Strategic Sorcery has in the past been accused of melding the worlds of self-help with magic. A charge to which I whole-heartedly and gleefully plead GUILTY! This morning my friend and fellow author B.J. Swain posted about how having your life in order can be a good goal, but it is not a metric for magical capability. […]
Continue readingThrough my teens and twenties I didn’t pay much attention to money. I considered it nonspiritual. The authors I read and occult mentors I had were mostly of the hippie generation that fused a strong anti-materialism into their teachings. While I was writing books and doing magic I was also drifting from dead-end job to dead-end […]
Continue readingThe Strophalos is spinning: Sorcery of Hekate Cycle X has begun. The largest sign-up cycle ever! My deepest thanks to everyone who signed up for the course. I pledge to meet your investment of time and treasure in whatever way I can. I keep the sign up link open for a week or so, so […]
Continue readingThe wait is over. Sorcery of Hekate Cycle 9 begins tomorrow. ” Far from being a cute little magic course to learn to cast spells and tell gods you love them, it is a tour de force of methodical personal evolution through the refinement of will, a call and a method for maturation into the bad ass […]
Continue readingIt’s here. The 10th cycle of Sorcery of Hekate begins this Monday, June 8th! If you haven’t seen this yet, take a few minutes to check it out. Three students got together and worked hard to make a really well-produced video about their experience in the course. They didn’t get anything for it, they did […]
Continue readingIt doesn’t matter what experience you have behind you with magic, it only matters what experience you want in front of you. If you want someone to lay out a training program that explains clearly what to do and how to do it… A system that has been tested by almost 1000 people…. A teacher […]
Continue readingDiana Branton gave my philosophy on this in a nutshell: “The trick is finding the sweet spot and pushing it to scale. I hope she doesn’t mind me expounding a bit on it.” To expand a bit on that, in my head magic is all about levers, boulders, and placement. What’s the Lever? Well, the […]
Continue readingThis morning I asked for some feedback from the students just finishing up Sorcery of Hekate. Alex Sandra gave me the headline of this post. Her full quote is: “I have chanted my heart out, prayed, laughed, cried, worked magic that I didn’t know I was capable of before, I have explored the fabric of […]
Continue readingI have been getting asked a lot if Sorcery of Hekate is ok for beginners or if it is only for people with lot’s of experience. I say yes. Its great for beginners. When I think back to when I started magic, filled with hunger and zeal for forbidden knowlege, what I wanted more than […]
Continue readingThe Glyph above was made by a student who wanted to describe what Sorcery of Hekate did for her practice. The Sorcery of Hekate is the only course I run where I don’t publish a class list ahead of time. Some think this is to generate an air or secrecy around the course, but […]
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