Tag: Patient Caller
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 17 – Midterm
The completed wand still left a brush of oil on my hand if I gripped it hard. To be expected, as the grain of the apparently smooth surface of the worked wand lifted once the extra virgin olive oil started to soak in. I remember the same happening to my other wand as the dry…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 16 – Debrief
I dreamt of a large round banquet table covered in burgundy cloth. I was the only one seated there. Unseen servants brought covered dishes and filled the table with them such that there was only space for my small serving plate and a wine goblet filled with pure water. One by one, the servants would…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 15 – Pivot
I did not follow up on my “homework”. A busy day at work followed by a busier evening meant I would be lucky to get five hours of sleep if I skipped personal “hobbies” and time wasters such as catching up to webcomics, forum posts, and thousand word scripts of magic rituals and god names.…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 14 – Snap
“O God, hear us in thy righteousness and vouchsafe of thy holiness…” I held the hazel rod up as if presenting it to the godhead I was praying to. The twenty-six inches of long dried wood rested lightly in my hand as I recited Another Prayer to double-consecrate the introduced tool during the preparatory phase of…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 13 – Flow
“In the name of the Omni-benevolent God, Amen…” The planetary prayer for Mercury was read with more vigor than I thought I could muster for the early morning. Perhaps I’m getting used to the early hour. “O mighty and merciful God, which in the finger of thy deity…” It’s getting easier to not only say…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 12 – Identities
I settled down after work and obligations with a queue of podcasts, the incomplete cord, and a ruler. I had left off with five and a half feet of braided cord, and now that I had my groove, I was confident that I would finish quickly. Eighty minutes into the ninety-five minute podcast, I tied…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 11 – Sync
Though I have not publicly recorded my dreams since beginning this challenge, dreams I have had. As they lacked any significance to the matter at hand, I noted the events and continued on. Over the past week, I have had serial dreams where the events on one night would pick up where the previous night…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 10 – Progress
Bad is not the enemy of Good, Perfect is. You can do Good, you can do Good Enough, and you can do Bad (regardless of intention). But you can’t do Perfect. Not without sacrificing a lot of things, relationships, resources, and pieces of yourself that you need to keep a lot more than you need…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 9 – Smother
This week has not been gentle to me. Between emergencies at work, emotional shocks after work, and familial pressures that chose this week to unnecessarily escalate, I’m tired. Saturday would normally be the day to sleep as close to noon as my responsibilities would allow. It was very hard to fully wake up as the…
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Do Magick September ’17: Day 8 – Doubt
The alarm surprised me this morning and I wasted eight precious minutes reflecting on yesterday’s vivid ritual and asking myself the question I had been dodging all day. Am I fooling myself? If something seems too good to be true, it probably is, after all. I could win a bingo match twice over with all…