{"id":894,"date":"2012-09-23T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2012-09-23T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:24:20","slug":"ow-that-was-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/23\/ow-that-was-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Ow. That Was A Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"projectnull\"<\/a>I got nothing done for Project Null this week: Tuesday through Friday were a complete wash.  In a small part, that can be blamed on my frustration with the unsatisfying results of the sigil shoal I launched a couple weeks ago.  Mostly, though, it was because I spent all my time and energy on my anthropology of gender class.  In related news, I am now ill, but on the plus side I got a lot of great material<\/a> for my Feminism as Chaos Magick essay (and narrowly avoided a tumblr fight in the process).<\/p>\n

The Sorcerer\u2019s Secrets finally shipped Thursday.  Friday morning, the lost keys I was looking for did finally appear in a pocket of my backpack that I\u2019m fairly sure I checked.  I have found about a dollar\u2019s worth of change on the ground.  So: it seems like these things took about ten days to manifest.  Perhaps I phrased my intent poorly, or chose targets that were problematic for reasons I don\u2019t understand.  Perhaps the sigil designs were somehow inadequate.  Perhaps the launch technique was inadequate.  Or maybe it just takes that long, even when a shorter time table is encoded in the sigil.  For lack of adequate data, I\u2019m going to assume a combination of all of the above was at fault and mark the experiment as \u201cmixed results\u201d<\/p>\n

I did get my act back together yesterday morning and today: doing my meditations, making my weekend offerings, and firing a shoal of sigils each morning using a simpler charging technique: still charged from my morning rituals, I arranged the sigils<\/em> on my Chaos Altar, lit a candle each for Death and Desire, held the sigils up to the sunrise, and chanted \u201cIt is my will\u201d until I felt something shift.  When each of the sigils was so charged, I lit a third candle, again chanting \u201cIt is my will\u201d until I felt a shift<\/em>.  The first shoal was socially oriented: knowing who wants to fuck me, who I can trust, and that sort of thing.  The second was more academic: improved comprehension, reading speed, and recall.<\/p>\n

Because I seem to be much better at actually doing my meditation first thing in the morning, I am going to add that to my morning routine, as well as try for a second 5 minutes at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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