Upcoming classes at Sticks and Stones!
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...
View ArticleI wanted advice, not earth-shattering revelation.
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...
View ArticleQuick Experiments with Orgone Generators
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...
View ArticleAncient Cans of Whoop-ass
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...
View ArticleReview: Les P. Cross, “Astrogem Geomantic Divination”
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...
View ArticleAnimal Sacrifice: a bloody mess of a topic
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...
View ArticleGeomancy Class Outline
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...
View ArticleMercury Election Experiment
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...
View ArticleA Treasury of Phylacteries
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...
View ArticleAn Ancient Babylonian Diviner’s Prayer
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...
View ArticleAn Attunement Ritual
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...
View ArticleA Classification of Magical…Things
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...
View ArticleYay, this shit again!
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,...
View ArticleBlack-Hilted Dagger consecrated!
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...
View ArticleMore Quick Experiments with Orgone
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...
View ArticleOrgone Accumulators
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...
View ArticlePrayer to Hermes
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,...
View ArticleMaking a Phylactery
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...
View ArticleMagic Circles and Orgone
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...
View ArticleTools and Progression
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...
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