Re-Thinking and Re-Making Babalon into a Wealth Deity
I’ve been spending some thinking about my relationship to Babalon, both in relationship to the Elemental Love working I’m doing and also in where she fits or doesn’t fit in the overall scheme of my life. And then this weekend I finished reading Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and I realized where Babalon [...]
A Deharan Caste Ascension
While I was at Pantheacon, I had the opportunity to perform a Caste ascension in the Deharan system of magic. A caste ascension is essentially both an acknowledgement that a practitioner has reached a point in the current caste where they’ve learned what they need to learn, and also a method of strengthening the energetic [...]
Transformation and re-dedication
A week and a half ago I got interviewed by Leisa Refalo for tarot connections. She and I happen to live in the same city, so she was game for doing the interview in person. Because the majority of my work with Tarot is practical magic oriented as opposed to divination, she was curious as [...]
Dancing with Dehara
In the late nineties, I picked up the original Wraeththu series and had my life changed by it. I knew right after I read it that I would meet Storm Constantine. I couldn’t tell you why I knew (at that time), but I knew it had to happen. Shortly after, I did in fact make [...]
Continuing some thoughts on Diety and Service
In my previous post about Deity and service I got some comments and they got me thinking further about some of what I was exploring in that last post. One commenter, in particular, asked for some defintions. 1. Define Deity I define a Deity as a pan-dimensional being that has its own existence, and lives on a [...]
Further thoughts on service and deities
In my post on magic sometimes being like a bad acid trip, one thing I discussed was how being in service to the gods really involved those gods being in service to us. Where that concept comes from is Buddhism and how that particular belief system views gods. It acknowledges that the gods have more [...]
“Sometimes Magic is like a Bad Acid Trip”
“Sometimes magic is like a bad acid trip” solis93 said to me yesterday as we were talking on the phone about editing, Hermeticism, and magic in general. Yes, yes in fact magic as a spiritual path, as a mystic path, is sometimes like a bad acid trip. I’m not talking about service to any gods [...]
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