Some readers may wonder, looking at my bio, how it is that I can be so ignorant of Chaos and ceremonial magics if I\u2019ve been practicing for as long as I say I have.\u00a0 The short, easy answer is: freestyle circles and energy work, augmented by ecclectic\/New Age Wiccan ritual and (in the last few years) visionary work.<\/p>\n
When I was 18 or so, I came to the conclusion (in absence of any evidence, but \u2026 I was 18) that Cetlic knotwork was a two-dimensional representation of ways to shape energy.\u00a0 That, in combination with the stripped-out version of the LBRP that I had found on the internet and a keen interest in elemental energy, became the basis of my magical practice.<\/p>\n
Like (I imagine) most magicians, I can conjure elemental energies essentially at will: drawing energy from the world around me, filtering it through my body and aura, and transmuting it by will into Fire, Air, Earth, or Water to suit my needs \u2026 just as one conjures and focuses intent for, say, some forms of candle magic or sigils.\u00a0 Unlike some witches and magicians, however, I also do this with Solar and Lunar energy.<\/p>\n
One of the things I\u2019m looking to do with my experiments in planetary magic is to come to understand those energies well enough that, in absence of convenient astrological timing\u2014say we\u2019re rolling retrograde when I need to do some mad Mercury, or right now with Saturn in the long retro, or it\u2019s the Hour of Jupiter and I need some Venusian mojo right the fuck now<\/strong>\u2014<\/em>that I can conjure them in similar fashion.\u00a0 This sort of understanding of planetary forces would also facilitate my desire to, for example, make a talisman invoking the \u201cbaleful\u201d aspects of Venus and<\/em> Mars for a \u201cNo Babies Conceived Here Ever\u201d talisman to hang above my bed.<\/p>\n Some will ask, \u201cIf it\u2019s possible, why didn\u2019t the ancients do it that way?\u201d The easy answer is, of course, that\u2019s not the way they thought about magic. Except, of course, in the East where we get a lot of these ideas from in the first place. Chi, anyone?*\u00a0 Again: I can already do this with Solar and Lunar energy.<\/p>\n Now, I realize that this will not shelter me from astrological \u201cweather\u201d altogether.\u00a0 It may never work the way I imagine it will (what does?).\u00a0 But think: if I can generate my own planetary energies as needed, how much more awesome could my sigils and talismans be when used in conjunction with astrological timing?\u00a0 And if I know how to move that energy, I could, for example, take advantage of the next Jupiter election to endow the shit of of some Jupiter water or store that energy in a crystal battery for another occasion.<\/p>\n *A gross oversimpification, I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some readers may wonder, looking at my bio, how it is that I can be so ignorant of Chaos and ceremonial magics if I\u2019ve been practicing for as long as I say I have.\u00a0 The short, easy answer is: freestyle circles and energy work, augmented by ecclectic\/New Age Wiccan ritual and (in the last few … 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":[73,93,134,203],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-energy-work","tag-goals","tag-keeping-score","tag-planetary-magic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-8V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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