The One about Tarot & Divination

I’ve had tarot cards for a long time. I have a deck of Waite-Smith someone I knew a long while ago gifted me. I used to have a Herbal Tarot—there was a giant garlic bulb rising before the Tower[1]—but it vanished at some point. I …

Reflections on Active Imagination

As I do some base-lining of skills and get some practice on active imagination in anticipation of a course on Journeying, it’s been interesting to note how that imaginal world has always already been there. I did a series of guided meditation exercises that included …

Reflections on Enchantment

As I explore forms of magic and enchantment that would’ve been well outside my wheelhouse, well outside my inclination many years ago—I have a pile of grimoires that make a goodly amount of sense these days to me; I have various practical enchantmenty documents lying …

(Magical) Lifestyle Choices

I used to smoke. A lot. I used to not exercise. A lot. I used to have a far shittier diet. A lot. I quit smoking. I exercise most every day. I track and try to manage my diet into healthier shapes. At first, I …

Meta-Journaling

I’ve been big proponent of magical journals for a while, even though historically their use seems rather rare—and limited to literate practitioners. The argument that the practice comes out of a Victorian culture with classist associations—Do you have the time to write? Do you have …

Dreams & Interpretation & Western Magic

So Artimedorus came from Ephesus and lived in the second century CE, and he wrote Oneirokritikon, basically On Dream Interpretation. I first discovered him and this text back in grad school, and I’m looking at a 1755 English translation of the text, for reasons, and …

Having a Story (“Consecrate”)

So I did my first Solomonic conjuration last night, for the spirit Birto. I’m working with The Book of Oberon with the astrological timing from the Hygromanteia, for hours, at least. Birto’s conjuration is comparatively lean in terms of the evocation and the materia required. …