Habits and Magic
I’ve been reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. He breaks habits down to a cycle of a cue, routine, and Reward and explains that what makes habits really stick is the craving we feel when we get something that we want more of. When I read this I began thinking about how it [...]
What’s your magical language?
What’s your magical language? What terms do you use to describe and define your magical workings? This post is prompted by Mike Sententia’s writings about etheric software. What I’ve recognized is that he’s drawn on software programming terminology to help describe his approach to magic. I’ve seen him draw on some other discourses as well, [...]
Riding the Dragon
It’s officially the year of the Dragon, and according to the Chinese Zodiac, it’s a Water Dragon Year. I was born in the year of the Dragon and although I am not Chinese, I have always identified heavily with Draconic energy and with the attributes associated with people born in the year of the Dragon. [...]
Elemental Fire Month 3
12-26-11 Fire burns and consumes. What you don’t want can be burned away, turned to ashes. You can recycle the ashes, contribute to new growth. For Christmas, my mom gave me a picture album with lots of pictures I don’t believe I ever saw. I can’t remember anything about a lot of those pictures, because [...]
Secrecy and Magic
Mike posted some excellent thoughts about how secrecy destroys knowledge. I agree with him. I’ve always found the culture of secrecy within the occult to be problematic. I get that, at least as it pertains to magical orders, that the secrets of those orders are maintained to determine who gets into the magical clubhouse and [...]
Why Magic is ultimately a personal experience
I’ve been reading Magick of Thought, a blog by Mike Sententia. It’s an interesting blog and his approach to magic is innovative, but it also highlights why I think of magic as a more of a personal experience. When I read his work, I get where he’s coming from, but I wouldn’t really approach magic [...]
Resistance and internal work
I’ve been reading the War of Art (affiliate link) lately and the author talks a great deal about resistance as an enemy to creativity. I think he’s right, to a point. I also think resistance can indicate something that needs to change, but what’s relevant here is how resistance can be used in internal work, [...]
My altar redone and claimed
Recently Kat and I captured a few wild kittens and tamed them. During that process we allowed them to use my altar as a den of sorts, so for a little while it wasn’t an altar so much as home. Now the kitten are relatively tame and enjoy the exploration of our entire home. As [...]
Symbols, Archetypes, and Reality in Once Upon a Time
I love the new show Once Upon a Time. It’s an intriguing mix of Faerie Tale with Modern world. Hopefully it’ll last more than one or two seasons. Perhaps what I love most about is the intersection of symbolism, character archetypes, and reality. In one sense, the show is depicting two alternate lives for each [...]
Safety and Magic
This post is prompted in part by Rowan Pendragon’s post about Safety in Wicca and in part by the latest episode of Once Upon a Time, where Rumpelstiltskin learns that magic always has a price. My whole approach to magic is focused on experimentation, which necessarily involves experimenting with magic in ways that aren’t necessarily [...]
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