For the last few cycles more and more people are joining my courses seemingly because they are victims of magical attacks and expecting the course to arm them against such attacks. Since I don’t do consultations anymore, this has become a sort of back door consult. This is not a good reason to be join […]
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Why should you go through a program like the Black School of Cyprian when there are so many grimoires and books that you could work from? My answer is this The THRE A’s These are the elements necessary for consorting with spirits. In the Black School cultivating these three allow us to operate in the […]
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I want to share the very first bit of feedback I ever received from a student that completed the 7 Month Sorcery of Hekate Course… “I am so tired of bouncing book to book, system to system. It was great to invest in something and go DEEP for a long period of time. I put more into this than […]
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David Rankine’s long awaited Grimoire Encyclopedia is now in my hands. I hope it’s in your hands. If not, do what you need to do to get it in your hands. Obviously this a groundbreaking achievement in research and in publishing. David, and all at Hadean Press, deserve every bit of praise they will receive […]
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The “Heka” in Hekate refers to “going beyond”. This is what I tell students the Sorcery of Hekate is meant to help them do: go beyond where they are in life, and who they are as a being. Students sometimes ask what “Final Result” of the Sorcery of Hekate is supposed to be. Buddhism has […]
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When students tell me they loved the course after taking it, I like to ask: “How Exactly Has Your Life Become Different?” Tania Dakka commented My life is vastly different. I live in a better home. I have more time with my kids. I have more patience with them. I am able to homeschool two […]
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John Beckett just penned a piece that people are in LOVE with. “The Witch Stands In Opposition”. You can and should read the piece, but the quote John chose to sum it up is: “Throughout history, the witch has been the outsider, the other. When we oppose the mainstream society it’s not because we have […]
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The exact nature of the Jupiter: The Sorcery of Achievement is a bit hard to explain. It is not about propitiating Jupiter, or planetary magic, or asking for boons. Though the boons tend to pile up, they really aren’t the main point of the work. The main point is about getting clear about your life […]
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There is a particular linguistic snafu that comes up occasionally in occult discussions that needs to be addressed: Is there a difference between EVOCATION and INVOCATION and if so, what is it? If you are an occultist that has come up since the 1980’s there is a better than even chance that you define Invocation […]
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I have come to hate the phrase “Ask (God/Spirit X) for….” I have probably used the phrase myself hundreds of times, but I shouldn’t. Now that teach magic for a living I have come to really hate it. It’s bad phrasing that leads to bad framing when it comes to how magic works and what […]
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