{"id":1129,"date":"2012-10-07T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2012-10-07T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:30:36","slug":"disorder-and-a-detour-through-nostalgiaville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/07\/disorder-and-a-detour-through-nostalgiaville\/","title":{"rendered":"Disorder and a Detour Through Nostalgiaville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"projectnull\"<\/a>Something about this experiment in Chaos Magick has gotten me thinking about the old days.\u00a0 Hence the Timeline <\/a>overhaul and all the post about my teenage years.\u00a0 I\u2019ll warn you now: there may be more of that coming, though on different subjects.<\/p>\n

Aside from continuing my daily banishing, most of my work this week has consisted of the shielding experiments which sent me down memory lane, which I\u2019ll talk about in detail tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Friday night, I began another round of mask-making.\u00a0 In accordance with the season, I was making another Death mask, which I hoped to sell for enough to reup my absinthe supply in time for Samhain.\u00a0 Sadly, the clay wasn\u2019t quite the right consistency, and shattered as it dried.\u00a0 Hopefully I will have time to try again sometime this week.<\/p>\n

I also fired a shoal of sigils Friday night.\u00a0 I\u2019m not gonna lie: this was some seriously low-brow shit.\u00a0 The sort of thing that people get into fights about whether or not it\u2019s beneath a magician\u2019s dignity to do, and which, if approached from the wrong angle, could even be an ethical problem.\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s right: I\u2019m using magic to help me get laid.\u00a0 Go ahead, judge me.\u00a0 That\u2019s fair.<\/p>\n

Divining before hand, it was almost an unqualified green light.\u00a0 But \u2026 two \"IMG_5571\"<\/a>potential problems came up. In the \u201ccoming in\u201d position of the reading was XIII Death, last seen in my monthly reading in the 7th House; a more cautious person might have taken that as a sign not to cast.\u00a0 Then, 7S \u201cFutility\u201d and I the Magus sat together in the \u201cfinal outcome\u201d position.\u00a0 It seems likely that this indicates that, despite my best efforts, success in this arena will constitute a distraction from my school work.<\/p>\n

Speaking of distractions from my school work: although the last week has been light enough for me to write this barrage of posts, things are going to get busy again after midterm.\u00a0 The timeline I established for Project Null was predicated on last semester\u2019s workload.\u00a0 This semester\u2019s load is much greater, and while I will strive to keep to that original schedule \u2026 well, school always has to come first.<\/p>\n

Ironically, as I do an increasing amount of magical work every day, my meditation has fallen off completely.\u00a0 Sadly, time spent staring at people\u2019s auras in the cafeteria or out and about don\u2019t count.<\/p>\n

I have been able to remember my dreams upon waking only a few mornings, which is probably largely attributable to the sleeping teas I\u2019ve been relying on for the last two weeks.\u00a0 The fact that my dream recall has improved since I ran out of valerian tends to confirm this theory.\u00a0 Most oddly, the night after charging the \u201cget laid\u201d sigil shoal, what do I dream about?\u00a0 Why, the zombie apocalypse, of course, featuring a number of students from my school that I have never once spoken to.<\/p>\n

I live a charmed life, mostly, but a strange one.<\/p>\n

My plan for the coming week is to launch another shoal or two of sigils, finish reading Strategic Sorcery<\/em>, and get back into Liber Null<\/em>.\u00a0 I\u2019m also contemplating how to consciously interface my sigil magic with my Web of Influence<\/a> for improved accuracy and timing.\u00a0 So far, I\u2019ve begun by tacking my fired sigils up with the maps that have become the visual representation of that web.\u00a0 I will also continue brainstorming for what, precisely, I want the servitor I\u2019m going to create as a part of this project to do; the general thought right now is bolster my house wards and serve as a guardian\/attack dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something about this experiment in Chaos Magick has gotten me thinking about the old days.\u00a0 Hence the Timeline overhaul and all the post about my teenage years.\u00a0 I\u2019ll warn you now: there may be more of that coming, though on different subjects. Aside from continuing my daily banishing, most of my work this week has … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,153,211,248,268],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-chaos-magick","tag-mask-work","tag-project-null","tag-sigils","tag-tarot-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-id","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}