Game Sigil
The other day my family and I were playing a game of Triominos. This was the shape we’d put together toward the end of the game. As I looked at it, I was struck at how you could use the actual shape and tiles as part of a sigilistic working. The purpose of the game [...]
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 [...]
The requisite new year post
It’s 2012. When you look back on 2011, you might be thinking of everything you accomplished or everything you didn’t do. Maybe you’re also thinking of new year resolutions or how you’ll do what you didn’t get to in 2012. Stop. Just stop for a moment. Those are all such automatic thoughts, such cultural promptings [...]
Social Media Magic
I’m debating right now what my next book will be about, but I’ve already got some good ideas percolating. No it won’t be social media magic…though that could be the name of a chapter. Anyway, I’ve been playing around with my Facebook Timeline, adding some events to points in the past, mainly where I moved [...]
Archetypal actions
I’ve been watching Nikita lately, which is the newest rendition of La Femme Nikita. In one of the episodes, the actress playing Nikita does the famous action of diving into the laundry chute to avoid being incinerated by the missile. You know the action I’m talking about. It’s the action that occurred in both movies [...]
A new Year, A new you
I saw this blog entry on Twitter and was intrigued by what the person had to say about reinventing herself. It reminds me a bit of the elemental balancing ritual I do each year. I’m in the 2nd month of my new year, and in a sense the new person I’m discovering as I work [...]
Tarot Readings and spontaneous spreads
I was doing dual deck tarot readings at the local yule fair last week and what stood out to me was how people would create their own spreads, which didn’t necessarily look like anything I’d create, but nonetheless made perfect sense for those people. What I liked about that realization is that it proves [...]
How to learn process and apply it to magic
I talk about the process of magic a lot on here, but a question that might arise is: What exactly is process and how do I learn it? Or more specifically, How do I turn magic into a process? I learned about process from two different disciplines: Academia and Technical Writing. Both disciplines are process [...]
What makes effective experimentation in magic
When I think about effective experimentation in magic, I think that its essential to have a group of people who are willing to test your experiment. These people don’t even need to know each other, but they need to be people who are willing to give your experiment a try and provide honest feedback. Anyone [...]
Art and Magic
I posted an updated on different social networks asking people how they got creative with their magical work. I got a couple of interesting responses including one about a coven that uses arts and crafts in their rituals and it got me to thinking about my own artistic approach to magic. I’ve always been in [...]
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- I finished the latest revision of Magical Identity, at 93,535 words. Off to the editor and then layout! Expect a pre-order post soon.
