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2017-03-16

About Time: Introduction To The Horoscope Chart @ ConVocation 2017

Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture on “About Time: Introduction To The Horoscope Chart” at ConVocation 2017. This lecture is a 101 introduction to core concepts in astrology, with a particular focus on the function of the horoscope chart, how to do basic calculation using a website or software, the meaning of the different parts of…

2017-01-06

Mercury Retrograde Is My Ally

So, I guess this is what happens when you’re an astrological magician and Mercury goes Retrograde– Companies send you $1100 Movado wristwatches completely randomly, and don’t bill you for them. Magic is awesome. Also, please tell me how Mercury Retrograde is awful. For you, maybe. PS: Things like this happen to me relatively frequently during…

2016-12-27

February 2017 Convention Schedule

I will be lecturing at both PantheaCon in California and ConVocation in Michigan this February, along with many other esteemed colleagues and friends. Please consider attending either or both. PantheaCon 2017 On Saturday, February 18th at 1:30pm– Eat Me: Magical Recipes in Medieval Astrological Magic Though better known for the creation of talismans, medieval and Renaissance astrological…

2016-12-08

Black Magic Part Two (Partial) @ ConVocation 2010

Part of Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture about the deeper ethics, strategy, and practice of curses, black magic and dark paganism. The omitted portion of the lecture was recorded without audio due to technical issues.

2016-08-23

Magic in the Middle Ages @ Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/learn/magic-middle-ages A friend pointed this out to me some weeks ago, and on a whim I signed up. It’s actually pretty great in a lot of areas. I could pick nits on some minor matters, but I have to admit even I learned some stuff (mostly in the section on alchemy.)

2016-03-04

A Presaging of Death

The prediction of the death of a female I (or my mother) was connected to at 10am has been verified as fact, though my interpretation was slightly off. The prognostication was based on a very vivid dream involving my mother taking a friend of hers on a women-only resort retreat via taxi “up the mountain”…

2015-03-08

How Signs And Ymages Are Composed

Picatrix Rubeus, pages 63-64: “The second manner calculates the images according to the opinion of the Hindus, who arrange them in this way: in the first face of Aries there rises a man with red eyes and a large beard, wrapped in a garment of white linen, seeming to make great gestures, and wearing a…

2015-03-07

The Nature and Function of Matter

“Matter is a coadunation of the elements ordered for the reception of form.” –Picatrix Rubeus, page 56

2014-02-22

Introduction To Traditional Astrology @ ConVocation

Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture on “Introduction To Tradtional Astrology” at ConVocation 2014. This lecture covers the core metaphors of Astrology, the metaphysical cosmology of Western Traditional Astrology, the differences between Modern and Traditional Astrology, the structure of the Horoscope chart, the basics of Traditional Horary Astrology, and much much more…

2014-02-15

Introduction To Traditional Astrology @ PantheaCon

Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture on “Introduction To Tradtional Astrology” at PantheaCon 2014. This lecture covers the core metaphors of Astrology, the metaphysical cosmology of Western Traditional Astrology, the differences between Modern and Traditional Astrology, the structure of the Horoscope chart, the basics of Traditional Horary Astrology, and much much more…