2013 May | Strategic Sorcery

THE WALT WHITMAN BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE

Today is Walt Whitman’s birthday. As a spiritual exercise today I challenge you to go outside somewhere and sound your very own Barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world. Report back here with the time and place. Extra Credit for doing it in Public to prove you are not a bit tamed, and are […]

GATEWAYS THROUGH STONE AND CIRCLE

Gateways through Stone and Circle has been on sale for a week now. If you have not already snapped up a copy, go grab it! If you are unfamiliar with Frater Ashen’s work, you should head over to his blog and marvel at the artistry, detail, time, and expense that he has put into doing […]

Problems and Solutions.

“Happiness is not the absence of problems; its the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli Recently Aaron Leitch wrote a great piece on how people can sometimes magic and magicians ineffective because they still have problems. People accuse Crowley of failure because he died “penniless”*. People accuse Vodou of malevolence because Haiti is […]

GREEN TARA TALISMANS AVAILABLE!

A few months ago I had a very powerful waking vision of Green Tara which took up the entire sky. She was surrounded by smaller versions of the 21 other manifestations of Tara, which were all beaming light into the central green figure. I immediately decided to begin charging up a batch of 21 Green […]

GREEN TARA TALISMANS AVAILABLE !

Strategic Sorcery Oklahoma Relief Drive

Tomorrow is Saga Dawa, the day that Tibetan Buddhists celebrate the birth of the Buddha. It is said that the merit of all actions are multiplied one million times this month. Given this auspicious date, and the recent Tornado in Oklahoma, it seems a good time to announce the following. From tomorrow, May 25th, through June 8th, […]

In Memory of the Nativity of Kenneth Grant

Today is Kenneth Grant’s birthday. His work, and the work of those that were inspired by him deeply effected my early career in magic. My copy of Nightside of Eden along with Linda Falorio’s Shadow Tarot and Mishlen Linden’s Typhonian Terratomas proved to be an incredibly potent combination. I count those explorations among the most […]

Fictional Characters, Gods, and Spiirts

The fiction vs real god/spirit thing stirs up and rages on again. Go to Jacks blog here, as well as the next several posts he makes. His thoughts on this are golden and you can follow his links to see the rest of the debate in other forums and blogs. This time it is a much […]

Mercuralia!

Today is not just Mercuries day because it is Wednesday It is Mercuralia, the sacred feast! At at his hour which falls on his day of the week, which falls on his day of the year you can raise a glass to the god of intelligence, speed, speech, commerce, and of course thievery! “Glorious Mercury, grandson of […]

BUSINESS STUFF

Just a quick note on business. I am getting completely caught up and if you live in the US and are expecting something from me, you should get it by Monday the 13th. If you do not get it, please write me and I will make sure you get it by the end of the […]

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