Marketing, they say...

A few days ago I received an email from a cousin of mine containing many words I didn't read before I sent out a short reply. Among those many words there were some that made it seem like he was instructing me on to start internet advertising for "the internet thing" I'm doing, something he knows very little of, for the better. He went on to tell me how I should start doing live videos to promote my stuff, networking, lots of social media and YouTube stuff, and so on... 

That is not my style. During the editing of Asteria, El Maximo Exponente de la Magia (as of recently) told me I'm trying to sell myself to the world in a certain context, to which I replied that is correct. However, I am doing it my way. That is to say, I will do so one-on-one with the possible customer whenever they e-mail me for magical services. They get the good, the bad, and the ugly directly in their inbox and they are left with the choice to either go ahead with it or move on. Besides that, they can look up this blog as I try to update it on a regular basis.

Overcoming Natal Retrogrades

A few years ago I came across online magical services that are said to help those who have a certain planet retrograde in their natal chart. I was in no need of such a service so I scrolled on.

Earlier this year someone reminded me of those services. It came to me that I have been performing certain magical operations on both myself and others for specific purposes and how those purposes included natal retrograde planets, albeit in many cases the actual purpose was less retrograde oriented and was instead focused on other things. Nevertheless, the magical operations helped those people overcome the effects of their natal retrograde planet as well. That is an understatement because, for reasons I cannot disclose in order not to spoil the whole thing, their natal planet behaved... differently altogether. 

Experiment

I am sharing the following experiment in hope someone will be interested in it and test the method for longer than I have and more often. So far I have done it a bunch of times in the past and repeated it every now and then. The success rate was quite impressive, although the subjects of the tests were in their normal waking consciousness every time - you will see why that might be relevant. 

The method I am proposing and which I have mentioned on social media back in the day is the use of a pendulum for communicating with someone who cannot speak or express themselves for certain reasons: they are incapacitated, they are in a coma, etc. If this method would prove successful it has a great potential in terms of applications, whether for talking to people who are in coma about their condition or even to pets or animals in general for various reasons. 

Future project

For anyone interested: yours truly is currently involved in another major project alongside those who have become his partners in crime by now: querido Shaman and Lord Manticore. I do not know when the project will be complete and available to the general public.

What I can say is that we are trying to capitalize on the success Asteria is having and branch out into the complex universe of the involvement of astrology in practical magical operations. We are well into it so far, but I have no idea when it will be completed especially since Lord Manticore is currently finishing his own project that details on... rubbing one's dice. More on that subject at a future time. I myself am involved in two other personal projects I will detail on at the appropriate time. One is close to completion and the other is already in its Briatic phase, for all you Qabalists out there.

Again: in yo face!

It was not my initial intention to reiterate on this subject, especially since I believe I have been very clear in this article here. However, I happened to come across the following phrase is Dane Rudhyar's The Astrological Houses:

"No planet can be considered to give indications which are in themselves negative, for they all refer to a type of energy which is essentially valuable, even if man at his present stage of evolution tends in many instances to use it imperfectly or so as to produce cathartic and perhaps disintegrative effects." 

I have highlighted my point in bold letters so that any and all ignorant, inept, or simply putting it, hater out there would understand, regardless of their personal beliefs and what they want to teach others (usually for their own benefit). I am doing this in order to answer some who, after Asteria was published, generated certain discussions in order to undermine this book or, if I were less diplomatic, turn people's attention away from it and what's written inside by minimizing and even discrediting it. 

Fight the drought, anyone?!

I don't watch TV so I'm almost always oblivious of what's going on in the world most of the time. Today I overheard someone speaking how it would be nice if some of the rain that's been falling here these past weeks were to fall in California instead because of the severe drought they're experiencing over there. I looked it up and the state is indeed suffering from lack of rain.

I could start casting on that, but it would be much easier from someone from over there to do it because of obvious reasons. Therefore, if you're from that state or close to it I'm sure you'd be interested in how to cause rain and I did put up this easy to do and cheap ritual for sale just for that purpose. So if you're a farmer over there and your crops are dying or if you're simple fed up with the drought, just pick it up and do it. The heavens are extremely favorable for this kind of working these days too!

Hate on, dum-dums!

The Great Gazoo

Pretty review

The Chiron book's got another review. It is a 5* review that comes along with a comment for which I thank the person who posted it!

Yes, the simple ritual layout presented inside the book can be easily adapted to fit the individual needs and magical style of the reader. The Wise One will show up regardless of whether you're using the ritual presented within these pages, something more ceremonial magicky, or something more akin to Pagan Saint's muchly superior over the top (PAGAN!) woowoo. 

Speaking of which, I keep telling good ol' Nick his spuchy journalistic writing style is not being appreciated by everyone and it keeps falling on deaf ears I'm afraid. Alas, I'm trying... Shaman might have no problem with Nick's spuchy ways in Asteria, but that's another topic all together - a spuchy topic.