Short-Lived Magic

A serious source of disillusionment among magicians and witches, certainly in my experience, is when too few of their more experienced counterparts talk about their failures.  One can quickly gain the (very false) impression that other magicians and witches came to their path only through divine intervention (e.g. when Isis tapped them on the shoulder [...]

Summer Solstice

I want to do something special for Summer Solstice this year, whch according to the Sydney Observatory, will be on the 21st December 2008.  I have already informally dropped to some friends that I want to have a party, but I also think that the shortest night of the year can also benefit from some [...]

Unexpected Magic

Sometimes, the most beautiful magical experiences have been those that I share with non-magician friends when we are not explicitly practising magic.  A close friend of mine decided to drop by on Friday evening.  I lit up the arguile with a blend of rose and wild berry tabacco, put on Ilya in the background and [...]

Altar in Full Swing

My altar is growing with candles, cards, coins and crystals.  I soon hope to have it beautifully arranged with a constellation of Plutonic symbols, leaving the altar itself buzzing with energy.  I have an old deck of tarot cards (my first actually) where I have used half the major arcana in collages already and keep [...]

While We’re Busy Getting Defensive

I am not generally a defensive person.  However, I am far from someone big enough to respectfully consider every dissenting opinion and allow my mind to be broadened either.  I would like to become more like that.  It is easy, especially when emotions take reign, to reduce what others say to a) they agree with [...]

Magic for PhD

Yesterday evening, I performed another evocation ritual to raise four servitors, which I had spent Monday preparing.  Like my wealth entity, I linked each one to a sigil of their own, using the sigil itself as the means by which they are summoned.
The extent to which their effects have been experienced thus far are extremely [...]

The Altar: First Set-Up

I bought a simple hall table for my altar on Saturday from a nearby furniture store.  On Sunday, I spent the day visiting two fairs and bought a journal to keep record of what experimental techniques and practices are effective, a carved incense box, and myrrh.  Also on the altar is a decorative, Damascene [...]