City Magick: Urban Rituals, Spells and Shamanism - Christopher Penczak 2001

Invocation
The New Urban Temples

Invocation, the process of identifying with a pattern and personality of a spirit, is the most direct way to transform your personal identity into something new for such adventures. Invocations can be specific, drawing the force of a particular god or goddess into your body, or they can be more nondescript, drawing on certain qualities and general archetypes you wish to embody. Magical traditions are rich with invocations. When a priestess invokes the goddess during a ritual, she is the embodiment of the goddess for that ceremony.

Our modern city invocations have the same effect, yet are outside the bounds of normal ritual. Therefore, we must make them into our own rituals. You may be doing this already without even knowing it. When you go to a party or a club where no one knows you, you have the opportunity to say whatever you want, do whatever you want, and be whomever you want, with no expectations. In a manner of speaking, you are invoking and creating a new identity, to learn and explore. In traditional ceremony, there is a point of invocation and a point of release or banishment from the essential self, followed by a return to “normal” consciousness and “normal” identity. At your party or club, there are no such formal points of consciousness shifting. The process is gradual, and, for some, it is easier to lose themselves to the new identity. I suggest working on creating such points through your own rituals, using tools such as visualization, glamours, makeup magick, ritual sacraments, and invocative dance.