A Shrine to Lord Saturn
This year, both I and my husband turn 28. It helps that we’re only born, like, six weeks apart, so our natal charts aren’t too dramatically different from each other’s, at least for the slower-moving...
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The past month has been incredible for me, and incredibly busy. All told, I have accomplished four novenas, three feast days, a New Moon and Full Moon offering, hikes to nine churches, a bachelor...
View ArticleNeed a reading? I know a guy.
Happy solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, New Year, and any other holiday you may be celebrating or using as an excuse to emboozen yourself or eat too much food! I know I haven’t been very talkative...
View ArticleOn the Three Biblical Magi as Spiritual Allies
So, Christmas has come and gone, but it’s still the Christmas season, more traditionally called Christmastide. Surely, dear reader, if you’ve grown up in the Anglophone world, you’re familiar with...
View ArticleWork, Lineage, and Auturgy
I’m going through an interesting development in my life, pursuant to the awesome life choices I made back in October. It’s the cause for several sets of changes, some of which are more immediately...
View ArticleThe Nature of Trust of a Tool
One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands, “Elissa” by the Crüxshadows, has a particularly poignant bridge towards the end: Everyone has a purpose Hidden within our lives Something we were...
View ArticleOn Aspects in Geomantic Interpretation
Geomantically interpreting the House Chart usually necessitates a bit of knowledge about astrology. Even though geomancy can be interpreted completely without relying on any sort of astrological...
View ArticleNotes on the Heart Sutra
Slightly different track for today’s post. A handful of people know that I have a deep respect and appreciation for Buddhism, especially the Thai Forest and Japanese forms of the religion/philosophy....
View ArticleOn Media and the Medium of Media
I sometimes have a fascination with what might be considered by most modern people to be outdated or obsolete technologies; heck, to this day, one of my favorite online libraries to browse is...
View ArticleOn Legacy
Legacy, noun, plural legacies. Law term: gift of property, especially personal property, as money, a bywill; a bequest; anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor. From...
View ArticleEfficient Geomancy with Playing Cards
I know I’ve been awfully quiet lately. There’s been a lot going on this year, and I’m just trying to keep my head above the water. I’m succeeding, at least, but it’s giving me a lot of time and space...
View ArticleFire and Water: A Tool for Steam-Powered Enchantment
Admittedly, it’s weird to see the WordPress write-post screen so frequently lately after so long without writing anything. Quoth Alan Moore’s “Promethea” issue #19: “Man, this is like city transport....
View ArticleOn the Arbatel’s Seal of Secrets
So as I work towards the end of a year of interesting spiritual obligations, I’m beginning to get back to some of my projects I had to put on hold about this time last year. One of those projects is...
View ArticleDirections of the Geomantic Figures
Recently, someone commented on one of my geomancy-related pages asking about the directions associated with the geomantic figures. I’m…actually surprised I don’t have a post written about that, and...
View ArticlePractical Arbatel: Conjuration of the Olympic Spirit (Again, but Longer)
A ways back (gosh, has it really been a two and a half years since I posted it?), I made a post about a proposed conjuration of the Olympic Spirits from the Arbatel. I’ve been looking over my old...
View ArticleI was on a podcast!
Yanno how fleeting and excellent college hookups are? That’s basically what it was like this week with the wonderfully crazy Gordon White over at Rune Soup. First off, I am incensed and appalled at...
View ArticleAn upcoming geomancy course by the splendid Dr Al Cummins!
What with all the recent influx of traffic from my hilarious geomantic chat with the wonderful Gordon White yesterday on Rune Soup, I figured that this is as good a time as any to mention that there’s...
View ArticleOn the Angels of the Hours
In my research on the Arbatel recently, I came up with a slightly more fleshed-out/thought-out approach to using what (little) we have in the actual text to come up with a conjuration ritual. The...
View ArticleOn Geomantic Cycles
A while back on the Facebook community I manage for geomancy, the Geomantic Study-Group, someone had posted a proposed method to obtain four Mother figures for a geomantic reading based on the time and...
View ArticleGenerating Geomantic Figures
After my fantastic and entertaining chat with Gordon on his Rune Soup podcast, and in tandem with the good Dr Al’s course on the fundamentals and history of the art, there’s been a huge influx of...
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