Xaos Magickx

I am thumbing through a book on Chaos Magic by Adrian Blackthorne, who is a member of the Gallery of Magick. As my powers have grown, and as I have grown disenchanted with the public Magical Orders, I have found chaos technique more appealing. Less tools, less ingredients and, sometimes, none of either. That time I cast a spell to see a black woman in an orange dress--to have it fulfilled in an hour--taught me a huge amount about magic, and myself. The only difference between my results and those that a Master would achieve is that a Master's would have been fulfilled faster. And that would be not because his skill is greater, but because he stands in a different relation to Time than I do. I was an hour early. A Master would be right on time. I am not entirely sure, myself, how to arrive in the midst of my departing. That's a lot of NOW-ness that I have not got. But, nonetheless, Chronos-a-mercy and the krik don't rise, Time is a huge key to working magic, as well as astrology. Chronology and clockery measure the QUANTITY of time. But only Astrology measures the QUALITY of time. Frawley has a chapter on this in REAL ASTROLOGY. And to make use of the QUALITY of time can be the province of magical practice. It may be that stripping away all of the fripperies of magic, as Chaos Magic does, permits one to focus on this QUALITY of time better.

Oh, and by "magic" here, I mean that variety of needajob, needafuck, needsomecash, needaflat, etc. magic. Practical stuff. You will not coax gold from lapis, bring a dead plant back to life (this is the same as making a living ens), or look into the Mirror of Nature with Chaos Magic. The method must match the goal. As I once spontaenously said to one of my younger students when I first started teaching: "My son, we cannot build the Eternal Temple of Adonai out of chicken nuggets."

A Perspective on Mainstream Muslim Culture

From CBS Philly

Milo Yiannopoulos: Islam Is The Problem

In the wake of the tragic shooting at a club in Orlando this weekend, Milo Yiannopoulos says Islam, not just extremists groups and terrorists, but the entire religion is responsible for violence against gay people and women.

Yiannopoulos, a writer for Breitbart, told Rich Zeoli on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT that he believes all of Islam propagates this type of hate and brutality.

“I’m not talking about Islamists. I’m not talking about terrorists. I’m not talking about radical Islam. I’m talking about mainstream Muslim culture. There are eleven Muslim countries in which I could be killed for being a homosexual. The state penalty is death. One hundred million people live in country where the penalty for homosexuality is death. This is not radical Islam. This is mainstream Muslim society. Look what’s happening in Sweden. Look what’s happening anywhere in Germany, anywhere there are large influxes of a Muslim population. Things don’t end well for women and gays. The left has got to make a decision. Either they want female emancipation and it wants gay rights or it wants Islam. It’s got to pick.”

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Medical Horaries, Pluto

A doctor and I recently went through a medical horary together, trying to figure out what the humoral imbalance was in the patient so that it could be corrected by treatment. I had never taken a horary in which the doctor had asked the question about the patient's condition and then cast the chart, himself. Doctor gets Lord 1, obviously. But where is the patient? As it turns out, the answer is: Lord 7. Here, the chart itself guided us to the answer.

I suspected Lord 7 -- Saturn -- was the patient, so I looked at him. I immediately noticed that the antiscion of Saturn was conjunct Pluto.

Me: Is the patient agoraphobic?

Dr. Yes, she is.

Me: We'll take Lord 7.

And then the condition of Lord 7's dispositor and its corresponding diagnostics matched the patient's condition. So that was that.

So, Pluto proves useful again. I have seen him signify basements, someone living in the basement, someone who never comes out of the house (agoraphobe), a controlling individual, elopement, and devilish/demonic things. Perhaps criminal or criminality.

On the controlling individual front . . . I am needing to hire a housecleaner for the lakehouse. I made contact with one woman, who told me she just moved to the area from California. She hasn't been able to make it over to give me an estimate. I asked a horary about whether I should employ her. Five degrees inside the 6th House cusp: Pluto. She's got a controlling boyfriend living with her. Bad sign.