[on reading the musings of some elderly magicians on “urban magick”] Have they ever even MET a City? Pfff. Preposterous bollocks. Here’s a magical practice : Métromancie. You start off on a Situationist Dérive ( a “drift” where you let the signs and symbols of the City guide your steps, Continue Reading
ENGAGEMENT, INITIATION, FAILURE
To me, it is a step across the Threshold, a taking-on of a new form of attention to the World: hard to go back upon, hard to rescind. Once taken, nothing can ever be the same. Best done in full knowledge and conscience of what the implications are, and I imagine even better done with a structure and support around one, from others further along on the Path one has chosen.
I had neither luxury: I was alone and unprepared; I did not fully measure the import of what was happening, or the responsibility I was taking on; I had no guides to teach, prepare, and look out for me; I had no Order or Tradition to look to, no fellow travellers to receive me in Ritual and in Communion.
LEABHAR LIATH NA HAIMIDE PART FOUR – ADVENT
[read Part I – The Forge here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-one-the-forge/ ] [read Part II – The Ruins here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-two-the-ruins/ ] [read Part III – The Vow here :https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-three-the-vow/ ] ADVENT : SOMETHING IS COMING – 1 December 2020 AND SO that was the End of Spring. Bealtaine. And then two Continue Reading
LEABHAR LIATH NA HAIMIDE PART THREE – THE VOW
[read Part I – The Forge here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-one-the-forge/ ] [read Part II – The Ruins here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-two-the-ruins/ ] I MAKE MY VOW – 29 April 2020 SO… it’s two weeks since then, and I have not had a clear sign, but neither have I maybe been open and Continue Reading
LEABHAR LIATH NA HAIMIDE PART TWO – THE RUINS
[read Part I – The Forge here : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/leabhar-liath-na-haimide-part-one-the-forge/ ] THE ROOM IN THE RUINS – Witching Hour, 29 March 2020 I went there just now. The hairs on my back are still raised, I feel a feverish tingle through my chest, my heart races. Since I came back from Continue Reading
LEABHAR LIATH NA HAIMIDE : PART ONE – THE FORGE
29 March 2020 Thus begins Leabhar Liath na hAimide, the Grey Book of the Witch-Fool. I am living in the Forge now, among the ruins of the Once-Château in Aquitaine: the Lost Domaine. The Plague has struck, and we have fled to this refuge. In this house, in this place Continue Reading
WHEN DID YOU REALISE THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE?
BY FELIX ADDISON Was there a particular moment or was it more like a process? Bits and pieces coalescing until you became conscious that there was another way to think about the world? Or was it always there in a way? That word and will can change the world, that Continue Reading
THE POTION AND THE POISON
I have always been interested, as an artist and writer, in inspiration. Where does it come from? What is its nature? Why is it such a fickle friend at times? One of the old stories most intimately connected to the idea of inspiration is the tale of the birth of Continue Reading
PATRON DEITIES – THE ELDER GODS OF IRELAND, AND HOW TO MEET THEM IN THESE LATER DAYS
The concept of a Patron Deity is more or less a modern one, and suits contemporary Paganism because the relationship tends to be an individual, solitary, private dynamic rather than a community-based public practice. It is not without precedent though. I tend to look to the Medieval Irish culture of Continue Reading
THE SORCERY OF BEAUTY
There is an omnipresent temptation to claim that everything is magic, to believe that everything is a spell being woven by the world, reality itself a net to ensorcell the mind and enchant our steps. There may be some truth to this. There is also an inconvenient reality that ruins Continue Reading