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New moon sleeplessness

Hey all,

looking for some insights and maybe someone with similar experience. I am having some major issues with sleep when it is a new moon. Recently I have been noticing that more and more frequently I have nights when I sleep for about 3 hours. A few days at a time. Just today it sparked on me, that it could be connected to some celestial cycles so I checked the moon calendar and saw that when I am sleepless, it is (most of the time) around a new moon time, some occasions it is at 50% illumination, but more strangely not affected when it is full moon.

I have been dabbling in Chaos for some years now and think i messed up a sigil (by not being specific enough, noob mistake I know) and it was connected to a ritual I held. Last year has been just as I asked (when messing up the sigil) and my life had some major changes, not all good (from this point of view now). I believe this is something pulling me to explore more about the new moon and its effect on my world, so any reference or recommendations for what to research more specifically, would be highly appreciated.

Thank you for reading through my post and hope to receive some guidance/direction.

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2025/01/30
22:19 UTC

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What do you think of Taboric Light from an occult* perspective? Is it really our soul?

I took a course on it and the teacher said that this light is uncreated and can burn aliens, demons, and low astral entities.

Is this light our soul or something else?

Is there an occult term related to this light without having to relate it to Christianity?

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2025/01/30
02:37 UTC

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Why LBRP? How can I get started?

Hey all

I'm pretty new to practicing magick, and lately I've heard that LBRP should be practiced at least daily for several weeks as a beginner. My problem right now is that I don't understand the full picture of what LBRP is actually doing, which elements to banish, and if I should practice it in tandem with LIRP. Should I be banishing the earth element every time I practice? or try banishing fire, water, air as well? What exactly am I accomplishing by doing this, and what should a beginner practice routine look like?

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2025/01/25
04:39 UTC

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Falsely Accused: Seeking Justice and Protection Against False Allegations

My father has been falsely accused in a case by our neighbor. A charge sheet has been filed against him. My father is an astrologer and is innocent, yet they keep making false allegations. How can we stop these people and teach them a lesson? Is there any spell or black magic for this? Please help me.

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2025/01/23
15:58 UTC

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Will this work im sure it will but 🥲 im at hard state of my mind

I done vashikaran ( love spell for my girl ) and we both loved 3 years in between another guy controlled her mind deviated ( he's really a bad guy just want her money but manipulated her by telling fake hopes 😭) and changed her by "black magic" ( yeah im sure cuz her behaviour) it's all fine because it's not her fault and we were in online relationship but i met her one day in real that's the last day 🥲💔 we shared everything like sharing gifts in courier and she introduced to our parents I never thought this would happen 😭 the guy destroyed everything for his own selfish i know after his wishes done he definitely leave her 😭( i will accept her even end of my life ) cuz i know her and i love her always ( in between we had fight and he used that chance 😭💔) you ? the more we care people the more we show anger !! please pray for me ✨

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2025/01/23
15:40 UTC

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How to create a love spell that doesn't muck with free will?

Brief backstory: 4 days ago the man I love broke up with me for another girl, and I am desperately looking for a solution of some kind.

I have been looking through as many resources as I can find and talking to fellow witches, but the consensus seems to be that love spells equal revoking that person's free will. One person I talked to even said that it would inevitably break his mind. Is there a way to create a spell that doesn't do this? Have I not looked hard enough? Is it truly inevitable? I don't want to mess with his free will so if my options are that or nothing then it will be nothing, I especially would never harm him. I simply need answers if this is even possible. Please help me if you can. Any advice on this type of spell craft is greatly appreciated.

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2025/01/23
04:47 UTC

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II. Chap. xxvii. Of the proportion, measure, and Harmony of mans body.

"Seeing man is the most beautifull and perfectest work of God, and his Image, and also the lesser world; therefore he by a more perfect composition, and sweet Harmony, and more sublime dignity doth contain and maintain in himself all numbers, measures, weights, motions, Elements, and all other things which are of his composition; and in him as it were in the supreme workmanship, all things obtain a certain high condition, beyond the ordinary consonancy which they have in other compounds. From hence all the Ancients in time past did number by their fingers, and shewed all numbers by them; and they seem to prove that from the very joynts of mans body all numbers measures, proportions, and Harmonies were invented; Hence according to this measure of the body, they framed, and contrived their temples, pallaces [palaces], houses, Theaters; also their ships, engins [engines], and every kind of Artifice, and every part and member of their edifices, and buildings, as columnes, chapiters of pillars, bases, buttresses, feet of pillars, and all of this kind. Moreover God himself taught Noah to build the Arke according to the measure of mans body, and he made the whole fabrick of the world proportionable to mans body; from whence it is called the great world [macrocosm], mans body the less [microcosm]; Therefore some who have written of the Microcosme or of man, measure the body by six feet, a foot by ten degrees, every degree by five minutes; from hence are numbred sixty degrees, which make three hundred minutes, to the which are compared so many Geometrical cubits, by which Moses describes the Arke; for as the body of man is in length three hundred minutes, in breath fifty, in hight thirty; so the length of the Arke was three hundred cubits, the breadth fifty, and the height thirty; that the proportion of the length to the breadth be six fold, to the heighth ten fold, and the proportion of the breadth to the height about two thirds. In like manner the measures of all the members are proportionate, and consonant both to the parts of the world, and measures of the Archetype, and so agreeing, that there is no member in man which hath not correspondence with some sign, Star, intelligence, divine name, sometimes in God himself the Archetype. But the whole measure of the body may be turned, and proceeding from roundness, is knowen to tend to it again."

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2025/01/22
00:03 UTC

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Some of the 40 servitors of Tommie Kelly are deities from certain pantheons. How exactly does this work? How is the egregore of the god connected with the servitors?

Some of the 40 Chaos Servitors by Tommie Kelly are visually identical to gods from certain pantheons, and Tommie Kelly himself has said that he did this to connect his servitor to that specific deity, so that contact with the servitor would also be contact with the corresponding deity.

How exactly does this work? Does it make any difference to the servitor itself and its ability to work on what was requested? Depending on the deity, could they be offended by this?

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2025/01/21
17:00 UTC

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Help

So to make it short my BIL was raped and now his baby mama is pregnant again with a child he didn't want nor can afford since they can't afford my nephew. She is abusive and manipulating financially, mentally, emotionally and sexually to my BIL and 2 year old nephew (not sexually to him only BIL). I need help with spells to make this child the complete karmic child where all truths come to light and ones where she leaves the kids and BIL permanently in whatever way so she can't continue to do harm. Help please. I'm not looking to do harm. Just getting her to leave

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2025/01/21
00:32 UTC

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Are the planetary spirits (planetary cacodaemons) truly evil, or are they just primitive and unconscious aspects of planetary intelligence? Is it safe to evoke them or make contact with them without the aid of other entities, as Aleister Crowley did?

What is the true nature of the planetary cacodaemons? Can they be used for non-destructive purposes? Is it possible to have a good relationship with them? Does anyone have any stories of interaction with planetary cacodaemons, information about them, or tips on how to interact with them?

Are they a unique being with planetary intelligence, or are they completely different beings?

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2025/01/20
13:28 UTC

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Question about the Elements

Hi so, don't bash me please cause I am a complete noob and beginner and don't really know what I am talking about that's why I came to ask here :) I know that some covens work with the Elements in ritual magick. I know from a friend of mine that they had to kind of be able to invoke each Element and them banish them again, and they had to do it well, cause it could end up problematic if the energies weren't banished well. My question is, how does one 'feel' or learn how to 'sense' each of the Elements and get to 'know' them for ritual work like that? What does it mean to you to 'work with' the 5 Elements? Are they just symbolic to you or are they kind of like entities which you can summon? How does one work with these energies and learn to invoke and then banish them? I hope my question isn't too big of a mess, I'd love to know what you guys think! Thanks

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2025/01/20
11:25 UTC

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Is there anyone here who has extensive knowledge about stargates, aka teleportation portals? I've just begun to do some research on this topic.

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2025/01/19
11:25 UTC

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I asked the universe to give me a sign in the form of a lizard sound. It took some time, but no sound came. Instead, I heard a cat moaning. I thought to myself that cats usually eat lizards, so maybe the cat ate the lizard, and that's why there was no lizard sound—just the cat's sound. However, as

However, as I was about to leave the temple, I finally heard the lizard sound.

Is this a sign, or am I overthinking it?

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2025/01/18
17:04 UTC

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Help regarding "The Corpus Hermeticum"

What exactly is the "Word" created by the Divine Mind and what is "The Demiourge"?

I am a begginer practicioner and I dont understand a lot of Poimandres chapter on The Corpus Hermeticum, I have seen Martin Faulk who explains the man having the vision of Poimandres was an experienced practicioner of meditation, that makes sense, but I cant really comprehend what is "The Word" and "The Demiourge", both created by the Divine Mind to help with the creation of the Universe and the seven governors.

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2025/01/18
03:47 UTC

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How to tell the difference between legitimately spirtual people and conmen?

How would I know a tarot reading or a medium is telling the truth and actually connecting to "the other side" or just talking?

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2025/01/17
12:56 UTC

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What was the most powerful spell you ever performed?

What are the most powerful and also the most meaningful spells you have done? What were the results and how did you do them and what was your subjective experience of them and what forces and energies did you use?

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2025/01/13
20:06 UTC

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Vodún

Hey there everyone, I'm a newbie looking to gain some knowledge and wondering if anyone has any recommendations on books studying Vodún (also, Voodoo/Hoodoo etc)? Meaning: yes history and such but also detailed information on the loa's, rituals, how to's, fetish's etc. I'm not locking myself into this system of magick just wanting to start learning about various things.

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2025/01/13
06:34 UTC

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What is the difference between an expansion spiral and a contraction spiral?

What is the difference between an expanding spiral and a retracting spiral?

An example of an expanding spiral is the Celtic triskle, and an example of a retracting spiral is Junji Ito's Uzumaki spiral.

Is the difference just the way it is viewed by the magician, or is there some inherent characteristic that determines whether it is an expanding or retracting spiral?

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2025/01/12
20:52 UTC

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posts being removed, why?

I posted this in r/BabyWitch "So I found out abt this say ... 2 days ago and have been doing reaserech (*cough cough* reading a wattpad BoS *cough cough*) and was wondering what is the MOST beginner thing I can do?

Yes he likes me he said so, but I feel him drifting away soo...

Edit: I have rose quartz...that's all the love related stuff I have."

it keeps getting removed, anyone know why?

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2025/01/12
17:49 UTC

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Help concerning Aura and Psychic protection.

Hello I have few books about Psychic Selfdefence like Denning & Phillips Psychic Selfdefence, Protection and Reversal Magick by Jason Miller and The Witches Shield by Christopher Penczak, I have read almost nothing on this books, what exercises should I be doing? Is Jason Miller a reputable Magician?

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2025/01/11
03:48 UTC

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How can I make the number 13 go away

Updated**: thank you to the first person who replied to my post!! It was a bad luck spell. After moving in to house 13 and deep reflections I have not yet resolved it. Please continue to advise me on how I can lift the bad luck off of me.

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2025/01/10
20:24 UTC

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The corpus hermeticum translation/analysis

I recently got a copy of the corpus hermeticum m translated by G R S mead. I’m really enjoying it and have wanted to read it for a while but I am struggling with the old English aspect of it.

Does anyone know of any good translations or analysis of it that kinda of explain what they are saying?

I have been taking my own notes and trying to determine my own understanding of it but some of it is hard to follow

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2025/01/08
11:16 UTC

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I feel like magic isn’t only about mind and will

I heard a lot of ppl on this sub saying that magic is only about your will/mind and that the purpose of ritual is to concentrate will or mind. I think that this point of view is very modern and it was popularised by Eliphas levi (not sure about that) and aleister crowley but when I read ancient/old text I saw the completely opposite opinion. I might be wrong about it but
Renaissance model of magic was based on idea of occult properties which I interpret as meaning or symbolism of things. I am not a specialist here but Plotinus used sympathy as an explanation in his attack on gnostics which was also mentioned in Asclepius (I might be wrong here). And the phrase as above so below so below seems to me as a way to express harmony between things and how everything reflects everything not as a way to say as within so without. I know it’s about interpretation but still. I remember there was a similar phrase in Zohar (it’s probably out of context though). I think that these phrases were about how world is symbolical and that everything is symbol. Every ritual seems to be an action based on meanings of things which works because of pre existing harmony between everything not because it concentrates one’s will. I am definitely not a professional and only a beginner so I am probably wrong about it and I would be glad if u correct me

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2025/01/08
01:57 UTC

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Please recommend best (general) Magick books for beginners

I am currently on "The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick" by Jason Miller.

Also, I currently consider myself a Christian lady, and I would appreciate it if you may recommend Christian Magick books as well!

Thanks!

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2025/01/07
19:45 UTC

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Voodoo dolls and poppets

I was thinking of starting out on crocheting amigurumis and similar stuff, and I've seen a lot of videos on patterns of the (besides the creepy and cute designs) basic body shape or that one course on a platform teaching you how to crochet your friends, and, having an interest on curses and everything LHP related, I thought that could be a really nice gift OR a terribly accurate poppet. Then I wanted to know if you guys have any recommendations on books, documents, etc. that explain in detail that sort of spell, I probably won't do it since I want to start by crocheting a little Cthulhu, but I love studying that kind of stuff. Anyways, thanks for reading <3

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2025/01/07
16:21 UTC

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Looking for friends or mentors to navigate the occult world.

I am not in a good place right now. I ponder constantly about whether or not there is more to this world than the life I am living. I believe learning escoteric Magick and ideas can help me on a journey of self discovery and improvement. I am currently looking for mentors and friends skilled in their own ways of Magick and as long as those ways are not demonic I am willing to put in the work and learn! I also don’t really have any equipment for Magick so anything besides paper and pencil I probably won’t have.

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2025/01/07
03:18 UTC

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Help regarding Meditation practices.

I am fairly new to Ceremonial Magick and I have Attention Deficit Disorder, I also used to smoke cannabis and tobacco but I stopped because I truly want to become an Hermetic Magician of Light.

I have choosen Ogdoadic tradition and Hermetic Qabbalah for my practices and I have very little meditation exercises, I recently got recommended a book by Adam McLean "Hermetic - Alchemical Meditations" which is what I was looking for but I want more meditation exercises, since I stopped smoking and keep my Chi Qong practices (just 40 mins a day) I have improved in consentration and my actual rituals are starting to shine, detox is hell but I can control my impulses and im almost achieving being totally quite during the ritual practices.

Thank you.

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2025/01/05
23:14 UTC

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I cannot find the origin of Metatron's sigil, and man, I've looked around

I just found one page saying it was Fibonacci who created it, but who knows? It was the only piece of information I found claiming that.

Most sigils have a source from a specific grimoire, but not this one.

Can you help me find its origin?

Thanks

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2025/01/05
22:42 UTC

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I cannot find the origin of Metatron's sigil, and man, I've looked around

I just found one page saying it was Fibonacci who created it, but who knows? It was the only piece of information I found claiming that.

Most sigils have a source from a specific grimoire, but not this one.

Can you help me find its origin?

Thanks

3 Comments
2025/01/05
22:40 UTC

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