Sometimes, we are our own worst enemy. This thought occurs to me now having read some of the comments from my previous post on money magic. You ever felt magically “blocked”? For me, this happens most often with financial/abundance magic but cosmic blockage can strike any magical endeavour. It’s like I can feel it...
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Some spells seem to work more consistently than others. I’m thinking of weather magic, sex spells, healing/pain relief magic, small scale telepathy and simple luck spells. And then there are some categories that consistently don’t work. Regardless of whether or not you find any use for magical models, a category discrepancy shouldn’t appear. If...
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Yes, I know Spring has come to the kingdom. But it is harvest time in the hemisphere I grew up in so my thoughts turn to abundance altars of days gone by. In fact, it was on a little photo trip to the Imperial War Museum yesterday that a few problems with how we...
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I was killing time in one of London’s better occult bookstores just down from the British Museum before going to hear a talk on Ancient Rome. On one of the main tables I saw a book and wand kit called Wanding. So I read the back of it. Now, I certainly had no intention...
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Over at Strategic Sorcery, Jason posted about his frustration with the ‘model’ model. (Get it?) As ever, I am pretty much in complete agreement with him about their pitfalls and limitations. However, I think some of the people leaving comments may have missed what he is saying. They’re all making perfectly valid points but...
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A large proportion of magical practice relies on ‘intuition’ and hoary beliefs about the human mind. I would suggest that much of this has to do with the fact that modern magic reached its current recognisable form in the Edwardian era at around the same time as the ascendancy of modern psychiatry. At this...
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Having lived a bunch of places in both hemispheres of the planet, I seem to have picked up a few tricks on how to do sacred travel well. As far as I’m concerned, sacred travel does not require me to pile into a thirty year old bus with a swarm of ancient hippies or...
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Remember that story about how Crowley took Rose into the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid and impressed her by conjuring up all those spirit lights. And then how he asked (paraphrasing) “Yeah, but what’s the point of it?” There is a personal lesson in this and it is one that took me years...
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So I am reading this paper about the cellular causes of death because -here’s something you may not know- biologists have absolutely no consensus on why things weaken and die with age. There is a whole, gripping chapter on this in a science book I really want you all to read. One of the...
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Always nice when you can get more mileage out of a post title. Even better when it lets you open with an image of the magnificent Bob Loblaw. (“Bob Loblaw No Habla Español“.) So far there has been some fantastic feedback on my earlier post about occult economics (which was borne out of the...
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