She Continues
I’ve done involved consecrations—the Helios consecration from PGM IV.1596—1715 comes to mind—but those tend to be very specific operations. I’ve used the Picatrix for similar things, or the Hekate spells in the PGM for Hekate matters. I even used the Roman Ritual for preparing some jail-broken holy oil very early in the morning while having […] … Continue reading…On Consecrating All the Things
I’ve had a fondness for books and journaling for ages, and I remember when I first got into magic, I got a bunch of little hardcover, slim journals from Walden Books in the mall and was writing my various occult secrets and such into them. (In hindsight, I did not have many occult secrets.) I […] … Continue reading…Habent Sua Fata Libelli
  The following article I had started to draft months ago for a particular project that was abandoned. However, I had some recent notions about the subject that I wanted to explore. Dating most likely to the early eighteenth century, the Clavis Inferni identifies the demonic, directional Four Kings of the spirits as Uricus, Maymon, […] … Continue reading…Allegories of Hell
It is hot and bright, and ordinarily I would wear my shades, but I let my eyes adjust to where I don’t need to squint anymore, and I enjoy the colors and sky and clouds, the trees still green at this point. I have a bottle full of ice and water, and as I walk, […] … Continue reading…Cardinals
I felt spurred to start writing this post after reflecting on the unwillingness of many folks I know to actually assert any kind of authority with spirits. I’ve been guilty of this trait myself. I think in some ways that I didn’t want to be a jerk. I didn’t want to reproduce forms of nominally […] … Continue reading…The Daimonic + The Divine
In which I review Jinn Sorcery, talk about Paul Weston, and the hyperdimensional everything … Continue reading…Clear & Bright: Jinn Sorcery, Paul Weston, & the Hyperthick
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
Codices It was the “supermoon” of 2017, or at least the visible supermoon of 2017 for where I lived the other night, and compared to many full moons of the last year, this one wound up being far more involved. Sabbatic revelry was the first order of business, but as I chatted with the Devil, […] … Continue reading…Spirited
A Crazy Wall of my own knot of synchronicities—associative, allusive, weaving a serpent journey, as the raven flies. … Continue reading…Feather & Scale