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Grimoire Witchcraft and Giving the Devil his Due.
Two of my favorite books on magic were penned in the 1970’s: Mastering Witchcraft by Paul Huson and The Necronomicon by Simon. Though I don’t know if many people realize it today, both books were an attempt to make a Grimoire for Pagans that did not rely upon Christian elements for evocation and spellwork. In […]
Continue readingGORDON WHITE ON THC
Not on Tetrahydrocannabinol (though, you know, maybe…). He is on THE HIGHER-SIDE CHATS I have done a lot of interviews, and one of my favorite interviewers is Greg Carlwood from The Higher Side Chats. I spent this morning listening to Gordon White on his show and now I am here telling everyone you MUST […]
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Offering Disposal
In Strategic Sorcery we make offerings to four classes of spirits on a regular basis: 1. Divinities and Ascended Beings 2. Guardians and powerful Allies, including ancestors 3. All beings of the Environment 4. Beings that we owe a debt to or that we have offended with our actions. One of the questions I always […]
Continue readingTULPALOOZA
So the new X-files mentioned Tulpas again, tried to correct the nonsense they spread in the 90’s, but got it wrong again. They just err’d on the other side. That’s a good thing though because it got Ben Joffe to write this piece on Tulpas, which is fantastic. He mentions my upcoming chapbook “Secret of […]
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Hekate Helps Take Back Your Mind
I took the week of the blog but have been meaning to point out THIS PIECE from Jesse Dollar. He takes both my Sorcery of Hekate Course and the Take Back Your Mind course and is finding the cross-fertilization fruitful. I often focus on the outward successes of Sorcery because I want to fight against […]
Continue readingHELIOS GLOBAL RITE IS NOW!!!
The Helios Global Rite is happening now, but the window is still open through the 4th if you want in on it. Best yet, we are following this up in the Strategic Sorcery Community with a 2 week challenge – an invocation of a planetary power every other day starting next Monday. This lets us […]
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Conventions and Money
Last month Taylor Elwood wrote an Open Letter to Pagan Convention Organizers, detailing how he is no longer going to present at conferences where it is expected that he foot the bill to come and present workshops. This post was followed by much conversation and a few other posts on the subject. Some expand his post to […]
Continue readingStrategic Sorcery: Does it work TOO WELL?
I got the following comment in an apprentices field report, that sums up something that many students have communicated: “Sometimes I almost wonder if I am not neglecting other parts of my magical education by having my problems solved so (relatively) easily this way. The thing is, it fucking WORKS.” -VM You see, when most […]
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Fantasy and Sorcery
Over on the Strategic Sorcery Group we have been having some discussions about the intersection of Role Playing Games, Fantasy fiction, and Sorcery. Here is my position in a nutshell: Magic is real but deals with subtle forces and intelligence’s that, Because of their subtle nature, are is easily polluted with fantasy from the mind of even the […]
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What to Teach First?
When I first learned to play guitar I did not take a class or learn music theory. A friend told me to bring a guitar to coffee house called The Inkwell. He taught me two chords: G and A. He taught me to strum the tune to Jane Says by Jane’s Addiction. He told me to practice […]
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