A pic of the 1st Pentacle of Venus I found on the Internet. Wow. So power. Much Venus.

I like to make people happy. It’s a True Will thing with me. Part of the whole “I made the Stone, so now imma heal the World” schtick.

As you know, I focus on Jupiter talismans a whole lot when it comes to wealth magic. It’s part of the whole King and Kingdom thing, Jupiter is a major source of all things beneficial to humans in the flesh, including health, wealth, and peace.

But Jupiter talismans don’t help everyone. There are various hypotheses about why a Jupiter talisman may bring wealth to one person, and a house flood to someone else. These range from afflicted Jupiter in the natal chart, which is something I only barely understand, to people having father-figure issues or deeply ingrained fear of capricious vindictive rapacious sky daddies with loaded lightning bolts and a penchant for really good bourbons.

Fortunately for folks with Jupiter issues, we know that magicians can work with different types of forces to get similar results. On the Kircher Tree of Life, the sphere of Venus lies below the Sphere of Jupiter, indicating the harmonic resonance of the two spheres. In my own work with Venus, I saw she expressed a similar kind of grace that also resulted in the good favor and blessinggs that come from the Jupiter force integration, and also the wealth that comes from being well liked by people in power. Also, she’s freakin’ Venus… womb of all that is pleasurable and luxurious, neh?

So I started poking around, and figured I’d start with the Pentacles of Venus from The Key of Solomon. I made my first prototype, a copper disk with the 1st Pentacle engraved on one side, and the 2nd engraved on the other. According to the manual, the first pentacle grants you the authority to control the spirits of Venus depicted on the other talismans, and the second is “proper for obtaining grace and honor, and for all things which belong unto Venus, and for accomplishing all thy desires herein.”

Original Prototype on Hand-made Copper Disk

In the consecration of this talisman, I got to meet the four spirits of the First Pentacle, Nogahiel, Acheliah, Socodiah and Nangariel. They are a rather dark lot, considering the things they represent. I blessed* the talisman itself so that the entities would work towards noble ends in the lives of those who use the talisman. It made a very noticeable difference right away in the quality of spiritual harmonics in the temple space.

I believe the four spirits of the 1st Pentacle of Venus are the ones who do all the works described in the other pentacles of the Venus. The system seems to be like a physical conjuration and statement of intent all at once. The 1st Pentacle is the conjuration of the spirits, and the rest of the pentacles of Venus are the statements of intent.

The process:

I made my copper disk in the hour of Venus on a Friday (to the annoyance of my neighbors, who don’t seem to appreciate metallurgy on the porch of the condo when their soaps are on or something… sorry neighbor!). The talisman itself is roughly oval shaped, an inch and a half tall by an inch and three-quarters wide. It’s slightly bowl-shaped, with Pentacle 1 on the convex side, and Pentacle 2 on the concave side. I did the engravings in the hour of Venus as well, if I remember right. I should really write this stuff down. I used my dremel tool with tungsten bits. The copper is harder to engrave than the silver, and much harder than the tin. Getting the technique down for the amount of pressure to use is an interesting experience.

Opposite Side of Prototype

The Second Pentagram includes a versicle in Latin around the outer edge of the pentacle. For the 4th Pentacles of Jupiter, I’ve been putting that on the back to avoid what happened with this Venus talisman: I ran out of room around the edge. Sigh.

I did what they did with the Magic Circle in the Lemegeton’s Goetia, continued the versicle in a spiral moving inward. Then I engraved the circle and pentagram and seals within the room that was left, and really, I wish I’d made a larger disk so I could avoid this issue. A 2″ by 2″ disk would probably have solved the problem.

As it is, I managed to get the symbols into the seal, and it looks … well, it looks okay, but it’s not a piece of art. Fortunately, ugly talismans work. The power comes from the spirits and the symbols, not the aesthetics, thank god.

Mmmm, and speaking of which… I must say, I love this talisman’s power. It is warm and inviting, it is gentle and potent. I can feel it moving through my sphere, making the Venus-related forces I’ve already worked with and integrated into my sphere tingly and warm, responding in awesome harmonies. I’m looking forward to playing with this one for a while.

If you’re interested in making one of your own, the seals can be found at this link, and I recommend conjuring the spirits using a system like the one I describe in the Modern Angelic and Modern Goetic Grimoires during the consecration. If you’re making it with paper, I’d use a really dark green ink for everything but the versicle, which should be in red.

Now More Beautiful

If you’re interested in purchasing a Venus talisman, I’ve set up a link on my Talismans page. Also, in addition to the wealth and prosperity aspects, it’s a super potent Venus talisman that, well, you know… It makes for the really good sexzor manifestations, and teh lurves! Everyone wants teh lurves!

These are now in production with much nicer copper disks from the Key of Solomon Pentacles page:

http://headforred.blogspot.com/p/key-of-solomon-talismans.html

Or free if you do it yourself.

Just pointing that out for folks who get their undies in a bunch at the idea that I’m charging for this stuff. I charge for my time, experience, and occult skills, but only after telling folks how to do it themselves, for free.

* Jason told me things would be different when I worked with angels and demons after receiving ordination, and he was totally right. Things are different for priests than they are for other people. I’m liking this “Direct the Light of God as you see fit” thing a lot.

Well, I created the RO Page at Facebook today. I was going to wait, but part of the Crucible 2013 lessons learned was that there’s no point in waiting for stuff to be perfect before you do stuff you need to do. Eventually, I plan on having millions of global fans reading my stuff, learning about Hermetics, and using the techniques in their daily lives… And for that, I’ll need the RO professional page rather than my personal person page. So please, if you’re on my FB list of friends, head over and Like that page!

I’ve already posted Part One of the Crucible Presentation there. For now that’s the only place you’ll be able to find it until I get around to recording Part Two. Which could be tomorrow, or possibly, you know… not tomorrow.

Wow, I am in a super busy time of my life.

Crucible was October 26, and Harper and I had a blast! I got to hang out with a couple of my favorite Thelemites from Dove and Serpent in Atlanta Friday night, and then in the morning we got to meet Deb at brunch! Sister Deb is every single bit as graceful and charming in person as you would think from reading her blog and her book. Also in attendance were at the pre-Crucible brunch were Jason Miller and Jason Colwell, Andrieh Vitimus, Shawn and his lovely wife Liz.

Then …

Heh heh heh…

Then after that, Harper and I were ordained as Priests. More on what that means to me, you, and the rest of the people on the planet later. Jason, Shawn, and Liz put together an awesome rite for Harper and I and it was beautiful and powerful. I left all a-buzz, and eager to inject the Light of God into anything that didn’t move out of the way quickly enough.

I was on a couple of panels then, and they’ll pop up on Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole. I got to see Maggi Setti speak on relationships, and Jason Miller speak on sex magic (of course), and Andrieh’s intro to information-based magics.

And in the midst of that, I got to give my presentation on Ecstatic Hermetics. I confess, I was super disappointed in my presentation. I had some technical difficulties I couldn’t quite shake, and I couldn’t manage to tap into that ecstatic Hermetic current I was so full of the year before. I thought it would just come naturally, and be on when I wanted it, and it just… wasn’t. It was not the Earth-shattering kaboom I had wanted it to be, for sure.

In part it was due to the technical issues, and in part due to Mercury retrograde. Mostly, though, I was nervous through the whole thing because I hadn’t planned it very well. I had planned on candles and incense for the rite, which isn’t allowed in the hotel. I had planned on using a projector for the presentation, and I couldn’t find the right cable for the computer I had. I had planned on being slightly drunk for the drunken magus style presentation, but didn’t have time to hit the bar because of technical difficulties. So I was a little disappointed through the whole thing.

The worst thing was that I was trying to put about two and a half hours worth of dense, advanced material into an hour-plus presentation while leaving enough room for the conjuration of Hermes Chthonios at the end. Poor planning, for sure. But I really wanted to give that presentation, so I’m breaking it into two parts and recording it now. Part One is now available on authorstream, and I’ll make it available in a separate blog post.

And we had a conclave of Gents for Jupiter this year. Pretty much. There were about 8 of us at Crucible, and we had an amazing time! It was great to hang out with everyone in person. Sam and Justin, Jesse and Jessica, Harper, Jason, Andrieh, and myself… I think that was everyone that was there. It was heavy.

There are pictures of me at Crucible on my facebook page. I’d like to post pics of the Gents and the ordination, but there are folks who need to be discreet about their involvement in the occult in the photos. Let me just tell you it was amazing, and you’ll have to take my word on it for now.

And it was a learning experience. I’ve been putting off launching the ROpocalypse in full because I wanted everything to be perfect. And I realized this year at Crucible that things don’t have to be perfect to get going. They just have to get going to get going.

So that’s what’s going to be happening around here over the next few weeks. Things are already set in motion, and it may not be perfect right out of the gate, but it’ll be movement towards the goal. And that will do nicely.

Ok, so you know I put a lot of emphasis on astrological influences, and especially on the thinned veil that is beneficial when you conjure a spirit in its planetary hour on its planetary day. It’s been super-effective for me, and I have a whole system based on planetary hours that I used to, ahem, create the philosopher’s stone, and accomplish the Great Work.

Yeah, ahem, that.

What you may not know is that I spent a few hundred bucks on a software program that has every bell and every whistle necessary to create the awesome talismans I sell over at my Products web page*. That program has already paid for itself, and I have no regrets.

I use it to generate Genius and Evil Daimon names, mostly, for various elections. When I want something to go really well, I’ll generate a chart based on when it started and make offerings and otherwise empower the Genius of the moment to encourage the desired outcome.

Likewise, for things I want to fail, I’ll do the same for the Evil Daimon. Because fuck the shit I want to fail. Fuck it right up the ass with no lube.

The software comes with all kinds of perks that I don’t regularly use though. These include interpretation reports that are based on modern astrology methods, and cool looking charts. These reports and charts are not as useful or weighty as the kind of thing you’d get from a professional astrologer. My current favorite pros are Austin Coppock and Christopher Warnock. If you want a detailed analysis of your personal chart, go see those guys.

But if you just want a fun and quick look at the highlights of your chart, I’ve got this software that generates it automagically. So I’m offering you the output of the program, at $35 per chart. You can select the chart graphic you want from my page, and you’ll get a 22-25 page interpretation of the election you give me. It’s mostly for interesting/entertaining purposes, though I’ve found it pretty useful myself. I’d still totally recommend going with a professional human, but if you’ve got an extra $35 you can spare on a quick and easy automated interpretation of your life, it’s worth it.

So if you’re interested, CLICK THIS LINK and pick a chart graphic, and I’ll send you the interpretation file this software package generates. Totally affordable, totally interesting. Totally worth it.

* Note, when the text is red, or when you hover over the text and it turns into a hand icon, you can CLICK THE LINK to see what cool stuff I’m pasting a link to. For your benefit, and my profit. That’s how it works. Links on my site are RED until you visit them.

It’s no wonder you’re a cynic, after all.

Things start going badly early.

The first thing to go is Faith. Parents fuck it up by telling kids things will be a certain way, and then reneging on it. We’ll have ice cream if you’re good, I’ll get it for your birthday, next time, sweety, yes I’ll be there when you need me, no, I won’t get mad, I’ll be done in a minute…

Then it’s society. In school, we get punished by the authorities for other people’s mistakes from an early age. Sometimes it’s Johnny who didn’t bring in his slip, so the ice cream party is cancelled, other times Suzy puts the tack on the teacher’s chair, and he blames you. We see the police beating the people they are supposed to protect, we see the military bombing civilians, and reports of governments abusing their people, and we realize that yes, that can happen to us, and we are unsafe in our own lands because our own protectors are thugs with guns and clubs itching to use them because they are animals at best, and more often, simply monsters in human form.

And with that often falls our faith in divinity. The priests and pastors who teach a loving, righteous, just god, who also tell you you’re going to hell for having sex while they themselves are pederasts. They craft anti-gay legislation, appealing to their conservative base during the day, and hire underage male prostitutes for rough trade at night. They exhort you to give for the poor, and drive convertibles and wear $900 suits. And inevitably, they are revealed to be white-washed sepulchres, having the appearance of cleanliness on the outside, yet stinking of death and corruption within.

As the faith goes, you learn to lean instead on Hope. You can’t trust anyone, but you can at least build something better for yourself. As soon as you can, you’ll build your own life, within the confines of the hypocrites’ societal bars, sure, but you’ll find a way to make it right. You’ll establish your own home, a base of operations, and from there you’ll change the world! And you’ll find others like yourself, others who have been betrayed, but are sick of the betrayal and will live honorably to correct the wrongs that were done to them…

But first you need a job, and you can’t have the job you want because you don’t have the experience. You have to earn your way up. And earning your way up the food chain means learning your place. And learning your place means you understand there is always someone better than you who you’ll report to, and you’ll see how hard it is to get what you want, and how quickly everyone is willing to turn on one another for a promotion, for cash, so they can maybe get a leg up on their retirement plan, because they know they can’t be happy while they’re young, and the last chance at a little joy in life before they die is if they manage to save enough to live out their days on before their bodies fall apart.

And the system you’ve got to work with, it’s so fucking rigged. The elite at the top are in power because they were born to it, and you see it, and you know it. There’s a sham system of equality and a social lie that anyone can become rich if they just work hard enough, long enough. Meanwhile it’s the same oligarchy that’s ruled the empire since Rome, small families that control the land, the resources, the finances, and the power, and they and their armed forces keep 90%, leaving the plebes to scramble and fight over the other 10%. And you see this, and you know that if you won, you’d still only be winning a meager slice of the pie, and you’d be as well off as the folks who don’t even try, really, so fuck it.

And as hope dies, we are left with Love. Ah, Love! In our idea of Love are mingled the last residual dregs of Faith and Hope. We can’t trust people to do what they say, and we can’t hope that anything will change or get better, but maybe that’s true of the majority of people, and the majority of the areas of our lives that generally suck, but somewhere out there is that one person who loves us, our soul mate, the person we can actually trust to put us above themselves, the person we can build toward our dreams with, the person who will also suffer the trials and tribulations of the world, but will be there to suffer through it with us, together, a united front!

And we fall in love, and we learn it again, that we cannot have Faith in anyone, because people lie to get what they want. We cannot hope for a better future, because even our lovers will leave us to fend for ourselves, after cheating on us, after convincing us to trust them. The people we yearn to be closest to abuse us, denigrate us, hate us, and we stay with them as long as we can stand it, changing and adapting ourselves to fit together with their damage until at last there is no faith, no hope, and no love, and we are alone in a world dominated by a system designed to keep itself alive by devouring you.

Yeah. No wonder you’re a cynic.

But…

However…

And yet, still…

Here you are, reading a blog post about Faith, Hope and Love. A post written by a guy who honestly believes that in spite of all the shit outlined above, things can get better. Because it worked for him.

Why are you here?

Because once in a while you’re awake at dawn, and you just happen to be in a place where you can see the sun rising in majestically over the land where you happen to be. Maybe it’s a misty valley, or a sunrise over the ocean, or the dawn over the skyline of the city, and you smell the crisp air, and you feel the heat of the rays of the sun, knowing they’re already 9 minutes old, scattering as they bounce off you, and the air, and the dirt under your feet, and the trees that are eating those rays after their 93 million mile journey to you, and you feel something stir, deep, deep down inside you.

And the truth is, you damned dreamer, you never lost any of it. Your Faith, your Hope, and your Love… they’re still there inside you, and that bitterness, that anger, that angst that compels you to shit on people’s happiness when it gets too bad, that’s the echo of these three things still striving within you, trying to get out, looking for something to anchor to in this world that has crushed your dreams. 

And that’s where it lies, the thing that you can trust, the thing you can hope to change your life for the better, the only person who can ever really love you, and the only person who deserves your love.

Deep inside you. Inside you. You. You. It’s watching and processing events, it has no attachment to any of it. That all comes later. It sends signals out, and you build your life around these signals, feeding it the experiences that result from your attempts to find happiness.

Who is it? What is it? Why is it here? What does it want? Why does it Love? What does it Hope for? How can it still have Faith after all its seen?

Answer that, and you’ll find the thing that fulfills every bit of Faith you have in it, manifests your every Hope, and returns your Love so fully you’ll have more than enough left over to share with the weary world you find yourself in.

My answers, they came from Hermetics. That’s the path I teach and preach. It works really well, for me, and for those like me. It cured my cynicism, healed my bitterness, and cast out all the pain and misanthropy I’d managed to accrue.

Well… most of the misanthropy. There are still far right conservatives that occasionally piss me right the fuck off. 

But these days it’s because I happen to know for a fact that we can do better. 

Whosoever therefore shall know himself, shall know all things in himself; especially he shall know God, according to whose Image he was made; he shall know the world, the resemblance of which he beareth; he shall know all creatures, with which he Symbolizeth; and what comfort he can have and obtain, from Stones, Plants, Animals, Elements, Heavens, from Spirits, Angels, and every thing, and how all things may be fitted for all things, in their time, place, order, measure, proportion and Harmony, and can draw and bring to himself, even as a Loadstone Iron – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book III, chapter 36

I’ve done better. I’ve seen others do better. It’s not that hard.

It’s a process. Love yourself, that’s the first step, love yourself because you’re amazing and the best you this planet’s ever seen. From there you pick up a little hope, as you learn how awesome you really are. You’re an image of God, you’ve got resources you never learned about, power you haven’t tapped that people tied into the system can’t imagine, let alone control. You can change things, and achieve the goals you hoped for. You’re a representation of a divinity that can’t fail the way others have failed you. You can have faith in your skills, faith that is proven in the results that come in as short a time period as two short weeks. It’s not impossible.

I’m happy to announce that I’ve made some updates to the rufusopus.com web site. I’m getting things closer to being ready to roll out the ROpocalypse! Bwahahahaha!

The final schedule has been posted for the 2013 Crucible Convention! I’ll be speaking Saturday Night from 8:30-10:00 PM.

I’m really excited about this year’s Crucible. One might even say I’m ecstatic about it. I’ve got things planned behind the scenes that will set about the full-scale launch of the ROpocalypse!

But that’s not entirely your business. What IS your business is this:

Crucible is a freaking steal! It’s only $35 to pre-register, or $40 at the door. That’s incredible! I will never charge so little for tickets to see me speak in public, I guarantee.

And you aren’t just seeing me. This year’s lineup includes Jason Miller, Andrieh Vitimus, Maggi Seti, and a bunch of other folks. Jason and Maggi will be presenting different aspects of love and sex magic, Andrieh’s going to be laying out the groundwork of Information Magic, and there’s a whole world of awesome other stuff to pick from.

Jason Colwell, co-host of Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole will be moderating the Discussion Panels, which I will totally be participating in. One is about hexencraft, the other’s about the things we do in our daily practice as awesome magicians. Jason C.’s got his own talk this year too, on Paranormal Investigation and Supernatural Self Defense, which should be pretty interesting with his years of experience in paranormal investigations.

Check out the full schedule at this link. Honestly, there’s a huge buffet of experience to enjoy at Crucible. The Omnimancers put on an amazing conference, and they charge about 25% what it’s worth, and make back almost what they put into it. This is totally a labor of love on Arthur’s part.

The only difficulty with Crucible is picking who to go see. Fortunately you can order video of the presentations you miss. If we blow the doors off attendance, maybe next year we can talk Arthur into having two tracks over two days, eh? You’d pay $125 a ticket for that, wouldn’t you? I would. I totally would.

So come on, folks, come and join me in Jersey. Witness the transformation of the frightened self-conscious geeky RO into the Magus of the ROpocalypse in person!

Er… well…

Something like that. I suspect there will still be some geekery remaining after the transformation.

Here’s the blurb/outline of what I’m planning on talking about. If I get a vision from God, I promise it will all change, but this is the blurb/outline of my PowerPoint so far:

Nothing but AN EYE: The Mysteries of Ecstatic Hermetics

Taking the title from Aleister Crowley’s “Broomstick Babblings” in the Book of Lies as the theme, in this year’s R.O. Crucible experience the good Frater explores what EYE we secretly are, deep within, and the methods of opening that eye through the application of Ecstatic Hermetics.

Entertaining, practical, and hopefully life changing, RO’s presentation will cover the necessary framework, methods of passing within, and some of the things he’s picked up along the way. RO focuses on providing the practical techniques that most people can use to replicate the process and the experiences he’s been through, because it’s secretly the most fun he ever had in his life and the only thing he thinks is worth passing on to anyone else.

Included this year (unless everything changes):

• Hermes and the ecstatic mysteries
• Wielding the Wand: Mystery of the Caduceus
• WTF is Drunken Magus Style?
• The Funky Monkey
• Skipping Witches and Hopping Toads

If all goes according to plan, we’ll wrap things up with an eye-opening conjuration, and hopefully, drinks at the bar.

Curse the fuck out of ’em!

Also: VOTE.

I tend to vacillate between being “if you didn’t vote, it’s your fucking fault” and “if voting could change anything it would be illegal.”

But… the only way you can choose whether to vote or not on election day is if you’re registered. There are 1500 elections coming up, and the deadlines to register to vote in them are happening now. Here’s a comprehensive list of VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES BY STATE. Tick tick!

Also, if you need to register to vote… REGISTER TO VOTE. I’m registered in the Florida Pirate Party, of course.

One of the things I regularly forget to do that I really should not forget to do are my personal empowerment exercises. I’m not talking about affirmations here, I’m talking about the kinds of exercises that make me a more powerful magician.

The kind of magician who shoots fireballs out of his hands!*


But that’s not really what I’m talking about. I’m talking about much more practical magic. Like if someone has a loved one in a dangerous situation and needs help right now, it’s not a good time to need to wait two weeks for a manifestation. I agree with Jason Miller’s “Emergency magic is bad magic” point, but in real life, emergencies happen, and it’s too late to start a year-long process of attaining Knowledge and Conversation with your Holy Guardian Angel when a kid needs help right frickin’ now.

Hand-Engraved under by the Flamen Dialis

I’ve noticed over the last year or so that I have managed to get some pretty amazing results on a pretty regular basis. I did a “Good luck on that” rite for a guy in Belgium, and the next day he won €2000 at the races. He turned around and put some of those funds right back into the Jupiter-Mercury Wealth talisman I’m offering. Wise choice, in my opinion. I think I’m under-charging for those.

Part of my increased success has been some initiatory stuff I went through when we did the Seven Spheres in Seven Days last year. That blew the doors off and prepared me to receive some major advancements. As soon as I finish the manuscript and get it over to Nephelim Press, I’ll be selling a printed rewrite of the Gates Rites and having 6-week sessions that you can participate in, and you’ll be able to see for yourself.

But mostly it’s because now that I’m out of a bad relationship, I’ve got the attention to pay towards the thing that matters the most to me: my personal attainment, understanding, and empowerment. You know, the Great Work.

And it’s a lot like working out. The more regularly I work out, the higher my metabolism gets. Even just 20 minutes of cardio a day and some weight training is enough to keep pushing my metabolism up, and making the pounds go down, and the body shape get closer to my ideal. I’m not killing myself here, I’m just doing some maintenance stuff that feels great to do, and it’s awesome!

Also like working out, I target different muscle groups each time. I cycle through the planetary spheres regularly, especially while doing the Hermetic Diagnosis stuff for clients, but also just for myself. I look for weaknesses in each of the spheres, and spend time balancing thigns out so I’m a well-rounded magician, capable of noticing the forces at work in my life when they’re spinning out of control. I noticed that as I’ve been working with Harper as the Seer** during our conjurations, I’ve slacked off in the Lunar sphere a bit when it comes to seeing the spirits for myself. Monday I spent some time going deeper into her Sphere, and got some key pieces of information and exercises to perform from the spirits themselves.

Note I’m not perfect at any of this stuff, and not as consistent as I’d like to be… which is another way this is like working out. I aim to work out daily, six days a week, but I only make it to the gym around four times a week most weeks. I try to cycle through each of the planetary spheres regularly, but I also get immersed in my writing, web site development, client work, and the stresses of daily life, just like everyone else, and miss the planetary hour, or am just wiped out by the time it rolls around again.

And I miss the rite, and then I suffer the consequences. Weird shit pops up in my sphere that I am not prepared to handle, and it takes a while to work through it materially, or to find a fast-acting spirit readily available, and then I’m stuck hiring out the local available mercenaries instead of using my custom selected crack team of commandos … which can be great, if you know where to go, but still… not the ideal scenario.

So do the Work, Magi. Put together a regular routine of empowering rites. Conjure the spirits and intelligences, and go ahead, ask them to make you more powerful, more skillful, more adept at working with the forces they represent.

Those fireballs aren’t going to shoot themselves.

* I can’t do that yet, and I haven’t met anyone who can. I’ve seen some videos of people who looked like they could do stuff like this, but you know… videos. Even if you want to believe it, you can’t all the way. Even seeing it in person, I’d be skeptical. I’ve known too many magicians. Until I can do it myself at will, it will remain something I doubt can be done… But that doesn’t mean I won’t keep trying. Because fucking fireballs! Right?

** Harper’s got a blog where she explores what it is to be a Seer. One of the main questions I get from students is “how do I hear/see the spirits?” Harper’s experiences as a Seer are some of the most helpful lessons I’ve seen in learning to sense the influences of the spirits, and I encourage you to explore her posts for yourself.