MILESTONE

This is going to be the last post of its kind because it's getting pretty silly for me to celebrate getting an all-time record number of viewers that others get in one month. Or even less than what others get in one month. But again, I didn't expect this blog would go this far back when I started it.

All I can do is to thank you all who've looked it up and to keep posting stuff you'll find interesting and most importantly, stuff that'll help you improve your techniques and get better results. The planetary talisman experiment series (the Moon article is linked and you'll find the links to all others in there) is still workable for the most part in terms of the elections I've proposed, but you can make those talismans later on at times when the planets are strong. You can also use the elections for other kinds of planetary rituals.

Pyramid occultism

This is the translation of the original article by Señor Shaman. He speaks about the situation of the occult in his natal Chile, but I decided to share it because it applies to the global occult environment as well.

Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids... 

No, I don't want to talk about pyramids and their energy so don't get your hopes up xD It turns out that as of lately the occult has basically become a pyramid game (Ponzi scheme), at least in Chile. I will give you the example with Reiki, but it applies to other areas as well. 

20 years ago there were few Reiki practitioners here and those who had the master's degree could be counted using the fingers of one hand, so it was very different than today (probably between three and five times more different, at least). But as it turned out over time these masters trained other masters and because more people were paying for the training, the prices lowered systematically for courses as well as for services (therapies). This made it necessary for those masters to learn other "variants" of Reiki and so "personal" styles began to appear. Call them people who created their own way of doing Reiki, added something to the name and thus offered it as "a new and better way". They started offering people that product, those in turn, to others, etc. In the long run this caused that "new school" to become devalued and this is how more and more "variants" appear with more and more bombastic names: "Reiki of the Atlantean silver star unicorns" or "reiki of the dolphin telepaths of the big bear", add in aliens, ascended masters and season to taste. This is purely a marketing thing, not spirituality.

Fixed stars experiment

Since there's little talk of working with the fixed stars in the occult regions of cyberspace and since much of that talk is restricted to several well-defined areas, I thought of posting this article so whoever comes across it and is interested in giving it try can take a shot at working with fixed stars. And since working with the fixed stars is restricted to working with the 15 Behenian stars and some constellations, as depicted in old sources, I thought of choosing a star that's not part of that group and therefore we know next to nothing of it from a magical perspective. 

What I mean is we do not have a clear set of magical powers attributed to this star, no correspondences or sigil and so on. Instead, we know certain things about it from an astrological perspective and so this experiment consists of addressing the star itself and having it do such and such things astrologers have observed regarding it.

Milestone achieved & ANNOUNCEMENT

I finally reached 1000 views per month!!! It's not like it's a big deal, quite the opposite when you consider people like Scott and Nick get tens of thousands of views each month, but it is for me because I never thought I'd go so far with this blog. As I mentioned a few times in the past, it started out mostly as a joke and I paid little attention to how I wrote the articles and so on. But it seems people have started showing more interest and so I guess I must've written something interesting along the way. This seems even more apparent since five months ago I managed to get over 500 views a month for the first time. And now I'm so close to reaching 10k overall. 

Too bad Google won't allow ads to run on it because apparently they disagree with running ads on a blog that already advertises things. Funny how they allow ads to run on YT channels of people who constantly promote merchandise though... I'm not saying this because of the money, given I had no idea this blog would improve so much over time and likely because I wouldn't earn much from their ads in the first place, but it's a thing of principle.

Talisman - third lunar mansion

The third lunar mansion is Al-Thurayya which according to the Picatrix spans from 25*42'52'' Aries to 8*34'18'' Taurus. In Book I, Chapter 1 it is said that talismans made using this lunar mansion are for:

"...the safety of those who travel by sea, for sabotaging a partnership, for releasing a prisoner or torturing him, for the beneficial use of chemistry and fire, for hunting, for promoting friendship and love between spouses, for destroying sheep, goats and cows, and for a slave to disobey his master until he is released. This type of talisman usually brings good luck."

People usually make this talisman for general good luck and love so you can do it for either of them or for any of the other reasons mentioned above.

Latest comments

I finally managed to find the time to look up how to improve the blog interface by adding a gadget that shows the latest comments. You can find it to the bottom right of each page.

The first thing that made me love Scott's blog was that it was one of the very few blogs out there that showed the latest comments, aside from many other cool and helpful features. Needless to say, I tried to copy as much of the layout from him although I kept forgetting to add this feature.

Hopefully it will make visitors' future interactions easier. 

Hate on, dum-dums!

The Great Gazoo

Feedback from client

I cannot see private massages on fb from my phone because I'm using the phone browser to access fb, as I'm not willing to use any of their apps. And since I try to stay away from it as much as possible, I have no problem whatsoever with that. But I logged in today because something needed to be discussed in a private chat and nowhere else and came across this message someone sent to me yesterday.