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Another long patch of no writing, sorry… Good news: I’m back to work after being laid off for three weeks. Bad news: it’s because of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus that I’m back. My job (one of them) is to help administer COVID-19 saliva PCR tests at the airport. (I wrote about thisContinue reading “Magical Protection: Viruses, Demons and the Occasional “Karen””

A lot has happened since my last entry; much of what occurred has kept me from even being able to sit and think… At the end of June, on the same day, I turned 49 and I was let go from my job. Yeah, the cool one I wrote about earlier. Without warning. I don’tContinue reading “To and Back From the Forge…”

I was guest co-host on the Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour this past weekend. Maranda, my tarot reader friend, was the guest. We discussed and spelled about using tarot cards and imagery in magical work. Here’s the link if you want to listen… https://www.blogtalkradio.com/luckymojohoodoorootworkhour/2021/06/27/lucky-mojo-hoodoo-rootwork-hour-tarot-spells-with-miss-maranda-on-62721

Doc Bonewits said magical energy is fundamentally healing energy, if you are a Witch (Wiccan). He is both that and an EMT. He said magic is excellent for resetting bones, healing fractures, and stabilizing broken spines. He said it’s not so good for stopping bleeding, or ligament and tendon tears. He then shared how whenContinue reading “More on Magic..”

Many in the magical community, occultosphere, and in Paganism know of the contributions of Isaac Bonewits. He wrote Real Magic, designed the first university degree in magical studies, wrote a still invaluable guide on how to recognize a spiritual group as a cult, and founded many of the Druid orders in the US. He passedContinue reading “Notes from Paganistan: 2”

A late post, apropos of Mercury retrograde. But this came with a lot of long thought as well… Mercury/Hermes has long been a patron god of mine. Why he picked me, I’ll never know. But he shows up in dreams and trancework no matter what his disguise, eyes askew — like Thom Yorke of RadioheadContinue reading “Mercury and the Death Card”

I was a guest this past weekend on the Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour; we discussed the subject of hair and fingernails in magic, and hoodoo in particular. If you’d like to listen, here’s the recording… https://www.blogtalkradio.com/luckymojohoodoorootworkhour/2021/05/23/lucky-mojo-hoodoo-rootwork-hour-hair-and-fingernail-magic-w-doc-murphy-52321 Here are past episodes I’m either guesting or co-hosting: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/luckymojohoodoorootworkhour/2020/07/26/lucky-mojo-hoodoo-rootwork-hour-breaking-love-curses-w-conjureman-ali-72620 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/luckymojohoodoorootworkhour/2020/08/16/lucky-mojo-hoodoo-rootwork-hour-cemeteries-and-hoodoo-with-doc-murphy-81620 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/luckymojohoodoorootworkhour/2020/06/14/lucky-mojo-hoodoo-rootwork-hour-folk-religion-with-doc-murphy-61420

OK! So the long wait for this entry is because I started a new summer job and it has been eating my time and making me tired. In a good way. I’m helping administer COVID-19 tests at the airport, and it’s twelve hour shifts, mostly on my feet (yep, ow, been a long time sinceContinue reading “At Work: COVID, Bones, and Books”

Ink sketches made at SamB’s Studio in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. I have two art degrees (BA; MA). I wasn’t using them even though I work at an art school. I am now. It’s my first artmaking in over twenty years. Hail, Persephone. Welcome home, my Queen.

I’m completing this bit of writing as I look at the materials to make a vigil candle to call up the influence of the Hanged Man in the tarot. The Hanged Man is one of the more creatively interpreted images in the stack of cards and, in much the same way that what’s occult isContinue reading “On Liminality and the Hanged Man”