Helena
Survey: Pagan Podcasts
I have been thinking about Pagan podcasts lately after discovering my old Catnip Brew episodes. For some unknown but wondrous reason, the Pagan podcasting community is a vibrant and bustling place and I am constantly finding new Pagan podcasts cropping up on the net like mushrooms. In the chance I feel compelled to start one [...]
A Difficult Character
For the last couple of years, a relative of mine has been causing my partner and I a lot of grief. We believed this person had good intentions, but was also ignorant, bigoted and self-centric, and was leading themselves down a path of self-destruction, burning every bridge they could in our family. For the last [...]
Catnip Brew Pagan Podcast
Between July and November 2008, I dabbled in podcasting following the tremendously inspiring range of podcasts available in the Pagan community. The result, Catnip Brew, followed the characters Fortuna and Fluffy (her talking Atheist cat) for nine episodes before I strayed off the Pagan path and became invested much more heavily in magic and my [...]
Chthonic Temple
A practice I have been introduced to by magicians is the creation of astral temples. In her book Maat Magick: A Guide to Self-Initiation, Nema writes of the building of a personal astral temple as both a doorway into other realms as well as a technique that allows you to train your own skills in [...]
17122009
I have scoured my bookshelves for dust-cloaked journals recorded with my spells from my teenage years, retrieved passwords to obsolete blog accounts filled with magical practices, and even perused the Internet Wayback Machine to find long-expired websites where I used to publish my writings on witchcraft. What I could find up until January 2009 have [...]
14122009
This website will now become the new home of Armchair Magician, the online journal/portfolio of a half-committed practitioner of magic.
From Witch to Magician
I have been thinking about the spiritual changes I have undergone in 2008, but admittedly, I am in a frame of mind too close to the subject to adequately transform incoherent experiences (stories) into a coherent narrative. This past year, I have felt suspended in an uncertain state between peace and confusion, and often find [...]
The Guardian
Inspiration has struck me recently and I began formulating an invocation ritual where the magician can create and assimilate a Guardian self who works to protect the magician from the malicious actions of others, such as slander, theft and exploitation. It’s not that I have found a particular need for this magic, rather oddly, it [...]
An Unwanted Guest
A friend of mine was having a tough time with a friend of hers who had recently been kicked out of her own home by her father. She contacted my friend as her final resort, who took her in and allowed her to live under her roof until she could get her life sorted. After [...]
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 [...]
