The REALNESS of Sorcery
Sorcery is real. We all talk about this, but I think this is worth taking a moment to reflect upon because every week I see people who practice it, talk about it in ways that they don’t talk about other real things. SORCERY DOESN’T HAPPEN IN A VACUUM Sorcery is real, and as a real […]
Continue readingThe “UPG” Challenge….
If you’ve never heard the term “UPG” it means Unverified Personal Gnosis. Like most terms it is fine in and of itself. It was born of a need to separate serious topics from nonsense. When someone would show up in a space claiming to be the incarnation of Innana and is upset that no one […]
Continue readingThe Altar: a Spectrum of Scenarios.
I recently moved and my new office is about three times the size of my old one, yet I am scaling back on the number of permeant altars I am keeping. I haven’t decided on exactly what I am doing yet, but since it’s on my mind so much, I thought it might be a […]
Continue readingMagpie Magic – “The Devil’s Bird”
Yesterday I spied two Magpies on a boulder in my yard and it reminded me of the famous nursery Rhyme about foretelling fortunes by counting Magpies. You have probably heard it. One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret, […]
Continue readingThe Laws: Inherent, Enforced, and Personal.
If you jump off a building, you will fall to the ground. That’s gravity: it’s a natural law. Doesn’t matter who you are or where you are. Gravity is applicable to everyone, everywhere, all of the time. It doesn’t matter if you believe with your whole being that you can fly like Superman, if you […]
Continue readingThe Feast of St Cyprian: How To Honor Both Christ and the Devil
Today is the feast of St Cyprian, and I thought I might take this opportunity to talk about how St Cyprian taught me to honor both Christ and the Devil. Early on in my workings with Cyprian, he appeared to be standing at the mouth of a cave that led to the underworld. It looked […]
Continue readingCYPRIAN: Clearing the Waters
There are a lot of people writing about St Cyprian these days, but the person who is shedding the most light on his magical history has to be José Leitão. I think a lot of people are familiar with his translation of The Book of St. Cyprian: The Sorcerer’s Treasure, the first English translation of […]
Continue readingSt Cyprian And Christian Aggression
Today starts the nine day lead up to the feast of St Cyprian of Antioch, the Sorcerer Saint. Many have already begun their novenas already and a few teachers have posted announcements and thoughts to start of the season. As I sit here amongst the chaos of mid-move unpacking (I don’t even know where the […]
Continue readingThe Short Guide To Diagnosing Psychic/Magic Attack and Crossed Conditions
When I wrote Protection and Reversal Magick in 2005, most people in the Occult/Pagan community seemed to dismiss the idea of psychic or magical attack as something that was exceedingly rare. Knowing that it was more common than many believed, I wrote the book I felt was needed and laid out ways to diagnose […]
Continue readingJupiterian Sorcery is not Planetary Magic.
In a few weeks the next cycle of JUPITER: The Sorcery of Achievement is starting up, and I thought that maybe I would clear something up. This course doesn’t approach Jupiter as one planet in a scheme of seven. The Jupiter we focus on the jovial and benevolent ruler of the gods. We aren’t overly […]
Continue reading