Magical Musings

Due to recent events I have migrated elsewhere to offer tarot readings. Something I haven't actively advertised and offered for a while. But the time is right now and I am ready to start reading for people again.

At the moment I am in the process of listing readings on ko-fi and selling on there. If you wish to speak to me directly about a reading and purchase from me that way you can contact me at [email protected].

The link to the Ko-Fi store is here

I have been reading tarot for fifteen years and have been told my readings are accurate and to the point. I have given away free readings on here multiple times and you can find the odd review on here if you look hard enough.

My asks are always open. I’m available for readings. And I’m continuing the work. There just isn’t as much of a community here anymore which was the original reason I began engaging here in the first place. To hear different opinions from real people who were engaged in work I was interested in.

I like my country for the most part. I am thankful I was born here. But it could be better. I wouldn’t say I’m patriotic in the flag waving “Britain for the British” sense at all. The issue in the UK is that patriotism and far right inclinations have become bound together in a way that I’m not comfortable with. I also think there is a lot to be ashamed of- and I think other countries have this too.

As for the European Union I voted to remain in it. I feel we are stronger together and being a part of it did not adversely affect the functioning of the UK in any way. If anything I would argue life was much better and cheaper when we were in the European Union and brexit was the worst political decision to occur in recent times.

We still had independence. We had our own currency. We have our own head of state. We elect our own prime minister. And the laws introduced by the European Union were laws the government would also have put into place and largely still do.

As requested I have performed a reading for the Iran war. The date of this reading is 5th March 2026 and I hope that what I have predicted does not come to pass. Apologies for the poor photo, the original is better but Tumblr said it was too big a file. I used ChatGPT to convert it and it made it blurry and faded!

The way that I read this 'spread' is that the first card of each line is the ruling card of the line, the following cards are permutations of that core idea or fleshing out of how these forces play out. The final card is what I see the overall outcome being. My question was what effects will the Iran war have on the wider world.

In the first row we have the tower card as ruler. This indicates destruction, fire, war. In particular with the two of swords, empress, and prince of disks we can infer that this row indicates a destruction of relative peace, of diplomacy, of any hope of countries working together. With the Empress card we see a destruction of any hope of nurturing peace, and most importantly stability. She is alchemical salt and the tower is fire, there is going to be a reaction to this war. The prince of disks indicates stability also and in my opinion communication and friendship across nations. This war is going to have diplomatic, financial, and trade implications across nations. As well as destruction of land too.

The 10 of swords rules the next row and indicates oppression. This whole situation is very nuanced and multifaceted. One can argue that the Iranian regime is oppressive to its people, but some Iranians are very patriotic to their government. One can also say that bombing a country overnight and killing innocent civilians over supposed nuclear weapons is also a form of oppression. This reminds me very much so of the Iraq war, and we all saw how that turned out. I see this as Israel and the US being forces that will oppress Iran and perhaps even the wider Middle East and that their resistance is futile. They are going to give them all they have got. The Magus in this row suggests to me that lies are being told. There is deceit at play and it is in the words that are being fed to the public. The Magus is Mercury and Thoth. The God of writing, magic, and trickery. I believe that the world is being told a fraction of the truth but in a way that also fuels the propaganda machine. To think that any country is free from propaganda is ridiculous. But in this case, I just feel that the reason this war started is not the reason we have been told and as such we are being oppressed by lies in this sense.

The final card is the emperor. This card indicates dominion and seeking to control. Israel may have come to the US, but I feel the emperor shows exactly what Trump hopes to gain from this war. Control, power, and wealth. It could signify war in general. These cards and the question applied could refer to other countries getting involved shortly. I am very hasty to use the phrase WW3, but I do feel like this whole situation is a catalyst for wider destruction and that it will be a stain on human history.

So is WW3 happening? I don't know, but what I do know is that we are all going to feel effects from this war, other countries are going to get involved in some capacity, and we are being lied to in some way. I don't think WW3 will look like the other two world wars and so perhaps that term is loaded with ideas that are incorrect. I prefer to say that this war is not going to lead to anything good, it will lead to instability on multiple levels, and we are all going to see effects from this war globally.

There is going to be a lot of innocent deaths, people who do not represent their government nor their regime and service people who think they are doing the right thing and defending their country and people. It is a complicated situation and I truly wish there could be more peace in the world.

That’s a yes or no complicated answer and one that is subjective in the sense of what do we mean by a world war?

What I may do is ask how this situation will escalate and what the global response will be.

His current fate is that he has been arrested and released without charge pending investigation for disgrace in public office. He is not facing the charges he deserves to face and he will not face the justice he deserves to face either. All that has happened is a public spectacle to make it look like the police and the government are doing something about it because there has been public uproar.

He isn’t the only one that needs arresting, Donald Trump needs investigating some of the claims against him are truly shocking. Bill Gates should be arrested. These billionaires and well connected people will never face the justice they deserve. It is the reason the abuse went on for so long in the first place. The rich and powerful are untouchable and made Epstein untouchable for many years.

This is perhaps corruption at its highest point that I have ever seen. Yet nothing is happening and nothing will happen.

I am thinking of offering some incenses. Maybe some charged talismans. I will not be offering spell services and ritual services. Too many variables and I don’t want to have to really get into the nitty gritty with individual people about their wants and what lies behind rituals.

If anyone has any suggestions for an easy way to build such a website or even platforms to avoid please let me know.

I would also like a space where people can leave reviews which is something that Ko-Fi is currently lacking.

I will still continue to post here and respond to asks. But will also see how this goes.

As a Gemini with a lot of Gemini in my chart I tend to have the habit of intellectualising everything. I have to logically understand something before I even attempt to use it. When I was learning to drive I had to understand why I had to shift gears at certain points, what revs meant, and I got caught up in why we had to turn to 3 on a clock during parallel parking. Turns out driving is not at all difficult, but my own brain and the way it is wired made it so.

I have been doing the same with magic, luckily I got a lot of that out of my system early on. I found Thelema and its hijack of the Hermetic Qabalah and found a system that had logical sense. At least it did at the time to me. This meant I could jump straight into the practice which is where the real fruits begin to form- from real labour.

More recently, the past four years to be exact, I have been looking into the system of Michael Bertiaux. A controversial figure in modern occultism, some people believe him to be a charlatan, others believe him to be a magician with good intentions, others believe him to be one of the few true masters currently still alive. One could have said the same about Aleister Crowley.

Anyone who has tried to read the Voudon Gnostic Workbook will know how jumbled it appears and how strange it is. Most of it makes little sense at first glance. It is an amalgamation of many different spiritual systems into a form of gnosticism that is truly different to anything else I have seen.

What a lot of people don't understand is that you are meant to start with the Monastery of the Seven Rays materials. Which start out quite simple and then take a turn into the weird and wonderful and you are left scratching your head thinking "What the hell am I reading?"

So why bother? Because I could sense power there. There was something in those writings that called to me. I couldn't logically understand it, I couldn't even tell you what exactly the intentions were. But I knew there was something there that was more than just a madmans theories. So I continued to research and try and make sense of it all.

The truth is, this is a very spirit led system. It is a system to be engaged with. You have to work with the material and allow the spirits and the material to speak to you. I recently started doing that and now suddenly the lessons make sense. More than that I feel like an idiot for not understanding in the first place. It is a strange feeling, it is as though the knowledge was locked until I was ready. It was always present but the required understanding could not be brought forth.

I am degree educated, I hold a masters degree, I love researching and understanding theories and problems. The issue I had was certainly not a lack of intelligence or even understanding the background theories. The issue was I was approaching this system, and indeed magic itself, from the wrong angle. I was trying to make sense of something that is beyond the mind. I was trying to confine something limitless within the form of thoughts and facts.

Hope you and your fur babies are doing well this winter.

Can you please suggest me a freezing spell or something like that but without a freezer? I don't have a fridge where I am and I need this one coworker to stay away from me and my projects without souring our relationship.

I am an intermediate practitioner and mostly work with ceremonial and planetary magic, and sometimes, folk magic (not wicca or voodoo, or Celtic though)

Thanks in advance for your time and energy.

May the new year fulfil all your dreams.

Hi, sorry I must have missed this! Happy New Year to you as well.

You have a few options. You could call upon Saturn and ask him to restrict your coworkers actions towards you in this regard. To prevent him from causing you any bother- you could consecrate a candle to Saturn, if you can get a physical link that would be great you could smoke it over some incense whilst you focus and vocalise your intent. You could then carry this with you whilst you work and focus on it if you feel the situation turning that way again.

A signature would work, an item of clothing. Another neat trick is to capture the voice. Jason Miller uses a technique whereby you call to someone and tie a not in the instant that they respond to you- you do this multiple times- I believe 3 or 7 I forget. The knot then becomes associated with the individual and thus a link in itself.

You can also bind him, get a photo and some links if you can, write down the actions that are annoying you, invoke a deity- again Saturn would be fine. Fold the photo with the links three times and wrap around a black cord all whilst focusing on your intentions and stating appropriate words.

Do you think US will annex Greenland?

I haven’t been following too closely. But Trump and now by extension the British government are playing with fire it would seem.

I have read that the Venezuelan people are happy and seem to believe they are free of a dictator. If that is the case, then good for them. But let’s not pretend this isn’t about oil and resources.

As for Greenland I don’t believe they will. If they do Trump will alienate himself from Europe and possibly break up NATO which would be catastrophic at this time.

It isn’t really Trump but his advisors that make these decisions. Whether they are the correct course of action time will only tell. I just think the entire world stage is like a volcano on the edge of erupting and there’s nothing being done to relieve the tension and only a few more small acts of carelessness remain before it explodes.

As a rule, I would much prefer governments to stick to their own countries and not poke their noses in the matters of other people UNLESS there are atrocities taking place.

It depends what the spell is. You should think about how reasonable something is to occur. For example if you cast a spell for attracting a lover on a Friday and you aren’t leaving the house until three weeks later it’s unlikely to take effect.

New jobs also take longer. Magic doesn’t make miracles but the results should be reasonable and applied on a case by case basis.

As a general rule for simple things I would say a couple of weeks. Most things I would say a month. And for long term workings e.g. finances I would expect noticeable improvements every six months.