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In The Brazen Vessel, Peter Grey describes one of his early experiences of contact with Lucifer. He is walking in town on post office business when he encounters a man “sharply dressed, in a three piece suit with a silk waistcoat…strikingly, a black man in what was once the whitest town in England.” They try […] … Continue reading…Black Seas of Infinity
One of the first books on magic I remember reading when I was a baby practitioner was Donald Michael Kraig’s Modern Magick, and it got more attention from me at the time than a lot of things. It’s primarily a book going into Golden Dawn style magic and adjacent territories. However, the part that stuck […] … Continue reading…Time Warp
Over the last couple of years, I’ve explored astrology and geomancy, and both practices have contributed to my larger practice and lifeways. Tarot remains my go-to divinatory or fortune telling method, though. I also use it often for facilitating spirit contact, especially if I need some help getting to the right headspaces at the time. […] … Continue reading…12 House Tarot Spread
A friend had bugged me ages ago about writing on “ritual dramaturgy,” and the idea made sense, got me thinking, but despite making an outline and starting to draft something, it fell by the wayside because it got boring. I was approaching it in the wrong way, and I was very much overthinking it or […] … Continue reading…Ritual Dramaturgy
I’ve waited on making this post because it reflects experiments I had begun with the eclipses of January, and continued on with the July eclipse in Cancer. I began this experiment after having several brainstorms. I knew the eclipses were coming up this year, and they’re hitting pretty sensitive places in my chart. Indeed, I […] … Continue reading…Out of the Shadow: Eclipse Experiments
So, I’ve been doing a lot of star magic of late. I’m not making (astrological) talismans, though I’ve played with those in the past. No, this current spate of experimentation began with Gordon White’s “[Lunar] Mansion Game” for Q2 2019. I suspect Gordon looked at the space weather for June through August and decided, fuckit. […] … Continue reading…Out of the Silence
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
I’ve been knee deep in star magic of late over at Rune Soup, and the tech in question uses Christian prayer to help get things off the ground. Why? The tech continues and builds out of vastly ancient magical techniques. And as I’ve played with it, it works. Meanwhile, Gordon pointed folks to a prayer […] … Continue reading…Angelic Protocols
I grew up nominally Baptist. But not really. My Dad was in a Baptist church in Texas, sang in the choir, taught Sunday school, and so on. My Mom’s family apparently would apparently sit around the family electric organ with other musical instruments and sing hymns and other religious songs. At some point, my Dad […] … Continue reading…Cosmic Church