Tag: ceremonial magick
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Scavenged Rituals
In review: Scavenged Rituals Issue V1N3 released Autumn 2023, available from Portland Button Works and The Spiral House Shop I recently came across an online discussion stating that the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe has begun denying entrance to pagans and witches (1). Meanwhile, The Serpent’s Key, an esoteric supply shop in Hanover Pennsylvania, has endured…
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Jumping In Place
August 2023 “I am a rock… I am an island… – Simon and Garfunkle (1) Protective talisman from from Papyri Greco Magicae VII The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation, Ed. Hans Dieter Betz (2) … In a society… All of us ride in- and sometimes even pilot– our own personal spheres of influence. We use…
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Summer’s Hum
Greetings, folks! I hope that the dreams you have planted are growing bold and majestic under your attention and toil! I’ve been wrestling with composing an extensive blog post for over a month now and finally realized that the reason I can’t seem to resolve it is because there are actually TWO essays in there,…
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Hekate Praxis (3 of 3)
Dream, Voice, Ornament, Offering For this final of three planned posts on my work with the goddess Hekate I’ll refer obliquely to my journal of the past couple months, and some of the ways that this deepening relationship plays out. … “16 names of the goddess” I awoke from a dream one morning in early…
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Hekate Praxis (2 of 3)
: : “Through your alchemical ash, I am transformed.” -Cyndi Brannen, Keeping Her Keys : Hekate altar, March 2023.Author’s personal archive. In my recent post “Be Not Afraid” I wrote about Time and some of the ways humans try to organize and chart it. Against the spectre of an unwieldy final piece of writing, I…
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Lunar Salutations and Hallowed Howls
– – “When the spirits ask ‘who are you?’, you better have a damn good answer.” – Aaron Leitch (on Glitch Bottle podcast episode 10 Aug 8 2017) … Hello my friends, and Happy October! It is Autumn in Portland and although the weather here is still warm most days, other harbingers of the season…
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Solar – Martial Storms
.. It is strange and satisfying to be home, down the slope of the old volcano, fixing garden beds, pulling buried bricks out of the yard at odd points, wrestling the plants and the ground under them. Cutting roots, turning earth to earth; everything’s changed again and I’m feeling changed too. The intense heat here…
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The Cannibal Hymn
“The most powerful force in the Universe is nostalgia.” -Peter T. Struck (1) Are we in an age of contraction? Certainly there are warring agendas at work, unsleeping, insidious; insisting on drawing the perimeters around who we are and what we are, where we come from and where we are going. Shots ring out. The…
Ecstatic Agendas 