Alma, Mage of Light

Your favorite ceremonial magician. I make art sometimes. Sigil requests are always open!

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Day 0 of studying anatomy

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Sat down today and decided to draw how I've been feeling. I ended up adding words but I removed them so you would be forced to wonder.

Title: Electronic repair sketches I

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While you were out partying, going on dates, and having a "social life" I was studying the orb, spreading holy oil on the altar, and charging water with pure light energy. We are not the same.

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A tree of life-inspired Alma symbol.

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Heaven and Hell are not the afterlife, they are right here, superimposed over the material plane. When our "soul" becomes confused and caught up in the material plane, it becomes bound to the wheel of fortune: gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disrepute.

When we have everything we need or desire, when the wind is at our backs and the sun is shining, we see paradise and splendor all around us. When we are in our happy place we can feel the presence of God/the universe holding us in his embrace saying, "isn't it wonderful? I made it all for you."

When we lose everything and slip into our worst habits, thoughts, and behaviors, when the sea is rough and the sun is hidden behind the fog, we look around and see a lake of fire, suffering, and sneering faces pushing us down into the inferno with their pitchforks. We look for God/the universe and ask "why have you forsaken me?"

The wheel of fortune cannot be stopped, but you can become its axle. When you see that gain and loss only applies to things outside yourself, you can stand like the Earth in the midst of it all, stable and receptive. We are able to cherish our time in heaven and accept our time in hell.

Wherever you are on the wheel of fortune, this too shall pass.

Thanks for listening to my TED Talk, I'm just a silly little guy.

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Back with studies in projection, value, shading, and gesture

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Babe wake up new bird sketch just dropped.

It's a warbler if you can't tell. (Palm warbler)

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I have a choice: Get in touch with my intuition, my divine feminine, and my shadow to become the most outgoing, driven, and confident human I can be, or continue to neglect my intuition in favor of ""rational"" thinking and end up with my own 10 swords in my back.

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This one really came around on me 🙃 should've listened to my tarot....

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I have a choice: Get in touch with my intuition, my divine feminine, and my shadow to become the most outgoing, driven, and confident human I can be, or continue to neglect my intuition in favor of ""rational"" thinking and end up with my own 10 swords in my back.

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This one really came around on me 🙃 should've listened to my tarot....

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I like to close my eyes and hold my dulcimer against my face and use it as a drone while I improvise with my voice. It's very meditative as you find different scales and rhythms to play around with, i tend to just space out really quickly.

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Finished drug binding sigil. Finally got sober enough to stock up on pens.

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This new sigil is an experiment, a switch for changing my point of focus between external and internal reality.

Transcription:

Inner: journey into the microcosmos/journey into the macrocosmos

Outer: as I look out into the macrocosm and in to the microcosm I will remember that I am neither, but the reflection in water

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Do you think I'm effeminate? If I were, would that make me a bottom?

Do you think I'm masculine? If I were, would that make me a top?

In truth what I choose to peg or be pegged by is irrelevant to the clothes I wear or how I present myself and yes, it's offensive to presume that you can figure it out without asking me.

The idea that every bottom is a skinny, hairless, limp-wristed twink, and that every top is a big, burly, hairy human unit is a harmful stereotype that conflates our sexuality with a dichotomy between "masculine" and "feminine" roles. This stereotype is not only homophobic but mysoginistic, as it assumes that women, or those in a feminine role, are inherently or generally submissive and receptive. (And vise versa)

Remember: masculine men can top or bottom, feminine men can top or bottom

And while we're at it, feminine women can top or bottom, masculine women can top or bottom

This goes for ALL queer and straight sexual experiences

It is a matter of personal preference, many people engage in both, and it has NOTHING to do with the characteristics you can perceive on the surface level of another human.

I just had to get this out there with peace and love.

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Harry Potter: why does the wizarding world have to be kept a secret

Hagrid: aye harry if muggles was ter know aboot magic, they'd all be lookin' fer magical solutions to their problems

Magicians: uses magical solutions for all their problems

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I have a choice: Get in touch with my intuition, my divine feminine, and my shadow to become the most outgoing, driven, and confident human I can be, or continue to neglect my intuition in favor of ""rational"" thinking and end up with my own 10 swords in my back.

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Randomly, but with complex starting conditions