Importance of daily practice

I addressed the importance of daily practice in Words. In that book I've covered the vertical component in regards to its implication in detail and now I will address its horizontal one more. To save people time and effort, I will do so briefly and to the point.

Daily practice allows you to learn your ritual templates backwards. Constant repetition trains both your mind and your body to go through the motions involved in specific rituals. Daily practice does not involve working with spiritual entities and so the practitioner won't perform more advanced techniques during such sessions, but it can consist of preliminary ones such as casting the circle and addressing the divine. These two components are important regardless whether you're into lodge or grimoire stuff and repeating them over and over again will practically nail those procedures deep into your brain.

Other things such as lighting candles and incense for meditative purposes are also part of rituals. Therefore, establishing the right times to do them during practice sessions will prevent you from fumbling during actual rituals focused on contacting otherworldly stuff. Meditation too serves its role during rituals in which the operant wants to communicate with the entities he or she has called upon and so training the mind to slip into a meditative state smoother will allow one easier contact with those entities (although it depends how much time will pass before one's psychic senses develop to a degree to allow them to see and/or hear and/or sense spirits).

Hail Hecate!

About five weeks ago (5 x 7 days) I was contacted by a man who desperately needed to go abroad to start a new job. The problem was he didn't have the money for that endeavor, nor could he come up with it in such a short time. He was barely able to pay me for my ritual service.

Besides the plane ticket, he also had to undergo certain medical exams that would determine he's fit for work. He then had to appeal to a professional legal translator to translate that paperwork, after which he had to legalize that paperwork for it to be accepted by his soon to be employer.

Exorcising food

This might be long overdue to some since it's been around for more than an year or so, but it has come to my attention there's alleged occult experts out there who sell some kind of over the top $200 magical weight loss food of some kind. Moreover, said magical food is also said to confer wealth, among other things, which made me immediately think of some guy from Africa who was bragging about eating Martian pentacles with eggs for protection. Hopefully for him, the pentacles were drawn on paper, but the actual problem is that they weren't even consecrated, i.e. charge (for all ye wannabes).

But I'm digressing. You're telling me I can woowoo a sandwich for wealth? That's rich! Pun intended. Don't get me wrong, I'd believe you if you'd tell me you woowoo your sandwich for wight loss and it worked, even if you used an exorcism turned into a part of a godhead assumption technique two thousand years later. But there's no way in hell you can tell me that sandwich will make you wealthy after eating it and I'd believe you! Especially with that kind of operation over it, which works on the same principle as exorcising your toaster so it'd fix itself and start working again.

Unexpected reader

I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from someone I had never thought would've been interested in the occult who sent me the attached picture. She said she knew I was into the occult even though I spoke no such thing with her except for telling her I'm interested in "Hermetix" years back. I did share some peculiar prayers to her over time, but she didn't seem to be interested in making use of them so I thought they must've bounced off of her.

But it appears she wants to expand her overall knowledge of the world and she probably considered the occult a good place to start. Given the many books on this subject available out there, the fact she started by buying mine (The Magick of Astrorelationships and Magic Words) means a lot to me and I can't thank her enough. I should punish the person who I imagine let her in on the whole thing though, meaning my alias and all that, haha.

Pissed goddess

Angry goddess, by LunaticStar

Have you ever called on an entity to act on someone and that entity was pissed af at that person? 

The first time I came across this it happened indirectly. More exactly, it was told to me by Mr. Farrell back when I was off on a magical campaign with him. I found it very interesting at the time and, while I took particular interest to such phenomenon in private, I didn't actually think I would experience it in person. But I ended up experiencing it more than once over the following year and a half.

Prediction

A partial solar eclipse will occur on the 25th, next week, in the second degree of Scorpio. It will be followed by a total lunar eclipse in Taurus (the sixteenth degree, I think) some two weeks later. Both eclipses will be visible in a part of the world where a leader has overstayed his time in office and I will detail on this forther on. 

I predict these two eclipses will cause said leader to lose his power within six month to an year. I'm saying this because the solar eclipse will occur in his twelfth house, which will likely stir up plots from hidden enemies, while the lunar eclipse will occur in his seventh house. Given his bellicose nature, I think that eclipse will put a stop to his fighting ways while at the same time conceal his open enemies from acting against him.

Physicality and looks don't matter

I've noticed many involved in the occult like to show off by dressing in certain ways or behaving in a certain manner. Might just be me, but whenever I encountered such people I felt a certain aura of superiority emanating from them. It's as if their looks and behavior alone make them a better occultist, hence that feeling I kept getting.

Don't get me wrong, it's not my problem how people dress, act and so on, but none of that enhances magical skill, let alone success. You can post tons of pretty pictures of yourself vested in all sorts of outlandish or over the top robes, wielding all sorts of magical paraphernalia for example, but that doesn't make you a good magician. In some cases it doesn't make you a magician, full stop.