Dark duel: Algorab conjunct the Moon against some fancy gossipers

On the poetry of performing black magic on an excellent day, when the stars and the moon aligned just right.

HOW TO RECOVER WHAT YOU LOST

Last night I discovered that my standard cards, the hand-stenciled Jean Noblet Marseille Tarot (by Jean Flornoy) that I use for all my client readings, had gone missing. The horror, the horror. As it was past midnight, I was just about to go to bed, when I found myself in a frenzy, looking for them.Continue reading “HOW TO RECOVER WHAT YOU LOST”

DOMESTIC BY WAY OF MONKSHOOD

It was 2.22 last night when I came back into the log cabin after having witnessed the most epic and wondrous Perseids meteor shower in my life, while lounging on the porch on top of a mountain plateau in Norway. Fireballs were hitting the sky, and one huge green dragon with a red tail wasContinue reading “DOMESTIC BY WAY OF MONKSHOOD”

STELLAR MAGIC

Inspired by a photo posted on my Facebook wall that people liked a lot, featuring the sun in my mouth, I’ve decided to make explicit what I like to do even more than offer standard readings of cards, tuition, or the crafting of cards of enchantment. Stellar magic. On a grand scale. The royal type. TheContinue reading “STELLAR MAGIC”

THE ORACLE TRAVELS LIGHT

THE ORACLE IS HERE. GO GRAB IT. Available from all Amazon channels and others: US  UK  CA  DE  FR  IT  ES I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think. So far I’m greatly pleased by a very fine first review on amazon. Magical (scroll down to read it). The Oracle Travels Light: Principles ofContinue reading “THE ORACLE TRAVELS LIGHT”

ALGOL’S ABSINTHE

‘I’m making my own absinthe,’ I told a few friends at a conference in Oulu, Finland this week, ‘and I always use your sacred spirit, aka 60 percent Koskenkorva Vodka.’ What I should have said is that I don’t just make absinthe. I ritualize the making of it, so that when I will finally drink it,Continue reading “ALGOL’S ABSINTHE”

THE PATHETIC FALLACY

Where the problem of agency is concerned, as in cartomancy whose many rules have been derived from astrological correspondences, so in astrology. In classical astrology, as in classical fortunetelling, it is crucially important to know who is who and doing what to whom. How do we assign significators to the many actors playing a natal,Continue reading “THE PATHETIC FALLACY”