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April 2024

April 04, 2024

Eclipse 2024: Ritual For A Reset

If some part of your life is in Bad Order and you could use some...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

Symbolic Magic And The Dead In Arlington

We are in the realm of symbolic magic dealing with the dead, and should tread...

September 2023

September 28, 2023

The Flautist In The Woods

It's an old cliche that "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear", but...

July 2023

July 07, 2023

For Best Magical Results, Set Your Intention

And that means that for the best results, the magician must be clear about what...

January 2023

January 02, 2023

Assemble: A Sigil for 2023

American society is dis-integrating, becoming disconnected. That's killing people. It's urgent that we find ways...

May 2021

May 21, 2021

Energy In The Art Of Magic

Our "energy" is an experiential, psycho-socio-emotional phenomenon. It's not measured in kilowatt-hours or Newton-meters.

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Punk Magick

Magick is about change. But change is always happening. What sets magick apart is that...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Go Forth And Re-enchant The World

I know people who call themselves or are initiated as witches and wizards and magicians...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

Making Magic and Change During COVID-19

This period of change isn't over and will not be for some time. That means...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Frederick Douglass’s Root Magic

Given the significance of Douglass to the abolition movement, this fight with Covey might fairly...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Finding: A 2020 Sigil

As I considered what I need for this coming year, and what I think we...

December 16, 2019

Yule: Keeping The Pilot Light On

I've done it every year since, and I'm come to think of it as keeping...

December 11, 2019

Magic As A Social Force

Magic gives us the power to believe that we, individually, are important. In that, we...

October 2019

October 09, 2019

Magic Doesn’t Care About Metaphysics

Imagine that we could hop in our TARDIS and jump back to the Golden Age...

September 2019

September 21, 2019

Walking Behind The Waterfall At The Equinox

It strikes me that, if ritual is "poetry in the realm of acts", then a...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

Invoke Often

"Invoke often." This simple advice has been offered by Robert Anton Wilson and Aleister Crowley...

August 05, 2019

Of Baltimore And Magic

With just a bit of license, I might say that to be a Baltimorean —...

July 2019

July 28, 2019

Minds Do Change And That’s Magic

Magicians seek to alter the consciousness, change the minds, of other people all the time....

April 2019

April 13, 2019

Travel, Renewal, and Ancestor Work

Travel gives you an opportunity to raise the magickal energy, but you have to take...

February 2019

February 10, 2019

Why The Moment Calls For Magic

In O'Keefe's view, throughout human history magic has served as a form of resistance the...

January 2019

January 05, 2019

A Sigil For Political-Artistic Liberation In 2019

We sometimes think of creativity as a light, playful thing, an airy-fairy luxury for the...

January 01, 2019

Mastering Time And Space With The Bullet Journal

Just as it is a genuine act of witchcraft to give a friend with an...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, And Black Magic

Product advertising has been with us since some Paleolithic guy boasted that his flint arrowheads...

August 2017

August 14, 2017

The Fire Circle: All Kinds Magic Worked Here

The fire circle is an audience participation event. In fact, there is no audience. We're...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

War Crimes As Usual, United Horror Stories, And Big Tent Buddhism

Time once again for our mid-week random selection of stories. War Crimes As Usual It...

November 2016

November 03, 2016

Won’t Get Fooled Again: Magic, Imagination, and Political-Artistic Liberation

Every bit of progress begins with an act of Imagination. Before slaves can fight for...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

More Alive Than Words

But I looked out the window. Across the parking lot, across the road, a small...