I asked Scarlet Imprint to hold back my review of Jake Kent’s Geosophia because I had published it elsewhere first.  Then, we both seem to have lost track and only today did Scarlet Imprint contact me to say “Uh… do you mind if we publish it now??”  LOL  So, if you’ve been waiting for it [...]

  Greetings, faithful followers! I thought it might be useful – for me as well as my readers - to post my favorite recipes for planetary incenses here. In a best case scenario, you would want each incense to include the planet’s sacred number of ingredients.  Thus, Saturn incense should include three ingredients, Jupiter incense should contain four, [...]

I was recently a guest on an episode of the ‘Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole’ Podcast.  We talked for about an hour (on the air – and about as long off the air afterward!) and had an absolute blast.  We discussed Solomonic magick and its place in the current occult revival, its relationship to the [...]

It looks like this is the year for Jupiter work!  (Of course, that may be partly due to my membership in the ‘Gentlemen for Jupiter” occult group – Jupiter has certainly been “in the air.”)  The first was earlier this year: an Invocation of the Archangel Iophiel.  That was not done for any specific magickal [...]

Greetings, Angel-workers! This year has been fairly active concerning our house gods.  First, we worked with Samael for the protection of our home.  Then we called upon Iophiel to bring prosperity into the house.  Now, we turn our attention to another old and trusted friend of the family (in fact, the first archangel with whom [...]

Somewhat recently, I performed a lengthy invocation of Samael, the Archangel of Mars, to establish a barrier of protection around my property.  It did not occur to me to photo-document the procedure, as it is not my usual habit to do such a thing.  However, I did take the rare step of writing up the [...]

Greetings Fellow Heathens! (Pictures are forthcoming.  I’ll update this post when I get them ready.) I’ve been back from the Florida Pagan Gathering for a couple of days, and I’m only now finding the strength to write this post.    My hands are devastated (and my legs bruised) from hours of pounding my drum back [...]

Greetings, Festive Heathens!  And happy Beltaine to everyone! In just a few days, we will be heading out for Florida Pagan Gathering in Ocala, where I will be giving three lectures on Solomonic Magick: http://www.flapagan.org/ I will be selling my books when not lectureing.  Also, my wife, Carrie Mikell, will be doing Henna Tattoos – [...]

As many of you know, I recently published an essay entitled The Return of Psalm Magick and the Mixed Qabalah.  (Find it in both Hoodoo and Conjure Quarterly and Diamond Fire Magazine.)  In that essay, I reviewed two books released by Avalonia Publishing, one of which was A Collection of Magical Secrets & a Treatise [...]

Greetings, Aurors! I like to keep an eye on the Hoodoo and Conjure forums for useful techniques I haven’t encountered before.  Recently, someone posed the question of what to do when a curse has been laid upon land rather than a person, building or object.  You’d think this would be a common enough problem that [...]