your time lines, here be nightmares and dreams! Choose to create your circumstances/time lines wisely. You will ultimately have to live within them. Some time lines may offer no door out until all functions fueling it dissipate. Different time lines shifting are always heralded before and after by great unpredictable change. If you Verse Shift instead of following the regular currents of the time blindly there is no telling what your wings will carry you to or where. Or what will be the sacrifice. Fly with purpose.
To dislodge your mind and gain the wings/movement like angels, Verse Shifting utilizes “doorways”. Areas that feel “thin” or distorted usually house doors…however, that isn’t always the case. Doors are tricky in that they can be anywhere an in-between/liminal space is present. Like sources of water, carnival rides, crossroads, celestial events like an eclipse, the midnight hour/noon hour. Some “doorways” are fixed in one spot. Some doorways move/are only present under particular conditions. Doorways are not always physical places so keep your eyes open for anything that could be considered a liminal space. It could be as special as a birthday party or as mundane as the last/first day of a fresh new month. Doorway locations serve as channels that the invisible worlds of spirit can touch the physical world. They are axis points that they gears of the web of existence turn upon. This is why they are prime locations to use Verse Shifting on. Some doorways naturally connect to certain time lines despite programming your key (mind) on where you will yourself to go to. All doorways have their gatekeepers. Be prepared to face them. Especially on the bigger doors or when Verse Shifting more than one person. Gatekeepers will always show up if you alert their notice and try to get you to stop or leave. Oftentimes, they work through ordinary people. Do well to have a back-up plan handy in case a door is actively guarded by a gatekeeper.
Verse Shifting is dedicated to the Goddess of the Crossroads, Mistress of Magick, Keeper of Keys…who shows the past, present, and future…and is a lantern in the night for the lost: Hekate. She is often accompanied by the presence of dogs. This personal tradition is inspired from her.
Verse Shifting requires offerings. These offerings, if freely given in the manner expounded, will grant you favor from Hekate and if accepted by the Ghost Queen…safe and unfettered passage through the door shall be yours. Proper offerings are as follows: garlic, bread (particularly in the form of old-fashioned loaves), honey, dragon’s blood incense, onion, raw fish steaks like tuna or salmon, milk, red wine, and pomegranate. Offerings of the heart, if genuinely given, trump food offerings. If not given genuinely, there will be consequences. The Goddess of Crossroads does not take false offerings lightly.
Verse sShifting is best done on New Years (December 31/Jan 1) and Chinese New Year. Or on a new moon, strictly during exact noon, or midnight. This tradition calls for the cover of darkness which is the realm of Hekate and the hour of midnight.
But the actual ritual doesn’t begin on the night it’s performed. The ritual begins at the very moment the idea of leaving your time line blossoms in your head. From that moment of conception it is heavily advised that you spend as much time as possible fleshing that idea of your new time line out inside of your imagination. Imagine every detail, from the entire spectrum of significance, and lock on to the feeling/energy of it. More to the point, give the new time line life inside of your imagination, and a set of scenarios that must play out within it. Do whatever you can to ground the concept of that world inside your head into your subconscious. I would recommend you spend an unhealthy amount of time doing this as it secures your passageway to the desired time line. The process of dreaming up that time line not only secures it’s foundation in the sea of infinite possibility, builds your bridge to that time line, but is essential to avoiding a collapsing time line.
A time line can begin to collapse when the set of dreams/actions used to manifest it runs out of fuel. This is why the dreaming process is very critical to this work. With no set of commands from the dreamer, not including the dreams of others, a time line cannot sustain itself.
There are two limitations to Verse Shifting. Moving into a time line that the mind cannot viscerally and fully believe in is, as of to my experience, nigh impossible without sacrificing a certain level of physical or mental functionality. Moving beyond time lines that aren’t connected to your infinite self/tied to earth/consensus reality is asking for your sanity to be ripped from you. The other limitation, or rather just the consequence of Verse Shifting, lies in the fact that variables change with each Verse Shift. It may be small details. It might be the disappearance of a favorite town park or as important as your middle school. It could even manifest as a retro-active change that everyone agrees/remembered happened…except you. Because “you” have overlapped the “you” that they remember. “You” are from a different time line, after all. It could even be the casual introduction of something new, as if it had always been. It will only be new to you. There are many different ways that this consequence can play out and is in no way predictable. Nor can it be fully bartered with. It can only be fully accepted and expected. As the old saying goes: you got what you wanted but you lost what you had. If you cannot let go of what you have for what you COULD have…do not Verse Shift.
There is a trick that comes into play with Verse Shifting that I have tested with some success. You can bend the variables a little in your favor and how they play out by taking objects (assigned to aspects or people in your life that you want to keep in present play) with you during a Verse Shift. These objects could be as simple as a toothpick or a T-shirt. But it must serve as a reminder of what you want to bring over from the time line you leave to where you are going. For further effectiveness, you can enchant these chosen objects, or simply hold them/be near them during the dreaming process prior to the Verse Shift. These totems will serve as hooks in the possibility fish you’re attempting to reel in. They are threads connected to whatever it is that you can’t let go of. In order for this to work, you must have these objects on your person during the Verse Shift ritual! After the ritual, take special care not to lose the objects or have them break lest you run the risk of loosing the hook and what is attached to it. These objects have a tendency of vanishing. Keep in contained storage, out of sight to anyone else but you. The reason being is that said object could drive someone insane with dual-memories or worse (hypothetically) if it is closely linked to them in any way. I theorize that the reason this works is the distortion these now-out-of-place objects have on reality. Their presence alone twists what consensus reality holds true. Totems work because the time line you enter must compensate for the anomaly and create a history for the object. This usually follows the path of least resistance a.k.a. your memories/experiences of it, regardless of what it’s true history was prior to the Verse Shift.
But even this trick cannot fully guarantee anything. There are many aspects regarding the outcomes that one cannot circumvent. Some things in the world are truly mysterious.
Bringing others with you on a Verse Shift is complex in application and potentially a disaster of entangled collapsing time lines. If your partner/s haven’t the vision, determination, faith in self, and where they’ll end up, or discipline to dream in synchronization to your own dreaming…or if they’re inherently on a different mental wavelength, you run the risk of time line division at the very least. One is very vulnerable on the last stages of a Verse Shift and a week post-shift. An unstable time line that lacks an appropriate amount of dreaming prior usually falls apart in a week. Having another person attached to this only makes this worse. At it’s best, strongly synchronized with a partner/s can result in a flawless Verse Shift. If you must choose to bring someone with you, bring only someone who truly shows that they love you. You and your partner must trust in each other implicitly.
I suppose the last bit of advice before we move on to the ritual particulars is what has been underlying in the last two pages…say goodbye. Say goodbye to everything you knew. Once you leave a time line there is no physical way to go back. You can only replicate past time lines going forward.
Verse Shifting is the art of surrender.
The dangers of Verse Shifting are many but if you are unswayed, if you are truly done with your life as you know it, then you must apply this ritual. Follow it to the letter. Timing is everything. This ritual must be done on the midnight hour on a doorway during a new moon under the cover of rain or just before/after it. It must be done completely alone.
The day of Verse Shifting must be spent completely alone and divorced from all social activity in reverence, contemplation, and focus upon the time line you want to go to. This solitude creates a space where this time line’s influence/the will’s of other people are lessened. Throw yourself a party in this space. Meditate on what time line you’ve been dreaming of. Celebrate where you’ve been and where you’re going. Gather up items from this time line that hold you back to offer to Hekate or, if you must socialize, use the day of the Verse Shifting to cut off stagnant connections/people, places, situations that no longer serve your progress into the new time line. Like the dreaming process, which is your foundation, the day of the Verse Shift is the foundation of the ensured success of the ritual. Spend the day dissolving your cumbersome past and fine-tuning the vision of your chosen time line/the “you” that you will overlap. This closure solidifies the ritual.
Spend the day enchanting totems for the journey. When the sun sets, your life as it currently is has ended. This ritual is ready to be acted out physically. Practical and appropriate dress for this ritual is a traveler’s garb. Bring a back pack. Put your totems in the back pack and the offerings for Hekate. A side note about offerings: If you can’t manage everything on the list, a simple red apple with honey on it will do. Also add in old objects that no longer serve you. Additionally, you will need a Road Opening candle, roses of your choosing (they may be any color) and a source of copper like pennies. Don’t forget the lighter.
At 11:30 P.M. you’ll want to approach the doorway/liminal spot. Place offerings somewhere in the liminal spot and pray/petition Hekate to open/reveal the correct path to travel on for your desired time line shift. Immediately after finishing prayers and giving offerings (include old things you don’t want anymore if you have them), turn your back on them. Do not look upon them again. This is very important. Looking at the offerings can undo the entire ritual. At this point, with your back turned away or your eyes averted, take time to listen. Meditate. Focus on the time line that you want to go to and all the circumstances that make up that time line (example: I want a time line where I have more friends, a better job, a life in a new town)
At 11:40 P.M. to 11: 50 PM, you’ll want to focus HARDER on that link that you’ve made to the time line you want to go to. Also, and I cannot stress this enough:
YOU CANNOT LEAVE THE DOORWAY/LIMINAL SPACE UNTIL THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT. I REPEAT DO NOT LEAVE THE LIMINAL SPACE UNTIL MIDNIGHT. DO NOT LEAVE IT. DO NOT.
Use these crucial last minutes to focus solely on that desired time line (that dreaming process I described in the very beginning) Sprinkle some rose petals on your feet. And some pennies. The rose petals at your feet will help your journey into a new time line as they hold the energies of cycles from life to death and rebirth. Add in the copper/pennies at the stroke of midnight and light the Road Opener candle. For one minute, try to visualize that time line and BELIEVE that when you wake up tomorrow, you’ll be where you need to be. Who you need to be. Living in the world you need to be living in.
At 12: 01 A.M. and on the first minute of the new day, the door is opened for you. Leave the liminal space and walk down your chosen path (whichever one you picked) and do not look behind you. DO NOT LOOK BEHIND YOU AND DO NOT CROSS OVER OR RETURN TO THE LIMINAL SPOT AFTER YOU LEAVE DOWN THE PATH. Do not revisit this spot in more than 24 hours after ritual is done. Keep the candle lit in your hands as you walk down the path and let it burn in a safe space in the days after. The ritual has been done now and you are living in your new time line.“
I try not to reblog a lot stuff as I like to keep this space mostly dedicated to my own content, however- the concept of the infinite self, multi-dimensions, and shifting through one’s own infinite timelines has always been a subject of great fascination for me. I’ve done some workings along these lines, but nothing as structured as this ritual, created by a friend of mine from the chaos magick community. I love the term Verse Shifting, I’m definitely adding it to my grimoire.
Verse Shifting, a method through which you can travel your infinite time lines consciously
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