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About freemanpresson

Healer, Celto-Cherokee Pagan, Priest, Frater of the Church of the Hermetic Sciences, sometime writer, astrologer.

I have an ANNOUNCEMENT

Posted on 2018-05-04 by freemanpresson

… which does not involve putting on my magic ring and disappearing. I’ve been devoting a great deal of time to developing my synthesis of healing methods, and I am now unveiling my Career 2.0 project, Hermetic Healing Works. I will … Continue reading →

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Reflection on Ritual

Posted on 2017-04-10 by freemanpresson

I was in a discussion a week ago that reminded me of another one sixteen years past. None of the same people were present, but there were two things strikingly similar: conflation of the different senses of the term “ritual,” … Continue reading →

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Standing Rock Update: Police Action

Posted on 2016-09-28 by freemanpresson

Looks like police are moving on the Standing Rock Water Protectors: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/09/standing-rock-breaking-news-surrounded.html #NoDAPL   Twitter is blocking this link. I’m ashamed of you, Twitter. Apparently Facebook may be, also; we’ll see.  

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Opus of the Parametamagus: an Antero Alli Wonderwork

Posted on 2016-05-13 by freemanpresson

I took a lot of notes during my first viewing of Antero Alli‘s “To Dream of Falling Upwards.” They mentioned the dreamlike opening, in which a woman walks a labyrinth, sits in the middle, is visited by a hummingbird, then … Continue reading →

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Review of Peter Stockinger’s STARS AND STONES: An Astro-Magical Lapidary

Posted on 2016-05-11 by freemanpresson

I didn’t realize, until I got the book in my hands, that this does a lot more for Hermetic astro-mages than just add to the lore of what stones and metals to use for talismans … Continue reading →

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Phases

Posted on 2016-03-27 by freemanpresson

Each planet has a solar cycle (phase cycle), that is, the period from one solar conjunction to the next. The most obvious such cycle is that of the Moon. I’m going to start with the Moon and then consider how … Continue reading →

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Occult or Not?

Posted on 2015-12-28 by freemanpresson

Some recent online discussions, notably this one about Freemasonry, have resonated with a topic I’ve spent a lot of time on: the tides of intellectual fashion in how we think about our place in the Cosmos, and particularly about the … Continue reading →

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First Impressions are…

Posted on 2015-12-14 by freemanpresson

So,  I just got Robson’s The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology,  since that seems to be the go-to book. There are some statements in the Preface that make it abundantly clear that the author was not au courant with … Continue reading →

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Changes!

Posted on 2015-11-24 by freemanpresson

Looks like a cobweb blog,  doesn’t it? I got out of the book reviewing business because I was reading too many books that,  whatever their merits for someone else,  weren’t what I needed to be reading. In the meantime,  I … Continue reading →

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An Execration

Posted on 2015-04-19 by freemanpresson

Performed in due form by the Namen of Temple Zagduku before the shrines of Lilith, Inanna, Ereshkigal, Utu, Ea, and Ningishzida, on 2015-04-19 in an hour of Venus, appropriate for Inanna destroyer of mountains. I don’t usually curse, although I … Continue reading →

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