Grief and the 13th Current – Void Magick & Sacred Mourning

When someone you love is gone,
something ancient arrives.

Grief Isn’t Misalignment—It’s a Sacred Function

In The Primal Way, we often speak of twelve divine forces—twelve archetypes to align with.

But when love breaks…
When someone dies…
When the shape of your world collapses—

A 13th force appears.

It has no god. No name. No comfort.

It is The Void.
Not destruction—but dissolution.
Not punishment—but processing.

This current doesn’t fix.
It sits.
It waits.
It empties.

The 13th Current: What It Is

Grief is not just sadness.
It’s a sensing—of presence beyond the veil.
You feel the shape of someone who is no longer here.
But the pattern remains.

This is not your imagination.
This is magick continuing in a subtler layer.

Why Grief Feels Like Everything At Once

Every deep connection is a kind of spell.

When that spell breaks, your entire system reacts:

• Time distorts (Air)
• Emotions overflow or vanish (Water)
• Identity shatters (Fire)
• The body goes still, heavy, cold (Earth)

You are not broken.
You are undergoing ritual transformation.

Grief Has Phases. Each One Is Sacred.

There is no right way to grieve. But these states often come:

These aren’t problems.
They are initiations.

Ritual: Sit With the Absence

When grief spirals, hold it—gently.

You’ll need:
Nothing. Or a candle. Or their voice, if you have it.

1. Sit. Don’t fill the space. Let silence arrive.

2. Speak:

   You are not here.
   But I am.
   So I carry you as silence.
   I carry you as flame.

3. Allow. Let tears or stillness or memory move.

4. Then speak:

   This is not the end.
   It is memory transmuted.
   The current persists.
   I rebuild on your trace.

This is not closure.
This is continuation in a new form.

Where the Dead Still Show Up

The Primal Way does not treat death as disappearance.

It is a layer shift.

You may notice:

• Dreams with echoes or symbols → Selene
• Their name spoken during thresholds → Hermes
• Your own gestures mimicking theirs → Demeter
• A hollow pause in your center → The Void

These are not coincidences.
They are resonance.

Final Reflection

Grief is not an error.
It is a 13th current: the sacred force of collapse.

Love cannot exist without loss.
Magick cannot function without dissolution.
Endings are not voids.
They are recodings.

They teach us how to remember.
And how to begin again.

So it ends. So it begins.