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Occult Author | Experimental Chaote | Gutter Mage
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A magician never reveals his process. 😈
Nah, only joking. It's actually sort of simple on a technical level, though the real magick is in the baked in intent. I use Gimp to animate the sigil, usually using wave as the base for the ripple effect, and then retouch each frame with a different filter.
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I had a cell of a sort in mind when creating it actually, with the letters of the intent forming the outer skin and the energy of the ritual itself as the nucleus within, powered by the animation being played. So good call. 😀
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... to remain as anonymous as possible if you choose to take part. Don't let the enemy know what you are doing. Above all, try not to let the bladed news cycle spiralling down the drain at the moment eat up your soul. Keeping your family safe and community strong has to be your main concern. (3/3)
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... want to try and fight back using sorcery. Maleficium as catharsis. So yes, grand hexing operations have their uses, true. I have taken part in a few over the years. But the adept should see to protect themselves first. Stay shielded. Prioritise your mental wellbeing. Try ... (2/3)
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... group, or at least attempting to. Crows and even seagulls. Annoying for the average person, but we adepts should be able to see the beauty in all that the natural world offers us. Especially when these animals refuse to be brought low by the modernity that paved over their original homes. (3/3)
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... even. But the more urban among us likely only ever saw such storied beings in zoos or trance states. Maybe as a bonded spirit sharing the mortal shell as it goes about its day to day. Now rats. Foxes. Raccoons. Adaptable, sneaky, aggressive when cornered and used to fighting as a ... (2/3)
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Exactly this. And in my personal opinion Pratchett was a true mystic, whether he realised it or not. If magick is just words then someone who can command them so masterfully that it helps millions of readers see the world through shimmered eyes just has to be.
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I think there is a danger that the more an adept learns, the less meaningful and more restrictive those insights can become. Rules of the game must be recognised of course, no point falling back on faulty logic. But cutting away the trappings to leave only the core magick has to be a good thing.
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Well I always need more people to stand at the bleeding edge of the weird with. So yeah, watch this space for sure. 😀
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Ha! Well so far it hasn't been cancelled, and I hope it isn't any time soon. 😆
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... sunset. Blood pacts with dark goddesses while the moon cast the city streets in silver. Smog Sylphs and Broken Dryads. The dead ever present. Mine is the low sorcery of the disaffected underclass, more 90's grunge and apathy than the 70's punk of chaos magick. And that suits me just fine. (5/5)
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... fan. My first magickal knife was on a key chain and the ingredients for those admittedly ineffective early spells were either found in the wild or sourced from the supermarket. I scratched sigils in the trash piles outside of derelict buildings. Meditated in haunted graveyards after ... (4/5)
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... too. Blood, willpower, every day objects and pop culture. I grew up in one of the poorest parts of London, had little money when starting out. I couldn't afford 24 hour pillar candles and expensive incense. I had no ritual chamber to retire to when the ectoplasm hit the ... (3/5)
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... that I live by. While I am well read and skilled enough to take advantage of more established ritual ideas or paradigms after nearly two decades in the craft I do find myself often falling back on the crunchy, dirty, ego driven urban sorcery of my youth. And more so as I get older ... (2/5)
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Ah yes. Gutter Mage. Whatever works personified as an occult discipline. As I've got older and refined my thinking on occult topics the earthy, grungy and ego driven low magick of my younger East End of London days still calls to me. Back when I wrongly thought chaos magick was all about anarchy.
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Ha! I tried, but had to give up and left it blank in the end. 😀
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Exactly. Be honest with yourself and your true will will follow in your wake. 😀
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... authenticity. The personality is reactive, so if taken too literally the idea of labelling yourself can restrict further growth. Freedom comes from wearing those culturally enforced labels like fashions, discarding them when they become threadbare or the colours begin to fade. (4/4)
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... consciousness of the people you meet. Family see a different face to those in your friendship group, whether you realise it or not. And again, work colleagues, ritual partners. All are seeing a you that fits those subgroups within your life. This is not dishonesty but ... (3/4)
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... tested tool for seeing worthwhile signal among all the pointless cultural noise. Few truly magickal people completely embrace solitude, after all. But those labels are but a surface level identification that says very little about what is really going on within the fractal ... (2/4)
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... fields, weaving Gaia's resonant bounty into their spells. Neither is better than the other, but it is an often overlooked aspect of the adept's life that can have a genuine effect on the success of their craft. Playing to the strengths that helped shape your growth is never a bad thing. (3/3)
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... that grew up an urban mage will likely do better within the boundaries of the city, where they can call on the familiar medicine of the asphalt and concrete to help seed the weave of fate with their focussed will. Rural practitioners will naturally feel more at home with the woods and ... (2/3)
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Aye, it's low magick at its most visceral and honest for sure. No bells or whistles required, just good instincts and a strong will. I used to call it grunge magick (I was a teen in the 1990's so it was a call back to that) but it lacked the sharpness that Gutter Mage carries. And words have power.
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And great books they are. 😀
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Personally I'd ask it to tuck me in and given me a wake up call about 6am. 😆
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... of imagination. For money magick remember to send those job applications or there is no path for manifestation within your sphere of influence. Health spells work best if you take your vitamins, protection is easiest when you are grounded and centred. Reality is not the enemy, but an ally. (3/3)
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... state they are definitely unbreakable. So it is better to take something that already exists, a groove that the flow of fate is known to run down, and apply some esoteric grease the wheels in the mundane world to have it run smoothly for you rather than build a whole new scenario out ... (2/3)
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... else. The Hat Man at the end of the bed to fuck himself and then fuck right off. The anti-Pagan priest to suck a communion wafer or eat shit. Words have power. Use them like you mean them. Burn them into the aether as you speak. Become them. Colonise the language. Change the world. (2/2)
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... real deal, has weight or power. Enough to pull on the inside of my head, anyway. And yes, it is literally a pulling sensation. Other times I get nothing, no matter how hyped the occult aspects of something are. While the latter does not scream fake, I do tent to follow my instincts. You? (2/2)
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Nope, never get rid of anything. I only link up or tag the ones that have a direct correlation though. The rest sit out as orphans until they become relevant later.
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Couple hundred notes so far. Always growing though. Best way I found to link up the notes organically in Obsidian is to find one that seems to have a lot of technical terms in it and looking for those key words using the search function, then either direct linking or creating a tag for them.
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Agreed. I think it is human nature to force vast ideas into little boxes for ease of classification. While that can help with a sweeping view of the landscape, only sitting beneath the tree and feeling the roughness of the bark at their back will allow an adept to experience its true form.
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Exactly. I find that books, even the most in depth ones, only ever share a shade of what a given spirit truly represents. In a more classical sense, gods of love can be vengeful, or excess can be maudlin. Deities of death can yearn for mortal comforts. They are as we are, so reflect what we are.
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Nah, never was a fan of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies. Though a 100ft zombie Mr Darcy trashing Tokyo and eating people might be an intriguing thing to experience. 😆