She Continues
I have been doing the planetary prayers from the Hygromanteia daily for over a year now, and more recently, I have also been experimenting with the addition of the angelic prayers (that are also planetary) via the Heptameron. “Planetary Prayers”? I would argue that the rationale behind doing such prayers is four-fold: Firstly, it’s about […] … Continue reading…Planets & Angels
Vision When I was younger, I took a photo in the family backyard. We had a huge yard, all things considered, with lots of trees, and our lot ran back against an undeveloped, wooded lot. When I developed and printed the photo I took—35mm color—I saw a little figure in it. I grabbed a magnifying […] … Continue reading…Vision & Breath
Here’s one that’s practical for you. I like to hedge my bets. There are loads of protective and helpful charms, seals, pentacles, and such out there, and not all of them are for defense against dark arts or to drive off the evil eye or evil spirits. Those are very handy, but I also like […] … Continue reading…Charms & Pentacles
In which I talk about “spirit animals,” spirits, icons, heraldry, the Four Kings, and giving yourself double vision. … Continue reading…Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Each Other
Josephine McCarthy (amongst others) have observed that a ritual begins when you first have the intent to do the ritual: …if a magician or a group of magicians/priests are planning to do a major working, the energy will start to form itself from the moment the time, date and intention is set. The initial action […] … Continue reading…Sibyl & Wyrm
In Timothy Knab’s A War of Witches, dreaming plays a central role, though I imagine it can seem peripheral and atmospheric for most westerners on a first read. A kind of memoir of Knab’s time as an anthropologist in rural Mexico, the book represents Knab’s seemingly incidental apprenticeship under two curanderos and the version of […] … Continue reading…Dreaming Cities
The last week has been weird. I had stomach issues in the middle of the week (something I’d been taking went off, I suspect), allergies (I think from the cat—and dust), and forgetting my watch and keys yesterday at work. I forget my watch on occasion, but this was the first time I remember ever […] … Continue reading…Weird Angels
I was chatting with a friend via email, and as is my wont, I wound up having lots of things to say, and I started pondering things and trying to articulate them. But the topic of the NFL playoffs and the weirdness of the results came up. Now, I can’t do anything with football myself, […] … Continue reading…Red Pills & Furnaces
Because it’s part of where I’ve come from in my development, I like to try to systemize things. I like to try to assemble how something looks or try to figure out its shape or try to imagine the overall map of things and get that going before I do a whole lot with something. […] … Continue reading…Strange Shapes
And yet, as I reflect upon these topics, I feel like conceiving of these engagements with the Unconscious-Dreaming-Spirit World from a theatrical or aesthetic perspective misses the mark. Art is the road, or a royal on-ramp. In treating enchantment and magic as “aesthetic” enterprises, I wonder how much that keeps that which is imagined or […] … Continue reading…Living Enchantment