This is the Mother of Night, Nuit, whose body is filled with infinite stars. The cool, distant spaces, realm of stars and gods. The Jackal pauses, a halting, frozen stare upon one star. There, reflected in his dark eyes, the sparkling star light, the burning brilliance of the Ruby Star, Sirius. He withdraws into the night darkness.
Naught remains save whisperings in the desert air.
The others take their positions at the cardinal points. All draw a deep, deep, breath, closing the mouth with the right forefinger prest against the lips. Then, slowly dashing the right hand down with a great sweeping gesture from the lips, rotate following the hand. Repeat this charge and movement at all four quarters. The NOX meditation is a rite of reversals and as such this is expressed as the regression back in time from rebirth 'O', through death 'A', to a former birth 'I'.