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Collect The Little Victories Along The Way
Collecting the little victories along the way is good advice for any reasonably complex goal, of course, because the universe has an irritating habit of actually making you earn anything worth having. However it’s especially important for the Big Things like coping with grief or recovering from addiction. Spiritual illumination? Definitely a Big Thing. And [...]
How Iona Works: Seven Stories From A Holy Island
Here is how a small guidebook I bought on the ferry to the Isle of Mull opens: A traveller was asked by an old Highland gardener where she had been. When she told him he said “Ay! Iona is a very thin place”. What did he mean, she asked? “There’s no’ much between Iona and [...]
Are You Practicing Golf Magic?
There are few things in this world that I hate. But I really hate golf. The only redeeming feature of golf is the club house and even then their drinks are too expensive. I’ll just wait for you in the carpark. Don’t worry, I brought my own wine. (Always bring your own wine.) Let’s take [...]
What Wizards Taught Me: July 18
There’s a lot of tangential material in this WWTM. Just been one of those weeks where the pickings have been good out there on the wider internets. Let’s start with the future and work backwards. 40 Things about the next 40 years Thanks to the Smithsonian by way of the always-brilliant Technoccult. It’s not very [...]
What Wizards Taught Me This Week: May 30
I don’t know about you but Uranus arrived with his trademark extremity this week. A new Mac I wasn’t expecting (and love), new clients, three new long term house guests from the other side of the world (that I was unaware of). Boom. Gifts. It’s going to be an exciting couple of weeks (for Mid-Cancerians, [...]
Why Was Anna Sprengel German?
I remember back in my teenage years when I started reading up on -and playing around with- the Golden Dawn system, wondering why Westcott chose to make Anna Sprengel a German. It just seemed like such an un-British thing to do. If you need to invent someone to provide a flimsy claim to antiquity (which [...]
How To Base A Religion On Oscar Wilde Quotes
The article I mentioned in What Wizards Taught Me has got me thinking… You could do worse than base a religion on Oscar Wilde quotes. Much, much worse. (Like, for an example, almost all organised religion.) It’s important to remember that the clever devil was getting around London and Europe at the same time as [...]
Sorcery’s Next Top Model
Over at Strategic Sorcery, Jason posted about his frustration with the ‘model’ model. (Get it?) As ever, I am pretty much in complete agreement with him about their pitfalls and limitations. However, I think some of the people leaving comments may have missed what he is saying. They’re all making perfectly valid points but no [...]
Summoning Spirits: Do You Play By The Rules?
Is it just me or has there been a bit of movement around how summoning should be done in the last few years? Jason Miller wrote in The Sorcerer’s Secrets about the merits of dispensing with the full magic circle for quite a number of workings. This idea has legs, if you ask me. Changing [...]
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