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Basic Daily Practices of Mathesis
Since my self-initiation with Hermes, I’ve adopted something of a daily ritual practice that generally works with the forces I’ve been describing here. It’s nothing too in-depth and nothing too...
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Mathetic Invocation and Offering to the Gods
The last post described a daily practice for people interested in working with mathesis, and how I use it for getting myself in line with the entities and powers present within this system: a...
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Making Lustral Water for Mathesis
I use holy water a lot. Like, a lot. I use a shotglass’ worth to cleanse off after taking a shower, I spritz myself with a spraybottle of the stuff (sometimes mixed with Florida water) first thing in...
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On the Temple as a Convenience
It’s weird sitting here in this living room, full of clutter and boxes and antiques and the occasional errant Christmas decoration that was never put away two years ago. We keep saying we’ll get it...
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A Mathetic Understanding of Energy
To go along with our daily practices of meditation on the Tetractys, meditation on the letter of the day, daily divination, honoring the gods, and the like, I’ve considered also adding in a daily...
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On Mathetic Purification
Put simply, mathesis is theurgy, literally “god-working”. While this can mean several things, the sense I use it is in the sense of elevating oneself to the level of the gods and beyond to henosis, a...
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Crossroads and Stairwells
Many magicians in many traditions hold crossroads to be sacred or magical spaces. Think about it: a crossroads is where several paths meet and intersect each other. At a crossroads, you’re able to go...
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Suitable Jewelry for Magic, Spirits, and Forces
As many of my readers and followers on Twitter and Facebook are aware, one of the most important things I craft for my personal practice are pieces of jewelry I wear in honor of the spirits or as...
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An Alternative System of Stoicheia
Far be it from me, a ceremonial magician, to take something simple without introducing some complexity or confusion into it. In continuing and reviewing my mathesis and Greek language-based mysticism...
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Translation, Transliteration, and Greek Letter Magic
One of the more common sets of search terms I get on my blog, for some reason, involves how to write Japanese words, characters, or kanji in English, or whether there’s a Japanese to English alphabet...
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Search Term Shoot Back, October 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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Greek Onomancy: The Sphere of Democritus and the Circle of Petosiris
I don’t consider all systems of divination to be equal. More specifically, I don’t consider all that is considered to be divination to be actual divination. Geomancy, Tarot, augury, extispicy, horary...
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Greek Onomancy: Determining a Winner with Pythmenes
After the last post on onomancy, I realized that there’s more to Greek letter and number divination involving names than simply determining whether a sick person will live or die. Plus, there are far...
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On Ancient Greek Calendars, Including One You Can Buy!
As some of my readers know, I organize my offerings to the Greek gods, goddesses, and heroes according to a calendar of my own creation, the lunar grammatomantic calendar (lunisolar, really, but that...
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Greek Onomancy: Linking Isopsephy with Stoicheia
For someone who doesn’t much care for numerological and onomantic techniques, I sure have caught some kind of bug on this. Then again, I suppose it’s helpful to brush up on these methods of exegesis...
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On Astragalomancy
My birthday was last month, and I was fortunate enough to spend it with my mother and sister, with whom I haven’t spent a birthday in something like eight years. I was in town to watch over my mother...
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Ritual Astragalomancy
Astragalomancy, as I brought up in the last post, is divination using knucklebones. Besides the fact that I can legitimately say that I “throw the bones” when I do readings, I’m excited to learn about...
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PSA: It’s easier to ask permission than forgiveness
In doing research for another ebook of mine that’s coming up soon, I was googling around for a particular set of seals of the four elemental archangels. Eventually, I found what I was looking for, but...
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On Astragalomantic Probabilities
Using the astragaloi, or knucklebones, for divination has really intrigued me lately, as if you couldn’t tell from my last two posts on the subject. Something about them feels different from other...
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An Uncrossing Ritual to Free the Mouth
A while back at Crucible, on the eve of my giving my presentation, I had an interesting dream. There was a new fad of piercing going around: three horizontal barbells going through each cheek, like it...
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