A strong case can be made for road opener magic being one of the most important magical skills you can master. Why? Well, no matter your goal, if the road is cluttered with obstructions, inner or outer, it’s going to be awfully hard to get where you’re going, and you can throw vast amounts of energy …
It’s amazing how much an hour can change everything. Last month I read Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation, and he talks about writing his first book during a time when he owned a bustling jazz cafe. After very long days at work, he’d write for an hour or two in the middle of the night, …
Last week, I was putting the final touches on a sigil working. I’d created multiple sigils, all keyed to a particular goal, and I’d chosen a day, planetary hour, and mansion of the moon that supported my aim. Only trouble was, Mercury was about to station retrograde, and its energy figured heavily into this working. Not …
I’m always nosy about other people’s spiritual practices, the stuff they naturally gravitate toward on a regular basis, not because they think they should but because they can’t not do those things. For me, writing is a key part of my daily spiritual practice and definitely something I can’t not do, but I also have cyclical rituals, …
Happy Full Moon! Today’s Moon is in Virgo, opposite the Sun in Pisces, so it’s the perfect time to talk about the interplay between the more meticulous, industrious approach of Virgo with the dreamier, come-what-may flow of Pisces. In my late 20s I learned web design (shout out to SitePoint, whose books taught me everything …
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This is my premium newsletter where we’ll be exploring all things magic + psychology… …specifically with the aim of helping us all cut through fear, procrastination, confusion, and other potholes littering the road to a life well lived, so we can spend less time tripping and more time living. We’re kicking things off this month with a …
When I was eight, I wrote a book called Monkey and Me about the adventures I had with my (imaginary) pet monkey. I remember illustrating the chapter pages with these little drawings, and I can still see the one of a tiny jump rope with bright yellow handles. Monkey and I–sorry, Monkey and me–were jumping rope in …
I’m pretty obsessed with the creative process–how it works, what gets in the way, and how creativity overlaps with magic. In recent months, I’ve been deliberately creating space for my unconscious to seep into my writing (and my other art), and today, on the New Moon in Pisces, I want to share how I use …
I recently read a book called Purple Crayons: The Art of Drawing a Life by Ross Ellenhorn, and it summed up magic in a way that I can’t imagine improving upon. Well, okay: the author is actually referring to the process of playing, but let’s see what happens when we swap magic for play: To …
Hands down, the most-used tool in my magical repertoire is something called the Inner Sanctuary. In a nutshell, your Inner Sanctuary is your home base on the astral, a place that you can visit in meditation and dreams. Why go to your Sanctuary? Where do I even begin! Here are just a few super awesome …
