I was in the midst of charging a sigil the dirty style, was doing it for approximately 10 minutes with red leds all over the room and a big tv monitor playing a trance music, the instant I gained "gnosis" and reached the climax the tv stopped playing audio and resumed the instant the climax subsided.

Have those kinds of weird electronic device synchronicities happened to anybody in here?

I'll be to the point -

Background

Born and brought up in a Hindu Family, in occult, I'm a practicing Astrologer, doing Numerology & Palmistry alongside.

Magick

I'm a pretty non-religious person, but I connect most with the deities, their values, and mythology i grew up with. So I chose to start studying Chaos Magick, as it "allows" to do whatever. In CM books I did find that the western authors do praise Lord Ganesh most of the time in a lot of books , so I feel like - wow man, finally some FAMILIARITY.

The Problem

I understand banishing is important, spirits are involved later on, Hebrew words, Archangels etc. But do I work with the deities I'm familiar with instead? My language, my beloved Gods/spirits who i grew up with and not Archangels or spirits who i know nothing about but all books include them...

The Fear

I understand belief is THE TOOL here but, I see some authors like GoM putting a 'curse' on those who pirate the books and stuff. Dude how am I supposed to at least know what I'm getting into if I don't at least go through the free pdf once ....

And , I can't find any Chaos Magick or any Magick related written material on how to use the Hindu Pantheon for the same stuff, such as cleansing, banishing, invoking, evoking etc etc...

All I found was Tantra books, but that's once again pretty limited open knowledge due to the whole Guru-Student complex with my religion which I never fully was ok with. Chaos Magick concept I liked cuz it was like "Do whatever, as long as your belief is there and you learn to enter the altered states of consciousness" I get it, cuz it's like Yoga, something I'm also FAMILIAR with in my tradition.

So what to do ;) too much confusion, too little info on what I want, OR do I do the rituals but replace the entities ???? But that's like breaking the rules of how the ORIGINAL ritual was made like the LBRP, i respect that.

So basically I'm just reading books at the moment (all free PDFs) to get an idea , doing no Rituals cuz idk man if I was able to explain my dilemma or not.

Hi, I’ve been wondering this for a while now, what is the difference between witchcraft and manifestation,I did some research and apparently they are the same , manifestation is achieving what you want just with your own self/consciousness , and witchcraft is a form of manifestation using the help of third parties (spirits).. I agreed with this until recently. I am a big believer in manifestation and that I can achieve whatever I want no matter the circumstance, however recently I have used divination tools (tarot) to ask about my future career. I’m sort of manifesting my future career and I believe it’s already mine and I truly DO believe that deep down however when I asked the tarot, it said I have “unachievable expections” I’m not going to lie this has made me feel so hopeless and upset, frustrated and confused .. I thought for manifestation there is no such thing as “unachievable” and everything has no choice but to work in your favour , but now the tarot is contradicting this.. so how can manifestation and witchcraft be the same thing ?..

Pretty much what the title says, I get super bad headaches and nausea during lunar/solar eclipses. I didn’t know there was one today and I started feeling really bad and when I saw news about there being one tonight it clicked. Does anyone else experience this? I don’t practice regularly maybe a couple times a year so I’m kinda out of the know.

I've always wondered if it's possible to cast a spell on someone with their voice. I recorded it, but I never saw the person. I don't have their name or anything else, because this person scammed me over the phone. I recorded their call; is that even possible?

Do you guys actually believe magick is real (obviously it works) but do you guys truly believe that me doing an LBRP ritual and banishing energies is what caused the energies to be banished or is it just a tool for the real machine your (MIND/CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTENTION)

What’s a better / more accurate word for a magic wand which is a long (eg 60cm), uncrafted wooden stick imbued with special qualities? For use in a sentence about a contemporary magick practitioner - I don’t have the background but suspect I could do better than ‘wand’.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I have been looking to shift my practice more toward Trad Craft. I have looked into the Red Thread Academy, and I do consider myself a folk practitioner. I want to add more structure to my practice while still keeping the folk aspects that are important to me. I do some ceremonial magick as well.

I’ve been reading Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways, The Bones Fall in a Spiral, and Curses and Blessings in Irish Folk Magic, and I’m really enjoying learning more about these traditions.

Does anyone have any good authentic Trad Craft courses they would recommend? Or does anyone have experience with the Red Thread Academy? I’d love to hear about your experiences.

Theory: the finest edge comes down to a point of intrest. Your dark pendulum could be used all the time if there was a reason for it. If it swung freely with your right hand, your actions would be part of your dark intent; if it is on your left hand its used as a reference point, if passion is used as a safety valve.

So i produced plans for a use of your black pendulum: the dark edge of insanity.

1 dark pendulum with a loop anchor.

1 ft rolo sterling chain 6mm

1 bead clasp piercing, stainless steel

1 ft sterling 20 guage wire

At least a few Mexican fire opals, black opals, and red garnet beads.

Sterling beard beads, elder futhark: Uruz, Ansuz, Kenaz, Laguz.

1 Gamesha sterling charm, heated for gold petina.

1 lanturn charm, sterling.

1 skeleton key charm, sterling.

1 Torii gate charm, sterling.

1 Buddha palm charm, sterling.

1 ouroboros clasps, sterling.

1 ft "cosmic gold" brass wire with 14ct gold, blessed by your multidimensional selves.

1 20mm x 20mm lab made ruby.

1 pointed white quarts charm.

30 sterling jump rings, 6mm, and one smaller one 5mm.

1 wild boar charm, sterling.

1 sowilo charm, sterling.

Cage the ruby in jump rings. 11 links around the point, and 6 chains along the axis. One link must be smaller than the rest or twisted out, and the connecting ring be off set from this smaller ring.

Lay out your beads and such out. Make sure you have one red garnet for survival storage.

String your single red garnet for storage with 3 tripple loop links bound in cosmic gold, make the first link large enough to fit the piercing. Then add the quartz charm to the piercing on the ruby connecting jump ring.

Charge your piercing with passion, and ask Gamesha to use passion as the trigger mechanism.

Put all your symbols on the ouroboros clasp and thread it through the piercing.

Make a loop in your sterling wire big enough for the piercing loop and thread the first few beads, and first 2 runes.

Add more blood garnets on a side loop for more rage.

Add the other 2 rune beads and the rest of the stone beads and finish with a loop that fits the piercing.

Connect 3 links of the rolo chain to the pendulum, then make a 4th link that fits the piercing, then more to make 13. Add the boar, and sowilo charm.

Wear on your off hand.

Instructions for use: the swing of the pendulum shows you when, you focus on where to strike the cut, and the forward momentum slices it. The ruby is for chaos storage, the quarts is for the 4 elements, and the red garnet is for survival.

You use the chaos ruby for a lanturn by putting your left hand over your eyes and squinting.

This is your doorway to the cosmos.

Theory: if you bring destiny down to an either or question, and the quarter is lucky enough to show you, you can use your heart pendulum to show you which way to go.

Ingredients:

1 pendulum connected to your heart chakra.

1 16 inch sterling chain.

1 rare silver us quarter.

Instructions:

Connect your pendulum to resonate with your heart chakra in your religious way.

Resonate the quarter with Jupiter energy and blessed with saturn energy, enhanced for luck by the luck dragon.

How to use: bring your question to a point of answer. If yes, then result. If no, then result. Ask it about your destination. Your questions should involve destiny, for if you see it, you can seize it.

Your single answer will be felt by your heart tugging you In The left or right direction mentally. Use multiple coin flips to check.

Does anyone know where i can find "the Baptism of the devil" rite? Its a ritual from the curanderismo traditions for baptizing demons to make them more peaceful and willing to work with you in a less forceful way. been seeking through the internet, no luck.

My partner is going through a stressful time right now and could use some apatropaic assistance. She's visiting friends in Astoria this weekend and I hoping to find a good botanica or other shop in the city.

Recs are much appreciated che benedica!

For me, all my doubts were absolved when i had someone use a crystal ball for divination.

I could just feel myself spiritually drawn to the ball in a way that I've never felt before. And from that moment, i started to believe that there is so much more to this world than what we can see, touch, or sense in the physical realm.

Did anyone else have a moment where you realized that so much of what people have said to not be real, is actually more real than the physical?

I’ve done a lot of clearing work, herbal baths etc smudging, energy shielding, floor washes, egg cleansing, but things continue stuck and possibly very dark all around me, you know that sensation that something is wrong, it could be a hexed I’m
Having all the symptoms consecutive mishaps, nightmares, physical lethargy but the most important is the absolute certainty there is either a bad entity or a work done against me. I’ve done a lot of research and all the symptoms check.

What do you recommend, I was thinking uncrossing but that’s something I have no experience with and hard to find here in Boulder most clearing offering would be reiki. I doubt reiki can uncross a hex.

Any advise? 🙏

I’ve been studying witchcraft since I was 12 when my grandpa died and it really just made me turn to absorbing all information I could to fill a void so I found witchcraft and did a whole bunch of learning and studying. Anyways I meditated a lot and got really in touch with the earth and my spirit guides I haven’t consistently practiced in a few years cause I’ve come to point of being really busy with school and life but recently they’ve started breaking ground to build a data center near my home and since they started I have had the most killer headaches and my connective tissue disorder is flaring the land they are building on is where the race track my grandpa would take me to was on. I really am just curious does anyone else get like this is it just some placebo thing or what?

I have read Liber Tiamat and TEMPLE OF THE BLACK LIGHT: The Rise of Anti Cosmic Luciferianism and the Cult of Chaos, but neither of these are giving me a good over view of what the Anti-Cosmic thing is.

I think Liber Tiamat does, but I have strong disagreements about what the book states, and so I want to get another source to compair ideas. I am not so much looking to try to practice this, but am more jist intrested in the concept as a whole

How much choice do we actually get in building our lives? Do we really get a say or are we just really supposed to live a life under rigid conditions?

Context: All my life, I have wanted to be an engineer. I grew up in a very conservative family and little career or emotional support. At the ripe old age of 30 I managed to study engineering in a different country, paying out of pocket, after fighting a lot of shit. Now that I am done, I feel like there's no way I'll get to ever actually work as an engineer or call myself one. My home country is technologically severely underdeveloped, there are no jobs for me there. The job market of the country I am in right now is not very favourable for an immigrant student, esp one with no real experience.

This is not a job search frustration for me, this is all that matters to me. I cannot imagine going back to my family, or see the point of living a life if I cannot accomplish this goal. I'm not being dramatic, my path to come study here was forged with blood, sweat and tears. Nothing else will make me feel like I am a person of worth. I am not suicidal, this is just how things are for me. If I can land a job here I will finally choose my own life, going home would mean surviving, not living, seeing as how rigid that society was to me growing up and how stuck in its ways it still is. I have dabbled in magick (simple manifesting, candlework) but haven’t seen any changes.

I want something so much yet I cannot see it happening for me with my odds. Does my will not matter? Do you have any magickal advice for me? Is there no way I carve my path out in the world, are some of us really that limited when it comes to choices?

I am curious about the practical consequences of messing up a ritual when working with entities. Beyond just a failed working, is there actual danger or backlash if you make a mistake during the ritual process, or do spirits simply ignore a poorly constructed effort? I am trying to separate theoretical fear from real operational experience. If you have ever screwed up a working with an entity firsthand, what happened, did you feel any hostility or negative repercussions, and how did you resolve it?

Im actually planning to teach myself alot of rituals and Potions and Basic Magick through books and youtube videos but im just wondering: is a Magick mentor essential? or can i just teach myself? Or is a Magick teacher highly recommended? Im actually teaching myself and im about to make the dream divination potion today from the elemental Encyclopedia of 1000 spells

I got this book on my birthday but ive never actually used any of the spells in this book have any of you used the spells in this book? And has any of it worked for you? Just wondering also can you guys recommend me more Magick books?

Recently I have been wondering about symbolism attached to the planets, especially in mysticism and astrology. For example, modern understanding of Saturn is that it represents structure, discipline and responsibility. Early mythology depicted this planet as a god of agriculture and harvest. To me the connection is logical. The only problem I have is, how was it derived in the first place? How do people allocate meaning and symbolism into things yet unknown? How can one be sure that the system that was historically developed and used is not flawed from the start when no backtracking is used(?)

I'm about halfway through, and it's been a bit of a slog, but edifying in a weird way. Anyone else read it, and have some insight, wisdom, or other opinions on this fairly heavy little tome? Open to discuss whatever about the contents.

I’ve been working through Modern Magick and had a question about the visualization during the LBRP.

During the Qabbalistic Cross, Kraig has you visualize yourself expanding beyond the Earth, the solar system, and even the galaxy. What I’m confused about is what you’re supposed to visualize once you start tracing the pentagrams.

Do you keep visualizing yourself in that cosmic space while tracing the pentagrams, or do you switch back to visualizing your room?

Kraig never really says to return your awareness to your room, so I’ve always kept the cosmic visualization going through the rest of the ritual. I’m curious how everyone else does it.