North, The Direction (Correspondences, Associations and Invocations)

North, The Direction

(Correspondences, Associations and Invocations)

 

NORTH

The most powerful direction – the location of magick
– the source of Otherworld powers.

Element: Earth – Air
Season: Winter
Time: midnight
Tool: pentacle
Color: brown – black – green
Animal: white buffalo
Rules: lungs – the body – rudeness – mystery – silence – purity – clarity – renewal – vision – the unseen – the power to listen, to keep secrets, to know what not to say

 

INVOCATIONS:

Goddesses:
Athena – Baaltis Zapuna – Belili – Earth goddesses – Mertseger, Friend of Silence – Nebhet – Neith – Nephthys – Nerthus – Uatchet
Gods:
Baal Zebul, Lord of the Mansions of the North – Baal Zephon, Lord of the North – Bel – Hapy, Lord of the Watchtower of the North – Jupiter – Osiris – Seth, Lord of the Northern Sky – Soma – Uriel – Zeus
From The Egyptian Book of the Dead:

“Thou Beautiful Power,
thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern Heaven,
Power of Heaven, Opener of the Disk,
thou Beautiful Rudder
of the Northern Heaven

The North Wind:

“Awake, O north wind;
and come thou south,
blow upon my garden,
that the spices thereof may flow out.”
– the Song of Solomon

Invocations:
Aquilo – Boreas – Cardea – Erichthonius – Ophion The Silver Castle, the Corona Borealis, is at the back of the north wind.

NORTHWEST:

Invocations: Mahabala – Tiksnosnisa – Vayu

NORTHEAST:

Invocations: Isa – Soma – Uluítuyar – Uruín Ajy Toyoín