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Using a Kamea or Magic Square — I learned a few things from @arnemancy and his class on magic & cryptography in the Renaissance...

For the last few weeks I was taking Arnemancy’s class, The Other Trithemian Art, on codes and ciphers in magic. It’s quite an interesting class, and I’ve been enjoying the brain stretch to think about using codes and ciphers in magical and occult practice. It’s not an easy thing to think about — as John Michael Greer has opined, occultism can be defined as ‘discarded knowledge’ of one kind or…

Erik Arneson of Arnemancy asked me to join him for a talk about magic, magicians and the non-magical preparations we ought to be thinking about for the future. That podcast came out this morning.

I’m really impressed by the quality of our talk, and I think that we found that there’s a lot to say about navigating between a largely-positive Gordon Whjte-like vision of the multi planetary…

So, my good friend, the good Reverend Erik Arneson of Arnemancy, in addition to his blog and podcast, has recently started up his own YouTube channel, doing video-style chats about all and sundry things, sometimes little mini-lectures, sometimes interviews.  It’s a fun new experimental layout he’s doing, and to help bring it about further, he had me on to talk with him!  Unfortunately, it’s about…

As many of you know, I make a point of appearing on The Rev. Erik Arneson’s podcast, Arnemancy, each December to do a forecast episode. Originally it was just the two of us, and now it’s the two of us plus T. Susan Chang as our amazing tarot-slinger. You can now listen to these episodes for the 2023 retrospective show, and the H1 and H2 episodes for 2024, both in one easy-to-find location!

Podcast Guest: Arnemancy’s Year Ahead

Thanks to the Reverend Erik Arneson of the Arnemancy podcast and website, we repeated last year’s two-part “year ahead” episode. Those episodes are here (Part I and Part II). But this year we persuaded the insightful and talented T. Susan Chang, co-host of Fortune’s Wheelhouse and one of the most skilled Tarot practitioners I know, to sling cards alongside my astrology. With Erik running…

2. Interview with Erik Arneson — When @arnemancy talks about Art of Memory ideas, people (should) sit up and take notice.

The Episode

Erik Arneson of the Arnemancy Podcast joined me for the second episode. He and I chatted later in the day on 26 January 2020. Our wide-ranging conversation covers both “memory of image” and “memory of place”, although Erik demonstrates the value of both the “chain” and the “field” or “table” seals from Thirty Seals and the Seal of Seals, one of the expert-level manuals from…