Author Archives: drdeepdish

Being an occultist requires you to dig deep into your darkest places to find the wisdom you are keeping from yourself, buried like a pearl of great price by the gods who believe you’ll never find it. I didn’t expect that would take the form of me ending up ass-over-teakettle in my storage locker, lookingContinue reading “Unboxing Gnosis and Ghosts”

I was a guest on the new podcast “Mystics, Mages, and Magical Places” this past Monday evening… and what a great time. And what a great podcast.. We spoke about why magic works… https://www.blogtalkradio.com/lmcradionetwork/2023/05/01/mystics-mages-and-magical-places-episode-010–special-guest-doc-murphy

I spoke about Spellwork and Seasonality April 23rd with Miss Cat and Conjureman: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/luckymojohoodoorootworkhour/2023/04/23/lucky-mojo-hoodoo-rootwork-hour-spellwork-and-the-seasons-w-doc-murphy-42323

Gold/Red – Rubedo —  Perfection – Refinement It’s been a few weeks now since both my eyes were healed; I have bionic lenses now, and while I thought I’d be musing on perfection, which alchemical gold purports to be… I am sitting here writing in the tea bar with much better but imperfect vision. MyContinue reading “Alchemy of Vision, Pt. 2”

Pt. 1: Dross Dross is the accumulated crud of worldly existence that tends to weigh us down. It’s often also called lead. It stoops our shoulders. It wearies our soul. It clouds your vision. I began to notice something significantly wrong with my vision at Midsummer. What I had thought was a smooshy contact lensContinue reading “Alchemy of Vision (or, why this blog has languished…),”

I’m participating in Pagan Aqueducts, a generational discussion on issues in the Pagan community with Byron Ballard and Brian ODell.

Well, I’m back. I’m fine if you stopped paying attention; this is largely a writing space for me anyway. But if you did stop by, thanks. It’s good to see you here. And yes, I’ve been slapped around by the spirits as of late; but enough crazy has lifted than I now have the timeContinue reading “Back From the Underworld…”

In the months since my last entry, the COVID testing job has consumed my energy; I completed grant funded research successfully; I met, fell for, got ghosted by and reconnected with a man now waiting on a cancer diagnosis; one of my Fire Circle siblings died suddenly in a horrible accident; and my relationships withContinue reading “As the Light and I Return… Kind of..”

Well, I was initially going to write my typical “takeaways” post about the amazing Virtual Hoodoo Heritage Festival 2021 that I attended a couple of weekends ago… but time slips… and this COVID testing gig that I initially liked is now becoming really difficult. We’re getting more angry “Karens”, more temper tantrums from clients, moreContinue reading “A Rethinking of Shielding…”

I got an unexpected text from Domingo Saturday morning asking me about breakfast… and needing to get out. I don’t see him much, so I was happy to join him; I also know that there was magic to discuss because, well, that’s what we do. Domingo used to be a maker and purveyor of metaphysicalContinue reading “And This is Why We Do Conjure…”