Composed for September 10, 2025, DawnOpening Locks – Mercury’s single degree of exaltation++ Road opening, Unblocking, Unlocking, WayfindingFor members of theinner circle – enchantment packagewww.circlethrice.com Purpose / Overview In attempting to compose a road opening rite, I was initially hampered by a surfeit of riches. There are so many options for opening roads, and honesty it’s such a useful category of enchantment that it’s not surprising. It’s truly a global and universal kind of magic. That said, I wanted to do something more formal and elaborate for this particular rite. So, as usual for me, I turned to the PGM. If you want to keep things simple, you can easily opt to Google and get tons of ideas, or for RSPMs check out Gordon’s recent road opening masterclass. Note that I did some significant editing and adaptation, combining two different PGM incantations. If you are curious to see my changes, the Betz translation of the PGM is floating around on the internet as a free (albeit badly scanned) PDF. The version of Mercury / Hermes being invoked here is syncretic to both Hermes Trismegistus (Thoth/Hermes) and Hermanubis (Anubis/Hermes), which I found super interesting and aligned with Mercury’s multivalent and shifting […]
