Tag: Greek Magical Papyri
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Rites of Kinship
~ With help from my new cane I made it to the summit of my favorite volcano today, for the first time in over a year. I arrived to the park an hour before sunset, and spent most of the intervening duration sitting on my collapsible stool, facing West, chanting solar-chthonic names to honor the…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Of Sun and Stinging Stars
Hello folks, I am still enjoying a shadowy afterglow of October’s three- night Prayer To the Moon working (linked HERE ), as well as the energetic pressure-washing of the lunar eclipse earlier this month. I will be releasing a full transcript of the Prayer rite soon, but I am also excited about two new lines…
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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 