Black Tourmaline... Want Powerful Protection Against Negative Energy?

Black Tourmaline crystal is a powerful stone for protection against negative energy of all kinds... as well as being a strong spiritual grounding stone. This is one of the most popular crystals to be used for metaphysical purposes. Many people believe this is the best protection stone that you can use. It encourages positive attitudes, good luck and happiness, regardless of the circumstances that you find yourself in. They are wonderful aids to both the professional healer and the average person who wants a stone that will be a positive force for good in your life... as it creates a positive attitude and mindset...read more>>>...

 

Quantum Consciousness

Alchemy Web Site: 'The hermetic tradition has long been concerned with the relationship between the inner world of our consciousness and the outer world of nature, between the microcosm and the macrocosm, the below and the above, the material and the spiritual, the centric and the peripheral. The hermetic world view held by such as Robert Fludd, pictured a great chain of being linking our inner spark of consciousness with all the facets of the Great World. There was a grand platonic metaphysical clockwork, as it were, through which our inner world was linked by means of a hierarchy of beings and planes to the highest unity of the Divine. This view though comforting is philosophically unsound, and the developments in thought since the early 17th century have made such a hermetic world view untenable and philosophically naive. It is impossible to try to argue the case for such an hermetic metaphysics with anyone who has had a philosophical training, for they will quickly and mercilessly reveal deep philosophical contradictions in this world view. So do we now have to abandon such a beautiful and spiritual world view and adopt the prevailing reductionist materialist conception of the world which has become accepted in the intellectual tradition of the West ?...read more>>>...

A Word on 'Gematria'

 A system of discovering truths and hidden meanings behind words, using numerical values for letters of the alphabet. Each letter corresponds to a number. The numerical values of words are totaled and interpreted in terms of other words with the same numerical value.

Gematria dates back to the 8th century B.C. Babylon, and has been used by most mystics since that time including the Magi, Gnostics, and Kabbalists.

Gematria is a system of discovering truths and hidden meanings behind words, using numerical values for letters of the alphabet. Each letter corresponds to a number. The numerical values of words are totaled and interpreted in terms of other words with the same numerical value. Gematria dates back to the 8th century B.C. Babylon, and has been used by most mystics since that time including the Magi, Gnostics, and Quabbalists. Temurah is a form of gematria that creates anagrams through systematic letter substitutions.

Black Tourmaline... Want Powerful Protection Against Negative Energy?

 Black Tourmaline crystal is a powerful stone for protection against negative energy of all kinds... as well as being a strong spiritual grounding stone. This is one of the most popular crystals to be used for metaphysical purposes. 

Many people believe this is the best protection stone that you can use. It encourages positive attitudes, good luck and happiness, regardless of the circumstances that you find yourself in. 

They are wonderful aids to both the professional healer and the average person who wants a stone that will be a positive force for good in your life... as it creates a positive attitude and mindset...read more>>>...

A Word on "Boji Stones"

 Boji Stone is the copywritten and registered trademark for concretion stones which are found in Colorado. Their shape is usually round with some protrusion of platelets. These stones are a composite of palladium and pyrite. See Palladium for further qualities and uses.

Boji stones come in male, female and androgynous forms and in various sizes, generally from the size of a dime to as about as large as a silver dollar. The male stone is characterized primarily by the uneven, sharp, protruding patterns on their surface.

The female stones are all smooth in their configuration. The androgynous stones display a point or points of some uneven characteristics but not as contiguous as displayed on the male stones. These stones attain their full power when they are used in pairs except for the androgynous stones which can be considered as having the same energy as a pair of male and female stones.

Boji stones can transfer energy from the etheric to the physical body. It will clean, recharge and fill with positive energy, all of the voids or holes in the aura and the auric field...read more>>>...

'The Truth Vibrations'

 These are difficult times. Mankind truly wanders a fragile shoreline fully mesmerised in the blinding glare of overtly imposed glamours. All of us wander a maze with mirrored walls. The majority follow the whims of their seperate self without realising those impulses are not their true selves. Those walking the spiritual paths barely fare any better. The glamours manifest themselves as 'guides', 'angels' etc. Few spiritual travellers ever question the origin or the occurrence of these glamours. They have gone along with these 'traditional' archetypes ... as it has been the unquestioned norm for so long. It has become fable and folklore associated with the 'new age movement' ... but it doesn't mean that these glamours are real ... or are correct assumptions.

2012 is going to bring in many things. But the biggest thing of all ... it seems ... is 'the truth vibration'. A big challenge for so many as it will bring the separate self into line ... and force the majority to acknowledge the false ego and all of its tribulations. For the spiritual travellers, the truth vibration is going to reveal all of the falsehoods associated with mysticism and true magick. This includes the deceptions around the glamours of 'guides' and 'angels'. All is strictly not as it seems. The connections with 'the other realms' are arriving at their strongest for eons. In order for souls to be able to attract & benefit from these connections, they must be 'cleansed' by the truth vibrations. This includes losing the need for the traditions and glamours of the New Age. It means all who are truly walking the spiritual path ... must shed the baggage they have been carrying along their journey to date ...! They must truly be prepared to be 'open minded' and be prepared to see the 'spirit world' as it truly is. First truth to truly accept that 'guides' and 'angels' are NOT what they seem to be ... MJ 28th March 2012

First test of Magical Initiation: Working With The Ego

'And it said when the Golden Man descends into someone's life, that all around him people will provide information that shall suit the Golden Man's agenda. The neophyte, none the wiser, accepts the enchantment without a word, and is then lost to the world of man for a year and a day.'

Despite the protestations of all around him, the neophyte will contest his claims for it is what is all around him. But what the Golden Man speaks is pure illusion from the realm of the Astral ... the sphere of Yesod ... for within that realm is contained all things that has been and will be. The Golden Man merely provides the neophyte a cloak ... we have all been all these many things.

Down through the ages all Neophytes first grapple with the illusion of importance and identity as they seek to recognise the identity of their soul. - copyright Matthew James 1994

 

The Law of Rhythm

Everything flows, out and in; everything has its' tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates. This principle, on the Physical Plane, is the most visible of all principles and its power is observed within the forces of nature which move the waves and tides of our oceans and the continuous changes of the seasons. 

 

It is observed in the continuous cycles of life, death, and the rebirth of all things, a rise and fall of governments and nations, a constant creation and destruction of suns, worlds, and galaxies. On the plane of energy it is observed in the behavior of the alternating current wave of electricity, light, and heat as it vibrates between the positive and negative pole. Rhythm on the mental plane is experienced as the wide mood swings displayed in human nature. It can be experienced as extreme happiness, and then swing to extreme sadness - from a gentle behavior to an extremely violent behavior at the blink of an eye. Rhythm is the law of compensation and maintains the equilibrium in all things. It returns to us what we measure out in life. The return swing of the pendulum is assured without fail and there is no escape from the effects of this immutable law. 

 

This law holds us true to what we believe, or not believe, and compensates us accordingly. All of nature follows this law. Rhythm perpetuates the phenomenon of time. The pendulum-like swing of rhythm is immutable and we can only counteract its backward swing by mentally polarizing ourselves in a desirable position on the scale of life. It requires a dedicated personal commitment to cultivate the unknown within all of us in order to cause a quantum leap in the evolutionary process of life with all its aches and pains. 

 

This is a mental art that is known to hierophants, adepts, and masters of all ages. We will fulfill the law one way or another. Either use the law to our advantage, or become its subject. The door of universal law swings in all directions. The final result depends what we have chosen to believe and whether or not our belief system allows us to see the truth as it really is. If we do not want to know or do not care, then we will evolve through the standard process of evolution. Nothing can, or is allowed to stand still. All manifestation is the result of active energy producing certain results, and expenditure of energy in any one direction will necessitate an equal expenditure in an opposite direction.

How We Create Reality

 Waking Times: Do you wonder why life is a chaotic roller coaster of both positive and negative events? Have you, like most, earnestly tried positive thinking, meditation or prayer without any tangible beneficial results? Do you stress over your quietly desperate realization that you have little control over your own life? Do you fear that most of us are floating helplessly like plankton on the waves? Don’t you wish you had a magical power to change your life and the lives around you for the better? Well, the good news is that you do! After reading this a few times, you’ll understand the natural forces that create our individual and collective realities. You’ll comprehend that we all have the same ability to use these forces for good or for evil. You’ll begin to see these forces at work everywhere. You’ll learn to control, focus, amplify and correctly use your personal power with ease. You’ll start to reap the rewards you’ve always sought: but never found. It won’t require your belief or faith, which come with practice. And, it doesn’t even require any real effort on your part, though faith and making physical steps toward your goals will help them to manifest faster. It’s as easy as daydreaming. Your understanding of this knowledge will make you begin to naturally and automatically think in new ways that will make your future as you’d like it to be. It’s really not hard at all. Wrap your mind firmly around this concept...read more>>>...

Mediation - A Definition Of True Contact

 In orthodox 'religion' Mediation is seen as a function of a priest or priestess, where a mediator is one who acts as an interface between divinity and humanity.

In magic, however, mediation has a far more precise meaning, based on the essential truth that all contain divinity or 'the original being' within us. All are also contained within the Being of the universe. In true mediation, any individual can reach deeply into the states of consciousness where transcendent entities can be met. Such entities can be aspects of divinity; god-forms or beings which have transcended human expression and no longer incarnate on this plane.

In mediation, a human acts as a 'focus' or 'gateway' for the consciousness of such transcendent entities. But know this is not the sole purpose or type of mediation found in the magical arts. Mediation is not a matter of passive reception, such as the cliched and superficial process of 20th century 'mediumship', but of clarifying and refining personal modes of awareness. When these higher modes are attuned to inner worlds or beings which are vital to magic, mediation may arise.

Mediation is not a matter of 'receiving messages'. If this was the case then it would be virtually valueless as higher modes of awareness and higher spiritual energies actually transcend verbal communication. A true mediator may be able to translate certain key images of the spiritual realms into words, but the mediator is more likely to act as a channel for a specific energy or power to flow out into the magical circle and more ultimately into the world. Therefore, an initiate working magic, such as rituals or visualisations, may become a mediator through the simple act of ritual pattern making and the controlled use of the imagination. In the magical arts, anyone making a sign, or chanting a mantra, or visualising a symbol, is mediating the power of being through specific and dynamic magical archetypal channels. The more powerful effects of mediation, however, are not usually developed without years of effort and deliberate control.

Introducing Colour Magick

 Colour is one of the languages of the soul, just look at inspired or meditative paintings as an example; they can influence both our mood and our emotions. In magick, colours can often represent specific energies, goals, people and/or non-physical beings including deities and other spiritual forces. Colours have a symbolic meaning, which is immediately recognised by our subconscious. They influence both the flow and levels of energy in our bodies. For this reason, candles, gemstones, cords and other objects of different colours can be highly effective in rituals.

It must be said that not all colours mean the same to all persons and all cultures. The particular symbolism of any given colour can vary widely from source to source. Many books offer different suggestions for colours when used in magick. In addition, there are also colours for astrological signs and planetary or elemental magick, which may be relevant to the time at which your ritual is performed. But always remember, it is best to go from personal impressions & experiences which have been built up over many years of association with colours. The guidance outlined in books can be used as a starting point if there has been no previous experience with a specific colour.

Some magickal systems use complimentary colours combined together, such as red and green, to create an optical illusion that appears to flash when placed together. Such "flashing colours" are said to have great power in attracting the corresponding magickal forces. These can be used in almost any type of ritual or spell work when the visual aspect of the colour is important.

But always keep in mind that, because one colour can have several meanings, when you are using different colours, you should dedicate or "inform" each colour of what it is supposed to be accomplishing.

Unlock Your Inner Magic

 We all know inspiration when we feel it. It is a force that enlivens us and activates us to do something — we might dance, sing, paint the house, or envision a new career. We might call an old friend or plan a trip abroad. Whatever the case, doing what we do from a place of inspiration makes all things seem possible. Inspiration sometimes comes out of nowhere, landing unexpectedly in the midst of your life and lifting you out of your habitual mind and into a higher level of seeing. However, we can be more intentional with our relationship with inspiration than just waiting for it to come to us. There are many ways to cultivate its presence, from journaling to scrapbooking to visiting with a particularly interesting friend. Finding what inspires you and consciously cultivating it will give you access to new ways of thinking and energy you didn’t know you had.

Some people find that frequent trips into nature inspire them. Others have a box full of objects — a seashell, an old photograph, or even a collection of rocks — that does the trick. There are as many ways to find inspiration as there are people looking for it. If you already know what inspires you, find a way to incorporate it into your life on a regular basis. If you aren’t sure what inspires you or if it has changed, take some time to think about it. When was the last time you felt the spark of your imagination? When was the last time you acted on an impulse that felt totally right? When we are in the presence of what inspires us, we hear our inner guidance more clearly and we have the energy to follow its cues.

If it has been a while since you have been touched by inspiration, you may feel listless and dissatisfied. Know that you can turn things around by remembering what lights you up and bringing that into your life....<<<Daily OM>>>...

What are Spells and Spellcraft?

 Spells and spell craft are just one type of magic and this kind is very personal as it harnesses and releases your inner personal power and energy. It is just the same as a prayer.  You want something to happen and therefore you are thinking with intent.

You will see on in books literally thousands and thousands of spells for one thing or another but the best spells are always the ones you write yourself (or at least adapt in some way!).

A traditional witch practises magic everyday, casting spells is just ‘something we do’.  Just like Christians would ‘pray’ or children ‘make a wish’, these are just the same ideas with different names.  We all, no matter what you call it, want something to happen.  Because we do not follow any dogma or rede (unlike Wiccans for example) we will do whatever we feel is needed for any particular situation and take responsibility for our own actions.  A spell is not bad or good (or black or white), it is the caster who wields the intent and therefore the caster who has the power to sway the spell one way or another.

However, you need to think about what you want to get from the spell.  Remember the old saying “be careful what you wish for”.  This is very true for spells. Maybe you have written a spell to banish debt or to bring money your way. Have you thought about how that money may come to you?  Someone may die and leave you an inheritance. You have to really think about what you want, how you could get it and if you really need what you are asking for at all.

Spells can be as long or as short as you want or need them to be. They can be flamboyant or simple, easy to do or require a full ritual. It is up to you, there are no hard and fast rules to witchcraft, you do what you need to do at any given time.  As I said before, magic is a part of you, you can decide how and when you use it.

The one thing spells should have, and should also be given, the same with magic, is respect.  Don’t be fooled in thinking that all you are doing is making a flippant request. Spells work, magic happens. Be careful what you wish for….<<<Read More>>>...

Runic Forecast for April 2023

 The Scandinavian rune helps to feel the energies of the outside world. The Scandinavian rune of Berkan is a symbol of the fact that the new Force is gaining momentum, growing and increasing. Strength must be used correctly. Humanity gets the opportunity to look for new points of support. Berkano allows you to find resources where you have seen before to find. Resources are the opportunities and support of other people. The energy of this rune always brings relaxation, at this moment, when we feel its power, it seems to us that everything is stabilizing, problems go away and the world becomes easier.

During this period, you can work out your complexes that you received in childhood. This will help awaken new energy in us for a more conscious life. The energies of Berkano allow us to look at our Mother in a different way, perhaps up to this moment we have imagined her as another woman. Perhaps we idealized her, or vice versa, we constantly expected negativity from her. Now Berkano allows you to look at her as a simple person who has his own shortcomings and virtues. Berkano smoothly pushes us to change, sends us to adulthood, to opportunities. Just remember that Berkana can be upside down. An inverted rune can manifest itself in someone who does not want to notice opportunities, who keeps grievances inside himself, who does not want to change. If you feel depressed this month, then you should reconsider your emotional connections. Find for yourself exactly those goals that meet your aspirations. The Slavic rune indicates the energy of our microcosm....<<<Read More>>>...

The Brave New World of 1984

 The definition of magic is similar to Jung's definition of synchronicity, but it's the conscious application of synchronicity. Ultimately, magic could be known as the deliberate influence of the mental realm for physical manifestations.

“…the term magic comes from the Greek word magos. Magos referred to "a member of a learned and priestly class." Magos itself is derived from the Old Persian word magush, meaning "be able" or "have power.”

If we understand the notion that individuals can use techniques to influence the mental realm, which ultimately leads to real-world effects, we can understand how magic can be used as a tool. And if we take a look through history, we see how this power has been wielded.

When we realize that magic is simply techniques to consciously affect reality, we see that there are many techniques they can use to conduct reality. One of these techniques is the arts, which have been used to shape societies and empires for millennia.

So at this point, we're at a crossroads in our perspective of reality. We have this orthodox view that's been told that "this is how the world works." You know we vote, governments make changes, we pay taxes, etc., etc. However, look at this unorthodox view of reality. In that case, we live in an oligarchical society that uses the government as a front to paint the mental illusion of choice. We have the arts, education, and media to reinforce this illusion of reality, and this manifests as the society that we live in.

If you accept this unorthodox view, you understand that magic – deliberate influence of the mental realm for physical manifestations – is a part of reality and, ultimately, a part of nature. And if that is the case, can we tap into this natural aspect of reality?...<<<Read More>>>....

A Word on 'Alchemy'

The study of metallurgy began in the ancient times with royalties and alchemists studying the properties of metals and mostly gold. They experimented with metals to create something unique out of it, thus giving rise to the world of alchemy. The study of alchemy is scientific and magical with methods being adopted into the modern world, this article looks into the various key alchemy symbols and their specific meanings.

In ancient times, the quest to create the magical Philosopher’s Stone – the divine elixir which was believed to have the power to change anything to gold and that carried magical properties of imparting immortality to humans, escalated the alchemist activities and the study of alchemy. Alchemy is defined as “A medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life.” In alchemy, it was mandatory to use symbols to represent an idea, and individual alchemists used different symbols to depict one idea. Symbols were seen as part of a whole emblem and an emblem was the core of a complex process. Mostly symbols of planets, elements and animals were used to mention or create a new idea....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #488

 

What Is Magic?

 Magic, as opposed to magic the art of illusion and sleight of hand, is the Art Of Causation. Magic is a natural human ability, we are all born with this innate ability to make Magick, all it takes is the desire to learn, and practice. Magic is creating change by connecting with the energies of nature.

These energies of nature exist in all things, all solid matter is made of atoms, sub-atom particles, below this level is pure energy. At the this level of pure energy, there is no solid matter, here everything is connected by threads of energy.

Magic is the control and manipulation of these threads of energy, this energy exists at all levels and planes, so by creating changes to these energy threads causes effects to occur within the physical plane. Magic allows you to alter this energy reality to bring about changes in the material reality, conversely altering your material worlds causes changes to the energy reality....<<<Read More>>>....

Defining 'Kabbalah'

 

Blackthorn

[Druidry.org]: Blackthorn is depicted in many fairy tales throughout Europe as a tree of ill omen. Called Straif in the Ogham, this tree has the most sinister reputation in Celtic tree lore. The English word ‘strife’ is said to derive from this Celtic word. A long hard winter is referred to as a Blackthorn Winter.

To Witches, it often represents the dark side of the Craft. It is a sacred tree to the Dark, or Crone aspect of the Triple Goddess, and represents the Waning and Dark Moons. Blackthorn is known as ‘the increaser and keeper of dark secrets’.

The tree is linked with warfare, wounding and death, associated with the Scottish Cailleach – the Crone of Death, and the Irish Morrigan. In Scotland, winter begins when the Cailleach (also the Goddess of Winter) strikes the ground with Her Blackthorn staff.

According to Christian folklore, Blackthorn is seen as a sinister tree and associated with Witches. Blackthorn was often used for ‘binding and blasting’. A black rod is a Blackthorn wand with fixed thorns on the end, used to cause harm to others. In British folklore, a Witch will use a Blackthorn in rituals of cursing. The sharp thorns were reputedly used by English witches to pierce poppets in their curses, called the ‘pins of slumber’. In South Devon folklore in England, Witches were said to carry Blackthorn walking sticks, with which they caused much local mischief. Witches and heretics were burned on Blackthorn pyres. The Devil was said, in medieval times, to prick his follower’s fingers with the thorn of a Blackthorn tree.

Blackthorn is also associated with Witchcraft in Scotland. In 1670, in Edinburgh, Major Thomas Weir was burned as a Witch along with his most powerful magical tool – a Blackthorn staff, carved with a Satyrs head, which was said to have fantastic powers – it was even able to fly through the air. Major Weir claimed that he received this magic staff from the Devil, but it is more likely that he obtained it while he served as an officer under General Leslie in Ireland. The Major was a pious Covenanter, and people came from miles around to hear his sermons. He was considered the ‘Saint of West Bow’, until one day in 1670, instead of his usual sermon, he confessed years of debauchery with his sister, Jean, to the congregation. Brother and sister were both tried and condemned to death. His ghost, along with the infamous Blackthorn staff, is still said to haunt the Edinburgh West Bow district.

The Irish cudgel is called a bata, or more popularly, a shillelagh, (named for the Shillelagh forest near Arklow, in County Wicklow). Every young boy was trained to defend himself with this Irish fighting stick. Although sometimes made from Oak, Ash or Holly, the shillelagh is usually made from Blackthorn, which is hard, strong, plentiful, and has a convenient knob formed from the root of the shrub. The black bark is especially tough. The wood was cured by burying it in a dung heap or smearing it with butter, then placing it in the chimney.

Blackthorn can be used in spells of protection as well. In Irish tales, heroes were aided by the Blackthorn tree – if they threw a twig of Blackthorn after them, it would take root and form an impenetrable hedge or woods, thwarting the pursuing giant. In England Witches would carve the Norse rune thorn on a Blackthorn stave for protection. Often in fairytales, such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’, Blackthorn forms the thick, impenetrable thorn bramble that hides the magic castle from intruders and princes alike! In order to prove worthy, the prince must cut through this thorn forest to rescue the princess....<<<Read More...>>>...