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If I've been able to elucidate anything from Robert Bruce's books on astral projection, it's that most "shadow people" encounters seem to be one's own astral form going for a quick wander. His theory is that an astral projection happens far more frequently than we'd imagine and that there ...

I had a dream that had what felt like some profound connotations. There was a certain biblical tone to the whole affair. I was on a great sandy plain that stretched off into the distance; dry, arid and windy. The light was strange, faintly sepia, like a faded photograph. I looked ahead and saw five ...

This may be a superficial observation, but God (stern bearded patriarch in the sky) and country seem to be in the same ballpark as Zeus as a symbol of divine influence in government. Not to mention the eagle. Don't see as many eagles these days. Maybe they've been symbolically replaced with reaper d...

Hi and welcome! Is your avatar/handle an Animal Man reference per chance? Interesting thought regarding magick and some of these awful crimes. There's certainly often the whiff of the unusual about these events, often with conflicting stories and a tendency towards a series of oversights that procee...

Whelp, mission accomplished (I think). There was a good deal of street security and cops roaming the outskirts of the festival which necessitated some sneakiness and more than a bit of backtracking; I certainly wasn't in a magickal mind-set when I went about my business, but the rum and cokes from t...

Thunderhead's a town I write about sometimes. Or dream. I had a pretty intense dream/journey or whatever you'd like to call it, a long time ago. Changed my life and outlook greatly, though maybe not for the better. I think about it and have mapped the place a lot more, I think it's becoming somethin...

Thanks again for your input. I have a lot more to consider now and only a few days to do it in; angels don't seem to completely fit the mythos I've worked out, but as with the aspects of deities I've incorporated, they may have to wear some sort of literary disguise. In fact, with everything almost ...

Raine, you advice was invaluable; a spider-spirit in the story has adopted some Aphrodite-like qualities to bring that element into the mix, plus I adapted her sigil with an inverted triangle and a sea shell. Spider-spirit sounds like Eris. *nods* Yup, anti-authoritarian for sure. In my myth, she i...

It seems totally possible that AI will be some kind of godhead. We create art and there is an inanimate imprint of "us". We create spells and there is an empowered imprint of "us". We create servitors and then there's an imprint of "us" out there roaming around doing th...

So, on top of my other larger projects, I've been casting sigils around like crazy. Really over doing it. I'm on a high energy cycle at the moment or something, higher than I've been in years and this kind of feels like it's channeling some of that energy in fairly positive ways. Over all, the resul...

Update: Okay, ficlets are finally done! They need to be reworked a bit tonight to gel better and some details need to be amended (the city heart capstone, prevalent to the story is currently being worked on by construction crews, which is timely, if a bit inconvenient for the practical parts of this...

My intention was not to troll. It was to point out that there is an easier way then to undertake this fairly large operation that the OP himself realizes has some flaws "this is not something I think I'm going to forget easily." ^^That goes against almost everything I've ever read about s...

When you draw circles or cast powers Deities become aware of it and share their power in conjunction with your power. So everything considered will be included in your summoning, consider a 'net' with only Deities that would aid you, such as Aphrodite. I wonder if she'd take it well, considering th...

Desecrated wrote:It sounds like a lot of work for something fairly simple.
Just pick up the phone and ask her out.

I don't know who she is yet. [happy2]

I've come across the bear symbolically representing death on occasion. It seems to fit the context of the dream pretty well.
Maybe you're living a bit dangerously at the moment.

I have an idea that I'm working on for a sigil casting; I was hoping to gain some insight as to my theory and technique. Any and all criticism or advice is more than welcome. So I started with a basic sigil (I'm trying to summon an ideal partner) using normal means. Next, I hit Google Earth and boug...

My name's Dan; I've been interested in chaos magic ever since I saw Grant Morrison's presentation for Disinfo. It kind of undid all of my teenage years interest in Satanism and Wicca and for the time being is my go-to paradigm for Making Stuff Happen. I confess to having big dreams and aspirations b...