The article I mentioned in What Wizards Taught Me has got me thinking… You could do worse than base a religion on Oscar Wilde quotes. Much, much worse. (Like, for an example, almost all organised religion.) It’s important to remember that the clever devil was getting around London and Europe at the same time...
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Over the last five months I have been looking at ways of integrating magical perspectives into day to day existence. Historically it has been too easy for me to drift away and get very insular with magical studies that end up having minimal impact on my life (excluding spell effects). Food is the current...
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We live in troubled times. That’s probably not going to change. I’m sure most people throughout history thought they lived in troubled times. And I suppose they did. Your brain doesn’t always recognise this. Your brain simply isn’t built to rationally assess which things to worry about and which things to ignore. It also...
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Really this should be ‘what wizards taught me today’ because I have only just got back from a visit to some of the more remote corners of the UK. I couldn’t even get cell reception, let alone keep up with these internets. But it looks like I almost missed a really interesting week. Balthazar...
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Oh, this one is fun. There’s nothing quite like loosening up the old neurons and seeing what they come back with. The purpose of this spell is to provide clear channels for communicating with dream visitors or more cleanly moving through dreamscapes. These ingredients also bottle really well if you want to give them...
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Hooray for genetics! As someone who spent his adolescence ninja-battling with weight gain, before winning out for five years, only to cede ground again upon getting a job in advertising (media lunches are highly calorific) this is something I know a whole lot about. First a few fun medical facts about weight loss: No...
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I like luck magic. It’s probably the easiest magic to perform because it relies on the universe’s inherent probabilistic qualities… You just lean into the curve a little bit more. Seeing as nothing has a guaranteed outcome from a probabilistic point of view anyway, a majority of our day to day experience is good...
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Prosperity is the topic du jour here at Rune Soup so we might as well start as we mean to continue. First of all, if you haven’t already, you should read these posts: Are Your Money Spells Doomed From The Start? 10 Prosperity Magic Resources For Sorcerers and Possibly Method Actors Thinking About Prosperity...
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This comes up every now and again but I have some decidedly un-elitist views with regards to sourcing magical ingredients. Something Jason wrote the other day about McDonald’s salads got me thinking whether these magical views run contrary to my unabashed food elitism. And so I thought about this for a while and reached...
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The trouble is I listen intently to too many people out there among the internets. And this enables one of my more benign but still expensive addictions. All of these books come highly recommended. Psyche recommends ‘Triumph of The Moon’ and Phil Hine recommends ‘The Anthropology of Magic’. (The other books come recommended from...
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