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Upcoming classes at Sticks and Stones!

August 22, 2012, 11:15 am
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Now that I’m doing weekly divination readings at the local bookstore, Sticks and Stones in Fairfax, Virginia, I’ve been willingly corralled into offering workshops and classes for the public.  Being one of the few ceremonial magicians and geomancers on the East Coast, I’ve got a lot of experience and knowledge under my belt (though by [...]
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I wanted advice, not earth-shattering revelation.

August 22, 2012, 7:36 pm
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I did a fairly elaborate (by my standards and daily practice) preparation and conduction of the Headless Rite tonight, to get a stronger and more forceful connection with my HGA.  I wanted to sit down and have a chat with him about a few questions that were bugging me, but…well, did I ever get answers. [...]
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Quick Experiments with Orgone Generators

August 25, 2012, 6:35 pm
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So, Jarandhel and I were over at his place geeking out over orgone generators again, and we did a few quick experiments with his orgone generator.  Specifically, it’s an orgone “shooter”, but I’m not familiar enough with the language to determine if there’s a difference; either way, it accumulates orgone or magical force and propels [...]
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Ancient Cans of Whoop-ass

September 1, 2012, 8:53 am
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Back in the day, magicians were pretty brazen and bold about calling on gods, powers, and other ethereal entities to get shit done for them.  Sometimes they appealed to the entities in question based on their offerings and good relationship, but sometimes they made them get off their divine asses by threatening them with even [...]
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Review: Les P. Cross, “Astrogem Geomantic Divination”

September 2, 2012, 6:50 am
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キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!!  It arrived! After weeks of waiting, I got the newest and supposedly revolutionary book on geomancy, Les P. Cross’ “Astrogem Geomantic Divination”.  It’s a self-published book written by Mr. Cross, and cost GBP £20 not including shipping.  It has an elegantly simple cover, marked with the Sun above a traditional square chart design and the Moon [...]
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Animal Sacrifice: a bloody mess of a topic

September 8, 2012, 1:57 am
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Based on the comments from Ancient Cans of Whoop-Ass, I figured I may as well compile some of my own thoughts on the topic of animal sacrifice.  The topic came up because, in the process of bringing up a ritual from the PGM, it was noted that the use of the blood and head of [...]
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Geomancy Class Outline

September 9, 2012, 8:54 am
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I’m getting ready to teach a few classes at Sticks and Stones, the local new age and earth spirituality book store I do readings at, for the rest of this year.  Later this month, on September 23 and 30, I’m teaching a two-part course on geomancy, since apparently I know things and can teach them. [...]
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Mercury Election Experiment

September 10, 2012, 4:36 am
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It was passed around in my occult circles that there was a decent totally awesome Cazimi Mercury election, a powerful timing to do anything astrologically related to Mercury or its forces, this morning between 6:15 and 6:45 a.m. around my location; the Mercury hour made it valid.  Since Mercury is among my favorite forces, and Hermes [...]
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A Treasury of Phylacteries

September 13, 2012, 6:26 am
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No, not relics of martyrs, if that’s what you’re wondering, though that would be pretty nifty. At a recent gem show, which had dealers of all kinds of cultures peddling all kinds of wares, shinies, and pretties, I picked up a nifty little container, a small metal canister that fits together snugly and near watertight [...]
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An Ancient Babylonian Diviner’s Prayer

September 15, 2012, 6:46 am
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A while back, I recall hearing about a collection of Babylonian and Assyrian poetry and prayers being made public by some university or other, along with recordings of them being said aloud in their original tongue, long extinct though it was.  It was awesome, but I left it behind, not really having much to do with [...]
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An Attunement Ritual

September 17, 2012, 5:21 am
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As part of my Q.D.Sh. ritual, I suggest a stage where one performs a kind of tuning, a sort of sync between oneself and the forces of the cosmos.  There are lots of different ways one can do this, and I show a real quick and dirty way in the above ritual.  The basic point [...]
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A Classification of Magical…Things

September 19, 2012, 7:54 am
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I mentioned before that I’m digitizing my personal vademecum (or grimoire, or spellbook, or book of shadows, or what-have-you), which is a really nifty project for me.  For one, it gives me a chance to keep my LaTeX skills in shape, which is something I suggest anyone familiar with HTML or scientific/professional/Linux publishing pick up. [...]
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Yay, this shit again!

September 21, 2012, 7:20 am
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A while back, just about a year ago, there was this obnoxious prayer initiative for Dominionist Christians to get all pagan influence out from the nation’s capital, the District of Columbia.  I mean, when you have Deist or religiously uncaring Founders of a nation, naming their capitol after a goddess, looking towards classical Greece and [...]
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Black-Hilted Dagger consecrated!

September 22, 2012, 9:21 am
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Finally, after all these months, I got around to consecrating my black-hilted dagger to act as a proper Saturnine weapon for Solomonic and grimoiric work. The black-hilted dagger is described in the Key of Solomon to “strike terror and fear into the spirits” (book II, chapter 8) as well as to draw out the circles of [...]
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More Quick Experiments with Orgone

September 23, 2012, 2:05 pm
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Jarandhel and I are at it again!  While helping move some furniture at his place now that one of his and friend’s roommates moved out yesterday, we spent some down time playing with more orgone generator setups.  Since I’m building my own permanent orgone installation, I’m working with him to refine and learn more about [...]
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Orgone Accumulators

September 24, 2012, 9:12 am
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I’ve been talking a lot about orgone accumulators and Babalon matrices and such, but I haven’t actually described the bit about the orgone accumulator or “shooter” itself, which is what’s probably drawing a lot of people to this series of posts.  An orgone accumulator or shooter (the terms are generally interchangeable, though I suppose “shooter” [...]
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Prayer to Hermes

September 26, 2012, 4:01 am
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A prayer to the god Hermes I wrote and dedicated to the same, because why not?  Starting a devotional practice to the god will have me writing at least one of these, and though this is a simple thing, it’s a decent start.  I took my inspiration mostly from the Homeric and Orphic Hymns, along with [...]
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Making a Phylactery

September 27, 2012, 7:13 am
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After weighing my options with the different phylacteries from the PGM, I decided to go ahead and put my skills and supplies to good use to make myself a phylactery.  It’s really a simple process, but being a ceremonial magician, I decided to throw in some consecrations for good measure.  Happily, the Key of Solomon is perfect [...]
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Magic Circles and Orgone

September 29, 2012, 9:29 am
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In the course of working with this orgone stuff, I’m planning on constructing a permanent Babalon Matrix in my room: a table specifically dedicated to charging or maintaining a field of force or magical energy for various purposes (charging, manifestation, and the like).  However, this is a really modern form of occultism, using various modern [...]
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Tools and Progression

October 1, 2012, 7:01 am
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Though it might be shocking to some, even though I’d like to have my professional title on business cards be “mage”, I’m a software engineer by trade, having gotten a B.S. in computer science from a well-established engineering school, with a focus on metrics in the software engineering process.  I run a Linux system (or [...]
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