Book and Cards Review – Animal Powers Meditation Kit

Animal Powers Meditation Kit: Spiritual Guidance from Your Totem Teachers by Monte Farber and Amy Zerner Zerner/Farber Editions, Ltd., 2006 43 pages, 12 cards, 1 CD, 12 pendants Reviewer: Lupa I have found the totemic answer to the “Teen Witch Kit.” There has been a recent fad ever since Silver Ravenwolf came out with her kit in 2004. A number of [...]

Book Review – Pop Culture Magick

Pop Culture Magick by Taylor Ellwood Immanion Press, 2004 ISBN: 978-1905713127 144 pages Reviewer: Eric “Daven” Landrum I’ll admit that when I first heard of this book, I was really skeptical. When it was published, I didn’t know Taylor, and I remember the calls that he was a sellout, a poser, and an idiot. That a book based on popular [...]

Book Review – Portable Magic

Portable Magic: Tarot is the Only Tool You Need by Donald Tyson Llewellyn Publishing ISBN: 978-0-7387-0980-2 230 Pages Reviewer: Taylor Ellwood When I read the first half of this book I wasn’t initially impressed. Tyson did a good job of covering the history of tarot and laying out the basics, but I wanted to know when the reader would get to [...]

News in Magick – January 2007

Obituary — Robert Anton Wilson January Birthdays New Book Releases Obituary — Robert Anton Wilson Fnord By The Sea, January 11, 2007 Robert Anton Wilson 1932 — 2007 by Nicholas Graham We have lost one of the great ones. At 4:50 a.m. local time on January 11, 2007, Robert Anton Wilson passed from this plane and into the realm [...]

Into the Aethyr – Belief and Metaphor

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. — Meridjet Paradigm Shifting and Reality Tunnels “‘Paradigm shift[ing]‘ has found uses… representing the notion of a major change in a certain thought-pattern — a radical change in personal beliefs, complex systems or organizations, replacing the former way of thinking [...]

Avete – A Little Rant About Antiquity

It still amazes me that some Wiccans insist on claiming that their religion has existed since time immemorial. That statement is only strictly true if we consider the 1940s to be too far back to recall clearly. Wicca, of course, is only one example of the general occult trend of ascribing antiquity to traditions and [...]

The Witches’ Pyramid, Part Two

Aleister Crowley said that the True Will is one of the crucial things a magician should know, since the True Will is the basis of the being. He goes on to talk at length about how True Will is the culmination of the basic core of the person. It is the most selfish part and is [...]

Legend of the Glyph, Part Two

Many people have been curious about our work with the glyph and have interacted with us on a number of levels in an attempt to understand what it is we’re doing. The following is the text of a sort of panel discussion in which these questions are addressed by the folks most intimately involved. Interviewer: [...]

The Dictionary Dilemma

Animal magic always has been and probably always will be my favorite form of esoteric study and practice. I’ve been fascinated by critters since I was barely old enough to toddle around on my own; I’ve had many pets, and I was always the kid out in the woods catching garter snakes. So it was no [...]

Evocations of Emotions

Recently, I decided to do a grieving ritual for my time in academia. I’d dropped out of my Ph.d in 2005 and for almost a year had not really had a chance to process the emotions over leaving under such circumstances. My wife had bought me the Voyager Tarot, and I needed to break it [...]

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