Correspondences:

Dates: 2 Nov – 12
Direction: South
Tarot: Six of Cups
Planet: Venus
Metal: Copper
Element: Fire
Color: green
Incense:  sandalwood
Zodiac: 10-20 Scorpio
Other: lemon, high john root, cinnamon, bay leaf, basil, wormwood, hawthorn

ENN: Ayer avage secore Aim

From the Goetia:

“He appeareth in the form of a very handsome Man in body, but with three Heads; the first, like a Serpent, the second like a Man having two Stars on his Forehead, the third life a Calf. He rideth on a Viper, carrying a Firebrand in his Hand, wherewith he setteth cities, castles, and great Places, on fire. He maketh thee witty in all manner of ways, and giveth true answers unto private matters.”

Every single source that I’ve come across speaks of Aim as being masculine, and for some reason Aim comes to me as very, very much feminine. I think we need to bear that in mind, that we talk about the appearances of the spirits and the genders of the spirits, but they don’t have gender and they don’t actually have appearance. We either give it to them, or they put it on because it’s more pleasing for us. So that we can interact better and we can have a better experience. But ultimately they are just bodies of energy.

Connolly states that aim is the artist’s muse, and that’s really it for me. Aim for me is very much about inspiration and motivation as well. And it’s that’s fiery aspect of aim. It’s kind of like it creates this driving force and it pushes you with this motivation and it’s that fire. It’s like the firecracker under your backside. It gets you going and at the same time, apart from that driving force and that motivation, there’s inspiration. For writers, for people, anybody who’s in a creative job or their life revolves around creativity.

Connolly goes on to, say, invoke for creative inspiration or to find creative solutions to complex problems. Writers, artists and musicians should wear the sigil of aim when working prevent creative blocks. We again find that fiery aspect which gets rid of the creative blocks.

Unfortunately this whole aspect of Aim is not mentioned in the Goetia at all.

The actual representation from the Goetia Ritual book: three heads represents a trinity of death, but also the paradox of renewal, with the firebrand becoming an image for a phoenix like immolation followed by rebirth. Welcomes the consequences of his nemesis with his torch, he burned cities, castles and other great places, starting avalanches of pain and suffering, loyal to the nightmare of the invocant’s voice. So we do have a destructive aspect here and it is mostly because of that fiery nature.

Jehannum says light bringer and death caller. When we’re talking about light bringer and death caller, I wouldn’t say death caller, I would say night bringer. So it’s the light bringer and night bringer, which is the Lucifer and in Noctifer aspect. Coming back to Goetia, the second head is like a like a man having two stars on his forehead and these are therefore the morning star and the evening star. So this is very much tied into to Venus and Aim’s planet is Venus. So I think we can find in Aim quite a bit of knowledge about Lucifer, Noctifer, the morning star and the evening star, specifically relating to the planet Venus. The progression of Venus, the pentagram that is formed in the skies and all such things.

Jehannum also goes on to say, grants knowledge of power and initiation. Spurns the infantile summoner as well as those who think they can dissolve their existence after death.

Aim really doesn’t like the know at all. The one who thinks that they are all powerful, starting from the beginner who has just read their first book and magic and now thinks they are the most powerful magician in the world, right through to the person who thinks that they have so much knowledge and power that they can wipe themselves out of existence after death. Those things don’t happen. Unless you become the mighty dead and you don’t go back into the Cosmic Soup, obviously, depending on your own beliefs of what happens after we die and the evolution of the soul, etc.

He seeks out those who would pursue knowledge of darkness and involve themselves in the dark side of spirituality. I think that’s kind of limiting. Personally, I think Aim if we come back to the aspect of Lightbringer and Nightbringer; Lucifer and Noctifer; Morningstar and Evening Star; there’s a lot more to that than just the darkness and the dark aspects of life and magic.

Imparts creativity, whit, cunningness, shrewdness, and adroitness in deception. Gives insight into the unknown and imparted knowledge of biology. Use in dream walking and working with the transpersonal chakras.