Ritual
The ritual went so smoothly last nite.....
If I told you that I'd be lying to you. I could not have gotten into any more mishaps in that ritual. For some reason, I do not have problems doing rituals to other gods. (other Teteo mind you.) Sure, I make the occasional mistake, but I've had my fair share of mishaps in Tezcatlipoca rituals. There's something about Tezcatlipoca rituals. Of course this one tops the cake compared to everything before it in terms of mishaps.
Yesterday, I went to this store called Wild Oats, a natural store, and found a bunch of neat things for the Teteo. I found a Mexican candle that has cinnamon (One of Tezcatlipoca's faves.) and cocoa in it. Something I got for Tez. Some incense items so I can burn it properly. And I found white sage to purify the area. I have no idea what Mexicans used to purify spaces before rituals, but certain Native Americans use White sage to do so. Plus, I'd like the evil spirits out of my life. I also obtain some Chinese jade [sic] for Tlaloc. It's supposed to be for Feng Shui and lucky purposes, but that's obviously not what I was going to use it for.
Anyway, I did all the preciders that went normally. Took my bath to make sure I was clean before hand, got all my items out... etc. So I am sitting in front of the altar preparing something in front of it, while letting the candle burn. And what happens?! Tezcatlipoca's flute that I got Him for Toxcatl rolls off the altar and falls the ground by itself. I wasn't messing with the altar (it's a bit crowded.), I was messing with something in front of the altar, not touching anything, or making vibrations. Needless to say it scared me. So i placed the flute besides the altar because I took it as some kind of sign. Believe me, the Teteo can get nasty when you try to change/rearrange or take things from their altars. In this case, I have yet to see Tezcatlipoca get mad at me about the flute. So i think this is how it's supposed to be.
Then when i barely touched the new candle dark red wax spills on the altar and the floor and my plain white paper that I was going to put my blood on and burn to Him. -_-; SO I re-lit the candle and was on my way. But did it stop there? No, no it did not. To add further insult, the cigar part I was burning decided to keep repeatedly going out, so did the white sage. When I picked up one of the pieces of white sage stick it sparked in my hand all of the sudden. I then decided to burn resin white copal with it because it cause some minor flames and tends to burn everything. Well, you know how lava drips? The big chunk of resin on fire began to drip off on the sides. When it melted with the flames it carried fire with it. Thinking I'd start a house fire, I put the copal out, let it sit for a min, and then re-positioned and re-lit it.
But did the mishaps start there? Not at all! The finale, the focal point, was when I made all the upstairs smoke alarms go off because of the smoke. Even though I had windows open in my room and two fans blowing. I blame the white sage. (Although I burned it before and it went everywhere in the house and caused no alarms to go off.) After the alarms settled down, that's when I decided, to hell with it, that my ritual was pretty much over even though I was in the process of giving another paper piece of my blood. I did finish giving that piece after the alarms were gone and I went to relieve stress online.
I think Tezcatlipoca was laughing. And giving that He likes to cause mayhem, I find the coincidental mishaps during the ritual to more than a "coincidence". It was as if He was trying to prevent me from doing the entire ritual, but some how I do not feel that was His actual motive and goal.
So there you have it folks. If you ever want to mess with a god during a ritual and expect something from it, Tez is the god to do it for.
If I told you that I'd be lying to you. I could not have gotten into any more mishaps in that ritual. For some reason, I do not have problems doing rituals to other gods. (other Teteo mind you.) Sure, I make the occasional mistake, but I've had my fair share of mishaps in Tezcatlipoca rituals. There's something about Tezcatlipoca rituals. Of course this one tops the cake compared to everything before it in terms of mishaps.
Yesterday, I went to this store called Wild Oats, a natural store, and found a bunch of neat things for the Teteo. I found a Mexican candle that has cinnamon (One of Tezcatlipoca's faves.) and cocoa in it. Something I got for Tez. Some incense items so I can burn it properly. And I found white sage to purify the area. I have no idea what Mexicans used to purify spaces before rituals, but certain Native Americans use White sage to do so. Plus, I'd like the evil spirits out of my life. I also obtain some Chinese jade [sic] for Tlaloc. It's supposed to be for Feng Shui and lucky purposes, but that's obviously not what I was going to use it for.
Anyway, I did all the preciders that went normally. Took my bath to make sure I was clean before hand, got all my items out... etc. So I am sitting in front of the altar preparing something in front of it, while letting the candle burn. And what happens?! Tezcatlipoca's flute that I got Him for Toxcatl rolls off the altar and falls the ground by itself. I wasn't messing with the altar (it's a bit crowded.), I was messing with something in front of the altar, not touching anything, or making vibrations. Needless to say it scared me. So i placed the flute besides the altar because I took it as some kind of sign. Believe me, the Teteo can get nasty when you try to change/rearrange or take things from their altars. In this case, I have yet to see Tezcatlipoca get mad at me about the flute. So i think this is how it's supposed to be.
Then when i barely touched the new candle dark red wax spills on the altar and the floor and my plain white paper that I was going to put my blood on and burn to Him. -_-; SO I re-lit the candle and was on my way. But did it stop there? No, no it did not. To add further insult, the cigar part I was burning decided to keep repeatedly going out, so did the white sage. When I picked up one of the pieces of white sage stick it sparked in my hand all of the sudden. I then decided to burn resin white copal with it because it cause some minor flames and tends to burn everything. Well, you know how lava drips? The big chunk of resin on fire began to drip off on the sides. When it melted with the flames it carried fire with it. Thinking I'd start a house fire, I put the copal out, let it sit for a min, and then re-positioned and re-lit it.
But did the mishaps start there? Not at all! The finale, the focal point, was when I made all the upstairs smoke alarms go off because of the smoke. Even though I had windows open in my room and two fans blowing. I blame the white sage. (Although I burned it before and it went everywhere in the house and caused no alarms to go off.) After the alarms settled down, that's when I decided, to hell with it, that my ritual was pretty much over even though I was in the process of giving another paper piece of my blood. I did finish giving that piece after the alarms were gone and I went to relieve stress online.
I think Tezcatlipoca was laughing. And giving that He likes to cause mayhem, I find the coincidental mishaps during the ritual to more than a "coincidence". It was as if He was trying to prevent me from doing the entire ritual, but some how I do not feel that was His actual motive and goal.
So there you have it folks. If you ever want to mess with a god during a ritual and expect something from it, Tez is the god to do it for.