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I’m almost 40 years old and I’ve never owned a car.  As an America that doesn’t live in one of the big cities, people often think that’s weird. My bike and public transit have been my primary form of transportation even thought I have been a licensed driver since I was 16 and I rent cars from time to time.

Last week bought a car for $1 from my folks. It was made the year I graduated from high school and has been sitting for long stretches of time up at The Riverhouse for the last 5 years. It’s not too fancy as it was bought to be able to shrug off a tree falling on it. It’s had a safety check and it’s insured and stuff. I have to go finish registration things today. It’s just weird to think I have a car. It completely changes the way I’ve been thinking. Up until now getting a car has been a thing I had to plan for. Now I can just decide to drive to the coast or go camping or go and buy craft supplies on sale in the suburbs. It’s very strange.

Late Dinner

Ramen Dayo *  -   Wil Freeborn

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Watercolour

Sometimes grimoires obscure things with secret codes or don’t explain certain steps because logically someone at the time would have known how to do what was a common action of the day. But sometimes they’re cryptic and mum on the actual meaning of certain designs and symbols for seemingly no reason. But I think the reason is simply: magicians.

To go into further explanation and not be so cryptic: I just wrote down a spell in one of my journals, and where a couple of components would go that could be changed and customized depending on need, I just left brackets there with nothing inside them, to let myself know that the chunk is swappable, it’s a variable. In another part I drew a dashed diagram with arrows and no other explanation–it’s the instructions for a certain hand-motion to make at the end of the spell.

There are no full explanations written down simply because I’ll know what I mean, and when I thought about that at the end, I said: “fuck it, it’s my book, if someone finds it when I’m dead it’s not like the book is for them.” And that’s the explanation behind a ton of crypticness: in the end, a lot of these books are made for personal usage or would come with an oral tradition where one person would explain it to another. If you’re not that person or not in that oral tradition, then what’s written there isn’t for you to understand, and cracking it open is going to require intuition, divination, outright necromancy (throttling the author’s ghost for the answer), or just making something up and seeing if it works. It’s not really on every magic-user to write a personal magic book that will be perfectly instructive to people born generations after they die. It’s on us to try to figure out their cryptic bullshit anyway.

Protection Jar Against Binding and Hexes

Ingredients 
- Dried hydrangea petals 
- Dried and ground hydrangea stems - Crushed sea salt 
- Lavender essential oil 
- Rosemary 
- Dried lavender petals 
- Dried amaranth seeds 
- Rose quartz nuggets (small enough to fit in your jar)

So let’s have a meet-up! :D

WHAT: Come hang out with the witch guild! Bring a snack or drink to share, if you feel like it. There’s no proposed theme this time around (yet), but maybe we can talk about how the winter was and how we’re doing now that things are growing green again?

WHEN: Saturday, May 20th at 4:00 pm

WHERE: Overlook Park, off Yellow Line MAX, under the big giant tree (pictured below).

In this 2 part episode we discuss magical correspondences, where the come from, how to use them, why we use them, and how you can fit them into your own magical practice building.

Content Note: at approximately 1:02:15- 1:08:40 we start to discuss gender, alchemical correspondences, and the construction of homunculi, which historically involved questionable acts involving a dead cow. Listener beware.

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A bunch of show notes under the cut…

can’t remember if i ever posted this spread, sans the reading. too lazy to look. here it is again.