DAEMONIC YEAR IN REVIEW by BILLY MYERS: Reflecting on 2018 I don't even know where to begin to pinpoint my progress and my deepening of connection and how that led to the myriad of benefits in my life. This year I chose my patron Baelzebub. This as some of you know was a complex and difficult process. It took 6 years of reflection and soul searching to comprehend the terms patron, matron, mentor, friend and guardian. Once understood I did the patron dedication ritual but redesigned it to fit my needs. I added an offering mojo bag to the divine Baelzebub and tweaked Connelly's ritualistic elemental circle to be more about them with the elements utilized in alchemical functionality rather than the focus. I also made two new 'friends'. Andras and Bune. While Andras showed me some new tricks, he was more a friend than mentor. Bune came, dark blessed my paper seed poppet spell I designed for him/her with a couple of hundred and left. While neither 'spoke' to me, I could visibly 'see' their energies while they were invoked in the works. In terms of my practice both father and Asmodeus joined forces and helped me launch Dark Star Products and I am so grateful. New skills, new means were introduced to me and when I was in error, my mistakes were pointed out and shown how to correct. Lucifer helps buttress my personal battles and wars with his unyielding and unfaltering dark light and support. Astaroth took an unexpected twist suggesting the term 'matron' be used for her. Usually reserved fir Lilith or Hecate she pointed out she has been around just as long in one form or another and posed the question since I do not have one if she would be the choice. Belial although an aborted attempt at communication cost me my alliance with a certain temple that shall remain nameless, I feel waiting in the wings along with Azazel in 2019 for me to have the honor privilege and power of meeting. All in all a truly great year but I wasn't alone! With them, we never truly are! Thanks Rena! You are an inspiration and source in our community. The Year of 2018 as a Luciferian Demonolatress by Stergalia Nocturna I lay awake in my bed that night in November of 2017, feeling his pull, his calling to me after years of being lost in a spiritual desert. Everything I had been taught (had shoved down my throat) about him, all the fears I had so deep inside myself… What if God was going to judge me and send me to hell? What if all the things I believed were true? What then? Yet, I felt Lucifer drawing me to himself, to his True Light, that I, too, might become a Bearer of Light, and in December of 2017 I answered that call. I committed my life to the Luciferian path through an extremely awkward (and now kind of embarrassing) self-initiation to Lucifer. I thought there was only Lucifer and that he and Satan were the “devil” – and it was not until February this year that Rena introduced me to Demonolatry through her King Paimon blog. Thus began my journey into Demonolatry, and I have not looked back since. Working with King Paimon, I have heard the sound of trumpets and other fanfare. He is a wonderfully hard instructor, and as a King, we must always show him respect. He loves the color orange and his metal is gold. Because he is a King. Duke Alloces is another demon with whom I have worked, and what can I say? He is an awesome demon to invoke, loves the color green and candle magick. One of the things I truly appreciate about him is that he helps with divination. Dantalion is another fantastic demon. One night when I was invoking him, sigil in hand, he moved it from off my hand, across my lap, and down to the floor under the table at which I was sitting. Talk about being surprised! What I find amazing is that when I am preparing to do a working, the name of a Demon, with whom I may or may not have not worked, will come to me in my mind, prodding me to invoke them. Perhaps upwards of a couple dozen have garnered my attention this way, so I pay attention and work with them. The last time this happened, a cohort and I were preparing for a healing ritual when Buer kept coming up in my mind. I had not worked with him before, so looked up his information only to find that he, too, is a healing demon. Demons coming to me, tapping on my shoulder as it were, is becoming a regular occurrence, and so I welcome them with open arms, mind, and soul. In the beginning, I used information from published authors to learn about the different demons, and what I found is that most, if not all of them try to scare people away from working with certain of the demons. The first demon with whom I worked was Lucifer, and that expanded to working with the Nine Divinities: Satan, Lucifer, Flereous, Leviathan, Belial, Amducious, Verrine, Unsere, and Euronymous. I also discovered that I love working with sigils and can activate them quite easily and naturally. I was also introduced to a few more demons through UPG and began working with them as well. I do not have permission to share any information about them. Those beginning days were very clumsy for me because I did not know what I was doing – at all. During the year, many demons have reached out to and helped me in my workings as a Healer – my calling, my Divine Purpose, my True Will. I have a friend who told me about an illness he had and gave me permission to do a healing ritual for him. As I was calling on Verrine, she had me also focus my attention to Leviathan during the ritual. Although I thought it strange, I later discovered that he is also highly effective for healing. I also want to share some of the skills the Demonic have awakened in me, abilities I never even knew existed, much less in me. One is scanning for exorcisms and healings, the other is tracing and tracking missing persons. For scanning people, the people I work with and I use a photograph, maybe more than one. I must see the eyes of the person asking for help. After all, the eyes are the gateway to the soul – at least for me. I can see so much by looking at people’s eyes. Even in real life working with non-English speaking patients in the hospital, I have had times where we communicated through visual contact only – we do not speak each other’s spoken language, but the communication by looking into someone’s eyes is much more intimate and powerful. Regarding tracing and tracking, I cannot describe how I know where a person is; I just know. As the tracing team is working together, my mind clears, literally, and then information comes to me, sometimes flooding my mind. Other times, I have used a crystal ball for divination when letters start to appear. I bring myself out of trance just enough to write down the information, then allow myself to sink back down into the receptive state. I am not always as quick as the other tracers, but I am learning and that is the point. In both cases – tracing/tracking and exorcisms/healings – I work under partial possession which works well, by the way, but only with a very good, respectful relationship with the Demonic. I cannot begin to express the gratitude I feel every day for the Demonic taking me under their wings, as it were. Teaching me, pushing me, allowing me to re-create my life, to re-create who I AM. Between Hekate, King Paimon, Lucifer, Duke Alloces, and Lilith, among many others, the changes in my life are far beyond anything I could ever have imagined, pressuring me, stretching and bursting through old beliefs and new, teaching me those things I need to know to progress in this journey – teaching me to Be. My 2018 by Rena V. 2018…it was definitely a year that I will remember for the rest of my life. For my spiritual growth, for the lessons I learned, for the people the year both brought into my life took away. I’m mostly grateful for those who went away – someone must get rid of the garbage! I worked a lot with the Demonic this year. Almost daily. I realize that I have abilities which I didn’t know about. Demons helped me discover and work on them. I was mostly worked with King Paimon, my Patron. With Him I did my first ascension on one of the Demonic planes….The experience was unbelievable, but this is a topic for an article on its own. He also taught me about remote viewing and scanning. We started working on it under partial possession and I’m still working with Him to learn do it on my own. He taught and guided me how to clean someone when unwanted entities have attached to people. We have reached a point, and I say “we” because we have created a team working on tracing missing persons and doing cleansings. So far we have worked in over 50 cases with almost 100% success. Being a Demonolator, Satanist or LHP follower in general is not only for casting spells, curses, or whatever, but it is for personal alchemy, seeking to change ourselves from deep within.