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Sigils Reboot: How To Get Big Magic From Little Squiggles
This was going to be a free ebook.
At the time it seemed like the best way to collate the last three years of experimentation with..
10 Universal Sigils To Bulk Out Your Shoal
There is a very specific reason for deploying multiple sigils at once: You’re playing tricks on your brain.
It’s an extremely effective..
Sigilize Your Letters To Santa Today
As mentioned in the previous post, today is St Nicholas Day.
Obviously, the contemporary egregore we know as Santa is a bizarre hybrid..
Destroying Your Sigils. A Huge Mistake?
Sigils -at least as we have commonly come to understand them in a chaos context- are based on a theories of the brain and mind functions..
One Explanation For Sigil Bleed
My ongoing sigil adventures have got me thinking.
I am dissatisfied with prevailing theories of accidentally launched signals because..
Shoaling: Making Sigil Magic More Awesome Since 2010
Shoaling.
Think of it like birds flocking but with a few key differences.
Firstly, the aerodynamic (in this case hydrodynamic)..
How Sigils Are Like Firearms
If you leave them around loaded then the unexpected can happen.
Like what happened to me last night and this morning.
We had a lovely,..
Cure Boredom With Sigils (It’s Cheaper Than Booze)
If you are very lucky and hardworking, there will come a few moments in your life where -whisper it- you don’t really have anything you..
Dublin and the Dead
In a few hours it is back off to the airport for country number four in the last two weeks.
When magic works I can’t help but return to..
Iterating Cartomancy: The Deck of 1000 Spreads
Chris Knowles and I have been having some sustained discussions regarding the aforementioned UFO Tarot.
It has probably the worst case of..
A Year Of Ghosts
Technically, every year is the anniversary of everything, I suppose.
However, like large, slow-moving planets in a natal chart, some..
Do You Have The Devil’s Backbone?
Two of the best books I have read in the last twelve months have been about the Devil.
Kinda.
Most recently, it was Peter Levenda’s The..
Ambitious Metaphysics – How To Have Better Ideas
Paul Laffoley shifts in his seat.
The Palace at Westminster and the London Eye are visible behind him.
“My primary concern is how you..
Review: Ice Age Art – Arrival Of The Modern Mind
“The artistic light that emanates from Greece is the light of broad day.
This early light of artistic dawn is less certain… but early..
Everything Is Entangled: Some Sorcerous Tech Implications
It is ambitious but not unreasonable to suggest that science and magic should entirely overlap.
Indeed, many of the Renaissance magicians..
Snow Falling On Faery
It takes one hour and forty seven minutes to walk from my new office to my house.
I know this because I have made the journey a number of..
Re-Membering Yourselves: Cohesion Is For Chumps
On first contact, everything I have ever been addicted to had an immediate effect on my energetic field.
My first underage cigarette, for..
Some Magical Tech For Your Christmas Stocking
We never had Christmas stockings growing up.
We didn’t have a fireplace because Australia needs no extra assistance periodically bursting..
The Other Legerdemain
Good video editing is supposed to be invisible. Very often, it seems, you can say the same thing about enchantment.
We caught the train..
The Words Of Power In Your Head [Media]
Hello from New Jersey where I’m tarting myself up in preparation for the awesome wedding of the awesome Deb and the awesome Jow.
Last..
The Prince And The Blogger: An Apocalypse Fairytale
“You know Prince Harry’s here? I just shook hands with him at the bar.”
My friend hands me my drink.
But of course Prince Harry’s here.
A..
Superman And The Pyramids: A Memory Hack For You To Keep
Apparently there were only about twenty other final year high school students in the entire state who took 3 Unit History: Old And New..
Collect All 4 Awesome Tokens This Summer
Waiting for a decent magical summer is like waiting for a decent British summer. (Wettest April to June on record. And records go back a..
Are Road Openers The Most Useful Spells?
It’s just gone four years since the first of several redundancies in my personal experience of this most recent apocalypse. Quite the..
Let’s Break A Fucking Drought!
Australia certainly has this going for it: when its capital city is burning to the ground the smell is oddly pleasant. At least according..
The Tarot of Unpopular Futures: Whisky Rant (Part 9)
“Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of..
Why Aren’t You Fighting Dirty?
Whatever word you use for whatever it is you think we do… we’ve been called a lot of things before.
Poisoner, abortionist, false-speaker,..
Joyeux Noël: Plus Ça Change
Let’s say you sneeze in China.
If you are around polite Cantonese speakers, they will say “great fortunate occurrence.” The Catalans of
Volume Is The Best Magical Strategy
In August I came within a single day of being fired.
If the CEO hadn’t been on holiday in Tuscany at the time I probably would have been..
Magic Secrets As Taught By Robot Fish
Want to see what shoaling looks like?
Proper shoaling, that is… the thing fish do. In this case, sticklebacks.
Go and watch this video of..
Why Belief Is The Wrong Word To Use
Do you believe in magic? Please.
If I ask you at the right time of day or in a room set to the right temperature you won’t even believe..
How To Enchant By A Thousand Paper Cuts
It looks like a few of my sigils may be coming down off the mirror soon as the -possibly semi self-inflicted- star storm abates and gives..
Got A Problem? Send Your Brain On Vacation
Sometimes it doesn’t feel like it but we’re incarnate in a really weird world.
A lot of the time -as we go about our regular days- the..
8 Happiness Hacks To Get You Through January
The new year is exciting, it really is.
Work is going good, a fun new flatmate is showing up tomorrow (thank you sigil magic) and I’ve..
How Christmas Is Like Sound Immigration Policy
Got up, went outside to take photos of the snowy sunrise, came back down to breakfast, exchanged gifts, agreed to meet for lunch and then..
5 Shoaling Examples To Improve Your Magical Results
Adama (senior) says a number of times during Battlestar Galactica “sometimes you gotta roll the hard six.”
Most of the time, however, you..