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December #DoMagick Talismans: The Plan
Yes, I am doing the December #DoMagick challenge! YAY. Talismans galore! I’m also embarking on the two month Artist’s Way Workshop with a few writing friends, so I thought why not find ways to combine the two events into various talismans? So then I thought — ART! I am going to draw, paint, or sculpt a new Talisman every day…
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The Whiny Entrepreneur
We all know these people. They wake up one day, decide to start their own business, and when it doesn’t pan out immediately, they start whining how hard it is to be self-employed. I get it! I’ve been there off and on in my 27 years as a writer trying to make my living from my creative work. There are…
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Thank you for your concern, but I disagree…
Anyone who is a practicing occultist/magician/pagan has had this conversation: The concerned friend or family member who takes you aside to share with you their knowledge of the occult, which usually consists of a couple of books on feminist Wicca revisionist history written by feminists, or archeologists whose ideas don’t agree with the majority of archeologists. Barbara G. Walker anyone?…
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Planning All the Things
I have a confession to make. I’m a bit of a planning junkie. I’m not always as meticulous with my planning as I should be, but when I am, I’m far more productive. I started to get back into my meticulous planning habit this past September when I discovered my life felt like it was sliding off the rails with…
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This spell isn’t working, Sir. May I have another?
At some point enough is enough. A few years back I finally lost my patience with inexperienced practitioners coming to me wanting a bigger, badder, more effective “spell” or “ritual” because the previous one I gave them didn’t work, or didn’t work quickly, or didn’t give them exactly what they expected. I started telling them the truth of the matter.…
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So Speshuuuul! Now with MORE Satan.
About once a month I either hear or see this same comment somewhere out there in the Occulture: “Once you get to a certain **point** in your magickal practice or relationship with the Daemonic, you no longer need rituals or to write things down.” Why? Because apparently, you become sooooo speshuul the Daemons will just pop by for coffee on a…
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Submerging into the Demiurge
For those who have been following me here, on my newsletter, or on my Patreon, you know that one of the books I’m currently working on is a book about Leviathan and the Demiurge. Sometimes books take longer for me to write just because I need to put in the actual magickal work before I start putting things to paper.…
