I didn’t write an ending to Pele’s Grimoire. I was drawn to start other things by those entities I work with. I still work with Madame Pele, Kamohoali’i, and Hi’iaka. I’ve started writing Pele’s second grimoire when I was four hours away from Oahu in May of 2024 on a house hunting trip for my Permanent Change of Station in mid-June for another 3 years on Oahu.
Quite a bit has changed in my practice since Pele first called me in 2020. I have to admit that it was Pele’s Grimoire that really catapulted my energetic skills and honed my ability to access natural sources of energy. It is the skills presented in the elemental meditations and the wards that have proven most valuable. These skills will be required to get the most out of the subsequent book, whenever that is done. I have several anchors on Oahu from my trip and these will work similarly to calling the Archetypes from a drawing. The drawing up of the energy from those anchors will work similarly to Pele’s Earthquake. You can, of course, call on one of the Gods or Goddesses or a servitor to transfer those energies, but it will be more beneficial to practice and get the skills. I typically go those other routes if I’m ill, short on time, or have a lot of rituals to do that day to see my Will be enacted in the world.
The foundational skills are right here, in Pele’s Grimoire. It’s a nice combination of working with Nature, a foot in the door for Gods and Goddesses of Polynesia, and initial meetings with local elementals. The presentation style is a combination of exercises with clear value and ways of directing those budding skills towards something useful, rather than just a basic exercise with no direction of what to use it for later on.
In the online forums posts, you’ll see that I meant to add journeying and shamanistic methods for certain practices I was shown, but didn’t develop. Some of these were geared towards journey down lava tubes to interact and be shown lessons by one of the Polynesian deities. It’s one of my regrets, but the time never came for that to be done. I don’t know that it will happen in this second one, either.
Another regret was not have a “pathworking” path for those who do Visionary magic. I have known several competent magicians that use that path, but it isn’t one I’ve walked. I’ve considered learning it, but there always seems some else that I’m being led to do when I consider doing it.
The truth is that Pele’s Grimoire is probably better as it is without those additions. I wouldn’t have the same “authority” in those areas as I do in these and I wouldn’t want to put out some inch deep mile wide book. There are already way too many of those about the same old topics – Ceremonial magic, kitchen witchery, tarot, etc… I also didn’t want a “catalog of spirits” with symbols (there are no public Polynesian ‘sigils’) and a paragraph with little substance. There will be more entities in Pele’s second grimoire, but it isn’t what I wanted for this one.
That last sentence is a bit tongue-in-cheek. I was told to write a grimoire and then shown what to put in it. Sure, I could’ve asked for those other things, but that wasn’t how it worked out. I had to learn these skills, too, just as anyone not well versed in energetic practices will have to. It changed how I looked at magic and the ripples of the lessons learned here from that echo today.
If you practice what is written here, you will likely walk away from the experience as I did – profoundly grateful for a new set of skills and new relationships in a pantheon I hadn’t expected to practice in. Be sure to document your journey and look back on it to see and remember how far you have come.
Hit me up with constructive questions, suggestions, and comments. I will answer them as best I can with my work schedule, multi-hour commute on Oahu, my blog, and my own personal practice progression (including more grimoires). norseman901@gmail.com or norseman901@protonmail.com .
