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On Third-Party Readings
Most people who contact me or hire me for divination usually ask the same things. I’m not complaining for their business, and it never gets boring, but usually they ask about the usual stuff: general...
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On Geomancy as Actually Being Earthy
I’ll be honest with you. I don’t actually think geomancy is nearly as earthy as people make it out to be. Yes, the word “geomancy” comes from Greek γεωμαντεια, literally “earth-seeing”. Yes, St....
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On Confusing Geomantic Charts and Geomantic Competency
I started studying geomancy in college, and I was blessed to go to a university with a huge library and good connections. I’ll always fondly remember hauling my ass to the Old Stacks on grounds, and...
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Search Term Shoot Back, April 2015
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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Apologia
Being a WordPress user, I’m fond of the sometimes silly and sweet things it does for me like any overdesigned fun information system should. Today, it told me that this is my four-year anniversary of...
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On Tattoos of Spiritual Artifices
Recently on the endless stream of half-formed thoughts that keeps me sane in the office, which is to say Twitter, I was approached by someone who likes my work and thinks highly of it. While I take...
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The Grand Heptagram Rite
Thanks to Stephen Flowers in his Hermetic Magic and Fr. Michael Cecchetelli in his Book of Abrasax, there’s a particularly common ritual that many Hermetic magicians use that’s lifted from the Greek...
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A Small Note on the Modern Use of the Calling of the Sevenths
A good friend and colleague of mine pointed out to me that the modern usage of the Calling of the Sevenths rite, otherwise known as the Heptagram Rite (as I’m sure you’re familiar with by now, dear...
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The Howl of Orpheus
In the course of my investigating PGM XIII.734ff for information the source and expansion of the Heptagram Rite, something caught my eye. As I noted before, after the ritual for the Heptagram, there...
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Blessing of the Vessel
In addition to Betz’s version of the Greek Magical Papyri, which is as indispensable to me as a good copy of Agrippa’s books, there’s another text I often reference when trying to find good source...
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Days of the Cyprians 2015
Holy Saint Cyprian of Antioch! Mage, martyr and mystic; theurge, thaumaturge, and theophoros; saint, sorcerer, and sage! Pray for us, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. + + + + + + + + + Yes,...
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Problem, Predicament, Crisis
One of my favorite blogs to read is that of the Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, John Michael Greer (also known as JMG), who writes over at the Archdruid Report. He writes about...
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When the lights go dark, look to the Sun.
As you might be aware, dear reader, the planet Mercury went retrograde a few days ago on September 17, and will be in retrograde until October 9. It’s cute how this retrograde ties in oh-so-well with...
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Mathetic Exercise: Light-bringing Breath
Today, while making an offering to Apollo, he (if you’ll forgive the pun) shed some light on a bit of mathetic practice. I’m still dusting off some of the tools and prayers I was working on, but he’s...
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Devotio Sanctis Sacriveneficiis, Hieromartyribus Nicomediæ in anno MMXV
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who...
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Days of the Cyprians 2015 Fundraiser Results
Hail to you, holy Saint Cyprian of Antioch! Holy Saint Cyprian of Antioch, mage, martyr, and mystic; theurge, thaumaturge, and theophoros; saint, sorcerer, and sage; together with Saint Justina and...
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Search Term Shoot Back, September 2015
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On Sounds and Silences
In preparation for some more mathetic exploration, I took another look at the Tetractys and how I want to approach the exploration of paths. To refresh your memory, dear reader, this is my version of...
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On Simplicity in Constructed Speech and the Occult
I’ve been interested in linguistics since at least middle school, when I took my first foreign language class. It was a semester-long course in Japanese in my sixth grade, but unfortunately, the...
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Clarifications on Terms for Symbols
It’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine when people badly use terms in an occult context. To be fair, different traditions may use certain terms in particular ways that are specific to that particular...
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