Feb

Stealth Mode, The Shadow knows……

What evil lurks in the hearts of men, The Shadow knows – MWUAHAHAHA!

Poly wrote an interesting post about being not seen and I found it to be very amusing, as many of my youth was spent “not being seen” and having my own adventures.

Surprisingly, it’s not very hard for me to remain unseen – I mean I technically have all the features of a physically imposing fellar; tall, big, can carry himself in a fight if necessary – so essentially, I am physically “loud” but I can blend in a crowd no problem and I’ve been known to have quiet feet in which I can sneak up on people quite easily. I think I’ve learned and assimilated some of these “sneakily” techniques due to certain…..endeavors I did back when I was a bit younger which were not ideally in the “right” side of the moral compass. Nonetheless, I was pretty good at it.

Anyways, when I need to go on “stealth” mode – I ask myself, “What Would The Shadow Do?” and with that;

Plan and know the terrain; know where the paths less taken are, know where you can conveniently disappear. Have a plan.
Be flexible. Make sure you can change your appearance in 20 seconds; a hat here, a hidden hoody, inside out jacket. All to your advantage.
Introversion. Pull yourself in; most of the time, that is enough for people to not notice you.
Know in your heart that you belong in the place that you are at. To me, that is the key towards blending in towards a place or people. Once you start getting fidgety and worried, it will reflect on your body language and it will reflect on your aura.
Be cool. Even if you get caught, be cool and think through your situation – most of the time, by ensuring that you’re level headed, you will attract less attention and will be able to react accordingly.

As a street savvy youth, it was one of the things that got me out from a lot of trouble I didn’t want, it still does to this day. Being able to blend in a crowd, free to do your work, is a pretty nice tool to have in someones repertoire.

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Feb

Evolution Revolution

I recently watched an episode of “House MD” and he was talking about a case of how a cut-throat business speaker turned into the dark side and became a pro-feminine male speaker. Basically, he espouses that men can’t evolve into beings that are more than what their original hardware gave them – that we don’t have the means.

While I kinda do agree with that, that there are certain things in the human brain the governs and rules us (and not even taking the account of our DNA) and it’s no so easily change, I can still see a sliver of opportunity towards change.

The line from House and the recent “escapades” at Pantheacon regarding a ritual for “genetically” pure women.

Do I dislike her now that the stance was made? Not really, everyone is free to do whatever they want and if a gathering feels the need to exclude certain categories then that is their prerogative. Do I think that was a bad move? Sure, and there will be repercussions I suppose.

To me, it just shows an antiquated view in regards towards magick that should’ve been buried with those freakin multi coloured pants and shirts in the 80′s. If they want their tradition to ever flourish, they’d want to approach a more widespread appeal. I don’t normally lump my thoughts regarding these matters because, lets’ say, it takes two to tango. The host can exclude people, if that is their wish – and viewers can choose to start their own rituals or not show their support.

It is as simple as that.

Now, what really got me interested is the pure “genetic” woman. I mean really, what makes a woman? I can spew that a woman to me are like dames from the 40′s like Lauren Becall and men are (or should be, F* that metro-sexual shit) like Humphrey Bogart.

I mean, being a woman, is a set of variables that govern their thoughts and action – also certain parts. What is the difference between a genetically pure woman and a “created” woman. I mean I can go on with these and if we ever get to the future I wish to see; what of the eventual clones? or even our evolutionary counterparts?

I just wish people would employ the usage of understanding and proper thinking more…..

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Feb

Magick in Fiction

I do a lot of things, I start projects and I sometimes shelve projects but I trudge on – makes life interesting. One of them is my band, the other is writing – any type of writing to be more clear; I write blogs, I write short stories, I write haikus, I W R I T E.

It’s good practice for my band since I write most of the lyrics as well.

One of my favorite things to write about is noir; I love that whole genre, I think I was born in the wrong decade.

I finished writing an introductory short story about the character and the universe I was working on. It is about a private investigator who knows magick and uses it to give him an edge on cases, it’s set in a supernatural world unlike our own and while it does sound a bit like “The Dresden Files” (an influence but that’s all I’m taking from it) and many other books out there that is in the “urban fantasy” theme…..I’m taking some of my favorite things about other genres as well.

Anyways, when I am at this phase – I do alot of research; reading books, watching TV shows, watching movies in the same genres looking for inspiration and it got me thinking.

How is magick depicted in non-fiction?

There are big difference that I see sometimes like in Dresden Files for example, they call physical manifestation of elements “evoking” while I would call it “elementalism”. In the TV show, Supernatural, when they started binding demons with the “Enochian” language – my inner practitioner jumped in glee. Or that new WB tv show, The Secret Circle, where they need a full circle to do awesome spells.

Magick is slowly slinking in popular mainstream and the muggles aren’t even noticing it.

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Feb

A Witchs’ Jar Follow Up

I mentioned before that I created a Witchs’ Jar recently and I had an ongoing spell in it for my job hunting that was yielding some interesting results.

Anyways, I’ve noticed that I’ve been lacking energy every day – like my energy is constantly drained and I needed hours of sleep to get it all back. I think I’ve mentioned before that I was sleeping hours pass my normal limit and I first thought, it was something mundane like depression or just lack of interest in general. My muse disappears at times and that is something that is not new, my drive to create is at its’ mercy. I found it odd though that I was working on a new project but I quickly lost interest towards it without apparent reason.

I normally checked myself if something magickally inflicted me since I work with clients alot and the one I was particularly working with has a reputation of being not so “truthful” (which is another story that I will get into later), I couldn’t find anything leeching off my energies but like I said, I thought the reason was more mundane than magickal.

Then yesterday or so, I had an revelation – that this only really started when I created and started to use the Witchs’ Jar so I decommissioned the SOI that was inside the jar.

Afterwards, I had too much energy – I couldn’t get back to sleep. Even now as I write this, I’ve been awake for quite some time with now and my muse has been at it non-stop – this is the most time I’ve had this much energy for awhile.

I don’t want to say anything about this tech yet since my decommissioning of the SOI came in much coincidence with that “client” cancelling his work with me. I will try the Jar again in an unspecified time to see if it’s actually the issue – as well, it could be that I’ve improved the way I launch the working or if my hunch is correct, the way I view magick in general. Technically, the jar was doing its’ job and if sleeping more is the price I pay – then I guess I can cough it up to get what I asked for, equivalent exchange.

[EDIT] My sleep has been more manageable as of late, still sleep in but I now actually wake up to the hours I want to wake up on – instead of 12 hours, I’ve gotten it down to 6 to 8 hours. Very interesting.

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Feb

NYNY – Wheel of Morality

So this the final prompt of the “New Year, New You” experiment and I did quite enjoy it. Mind you, this phase was/is marred with uncertainty and such but; c’est la vie, oui?

I’ve been doing pretty good throughout my life and while I haven’t been hitting jackpots, I’ve been living pretty comfortable for awhile. Last year was the year that I shook everything in my life in a violent piledriver that the effects from it are still being felt at this time.

Do I regret it? Hells No! Not many times I can stick it to the man and stick to my principles.

Would I do it again? If it’s warranted then yes.

One of the things that I believe that makes me a BOSS; is adhering to this one sentence with utmost devotion.

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

I think that by fully integrating this to my life in such an early age that I’ve made leaps and bounds in my mundane and magickal life; and this whole experiment is an extension and a better planned model that what I use to do.

If there is one thing that I’ve taken from this whole experiment is that life is hard – no matter if you’re a muggle or wizard. Everyone still has problems and magick is not the fixer upper that we all think it is.

By having a sensible head, the ability to understand your situation and the honesty to evaluate yourself and your surrounding – you will be able to dictate your life through magickal and mundane means.

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