To Be Claimed By A Deity

Recently, I said goodbye to most of my former pantheon, which was the planetary spirits with Apollo substituting for the Sun. It was a very difficult, grief-filled process. Not long after completing the ceremony, I was lying on the floor from the big wave of Feelings when Lucifer returned.

"I need to claim you," he said.

Now, understanding spirits is not always a foolproof situation, sort of like with people and all the shit we project onto our relationships with each other. Except in the case of spirits, you sometimes literally don't know if you heard the deity you talk to every day correctly. So thinking this was some kinky shit Lucifer was pulling, which would not be out of character for The Devil in general, I told him to have at it.

A couple of days later, a friend and I were discussing their own recent significant spiritual transition in which they exited one of the more well known Western esoteric systems they had pursued for months. In the course of this departure, they were caught by a completely unrelated deity—who like Lucifer with my previous spiritual efforts was not a huge fan of my friend's magical choices—and, in my friends very words, "claimed" them. This is not the first time I have felt skeptical toward a certain spiritual reality conveyed to me and then had confirmation show up soon afterward with such precise verbiage, by the way.

Based off of what I have heard from others, I can only speculate what this spiritual claiming process is for, but I will give it a shot. From what many psychics perceive, most people have a certain pathway or pathways forward. For instance, to keep it to terms visible to easy human observation, they might have the future or existence of being a writer or a social worker or a computer engineer. But while some of this is likely decided at birth, the universe itself is chaos so we need spiritual aid in order to move forward in the directions we are meant to go. With this line of reasoning, when active occultists and/or pagans clear out a previous paradigm—which probably serves as much as a subreality as it does a useable framework—something else has to step in to fill the vacuum.

Additionally, this spiritual aid probably exists for everyone regardless of whether or not they have an active spiritual path or are conscious of it. One of the last things Apollo told me when we were saying our goodbyes was that he was the one enforcing the outcomes of the sigils I was making ("The ones with the good goals ;)") at age 23 during my first magical attempts. But I only ever directly addressed him for the first time after many of them had been made, via prayer that was instantly granted.

I also have heard several stories from other devotees of Lucifer that he often first appears to them seemingly uninvited. If he does do this to a person, we can assume he's already partially involved in their pathway somehow.

Since I've been "claimed," I am not sure I have noticed much of a difference in my life. Lucifer had already marked me months ago so I could benefit from his protection and this feels in some ways more of the same. On the other hand, after realizing that all my gods were accepting and content with the handoff, my own grief has mostly resolved. Things feel less strained internally. I guess I am slightly more able to fully embrace my Luciferian era, hence the new update to this blog! I'm looking forward to progressing on my new paradigm, meeting new community, and reaching new heights in my occult adventures!