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  • Magic – Because it Works

    Hey occulties, A muggle friend and I were chatting this weekend, and she asked me why I don’t curse people more often. My reply? “Because it works.” I then detailed specific incidents of said curses working too well. One thing even was national news. You’d have to ask me privately (I am not naming names…

  • Magic in the AI Age – avoiding bots for readings, magical advice, and articles

    Hey Occulties, If there is one thing that has been very unfortunate for true students of magic and the occult, it’s the rise of AI – at least at this writing. AI is neither psychic, nor a good judge of magic, does not know what makes a magic spell, and of course it has zero…

  • Hello my dear occulties, Today I'd like to discuss a topic which has come up frequently in the last few weeks betwixt myself and many different people (many of which have no contact with each other, so I take this as a sign discuss this with my dearest readers.) Now, let's start with stating the…

  • Hey Occulties, You would never have had to show me a chart to tell me it's Mars retrograde because as the title would tell you, the weaker-minded and more easily-influenced, the intellect-deprived, and the drama-lovin' stalkers are all out en masse picking fights they can't win or stirring up old ones they never settled. It's…

  • Hey Occulties, Today, I'd like to discuss "wrong ideas" people get in their heads about spellwork, the occult, etc., which this is not really going to be a finite list or near to it, but definitely some of the things I currently see all too often. So in no numbered order, here are some myths…

  • Hey occulties, Since I get this virtually every year, today I'm going to discuss the "magical provenance of Halloween." Let me smoosh this into a generic question (I've had SOOOO MANY of the same question for this every year, that I may as well,) and get discussing the topic. Q: Is Halloween/Samhain like a super…

  • So, a lot of friends who are self-employed and run small businesses have been complaining of crappy returns, while other (and sometimes the same) friends are complaining of having old secrets and old promises starting to haunt them. Well, both Saturn and Jupiter are in shadow and waiting to retrograde, and shadow periods are weirdly…

  • Hey there, Occulties, Since I’ve definitely signed myself up for more work than I ever should have with 13 more posts (well, 12 after this,) all having to go up on or before December 31 (all while working 14 hour days, because I just am a glutton for punishment,) I had a few days to…

  • Hey occulties! You knew this was coming. Perhaps you knew because I’m uncreative, and I tend to enjoy these types of posts, or perhaps you know it was coming because you reading right now personally asked me so many questions last week in an email (that I’ve not replied to,) that you KNEW I’d have…

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