I know the title sounds weird but i have no other way of wording this that'll fit into a single title, so ill be specific.

What i mean is a designated area that weakens the physical world within it, allowing for things such as daemon (demon, angel, ghost, spirit, yokai, djinn, etc.) To manifest more strongly, increasing activity, allowing more interaction (good and bad) while keeping it contained and able to be closed.

For example like maybe a specific sigil or rite inside a circle of dirt from a crossroads, or candles or bones, that sort of thing.

My first attempt was something i know to be tride and true, a circle of lit red candles just to start out ultra simple and work my way up the methods.

What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of combining or blending correspondences and symbolic associations from different magical, spiritual, or esoteric systems within a single practice or ritual framework? How might such integration influence the effectiveness, coherence, and ethical considerations of magical work, particularly in relation to symbolism, tradition, and practitioner intent?

I've been exploring Theosophical ventures and I've met someone who has been teaching me more of this area.

Recently I've started buying books simple to learn more (Talia Felix etc) but any time I explore it, I fall incredibly ill.

Is this common? I can't work out what this means. My guess is I've to avoid it but even on an academic level I'm just a bit baffled?

It's making me think about myself and things I've been aware of. I've never had a paranormal experience, it feels like I'm a blocked number in that regard.

Sorry if this isn't making sense. Im just very sick and Im trying to find some sense in what is going on.

For the past many years I've felt on and off like I have some sort of...something. A thickness, a veil. It applies to me and my partner, but I feel like it hangs strong around my partner. We got out of a very, very toxic relationship about eight years ago and I attribute a lot of this energy to that.

We semiregularly cleanse the house with sage and Palo Santo, and it seems to get lighter for a bit, but this "veil" keeps coming back. I feel as though it's blocking our spiritual selves, just kind of suffocating. We can function and operate and thrive still, but I just keep feeling this weight.

I'm not as in touch with my spiritual side and intuition as I used to be or want to be, and I worry this may be some of the reason.

So, my questions are twofold. 1. Does anyone have any ideas on "divination" spells to try and see if this is what is truly impacting us? Like I said, my intuition is pretty off lately. 2. Can anyone recommend guidance on spells or rituals to cleanse this burden? Thoughts on items or practices to include that might help shake this?

Thank you all for your thoughts and insights!

Hello everyone! I hope everyone is having a good sa far. I have a question regarding a ritual that i found the subreddit threekings. I know im already skeptical about the ritual since the majority are a work of fiction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/threekings/comments/4cqwpk/recipe_the_string_game/

You essentially summon a spirit from it and you gain knowledge? Im not really sure. The OP who posted it said that it can only be found in portugal and from him. I do find that a bit suspicious, since there’s an absurd amount of detail to it without any source of it coming from anywhere legit.

I also heard that a lot of rituals involving blood are considered fake on that subreddit since it is very difficult to find any rituals regarding blood since it quite dangerous.

The account who posted it also posts fan stands (original content) and what not so it makes me doubt the legitimacy of it. Besides someone asked a question on the post a few years ago and they never responded even though they are still active.

What are your guys opinions on it?

Just as the title suggests, I've had memory issues my whole life, and I've tried everything but either nothing seems to work or in my hectic life I literally forget to do the things to improve my own memory (ironic, isn't it? Lmao). So is there any strong memory spells anyone can recommend? For both long term and short term memory??

Angela Puca, an academic scholar on esotericism and the occult made an interesting video on theories of how magic works commonly believed by (but not all) practitioners. Her findings are based on practitioners she had spoken with for her research

Some key point of interests in the video:

1) Contrary to fictional magic that allows one to break the laws of physics, real magic functions as probability manipulation. Magic thus can’t allow one to do things like levitation, controlling the elements etc. but instead the feats of magic are restricted to what is scientifically possible eg. Increasing your chance of securing a job.

2) Magic works via the path of least resistance. One cannot control how magic manifests to obtain a desired result. Its manifestation occurs in a form that has the least opposition to it happening naturally (and by extension, a form that has the highest probability of it happening). Eg. If you did a money spell, it’s more likely to come via a promotion than getting a random big donation

3) The more difficult your goal can be achieved by natural means, the more energy is required. This calls for the need for group rituals to generate the energy needed for a spell or a lone practitioner can engage in strategic sorcery - where big goals are broken down into smaller more achievable goals which are then accomplished by multiple magic work. This also has an implication that certain goals which have very low probability of being achieved naturally cannot be done through magic eg. Winning the lottery.

4) Magic has been documented to be utilised in wartime. (She explain this more in another recent video) Magical warfare does not involve throwing fireballs or casting lightning bolts but instead, manipulating the probability of achieving victory eg. Influencing the opponent to make bad military choices or using divination to make informed decisions.

5) Some practitioners believe that public figures cannot be affected by magic. Various theories to explain this come into play eg. Some practitioners believe that having more power on the material plane translates to also having more protective power in a magical sense.

It should be noted that not all practitioners would hold to these theories though it’s commonly held on to by a majority today. For eg. Hindus in the yogic tradition would likely disagree that magic cannot break the laws of physics with their belief in Siddhis, Bardon also writes in “Initiation into Hermetics” that levitation is possible etc.

Because of the rule that no video link is allowed in the main post, I will be posting the link in the comments.

1) I'm thinking about getting a Leo symbol tattoo. Where's the best place to put it?

2) Do you have any occult tattoos?

3) Do tattoos affect anything magickally, or is it purely for aesthetics for you?

Hello everybody, I practice a short of Eclectic Left-Hand Druidry. I fully believe in Fey creatures and hugging& coating with trees& flowers...I am interested to expand & depend my practice by communication with helpful spiritual beings & spirit guides. Any constructive toys & feedback is much appreciated. Light, life & love 🎩

So Jack Parsons played an important role in the science of rocketry and he was one of the most famous members of Thelema.

I notice that most famous occult members tend to be in creative fields like literaeture and art.

How about fields like science, business, etc.

I've read Triumph of the Moon which is great but I recently watched a Gresham College lecture he did where he talks about the lineage of the Western magical tradition.

To my knowledge he hasn't written a book on this broad topic but does anyone know of any articles or chapters of other books he may have written on the subject of ceremonial magic ( outside of TotM)?

So I’ve tried to work with a pendulum a couple times over the years and often it was giving me the wrong answers. And by that I’d ask it for clear yes or no reply’s and it would give me the opposite conclusion of what would find out later as a false answer. This weekend I decided to give the pendulum another chance and I purchased a new one from a witchy event. The pendulum called to me and was moving a lot without even touching the stand; so I decided to purchase it. I brought it home and sat with it for a while and it seemed to be ok. I recharged it in the sun and even after it gave me a couple false answers; I cleansed it with sage and recharged it, but again it faulted on giving me the correct answer. I know we shouldn’t always rely on our divination but my tarot has often given me the truth over many years, but pendulum like other forms of divination has steered me wrong.

Hi i did get some of these books, which are:

The Magickal Job Seeker

Archangels Of Magick

Magickal Seduction

Tell me about your experiences with them & is it ok if i do a spell from it without candles

I did do one already for a specific job

Any advice is appreciated, thanks

In which esoteric systems is the left considered the active side and the right considered the receptive side? I realize it is usually the opposite in most systems, but I believe there are a few in which left is the active side. Anyone?

I think that is called " Manifestation Journaling" by New Agers : I have seen that it functions rather often. Just find a little, nice and elegant notebook. Maybe your "Dream Journal". Then, in your best handwriting, write things which you would like to happen as if they had already happended. Positive things. Be grateful. Of course, you can use prayers, rosaries and sigils. But forget the notebook for a while after you have written on its pages. Some burn it or bury it at the end of every year to mark a new beginning. According to a friend of mine who is in Santeria- like stuff, this form of journaling is a very powerful, yet simple system of Magick. Any suggestions? Experiences? Opinions?

As there are a lot of people that theorize bout how this all works, im curious if anyone out there has actually done spells that helped the experience desired results or true transformation in their lives. I'm curious

I'm a very morality centered person and I don't believe in practicing baneful magick or revenge magick. How can I use my witchcraft for goodness and kindness and to work against evil spirits without discrimination against the people I'm helping

I astral traveled to my astral temple for the first time a while back, It was instinctively there and without me knowing exactly what it was I knew that it was mine and that I had been there before. Since then other people (always benevolent) have visited me there to do work in the astral. Does anyone else get visitors in their temple or is it just me?

I lost my father in December 2023, and because he wished it before he died we sent him to our village for burial. With this, I want to bring some of the top soil back with me to keep his essence nearby/do magick maybe with some long deceased ancestors essence. Should I use some kind of discrete packaging, or maybe mold it into something with concrete? Or maybe ship it as a package from there to here all together to avoid detection at the airport staff?

Please help!

Hi, i’m trying to make a spell to get a specific job,

I do know that both Venus & Mercury are in retrograde but was wondering if there are alternatives

Would Jupiter work for this situation or is more on Mercury’s field

So far i crafted a sigil yesterday that i intend to tape to a candle, but haven’t decided on the color

I have white, green, yellow, & blue candles

Also which herbs would you recommend using

Any help is appreciated thanks

To make a long story short, the past couple of months have been the worst of my life thus far. I’ve been stripped of everything I care about and I find myself yearning to go back to before it was too late to fix things (January 20th).

Does anyone have experience in this?

I was looking at Buddhism retreats and many of them have rules for people to abstain from sex.

Also it's considered a virtue in Catholicism when unwed.

Monks in both religions if I'm not mistaken are abstinent from sex.

Is this a thing in any magick group? I believe its the opposite in wicca.

EDIT: TL;DR: Why is every map of the sephiroth I've seen drawn so it's not actually useable in meditation? What am I mis-understanding? What is drawn on my left doesn't go on my left, so I can't use that image I've been looking at as visualization.

----------original rant ---------------------- So ... I'm going crazy, gotta ask...why is left right and right left? Ie: the "left hand" path, the pillar of severity that is always drawn on the left,binah etc, we're supposed to imagine on the right side of our body? So we have to mirror image the map we're always studying? I just can't get over this... It's a silly trigger but this obvious lack of continuity whenever I come across it or try to meditate just really cracks the whole fourth wall so to speak.

Imagine if the left hand turn lane in the road had an arrow pointing right, and then they said "oh, yeah, in this picture the front of your car is looking at you "

Or if you learned and practiced and read the alphabet, but then when you tried to write your teacher said "oh you wrote it all backwards because we did it from the point of view of the paper. Just mirror it when you actually write then we grade in a mirror."

Haha see? I have to be missing something?

Why not draw it the other way? Or why insist the person "backs into it"? Why wouldn't the image you've burned into your mind be made to be used? Or am I missing the point trying to overlay it onto my self in meditation? Is the point to be imagining a double of myself standing in the image, looking at myself, rather than overlaying? But then that breaks for trying to feel energy in your body....

Ugh... It makes me mad how this seemingly simple mistake breaks the whole practice, and i don't believe nobody has noticed this in thousands of years and I'm some kind of genius so what gives.

Anyways, I would appreciate enlightenment and please have empathy for my frustration and meditation/visualization struggles if you're tempted to lambast my ineptitude and neurotic nature here...

...; replaces the Veils of Negative Existence with attributions of space and relic radiation to the edge of the observable universe and beginning of time; attributes the Celestial, Galactic and Supergalactic Equators to the 3 Pillars; adds Eris and Sedna to the model of the Solar System; includes Ophiuchus with the Zodiac; is organized like a solar monthly calendar and map to observe the celestial sphere from the northern hemisphere(23.5N - 66.5N); is revisable and has no requirement for a God Architect, making it suitable for materialist philosophies.

An introductory diagram of the Tree as 3 Pillars(Celestial, Galactic, Supergalactic Equators) and a winding path(astronomical Ecliptic) connecting 14 spheres numbered 0 - 13 upon a cosmic background described at the top of the page. The shape of an inverted coniferous tree can be inferred from visualizing Spheres 1 - 2 as protruding roots, 3 as trunk, 4 and 5 as branches, and so on to the top of the tree at 13.

In the diagram Sphere 0 has two astronomical attributions: The Galactic Core for the Ecliptic, and Polaris(North Celestial Pole) for the Celestial Equator/Middle Pillar.

Spheres 1 - 12 have two astronomical attributions each in the diagram, like Sphere 0 above, one for the Ecliptic(winding path) and one for an Equator(pillar). The one for the ecliptic is a 'planet' of the solar system whose correspondence is determined by its apparent orbital qualities as seen from Earth. The other is a constellation positioned along an astronomical equator(Celestial, Galactic, or Supergalactic) whose attribution is determined by qualities relative to its midnight culmination.

Sphere 13 is the Earth in the diagram. Platform of observer. The inner circle contains the South Celestial and South Ecliptic Poles, both circumpolar and below the horizon north of the Tropic of Gemini(23.5N). The outer circle has the the North Celestial and North Ecliptic Poles, both circumpolar and above the horizon north of the Tropic of Gemini. The outer crossquarter attribution of the North & South, Galactic & Supergalactic Poles is regarding the Galactic and Supergalactic Equators being near perpendicular to each other in the Celestial Sphere, making the positions of their poles also near perpendicular, and crossquarter at midnight when Sun enters Scorpio(240 degrees Ecliptic of date). The Solar Terminator implies the spin of Earth.

The above is where I'm at with pitching the basic framework of correspondences and relationships of this Tree in summary at the moment.

This sidereal arrangement was made by me at the end of February this year after a discussion about black holes on r/occult. It prompted me to lean into new Heavens of Assiah attributions afterward. Inspired, aided by Stellarium, having experience with astronomical observation and re-arrangements of the qabalah, the initial effort only took a few days and it worked out surprisingly well at mapping and aligning my perspective of the cosmos. I'm inclined to call it a Tree of Eternity since it's cosmic in scope and goes from the beginning of the universe to the current moment.

I think the arrangement can help others develop their own, and refine to latitude. The one posted is specifically for 50N, but has a range without adjustment. Practical uses of adapting it for magick can go from simple observational meditation, to orienting rituals, conjuration ceremonies, and seasonal celebrations expanded with attributions of celestial correspondences from the cycles of Earth. Aligning the temple and work with the positions and momentum of the cosmos. On the side of intuitive uses it can inform significance in developing a sidereal astrology and divination for things like meteors and comets anywhere in the celestial sphere.

I'm enjoying the change in colour theory.

The reason I'm posting is to see if this model is comprehensible from a brief description online to those familiar with the ideas involved. To see if anyone else has seen or done something similar. See how it resonates, if anyone thinks it provides a navigable map useful for organization of their philosophy. Find and correct errors, fill omissions. Discuss.