Field Notes - The Hekatæon: On the Ephesian Letters and the Book that Arrives The evening before descending into the cavernous depths of a friend’s subterranean temple dedicated to Queen Persephone, Haides, and Those Below—there to enact rites of ordination to the presbyterate—...

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I am a very serious magician taking my labeling very seriously. #diy #diywitchcraft #traditionalwitchcraft #gaywitch

Last night my roommate and I realized something important about Dune:

Duncan Idaho is pure Good Boy Energy™.

Loyal. Brave. Dies for you. Comes back anyway.

But because cloning exists… there’s not just one Duncan.

There is a WHOLE KENNEL of Duncan Idahos waiting for a good home.

Deep gratitude to Jack Grayle for the signed copy of The Hekataeon. Receiving it directly from you was a true honor. I’m looking forward to a careful and devoted reading of this remarkable work.

#Hekate #Hekataeon #TraditionalWitchcraft

Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis) in Ancient Greek Religion, Medicine, and Modern Magic Text, Ecology, and Instrumentality

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“So, what were you doing up before the cock crowed this morning?”

“My Christian duty of prayer and examination of conscience.”

The examination of conscience. #keyofsolomon #witchcraft

Under the Morning Star: An Ordination At the beginning of Advent I put away operative magic and entered into what could only be described as a harrowing dark night of the soul, during which I engaged only in my usual daily office and focused on non-magical devotional theurgy.

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A simple table spread out for the gods of the festival of wine, silence, and the dead. Io Evohe! #dionysus #gaypagan #bigdickenergy #anthesteria #hellenismos

Last day of Anthesteria #dionysus #hellenicpagan #anthesteria #bigdick

I’m convinced I need to publish a short thesis with an aggressively long Georgian title:

On the Psycho-Social, Theological, Aesthetic, Moral, Ethical, Magical, Religious & Political Question of Cum.

Front: Victorian Egyptophile pyramid, Latin labels, “cummies” at the apex, & absolutely zero chill.

Lent, Anthesteria, and the Threshold City Returning from a brief trip downtown this afternoon—having picked up harm-reduction informational packets made available through Seattle & King County Public Health and Real Change—I passed an old est...

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Demeter and the Law of Grief Chaldaean Oracles, Sophianic Contraction, and the Metaphysics of Anticipatory Mourning

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Exhaustion Beyond Fatigue: Collapse, Acedia, Moral Injury, and the Discipline of No Discipline Exhaustion Beyond Fatigue: Collapse, Acedia, Moral Injury, and the Discipline of No Discipline

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A Clarification Concerning Ecclesial Order, Discipline, and Trust SEDE S O C I D E N T A L I S

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The Weight of the Heart and the Truth of the Will The Weight of the Heart and the Truth of the Will: A Kemetic–Christian Confession in an Age of Moral Noise

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I AM PURE. Austerity, Accounting, and the Sin of Moral Noise: A Kemetic–Christian Confession in a Technological Age Preface

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When I’m out of sorts I wander the International District. Not as bright as it was in my youth, but still charming.

Stopped by the little shop where I buy my hell notes—cleaned up, new spiritual supplies.

Makes me wonder what the exchange rates are in the afterlife.

Can’t tell if this is depression, ennui, or boredom so intense I’ve opted for torpor—sleep it out, re-emerge like one of the Forty Sleepers, and hope history has been kind.

Everything Old Is New Again: On Affective and Effective Modes of Religious Expression During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals found themselves abruptly released from the usual temporal demands of professional, academic, and social life.

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The Bookmark Herm (and the One That Followed): Why Household Religion Should Look More Like IKEA Than the SCA Although I rarely share the inner workings and current projects here as often as I would like and probably should, I figured sharing this might be of benefit to some who may be starting their own jour...

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The Ape of Thots, the Clerical Nod, and Why Ritual Works Even When We Pretend It Doesn’t One of the funnier things about ADHD is that there’s a tiny monkey in your brain constantly scanning the horizon for the shiniest possible object, turning it over, inspecting it from every angle, adop...

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Field Notes — Epiphanytide Toward the Feast of the Holy Encounter The Christmas season this year was thorough—almost pedagogical in its insistence.

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The Gift that Remains The Gift That Remains: The Feast of Saint Stephen, Deacon and First Martyr

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Field Notes: Rest, Recalibration, and the Year Ahead Some technologies are best understood before they are touched.

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Some field notes before the holidays overwhelm us all. Please consider sharing, subscribing, and letting me know what you think. It helps me keep the lights on.

Advent IV at the Solstice: On Signs, Measure, and the Public Work of Gnosis Advent IV at the Solstice: On Signs, Measure, and the Public Work of Gnosis

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Theurgic Permeability Pantheons, Gnosis, and the Discipline of Order

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Monday after Gaudete Sunday Notes on fasting, reduction, aesthetic discipline, and the unexpected quiet of excess

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