The Sorcerer's Blog

2014-05-20

Stop Making Excuses For Your Shitty Magic

I think it’s high time to acknowledge that there is a substantial subgenre of magical literature; baroque excuses for why the author’s magic hardly ever works. Some of those may well be good excuses, but they do not frequently illuminate the narrow path to success.
2014-05-08

The Rings of Abundance

THE RINGS OF ABUNDANCE: Jupiter in Exaltation, Moon sextile Jupiter This was what I suspect was the last valid Jupiter exaltation election for the next decade or more. The details of this election are slightly unusual in many ways. Jupiter ascended on Jupiter day. The Moon was making applying benevolent aspects to both Jupiter and…
2014-04-24

The Rings of Ultimate Fortune

THE RINGS OF ULTIMATE FORTUNE: Jupiter in Degree of Exaltation, Moon trining Jupiter This was a phenomenal election and I hope some of you took advantage of it. Jupiter was in his degree-of-exaltation, in his Day, with the Moon applying a lovely trine to him. The MC was furthermore fortified by Venus in her exaltation.…
2014-04-15

The Rings of Fever’s Eclipse

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.…
2014-04-13

Magic Between Religions

Someone need to write a book about the struggles to define magic (magia) between various monotheistic religious sects; particularly between Catholicism and Protestantism, but also between Catholicism and Islam, and Judaism and everybody else. There’s tons of history in there that hardly anybody has put into a coherent narrative. It’s really interesting stuff, and relevant to anybody…
2014-03-23

Purple Magic

Maybe the world needs a little more purple magic.
2014-02-22

The Symbols of Astrology

An unconventional review of the more common symbols used in a traditional horoscope chart.
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…
2014-02-01

Perfect Nature and Dreamwalking

“They then asked of him, ‘What is Perfect Nature?’ He answered, ‘Perfect Nature is the spirit of the philosopher or sage linked to the planet that governs him. This is that which opens the closed places of knowledge, and by which is understood that which cannot otherwise be understood at all, and from which workings…