Constantine divining using his cigarette pack and a pen to create a makeshift pendulum.
Hellblazer #182
Constantine divining using his cigarette pack and a pen to create a makeshift pendulum.
Hellblazer #182
Fiat lux – Let there be light.
Hellblazer #181
Clarice helping tattoo sigils (The Seal of Hermes?) into Constantine’s back (and front?) to protect him from the Lukhavim – monsters made out of dead souls.
Hellblazer #181

Constantine stopping Kali.
Hellblazer #180
Spell by Clarice and Albert.
Hellblazer #180
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Update #1 with thanks to thehallofjudgment:
“Her spirit is thrown across the shadows… and plunges into the depths … and follows the stream into the dark … so that her spirit can be kept from the shadows.”
Constantine doing a conjuring.
Hellblazer #177

Aperite – Conjugation of aperio, meaning ‘uncover’ and/or ‘open’
[(From Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, from”) + Proto-Indo-European *wer-iō (“open”)]
Oculi – Plural form of oculus, meaning ‘a round/eye-like design’, ‘circular window’ etc.
Hellblazer #177

Sigils surrounding a door frame.
Hellblazer #175.

Ever since I saw this picture of the tattoo on Constantine’s back (it’s damned hot on him, by the way, erhem), I’ve wondered what the words and sigils meant.
I just got directed to this site and page: Straight to Hell: Hellblazer #181 Annotations.

Basic gateway to Hell.
Hellblazer #133.