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Fr. Rufus Opus, who is not me, made something awesome!
So, if you’re at all involved with the ceremonial magic blogosphere or Hermetic occulture online nowadays, you may have heard that there was a new book published this week: Seven Spheres by Frater...
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Learning the Astragalomantic Oracular Verses
The way that astragalomancy works is pretty simple; Kostas Dervenis in his Oracle Bones Divination calls it the “Greek I Ching”, noting the similarity of the method. Basically, what you do is you roll...
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Drinking Games to go with Myst and Riven
Alright, it’s late, I’m getting over a cold, and I’m bored. This is going to depart from my normal subject matter on this blog. It is, after all, my blog, and some things just aren’t cut out for a...
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Meditating on the Abacedarian Ancient Words of Power
I think it’s been too long since I mentioned everyone’s favorite ancient grimoire, the Greek Magical Papyri, isn’t it? Yes, it has been too long, especially when there are some real gems in there (and...
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Four Coin Divination of Hermes
So, between geomancy, grammatomancy, and astragalomancy, as well as a working knowledge of astrology both horary and otherwise, my divination needs are pretty much set. I can determine what’s going on...
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On the Arbatel
I feel like it’s been too long since I talked about something solidly within the framework and scope of Western Renaissance Hermetic magic. Admittedly, that’s partially because I haven’t been doing...
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Search Term Shoot Back, November 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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In Gratiam Sancto Cypriano Antiochae!
In thanks to Saint Cyprian of Antioch, my patron and protector, my mentor and master, my teacher and tutor and tata! The good Saint has enabled me by his powerful intercession to survive the trials of...
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Practical Arbatel: Names and Seals of the Olympic Spirits
So now that I’m getting seriously interested in the Arbatel, I suppose it’s time to start reviewing what I know and what, exactly, it is that I’ll be doing and conjuring. Most of the Arbatel is...
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New Ebook: De Archangelis
Late in 2013, after my week-long ordeal of conjuring all the angels of the elements and planets, culminating in my conjuration of the angel of the fixed stars Iophiel, a good chunk of my Work took a...
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Grammatomantic Ritual Calendar vs. Planetary Hours
Of all the ritual tools I possess, the most important one isn’t even really a tool at all, since it’s intangible. I have a hard time calling it a technique, since it’s not really a skill and it’s...
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Details on the Grammatēmerologion
Yes, it’s official. I’m settling on the term γραμματημερολογιον grammatēmerologion as the official term for the lunisolar grammatomantic calendar, including its chronological ritual use to schedule...
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Empowerment Candle Ritual with Psalm 119
Recently, I got back in touch with a good magical colleague of mine whom I hadn’t spoken to in a bit. Not that anything was wrong, it was just that life got in the way of us having a good time....
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On Making Vows to the Gods (protip: don’t)
I was doing a reading not too long ago with someone who was beset on all sides with spiritual problems. We went through the usual gamut of potential causes for issues like poor health, decreased...
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On Rulership and Life’s Bullshit
For some reason, Fr. Rufus Opus (who, I might add, is still not me) claims that I’m his best student. I don’t really agree with him, since I think I just write more than the rest of his students, but...
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Advice for Learning a Totally Foreign System
I try to be an avid reader in my copious spare time, and I don’t mean with my ever-expanding RSS feed that aggregates occult, religious, pagan, current event, and the occasional comic blog. My living...
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Let’s close this year with a break from it all.
2014 has been an awesome year for many reasons. Yeah, parts of it sucked, because life sucks. Most of it rocked, because life rocks. It’s a thing, you know? This whole humanity deal we have going...
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Search Term Shoot Back, December 2014
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2015 Ritual Calendar and Prospective
2014 has come and gone, and now we’re in 2015. Awesome! I hope your hangovers have worn off by now. While we’re currently regretting our poor life choices from poured drinks from a few nights ago,...
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Yearly Readings Special for 2015!
About this time last year, I had the notion of doing a discounted special for yearly geomantic readings covering people’s lives in 2014. I got a goodly amount of attention and business from that and...
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