During my last bout of sigil drawing, I designed a particular one to help me with a troubling issue at the time. Unlike my journal icons, with which I made digital images to place on my blogs, I drew this one out by hand onto a piece of cardstock. In July, when my husband and [...]
30 December 2008
Categories: Ceremonial Magic . . Author: Hemlock . Comments: 1 Comment
After my post last Monday on the seemingly short-lived effects of my magic, I received some pearls of wisdom that helped me to see things in a more sophisticated way. Since then, I have increasingly begun to acknowledge magic as a continuous process, a journey where the short-term outcomes such as the monetary gains [...]
2 December 2008
Categories: Ceremonial Magic, Plutonic Magic . Tags: effects, entity, outcomes, processes, success . Author: Hemlock . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
19 November 2008
Categories: Ceremonial Magic . Tags: data collection, entity, evocation, phd, research, servitor . Author: Hemlock . Comments: 2 Comments
Music is am important part of my magical work. I zone out when I listen to music and sometimes come back to earth and find myself pumped with energy, unable to sleep and the room a couple of degrees warmer than the rest of the house. My husband bought me Sennheiser in-ear earphones [...]
5 November 2008
Categories: Art, Ceremonial Magic, Witchcraft . Tags: earphones, gift, music, sennheiser . Author: Hemlock . Comments: Leave a Comment
Following the counsel of a good friend, I have decided to explore the facet of Hades as Pluto, God of Wealth. Last night (29th October) I conducted a silent ritual of an original and very experimental format, and today, designed and activated a sigil derived from the theories of Austin Osman Spare. My intention is [...]
30 October 2008
Categories: Ceremonial Magic, Deity, Plutonic Magic, Witchcraft . Tags: get rich quick scheme, materialism, money, wealth . Author: Hemlock . Comments: 1 Comment
Following on from my last post, I promised to relay a particular event, or in this case, a person, who sparked my renewed practice around this time last year.
Why Aleister Crowley is everything I don’t want to be:
He lost his father, whom he idolised, at a young age. He blamed his mother and rebelled as [...]
27 October 2008
Categories: Ceremonial Magic, Lists . Tags: aleister crowley, aspirations, role models, values . Author: Hemlock . Comments: 3 Comments
Results are not very marked for someone who has been at home for the last three days. Have I been in danger or suffered the envious scorn of others? No. Have I been in a state of elated bliss? Not more than usual.
If the red string is to have effects, then perhaps I can remain [...]
21 October 2008
Categories: Ceremonial Magic, Classes, Qabalah . Tags: red string, jewish folklore, kabbalah, fad, firefly academy . Author: Hemlock . Comments: Leave a Comment