Whisky Rant: Disc 2 (Special Features)
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Posts Tagged ‘astrology’
Coffee At The Battle Of Blythe Road
by Gordon • • History, Life • 5 Comments
Refill Your Wonderment Supply To Make For Better Magic
by Gordon • • News • 1 Comment
The colleague who sat next to me on my last flight home from Hamburg is not a confident air passenger. If you are in a similar situation the secret is to hide in the numbers rather than resort to personal experience. The is because, unless you are flying several times a week, your mind...
Read more →Why I Am Rethinking Astrology
by Gordon • • Life, Rants • 14 Comments
You ever have one of those 72 hour periods that could be an indie Miramax movie? The kind of movie where everything goes wrong and Michael Cera plays himself like he always does? Let’s recap: Woke up at 6:30am on Friday to find that we had been robbed because my useless alcoholic flatmate came...
Read more →Have Your Own Festival Of Festivals
by Gordon • • History, Magic • 6 Comments
Let me start this post by insisting you all go and subscribe to Devi’s newsletter. I just got the December issue and it’s fantastic. Something in it triggered a plan… An ambitious plan. Like most of you, this is one of my favourite times of year. And even though I’m insanely busy it occurs...
Read more →Al-Andalus: Kingdom of Magic
by Gordon • • History, Science • 8 Comments
The first Darwinian biologists -eager heads brimming with notions of natural selection- observed a startling amount of same-sex pairings in the wild. A lot more than they were expecting. Mother Nature, it appeared, was the first fag hag. For instance, giraffes are very gay. (But you can tell just by looking at them. They...
Read more →Have You Done Your Monthly Forecast?
by Gordon • • Magic • 0 Comments
And there goes July. This weekend is the time to review your previous monthly forecast and create a new one. As far as mine is concerned: My guess was good on work stuff but way off in everything else. The stars won it again. The cards were broadly accurate but late by a week....
Read more →The Lost City of Western Magic
by Gordon • • History • 6 Comments
We should know more about it. We know the usual suspects; Athens, Alexandria, Thebes, Rome, Babylon, Florence, London. Maybe it’s because we are taught history at school in chunks. Rome is a chunk. Europe is a chunk. Indigenous North America is a chunk. Aboriginal Australia is a chunk. Except I think it’s more than...
Read more →How To Hack The Retrogrades
by Gordon • • Featured, Life • 6 Comments
There has been a bit of talk about how potent and generally shithouse this current Mercury retrograde is. Anecdotally, it seems more severe than any of the recent prior retrogrades -at least as far as I can remember. However, there are potential positive sides to retrograde planets if you know how to spot them....
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