Hello Francophone, and greetings.
Two years of trying honestly, with ritual schedules and life pulling you away each time you build momentum, is not a record of failure. The frustration is understandable, but the answer to "did I succeed at astral projection" needs to be drawn carefully from the Temple of Zeus teaching rather than from Robert Bruce's "great climax" alone, because Bruce himself, as quoted on the Temple's Self HypnosisExternal ↗ page, warns against treating a mild floating sensation as the astral body coming loose. That warning matters for your exact situation.
What you describe has real standing in Temple teaching, but it is preliminary, not full projection. The Heart ChakraExternal ↗ page lists Levity, astral projection as the inner state of Anahata, and many practitioners who project leave through the heart center. The Opening the Crown ChakraExternal ↗ meditation describes exactly the sensations you felt on the few times you sensed yourself coming out through your head: "energy or tingling inside their heads… a slight pressure in the crown area," and it states that this pleasant light feeling is what makes astral projection and astral travel easy. High Priest Zevios Metathronos, when a member described the same head-exit sensation during sleep, answered plainly on Ancient Forums: "Yes. And congratulations. Do not be afraid, try to limit fear. Nothing is going to happen to you that is negative on this state" (post). So your sensations are real and meaningful. They are signs that the soul is loosening, the chakrasExternal ↗ are opening, and the body is being prepared for projection. What they are not, in the Temple's framework, is a confirmed full out-of-body experience, because that requires actual separation, mobility, and perception in the astral, not just the inner-state loosening at the heart or crown.
Robert Bruce's "great climax" of full visual projection is one valid description of the end state, but the Temple's canonical Meditations for Astral ProjectionExternal ↗ frames the practice more gradually: the first few attempts are the most difficult, some people find projecting easier than others because they have done it in past lives, and the technique itself involves stopping each chakra's spin by a quarter turn and then letting go. If you only ever reach the loosening stage, that is consistent with being on the path but not yet at the separation stage. The missing vision is also not surprising: the Meditating on Your Clairvoyance PointsExternal ↗ page is explicit that astral vision begins with "just blackness… then possibly swirling colors and shapes… the colors and shapes will give way to images when you do the meditation long enough and regularly." If your third eye has not been consistently opened through the canonical meditations, you should not expect the visual side of projection yet, even if the body is ready.
On whether to advance, the For Those Who are New InitiatesExternal ↗ program is structured around mastery of the foundational meditations, sacraments, and rituals, and the Being "Stuck" With Meditation, Patience, Overcoming ObstaclesExternal ↗ sermon by High Priest Zevios Metathronos, together with his Heat in the tailbone reply on Ancient Forums, frames faint sensations as signs of being on the right path and tells the practitioner to "just keep steady what you have been doing" rather than declare completion. His Breaking Limits In Meditation reply is even sharper about your exact pattern: "Better 15 minutes daily than 6 hours only on weekends." And his Loss of Energy? reply explains the 40-day checkpoint system: stopping after a streak lowers the momentum but not the outcome, and the momentum only builds when one stays continuously meditating. That is the real reason two years of broken streaks has not produced a full projection. It is not that you failed. It is that the Temple teaching evaluates readiness by sustained, daily practice over the foundational program, not by the occurrence of one or two breakthrough sensations. So no, you should not consider yourself as having "succeeded" at astral projection yet, and you should not leap ahead in the newcomer program on the strength of these partial experiences. The breakthrough sensations are correct signs. They are the early checkpoints, not the destination.
A real-life parallel might help. Imagine a musician who can feel the melody in their head, hum it accurately, and even play small fragments on the instrument, but cannot yet perform the full piece in concert. That musician has real talent and real preparation, but they would not yet book the concert hall. The Temple is telling you to keep the daily sessions, not to rearrange your program around the head-exit moments.
For the path forward, stay inside the canonical Temple framework rather than chasing Bruce's visual climax. Work the Self HypnosisExternal ↗ tranceExternal ↗ ladder daily, the Merging Astral ConsciousnessExternal ↗ meditations to develop astral senses through ordinary objects, the chakra openings from Opening the SoulExternal ↗ in order from top down, and the TranceExternal ↗ exercise for breath-led deep tranceExternal ↗. Aim for shorter daily sessions rather than occasional long ones. When you feel ready to legitimately ask the Gods for direct support, the Help from Our GodsExternal ↗ page lists Eshmun, Sargatanas, Zeus, Balam, Nephthys, and Gaap as the deities who specialize in Astral Projection and Travel; legitimate petition to them is the proper Temple way to seek help, rather than forcing harder meditations.
In short, your levitation and head-exit sensations are genuine preliminary signs, not placebo, but they are not yet full astral projection, and the Temple teaching ties advancement to sustained daily consistency over the foundational program rather than to breakthrough moments. Keep the daily practice steady, follow the linked meditations as written, and the deeper states will come when the foundation is solid.
Hail Zeus, and blessings on your continued work.
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