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Sigils, History, etc.
In my exploration of magic, I did some things backwards. Actually, by some standards I’m doing the whole thing from the middle to the beginning and back out again. Chaos Magic, and in particular, the modern method of “sigil” magic, … Continue reading
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Tagged bloggage, Ceremonial Magic, Hermetic, magic, occult, Picatrix, talisman, western esoteric tradition
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Astrobabble, bad and good
copyright 2013() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved My favorite piece of egregious astrobabble, of course, is from Hair: When the moon is in the Seventh House, And Jupiter aligns with Mars; Then peace will guide the planets, And love will … Continue reading
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Tagged astrology, book, fiction, history, magic, occult, western esoteric tradition, Witchcraft
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The Reënchantment Project
Copyright 2012 () Freeman Presson, all rights reserved I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which … Continue reading
Mercury Cazimi Talisman Consecration
And now for something completely different … wherein I publish a note from my Magical Record. This is pretty close to a traditional consecration; but check out what Polyphanes did if you want a completely pimped-out ritual. 0550 – 0640 … Continue reading
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Tagged Celestial Magic, Ceremonial Magic, magic, occult, Picatrix, talisman, western esoteric tradition
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Singing the Morning Song and Meaning It
This is a random memory from a number of years ago, the year my sister Freedom Heart visited. We went to pow-wow at Sequoyah Caverns (yes, the good old days). My son Robert was with us, so I had brought … Continue reading
Defining Pagan, Witch, etc.
This comes up a lot, still. There is much confusion, not only for new folks, but sometimes for the rest of us, on the definition of various terms such as Pagan, Witch, and Wiccan. In this essay, I am not … Continue reading
State of the “Fluffy Problem,” ca. 2003
[1/26/2010: This is resurrected from PaganDiversity.com, which Lilith and I used to run. I'm sure we'd phrase some things differently now, and to be fair, I at least think The Fluffy Problem is less severe than it was when this … Continue reading
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In which I meet Turlough O’Carolan in a Fever Dream
In the middle 1980′s, I was living in Ashland, Massachusetts, on Land’s End Way. In consecutive Decembers, I picked up really horrid sinus infections, complete with rivers of vividly-colored mucus, chills and fever, and the accompanying derangement. During the first … Continue reading
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