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 [...]

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 [...]

Journal Sigils

I created two sigils yesterday specifically for the purposes of online journalling. This may interest you if you also keep an online journal or blog. The first one is quite particular to my needs, which is to learn more about myself and construct a coherent identity through the process. Furthermore, I can [...]

Employment

I made a sigil last week using 1337 speak to assist my housemate in finding employment and activated it by typing it into the search engine on an employment search website.  This is what it looks like:
/\/\P1Y/\/75Q
To do this, I simply used a combination of the words “employment” and her name and streamlined by removing [...]

Altar: Growing

I have added to my Plutonic altar two lanterns given to me by a friend for my birthday, ceramic bowls carrying coins and trinkets symbolic to Hades, and a red and black glass bowl that represents the traditional ‘cauldron’ (usually a ditch dug into the ground) in Ancient Greek and Roman necromantic rites.

Pathworking: Hod

This was a pathworking I wrote inspired by the sephiroth Hod (Splendor) of the Kabalah.

Hod
After arriving at the temple of Malkuth via the gift the Lady of the Earth delivered to you, you inform her that you wish to travel further up the tree. She nods to you and three doors appear behind her throne, [...]

PhD Assistance

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 [...]