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[thesorcererpoet]

Ever pull two cards and know it is spiritually important? Today’s reading looks sequentially like it is taking a back step. In the order of the cups cards you have the five that is about accepting the disappointment of what is lost and taking joy in what remains, we have the six which is nostalgia, which still denotes a sense of clinging on, then the seven, which appears here, the inner delusions about wanting it back. The seven then denotes the things you wrestle with in your quest to replace what is lost that you still have longing for. It is all the things you want, the anger as revenge, the beauty as seduction, the wealth and the power. You know that not one of those things is worth being chosen and loved back and not one of these things will bring the past back because we cannot step into the same river twice. So here we have a situation, the eight talks about walking away from a relationship. The eight usually follows the seven but here it precedes it.

Having walked away, there is a sense of fantasy about all of the things that we have left behind that we haven’t quite put to bed. These things are not real, they are of the mind. If I were to look at one way of interpreting these cards, I would say it would be foolish to walk away from something real, chasing something that isn’t. I have spoken on the perils of fantasy vs reality before, talking of how when we make something real we have to give up our ideal vision for the reality. So what is your reality now? What was the reality before?

I wouldn’t expect that it is easy to dispel such dreams. Never the less, I know from experience that chasing them is a fools errand.

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[kiisuuumii]

@kiisuuumii's writerly questionnaire !

thank you @lead-to-code for tagging (ily kara <33)

i'd love to see yall's answers (only if you'd like to share of course !) @noahsbong @yearning-rambles @thesorcererpoet

about me:

1. when did you first start writing?

i was maybe between seven and nine ? to be honest, i can't really remember when it was, but i remember the first few things i wrote were story quizzes on a (now gone </3) website called quizilla (it was naruto rp....................)

2. are the genres/themes you enjoy reading different from the ones you write?

not really, now that i actually think about it ! ive always been the type of writer that only liked writing angst, and even outside of writing (fan) fiction (which tbh i dont do very much of anymore), so much of my poetry either comes from heavy emotion or features it so sdghjksd

3. is there an author (or just a fellow writer!) you want to emulate, or one to whom you're often compared?

theres one mutual, actually, who i actually wished i could write more like. in a very self-deprecating way, but ive since become very comfortable, and maybe even happy (!), with my style of writing ! so, no, i'm not really looking to emulate anyone in particular, and no one's ever made a comparison between my work and someone else's so no to that one too :0

4. can you tell me a little about your writing space(s)? (room, coffee shop, desk, etc)

i usually write on my phone, in the notes app or in my drafts here ! and ill usually only write in a (head) space where i can really think, undisturbed, for at least 30-45 mins. so i'll usually be out in my backyard under one of my calamansi trees ! though, lately, ive been occasionally writing at my desk on desktop tumblr :>

5. what's your most effective way to muster up some muse?

fall in love with someone

once i start thinking about how everything around me is alive, i start remembering that i, too, am apart of nature—a lucky enough set of sequenced mutations, to make me—just a eating, breathing, shitting animal. how lucky this set of mutations is to take it all in, the emeralds in the trees, and the beat of a chipmunk's heart, how scared we all are.

that or love

6. did the place(s) you grew up in influence the people and places you write about?

people, no, but places, yes. i grew up for most of my childhood in the desert, and i have /always/ hated summers, because i'm kinda heat sensitive, and i sweat easily, and i hate it i hate i hate it djhks

but, a year ago, i moved back home, and, honestly, since being back home, ive come to appreciate the desert a bit more sgkjds i used to think they were ugly and uninteresting, but there's so much more there if you look a bit harder imo

7. are there any recurring themes in your writing, and if so, do they surprise you at all?

honestly !! i think there are plenty obvious ones, but i really wanna talk about /the lack of/ sexual themes in my work !! i wanna write more sexetry or whatever, but it feels really embarrassing to sdghks i really like writing them too, but again !! it just feels embarrassing !! ;w;

my characters:

1. would you please tell me about your current favourite character? (current wip, post wip, never used, etc)

not to copy of kara dskjfs but i love my first (and my current) d&d chara !! her name is maeve umerie, and shes a drow wild magic sorcerer / (planned artillerist) artificer !! shes so packed full of trauma and self-harming behaviors and addictions that i dont even know where to start <33 (i promise i love her i would actually be so devastated if she died before i could give her a proper happy ending </3)

2. which of your characters do you think you'd be friends with in real life?

i have this fantasy novel thought that ive floated in my head since maybe september-october of last year, and, in it, i have a character named levin hel, and AUGH hes just a sweetie :^( hes the son of a blacksmith-gunsmith duo who know a thing or two about magic, and is the apprentice to the son of the wizard who saved his life (who's name is nox, and he's an asshole ! but also i love him so much ;v;)

i need go go back to all my notes and stuff on it, bc i invested A LOT of time worldbuilding for it, but yea levin's a very kindhearted person, very much wanting to be like nox's father :'''^) </3

3. which of your characters would you dislike the most if you met them?

i would absolutely hate to meet maeve mother. she's horribly self-serving and emotionally manipulative. she rules the house with an iron fist, and anything less than the best is worthless. she uses everything at her disposal to get what she wants, family or not.

4. tell me about the process of coming up with one, all, or any of your characters.

im ngl most if not all of my characters are just bits and pieces of me and my wants in different aus >_> .................................

5. do you notice any recurring themes/traits among your characters?

family and/or religious trauma mhm yep

6. how do you picture them? (as real people you imagined, as models/actors who exist in real life, as imaginary artwork, as artwork you made or commissioned, anime style, etc)

for my fantasy wip, i imagine imaginary artwork, but for maeve, i have pieces i've drawn and pieces i've commissioned of her !! id love to someday get pieces of her family and other major characters in her past commissioned :>

my writing:

1. what's your reason for writing?

i will say that it's changed over the years. as a kid, and up until college, i've wanted to always be a story-teller. but, lately, i dont really have a reason for writing, other than to satisfy the thing that lives inside me that wants to write :^)

2. is there a specific comment or type of comment you find particular motivating coming from your readers?

knowing other people's reactions, getting to hear how something made them feel emotionally, or physically, or if there was a particular thought or memory that came to mind. i love knowing what people see, what my work makes people see, if anything.

that or if theres something, a word choice, or a line, that you thought was clever or struck you !!! i always love knowing people's thoughts !!!

3. how do you want to be thought of by those who read your work? (for example: as a literary genius, or as a writer who "gets" the human condition; as a talented world builder, as a role model, etc)

i want to be thought of just as another person, honestly. someone who had very human emotions, and did the only thing she knew how to do.

4. what do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?

uhhhhh im ngl i think this is also my greatest weakness but i have a tedium to my world-building, in that i need history-book-level details of my worlds or i will die (like i drew my own map. i drew a fucking map of an entire contiment)

5. what have you been frequently told your greatest writing strength is by others?

yk,,,,, no ones given me a whole lot of specifics so im not sure,,,,,

6. how do you feel about your own writing? (answer in whatever way you interpret this question)

i said it before, but im pretty content at the moment with my poetry. though with prose, i think i could probably improve a bit sdgjksg

7. if you were the last person on earth and knew your writing would never be read by another human, would you still write?

uh yeah !!!! i write and record voice memos in my journal fully knowing no one will ever read it or listen back right now as it is so !!!!

8. when you write, are you influenced by what others might enjoy reading, or do you write purely what you enjoy? if it's a mix of the two, which holds most influence?

i gotta be honest, writing is a selfish act for me. i write because i want to, in ways that tickle my fancy dgkjds

it really is almost like an instinct for me

[thesorcererpoet]

Hello friends! So card of the day is the seven of swords. When this card comes up, it is wise to be on your guard. The seven of swords indicates the idea of somebody taking something from you. Being swords, which relate to a the element of air and to the intellect, it could be that someone out there is looking to steal your ideas or simply that you will be taken advantage of. Make sure you keep your eye out for foul play today and you will be one step ahead.

This card also indicates taking extraordinary efforts to achieve something. Trying to get away with something or even to try and achieve something that seems futile. It is worth bearing in mind that futility often comes from a feeling of defeat. If you are already defeated before you start then you will never get where you want to go. My suggestion is to make the little effort you can and you might surprise yourself.

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[thesorcererpoet]

Hello friends! Today we have drawn the five of wands and the ace of pentacles. Think about how you strive to realise your material goals. When it comes to the foundations of our material life, it usually boils down to one thing: money. It is the force that controls your material comfort and even survival. Here we are being asked, how much are you willing to strive for it? If your very survival depends on making that bit extra, you will likely compete harder to get it. This here is a good omen in that case. Perhaps think about ways in which you can up your game so you stand a better chance of improving your circumstances.

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[thesorcererpoet]

Hello friends! Time for another daily reading. Today we are being asked to look at the obstacles and resistance to the new life and new undertakings we are beginning. What is it that is preventing us from taking a leap of faith? Is this resistance an inner resistance or an outer one? What have you got to lose?

If there is a genuinely sensible reason not to take the step into the unknown, take heed of your intuition. You could be avoiding very real danger. If on the other hand your trepidation comes from much less tangible quarters, like being worried what someone else will think or feel about it, remember this is your life and you only get one as far as we know. At the end of the day you’ve got to do what is right by you.

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[thesorcererpoet]

Hello friends! Today we have drawn the ten of cups and the ace of swords. What is your idea of perfect happiness? The ten of cups speaks of finding a deep loving connection with someone as well as a fulfilling family life. When it comes to meeting a new person, the ten of cups can speak of projecting upon them also, which is something we must be wary of, lest we find out that they don’t measure up to who they are in our heads. When this is the case, one of two things often tends to happen, we either reject this person or we try to force them to fit our ideals. Neither of these ways of dealing with our own projections are very healthy. I feel like this is the choice that the ace of swords is pointing to here, however there is always another way of doing things. When your new found love doesn’t quite match up to the idea in your head, why not spend some time getting to know who they actually are, without any preconceptions. Learn what makes them tick and look for ways to weave both of your ways of being together so your differences can enhance one another’s experience of life. There must still be some grounds to think of them in high regard, just understand that the reality is never like the fantasy, but with patience, caring and understanding it can be even better.

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[thesorcererpoet]

So I’ve been a little quiet lately. I’m going to be doing a lot of updates to this blog soon. I will still keep writing as I always have, as it’s something I literally just do all the time, so please don’t worry because I’m not going to stop with the poetry any time soon.

For the last few days, I have been working on an astrological compatibility chart (synastry) for a friend, so I have been very busy.

Next week, I am off work so from then I will be revamping things a bit and start posting a bit more about my spiritual work.

As a brief explanation though for those curious, I am a practitioner of Chaos Magick, which is the idea of using belief as a tool. Chaos magick operates on the principle that you can adopt all different kinds of spiritual principles and use them at will as they were intended and then choose to use something different, even contradictory at will. This is called paradigm shifting or belief shifting. Chaos magick also allows you the freedom to work with your own correspondences and even invent your own systems of magic.

One of the main things Chaos magic utilises, is a practice called sigil magick. Sigil Magick works by allowing you to craft your own magical symbols using several methods. The most commonly used one is derived from taking a statement of intent, removing all of the repeating letters and vowels and then taking the remaining letters and creating a monogram out of them which looks like a little picture made from the letters. The best way to do this is to generate a little monogram so the letters are not consciously recognisable. The next step is to forget your intent. If you can deliberately do so then this process is quite fast. The idea is that lusting after the result will prevent it from working.

Sigil magic is kind of like planting a seed in the unconscious mind, which you allow yourself to do the magic for you. This is thought to be where all kinds of primal forces, which came from former evolutions, reside. These primal forces are what the inventor of sigil magic called atavistic nostalgia, literally what your body remembers of its ancient ancestry.

To plant the sigil, chaos magicians work with various altered and trance states of mind, some of which are naturally occurring. Often we use things like meditation, a sudden shock, holding breath until you can’t, drumming, various rituals. There are many myriad ways to plant a sigil. My favourite way is to blow all of the air out of my lungs until I gasp, while staring at the sigil. In the moment, when you gasp, your conscious mind is briefly forced to be silent which allows the sigil to enter into the unconscious uninhibited. Once the sigil has been implanted, you must then destroy it, commonly by burning it.

While I use many chaos magic specific techniques, I also work with an array of different systems at various times. Much of my very favourite work comes from working magic, which is my English heritage. Now, by this, I don’t mean Wicca. I tend to find I do a lot of work with bible magic, old English charms and the grimoires.

A grimoire, meaning grammar in old French, is a magical instruction book, showing techniques for rituals which can put you in contact with spirits. They also contain various spells which are not full summoning rituals, but are instead simpler workings designed to get results for various needs. The most well known grimoire is known as The Goetia which is the first part of a compilation of different magic books called The Lemegeton or The Lesser Key of Solomon. This book has a bit of a reputation as these spirits are considered as being demons. However, I know from my own practice that if you treat them with respect and don’t approach these practices from a place of fear, all will usually be fine. However, these practices are not for inexperienced practitioners. Before working with grimoires, it is important to know how to banish, to make sure you follow spiritual cleansing routines, learn how to make holy water. Be sure you know what you are doing so you know how to deal with it should anything go awry. Much easier then, it is to begin with various levels of simpler spell work and to get confident before approaching the bigger rituals.

While I am big fan of traditional magic practices such as these, I am by no means an advocate for doing things to the letter. Experimentation is really the only way to even get this stuff to work nowadays, since we no longer have access to a lot to the items, or trades people like blacksmiths etc who you need to get to do the work in front of you. My own practice is a blend of ancient rites, Christian prayers and using what is available to me in the 21st century. Much of this stuff was only made operable to me at all because of chaos magic.

While these two sets of interlinking ideas make up the bulk of my practice, I do work within many other systems. I am fond of modern witchcraft, which seems to be like Wicca but eschewing a lot of the old restrictions, the sexism and some of the other more odious elements (for instance, no you do not need to be naked to do magic, that’s just silly). I also work a lot with runes and rune magic, as well as with the Norse gods. I have a deep and long running connections to Taoism, particularly with the divination book, the I Ching which has literally saved my life (it drew my attention to what would have been an electrical fire in my old flat, I wouldn’t be alive without that divination). I actually have much to say on the I Ching but I will save that for another post, however I will say it has taught me so much and I have an immense amount of gratitude towards the oracle since it has come into my life. I also have worked a lot with Thelema, particularly engaging in the book of Thoth Tarot as well as some Golden Dawn practices. However my preferences for magic are mostly rooted in older traditions, mainly grimoires, European folk magic and British cunning craft.

All this aside, I have also been divining for others for many years now and I know many systems of divination inside and out. I am particularly knowledgeable about tarot, mainly following after the Rider-Waite system of tarot, developed by Arthur Edward Waite and Pamala Coleman-Smith of the Golden Dawn. As I have previously mentioned, I work with Runes and The I Ching. I also work with something called Geomancy, which was very popular during the renaissance, and came before tarot. Geomancy is actually very ancient but is still widely used in a lot of African and Middle Eastern countries. It’s methods have been preserved in the fourth book of occult philosophy, attributed to Cornelius Agrippa (his three books and fourth book are about 500 years old and contain a lot of source material for many of the magic books that came after). Geomancy works by poking holes in a box of blessed dirty until your intuition tells you to stop. You count the holes and then work out if it’s odd or even, then generate the various diagrams, which are eventually arranged into a table of astrological houses and read. You can also generate the numbers using a pen and paper or using coins, or dice or various other methods. I will probably demonstrate this stuff soon. As I have already mentioned, I am into astrology, although I am really only just learning at the moment. I also practice scrying, which is the act of causing visions using a crystal ball, black mirror, bowl of water or various other reflective surfaces. I also have my own, self invented system of dice magic which I am currently working on updating.

I will be offering my various divination services soon.

Anyway, thank you for reading my big, long infodump. I will post more cool stuff soon x

[thesorcererpoet]

Hello friends! I have just about recovered from The Healing Gateway Festival 2024 lmao… Today I have pulled three cards as I felt it was important for clarity. We have got the five of pentacles, the lovers and the confirmation card is the moon.

The five of pentacles speaks of material difficulties, poverty and hardship. Things might seem difficult right now for some of us but as we can see here, you are not alone. The lovers represents uniting two forces in sympathy with one another and this unity is what can overcome your troubles. The lovers also speaks of an internal joining of parts. It talks about how, through the act of love, be that self love or the love of another, difficulties can be overcome.

When it comes to self love, we don’t always find it easy to do what is best for ourselves but at this juncture it is important to do so. You will often find that when we are down in the dumps and feeling helpless about a situation it can be more challenging to act. The act of loving ourselves means that we do the things that we must to meet the needs of the situation so we can weather the hardship, even if we don’t want to. The five of pentacles echoes this, as the figures depicted are described as having love for one another even in that hardship.

To confirm, the moon reminds us that things are always darkest just before the dawn. Sometimes the night itself is just an illusion when we realise that the light it reflects is illuminating our path and even in the night we can see it clearly enough to walk it.

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[thesorcererpoet]

Hello friends! Today we are called upon to stand in our integrity, to be honest and open about our feelings without letting them run riot. No matter what challenges we are faced with, making hasty rash decisions will only work to your detriment. Finding an inner balance, reigning in our emotions and instead politely speaking what is in our hearts will get us far closer to what we want than letting ourselves run riot, acting out of hurt and ultimately harming our cause. Think before you act but be true to your heart.

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[thesorcererpoet]

Today’s card is the 10 of swords w/ Paimon. To me this has a very specific meaning, but as a wider divination, something is over. While the 10 of swords in the strictest sense means ruin it very often to me comes up as death of the old. In the Rider Waite we see the hierophant being stabbed with ten swords, representing the end of a relationship, since the hierophant represents marriage, but also the death of orthodoxy, of orthodox power, of what is traditional and established. Contrast this with death, which is in my opinion, a bigger kind of ending. Death being the end of an era for you, in an overall way. The ten of swords then, while ruinous in a sense, doesn’t spell the entire end of the matter necessarily, simply a change in orthodoxy. Where there is a power vacuum something always seeks to fill it for good or for ill. It is apt that for me this came up the day after I took down my old accounts. This definitely spells an end to an old era for me but also the beginning of a new, more hopeful one.

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