May 23rd
12:57 PM

so I had this weird waking-dream thing last night

and it was about all these occultists all being high school students at the same school

Crowley was the king of hipsters and was always smoking cigarettes in the halls and making out with just about everybody to piss the teachers off.

Gardner was a really nerdy dude who had a bunch of really nerdy followers and they were always sneaking out on the football field late at night and accidentally burning circles into it.

Cochrane was the way too intense guy who stole all the frogs from the science lab and spoke gibberish at anybody who tried to stop him from doing anything. No one was his friend but there was a group of middle school girls who secretly worshipped him. He also tried to fight Gardner every morning before class, but it never actually happened.

Anton LaVey was the really wimpy dude who got picked on incessantly through Freshman year, then came back from summer with a tattoo and a shaved head and a college-age girlfriend and a band.

Edgar Allen Poe was even there, even though he’s from the wrong time period. He dressed up as Edward from Twilight but didn’t tell anyone that’s what he was doing. He would just smear body glitter all over his giant head everyday and glare at everyone. The guidance counselor thought he was trying to make some kind of gay pride statement and kept encouraging him to start a Gay-Straight Alliance chapter, but Poe would just make a dramatic face and run away without saying anything.

Austin Osman Spare was king of the art department but the school wouldn’t let him display his art in any of the school art shows because there were just too many titties.

May 22nd
3:21 PM
"

It is from this ethos that springs my real, deep, dislike and anger toward people who treat The Art and The Craft as though it’s Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition. The struggle to grasp even a single thread in the tapestry of the spirit world is a serious one, and the effort devoted to it is very real. Discarding that, or pretending toward it strikes me as anathema (like burning books, painting an antique table with high-gloss latex house paint, or inviting yourself to a bite of my dinner).

To approach my niche in the world is like approaching a foreign kingdom. One travels through the villages of the smallfolk first - and one would do best to treat them as kings in their own land. And eventually, one meets the various regents and nobility. And perhaps, by that point, one has truly earned the right to be among them - to entreat or speak with them. And hopefully has learned to behave in a way that does not lead to beheading or imprisonment.

Because it’s best to remember that even the most noble, altruistic, and righteous king has in his retinue some fellow or other that is hot tempered, slow to forgive, and carries a large, sharp, axe.

"
May 21st
4:30 PM
Via
May 19th
10:16 PM

It’s Satyrday, time to revelate. I’ve got hazelnut shortbread covered with a unsweetened chocolate ganache, the best of Gogol Bordello and way too much coffee.

May 14th
2:42 PM
tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers. this photo is from early march - these guys have been in the ground since the beginning of april.
(also - the angled lines in the very bottom right corner are part of the Seal of Astaroth drawn on the table.)

tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers. this photo is from early march - these guys have been in the ground since the beginning of april.

(also - the angled lines in the very bottom right corner are part of the Seal of Astaroth drawn on the table.)

11:34 AM
The Witch House (or eine kleine hexenhaus, but ich spreche nicht viel Deutsch.)

The Witch House (or eine kleine hexenhaus, but ich spreche nicht viel Deutsch.)

May 8th
1:59 PM
"And here is the most important difference in my approach to sigil magic. Instead of creating a sigil and then going into trance in order to ‘activate’ it. Try going into trance and getting into touch with an appropriate spiritual intelligence then state your magical intention to them. Make an offering. If the spirit is interested and helpful you can receive a sigil from them. Chances are if you have been doing magic, and sigil magic in particular, you probably have somebody in your spiritual framework guiding you in this way already. This could be done through automatic writing, scrying, direct trance-based inspiration or something like, say, pyromancy. This sigil then effectively becomes a spirit signature that activates the spirit you are working with to work in a specific way for you."