Correspondences:
Dates: 3 Dec – 12 Dec
Direction: West
Tarot: Nine of Wands
Planet: Venus
Metal: Copper
Element: Earth
Color: green
Plant: orange
Incense:  sandalwood
Zodiac: 10-20 Sagittarius
Other: blood root, gold, angelica, mandrake

ENN: Wehlc melan avage Bune tasa

From the Goetia:
“He appeareth in the form of a Dragon with three heads, one like a Dog, one like a Gryphon, and one like a Man. He speaketh with a high and comely Voice. He changeth the Place of the Dead, and causeth the Spirits which be under him to gather together upon your Sepulchres. He giveth Riches unto a Man, and maketh him Wise and Eloquent. He giveth true Answers unto Demands.”

Although there has always been a large focus on Bune’s aspect being mostly focused on riches and wealth, Connolly specifically brings attention to her necromantic aspects, as she says one of the Goetia’s necromantic demons when channelling the dead invoke Bune to keep order and peace during the séance. Can impart understanding and wisdom about the nature of death. So Connolly doesn’t even mention the financial aspect. She does mention it if you have a look at her book, Keys of Ocat, which is interesting because that book is specifically about necromancy.

When it comes to the necromantic aspect of Bune, there are various spirits that you can work with from a necromantic perspective such as Eurynomous, Babael, Baalberith, Anubis, Hekate, etc. but Bune is called to guard the veil between the worlds. So when you are doing some kind of mediumship work, when you are speaking with the dead, what you’re going to be doing is opening a veil or opening a gate between the worlds so that the dead can come through and speak. When you do this, the actual parasites that are on the other side can easily come through. You might also not want particular spirits to come through at particular times. Bune will stand at the Gate and keep order and protect the Gate for you.

The Goetia Ritual mentions the dragon aspect as being celestial and beneficent, but also chthonic and destructive. As autochthonous masters of the ground, Dragons are guardians of treasures and of the portals of esoteric knowledge.

Cooper writes the dragon symbolises the difficulties to overcome in gaining the treasures of inner knowledge. Killing the dragon is the conflict between light and darkness. Man overcoming his own dark nature and attaining self-mastery.

My own personal gnosis regarding Bune is about a poppet I have which Bune liked and wanted me to use it on an altar for her. She also like the Hekate prayer beads that I have, so I put that around the poppet’s neck. I sometimes like to sit with a cup of hot chocolate and speak with the spirits that I work with. One particular night I was doing this and I was taken on a spontaneous journey. A few things happened, but at one point she took me to a little hut where we lay naked on a bed together, after a short while we got up went outside. I noticed she had a crescent moon on her forehead, which kind of reminded me of Hekate. I didn’t previously make any connection between Bune and Hekate, however proceeded to tell me that she is Hekate. I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me here and that’s fine. This was UPG and it is what I was told by the spirit. Bune said that she is Hekate, and then proceeded to change into the form of the Dragon with the three heads, being a dog, Griffin and a man. This is a symbolic imagery which in this case are the three faces of Hekate which also represents the three realms and the Guide, Guardian and Gatekeeper or the three aspects of the Crossroads, and the dragon is obviously the draconic aspect of Hekate.

Scholarly research usually states that Astarte, and therefore Astaroth is usually equated with Hekate. But if we consider Hekate’s many epithets and aspects, she is many things, and for me, Bune is just one of those aspects or faces. In this case Bune is the necromantic aspect or the liminal Crossroads deity.