The Sorcerer's Blog

2015-08-09

The Rings of Triumphing Light

THE RINGS OF TRIUMPHING LIGHT: Sun in Domicile Ascending, Fortunes in the 1st House. This was a particularly meaningful and powerful election, made in the hours immediately before my mother’s gravestone unveiling ceremony, one day after the third anniversary of her death. Her epitaph was “She was like the Sun; overflowing with beauty, warmth, and…
2015-08-06

Restoring the Old Literary Canon for Magic

In order for us to understand the medieval and renaissance mindset, we have to understand what they were reading. Trying to rebuild the assumptions and cultural context of the authors of books of magic is essential, and thus becoming well versed in the literary and scientific canon of those eras is helpful and perhaps mandatory. At the…
2015-07-17

If at first you don’t succeed…
2015-05-19

Composite Elections And Talismans

One of the things we actually don’t have a lot of knowledge regarding is the cumulative effect of wearing many different types of talismans at once. My contention is that it is safer to use a talisman whose principal star is on the MC but those ASC is afflicted, if this is just one of…
2015-05-18

The Defixios of Burning Hatred

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…
2015-04-06

The Rings of the Serpent of Healing

THE RINGS OF THE SERPENT OF HEALING: The Eighteenth Mansion Triumphed, with the North Node Rising. This was somewhat borderline, but I was encouraged by advice from tarot to make six rings of this configuration. “The eighteenth Mansion is Alcab, and it is for taking away fevers and infirmities of the belly. When the Moon…
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
2015-03-05

The Picatrix Code: Progressions

Picatrix Book 3 Chapter 4 “Why the secrets of this science may not be understood except a little at a time” The ancient sages who have spoken of the occult sciences and magic in their books wrote them as obscurely as they could, so that no one would be able to gain any benefit from them, except…
2015-03-02

The Talismans of Awestruck Dread

THE TALISMANS OF AWESTRUCK DREAD: 11th Lunar Mansion with Mars. This is one of those experimental elections which either curse the living shit out of me or work fabulously. Somebody needs to test this stuff out, might as well be me. Kids, don’t try this at home! The Moon is slow, too slow to normally…