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108 Chaos Salutations
I have been enjoying the Glastonbury Occult Conference since 2014. This means that I have now attended eleven of the conferences, 2021 was cancelled due to the pandemic. It has become one of the events of the year that I feel really excited about and a community has developed around this conference. I was very…
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The Grey Mare
It must have been around 2014 that the Mari Lwyd first cantered into my life with her bells and ribbons and sense of mischievous fun. I was co-leading a Yule ritual for my local pagan moot and I was not expecting a Mari Lwyd to be there, but she appeared as an emissary from the…
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Belief, Politics and Chaos Magick
I don’t discuss politics that much on social media; it’s very rare that I do a political post. This is a political post. How the nature of belief shapes our world and our perceptions is clearly illustrated via the changes I have seen within political thinking over the last 40 years. Sometimes I don’t really…
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Dancing in the Vision
I have recently spent an entire weekend working with Terpsichore through the medium of belly dance. Dance is often conflated with magical practice due to its ability to enable us to connect to a deep core of our being; a part of ourselves that cannot be expressed through every day speech but can be experienced…
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Embracing the Colours of Life
Reading Nietzsche’s “The Genealogy of Morals” has led to my consideration of the morality of custom. You know, those unspoken things that a person should not do, or behaviours that we “just don’t do around here”. Ways of being that while perfectly legal are just frowned upon within a certain culture. This morality of custom…
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Belief Shifting and the Nature of Bias
We all have bias; it’s a natural thing in humans. Bias is formed due to our brains needing to make models of how the world works to enable greater efficiency. It would be difficult to get things done if we have to consider anew every operation prior to performing it. Bias has its benefits but…
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The Ecstatic Trance of the Mari Lwyd.
Over the past few weeks, I have seen discussions on social media about the New Year. Some people preferring to celebrate the New Year at the start of the Astrological Year which many did prior to the Gregorian calendar. I can dig that and understand that this makes perfect sense as springtime is a good…
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The Rose of Jericho
Over the past month I have been getting to know a Rose of Jericho plant. A strange plant that you place in a bowl of water not in the earth. It is often used in hoodoo practice for attracting wealth, especially if you leave 5 coins within its water. I ordered this plant on the…
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Muppet Magick
One of the reasons why so many adults have enjoyed the Muppet Show is because we see ourselves and the people around us in it. Some of the characters illustrate certain personalities that are familiar to us and some of them were modelled on actual people such as Dr Teeth who is modelled after the…
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It’s a Walk in the Park
I love Saturday mornings, they usually consist of a brisk early morning walk through two parks. Brisk because I am on route to my Tai Chi class. Not being the most motivated in the mornings its usual to leave the house a little later than I would like to be on time for my class.…