A person contacted me through TOHO asking to look at his case, that he thinks his whole family has been cursed and he thinks that his aunt is the culprit since she is a known practitioner of dark witchcraft.

I took the information as always, since I like to be well informed, and here the the cliff notes.

• Family is accident prone.
• Very unlucky in certain things like real estate.
• Alcoholic.
• Weak most of the times, physically weak and prone to sickness.
• Thinks Jesus is a vampiric leech.
• Paranoid, has asked everyone for help and those “help” didn’t work for him.

Anyways, I brought the case to the group and we brainstorm on how to help this poor fellar. I mean, I haven’t done my reading yet and I wanted the group involved – field experience is the best experience so we were shooting ideas at one another.

I was battling my sickness and my families as well that week so I didn’t get to jump on this as much as I would’ve liked to.

Eventually, one of the members mentioned that this dude has a bad rep; sociopathic behavior and a likely candidate for a psychic vampire/deviant; a true and blue “dark” wizard  but since I don’t like having second hand information, I told my group associate that if he did a reading and his reading said that then I will take that information to consideration.

While I do take those mundane considerations into my contemplation and while I did read the whole slew of evidence that was sent to me in form of email/thread correspondence. I didn’t really get the “sociopath” vibe, more so someone very green and hasn’t been able to form a coherent paradigm. As well, I can also consider that the “evidence” provided can be viewed as a symptom – that those were due to the “underlying” attack so I didn’t feel that I needed to dismiss his case till I have a much more solid proof  or gut feeling.

It’s like that saying, “A person can be paranoid but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have enemies.”

Eventually got to my reading and compared notes with my associate and what we got is;

• No one is cursing them.
• Their fortune is the worst as it can be at the moment.
• The familys’ action is somewhat affecting their outcome.
• They are most likely “crossed”, most likely from something environmental, one of the houses they lived.

With that in mind, we planned on doing a group ritual to help them out but the client contacted me and told me I’m off the case since he thinks I am up to no good…..

I just find that amusing since how would he know that I am up to no good since it seems he is not magickally strong enough to fix his own problem? I would think if you are strong enough to get a read on someone halfway around the globe then a simple crossed status is nothing. Also, I found it quite a coincidence that he would back out – right before we finalized the details of the ritual in which it is basically a “voodoo doll cleansing” method. I wonder if he thought we would screw up his “original” plans if we went through the process since it would’ve been basically a nice astral gunk cleanup.

Overall, it seemed like there was some fishy business going on but nonetheless – he got nothing and I am off his case so….. While this is all purely theoretical contemplation, it’s like what I say, there is always a logical flow/story behind things and from my experience, follow your gut – fishy is always fishy, magickal or mundane.

Case Closed.

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.

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…..

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.

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.