Tag: esoterica
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Robert Rubin’s “Anubeon”
~ I was recently offered a glimpse at the forthcoming magical text The Anubeon by esoteric author and teacher Robert Rubin of Magick.TV. He sent me the book’s introduction and first chapter in pdf form, and I printed them at home for ease of handling. The text is poetic yet written in a straightforward style, and…
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Barbarous Tongues
a journal of arts and esoterica Friends, Patrons, Collaborators! I’m truly ecstatic to finally share with you my newest project, BARBAROUS TONGUES: A Journal of Arts and Esoterica! This publication has taken a large portion of my brain space and energy for the past year and then some. It is the primary reason my blog…
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In Heaven
~ ~ I hope this quick note finds you well, dear friends! Many of us, I’m sure, are saddened by the passing of filmaker and creative auteur David Lynch. His great wit, insight, and mastery of existential dread and magical realism will be enshrined as a touchstone of our cultural heritage and a defining example…
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Among the Dwarves
All photos Jason Triefenbach and JM Kamp In my body It is midnight The spray Of black waterfalls Resounds One year ago this week I had the opportunity to visit Iceland with my spouse. In addition to taking in the natural beauty of the island and the quirky culture of its people, I engaged with the…
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Breaking New Ground
Egad! I realize suddenly: it has been three months since last I cast a cursed composition into this blasted blogosphere! This despite writing more in the past half a year than probably ever before in my life. While I’ve been away, my attention has been devoted almost exclusively to classwork, and I am becoming somewhat…
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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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The Hekataeon (review)
This is a quick writeup done off the cuff, based on a customer review I posted to Miskatonic’s site with a typo I can’t correct. So here’s a slightly different draft of what’s written there. Another full post is coming soon! Happy Solstice! – Jason The Hekataeon – Medea (green) edition by Jack Grayle. Grayle…
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Green Dream Threshold
. One morning, as I woke, I was led toward Henbane by an unseen guide. I tell that story HERE, and by the end of it I’d got my hands on some ink – specifically this Verdant Inks Green Blood Henbane from Rosarium Blends. That was in the Summer- the vial arrived and sat unopened into Autumn…
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JT and the Chthonic Daimonic
This is an account of spirit contact during a weekend trip to the woods that my darling life-partner treated me to recently! The following takes place at night, in Western Oregon, in a popular state park. The park is situated so as to protect the remains of an ancient forest now surrounded by farmland and…
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As the Crow Flies
“We may only be subordinates / but we hear everything All your closed door conversations / we’re always listening We sense frequencies you’d never hear / or think to pay attention to” – Ezra Furman (1) Greetings, Comrades! The rain is finally here, and with it come the short days of silver light filtering gently…
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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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Herbarium Tremens
_ Fullness and Satiety to you my lovely friends. Tonight we have our front door open, and the sound of crickets is echoing in from the dark. This above is a cupful of Borage petals and seeds – I have been drying them through the Summer as my plants drop them. This is a generational…
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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 (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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Hekate Praxis (1 of 3)
+ “Hail mighty Hekate of thresholds, many-named goddess of roads and crossroads, gate-mistress, patroness of travelers and of the lost; Solar and Saturnian, bearer of chains who dissolves that which binds us…” + Hello my loves. In this first of three short updates about new ongoing projects, I want to share an experience that is…
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Be Not Afraid
Order, Chaos and Calendrical Observances “Baby I was afraid before But I’m not afraid Anymore!” -Belinda Carlisle (1) We are haunted by the Past; by nexus points of the choices we have made; by their crucial, far-reaching, often unforeseen consequences upon our lives. Until we absolve ourselves of our histories, the outcomes we perceive as…
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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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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 