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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Elemental Balancing Ritual Fire Month 2
11-27-11 Something which has always frightened me has been my own fire. It’s frightened me, in part because of the various people in my life who at one time or another told me I was too passionate, too intense, or just plain too much. I’ve gotten so used to pushing that intensity down or directing [...]
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 [...]
Elemental Fire Month 1
10-22-2011 I’ve been staying very mindful of the element of fire in my life. I attended a divination party tonight, where you could offer readings or get readings. I did five readings for different people and told them about the magical experimenters meeting. And while doing their readings, while talking with them, I had a [...]
Shunning as Banishment
I’ve been thinking a bit about shunning as a form of magical banishment. In my own experience, when I’ve decided to cut a person out of my life, I essentially end up shunning them, but shunning for me works on a magical level as well, because part of that process involves systematically getting rid of [...]
Switching to Elemental Fire
Every year on my birthday I switch to a new element. This year, it felt like a good idea to switch to the element of fire. I feel like I’m ready to work with fire, to find my balance with it and through all of that come to know it in a different way than [...]
Why and when I first started Experimenting with Magic
I’ve told this story a couple of times, but its one that’s pivotal to my magical practice and life. I was 18, when I was diagnosed with bipolar 2 depression, otherwise known as manic depression. My family on my mother’s side had a predisposition toward depression and I had spent a good part of my [...]
Music and magic meditations
At the most recent magical experiments night, we decided to do three meditation exercises with music out of the book Arcana V (affiliate link). I was intrigued by the exercises, partially because of the focus on space, sound, and silence, and partially because it reminded me of my own experiments with music and magic 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.
