Practical and Esoteric Magic
Natural Magic and Ritual Explained
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The Magical State
Continue reading: The Magical StateBefore you can perform any magic you must be in a magical state. Another way of putting this is that an altered state of consciousness is required in order to enact magic. The Altered State Indigenous cultures are aware of this, hence the dancing and drumming rituals, fasting, ordeals, and psychoactive herbs and other substances…
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Don’t Ask How and Why
Continue reading: Don’t Ask How and WhySpeculation about how magic works or why it functions are fascinating engagements. They are also useless endeavors.
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Two Methods for Enacting Magic
Continue reading: Two Methods for Enacting MagicI dare not suggest these are the only two methods for magical practice or execution, but they effectively present a broad view of what contemporary magicians do.
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Your Magical Framework and its Two Legs of Support
Continue reading: Your Magical Framework and its Two Legs of SupportIf you take your magic seriously, meaning you intend to use it for things that matter and therefore expect good results for your efforts, then you need a solid framework, or structured approach with clear principles and guidelines. Here is a suggested format that is effective yet uncomplicated.
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How to Create an Altered State for Magical Work Quickly and in Any Situation!
Continue reading: How to Create an Altered State for Magical Work Quickly and in Any Situation!The Magical State It’s no secret to the seven or eight of you that read this blog: I believe and teach that an altered state of consciousness is necessary to contact and work with the high grades of subtle energy we might call magical forces. 30-Second Unpacking for Clarity: Subtle energy is extremely fine, high-vibrational…
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Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Magic
Continue reading: Microcosmic and Macrocosmic MagicFavorite0In the language of the occultist and magician these are the two spheres of power or being. Macrocosmic means the cosmos, the heavens or outer planes, and the planets and gods. Microcosmic refers to the human being with nature as the backdrop and spirit flowing through both nature and humanity. You could say we are…
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Building a Magical Method
Continue reading: Building a Magical MethodFavorite0A method is more than a technique but less than a system. It’s actually a combination of techniques and in turn also one of the building blocks for a system. Sometimes a method just means the way you approach magic or the way you personally perform the techniques involved. Apologies in advance for the confusion…
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Nobody is Interested in Real Magic.
Continue reading: Nobody is Interested in Real Magic.Dos that seem right to you? It doesn’t make any sense to me. Who Wouldn’t Want to Perform Real Magic? I get that most people don’t understand magic is a real thing. I sometimes wonder how we who practice are perceived by those who never got the memo ala “ATTN: Stop Whatever You are Doing…
Underneath the Hawthorne Tree
Favorite0 Sticks and stones, flesh and bones, I walk alone so far from home. to find my own… Initiation. Emancipation. A new creation for my appreciation. I know, in the shadow, As above, so below. The lady, she waits for…
Combative Magic with Runes
Favorite0Vikings, Goths, Saxons, Marcomanni, and many other Germanic people lived and died by the traditions, ethos, and methods of their respective warrior archetypes. The Berserker who entered a no-mind state of unity with their violence and the Ulfhednar who channeled…
Charged Fields: How Magic Works
Favorite0I love sharing techniques or methods that very obviously embody, and therefore illustrate, the energetic underpinnings of magic as a whole. This one is so fundamental to all magic that I can’t believe how rarely I see it discussed in…
Mystical Characters of the Sun
Favorite0Taken from the second pentacle of the sun, pentacle 33 in the Greater Key of Solomon, here are two symbols described as “mystical characters of the Sun” by MacGreggor Mathers in his editor’s notes. Draw and focus upon these symbols…
Versatility of Magic Circles
Favorite0Here are just a few possible formats for a magic circle to be used for variant purposes. Using only the cross, pentagram, and/or hexagram one can set up a range of differently charged fields for magical working.
The One Goddess
Favorite0We should understand, when we discuss the Goddess there is, if not a solitary universal power, at least one major power to which the other, similar archetypes and deities are mere forces to be directed. These lesser forces would be…