Articles

Weekly essays on magic, mysticism and the occult, in history and practice. About this site.

Foundations & Practice

• The Practice, Part I: Building a Foundation — 2 January 2026
• Stillness and the Will of the Magician — 7 January 2026
• Hekas, Hekas, Este Bebeloi: On Banishing — 12 January 2026
• The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram — 22 January 2026
• The Initiation Never Ends — 23 June 2026
• Working across Belief Systems without Overthinking It — 26 March 2026

From the Broom Closet

• From the Broom Closet I: Secrecy and the Hidden Practice — 5 February 2026
• From the Broom Closet II: The Occultism of the Spice Cabinet — 20 February 2026
• From the Broom Closet III: Beyond the Spice Cabinet — 25 February 2026
• From the Broom Closet IV: Cartomancy with Playing Cards — 2 March 2026

Chaos Magick

• Chaos ab Ordo: A Short History of Chaos Magick — 7 March 2026
• Sigils: History and Method — 12 March 2026
• Paradigm Shifting: Reinvention as Method in Chaos Magick — 17 March 2026
• Models of Magic: Spirit, Energy, Psyche, Information — 21 March 2026
• Tarot as Talisman: Card Magic in the Chaos Tradition — 31 March 2026
• Servitors: Constructed Spirits in Modern Magic — 13 June 2026
• Magical Alphabets: From Theban Script to the Alphabet of Desire — 18 June 2026
• Pop Culture Magic and the Hypersigil — 5 April 2026
• Peter J. Carroll (1953–2026): An Appraisal — 25 April 2026

Spirits & Animism

• What Is a Spirit? Ontologies of the Invisible — 27 January 2026
• The World Is Full of Persons: Animism Old and New — 31 January 2026
• Focalor: A Spirit of the Lemegeton — 30 April 2026
• King Paimon: A Spirit of the Lemegeton — 5 May 2026
• Dantalion: A Spirit of the Lemegeton — 10 May 2026
• Jake Stratton-Kent and the Geosophic Turn — 14 May 2026

The Art of Hedge Riding

• The Art of Hedge Riding, Part I: The Witch at the Boundary — 24 May 2026
• The Art of Hedge Riding, Part II: Crossing the Hedge — 29 May 2026
• The Art of Hedge Riding, Part III: Technique and Trance — 3 June 2026
• The Art of Hedge Riding, Part IV: The Return — 8 June 2026

Divination & the Heavens

• Dowsing and Water Witching: A History — 28 June 2026
• A Winter Study of Halos: Atmospheric Optics and Omens — 17 January 2026
• Retrogrades: Apparent Motion and Astrological Meaning — 10 April 2026
• The I Ching: Divination by the Book of Changes — 7 July 2026

Love & the Planets

• Love Magic: A Very Old Art — 10 February 2026
• Venus as a Healing Power — 15 February 2026

From the Library

• The Corpus Hermeticum: The Book That Relaunched Magic — 15 April 2026
• The Picatrix: A Manual of Astrological Magic — 20 April 2026
• John Dee and the Angelic Conversations — 19 May 2026
• The Witches’ Ointment: Flight, Pharmacology, and the Historians — 2 July 2026
• Occult Chemistry (1908): Clairvoyance Meets the Periodic Table — 12 July 2026
• British Goblins (1880): An American Consul Maps the Welsh Otherworld — 17 July 2026
• The Wonders of Creation: al-Qazwini’s Cosmography — 22 July 2026
• Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652): Ashmole’s Alchemical England — 27 July 2026