Tag: DoMagick

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 22 – Hands

    Despite trimming the candle wicks almost too short, they still ran with vigor. Twice, even! This is a different brand of candles than what I had been burning before. I’m still collecting the dripped wax just the same. All else went without incident until I spoke the summoning words and tried to immediately visualize a scene.…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 21 – Repose

    Some days the chamber does not appear to darken and deepen when speaking the rede words. Some days it does. I will admit to being thrilled when it does even though I am very much aware that it is an illusion, and probably one of my own making. The closing of my eyes after speaking the…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 20 – Cushion

    I spent the rest of yesterday taking care of needed chores and playing variations of three notes on the guitar. I spent the rest of yesterday taking a much needed break from “the woo” as much as I was able to. When I finally came back to the table for this morning’s obligation and summoning,…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 19 – Receipts

    Good: I bought a guitar. A cheap student model, tested in the store by the staff to make sure any terrible sounds were all my fault, along with a case, a digital tuner, and a set of self-instruction lessons. I completely grok what the spirit meant by having a hobby that can capitalize on the…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 18 – Pick

    Shortly after dawn I sat facing east and tried not to cry as for all the words I have in me, I could not assemble any collection of them into a prayer appropriate for the time or direction. I know the spirit said that if I could not find words to say, that sitting quietly…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 17 – Query

    The line between my daily obligations and the summoning of [Patient Caller] continues to blur. The lessons of one impacts the performance of the other. This morning, I forgot to lay down the warding items that the spirit had called out in a previous session. As I began the obligation, I felt something trying to…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 16 – Lecture

    I discovered the lower limit of wick trimming. And I discovered it the hard way, by going past it. After the wee little nub of the wick drowned in the very pool of wax it was supposed to be burning, I wound up having to carve away at the tip of the candle to reform…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 15 – Drift

    The candles took the flame from the match without anything odd happening, and the preliminary obligations went without anything to bait my apprehension with. I turned away after finishing my obligations to prepare the table for the summoning of the spirit. When I turned back, the right candle had an unusually large flame and about…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 14 – Gift

    I studied the chamber of the device after placing it on the tarot card. I saw the same set of lines and curves within as I did yesterday and as I have for the other twelve days prior. These curves are the result of the light from this candle flame refracting through the glass and…

  • Do Magick August ’18: Day 13 – Light

    The card sits on the table. The device sits on the card. The interior of the rear of the brass chamber is lined with red velvet. There is enough of the candles’ light to reach that chamber and illuminate the velvet. Before any ritual, regular or unique, banal or exciting, I always take a pause…