u/Faustian_Boltergeist

So, a week ago I finally sealed a pact with Astaroth after tenish years of walking the Left Hand Path alone. Here's a list of everything related in the last week.

I finished my Astaroth tattoo, and during the session I was offered an apprenticeship with the best terms I could have hoped for. Returning to tattooing with proper guidance has been a dream of mine for years.
That same night I received a vision just before sleep: a woman in fog, a bare breast, and then nothing.
The next night, same thing as the last, but this time a dragon in the distance, wings proud, walking westward. I then dreamed everyone at my current job hates me. I woke with the instant thought that it wasn't true. I'm taking this as a nod toward my future work, and a test of discernment.
That day, I received a spam friend request on discord. The request was really just the container for a message, the image is attached.

All of this happened in the first 48 hours after the burning of the pact. I've run some tarot since, and all of it points toward allowing this path to flow without worry, so if anyone is looking for some ink, let me know! Lol After all, I offered my work as a lens for Astaroth. Since then it's been mostly silent, small things here and there. My altar is unfinished, but soon I'll be communing as often as I think I should.

AVE ASTAROTH!!

For those interested in the pact itself:

>!Tasa Alora Foren Astaroth

I seal this pact with you, Astaroth, as blade in need of sharpening.

I call upon your strengths as a sovereign being, to wield in confidence and by the terms of this pact.

As a lens through which I may seek deeper insight. Create honed artwork. To mold myself in the image I wish to be.

It is as follows-

To create, unhindered by narrow thought, and be aided by the wisdom you will bestow upon me.

To see falsehoods and the deeper workings of those around me, unclouded. To discern clearly, without paranoia, projection, or self doubt and shame, guided by the sight you will afford me.

To build a stronger future for myself and those I deem close, with my creation, knowledge, discipline and discernment, with the knowledge granted to me through this pact.

To forge ahead in my life with confidence and power, aided by restraint and forbearance, carrying the knowledge I entreat you to give me.

I do not offer my obedience, nor my sovereignty. Nothing of myself, my will, my life, my essence, my body, my mind, my fate, or any state beyond my knowing is offered, surrendered, bound, or claimed except what is here explicitly named by my own will, as is my right in self-sovereignty.

I therefore offer myself as a lens through which to enact your tenets in accordance to my will, under my discernment and with clarity of that use. I offer my own pursuit of further knowledge, self betterment, growth and continued curiosity.

I offer my work as medium to further my will and to uphold the tenets of the furtherance of knowledge and philosophy as your knowledge is given.

No sign, pain, dream, fear, impulse, coincidence, or omen shall be taken as command unless I accept it in clear mind, grounded judgment, and sovereign consent.

This pact shall not compel me towards obsession or harm, nor self-destruction or delusion.

This pact endures only by my continued consent. It may be revised, withdrawn, suspended, or revoked at my will, as is my right in self-sovereignty.

By my will, by my hand, by my work, and by my knowing, I seal only what I have named.!<

Poetry of the Self Sovereign

First Week With Astaroth

Astaroth tattoo