Vampyre Soul Alignment

The Soul Alignment is a well known technique in Anderson Feri Witchcraft and is also practiced in other Witchcraft traditions such as Reclaiming, Wildwood, and The Unnamed Path. Each tradition brings its own stylings to the technique while staying true to its essential core. The version being presented here is a simplified version that although draws from these various teachings of the technique, has been crafted by me through years of practice and personal exploration to align with the symbolism, mysteries, and deep magic that is found in the Vampyre current.

The concept of the Soul Alignment is a way to unify the parts of our being and bring ourselves into balance. Soul Alignment is a practice of aligning your “animal self”, the projection/perception of yourself, and your higher “spiritual” self, into a unified coherent whole. For many of us life can be a continuous challenge of balancing the pulls between different aspects of ourselves. An unbalance or underdevelopment in key areas of ourselves can manifest outwardly in negative coping mechanisms such as overindulgence, escapism, anxieties and overcompensating, projection, and poor communication. The Soul Alignment technique can be seen as a way to integrate and bring our sometimes seemingly disparate selves into a unified conscious whole.

This is not a technique that is done only once, but rather an ongoing practice to align and understand your own alchemy and synergy. It is a way to check yourself and review where / what realm you are sitting in, reacting from and talking through. This is a great way to check “ego” and be in alignment with your authentic self. It can help you become aware of the elements of the Vampyre self that may be bound in Shadow and helps you to discover your full potential and power.

There are numerous cultures and traditions that identify three worlds or spiritual planes – these triple worlds are connected and identified with the three souls to be aligned. Through the ancient world and shamanism, traditional Romanian witchcraft practices, the Left-Hand Path, to Chaos magic; the Current of the Vampyre has a thread woven through time and cultures around the world. However if you pick up a modern book on Vampyre Magic you are most likely to come across concepts found in many Left Hand Path teachings. Some of these teachings are firmly rooted in the “black magic” of modern Satanism, where other books lean more on general Western Occultism with blended influences of Thelema, Ceremonial magick, Chaos magic, Kabbalah, Yogic principles, among others. Drawing from my own broad magical experience as a teacher, initiate, and student, I connect to the Vampyre Current through a queer animist ecstatic practice that also draws on these other teachings. My experience and expression as Vampyre does not so much follow an “archetype” based approach found in a number of Vampyre magick traditions. I align deeply with what is now more commonly seen referred to as an Innate Vampyre.

The Vampyre awakens differently in each of us and it is through authentic connection and real practice that we are best able to shape and manifest our own destiny and potential, through a connection and growth of ourselves and connection to the deeper reality of the world surrounding us. What follows is a breakdown of how we may approach experiencing each of these Souls through a Vampyre lens. Before practicing the Vampyre Soul Alignment technique it is highly advantageous to spend time in contemplative meditation on each area in part, getting to know each element of yourself individually, and making note of observations on how your parts feel, their presentation to you, and any “messages” that may come. Do this a few times on seperate nights before you begin to add them together in practice of the alignment technique. As stated earlier this is an ongoing practice, done often, a cornerstone to build ones self-growth upon.

The Vampyre Soul Anatomy

Red Serpent:

“Lower” Aspects: Our animal drives – the part of us that seeks self-preservation, self-gratification, and the “reptilian brain” parasympathetic “fight or flight” responses. This is sometimes labelled in different traditions as the Child Self, The Inner Child, the Id, the Cauldron of Warming/Incubation, the Fetch or more commonly for the Vampyre we symbolise this aspect as the Serpent/Dragon (Cauda Draconis).

When we are ruled by our reactionary unconscious, we are filled with the primal raging power that can lash out with the ferocity of a viper and poison anything that stands in our path. It is in our best interest to ensure our Serpent is in alignment as it is key to determining whether we are “riding it” consciously responsive and balanced, or if it’s dragging us along through primal fear and bestial instinct. An awakened consciously responsive approach to life, with awareness of ones “lower” reactionary base needs, leads to greater empowerment.

This Serpent soul is spiritually in charge of gathering and storing life force energy. This is also where we find the current of the Vampyre connects more easily as this soul is connected to the Underworld and our primal self.

  “It is that part of ourselves that is primal, and animal-like, while still being uniquely “us”. Fetch is our primal nature; our “flight, fright, or frolic” instinctual being. Fetch is the first part of the Triple Soul to fall in love.”
Storm Faerywolf – Initiate and Founder of the Blue Rose Line of Feri Witchcraft

• Serpent – Red (Dragon/Fetch )
  – Primal, animal, beast.
  – This is where our Vampire current can be felt in us easiest.
  – It has an innate and instinctual immersion in all things.
  – It is wild and messy and sexual.
  – It is at one with all exchanges of Life Force.
  – It is the one that longs for and wants the pleasures, experiences and energy of touch, smell, taste, sex.
  – It is the fight and flight.
  – It is desire.
  – It is the Hunger.
  – It is our raw and unbridled will.
  – It is the traveller in the mist when sent in Vampyre Flight.
  – It is known as the Red Soul that carries through our Vampire blood.
  – It is where our Awakening begins.
  – It is where our “Shadow self” hides and reacts from.
  – It is connected to the Underworld and with this connects to our Ancestors and the primal life force found there at the river of blood.

Black Flame:

Middle aspects: This is our relationship with our sense of self and identity in connecting to the physical world. It is our expression of self in the world, as well as where we see our boundaries of self vs other. This is the part of our self that connects both physically and energetically with the world around us. It is also named the Talker, The Breath Self, Ego, the Cauldron of Motion, and in this Vampyre tradition as the Black Flame.

As a spiritual energy the Black Flame radiates out to form the outer layer of our Aura. This is constantly engaging with energies from the world around us as well as information from our other two regions of our soul.

Finding the balance between “lower” and “higher” can be found in the Black Flame heart where our middle soul resides. The Black Flame heart can become spiritually pulled toward the head as our intellectualising (and projecting) conscious mind may overpower our true genuine and authentic energetic connection to what’s actually happening around us here. During the soul alignment we help to anchor this centre back down into the equilibrium at the heart where the Black Flame can exist in more of a receptive and compassionate space while still fuelling the mind. A symptom of modernity, loftily disassociating away into the mental hyper-interlectualised disconnect far from the deeper grounded spiritual and emotional connection of reality of this interconnected world around us doesn’t benefit a magic worker in the world today. We can periodically forget that we are divine beings in this middle world of physicality. By maintaining a practice of aligning the souls and connecting to the lower and upper worlds we reignite and energise our Black Flame at our balanced centre point. A balanced heart centre of spiritually connected physicality.

The Black Flame has been associated with the Prometheus Flame. Divine fire stolen by Prometheus and gifted to the mortal humans. For the Vampyre it represents the light the can be found in the darkness. The Divine life force that radiates from the nothingness of the beginning. The initial desire of change and transformation that birthed life itself. The Divine spark that can be found in all of us and through which we may strive to possess greater mastery in the world, and over ourselves. When ignited it carries the passions and instincts of our Serpent and the Divine wisdom of our Moon as it applies them to your social self, the one you present to the world. This self has its own magic, to do with glamour, storytelling and social connection, but often if out of balance or dimmed we find less charming aspects and awkward aspects of it can take over.

• Black Flame – Black (Talker/Breath Self)
  – The mindful one and walker in the land.
  – It is the soul that communicates in the middle realm.
  – It is strategic, creative and analytical.
  – It understands experienced reality.
  – It is the expression of our Vampyre in the middle world.
  – It is the tool that fuels our Glamour and middle world magic.
  – It is also seen as our Aura or our Breath Soul.
  – It gathers the Prana or Life Force energy to direct it to the Serpent.
  – It is the source of spiritual power within the individual, the Divine spark within the individual, or the spiritual core of the individual.
  – It is the version of you that is most easily recognised and engaged with by the world around you.

 

Silver Moon:

Upper aspects: our conscience, emotions that seek greatness, altruism, and our lofty ideals. When operating from the Silver Moon, we embody and move toward our ultimate true nature as conscious creators. This is our immortal and Divine self as Vampyre.

This soul is known by other names such as the Star Soul, Godself, Higher Self, Super Ego, and Cauldron of Wisdom. It can be important to remember that your immortal Vampyre self is indeed connected to and part of the Divine cosmos.

We are not dealing with narrow minded value-judgement concepts of Good and Evil or Heaven and Hell of monotheistic over culture. In speaking of the spiritual planes, here is the cosmic spark of all things from where we came. Those that are Vampyre know this to be true once they have worked through and released the Vampyre Current from the ensnarement of barriers such as their trauma or “shadow”.

Through connecting to the Silver Moon part of our selves we can hear the messages of the greater Divine consciousness of which we are a part of. The silver moon is our cosmic mirror where our serpent can see its wings as the dragon and we can see our primal self reflected as Divine.

• Moon – Silver (Star/Godself)
  – It is our immortal self
  – It is the part that is incorruptible and the true consciousness of the divine in us.
  – It is the source of all self.
  – It is that part of ourselves that is perfect and endless.
  – It is eternal, and continues beyond physical death.
  – It is outside words and strategy as it is holy daemon.
  – It is brings light to our hidden depths, our unconscious and subconscious selves.
  – It is connected to the Upper world and there for the realm of the Immortal Spirits.
  – It is the mirror of the Divine that we may reflect and see ourselves too as Divine beings.

 

Vampyre Soul Alignment – step by step:

• Focus your awareness on your breath and comfortably drop the breath lower, calmer, and fuller in the diaphragm.

• Consciously dislodge any “stagnant” breath or energy held there through releasing the breath on a ‘Ha’ sound. Continue breathing open and freely from the diaphragm.

• Bring your awareness to the are of the third eye. The space at the centre of your brow as you focus on calming down and quietening the conscious mind.

• Drop your focus lower and lower down your body. Gently giving a breath to the various energy centres of the body as you drop your focus further to your sex and base of your spine.

• Breathe into the space at your root and feel an awakening of the energy that connects to the primal self in the area from the navel to below your sex. Focus on breathing energy into this space and feel the awakening in the blood as if it is rising up from deep beneath you.

• Feel free to gently rock or let your body pulse with the breath as it quickens and your breath begins to become a little ragged. Flood the life force through your breath into the Red Serpent in your pelvic bowl.

• How is it feeling, how is moving and behaving. Listen with your senses to its needs, desires, and know its truths.

• Feed it some more breath energy and as your breath quickens feel the Red Serpent uncoil as it rises in primal desire and hunger for more. It rises up and with a quick breath of release feel the Red Serpent strike up through your heart, empowering the Black Flame at your heart, as you open towards the Silver Moon above you.

• Raise your arms up and tilt your head back and let the energy strike up just above your head, toward the upper world and release your breath. Feel yourself open as if you had taken your first breath of life.

• Breathe in the cooling Divine blue light of the Silver Moon. Listen to the messages of the Divine as you see the serpent reflected in the cosmic mirror of the moon as the Dragon form. Bathe in the majesty of the cosmos and ineffable mysteries of the Divine self as the Vampyre is revealed.

• Become aware of the power of the Silver Moon’s energy connecting through you to the Red Serpent as it cycles through you and is radiating out through your Black Flame Heart.

• As you continue to breathe as you bring your focus to the Black Flame and see it draw down from the head as it crowns your heart.

• The closer the flame is anchored to the heart the stronger you will feel it radiate out of you and surround you.

• Gently breathe as feel the connection to the three worlds as they align. Feel yourself as whole and one. Take a few moments to simply exist in this place of alignment.

• Feel your aura filling and swirling with the radiating Purple light of your Black Flame.

• Let this radiant energy become your Vampyre wings.

• Release a breath as you open your eyes and then state your name out loud.

• You are whole and Divine as Vampyre.

The above technique is my own adaption of the Three Soul Alignment that has been developed and taught by me over the past few years as part of my own spiritual and magical practice as Vampyre.

For more information on how the Soul Alignment is presented in Anderson Feri or Reclaiming traditions I highly recommend exploring the many works of such incredible Queer Witches as Storm Faerywolf, Fio (Gede) Parma, and T. Thorn Coyle.