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Habit Breaker Bundle
A quick one today, just to share a technique I’ve found helpful or effective. The packet is essentially a curse, but the idea is that it makes the habit inaccessible to you or difficult to get at. I put this together when I was wrestling with wanting to quit smoking. My desire to stop had been on and off for a while, but I was living with smokers and the constant exposure made it incredibly…
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Support Spells for Uncrossing Work
As part of the Uncrossing section of the healing focus, I wanted to share some techniques that you might like to try to support or supplement your work. Along with the usual practice of home cleaning, prayer, bathing, and uncrossing rituals, it is possible to engage other workings. Some of these may suit you better than the standard approaches to Uncrossing work. I encourage everyone to try these…
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Goals and Refocusing
While undergoing uncrossing work and healing yourself is important work in itself, it raises the question: what are we healing for?
In the post outlining the uncrossing procedure, I mentioned that my first teacher had a framework that included refocusing the individual toward more positive things. This is an important and often overlooked component of any healing – what are you really healing…
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The Overlooked Healing Ally
At the risk of sounding uncool, this is one of my favourite and greatest plant allies. I simply adore this plant and it is so accessible because it grows almost everywhere. Perhaps it is due to being a common plant that this herb is so often overlooked, or maybe it is because people spend so much time trying to kill it off as a weed. Either way, I invite everyone to reconsider their relationship…
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Uncrossing
The trouble with healing journeys is that we often encounter a great deal of inertia, whether this is purely out of force of habit or due to our circumstances and surroundings, which makes it incredibly difficult to action or stick to our well intentioned improvements. It can feel like an impossible feat when nothing around you seems to change, and you find yourself overwhelmed at the prospect of…
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Projects, Proficiency and Healing Journeys
Life has been strange. The world seems to grow increasingly grim and yet the sun continues to shine. Multiple areas of my life are coming to the close of their current cycles and, as spring moves toward summer, I find myself assessing a great many things ahead of a major move. With long-term projects wrapping up and the appearance of one of life’s many crossroads, I’ve turned my mind to ideas of…
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Same Sex Practice and Traditional Wicca
This has been an unfortunately heated topic of debate in Internet Land that has bled back into Meat Space. Given the fundamental idiocy of arguing about ‘proper conduct’ amongst self-billed autonomous groups, as well as some incredibly vicious and problematic figures, I have avoided comment. However, someone recently broached the topic with me. Providing a link to the Sacred Texts website, this…
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The Motion of Stone Giants
We had an earthquake here in Melbourne a few nights ago. It’s not the first time I’ve had this experience while living here but the sensation of such an event is thrilling in a most peculiar way. It really turns the mind toward a recognition of the immense power of our environment and the minuscule nature of our physical self.
My partner is an academic in the sphere of environmental science and…
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Does Spirituality Equal Immateriality?
Does Spirituality Equal Immateriality?
I’ve been having some interesting conversations with some of my “magically-minded” friends around this idea that material wealth is somehow counter to spiritual ambitions. It’s an unfortunately prevalent assumption, something I’m assuming we inherited from the East and our subsequent Christian colonisation. The bizarre thing here is the unchallenged implication that refusing to engage something…
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Chaos, Craft, and how they intersect your life
Chaos, Craft, and how they intersect your life
In the introduction to his book, Pieces of Eight, Gordon White discusses the core premises of Chaos Magic and summarises them thus:
A preference for observed magical results over unfounded claims of mystical insight.
An awareness of the capacity of personal beliefs to shape the experiences of those that hold them.
A virulent suspicion of mystical, political, and scientific…
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Thoughts, Ideas, and Stirrings
Thoughts, Ideas, and Stirrings
Has it really been a year?
How the time slips away.
There was a period there where I managed to post daily and maintain some sort of project. While I confess I did indeed complete the Roderick text, my desire and ability to post about it simply went away. The tasks seemed to grow more personal and directly relevant to events in my life toward the end of the project. In some ways, I regard the…
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Day 262 - Raising Power: Breath Control
Day 262 – Raising Power: Breath Control
Correct breathing directly affects the Witch’s vitality and therefore, her magic.
Breath work is an interesting component of magical practice which lost popularity for a time and appears to be returning to the fore. In my early twenties, while working with my first magical teacher, breath control was a core practice – which I was expected to drill – that is also connected with other techniques…
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Day 261 - Raising Power
Day 261 – Raising Power
Raising power is how witches give their magic life, energy, and movement. This is the next stage of your spell working. You’ve selected the ingredients and the timing based on correspondences and your objective, now you need to run some power through it. I can remember feeling incredibly uncertain about whether or not I was effectively raising energy, what that even meant, and then never quite…
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Day 260 - Hours of the Day and Magic
Day 260 – Hours of the Day and Magic
“Each hour of the day resonates with specific magical energies.” Today we explore the planetary hours of a day, how to calculate them, and why we would bother. This technique is fairly common throughout most of the magical community and comes to us through a long line of historical practices. This model is lifted from the Key of Solomon, but the planetary orders are of the Chaldean system.
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Day 259: Magical Essential Oils
Day 259: Magical Essential Oils
Continuing on our examination of materia and correspondences, today we turn our attention to Essential Oils and their properties. We are tasked with memorising the following list of oils and their properties:
This seems a little odd to me as – while the application of an oil may differ from that of the dried or fresh plant – it seems logical that the magical properties of a plant are uniform…
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Day 258 - Magical Herbs
Day 258 – Magical Herbs
“Witches believe that herbs are living vibrational representations of specific magical influences.”
I do think it’s interesting that herbs have been so greatly romanticised, especially in relation to the practice of witchcraft. The main reason I say this is because there isn’t much to point to the fact that witches, specifically, were particularly more inclined toward herb-lore than most people…
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Day 257 - Magical Stones
Day 257 – Magical Stones
Look… I know that the crystal industry is a popular thing in the new age and pagan world (especially on the internets) but it’s never really been my thing. My uncle (the man who failed to teach me Italian but piqued my interest in Tarot as a child) is a geologist, so I was fortunate to have access to lot of minerals and texts about them while growing up – it’s funny that these things become a go…
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