Black Magic
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DEFIXIOS OF BURNING HATRED: Moon in 5th Mansion, combust, besieged, Cancer ascending. Fifth Mansion effects include “to destroy the friendship between two people” in Picatrix, when the principal planets are afflicted. Some contend that combustion and/or besiegement are limited by Sign boundaries; I disagree. This election has both, a fairly toxic combo. Cancer is also…
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THE RINGS OF THE KISS OF DARKNESS: Venus in Zero Scorpio, Cazimi. [I am only including this post, unedited, for historical purposes. This was one of the dumbest, riskiest, and most malefic talismans I’ve ever created. It did not work as intended, but was a magnet for terrible misfortune. Awful.] This is the first set…
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When I pay homage to the ancestors, I add the names of practitioners of magic whom I have known but are no longer among the living. Most of them got that way because they did some inadvisable magic— in my estimation, at least. One of the debts we owe to the dead is not to make their mistakes.…
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THE RINGS OF FEVER’S ECLIPSE: Moon conjoined to Arcturus [I include this post for historical reasons only; the talismans were highly malefic and extremely dangerous. They could not even be stored safely but required complex deconsecrations.] This one is one of the riskier elections I’ve done recently, to the point it almost falls out of Tradition.…
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Everything is interconnected. So, this quote from Agrippa: “In like manner Moses, the lawgiver and ruler of the Hebrews, being skilled in the Magic of the Egyptians, is said by Josephus to have made rings of love and oblivion. ” …led me to look up the history of the word “oblivion” in the OED… Which has: “1.…
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My first edition copy of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses is absolutely gorgeous. Pity I can’t read German.
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THE TALISMANS OF RED HATRED: The Fourth Lunar Mansion, Al-Dabaran — The Pursuer. Picatrix page 287: “The fourth Mansion is Aldebaran and is for obtaining enmity. Take red wax and when the Moon is passing through this Mansion, make the image of a knight riding on a horse, holding a serpent in his right hand,…
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This is how I prefer to vote.