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The Whisky Rant (Part 1) – An Origin Story
For Scribs. As a teenager it became apparent that getting boys to make out with you required a substantially different strategy than getting girls to. With girls I would just add wine use my ears. Straight(ish) boys required a delicate balance of Demonstrating your own non-threatening awesomeness while Sufficiently loosening their reality bonds so as [...]
How To Play A Wizard At Parties
We were all washing up after the Christmas Eve meal. (Have the ham on Christmas Eve, cook the turkey on Christmas Day and serve it with the leftover ham. Works every time.) Enough booze had flowed and enough Annie Lennox had been played that the atmosphere was convivial and the discussion loose. This year the [...]
The Edges Of Your World Are Closer Than You Think
“Rules change in The Reaches” -A Wizard of Earthsea Today was a day of catching up with some old friends I used to live with in Sydney almost a decade ago. They’re big shot lawyer-y, finance-y people living in Hong Kong now. And they’re engaged. I know precisely nothing about any of these things. Getting [...]
What I Would Say To Your Kids
You know they say that if you sit in a cafe on the Champs-Élysées for long enough, eventually you will see yourself walking along it. In a very romantic sense, it is a place like New York or Casablanca that eventually the whole world washes through. London is such a place. Which is why, this [...]
Be Honest About What Your Head Needs
One of the more interesting things that struck me about re-reading the Simonomicon oeuvre late last year was a throwaway comment relating to the first gate (of the moon). The gate of the moon -like Yesod- is the first one the seeker has to pass through. And the point Simon made was that most seekers [...]
3 Steps To ‘Star Storm’ Proof Your Life
Chalking up some points in the spirit model column was the distinct sensation of certain “things” riding down from the Arctic into the UK during our pre-Christmas “Freeze”. To me they felt like ice demons (from here maybe?) being blown off course and making landfall right across the country when the UK’s oceanic defensive wall [...]
Tune Your Fiddles. Rome Is Burning.
You all know that we’re considered freaks, right? Sarah Palin, in between promising to help our allies in West Korea in their battle against Narnia, would criminalise you if she could. Meanwhile, the achingly trendy urban atheists of North London or Manhattan would smugly smile at our practices the way we smile at someone else’s [...]
Seasonal Magic Disorder: Does The Weather Affect Your Magic?
Seasonal Magic Disorder. It’s like SAD but, you know, for magic. Let’s leave aside anything calendrical here, like Oak/Holly Kings or particular deities tied to particular agricultural dates. What I want to know is if the flavour of your magic is affected by anything meteorological. Let me explain. I first noticed this in New Zealand [...]
Your Past Life Is Overrated
I like sharks. I have always liked sharks. As an Australian, I grew up swimming with them, I grew up picking up their eggshells as they washed onto the shore, I learned to dive surrounded by them. And I also like history. When I landed a job at Discovery Channel at the end of 2008 [...]
Kids Summon The Darndest Things
Not that this is even the slightest bit unusual, but Jack’s recent EI post about locations in magic has got me thinking. More specifically, it has got me reminiscing. Reminiscing about one of my first rituals at the tender age of thirteen. It was a (Wiccan-ish) self-initiation my friend and I performed on top of [...]
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