I could probably start a blog for half-baked ideas as a way to encourage myself during the the incubation phase of idea formation, that fiery time when creativity is blazing in the fresh kindling of burning questions. Later, the fire dies to glowing embers or, even worse, to grey ashes, for example, the dialectic of …
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Oracles for Litha 2024
Oracles for Litha 2024 Oracle 1: a heart-shaped, white-gold locket lays double chained in a red satin case, representing my longing for covenant to bind me in a liminal relationship to Goddess—virtual, ambient, embodied. Oracle 2: cards upon the green felt on a mahogany table provide an image of the game of love, players taking …
Satan to Priestess
Flames surging from my Lake of Fire, The pain of missed nail radiates in my thumb. Rage flares again at that carpenter’s son, Who I’d fucking nail again in this moment, Fuck, nail, pound, blast, slap, whip, Feel the free Fall of primal abandon, Take the whole world down deep into hell, Wars flaring, towers …
Poem to Lilith, Babalon, and Dark Venus
Shifting sun and shadow, fangs in and out,Seasons recombine in spiraling strands asI always return to you, the dancing anchor,the child that sings loveAt the heart of the WheelIn ever-expanding annual ripples within the fragments I shore against my ruins:poems and tunes, shows and scenes,sessions, dates, deepeners, dreams. I have taken your Namelessness as part of …
Grand Initiation to the LHP: Final Week (9)
A week ago at the crossroads by our home, there was another car accident–this time being a little fender-bender as though the dramatic energy of this time is calming down. (For the record in this review, that makes three car accidents in nine weeks.) Other signs and synchronicities arose: Raecine Ardis, my tarot tutor, is …
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Black Mass
I may reskin this ritual from Samhain 2020 for the conclusion to my Grand Initiation in 2021. Introduction O Dark Muse, guide me in this preparation even as you have guided me so far in mind and heart, in sunlight and shadow, in fiery Will and amor fati, on the physical plane and on the astral. …
Grand Initiation to the LHP: Week 8
The review of this Grand Initiation is scheduled for Week 9, but I have already been considering the the process as a whole and how the new direction fits into the trajectory of my life. E.A. Koetting identifies four stages of initiation: dedication, initiation proper, damnation, and consecration. After working through the nine infernal gatekeepers …
Grand Initiation to LHP: Week 7
Laying in bed at the house we rent at the Crossroads, chanting “Ram Ham Satolas” 108 times and calling the names of the nine infernal Gatekeepers, I fully intended to make a pact with Lucifuge for abundant provision and as well as with several others for pleasure and power of various kinds. I suddenly heard …
Grand Initiation to LHP: Weeks 5 and 6
Week 6, in Webb’s design for the Grand Initiation (from Uncle Setnact’s Essential Guide to the LHP) calls for “Incubation,” a complete rest from magickal workings and all thoughts concerning progress in initiation. I followed this general intention, doing no readings, workings, or sigil focus, watching more television and enjoying a break from work. However, …
Grand Initiation to the LHP: Week 4
In Week 4, the beginning of the set on Transmutation, I am reminded that I do not just go to the crossroads: I live at the crossroads. The house we rent looks out over a segment of road where several intersections converge, where the moon shines brightly through an expanse in the trees and where …
Experiencing Deity 