I’ll make a confession to you right at the top of the page: This article is a piece of “obligatory content”, which means I felt it was one I had to write for the benefit of others. In truth, my own, internal classification of magic is much looser than what you are about to read […]
Mercury the Reconciler of Contrast and Compliment
Mercury the Reconciler General, Appraiser, Intercessor, Intermediary, Adjudicator, Adjuster, Moderator! Consider: Mercury is the sphere that governs not only transfer and transaction, i.e. “god of” merchants and thieves and gamblers, called by them to aid their endeavor but also appealed to by those who oppose and would foil a trader or crook or dicer. Now […]
The Three Treasures of the Magical Initiate
Three Models (That Don’t Work Out) for Explaining Magical Mechanics In modern occult philosophy the term model is used to describe a paradigm for magical practice, wherein an attempt is made, however tentatively, to explain the mechanism driving the actual magic. At the time of this writing there are actually at least five models in circulation, with […]
Saturn Before Thursday's Sunrise
I sat in the half-light this morning as the sun approached the horizon from the far side. During this hour of Saturn, just prior to the dawn that brings forth the hour and day of Jupiter, I contemplated the concepts of restriction and expansion. Would the soul be found there, between those two forces, just […]
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