Cyprians Oil
TODAY is St Cyprians feast day (not yesterday 🙂, and Cyprian inspired me to write a bit about Oil. Perhaps more than any other Saint, Cyprian is associated with the use of oil in his magic. The recipes for his oil are many and varied – ranging anywhere from basic Chrysm to pretty intense mixes of […]
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Cyprian: Christian Myth and Magic
Today is the feast of Saint Cyprian of Antioch. Between family and services today I dont have timr for a major post today. Yesterday though Jake Stratton Kent correctly pointed out yesterday that St Cyprian“was *invented* by a Christian polemicist in order to mount an attack on Neoplatonism and Theurgy. The story developed a life […]
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St Cyprian and Dual Observance
It was 1993, at a pub called The Flask in Highgate London, and I was having a conversation about Mastering Witchcraft with someone I spotted wearing some occult swag. I mentioned that it was strange to me that Huson used Hallowmass, Michaelmas, Candlemas and other Christian names for the Sabbats rather than the Pagan names […]
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St. Cyprian and Christianity
We are now thick in the season of Saint Cyprian who has become quite popular. Indeed, if the look the Ursuline Sister gave me in Quebec City last month when I asked for his medal is any indication, word of his veneration amongst Sorcerers is even getting back to the establishment. A few years ago […]
Continue readingCrucible 2016
Crucible is coming on October 1st. One of my favorite events precisely because its small, intimate, and different. This year I am giving a talk called: READ TAROT LIKE A FORTUNE TELLER It specifically focuses on the Tarot deMarseille and the cartomantic style of reading that focuses on plain interpretation of image, folk meaning, and relation […]
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Financial Sorcery for Fixing the World
“Back in 2011 I attended your lecture on Financial Sorcery at the NYC Pagan Pride day and you gave a very impassioned speech about the the declining economy. You made the case that we needed to get serious about money and that doing so would enable us to have a positive impact on the world. […]
Continue readingGreen for Green, Brown for Brown
In response to the last post I got a GREAT question from Dominique, the owner of Elemental Books and Curiosity Shop : “As a retailer I’m familiar with the history of herbs in the not recent past. There use to be brown herbs and green herbs. Most people couldn’t identify Damiana from Lemon Balm and the […]
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Change the Herb, Change the Sentence
Replacements, Substitutions, Changes, whether we are talking the ingredients of an Oil or the parts of a Ritual you will eventually come accross a situation where you will be tweaking a formula. In fact one of the marks of adeptship is the ability to do this with skill and effectiveness. The conversation around substitution often […]
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Oppression vs Action: a Sorcerers View.
A lot of people are watching the new movie about Tony Robbins this week: Not Your Guru. I have very mixed feelings about Robbins myself so please don’t read this as any kind of apologetics for him. I am not here to write about him. A student of mine sent me an article about Tony […]
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Research verses Revelation: Four Rules for Balance
This morning Jake Stratton Kent posted a quote mocking someone he must have come across online that read : “‘I don’t need research – I’m a practitioner” I am glad I am not the only one that comes across this mentality. The funny thing about my work is that people who are more traditional than I am […]
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