Carpet bombing VS surgical strike

Over the years I've come across various pompous terms occultists have been using to describe themselves either as qualities, or in some cases as unofficial titles. Besides proclaiming oneself a scholar or academic or expert or whatnot, I've also come across terms such as "strategic" to describe someone else's or their own magical thingy. A closer inspection of their work revealed that term to be incorrectly used, revealing the lack of knowledge of the individuals in question, and thus possibly making it yet another pompous term people use to describe themselves for marketing purposes. 

The reason I state the above is that people often confuse strategy and tactics. Strategy is the plan constructed to set goals while tactics are the actions taken in order for those plans to succeed. Both strategy and tactics depend on quite a few factors, ranging from one's own resources and assets in general to various chronological, social and geographical ones and so on. Both strategy and tactics are multilayered, from the topmost perspective over the situation to the individual smaller perspectives on the ground, so to speak. What I mean is, from the large campaign map in the war room to the individual soldier in the trenches.

The first example of strategy is Germany's invasion of Russia in WW2 where the strategy behind "Operation Barbarossa" called for a three pronged attack performed by three individual army groups that would conquer important industrial, agricultural and administrative regions and towns. A second example would be the Russian offensive at the battle of Stalingrad where the strategy behind "Operation Uranus" called for a massive pincer movement around the German army occupying most of the city and its outskirts. And a third example would be the American concept of "island hopping" in the Pacific war, where American commanders decided to capture only those islands that are most important and not waste men and equipment fighting through each and every small island occupied by Japanese troops. 

In each of these examples the tactics were left to the individual commanders of the army, division, regiment and so on that took part of the operation, as they had to attack enemy positions in certain ways based on actual circumstances on the battlefield. Some of them opted for encircling actions, others for frontal assaults, etc. 

Ye "experts"

Señor Shaman has recently written this article which I find most wonderful. Not only does it represent a bitch slap to all those wannabe guru figures that have been slicing their veins lengthwise ever since Asteria was published, but it's also a very informative article for occultists in general. As such, I couldn't help myself from adding another layer to it.

What makes someone be an expert? This unofficial title speaks of something close to the absolute, since it implies perfection. I for one am sick of it because of the way it's been used around here for a long time, and elsewhere too from what I've seen.

Lunar nodes in action

Earlier this year I was contacted by a man seeking my magical services to get a job. I told him he can get my ritual for employment and do it himself because a) it's much cheaper and b) most of the times these things work better if you're doing it on yourself rather than having someone else do it for you, especially since the link used is only a picture and not something stronger like handwriting. He insisted I do it and paid my usual fee of $75.

While I could've used the aforementioned ritual for employment, Jupiter was still strong in domicile and direct at the time and I selected a pretty good election for the ritual. Besides the force I'm detailing in that ritual, Jupiter is also very good at such things, especially for promotions and getting a job basically means you're getting promoted from being unemployed to becoming employed. But before I did the ritual I told him he should not rely solely on the spirits and instead be proactive. I give this exact example in Magic Words and it was written way before I encountered this person.

Product changes

This Mercury retrograde that began yesterday has finally allowed me to make a couple of changes to my products. As such, the ritual for a home is now $22 because I've added a detailed method that allows the user to change and/or improve the energies of their home (or that of another). Additionally, life ruining curses is now $499 because I've added yet another layer of means of causing horrible stuff to happen to the target for the long run.

That is all.

 

Steadfastness

Our farmer's done it again, only this time he's outdone himself!

I haven't asked him for permission to share his name so I'll simply refer to him as Jordan, especially since there's some dumbass Christians in the area where he lives who are likely to start acting like bitches toward him if they ever found out what he's been doing. Being a Christian myself, I think very low of such people, regardless of their sect...

But anyway, ever since Jordan became my client he and I have been having a very productive conversation in regards to occult related themes. More exactly, we've been discussing occult methods of improving farming, from the quality and quantity of crops to methods of protecting them from hazards. Truth be told this is new territory to me since aside from being very familiar with farm work, I had yet to explore magical workings for such goals. Moreover, we've been talking about other things such as apocryphal texts, Adam Kadmon and so on.

While Jordan's previous success in causing rain for his crops was notable, he told me there's more need for rain since his region is about to enter the most demanding time for crops in terms of water shortage. Turns out he lives in the Ohio valley and, although I went through that region by car during an awful downpour some time in late November, September is the driest month in that part of the US. This would obviously raise the need for irrigation, which in turn increases farmers' expenses.

Lilith in synastry - patterns

"Getting down and dirty: Astrology and love spells" from Asteria 2 offers readers useful information with respect to astrological implications in relationships and how those implications can enforce or hinder love spells. Black Moon Lilith, BML or Lilith in short, is ever so present among that information because its energies can and will subject people to great intensity if the synastry conditions are right. This happens regardless of whether some take them into account or otherwise, especially them holier-than-thou "experts" who don't believe even the energies of the (physical) planets affect life on Earth, let alone something as apparently meager as a fictional point.

While there are more than a few possible synastry combinations BML can be involved in, the hard ones being addressed in The Magick of Astrorelationships, there are undeniable patterns such synastry aspects generate both between and within two individuals who share them. These patterns can be noticed by an outside observer as well as someone who's experiencing them themselves. Both objective and subjective perspectives complement each other and reveal a clearer picture of the patterns.

Check on Earth

Anyone who's read "A Bacchic tale: Uncorking planetary spirits" by Mr. Farrell in Asteria 2 has come across a chapter entitled "checks on Earth". In that chapter the author discusses signs that point towards rituals working and lists several such signs for each of the seven classical planets.

A while ago I took it upon myself to clean up a certain area using occult means. I passionately hate that area and wholeheartedly despise everyone there for reasons that are beyond this article. I'll resume to say it's one of those areas parapsychology refers to as geopathogenic and one does not have to believe in such things to easily observe its horrible nature and that of its people compared to nearby areas.