Star Game

The Star Game is a board game created by the Order of Nine Angles for spiritual training. Members make their own boards as this is believed to enhance their occult training

The Star Game is played on seven boards The seven boards are considered to correspond to the spiritual journey of an initiate.

History
According to Myatt, he invented the game in 1975. The game was first publicly outlined in the 1989 ONA text Naos: A Practical Guide to Modern Magick

Gameplay
The Star Game is played across seven boards: Naos Deneb Rigel Mira Antares Arcturus and Sirius They are organized in a vertical spiral representing the tree of Wyrd There are nine types of pieces, and each piece shifts to the next one in a cycle when it moves (see diagram to the right)

Victory is achieved when a player manages to keep three of their pieces on Mira for three turns. The most common threat to such pieces is a Sulfur² piece which may capture a piece on Mira from any square on the boards At the start of the game, each player has six particular pieces on Sirius, three pieces on Arcturus, six pieces on Antares, three on Rigel, six on Deneb, three on Naos, and none on Mira.

Occult role
The ONA utilises two methods in its performance of aeonic magick. The first entails rites and chants with the intent of opening a gateway &#x2013; known as a "nexion" &#x2013; to the "acausal realm" in order to manifest energies in the "causal realm" that will influence the existing aeon in the practitioner's desired direction. The second method involves playing an advanced form of a board game known as the Star Game; the game was devised by the group, with the game pieces representing different aeons. The group believes that when an initiate plays the game they can become a "living nexion" and thus a channel for acausal energies to enter the causal realm and effect aeonic change. An advanced form of the game is used as part of the training for the grade of Internal Adept.

According to the O9A, they use the term "nine angles" in reference to not only the nine emanations, and transformations, of the three basic alchemical substances (mercury, sulfur, salt) as occurs in their occult use of the Star Game, but also in reference to their hermetic journey with its seven spheres and its two acausal aspects.