Today is the last day of Christmas, also known as Epiphany. There are a lot of events and meanings that get tacked onto this day: the baptism of Christ, the extension of grace to gentiles, and most importantly the visitation of the Three Magi-Kings. The three Magi: Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar are mentioned in several […]
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If you follow me on Facebook, you know already that someone going by Papa Hood Sorcery, put my strategic sorcery course (a few paragraphs altered here and there, but the bulk of the lessons are word for word) on his website – right down to the “Strategic Sorcery Mini Grimoire”. To his credit he admitted […]
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New Years is upon us, and many people, myself included cannot resist the urge to make resolutions. I talk a lot about goal setting in Strategic Sorcery, but resolutions are not just goals, they are the goals that go against the grain of our habitual tendencies, our prior experiences, and even sometimes societies will. In […]
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Here are some comments from students of the most recent cycle. “I found the TBYM course very valuable. As someone with meditation experience I still learned a number of excellent techniques. I found the course content interesting and incredibly relevant to the challenges of daily life. I imagined the cushion time commitment would be the […]
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When it comes to Christmas, there are three things to the story that I think are important. Three sacred keys to understanding what the story of the nativity is really trying to communicate. They have fuck-all to do with accepting Christ, or proclaiming yourself a Christian, or anything at all about what you believe. Since […]
Continue readingHave you seen The Nightmare Before Christmas? Ya’know, the Tim Burton film where Jack Skellington discovers a doorway out of the Halloween Town where he lives that leads to Christmas Land? This world is utterly unlike anything he has encountered before, and he tries to explain it to the people of Halloween Town in an attempt to get […]
Continue reading“This was the hardest, but best thing I have ever done” T.S., Student of Take Back Your Mind 2015 This course is different than most mindfulness programs. Most teachings on meditation talk about finding calm and peace. Calm and peace are important, but they are a side effect, not the goal. The goal is to take back what has been […]
Continue readingYour mind has been taken from you. It has been taken by news that preys on fear. It has been taken by smartphones notifications. It has been taken by jobs that demand more work then ever. It has been taken by economic worry. It has been taken by a culture that seems almost designed to erode […]
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The dawn of a new year will soon be upon us, and we at Strategic Sorcery like to mark this change of the calendar with a linked pair of rituals: the Hekate-Helios Global Rite for success. Of all the global rites I have offered, none have been as successful for people as the Hekate-Helios combo. […]
Continue readingNot that long ago, in a conversation on Facebook, someone commented that, as opposed to initiatory traditions of the African based or Asian traditions, “the Western Magical Tradition has Literature, not Lineages.” The idea I think being that rather than old lines of transmission person to person, we have a textual tradition going from the […]
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