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Hey-O! It’s Pimp my Friends Monday! This won’t be a regular thing, it just happens to be Monday, and I happen to have friends, and they’re doing cool shit, and you should be aware and take advantage!

Next on Pimp my Friends Monday, we turn to Jason Miller’s Strategic Sorcery Cycle 12. He’s putting together something special for Imbolc in this cycle, which is cool, but he’s also partnering with Occult of Personality to provide 3 months free membership and access to a ton of occult materials as part of this cycle’s lessons. He explains the details in the link above.


I’ve taken and thoroughly enjoyed the Strategic Sorcery course. I can’t tell you how many of my favorite and most skillful students have taken both my courses and Jason’s. They’re my favorite students because they actually do the magic that we talk about. They put it directly into practice. They conjure, they sommune, they direct, they initiate, they integrate, and they shape their worlds according to their wills. There’s something special about the Strategic Sorcery course that really brings it home that magic is what magicians do. 


So this is yet ANOTHER thing I can’t recommend enough. Take advantage of the course offer while you can, the next cycle of courses starts February 1st!

Hey-O! It’s Pimp my Friends Monday! This won’t be a regular thing, it just happens to be Monday, and I happen to have friends, and they’re doing cool shit, and you should be aware and take advantage!

Next on Pimp My Friends Monday, we head to Glastonbury in the UK to see Sef putting together something seemingly rare in the modern occult community: a group of Thelemites actually practicing magick! 

I shouldn’t joke, I know, but for many years the main complaint I’ve heard from my Thelemite friends in the OTO is that for all the talk and discussion and engineering and conversation that goes into the Theory of magick among Thelemites, no one ever does any magic! People can talk for hours about Crowley’s arrangement of the paths on the Kircher Tree, and lots of people have lots of opinions about the operations Crowley performed, but when you start asking them what kind of magickal operations they’re currently working on, you get responses ranging from uncomfortable silence to cold hard stares and the psychic knowledge that their magickal operations will shortly be the preparation of your Greater Feast, thanks for asking.

Sef isn’t a sit on your hands and bitch about people kind of magician. He’s more into fixing things. To that end, he’s been training magicians and witches in the UK to actually perform magic. (With and without a k.) He’s already held successful angel magic workshops, and is now putting together something designed specifically for Thelemites who want to learn to actually DO MAGICK instead of sitting around talking about it all the time. He won’t be tossing a bunch of noobs into heavy conjurations without the prerequisite establishment of a firm foundation in Theory, of course, but he will be sneakily getting more people focused on the PRACTICE part of Magick in ways that will knock your proverbial socks off.

So once again, I highly recommend this course. I’ve known Sef for entirely too fucking long, and I guarantee there will be benefits and boons from taking lessons from him personally that you simply will not receive from anyone else. Ever.

Hey-O! It’s Pimp my Friends Monday! This won’t be a regular thing, it just happens to be Monday, and I happen to have friends, and they’re doing cool shit, and you should be aware and take advantage!

First, Michael Cecchetelli’s Abrasax book! That thing is awesome. I took it with me to Florida and read through it with my love, and man, it’s amazing. I do NOT recommend reading it aloud to one another, the Voces Magicae become tongue twisters quickly! Also, the air tends to get a little thick, which I don’t think is a bad thing at all, but some people might not be up for that kind of vibe.

It is a fine balance of being well-researched and extremely practical. Like all his works, Michael continues to provide the pleasant mix of elaborate techniques and processes that appeal to the more cerebral types AND the down and dirty quick-action rites that appeal to folks who are looking for quick means to quick results. I prefer my rites short on words and formula and heavy on spirit-conjure and experience, and I found plenty of rites that I could perform on the go with little preparation. At the same time, I’m looking forward to more experiments performing the longer rites with friends.

He includes an interesting mudra, the Coronastrum. I have enjoyed experimenting with it since learning about it, and I’m looking forward to more use. It projects the currents I’m learning to control from the Eight Sphere Work I’m doing really nicely.

One thing he doesn’t mention in the text about it near the graphic that would have been useful for me to know is that the picture he shows is how it looks when facing OUT. That is, if you’re looking down at your hands trying to make them look like the Coronastrum, you’re uh, you’re going to have a bad time. You may not have that problem, I might be an idiot, I don’t know. But yeah… palms OUT.

One more comment on the quality of this book: Both versions are very nice, extremely fucking nice, in fact, a biliophile’s wet dream come true. I love Nephilim Press, the quality of their work is great.

But honestly, there’s a quality of this book they can’t tell you about. I’ll let you in on a little secret, Michael is a fellow member of an exclusive cult of Jupiter that I’ve mentioned a time or two. As a result, his prosperity rites have a tendency to have a certain added extra … “oomph,” shall we say? I recommend buying the more expensive version of the book if they have any left because it won’t matter a bit. Perform one of the prosperity rites, and odds are pretty fucking incredibly high that you will more than make back what you spend on this book. Unless you personally fuck up the manifestation process. And even that would be difficult.

So yes, I heartily recommend this book.

Wow! I just finished my first run-through of Austin Coppock’s 2013 Astrological Almanac, subtitled Ship of Fools. It’s incredible. The material is entertaining as well as interesting and useful. And scary accurate. 

To accomplish the Great Work and reclaim your divine status for free without purchasing any of my materials:

1. Read Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Volume 3, Chapters 20, 21, 22, and 26.
2. Determine the name of your Genius.
3. Conjure your Genius using The Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals
4. (Alternately, obtain Knowledge and Conversation with your Holy guardian Angel)
5. Ask for and receive a Solar Initiation
6. Conjure the Archangels of the Planetary Spheres, beginning with the Moon and working your way up through the spheres. Request initiation into their spheres, and the integration of the forces they represent within your own sphere. Refer to Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Volume 2, Chapter 13 for the names of the spirits to conjure. Refer to the Magical Calendar for their seals, and again use The Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals for the methodology.
7. Repeat the previous step a lot. Each time you go through an initiation into the spheres, you will get something deeper. Note that this phase can go on for years.
8. As you receive initiation and empowerment, use the information, instruction, and abilities you gain to change the world around you to align it to your Will. You will gradually discover this Will as you continue to go through the Seven Spheres.
9. When you are ready, conjure Iophial of the Sphere of the Sphere of the Fixed Stars, or the 28 Spirits of the Mansions of the Moon to receive training, initiation, and integration of the lessons of the Eighth Sphere.
10. Continue the process and continue to be refined as your innate internal god-ness manifests in the material realm.

Note that Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Trithemius’ Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals, and the Magical Calendar are available online for free at Esoteric Archives.

Well, it looks like a lot of people have decided in December and the New Year to join the Black Work course! Awesome!

But I haven’t had a chance to get it set up yet, I’ll get that done tonight.

Folks ordering Hermetic Diagnoses, they’re taking forever to get done. Sorry! But I have a list, I check it twice, and I’m getting it cranked out ASAP. I don’t think I’ll ever get caught up at this rate. I might need an assistant. I finish one, and get two more orders. I may have to put a moratorium in place until I get caught up.

If you’ve ordered something other than a Hermetic Diagnosis from me and haven’t received it, let me know.

Good Morning!

I spent the night last night doing what I want to be doing for the rest of the New Year, hanging out with loved ones, drinking, laughing, enjoying awesome fireworks huge and right off the balcony, and diving deeper and deeper into the enjoyment of my life, moment by moment.

I hope you had as great of an evening as I had, and if not, remember you can start over again today. No penalty. Loved ones. Booze. Fireworks. Deeper dives, deeper dives into the moment.

Wherever you find yourself this morning, know that you are personally blessed with happiness, prosperity, joy, health, and attainment by at least one living god. May you manifest all that you desire this year, brothers and sisters, and may you find your life comes easy, and comes often!

I have a positive outlook on life, and I have found that this perspective, in turn helps me have a pretty positive life as a result. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. I expect life to be awesome because I can see how awesome life has been to me. I’ve experienced it, so I expect it, and sure enough, I find it.

But I have a positive outlook on life because I have shit work out in my favor all the time. It’s really easy to be happy when you lead a charmed life. I’d like to give you examples, but I sound like I’m bragging if I do, and that’s not cool. I’ve written it up a couple times, and the level of awesome in what’s happened is so huge, I can’t put it in any kind of nonchalant wrapping that makes it look like anything but braggadocio.

See, even that sounds terribly arrogant. Everybody doesn’t lead a charmed life. Some people are in a lot of pain all the time. Some people are depressed, or have other forms of mental illness in varying degrees. I posted this picture the other day on FaceBook:

Fictional Life is Fictional

And one of my friends who is aware of the reality of mental health issues rightly pointed out that this isn’t possible for a lot of people with depression. And he’s totally right, this is a fictional character from a sit-com. It’s entertainment, not real life.

This is a fictional character, but wouldn’t that be awesome if it were possible to just do that?

For most people, people who aren’t clinically depressed, most of the time it is possible. You just have to keep in mind that the quote up there is a summary of a lot more steps because it’s funnier to say it that way, and it reflects Barney’s character*.

You can go from sad to awesome for one very simple reason: shit works out. It’s a basic principle of the universe at large. Sooner or later the things that we’re worrying about work out. We make more money, we get what we need, the source of the problem goes away, something happens, and next thing you know you’re not worried about issue A, you’re totally focused on issue B, which has taken priority… Because shit worked out for issue A.

Knowing that shit works out is important. Since shit will work itself out eventually anyway, you might as well get rid of it now, eh? Why keep it around any longer than necessary? Fuck it, out the door!

First, you have to figure out what’s making you sad. That’s not as easy as it sounds. Hell, sometimes people don’t even know they’re sad in the first place, let alone why they’re sad. It can be anything.

A good way to figure this out is to say to yourself, “God, I fucking hate …” and then finish the sentence. You’ll be surprised how quickly the brain leaps to fill in the blanks. Track that down and analyze it, where did it come from, no matter what it was. What do you hate about it, why do you hate it, how do you hate it, how long have you hated it?

Then look at what you can do about whatever’s making you sad. Can you kill it? End it? Destroy it? Or maybe… fix it? Transform it, heal it? Is it a valid thing, or is it maybe you that’s broken and you should maybe transform and heal yourself? What approach do you want to take to get rid of the sadness?

This is where magicians have an “in.” See, we understand the chain of manifestation. We can see what kind of magic we need to do to accomplish the desired change. We know the paths of the the Devil, Temperance, and Death. We know the way to awesome lies through the gate of the Sun. We can craft the solution and implement it, transforming or eliminating the sad thing.

And when it’s gone, we can make sure that what takes its place is something that is good, something we find to be awesome.

But even though it’s that easy, it’s not that simple, is it. I have a friend who I nearly stopped talking to over the autumn. He’s in a bad situation, and has told me about how terrible it is for years. We talked about magical solutions to his issues, and he implemented some brilliant strategies. He crafted this awesome set of rites to get rid of what made him miserable, and they worked beautifully…

And he freaked the fuck out. I can’t get into details, but all of a sudden the threat of that thing that makes him miserable being taken from him drove him insane. He undid all his magic. He could have said one sentence and ended a terrible situation, and instead he ensured that he would continue to suffer for years.

And then he tells me he’s sick of his magic not working. I almost crawled through the phone to kill him myself. I couldn’t talk to him for weeks. I was disgusted that he would do all that magic, have this amazingly obvious supernatural sequence of events happen to get him exactly what he asked for specifically, and then ruin it all at the last second.

Eventually I got to wondering how many times I’ve done that same thing. And I realized yeah, that sucks, but shit. People. We fuck up.

The results we think we want scare the shit out of us when they show up and explain that, oh yeah, everything in your world is going to change now, and you don’t know how it all ends for sure. It might all end badly!

But it might all end awesomely too! Especially when you have invisible friends who help, secret occult practices that give you an advantage, and ready access to several kinds of alcohol!

In fact, I promise you that if you do magic to get rid of or transform the things in your life that aren’t awesome, you will find yourself growing in confidence that you can, indeed, go from being sad to awesome. Because shit works out.

* Barney, who is a …

wait for it…

wait for it…

awwww yeah, here it comes…

a magician!

Mage-five, come on!