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 [...]
Self-Evocation 2011
Here’s my latest painting. It’s a self-Evocation painting. I do these occasionally and I use them to paint an internal landscape of my consciousness. This one is actually quite nice and feels much more peaceful compared to some of the other ones. A self-evocation is really a snapshot of time, a way to connect with [...]
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 Yule Ritual
The other night, for our Magical Experiments meeting, we decided to do a Yule Feast and Ritual. The Feast was Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes, carrots, beans, garlic bread and spiced wine and cider. It was an excellent way to celebrate the solstice, with good friends. But it was also a magical act, in and of [...]
Fear and Magic
I read a post where the writer argued that if you weren’t feeling fear in your magical practice, you either aren’t human, or you are trying hard to stay in your safety zone. I get the point of this post, and to some degree I agree with it. Feeling some fear as you break your [...]
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 [...]
Change starts from within
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves” Leo Tolstoy When I think about Western Magic, and one of my problems, this statement from Tolstoy sums it up nicely. In late teens and early to mid twenties, I remember being that person who wanted to change the world, but didn’t [...]
Changing your Identity by Shifting your Balance
Every year I do an elemental balancing ritual. The purpose of this ritual is to create balance in my life by working on aspects of myself that need to be balanced. Really what I’m doing it changing my overall identity by shifting the balance using an intensive working to generate a specific direction for my [...]
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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.
