I've heard angels are way more difficult and temperamental to work with and can wreck havoc while demons are a bit more manageable, of course I'd have thought the other way around but it's something I've been hearing quite a bit. What's your experience with them?

Which Angel do you think would be best for undoing SELF imposed "curses"? What I mean by that is, things that you may have accidently imposed on yourself via negative self-talk, beliefs, etc. that you are carrying around in your deep subconscious mind. Shem, arch-angels, or other angels.

I’m planning on doing it according to the ritual in Seven Spheres but can’t fit the hour of the planet in as well. Is working on the planet’s day ok enough??

I'm looking to go from academic after 15 years to practical and I'm finding it impossible to find a seller that offers the proper tools in the right size/shape/materials/colors, but most ESPECIALLY inscriptions. The inscriptions are crucial. Then I can do the properly conducted and timed consecrations.

Unfortunately, because I put off going practical the past 2 decades, I have arthritis and carpal tunnel now which prevent me from making them myself (the vibration of a Dremel let alone guiding it correctly). I can't even work on my cars much anymore because I'm always dropping tools and getting frustrated my fingers won't control them properly.

I reached out to Gary and Suzy @ Omega Artworks yesterday to commission and entire set as they are known for doing these in the past to a high degree of quality and have a page on their site to commission custom work,. However, I was very sadly informed that "Unfortunately we no longer make any of the Solomonic tools. We have changed our business model to concentrate on one of a kind original works of art."

So after weeks of searching and only coming across a couple of items from Doc Solomon and one item on Etsy, I seem to be up a creek for anything else :( To be clear, I'm looking for the set of tools from Mather's book as notated by Skinner and Rankine in their book. Specifically the black & white Knives, Dagger, Sword, Athame, Lance, Burin, and Sickle (but would be grateful for others shown). I have pictures and drawings that are detailed I can provide. Image of toolkit in wooden box

A true artist that can do gold inlay, make custom scabbards, etc. is a plus. A forged blade is also super important, although I know Omega wasn't doing that. I would kill for forged bronze that's hardened if anyone knows a skilled bronze forger (not a caster).

If anyone perhaps has a complete set of Omega tools they are willing to part with, or can recommend me to a qualified maker/craftsmen/artisan that I can commission a set from, PLEASE let me know!

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I think one of the challenging parts of honing magickal skills is that it can be difficult to really know how to”close” you are to achieving the outcomes of your spell, especially if it’s more of an “all or nothing” situation. Like for example, if you did a certain spell to have someone contact you, and your spell fails, you can’t really tell how “close” you were to being successful, so you can’t really “diagnose” what went wrong with the casting. Any advice on how to address this?

Good day all fellow mages.

(Warning, a lengthy post. Also contains some relevant astrological placements.)

While I had many esoterical and occult-leaning papers in my vicinity since I was a kid,

the real adult work with magic started with my purchase of Donald Michael Kraig's

book about 12 lessons in magick.

I have been practising LBRP for about 1,5 year now and only 1-2 months less

of tarot reading as part of the ritual.

I do feel lost. Astrology-wise, I feel that my 1-st house Saturn placement

leaves me without a coach I would need, without guiding light.

I can count my blessings - I have steady work, am rather healthy, I have money savings. Years ago I went to numerologist to have additional names for empowerment. I attended MMI (Millionaire mind intensive) some years back.

On the other hand, I have never had serious relationship, my workplace can be annoying me

because whenever a task can be automated or work related to it can be made shorter,

another jumps in its place. I do work long hours. And in December it is gonna be really busy.

Now my workplace does pay bonuses in regular manner and I kind of see it as extra salary for extra my engagement, but I actually am irritated with this setting.

However, even though I meditate and currently do LBRP (practically alwasy with tarot

reading) about once a month (not to read cards too often), I even utilise Hindu mantras

to better handle my possible aphantasia - I feel stuck. As a working adult,

I have little circle of friends. My Jupiter is in Capricorn and matchingly my immediate

team of coworkers has above average energy. But outside of this I have about one friend,

rest are like acquaintances. And I currently live in rural area, making it still more tricky to socialise, except maybe for dating apps but I am anxious here.

I just think I am having a really hard time visualising what direction will be an improvement for me. Then again, most of my tarot readings are not with particular questions but rather self-analyses AND attempt to see beyond options A and B. Too vague maybe?

With Donald Kraig's book as my only source about magick in my native language,

I stuck to LBRP, but am really considering adding in more rituals.

The book guides through Middle Pillar, LIRP, GIRP, Hexagram Banishment Ritual (dunno

abbrev. of this one), a load of others.

I do not know which ones to include, and how often.

I thought that with adding Middle Pillar and LIRP, and maybe also completing the

4 magickal item set, I would be getting somewhere.

I don't want to guess what to do , but instead to make some educated decisions.

Let me end with disclaimer that my native language is not English. I operate it well,

but I would really hope that any possibly referred sources can be found Polish,

so that the words reach my subconsciousness properly.

TLDR:

Person with some background in energy work , on a rather minor scale ,

is considering adding rituals to magickal routine, opinions are welcome.

So I've been reading a few different things that were suggested to me. One being the galdrabók and the other being the picatrix which I haven't started reading just yet. I'm looking for some other Midieval magic books that are potentially worth the read and have some knowledge to them for a future read and to study once I get done with the ones I have. If anyone has some suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it.

I’ll cut to the chase, I’m pretty sure I have aphantasia, every time I’ve ever tried to visualize (whether it be exploring the cosmos or something as simple as an apple), it’s just been pitch black, which leaves me feeling disconnected and like I’m missing out on something amazing. I’m new to this magick stuff and most rituals such as LBRP seem to require some degree of visualization to perform them. Is there any alternative to this, or solution that can lead to me actually visualizing? Or am I just screwed?

Edit: Thank you all so much for your helpful replies, I appreciate you :)

So, am am very new to practicing magick, altough I wa reading about it for years. Previous week, I started with Qabalistic cross and today I added LBRP. And now I wonder if someone had similar experience like me. I had chronic shoulderpain for 3 years and after performing LBRP it stopped. It wasnt even on my mind, that it should do anything it just did and now it feels weird that for 3 hours there is no pain. So, my question is, anyone had similar experience and if you practice it for long time, any theory behind what happened?

Even just planets in general works. There's just so many frustrating contradictions that sometimes I'm not even sure who the heck to believe.

Vedic astrology connects Saturn to the number 8 but the Kabbalah connects it to the number 3... the number of Jupiter depending on the numerology system. Citrine is said to activate the solar plexus chakra even though its ruling planet Jupiter has zero connection to that chakra. I can tell Mars governs that chakra. Like how can Mercury's colors simultaneously be green and orange. Doesn't make sense.

Mars and Saturn are both said to be connected to the root chakra which also makes no sense. 7 chakras which corresponds 7 planets. which corresponds to 7 metals which corresponds to 7 days in a week. Three extra planets weren't there before but suddenly now they are and they're coruling certain zodiac signs.

All these contradictions make me feel as if I have to unlearn a lot of things. I'm looking to see if there's some 100% accurate book, video or other source about planetary magick and everything associated with the planets.

So a few years ago I stopped practicing witchcraft as a result of personal reasons. I also want to clarify that I suffer from OCD and I might be exaggerating stuff. While I was practicing witchcraft I kinda worked with Aphrodite and I gave her offerings from time to time. I had candles and stuff and it kept flickering wildly whenever I tried to communicate with her and I was inexperienced so I guess it was a good sign. I had to take a break/stop practicing altogether because of personal reasons and academics and I was planning on letting Aphrodite know about it so I did a tarot reading and it was mostly negative related to the stuff about opposition and disrespecting higher beings/deities etc. I was pretty anxious so it might have affected the reading. Afterwards I kindly and respectfully let Aphrodite now about my situation and I won’t be able to work with her anymore and told her I appreciated and thanked her. I might be paranoid but I feel like I offended her and something awful will happen related to my romantic life. I’m scared that I actually offended her regarding the tarot reading and stuff and I will never find true love because of that etc.

Hey. High-level magickian here; trying to develop my ability to Astral Travel or Get out of Body.

My end-goal would be visiting places in this plane with my "spirit". Traveling to other plane's is not my goal right now :)

I want to sew my own cotton tau robe for a magickal initiation coming up. Does anyone have a sewing pattern design that they could share with me? It needs to be hoodless and have draping sleeves. Thank you!

i was going to attempt to test out magickal cashbook, i had an impossibly strong want for money and the goal of it working, and had just finished making sure i had a orange and gray notebook, of course i knew the name of the spirit and was thinking about it before i would start because i wanting to look into it some more, without doing anything further is it possible to have it work. I'm not particularly well versed I'm magick and was unable to find anyone else who asked something like this sorry if its a stupid question

Mathematics like counting is the generating of magic. When counting you must stay with one as this is the beginning of a counting sequence! Reading and writing will also do something. Just do not start with zero when counting because this will do nothing as you will achieve a neutral result as zero is not a number and the counting sequence begins with one! Also: how "Wicca" works. You see: wicca is poetry with the rhymes separated by other words. The way the arithmetic of rhyme works: rhyming word after word. This is not "Wicca!" There is a difference between the arithmetic of rhyme and what is known as wicca as what is known as wicca is not actually a form of arithmetic as God is the higher power of America. The way reading "wicca spells" works is simply reading the poems again and again for higher imaginary Karma. I suggest to rhyme your own words for higher Karma: like this: oh so foe though; loco show though, bro! Reading and writing (as riting means to perform rituals (writing is the performance of writuals!))

I don't vote, and with the next US presidential approaching, I've been trying to articulate more precisely my objection to voting (and my sometimes advocacy for refusing to participate in governmental elections). Here's an attempt:

A vote is a magic object, a material carrier (or materialization) of magic energy
Money is a magic object, a material carrier (or materialization) of magic energy

No# votes proportionally makes an individual more powerful, endows them with more magic power (eg power of US presidents)
$ invested in stocks proportionally makes a corporation more powerful, endows them with more magic power (eg power of multibillion corporations- Google, Amazon, etc)

Casting a vote is a magic act
Buying is a magic act

Voting is magic investment in and endorsement of an individual's activities and power (material & magical)
Buying stocks is magic investment in and endorsement of a corporation's activities and power (material & magic)

Voting or buying stocks, you become karmically implicated in the politician's or corporation's acts

Even with sincere faith in the moral goodness of the politician or corporation, the risk of reaping the karmic traces of having been implicated in bad karmic action- the perpetration of some kind of harm, for example- is, given the scope of impact that such action would have in the case of politicians (especially presidents) or corporations (especially major ones), not worth the potential for reaping beneficial karmic "profit"

Hey all, what are some alternative ways to banish unwanted entities and energies out of your space? For some reason, I have an aversion to the LBRP.

I officially began my journey during the pandemic and I didn't know where to begin. I was even more naive back then, and learn from whatever I could naturally gather. And due to exposure via Midnight Gospel, I discovered Damien Echols (who seems like a genuine, down-to-earth guy), and Jason Louv...

While what I could learn from him that WASN'T behind a paywall was somewhat valuable, I'm glad I didn't pay for any of his courses; Especially when they're things online like Quareia by Josephine McCarthy, the Glitchbottle Podcast, and one of my favorite content creators, Denis Poisson. (Quareia has FREE PDFs online, by the way.) I feel like I've learned so much from them. Whereas with Louv, it feels like he's putting guests on and hosting uninteresting interviews intentionally to get some interest on his expensive courses online because you can hardly learn anything beyond introduction by him. His book on John Dee was good until Book III, where he discusses Crowley. Crowley is certainly relevant to the topic, but in this case, it feels like padding.

I can respect everyone's individual attempt to earn money and seek financial security, but Magick.Me seems like a greedy cash grab. I'm not even going to bring up his political stances and opinions.

Such a shame the DuQuette course is on there. What a waste.

Hi does anyone know Wicca's or Golden Dawn's explanation/reason of the arrangement of the elements used on the pentagram? Spirit>Fire>Air>Water>Earth.

I've looked at different sources and placements with nice and reasonable explanation, some uses patterns and stuff. I would have used Spirit>Fire>Water>Air>Earth (YHVH)

I just don't see the pattern used in Wicca or Golden Dawn.

Hi, i want to ask: what happens if I do the evocative ritual of the pentagram (LIRP) and draw fire direction instead of earth?

I can attract different energies for myself or unstable energy?

Last time i done it, in the same time: my grandmother, she fell and hurt herself, I don't know if it's dependent on the ritual or it was a coincidence...

Thanks, let me know!

If so, what do you play? I'm really interested, I don't listen to a lot of music that makes me think about protection. Do you have any playlists?

Has anyone worked with it? Do you have any advice about how to approach the prayers? Also, did you have any result? I wanted to start practicing it since a while ago, but I am on the LHP so I am not sure if I should just go for it or prepare more in advance the space and myself, as it is something relatively new to me.

If ever at all you’ve had the experiences where you’ve met loves from previous lives in this life time and they’ve cursed you, what do you do to remove them, keep them out from your life? Especially when what you’ve done already to remove them doesn’t work? Thank you in advance.

How is it possible that ancient magicians and teachers, who did not have the Internet or the barbaric amount of books that we have now, managed to make such complex magic systems that worked for them? As far as I know, magicians hundreds and hundreds of years ago only had a few books and a grimoire, how is it possible that without access to the information we have now they could have created such elaborate magic, it's because they only created doodles and believed strongly in those scrawl?

Title says it all. If belief is the ultimate tool, why do delusional people exist? shouldn't their delusions just turn true out of belief?
I'll appreciate all viewpoints, thanks.

I sadly don't know what kind of stones they are or what they would even be used for. But, uh, well there is a bit of a story behind how I came across them.

The short of it is that some random dude gave them to me at a bar the night of my birthday after I had tried to throw myself a very special birthday party that utterly bombed.

They are pretty soft stone, I managed to break one in half on an accident. Kinda glass like really, purplish , black, grey swirls in them.

How did you start your witchcraft journey? Was it a slow transition, a massive life changing event or you always been a witch? I am new into practice but I always knew that I have some witchy powers, but isually I just brushed it off. The gut feeling and accidentally manifesting/spells and the pull to Tarot and runes. And then, about 5 months ago my friend passed away unexpectedly. That changed something in me, that shook my world.. I realised that I had that gut feeling before she passed, I knew that something bad will happen, but I didn't recognise it at the time.. not that I could have done anything about it, but the fact that I knew.. Since then I have been head over to heels into witchcraft, learning, doing spells, practicing and being the authentic me. I am still grieving, but witchcraft helps me go get trough this and not fall apart. Sorry about the long post, I just felt I need to put it out there.

I need to identify what type of entity drains energy during sleep.

Both my husband and I have dreamed about this entity. It appears as a man or without any form, with a very bad presence. It makes your body tremble while it steals your energy.

I don't think it is a demon. At least not anyone from high hierarchies, I guess. Sometimes it appears like a man, but mostly is invisible. The frist time it happend we cleaned the house and performed the LRP. It worked but now (months later) this thing come back again.

Ps. It can appear like a sleep paralisys demon. One time my husband was awake when the thing started to draining him.
The contact with me was minor and only in my dreams once.

Does enyone have any tip about it?

(All advise, rituals, spells are welcome)

Disclaimer: I didn't write this to brag this was literally my life

I feel a bit odd putting myself out there but I could really use some help.

For as long as I can remember my energy has always been attractive to people, especially men. I could literally walk outside no makeup, hair not done, unmatched clothes & men would still walk up to me. Any time I walk into a place people swarm me, children & adults people just enjoyed being around me & I enjoyed being around people. I've had women come up to me & try to marry me off to their sons (as it is done in my culture). I never had trouble when it came to money, relationships etc it was like everything was easy for me. Then I met this guy, we dated for about 9 months (that's a whole pregnancy term) & he was struggling with a lot, both in finances & home life. I tried to be his safe space, whenever he needed to get away I was there, when he needed someone to speak to, I listened. The relationship was fine & dandy, but then something happened. We slept together & after that things spiraled out of control for me. He wasn't a bad person or anything but what he was struggling with, I started struggling with. I was invisible to everyone, my home life started to struggle, I couldn't hold down a single job, my mental health declined, I have been in isolation for a whole year, i dont go out anymore. It's even messing with my family relationships. I missed my mother's birthday party, I missed my sister's graduation party, I didn't go out for my dad's birthday dinner, I didn't even go out for the family trip.

I basically started living his life & I realize now that a soul tie/energy cord has been formed & that he somehow absorbed my energy & I took on his. Meanwhile, he was able to get a better paying job that allowed him to travel & find his own place, he had a baby & was just living it up.

I want my power back, I want my energy back. I'm tired of being stuck, I'm sick & tired of being sick & tired.

Please help

So it is said sigils are for intentions or desires. But that is completely different from LoA which says affirmations should be written in a way that it is already fulfilled. Can I make sigils like it has already been fulfilled?