Venus talismans for love

I have made five Venus talismans to improve one's love life. Based on 777, I used turquoise crystals. Each crystal was inscribed with the astrological glyph of the planet, alongside the divine name Aha (Aleph-Heh-Aleph). This name appears in good ol' Cornelius' work, as well as Uncle Al's, as corresponding to Venus.

Prices: 

$180 + shipping / talisman

$360 + shipping / 2 talismans 

$510 + shipping / 3 talismans

$640 + shipping / 4 talismans 

$700 + shipping / 5 talismans 

Each talisman will be accompanied by a presentation and instructions of use. The prices are higher in this case because turquoise crystals are more expensive, even in their rough form.

Astrological knowledge and magic

Above is the title of a recently published article by Señor Humberto, which has been translated into English. The article itself covers levels of magical complexity when involving astrological forces. It is short and to the point, being a good start for all wannabes and their associates, whose levels of dumbassery are skyrocketing. 

"The practice of magic is closely linked to astrology. After all, magic operates from the astral plane, which is, by definition, where the energies of the stars are directly perceived. Consequently, all magical practices are affected by the energetic configuration that these energies generate, whether for good or ill. Below, we analyze the levels of magical complexity and their relationship with astrological knowledge.

Kicking a dead up the stairs

Now that we're nearing Halloween I think it's time I share my only major magical working involving a dead person. By major I mean a direct ritual instead of basic offerings of candles, flowers, liquid and/or solid libations, etc. By working I mean I've done a ritual on behalf of a dead person involving another force, instead of calling on the spirit of the dead itself and asking it to do something. I have to mention this because what I've done is different to what's presented in the necromancy class.

I know a man who has more than average psychic powers we were able to test to a degree. He is not involved in the occult, is not religious although he believes in divinity in his own way. He prefers to see to his own mundane living instead of taking on magical practice. He hasn't trained his powers and doesn't feel like it. He cannot use them at will, at any moment or on any person.

Planetary cycles

In Asteria 1 we addressed planetary cycles even briefly, as well as presented a table for it. These cycles reflectas transits over someones natal chart, thus influencing people's lives to greater or lesser degree. We also mentioned in the book slower planets usually have a greater and lengthier impact on people than faster transiting ones. Let us consider two such examples, Jupiter and Saturn, the slowest of the seven classical planets.

Jupiter takes about twelve years to return to its position in someone's chart. That usually marks the beginning of puberty, a period of sudden grown and development. I'm referring to how things used to be, for in the past several decades things like gmo have made their impact on the human body. Nowadays it's not unusual for me to come across teens who are above my height, often far beyond my volume. I'm just over 6'1" and almost 155 pounds.

At any rate, Jupiter, the planet of growth and expansion, is the catalyst for this sudden growth of the body. Not only that, but it also causes changes in the mind, for children usually start pondering philosophical and religious concepts at around that age, even in a shallow manner.

Why curses fail

This comes as a recurring afterthought, something I kept thinking to tell people in general and potential clients in particular. It should make a good addition to Why Magic Fails, but it solely focuses on cases where the force you've set into motion is powerful, the ritual was done using a good election, etc. It applies to beneficial spells too, but by shifting perspectives, although I've spoken of spells in general in Words.

In order for a curse to work completely as intended, it must utterly obliterate a certain structure or structures. That is to say, it must destroy a construction that is more or less material in nature, but is the product of our material existence nonetheless. It can be someone's body, relationship, status and so on. Cracking that structure is not enough, for it will simply cause more or less damage one can overcome more or less easily. 

That's why a lot of curses have only temporary, often short lived outcomes, especially if the curses themselves aren't permanent. In "A living hell: The eerie twelfth house" from Asteria 2 I briefly mentioned permanent curses saying they're not a topic for that book. Perhaps I'll write a class on the matter at some point. We shall see although there's no actual need since I already have a class on that's covering one particular powerful kind of such curses.

Words in bookstore

Magic Words is now in Treadwell's, London. Mr Farrell was approached by the people there recently and now you can find a number of my book's copies in their store.

Double trouble

Good ol' book writing obsessed Mr Farrell recently published his billionth book, Why Magic Fails. I wrote an example on that to accompany his book's arrival on the occult scene. 

I realized early on, ever since I heard of the future book title it would fit very well as a companion to my Words. The two complement each other nicely. My book debunks nonsense spread by self-important whatnots who project an image of knowledgeable gatekeepers onto others, while at the same time explains how magix works (including a breakdown on offerings and their role). His book addresses dimwitted nonsense loudmouth wannabes spread around, often through their dim minded followers, among other things. It does seo from a variety of angles, pointing out many possible causes for magical failure.

Both are published through Lord Manticore at accessible prices.

Lucky and unlucky days and hours

Ancient Egyptian division of a month into days and of days into three periods. The periods were then labeled either good or bad, with the symbol resembling an arrow pointing upwards making good periods and that resembling a flaming torch making the bad ones.

Amulets and Superstitious by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge is an interesting theoretical source detailing ancient talismans from different cultures. Unfortunately, no magical application for this data is shared with respect to ancient magical trinkets, it being solely detailed for academic purposes. 

Even so, the following information may be used in tandem with that on days and hours from Asteria, even for experimental purposes. It consists of days and hours considered lucky or unlucky in the past. They can be taken into account when planning a ritual, based on the intent.

Working with Guardian Angel

"Go on, dum-dum."

Now that I’ve announced the Angels of the Birth Chart thing and I already went into details regarding how one can benefit from interacting with their Guardian Angel, I will detail on my latest experiences. The first one began late last year while the second one about a couple of weeks go. Given I’ve had more of the former, I will address it and may speak of the latter at some future time after I’ve tested things in more detail.

Back in November last year I did my daily practice as a communion with my Crowley-HGA and my “good” and “bad” angels. I usually use this as daily practice, instead of regular practical rituals, during extended Voids of Course or at times the Moon is not reflecting light. The reasons for this should be obvious upon reading Asteria.

Upon asking them for help and guidance I was told to close my eyes and relax, as usual. Then I was instructed to focus on my heart.

Pluto pathworking

In Cielos I spoke about working with the outer planets and presented means of doing so, including a couple of spirit names. I also said that unlike Uranus and Neptune, I had yet to work with Pluto by the time I was writing the book. But that has changed as of last month.

Shortly before the New Year I did a ritual to call on the planet's angel. For the past year I had been receiving signs in the form of news of the planet showing up in non-related online seaarches and memories of me thinking of working with Pluto years back suddenly popping into my awareness. I dismissed them at the time when instead instead I should've recognized them as such.

It arrived and I greeted it and presented it with a tea light as a welcoming gift. I got a name and even though it checks out as being that of an actual angel according to A Dictionary of Angels, I will refrain from making it public for a while until I experiment more.

Fizzling out

More than a few times I've addressed the issue of spells eventually fizzling out, compared to talismans that are ongoing (or at least until they're decommissioned or destroyed). I also spoke of magical results not being permanent.

The two phenomena work hand in hand in my opinion, especially when the desired result has manifested. When that happens it means the energy set into motion by the ritual has grounded itself, bringing the desired outcome into the mundane. It has done so by navigating through obstacles, even smashing though some, the effects of which weakening it. I elaborate on the nature of he obstacles in Words.

Even weaker, it was still able to make things happen, something that drained it even further.  Then, after materializing, whatever punch in may still have will disperse either suddenly or gradually. Goal manifested, success achieved, moving on.

Too dumb to woowoo

"The fool is not fool enough until he's also priggish" is an old Romanian saying.

Idk why dafuq I'm even bothering writing articles now that one of the pillars holding up the WMT has transcended beyond. But since my struggle in this lifetime is to make sense of mundane experiences from a certain point of view and master them, I'll move on (even reluctantly, and do my best to be my usual self).

Now that the whole US election thing is behind us, it seems like a good idea to bring to the forefront the most stupidest magical feat I've ever come across during my ten years of occult practice. I've seen a lot of dumb shit over time, but this must be the stupidest since it was the the sensational feat of one who expects to be considered an expert in more than one occult field. The individual in question has been involved in the occult for many more years than myself, which makes this even more laughable.

The day following the election a screenshot of a certain fb post was brought to my attention. Said post contained an individual's hopes for the upcoming election results. Since Nov 5 was on a Tuesday, and probably keeping in line with his own age old tradition of making offerings under Christmas lights to the appropriate planetary force of the day, the man also implied he'd rub a candle out to Mars for victory for his favorite candidate. I also think this falls in line with his usual virtue signaling and attention begging.

Soulmates, you say?

Over time I've been hearing of the term "soulmates" and its association with romantic relationships. The dictionary defines a soulmate as being "a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner" so we see it covering more than just romance. Friendship too involves feelings, especially love, but it's closer to the ideal concept of love than the more selfish, sexual attraction type of love people involved in a romantic relationship usually experience. Therefore, many modern astrologers' use of the term soulmates to define certain pairs of individuals based on whatever synastry and/or composite aspects they may share is shallow to say the least.

True, people can think about finding their soulmate when casting a Venus spell to bring their significant other. That doesn't mean, however, the person the spell would bring forth after successfully manifesting is actually their soulmate. Neither does it mean that any pretty astro aspects the two share make them soulmates. In the appropriate article in Asteria 2 I talk about compatability and although some astro aspects between people can be considered as alluding to the two meeting and sharing certain experiences as being fated, that too does not make them soulmates.

Hermetic Tablet 2024

After a lengthy hiatus Hermetic Tablet is back with more than a few authors having answered Mr. Farrell's call. This year's edition is filled with articles covering both practical and theoretical topics many interested and serious occultists will find helpful.

You can see from the table of contents many subjects have been addressed, from tantra to gamatria and from psychology to gamatria, these articles' applications can be manifold.

Hermetic Tablet once more

After some six years Mr. Farrell decided to release his Hermetic Tablet once more. This particular edition stands out because it also pays homage to the late Mike Magee and Jake Stratton-Kent, two people involved in specific occult fields well known for their knowledge of those particular areas.

Besides the articles written by the two occultists who now explore the vastness of the beyond, Mr. Farrell has gathered a plethora of authors to contribute to this year's edition. And then there's Señor Shaman and myself. Each author covers a different subject, from ancient magix to Kabbalah and from astrology to conjuring a demon, but the articles can be loosely grouped together in bunches by the occult areas whose different aspects each covers. Additionally, each author has an unique approach to the topic they're covering, unlike certain larger than life wannabes who regurgitated the same material as others in the past with the help of another's translation to come up with a book the length of one of these articles (or smaller) over the span of a few years (!!!).

The book will be published through Lord Manticore probably next week and I will post a detailed article to cover it when the time comes.

BML trasnit

A few months ago I spoke with a reader who was studying his chart and preparing for upcoming hard transits. He said Magick Pills for Hard Transits helped him a great deal a few years back, but since then he had little time to magically address these periodic events. This time though, he noticed a handful of potentially hazardous transits occurring in the near future and wanted to take the necessary precautions.

One of those transits was the Black Moon opposite itself in the man's chart. I recommended he study his natal BML more, both from this book on BML and online sources in order to understand its nature better. While the book does not cover the opposition transit, I helped the man get a general idea of what it may bring into his life considering his chart.

About results

Time and again I've addressed magical results, lack of, or what stands against achieving them. People will come across that in various articles on this blog, as well as in Words and Asteria 2.

This article will tackle the matter from another angle. Namely, what next? What I mean is, what to do after one perceives results of their magical work, either substantial or otherwise.

Lots of people, both practitioners and (especially) clients have a tendency of thinking magical results should be permanent. They're not. The first reason for this is that any magical energy directed towards manifesting a certain scenario will have stopped doing so after the successful outcome has presented itself. This is in case said force was instructed to do so by the magician, but even if it that's not the case any energy set into motion will fizzle out eventually.

Mercury in domicile and exalted

This election is best to be used for Mercury workings having a less than beneficial intent and I'll explain why shortly. There will be a few Mercury elections good for beneficial purposes during this transit, but I think I have yet posted a specific article covering an election that can be used for nastiness.

I'm sure quite a few people know Mercury is both in domicile and exalted in Virgo and this is what's happening these days. I assume not many know Mercury elections can be tricky, due to its constant close proximity to the Sun. Given Mercury will be under sunbeams, this election is not perfect, but Mercury overpowers the Sun a great deal nonetheless.

Black Moon in action

The following is a case study I've been allowed to make public by one of my readers. She read Asteria and was intrigued by what she came across on BML in there. Further personal study on the subject made her conclude certain problems she constantly experienced were being caused by her natal BML and certain hard aspects it is involved in.

She contacted me at some point, we discussed the matter and she agreed to begin work on solving the problem by addressing its causes through magical means. I cautioned her it can prove to be a lengthy and, at least at times, arduous process that can have her experience a roller-coaster ride of emotions as well as macrocosmic struggles for a while, but she was determined to deal with it once and for all. We settled on an approach based gradual increase in intensity so that she wouldn't become overwhelming quickly by any probable unpleasant experiences she'd need to go through to reach the core of the issue and fix it.

I won't be going into her experiences relating to her magical work on herself, nor the work itself. Instead, I will offer one of her revelations relating to how BML's influences have affected her life. Both of us consider it necessary for others to have at least an idea of how this energy works even if in others' cases it can very well manifest differently. Nevertheless, the way these influences manifest individually is not important, but the mechanism is, since recognizing it should help a great deal in understanding this energy more.

Mars the protector

Some time ago I took advantage of a good Martian election and made a few Mars talismans. The purpose was that each of the talismans would protect its wearer against, aggression, violence, assault, etc. I then gave a talisman to each of the few muggle acquaintances I know who know what I'm into and agreed to wear those talismans on their person.

I know certain people would say Mars is solely good for attacking, but that's just narrow-mindedness. Being a god of war and fighting, among other things, Mars is good for both offence and defense since they're both aspects of fighting regardless of whether the fighting takes place between two people or very large groups of individuals. So take note, all ye self-proclaimed expects!

Anyhow, for some time nothing happened, which is good. I mean, if you're wearing a protection talisman and nothing bad happens to you in regards to being assaulted and such, you can consider it a coincidence. But I'm sure there are cases where you could've been lead down a path of circumstances that would've lead to you being physically attacked, yet wearing the talisman prevented you from going down that path to begin with.