Let's Make A Deal: Modern Covenants For Modern Mages

I am part of a really good book club and we have been working our way through a book on chaos magick. This has led to some really wide-ranging discussions, and really caused my mind to really re-examine some magickal concepts.

One of the areas we have recently delved into is the concept of "god-slaves", as well as the correspondences for invoking and evoking with deities, as well as the idea of pagan reconstructionism. I am going to delve into that a little here. If that is your thing, just let me say this is all my own musing and attempts to work through this, and not some kind of slap in the face.

Let's Make A Deal: Modern Covenants For Modern Mages

First, let me say this, I am an eclectic. Phew! Got that off my chest so that I can admit that my cosmological view of the heavens is very fluid. That's really important to me, because I want to play Let's Make A Deal!

I personally ascribe to the idea that whatever you consider a god [be it truly divine, an empowered thought-form, or what have you] it has a function that it performs, and desires to perform, and it is both empowered by and empowers those who call on it. This relationship is symbiotic I believe, and because of this, I feel we live in a golden age of "deal making".

There is an entire cosmological constellation of deities out there who have the desire and impetus to act, but lack the willing workers they used to command. They are smart enough to know that the whole setup of these matters has drastically changed in the past few years, but let's not ignore how matters changed even in the heyday of their particular faiths.

For example I have been really interested in the Ogdoad (hence my username) who were a group of 4 frog headed gods, and their 4 snake-headed goddesses from Ancient Egypt.

[The Egyptians believed that before the world was formed, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos. In this chaos lived the Ogdoad of Khmunu (Hermopolis), four frog gods and four snake goddesses of chaos. [Balance in infinity]
These deities were Nun and Naunet (water), Amun and Amaunet (invisibility), Heh and Hauhet (infinity) and Kek and Kauket (darkness).

The chaos existed without the light, and thus Kek and Kauket came to represent this darkness. They also symbolized obscurity, the kind of obscurity that went with darkness, and night]

Even in the time of the Ancient Egyptians, the beliefs surrounding these goods and goddesses changed at least 3 times in a major way, so I decided they could go with another. I have started calling on them and trying to work with them as much as possible and it has born dividends. A frog showed itself to be my animal totem after long striving, and the elemental sea of chaos they represent meets me in my meditations with power (sometimes too much). 

I believe the time is ripe for those who would find deities of worth, but who are not called upon, and try to work with them. Much like the internet and mass media has made our world much smaller, easy availability of arcane and occult texts has made the cosmological world of the gods much more available.

Let's make a deal.