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theheadlesshashasheen:

“How do I figure out the planetary hours and days?”

In the past, you’d have calculated the planetary hours with a pen and paper based on the time of sunrise (Jason Miller discusses how to do so in Advanced Planetary Magic). But that’s tedious. If you visit Lunarium, and feed them the relevant information on your location (the default is London, England, so you’ll probably change it), then it’ll calculate the hours for you. Additionally, there’s an “Hours” app (I believe put out by the same folks) which will calculate it for you on your cellphone (iPhone and Android).

setemheb:

Aleister Crowley’s family had been member of the Plymouth Brethren, a community of worshipers whose Christian doctrine derived from the world of John Nelson Darby (1800 CE– 1882 CE). Like many 19th Century christians, particularly the American Baptist William Miller (1782 CE – 1849 CE), Darby…

Rumor has it that the famous (infamous?) Ramsey Dukes will be contributing to our first two anthologies. We still have room for submissions. You will be in good company.

ceremonialmagic101:

I used to shy away from the description, “New Age.” But I have come to believe that is what my practice is, and what I want it to be. Let’s dissect what New Age means and where it is beneficial.

The term New Age is a reference to aeonic thinking. Crowley can be seen as popularizing this with his…

Reblogged for the excellent commentary.

achangingaltar:

walkingthehedge:

achangingaltar:

Ok guys….I need some recs!

I have one year to bone up on the idea of shapeshifting and the Fetch in traditional witchcraft (or other paths, as well, but focusing on TW).

The meeting point is the idea that soul travel can take on animal forms, and the Fetch is the mobile part of the soul that…

http://afwcraft.blogspot.ca/2011/08/fetch-and-flight.html
http://www.davidscauldron.com/2012/03/fetch.html
http://mojobanjo.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/the-fetch-thought-forms-and-secondary-personalities/
http://coffeexandxmagick.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/f-is-for-fetch/
http://www.feritradition.org/grimoire/practices/practices_threesouls.htm
http://swainwodening.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/anglo-saxon-witchcraft/
http://annua-mycraftandsullenart.blogspot.ca/2013/02/witch-to-fetch-mate-dialogue.html
http://www.englatheod.org/soul.htm
http://www.friggasweb.org/soulmaki.html
http://sarahannelawless.com/2010/04/14/shapeshifting/
http://witchesofthecraft.com/2013/05/29/life-as-the-witch-shapeshifting/
http://ladyofspiders.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/shapeshifting-witches/
http://thewitchdrisin.blogspot.ca/2007/01/shapeshifting-and-genderbending.html
http://newworldwitchery.com/2010/11/22/podcast-20-magical-animals/

Books:

Witchcraft: Theory and Practice by Ly De Angeles

Hedge-Rider: Witches and the Underworld by Eric De Vries

Evolutionary Witchcraft by T. Thorn Coyle

Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History by Owen Davies

Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic… by Emma Wilby
The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture by Paul C. Bauschatz

The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland by Emma Wilby

Witchcraft, Sorcery, Ghosts And Fetches Of The Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy

The Red Church or the Art of Pennsylvania German Braucherei by C. R. Bilardi

The Power of Ecstatic Trance: Practices for Healing, Spiritual Growth, and Accessing the Universal Mind by Nicholas E. Brink Ph.D.

Neolithic Shamanism: Spirit Work in the Norse Tradition by Raven Kaldera and Galina Krasskova

Wyrdwalkers: Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism by Raven Kaldera

Drawing Down the Spirits: The Traditions and Techniques of Spirit Possession by Kenaz Filan and Raven Kaldera

Trance-Portation: Learning to Navigate the Inner World by Diana L. Paxson

Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism by Jenny Blain

Tree of Enchantment: Ancient Wisdom and Magic Practices of the Faery Tradition by Orion Foxwood

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series) by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask and Wendy Doniger

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul by Ross Heaven, Howard G. Charing and Pablo Amaringo

The Hollow Bone: A Field Guide to Shamanism by Colleen Deatsman and Sandra Ingerman

The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Bollingen) by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask and Jonathan Z. Smith

Treading the Mill: Practical Craft Working in Modern Traditional Witchcraft by Nigel G. Pearson

Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic by Lupa

Skin Spirits by Lupa

Walkers Between the Worlds: The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus by Caitlín Matthews and John Matthews

The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition by Evan John Jones, Robert Cochrane and Michael Howard

… and I’m just going to stop here.

 

I feel like my teacher just handed me a cheat-sheet.

THANK YOU JUNI!!!!

thelaughingmagus:

carpeumbra:

faefire:

carpeumbra:

faefire:

carpeumbra:

thelaughingmagus:

thelucidtulpamancer:

bassist32:

thelucidtulpamancer:

Please let this not be a new trend in violence. We really don’t need another.

Uh, why is this in the #tulpa tag?

There’s a weird theory that Slenderman is a collective tulpa. If that’s what people believe then who am I to tell them otherwise, but that’s originally how I got into making a tulpa, by following a string of links from a Slenderman website 🙂

I’ve heard of that, but this really doesn’t belong in our tag, and it’s a bit confusing and annoying to see that it was ONLY put in our tag and nothing that’s actually relevant.

Didn’t know you owned the right to the fucking tag.

OMFG TULPAMANCERS WE MAGICIANS WERE HERE FIRST GET THE FUCK OFF YOUR SODDING HIGH HORSE

Lord in Heaven yall fucking ridiculous. 

Here’s a fun thought: is it a Tulpa (i.e. Servitor/Egregore who has no leash and has been hijacked by something), an Egregore (thoughtform tied to the will of the people who believe in it), or now a Godform (now affect people).

An egregore. If indeed it’s any of them at all. I’m side-eyeing the fuck out of people who want to lay the blame on a fictional character because it might be a thoughtform.

If you had read through the discussion a few days ago, we literally spent a good 6 posts detailing the possible mental illnesses or the veracity of this girl’s statement in terms of perhaps it was a lie so she’s deemed insane and gets sent to an asylum instead of prison and etc.

After we responsibly discussed the varying “facts” as it were, we went into it with occultist/magician lenses.

Oh. I didn’t. My bad. Moving forward.

I wouldn’t call Slenderman an ‘unleashed thoughtform’/tulpa based off this one incident. I do believe that this could cause a chain reaction that would let it off its chain, so to speak. Like we saw with that guy that dressed up like the Joker and assaulted the movie theater in Colorado, the same argument could be made for that situation: is “the Joker” so potent of a thoughtform in our collective consciousness, that it interjected its programming into the wills of people? 

I think it’s definitely possible.

I mean I have this theory that I’m perfecting with some sociology friends of mine that I’m calling the Copy Cat theory, that reporting of one crime nationally and continuously causes more crimes of that nature or with similar details.

But that’s ~hard science~. Throwing juju into the mix maybe there’s some egregore in the Collect Unconscious that is triggered by an event and then tries to latch on to as many people as possible in order to validate and continue it’s existence.

I’ve given this some thought, too. Of course it’s too soon to draw conclusions. The original news report for the OH Slender Man incident didn’t give the date that it occurred. All that was reported that it was an evening after the woman got off of work. I have a feeling that this happened before the WI incident, but it’s now emerging as news because of what happened earlier this week. I’m just as likely to be wrong, too. We won’t know until the media decides to not be so fucking coy about the details.

I just read a half dozen articles on both killings. This is complete fucking bullshit. It’s another satanic/heavy metal panic. Notice that there is NO quote from the girls saying they killed for Slenderman. It is only the sheriff’s department saying the girls were “obsessed.” They are looking for something to blame so they blame something “scary” they don’t understand. Yet never do they blame the real dominant forces in our culture – Christianity and consumerism.

kittywillknow:

Often linked with Grounding, centering is the process of balancing your energy within yourself. It is good to prepare yourself before a ritual as it improves focus and afterwards it realigns you, working with magick can put you slightly out of sync.

Some people don’t need to work at this, for me…

For those who are concerned.