Posts Tagged ‘Magick’
Halloween and (Black and Orange) Magic
“Not pagan Samhain celebrations or the like,” to quote Chiropteran, “but bright-orange, screaming-pumpkin, Trick-or-Treating Halloween.” It’s all about doing magic with the wild, pop mystery explosion that Halloween has become. The Universal Monsters (Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, Mummy) as the spirits of the North, South, East, and West; invocations of Jack Skellington; Jack-o-lanterns as the undead spirit servants we all carve every year to protect our homes from evil.
Halloween and Black (and Orange) Magick
Chiropteran – Well, yesterday was October 1st, the official opening day (by my reckoning) of the Halloween season.
This year, as part of my overarching goal to get my magickal butt in gear, I’ve decided to do a nightly meditation/devotion/working to hammer my Halloween Magick system into shape.
(I don’t know if anyone’s interested in the particulars, but here goes anyway,…
Republican Councilman Explains his Paganism
The GOP must be really confused by this. Score one for freedom of religion!
Last week, Councilman-elect Dan Halloran (R-Bayside) narrowly defeated a Democratic candidate in one of the nation’s most liberal cities. Now comes the hard part: explaining his religious beliefs to the press. For the past two decades, the cop-turned-lawyer has been a devout believer in Theodism, a pre-Christian faith rooted in Celtic and Germanic tribal religions. “Understanding my theology is a little difficult for mainstreamers,” admits Halloran, who serves as the “First Atheling,” or king, of a local tribe of 120 followers called New Normandy.
The incoming Councilman tells the Post that his faith is a “cousin religion” to Hinduism, and downplays the role of “humane” animal sacrifices as nothing more than “processing food in a specific way.” “If a Christian goes to a Greek Orthodox lamb roast for Easter, there is nothing considered wrong with that. If a Jewish person decides to keep kosher, [it's similar],” he said. “To say ‘animal sacrifice’ makes it sound like you’re killing an animal willy-nilly.”
Pow-Wow: Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Magic
Read this entire book at the sacred-texts.com site…
“Written by a Pennsylvania Dutch healer in the 1820s, this book is a rambling collection of rural home remedies and folk invocations. Pow-wow is a unique creole of Christian theology and a shamanistic belief system. It is still practiced in some rural areas of Pennsylvania. In spite of the name, it is not of Native American derivation. It is believed to have been brought over to America by German immigrants who practiced folk-magic.”
Here is a cure for warts: “Roast chicken-feet and rub the warts with them; then bury them under the eaves.”
Georgia Mom Can’t Stop Harry Potter
From : 11alive.com
A judge in Gwinnett County denied, on Tuesday, a Loganville woman’s request to remove the Harry Potter books from the Gwinnett County Public Schools.
Laura Mallory argued, during the hearing that preceded the ruling, that the books are harmful to children and unconstitutionally promote a religion.
Worse, she said, is that when school children read the books as part of class work, she can provide examples that the books often encourage children, as early as in the Second Grade, to practice witchcraft and convert to the Wicca religion.
“This violates our rights of freedom of religion,” Mallory told reporters after the judge ruled against her, because, she said, Judeo Christian religions are banned from the classroom and “because this other religion is being, you know, spoon-fed to our children.”
For an hour,…
Making Magic With Music
Aside from being a wandering minstrel, Larkin Grimm also tucks the occupation of shaman into her well-worn cap.
“All great artists are shamans,” says Grimm. “Everyone who is a musician and goes into an altered state of conscience is a shaman, and music puts you in that altered state of conscience.”
This mystical connection between a musician and their audience was one of the many reasons Grimm teamed up with the Ordo Templi Orientis, also known as OTO, to curate the Musicka Mystica Maxima Festival, a new sort of event featuring musicians who all practice magic, kicking off Monday at Santos Party House.
“We have been kicking the idea about for a year,” said Peter Seals, aka Frater Puck of the OTO. “Certain synchronistic occurrences made it seem that now was the time.”
When…
Some Pennsylvania Shops Close Doors to Pagan Festival
Some Pa. shops close doors to Pagan festival
By RON TODT (AP) – 2 days ago
ADAMSTOWN, Pa. — In the rolling hills of deeply religious rural Pennsylvania sits Stoudtburg Village, a tiny hamlet modeled on a German town. On weekends, tourists come here to visit shops on the ground floors of closely set three-story houses painted bright colors on pedestrian-only streets.
But this weekend, plans for a nature-worshipping group of modern pagans and witches to hold a festival in this picturesque section of Adamstown are getting a mixed reception, with some shop owners welcoming the visitors but others saying they plan to close.
“My personal feeling is that it’s not something that I’d want to have anything to do with,” said Jane Lesher, standing Friday amid the yarn creations of her shop The…
Fliers and Posters for Esozone 2009
Great design work from Danny Chaoflux, the design mastermind behind Black Sun Gazette. Get these in full size over at the Esozone website.
Also, you should still totally donate to make this year’s Esozone extra special awesome:
Altered States Course on Maybe Logic Academy with Philip H. Farber
Philip H. Farber, author of Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem: Achieving new states of consciousness through NLP, neuroscience, and ritual, introduces some ideas about states from his Maybe Logic Academy course “Altered States: Ecstasy and Invocation”. The course begins September 14, 2009 and runs for 8 weeks.
Part 2 is here.
O.T.O. USA’s Musicka Mystica Maxima Festival
Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A. is proud to announce:
Musicka Mystica Maxima festival presented by Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A. at Santos Party House, New York, NY.
21 and 22 September 2009
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Two nights of musick made by practicing magicians or practicing musicians whose work celebrates the magical lifestyle, as well a public performance of ceremonial magic ritual.
John Zorn and Bill Laswell added to Musicka Mystica Maxima!
Confirmed line up includes:
* GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE with THEE MAJESTY http://www.myspace.com/theemajesty (featuring Bryin Dall and Morrisson Edley)
* Larkin Grimm http://www.myspace.com/larkingrimm
* Nautical Almanac http://www.myspace.com/nauticalalmanac
* Spires that in the Sunset Rise http://www.myspace.com/spiresthatinthesunsetrise
* Amber Asylum/Kris Force http://www.myspace.com/amberasylum
* Daniel Higgs http://www.dischord.com/band/danielhiggs
* Monica Richards (of Faith & The Muse) http://www.myspace.com/monicarichardsmusic
* arrington de dionyso/Old Time Relijun http://www.myspace.com/arringtondedionyso
* 4th Sign of the Apocalypse http://www.myspace.com/4thsignoftheapocalypse
Werewolves as Evil Sorcerers
“(Werewolves) are certayne sorcerers, who having annoynted their bodies with an ointment which they make by the instinct of the devil, and putting on a certayne inchaunted girdle, does not only unto the view of others seem as wolves, but to their own thinking have both the shape and nature of wolves, so long as they wear the said girdle. And they do dispose themselves as very wolves, in worrying and killing, and most of humane creatures.”
This description, from the fifteenth century, of spells to transform oneself into a werewolf reminded me of a modern version of such a satanic ritual from The Devil’s Notebook by Anton Szandor LaVey, in the chapter entitled How to Become a Werewolf…
Werewolves as Evil Sorcerers
“(Werewolves) are certayne sorcerers, who having annoynted their bodies with an ointment which they make by the instinct of the devil, and putting on a certayne inchaunted girdle, does not only unto the view of others seem as wolves, but to their own thinking have both the shape and nature of wolves, so long as they wear the said girdle. And they do dispose themselves as very wolves, in worrying and killing, and most of humane creatures.”
This description, from the fifteenth century, of spells to transform oneself into a werewolf reminded me of a modern version of such a satanic ritual from The Devil’s Notebook by Anton Szandor LaVey, in the chapter entitled How to Become a Werewolf. . .
The Last Days of Aleister Crowley
Yes, I realize that I nicked this from Boingboing.net. Very good article still.
‘ There was a choice of rooms and Crowley opted for number 13, which was at the front of the house. ‘He wanted to go into that one,’ she remembered. ‘It was furnished in the same way as most of the other rooms. There was a large wardrobe, a writing table, a bookshelf and a single bed, as well as a bathroom and toilet. He put up quite a lot of pictures, including several he had painted in the Himalayas.’
Crowley brought with him some special gold coins, which he claimed had magic powers and was anxious about keeping safe, and a ‘box of (I Ching) sticks’. He made frequent use of the latter. ‘When he had an appointment…
Motherfucker Tantra: Tentative Esozone Rundown
As many of you know, I will be presenting at the Esozone event October 9th and 10th on the Hyatt Method, and my special take on it which I call Motherfucker Tantra. This talk will be presented under the auspices of the New Extreme Individual Institute. I will also be doing another talk at Esozone on a subject which I will not release until the day of- one I will sign up for like everyone else at the conference. However, for the Motherfucker Tantra workshop, which is as close to a “planned” event as anything at this year’s unconference-style Esozone, I would like to present the following so that people can have some idea of what to expect from me. Subject to change at any time.
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