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The wand is the archetypal instrument of magic. It represents the will of the magician. The purpose of magic is to transform. Through the wand, the power of transformation is projected. A magician uses a wand to cause changes, to make things happen, to bring purposes to realization. In the Harry Potter series of novels, the one thing every young wizard requires is a wand. This fictional detail reflects the mythic importance of this instrument of magic. For centuries, most images of sorcerers, wizards, and necromancers have shown them wielding a wand. Stage magicians once used wands, or pretended to use them, while performing their illusions. To channel occult force effectively, wands ...
I love polarity energy! I love the feel of it bouncing back and forth between two or more people. I even love solitary polarity workings, although I do a lot less of that. Polarity work is controversial these days. Many of us, of many different occult and Pagan paths, were taught that polarity is absolutely essential to magical work. We may also have been taught, though, that polarity is "gender polarity," and requires an entirely heteronormative view of the world. For that reason, polarity has a bad rap in many more inclusive corners of the occult community, and so a lot of people haven't really explored this energy, or have even actively rejected it. That's a shame, because when you ...
Divination is the manifestation of the human yearning to discern the seemingly indiscernible. The diviner attempts to forge a connection between themselves and the totality of the conscious multiverse of which they are a facet, using this connection to glimpse a wisdom beyond the current of conscious thought. This can be done using any number of the myriad tools designed across the ages for this purpose. Divinatory tools are catalysts, sparks to light the flame of intuition that represents a connection to the underlying thought pulse of divinity that comprises the interconnected network of being. Many divinatory tools have been devised throughout history, from throwing bones, to runes, to ...
The Tree of Life is depicted and mythologised through many different cultures. There are Trees of Life sheltering birds and animals in tapestries, carpets, and paintings. We think of Druidic groves, the World Tree, Ydraggsil; sometimes a tree is invoked as a method of passage between the upper, middle, and underworlds. Kabbalah's more staid glyph of the Tree of Life—ten (sometimes eleven) circles spaced in strict relationship to each other—doesn't come as close as these other examples to representing the emotional impact of an actual tree. Yet perhaps the two are not that far apart. Traditionally the Kabbalistic Tree of Life depicts the descent of the divine into the ...
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