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Urban Iridescence - Dealings with City Spirits part 1.

So I've never really done something like this before but thought I'd try something new, I'm going to start sharing some stories of my encounters with the intelligences of our modern urban abodes; cities. This first part is a prelude to how I think with these sorts of concepts.

So cities, eh?: A lot of people live in them and it can often be pretty overwhelming at times, especially in our current societies; it's easy to feel disconnected from the things we normally associate as being more 'magical'. Having been to a lot of beautiful and incredible natural environments in my life I can understand and feel the draw to the less human-populated places, even if I love cities.

That being said cities are largely unavoidable for many of us and wholly unique in a sense, with their own personalities and identity; if you spend enough time in a place you can really get a sense of the dimensionality of a place, the layers of time and experience and history that have accumulated, regardless of the size all cities and towns have this quality.

Like everything else in creation, cities are multifaceted: even in a singular city you'll come across different places that epitomise different aspects of the settlement and will have an entirely different feel to other places in that same city. My home town for example has an older quarter situated above the rest of the city, upon which the cathedral looks down over the moors and farmland for miles. This area is the oldest region in my city and you can really feel the sense the spiritual weight and self-importance it has. Comparing that to the block I lived in for a few years prior, It was completely different: that place was pretty much a lifeblood of travel through the southern part of the city, surrounded by a lattice of highways and crossroads. (also the sight of a former temple to Mercury).

Even if your going just by the 'vibe', it isn't just the architecture, infrastructure or affluence; the people do. Cities are almost like solar system of overlapping orbits of different communities, at times they are at odds and other times they work in concert. This gives cities a somewhat conscious dimension (Unconscious may be more apt).

All these factors heavily impact the overall spiritual identity of a city and usually coalesce around focal points in the city. These places (I usually refer to them as nexuses so i can feel edgy) are usually the best places to communicate and open a dialogue with the entities that compose this city spirit. Fountains, parks statues and monuments can all be good for this.

I hope you peeps liked this post, I plan on doing a few more of these soon, so keep an eye out!

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Don't turn back

Walking through dimly lit streets at night to the chosen place. The effect of your decision changes things, even before you've called out for said change. The steeples of that chosen place are shrouded by the night, yet from within the bells peal a song of praise. They seem discordant to you now, in light of your decision.

You return to the place where it began, with history as your mantle and the stars as your torch; and yet, as you round that corner to reach the appointed place the song ceases and the dark encloses the stars themselves. Looking into the corners of that holy place you feel the stares that the grotesques cast from the dark, aware of what you will bring. At your feet sits an iron grill, now a cage keeping the dark at bay. The inky blackness that peers forth quickens your pulse. You drop your message into the abyss, clap thrice and call out.

The stars shine bright once again.

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Definitely late to the DSIC party, but definitely looking forward to trying this out! It'll be a good way to work on scrying and evocation in one fell swoop.

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The little door

So I took a picture of a super tiny fairy door that I came across randomly in a narrow alley today (the feeling it gave me makes it relevant to a future post btw). I finally get back home to find the photo is nowhere on my phone, even with cloud storage and a witness who saw me take the photo. Guess the little folk don't like me taking pictures of their front door...

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Talismanic musings

Been reading through the Picatrix in preparation for making some magical images, I'm really keen on using the principles in there to make a wand when I get a chance, I feel like that'd work pretty well, I have some interesting components that just might shine for this purpose!

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Reversed Three of Swords

So I just woke up from a crazy ass dream. I won't bore you with all the details but it ended with a murderer being shot twice through the head by a revolver in his mouth. And the gun and bullets and his head morphing into the shape of a tarot card, the Three of Swords, reversed. On the plus sides I got an actual thing I can search for. On the downsides I felt an unmistakable sense of loss when that person was shot, not that I knew them outside the context of the dream. Just that it didn't have to end in death.

Well it was a weird one for sure, not really sure what to make of it, I mean it's a sign, but of what?.

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Stepping up to Evocation

After years of reading grimoires, research and lamenting at my lack of space and resources (cheap rent? Yessir I'll take that broom closet please).

I've come accross some magical tech that really resonated with me and I am finally gonna start practicing evocation. The book I found was Demons of Magick by Gordon Winterfield and after a thorough reading the tech seems pretty solid, similar basis to stuff I've read and heard of but washed free of extraneous stuff and condensed into a system that uses the Goetia spirits that I can use in my current home (which doesn't allow candles and has super sensitive smoke detectors).

It'll probably take time but I'm gonna stick at it till I get it. The feeling of resonance was unmistakable. Like my soul was vibrating Many thanks to my other-world allies for bringing me this.

Additionally I also found a banishing ritual that I actually like, the only thing I was missing really!

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“The Panpsychospere represents the realm of cosmic imagination fro whic which emergent phenomena arise spontaneously and chaotically in all lower spheres and which stimulates creativity”

Peter J. Carroll - The Octavo (Roundworld Edition)