Hermes Conference Recap, Day 2
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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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,...
View ArticleSearch Term Shoot Back, March 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...
View ArticleHail, Saint Isidore of Seville!
Although a lot of my practice in recent weeks has been focusing on working with saints, usually the holy archangels or the good Saint Cyprian of Antioch, there’s another saint that I want to bring up...
View ArticleChaplet of Saint Cyprian of Antioch
My recent prayer work has definitely gotten a boost lately. It’s always refreshing to get back on the ball, so to speak, after several weeks of having things go wonky or with other life events...
View ArticleNew Ebook! “The Book of Saint Cyprian”
If synchronicity actually is a thing, it takes a prodigious level of thickheadedness to miss omens and portents that signify something important. Not that long ago, I was in a botanica with my...
View ArticleGeomancy Hangout on April 26!
So I’ve recently started a thing on the internets where I get together with a bunch of people and voicechat about occult things. Now that I have a decent headset and webcam, this is actually a...
View ArticleFrom Planetary Hours to Zodiacal Hours
Finally, now that it’s officially spring (the Sun entered Aries back on the 20th), I’m starting a year-long project. No, it’s not the Abramelin, because I don’t need to do that at this point. Rather,...
View ArticleFour Chaplets of Saint Cyprian For Sale!
After getting the go-ahead from Saint Cyprian with my chaplet to him and the design for his prayer beads, I went ahead and made some chaplets for myself and my friends to use in working with him. This...
View ArticleOn Keeping the Occult Occulted
I’m extraordinarily lucky in my occult practice that I live as a free adult in my ostensibly secular country, without the control or necessarily involvement of my family, coworkers, or even roommates....
View ArticleThe Sash of Powers, or a Fancy New Magical Thingie
So, beading and jewelry making has been a recent hobby of mine ever since my good friends in some ATRs got me hooked on them. The use of colored seed beads and semiprecious (or precious!) stone beads...
View ArticleSeven Archangels…but which?
As you might expect, dear reader, the number seven is kinda mystical. Seven planets, seven days of the week, roughly seven days for one phase of the Moon, seven orifices in the human face, seven Greek...
View ArticleZodiacal Timing Review
Not that long ago, I made a post about retooling planetary hours for zodiacal hours. I suggest you read over it to figure out where I’m coming from, but basically, one substitutes the planet ruling...
View ArticleLunar Grammatomantic Ritual Calendar
About a year ago, I first encountered grammatomancy, the Greek alphabet oracle, and just took it and ran with it. I do a Daily Grammatomancy on Facebook and Twitter (or, at least, mostly daily,...
View ArticleSearch Term Shoot Back, April 2014 (and an announcement!)
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...
View ArticleSearch Term Shoot Back, May 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...
View ArticleMore about Geomantic Perfection
The idea of perfection comes from horary astrology, considered to be the primary and foremost divination system of the antique, classical, and premodern periods; you can find good descriptions of...
View ArticleHail, Alan Turing, Hero!
As part of my new grammatomantic lunar calendar rituals, I’m setting aside three days each lunar month for the veneration of the dead in my life. The first day is given to my Ancestors of Kin, those...
View ArticleThe Holy Guardian Angel in Religion and Magic
As you might have guessed, dear reader, working with the Holy Guardian Angel is, in fact, a thing. A pretty big thing, at that. There’ve been rituals written for thousands of years now on how to come...
View ArticleLunar Grammatomantic Ritual Calendar
About a year ago, I first encountered grammatomancy, the Greek alphabet oracle, and just took it and ran with it. I do a Daily Grammatomancy on Facebook and Twitter (or, at least, mostly daily,...
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