A Vision of Tomorrow
Each year I do a cut-up collage, which essentially serves as a magical enchantment for the next year. This particular magical working is inspired by William S. Burroughs, and I always make a point to listen to Burroughs when doing this working. This year’s collage was dedicated to Bune as both an evocation of him [...]
Pre-makes: an example of retro pop culture
I’ve started doing some research for my new Pop Culture Magic book. Bill Whitcomb recently told me about Pre-makes, which are little video previews of current movies remade as if they had originally been shot in the early fifties. The one above is a pre-make version of Ghostbusters. Aside from the charming use of older [...]
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 [...]
Spatial Dynamics and Magic
Space is one of those elements that continues to fascinate me, especially when I look at how people use space to situate and express their own identity. I came to this perspective through the anthropological of Edward T. Hall and Alexander Laban’s perspectives on space and movement. The occupation of space whether with objects or [...]
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 [...]
An update on My New Book, Magical Identity
Here’s a picture of the cover, done by Kat Lunoe. Doesn’t it look great? Magical Identity is currently being edited. I had to switch editors, which pushed the book release date back to March of 2012. However I’m not presenting at Pantheacon this year, so it actually works out that the book will be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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.
