Search Term Shoot Back, October 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...
View ArticleThe Geomantic Figures, Personalities, and Myers-Briggs/Kiersey Types
The other day, on an exceptionally slow Friday afternoon with little to do, my friend and I were bullshitting in my cube. We were talking about things as varied as problems with Linux installation,...
View ArticleCurrent Status
So, I haven’t made a post in a while. I apologize, guys, even though I’m not usually one to do so; this is my blog, after all, and I post when and how I feel like it. No, I haven’t abandoned you, or...
View ArticleMagical Practice and Mental Health
It’s no secret that those of us who are into alternative religions, spiritual practices, magic, witchcraft, and the like aren’t exactly “normal”, according to the definitions of contemporary Western...
View ArticleOn Light in the Darkness of the Home
Winter is rough. Sure, some people like it, but even for those who do, it’s not the easiest season to survive. Full of short days and long nights and temperatures lower than high school students’...
View ArticleOn Geomantic Education
To those who follow me on Twitter and Facebook, this will come as no surprise. I’m finally working on my book on geomancy again. It’s something that people have been dogging me about for years, and...
View ArticleDivination Methods and Programming Languages
A few years back, I made a post about a theory of divination, where methods of divination can range from the purely intuitive (e.g. clairvoyance) to the purely technical (e.g. meteorological...
View ArticleLet it be enough.
Looking back, the years 2014 and 2015 were kinda awful. I can only remember everyone saying that they’re glad those years are over and that, while surely some good stuff happened during them, we’re...
View ArticleTemporarily suspending all services
So, I know I haven’t exactly been the most active with blogging lately for a number of reasons, but lately things are gearing up and other mundane (yet crucially important) things have to take priority...
View ArticleReviewing Old Notes and Looking Into Mirrors
It’s been a hell of a time, guys. But I survived and now I’m back in the game, though it took me a bit to get rolling again. Commissions and requests for readings are still closed for the time being,...
View ArticleRevisiting the Revelations of the Numbers
I didn’t expect to write this post so soon after the last one. After months of nothing new happening, suddenly I write two posts on mathesis and Iamblichean number theory on the Tetractys? It’s good...
View ArticleMathetic Pathworking of the Tetractys
Alright, time to actually talk practice again. The past few posts were heavy on number theory, but the end of the last post touched on how it impacts our traversal of the Tetractys and how we can...
View ArticleMathetic Mudras for the Greek Letters
For me, physical motions in ritual are hugely important. Tools, incenses, oils, candles, and all the rest are heavily used in most of my rituals, but the biggest thing is what I’m physically doing...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to my Representative on Orlando
An open letter to the Honorable Rob J. Wittman, Representative of the First District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, sent to him individually on June 13, 2016 in response to...
View ArticleAn Online Introductory Course on Geomancy
Many of my readers come to my blog for geomancy and related information. This post isn’t really going to give them much on that, but there’s something I can proffer to sate you all the same. I would...
View ArticleMathetic Ritual of the Sun’s Ingresses
I was settling down this past Monday thinking of how to better explore the paths of the Tetractys. Pathworking is fine and all, and I will never swear against it; it’s a powerful method in its own...
View ArticleOn Secrecy of Ritual
After a bit of preliminary research and a bit of reflection on my own works and studies up to this point, I felt like the last post on mathetic rituals for solar ingresses into the signs of the Zodiac...
View ArticleOn Things that Die
I am becoming increasingly familiar with the smell of rot. The husband and I were on a small road-trip to a friend’s birthday the other day, and we were driving up and down some lovely backwoods roads...
View ArticleOn Equal Exchange
Recently, I was confronted by someone who thought I was crazy for charging for geomancy readings.* He himself is a diviner, but finds it displeasing that I insist on being paid for divination. I...
View ArticleRecollection in its Proper Time
Tonight begins the third Mercury retrograde period of 2016. It entered its shadow on August 10, and entered into retrograde tonight on August 30; it will pause again to go direct on September 22, and...
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