Category: Methods and Tips
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The Four Empedoclean Elements
The four elements, known commonly in many Wicca, Hermetics and Thelema-based practices around the world, are Fire, Water, Air and Earth. These form a powerful way to work with the universe and with the self. They seem on the face of it, to be a massive oversimplification, but that does not stop the idea of…
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Elemental Work
This is a hard training that builds the mental muscles we use to manifest our personality and through that it colours our soul. Trying to work this is very much a large part of Magical Muscles, which need to be built up. Often it gets heavily neglected because it does not seem as spiritual because…
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Elemental King work
So this is a visualisation exercise, which is really designed to help inspire relationships with each element. Make or Practice using your Dreamspace Firstly you need to form a good dreamspace, temple of the self or inner temple. This is a place in your mind that you can go to that is like your happy…
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Easy Access Planetary Herbs
A lot of spells often require strange herbs that you’re unlikely to have in your kitchen or garden. So for a newby, this means getting started involves buying loads of herbs that you don’t have or going out foraging for them and trying to identify them in the wild. Either way, that gate keeps the…
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The Heptasphere Meditation
So as you may have noticed I’ve been doing a lot of exercises recently, mostly with a group of energy workers so you can see the themes that are popping up. For the next couple of weeks, we are working on an exercise from Jason Miller’s writing. I love his books and nearly anything Jason…
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Nine Purifying Breaths
A recent exercise we decided to do is taken from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. While this is a common exercise I understand that each lama has his own way of doing things so if you come across this exercise from a different teacher then it might not be quite the same. I also do not…
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Blue Fire and Skeletal Grounding
In a small online energy-work group, this is a ritual we are going to be working with for a couple of weeks. If you like it you can see more in the following book from which it is mostly taken. As someone who hasn’t read the book, however I cannot promise that it will be…
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Occult Celebrity the new Fool’s Gold : Magic is Art or Science
I’ve been making the mistake of talking to people online again! But let’s not start there. Let’s set up some definitions before I get on with my typical rant. Fools gold is an expression sometimes used to describe Pyrite or Iron Pyrite. It’s basically iron with a bit of sulphur attached… as you can imagine…
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Putsi Bag
In Romani magic this is a talisman of magical power in the form of a leather pouch filled with ingredients. Sometimes the ingredients have natural power by virtue of what they are and sometimes it is “charged” or ritually empowered to have have magical power. A typical example of a Putsi bag is teeth and…
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Elemental Work Table
I am writing this post, because I’m just trying to formulate a good table for the work my new coven will be doing going forward. I am trying to determine good work for each elemental grade to help them choose what they do for themselves going forward. My new coven is in a good place…