We're just mere ants in front of the divine one but you know every once in a while an ant bites you and leaves a wound that takes days to heal. How would one go about doing this?

Are these signs?

Every quartz watch that I try to wear stops. At every house that my husband and I move to, the lights start flickering. At every house we move to, a black bird comes and knocks on the window. Every car that we get ends up developing problems with the windows and they end up rollling themselves down

7 individual small slips (1 not shown). If anyone knows anything about these images or cards that would be very helpful! Thank you.

TW: Suicide

So I've been dinking around with occultism since I was a teenager but only recently did I start practicing planetary Magick, and with wonderful results. Most my workings have focused on more immediate concerns of spiritual and career development.

I have sort of avoided contacting Saturn in my short career as a planetary magician but recently some issues have been popping up from the past that are certainly in Saturn's domain. I lost my father about 7 years ago to suicide, something that had a pretty earth shattering effect on me, obviously, but while I've kind of kept myself on ice about it most of the time to be, you know, a functional adult, I want to reassess my relationship to his loss.

The problem and where I could use suggestions is that I have a lot of confusion about the topic. I'm a painter and writer and while I feel it would be helpful to make art about this, I don't feel able to access my feelings about my father nor really understand them.

Will contacting the office of Saturn be helpful for this? Are there other entities that would be able to provide guidance and conversation about grief and death? Is there a practicioner here who has employed a magickal method to navigate grief and if so, what has been your experience?

(I'll note here, before anyone says it, I am receiving psychological support from a professional.)

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Studying magic and Hermetics for way to long without any practical outcome in the real world, I find myself actually most interested in the history of how we got to this point of understanding and practice, how relevant is knowing the origin story of a subject influence the actual outcome of the study… or is a mere distraction of old school thinking?

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Many a years ago i was in contact with someone here on reddit that handmade pharao rods, but i did not commit to purchasing a pair, and have since lost contact.

A strange and very unusual thing happen to me twice, in the exactly same way. How do I know if it is an omen? And I do I know his meaning?

I've been seeing some signs that make me think Hecate might be trying to reach out to me but I'm not entirely sure as I'm fairly new into my spiritual journey and have never communicated or worked with a Deity before. I'm wondering if anyone who has more experience can confirm (or deny) whether this it what is happening and if so what I should do.

The signs I've been seeing:

1. Several videos every couple of days on my social media feeds (Facebook, tiktok, etc.) Say that Hecate is trying to communicate.

2. Seeing lots of key symbols and even actual keys, some of which I forgot I had and were hidden away in a drawer.

3. A decent amount of snake symbols and artwork involving snakes

4. The sky has been pretty clear where I live the past few days and I've had a very nice, clear view of the moon.

I've also been seeing a lot of Witch related stuff but as its almost Halloween I'm not sure if it's meant to be a sign or not.

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Techniques like the Microcosmic Orbit are a great addition to anyone’s repertoire of skills and I think more focus should be placed on this path of practice.

Daoist philosophy and energy practices could be a great alternative to those who wish an alternative to western styles of practice.

While a lot of us learned our ways through trial and error, I imagine a lot of us would appreciate actual models to follow when just starting out.

What group, mystery school, or lodge do you consider a good place to study the occult sciences and help one develop on their chosen path in the mysteries?

Hi yall! This is more of a contemplation than a question, but I'd love to hear your input on the matter.

I've been practicing GIRP for a while as well as middle pillar. Lately I've been experimenting with the Angels of the Tree of Life. Results have been interesting when calling and meditating on one single or 2/3 sepiroth in group, after my regular LBRP+RC+GIRP+LUX.

So, for some weeks, I've been going up and down the tree of life, stoping on each Sepiroth and calling it's appropriate God name and corresponding archangel. Not really making petitions, but rather as intuition and spiritual development.

However, I cannot find Archangel-God names for all sephiroth. It's ok because intuitively I felt like expanding from the middle pillar into more detail, starting at the bottom, and I have not incorporated Binah and Chokmah just yet -which are the God names I am missing from these:

Keter - Eheieh
Chesed - El Chai
Gevurah - Elohim Gibor
Tiphareth - YHVH Eloha Va'Daath
Netzach - YHVH Tzabaoth
Hod - Elohim Tzabaoth
Yesod - Shadai el Chai
Malkuth - Adonai ha'aretz

So, on Middle Pillar we do Keter-Tiphareth-Yesod-Malkuth. After a while I started going Keter to Matkluth and then back up. Once I felt settled I added Hod and Netzach. Finally, after some days, I've incorporated Gevurah and Chesed.

It feels good so far, quite deep. But I wonder if there's an already established ritual for this so I can evolve and read, rather than just go by guesswork...

Any thoughts?

Gonna keep it short and sweet

Since 2020 I have "seen" a smiling fox behind my right ear. The intensity comes and goes, but it's almost always there. It's orange, almost geometric looking, and seemingly benevolent, or at least neutral. I've done some research over the years but never found a deity that "clicks" that makes sense as this deity. Who/what could this be??

I've been born into a family of 7 sisters (6 aunts) and am spiritually enfeebled, or shackled. All my cousins/siblings are like this but they're okay with it/cannot perceive it. I can.

I'm a practicing chaos magician, i only recently gained the insight and ability to perceive this spell on my vessel. Through reality bending and meditation/yoga (it was well hidden).

I got a circled pentagram tattooed on my chest recently for this and future magickal endeavours. My brother attempted the same thing but failed now he's a punk (not the cool kind).

I will overcome this, but i need some help. I am self taught in occult stuff (mostly from the omg thread's library and personal insights as well as a few individuals), and so i am wholly unaware of what to do against this sort of thing especially when it's been affecting me for so long, I'd imagine it's quite a powerful spell/enchantment.

I've only seen glimpses but it's like an energy siphon of sorts, I've noticed my own 'mother' taking on my own appearance, utilising my energy as her own and have many accounts of dream invasions and vague memories of things I'd rather not speak about as my vessel is still processing them emotionally.

take a chance and consider this as absolutely real anon, it's all about to climax soon and ill need every tool i can get spiritually.

i understand that some may not want to reply here, hell i didnt even wanna post here so here's my discord: nimbus66.

I tried making an altar for my cats for the day of the dead for the first time and put the usual stuff, pictures, flowers, cat food, a small ball of yarn since they loved playing with yarn and a plastic plus a real small candle. Yet I don't think putting a small plastic bag where I kept some hairs of my cat in after finding it on an old tshirt and the tshirt there was a good idea. Checking it now after hours of having it, the tip of the yarn was burnt, even though it was nowhere close to the candle, The burn wasn't huge, it was just like a cm of the tip of the yarn. I don't know if I accidentally did something wrong and now if I should fear something or if it was some coincidence or the possibility of the yarn already being burnt before even tho that was freshly cut yarn from a huge ball I had without a reason to have it burnt before. Or maybe is it a sign that my cats actually visited? Help please

Hey gang. Had a completely wild and unique dream last night. It was so vivid and weird and unique that I almost think it may have been diety communication, as I've been putting in all sorts of work recently across a plethora of paths and traditions.

In my dream I was walking in the snow and came upon a mother cow who had just given birth to a baby. The baby was stillborn, could fit in my hands, and was cold and lifeless in the snow. The mother was alive but wasn't going to leave her baby, so she was set to freeze as well.

I know nothing about anatomy and physiology, and I'm generally grossed out by everything. For whatever reason, as I see the umbilical cord on the ground, I knew precisely where to cut it. I magically had a knife on hand. I cut the cord, saving the mother. She still wasn't leaving the baby. I picked the baby up in my hands. She was frozen. I whispered love into the baby and used my hands to warm her up. I was breathing my warmth into her. Suddenly, she smiled. The baby's eyes opened and she was alive.

In that moment, I felt a feeling of joy and happiness I don't believe I've ever felt before. I felt a feeling a pure love, gratitude, and grace and then I immediately woke up.

Now I'm left to interpret all of this. As far as personal symbology goes, cows to me represent pure innocence and an innocence that needs to be protected. I also think it's important that I was not their for the birth. Im not sure "rebirth" was the theme as much as me bringing something young and innocent back to life. Perhaps something never got the chance to be or grow and froze in place and I have to resuscitate it.

I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts if they are relevant.

Just a general little post to maybe get some discussion going. I'm not a Satanist myself, but the longer i've researched Satanism, the more it seems that it's pretty modern compared to anything else.
Most accounts of Satan-worship before the 1900's seem to just be a buzzword used by various religious denominations to smear people for witch-hunts that they perceived as threats, or were of different, unaccepted religions. From what i've read it doesn't really seem like there was any organized worship, or even concept of Satanism before the 1900's.
I'm curious if any modern Theistic Satanist, or anyone in general, know of any kinda "Historical Satanism" that predates the 20th century because i'd really love to know more about it if it does exist.

So as some of y'all know by following a simple process of making a book dedicated to the nitika spirit and then saying some thing,writing the amount of money you want and the letting things happen you get what you want.

Having some really good success with this technique and having obtained exactly what I was looking for,I was wondering if there is a spirit that could be used by doing the exact same process I described but instead of bringing me paper he would bring me different objects or things like a bike,a watch,some clothes and all sort of desired things.

So I’ve been into spirituality for a long time and in these past years been focusing on reality shifting and manifestation and working with the multiverse and guides of all sorts. No matter how much I seem to make certain things my KNOWING and Assumptions, I seem to get dragged back into my default reality and nothing happens. Recently I learned it may be because of soul contracts I have binding me to certain timelines and a destiny regardless of my inner knowings. What’s you guys perspective on this and how can I clear them and remove them? I asked Nyx and Nyx said she removed them so I’m hoping it worked and will wear off more and more in the coming days and weeks. Thanks

Hi all, I've been attempting to balance a dynamic I've re-established with some intelligences that I've been noticing more since crossing a proverbial Abyss. Some familiar, some new, but really clearer than I've experienced in awhile. Especially synchronistically speaking.

Stripping our human morality, it feels like I'm able to more accurately identify where specific archetypal inspirational ideas come from. Whether from subconscious hindsight or whatnot, it's interesting to adjust to this different state of being.

If that makes sense.

It's not occurring through disembodied voices or anything, more of a psychological approach. The most prominent comparison I could think of is in Robert Greene's approach in identifying "Flow" states in our consciousness. While not an occult writer per se, I appreciate his mundane elaboration of how consciousness could have layered, positive feedback effects. As such, the process to accomplish this actually being consistent more often than not is wild to me. Hypnosis has it's place too it appears.

The thing I'm having issues with is whether I should try to identify a specific resonating spirit of inspiration that's more in line with the traditional HGA or not. I'm unsure if trying to attract a specific spiritual intelligence is limiting or not. While each aspects of divine intelligences can be helpful in their specific regards, I feel like there is no center. While I'm able to maintain mundane health and all no matter what, it's almost like there is no sense of universal gravity in the resonating influences of spirits.

Yes, banishing and energy work is important. Duh. But, reaching Kether through mundanity seems impossible; to resolve or cut through the Endless Knot purely by our actions alone. Hell, not even by Divine actions either. Unless you ascribe to some rapturing beliefs I suppose.

Following up on Gnostic thought helps flesh out some concepts and hierarchies, but even that only still describes the complexes of spirituality. Not the source itself.

And no, I cannot currently be satiated with the idea of Knowing and Becoming Thyself. That's great for centering and pathworking itself, but it doesn't really illuminate an Ultimate Purpose. The Microcosmic/Macrocosmic Metaphysics just appears like the shape of Samsara to me. Yes you can continually rise through the Sephirot, but it looks like there is always more Sephirot to sync with while scrubbing the klipot with a wire brush.

I mean, fuck man.

It's almost like "Ultimate" purpose or whatever is just 'connection' itself. Which doesn't feel lonely per se, but it seems unmoored to endlessly connect and depart with no end. Trying to unite with a Kether that continues to step away everytime one takes a step forward.

To be nihilistic: If all spiritual energy/inspiration is innately the same type of energy, morality aside, then it seems to me that it's inevitable to fall into a shadowy Abyss so to speak despite every step forward one makes. Every proverbial action has it's proverbial equal, opposing effect.

If the pleromic source of emergence ultimately can only exist in comparison to something 'other,' the Kenomic darkness, that metaphorical shadow, well, I'm unsure how to resolve that with what I've learned to identify as metaphorical illumination/inspiration.

Like a Yin-Yang that handcuffs someone by it's mere memetic existence.

I don't know. If anyone has some orienting ideas, that'd be appreciated. Maybe I'm just in my own head. I had a good day so who knows.

May the Divine inform the Mundane as the Mundane illuminates the Divine.

The book is in french. The actual name is "La Clef de la Magie Noire". So far I have not been able to find a version in English

I've been trying to do a small test batch of the Abramelin Oil recipe from the book and have come to a problem with the measurements.. For the olive oil, the book calls for ¼ of the total weight of the herbs/myrrh which isn't enough to even get the materials moist, much less cover them. I recently learned you're supposed to do multiple macerations with the same oil using only a fraction of the materials at a time while straining and discarding the previous materials before adding more. It still seems like I would lose pretty much all of the oil as it absorbs little by little into every batch of material. It doesn't seem like it means to do an alcohol extraction and mix the results with the olive oil because it's based on the Holy Anointing Oil from Exodus which calls for a very similar ratio of oil to materials and I'm pretty sure ancient Israelites weren't distilling essential oils. Does anyone here have any experience making the oil with the exact recipe from the Book of Abramelin or making the Holy Anointing Oil from Exodus? Am I misunderstanding the recipe somehow?

Angels or daemons

I recently got a VR headset and found an app that allows you to draw in 3D and thought I'd be neat to draw out the LBRP. I think this is a cool tool for people who struggle with visualizing.

I have a question regarding why the meaning of the Thoth tarot suit cards change depending on which Sefirot they are in -

For example why is in Binah / Saturn the 3 of wands is virtue whereas in Geburah the 4 of wands is strife

compared to the 3 of cups being abundance in Binah but the 4 of cups being Disappointment in Geburah

Another example -

What makes the 10 of wands oppression in Malkuth, but the 10 disks wealth in Malkuth

Thanks in advance

I'm always intrigued by what Moore does. I don't love everything he does but he has been a champion of taking occult thought to a more digestible realm. Would love to hear any thoughts or reviews on his new 'bumper book' (whatever that means?).