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Planetary and Elemental Jewelry, also an Etsy shop!
Over the past few months, I’ve been rubbing shoulders with more practitioners of Santería and Palo Mayombe than I ever expected to, to my ever-increasing delight and education. I was even invited to a...
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Foundations of Ritual
I’ve gotten a few requests from people for me to teach them magic and ritual. This is fantastic; I’m glad people are eager to learn more about themselves, their place in the cosmos, their innate...
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Search Term Shoot Back, January 2014
I get a lot of hits on my blog from across the realm of the Internet, many of which are from links on Facebook, Twitter, or RSS readers. To you guys who follow me: thank you! You give me many...
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So official, with this new Facebook thingie!
Between divination readings last night, I decided to procrastinate a bit and dawdle on Facebook. I had the dubiously-awesome idea to publicize my blog a little bit more, because, well, that’s what...
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New Altar, New Work, Same Space (also hi, Saint Cyprian!)
Alas, I recently had to dismantle my beloved MaGOS altar, though not because it failed its purpose. Rather, it’s been a fantastic bit of magical machinery, and it taught me no small amount about...
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Elemental Transformations and the Geomantic Figures
It’s interesting what you can pick up from talking with spirits. The other day, I was enjoying my weekly chat with my ancestors, making the usual offerings and just chewing the fat with them. I don’t...
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Formalities of Ritual
One of the complaints my boyfriend has about my style of magic is that I’m way too wordy. It’s true, I admit; a standard Trithemian-style conjuration has about five to ten minutes of preliminary...
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Constructing a Lamen for Conjuration
Recently, I had someone ask me for help in creating a lamen for use with the Trithemian conjuration ritual. While the original text doesn’t go into details about it, it says that “the pentacle may be...
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Upcoming Classes at Sticks and Stones!
Yes, despite my constant activity and increasing workload, I am still teaching classes at the metaphysical shop near me in Fairfax, VA, known as Sticks and Stones. It’s been a while since I taught...
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Book Review: “The Holy Guardian Angel”, ed. Michael Cecchetelli
As you may already have heard elsewhere on the blogosphere, dear reader, there’s a new book out on one of the most central and confusing parts of modern Western Hermetic magic: the Holy Guardian Angel....
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Alas, a geomantic technique for the scrap pile.
Yada yada geomancy. You know I know a lot about it, and I daresay I do myself. Geomancy, over its 1000-year history, has developed many, many techniques to predict all kinds of stuff: how situations...
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Search Term Shoot Back, February 2014
I get a lot of hits on my blog from across the realm of the Internet, many of which are from links on Facebook, Twitter, or RSS readers. To you guys who follow me: thank you! You give me many...
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On the Hymns of Silence
Would you believe me if I said that one of the most powerful prayers, indeed the only true prayer we’re capable of, involves no words or speech at all? Further, that this prayer is what undergirds...
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Setting a Daily Spiritual Practice
As much as I harp on about setting up a daily practice, I have to admit that I’m kinda terrible at maintaining my own. Then again, mistakes, lapses, and unexpected events are often the case, and with...
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A Devotional Questionnaire
Recently I was browsing the good Sannion’s blog, and he mentioned something about a polytheist meme that one of his colleagues had posted. Turns out, Galina Krasskova over at Gangleri’s Grove had...
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Simple Thanksgiving Ritual
Thanksgiving is more than just a day of gluttony in the US; it’s a powerful ritual and act in its own right. At its core, thanksgiving is just that: giving thanks, or being grateful. We feel...
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Geomantically Forecasting the Weather
Divination is the art and practice of obtaining knowledge about unknown things, and every culture in every area in every era has developed their own forms for it. As I’ve mentioned before, divination...
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Now Featuring “Bones and Stars”
As you can guess, I have a good number of magical colleagues and friends all across the blogosphere (because I’m just so popular, obvi), as well as in my local and not-so-local area. It’s been...
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Strength of Voice
One of the most difficult problems I had in starting my career as a magician was speaking. I mean, I’ve always had a way with words; writing has always been my forte, and was one of the things that...
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Hermes Conference Recap, Day 1
Ah, beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia. Beloved town of Thomas Jefferson, one of the great Founding Fathers of the United States of America, and home of my alma mater, the University of Virginia,...
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