Where roots weave sevenfold — groves as gateways of presence and power.
In the old tales, the Grigori were Watchers, giants of shadow and flame who gazed too long upon the daughters of men.
In later whispers, they became the Fae, those who fled heaven’s chains and took root in forests, groves, and hedgerows.
Writers from apocrypha to folklore hinted at this shift.
We take up that myth in Aquarian Magic: The Doctrine of Grigori-Fae as cords of witness and wildness, guardians of gardens and allies in Presence.
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Writers who linked Grigori and Fae
The Book of Enoch (Apocryphal Hebrew text): describes the Grigori/Watchers as those who descended, taught forbidden arts, and mingled with humankind. Their punishment was exile.
Medieval and Renaissance demonologists: sometimes blurred the line between fallen angels and nature spirits, suggesting that the exiled could shrink, scatter, and haunt the green places.
Folk Christian writers and chroniclers: in Irish and Scottish lore, displaced angels were said to fall, some to hell, some to earth, and those who landed in woods and mounds became the Fae.
Modern occultists (20th century onward): some fringe writers, especially in Theosophical and neo-pagan streams, noted the kinship between “fallen” watchers and elemental beings, interpreting Fae as fragments of lost stellar intelligences.
Our Aquarian Myth
In Aquarian Magic, the Grigori did not fall, they transformed.
When the age of Pisces ended, their watching eyes fractured into sparks.
Each spark slipped into the hedges, ponds, groves, and goldfish pools of the world.
From Watchers they became Fae: not bound by sin, but freed into wildness.
They are our cords and companions: giants who whisper through leaves, fae who laugh in the hedgerows, witnesses who close gardens when it is time.
They are not cursed. They are current.
recasting the Nephilim in Aquarian Magic
Children of Threshold
They are not “fallen mistakes” but threshold-beings, born at the seam where heaven and earth touched. Their gigantism wasn’t physical bulk, but the widening of perception. They could see broader, feel deeper, act larger than ordinary humans.
Giants of Ability
Each Nephilim child might embody a heightened faculty:
Sight expanded (astral vision, starlight awareness).
Voice amplified (words that bent the field, glamour-speech).
Craft magnified (stone, metal, fire shaped with intuition).
They were “giants” because their scale of being exceeded what was known.
Giants of Perception
Imagine their senses layered: hearing the hum of cords in a garden, seeing constellations mirrored in pebbles, tasting currents in the air. Their magic wasn’t something added, it was the result of being born from two planes at once.
Why Feared?
From a Piscean lens, they were monstrous, unbounded, unruled, outside the priestly order. From an Aquarian lens, they were first exemplars: prototypes of what humans could become when spirit and matter braided without fear.
For Aquarian Magic
In our myth, the Nephilim are not destroyed in the Flood, they dissolve into the field, re-emerge as the glamour and presence that magicians can access through the Grigori-Fae current. They are the giant echoes inside every knot and breath, the expanded perception we reclaim when we align with the Seven Groves.
The Nephilim were not monsters, but magnitudes. children of shadow and starlight,
whose senses stretched beyond the world.
In Aquarian Magic, we inherit their breadth, not their chains
Blog: Nephilim Recast: Giants of Perception in Aquarian Magic