u/Balthactor

Hello, I have some questions regarding dragon magic as I have some personal interest and I've received from them that I'm to guide a magical friend/mentee in their first steps in dragon magic since I'm just a more experienced participations overall and familiar with their overall goals and values and there seems to be a broad spectrum from very "dark" to very "light" approaches to working with the dragons. This is something that matters more to my friend at this point than it does to me. I don't place any real importance on left v right, with theurgy and thaumaturgy both being mutually beneficial.

For myself, I've completed a version of the Abramelin and am just beginning to learn about dragon magic; at least the beginning of attaining to your dragon guardian and co magician, it seems to me that while a different path that attaining to these dragons and K&C of HGA serve similar purposes. Those of initiating you into a path of higher purpose, guidance from permanent bonded spirit guides, and empowering your magic, while giving you a kind 'objective' mentorship as they guide and assist you while they aren't say subject to you like a familiar may be. Am I understanding this correctly? If I am, is there sufficient reason to both seek out your HGA and guidance from guardian and co magician dragons? Could they be mutually beneficial systems?

Further, so far I've been watching Working Dragon Mystic's playlist on YT and while I haven't dug into them yet, I have gotten D J Conway's books to work through. Are these good starting points? Are there more intermediate and advanced resources I can research for guiding my friend on their way? For instance, I don't believe she would be interested in working through the Qliphoth with the dragons, but she may be in working through the Sephiroth. Obviously at a certain point they would be taking off on their own with their dragons, I just like to be prepared and we both like to be fully prepared. Also in helping them I would be engaging with this path to a degree myself and would want to take my own participation seriously and show proper respect to such powerful guides.

Tl;Dr: How different is this from HGA work? Could they be mutually beneficial paths? What resources are there for intermediate to advanced work on this path after attaining to guardian/co magician?

So I decided to work through seven spheres even though I've been doing planetary magic for a few years now, and I seem to be getting results. Knocking some stuff loose that I need to work through. I want to do all the planets, and at least the reading I've done seems to only consider day and hour of the planet, but should I really be concerned with say Mars being in Taurus and Saturn being in Aries? Or even say Mercury being square Saturn?

First I'll say that I haven't been in regular practice for months (outside of Release and Recharge and Month Patterning) because I finished *a version of* the Abramelin operation. Once while going deep to help a friend get a good deal on a car after I finished I experienced something like people describe when doing pathworking, but outside of that usually the furthest I get is the vibrational stage and then nothing. My angel encouraged me to get back into practice with this and I had only first stage separation left on Wave 3. So I did that, and it felt almost like I was stretching away from my body, but I never left it. My perception was clearly still from within my body and as it went on it just became more and more frustrating. I've had growth in other areas since finishing the operation, but this still seems to be a point of frustration for me.

My question is whether I should continue on to wave 4 or go back and practice more on waves I've already completed?