This is going to be the last teaser for the future book and it's going to be short. Here is the first one, then the second one. And I first announced this book in the article on the twelfth house.
Asteria Unveiled: Celestial Mysteries Revealed published by Lord Manticore House will be out on March 5. This will be my second work published by Lord Fluffball after Magic Words.
More details will be offered in a specific article after its publishing.
Hate on, dum-dums!
The Great Gazoo
This is a follow-up to my previous article on the topic of magical resistance - what stands in the way of successful spells. I will be more specific in terms of details and explanations and for this reason I will address spells and rituals that employ planetary forces because many out there work exclusively with them (for some reason).
I have detailed the planetary dignities in this article and they should be considered by anyone who's doing planetary magick and wants to improve their results. By looking at those details we can see each of the seven classical planets becomes more or less stronger whenever it transits through certain zodiac sectors. Their strengths vary depending on each sector's type. It is a no brainer one would want to work with a planet when it's transiting through a sector in which it is very strong. But then...
By a bit more I mean a whole lot more and speak about each article in turn, without actually going into details, i.e. offering too many spoilers. The underlying theme is practical application of astrology in magick and each article will do that from different angles while providing more or less theoretical and/or practical details. By this I mean some articles will be more theoretical, others more practical and others will be both theoretical and practical in roughly the same amount.
The book turned out not as lengthy as Asteria but this one is more specific, branching out from the former into particular directions. Some of those directions have yet to be explored in detail especially in astrology so some people would question any possible magical application they may have. Yet even if they might not have an actual magical application, magicians would benefit greatly by taking them into account whenever the situation arises. We have yet to establish the final order of the ten articles and it is very probable their number will remain as it is if no stroke of genius or compulsive urge to write more hits any of us in the mean time. So when I mention them in an apparent order it's for the purpose of enumeration alone.
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.
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.
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.
