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Cy: A not-so-human spiritualist + avid astral worker working off a primarily non-Earth centric paradigm; any pronouns but they/them. I refer to my personal gnosis, approach, and methodologies to magic as Construction (#construction theory). Expect ramblings about the nature of Selfhood, domains, and well... Construction theory.
Lets call it a current fascination- working with the stratification of what amounts to be the inversion of the Forest. That is, at least, currently how I am treating the 'area'. I have previously crafted other configurations for it, each trying to be a better metaphor than the last. Ultimately, I want an ambient filing system that lacks the feeling of strain upon itself, but considering a few things whos to say that will be achieved. As much as I like the inversion, the underside of waves might be better.
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While hedge/ sea/ whatever else witch are fun labels that help a new practitioner choose a starting direction in how they want to pursue their craft, better questions to ask yourself when starting out would include:
How much time can you actually dedicate to your craft? How much do you *want* to?- It's easy to want to entrench yourself within all resources but that's how you get academic burnt out, set reasonable expectations and take your time with the texts you read. Comparatively, do not pursue massive ritualistic undertakings if you cannot give it the proper attention it requires. You can create an impressive warding complex that requires expensive ingredients & an elaborate 12 step program to refresh it, but ultimately, if your wallet is hemorrhaging itself and you cannot keep up with all your steps- this is not a good ritual for your lifestyle, you need to adapt it.
What do you need magic for?- I pursue the 'micro' purely from an utilitarian perspective. For me, I've been shaped by my time exploring the astral & other Worlds, and thus my craft has been developed for utility purposes. Other people though want bigger impact, larger crafts, others want to help restore their local land, or others are called to practice by spirits, ancestors, and gods. Ultimately, what you need your craft for should shape your methodologies and approaches to how this becomes a facet of your life. To me? Utility means emphasizing quick 'activation' times; Earthside I burn candles, incense, herbs, and paper talismans. I use a lot of ephemeral materials and skew towards fire-based castings because within my practice these are 'quick', both within drafting the set up and within the spell manifesting.
What are your boundaries?- Not just personal boundaries, boundaries in faith & belief. What is and is not, could not be real/ possible to you, why? Sit with what you reject, should it be reasonably without harm, and meditate on why this is a belief you have. This goes back to taking time with the texts you read. People will write about what they know relevant to whats 'common' knowledge in their time periods. There will be racist, sexist, and other biased undertones present within myths & legends that will be presented as if the author is correct in believing them; having your bearings on what you personally are willing to deny or include is imperative. Though, should you pursue spirit work, it IS imperative to also have personal boundaries. Letting a spirit abuse you does not become okay merely because they lend you craft aid; there's plenty of fish in the sea who CAN be both wonderful mentors and non-abusive, and you deserve to be treated with respect.
Cultural appropriation being the racist L that it is aside, cultural appropriation also operates under the assumption that all 'associations' metaphysically manifest within the same means and nuances- that a stolen substitution can magically fill in the hole in one's understanding of their own craft. It's essentially sticking a pumpkin onto a headless corpse and proclaiming: Look! A man!
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just remembered that time when i asked tumblr for recommendations of books on jewish folklore and someone unironically was like “you should read the gemara!”
a. i spent 16 years in orthodox day school, i guarantee i’ve learned a fuck ton of gemara.
b. you need to SPECIFY. the gemara is over 5,000 pages long and has 37 masechtot. over 2 million words!!!!! do you want me to read about sheydim or dybbuks or do you want me to read about legal disputes of tree ownership? because there’s a ton of the latter.
If you still want recs:
“Ascending Jacob's Ladder: Jewish Views of Angels, Demons, and Evil Spirits” by Rabbi Ronald Isaacs
“A Treasury of Jewish Folklore” by Nathan Ausubel
“Divination, Magic, and Healing: The Book of Jewish Folklore” by Rabbi Ronald Isaacs
“Elijah’s Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales” by Howard Schwartz
“Gabriel’s Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales” by Howard Schwartz
“Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid” by Moshe Idel
“Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion” by Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg
“Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism: The Supernatural in Jewish Thought” by Gedalyah Nigal
“Mimekor Yisrael: Selected Jewish Classical Folktales” by Micha Berdyczewski
“Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World” by Howard Schwartz
“Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories” by Howard Schwartz
“Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick” by Isaac Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
“The Bride Who Argued With G-d: Tales From the Treasury of Jewish Folklore” by Hava Ben-Zvi
“The Diamond Tree: Jewish Tales from Around the World” by Howard Schwartz
“The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic & Mysticism” by Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis
“Yiddish Folktales” by Beatrice Weinreich
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You know those jumbles of letters? Those are called "words". They represent "meaning". Now the tricky thing about words is you need to read all of them to understand what a person is saying - sometimes entire sentences or, God forbid, paragraphs!
But I believe in you! I believe if you try hard enough and take it slow, you can manage to read all the words in a post *before* replying to it!
Cells are, in shorthand, the smallest definable unit of 'magic' that can be still parsed as a spell. The trick boils down to semantics and understanding at what point does a [sentence] lose potency/ semantic meaning, or otherwise loses the impact of 'intent'. See, I think it boils down to whether or not Will/ Intent *is* the catalyst (what triggers a casting) OR if Will/ Intent within itself can be the casting- basically what is the scope of impact of Mental within a practitioners praxis.
My Father taught me primarily Will-driven workings so I am biased towards the belief that Intent can be the casting within itself. This doesn't really have broader implications on Earth-dependent castings, moreso astral and spirit metaphysics; still, it speaks towards internal direction. I cast outwards, and I hold no division between 'myself' and my surroundings.
After a few years of doinking around astral discords and studying how others approached 'godhood', among other things, I would argue that astralcords have a habit of casting downwards. People want the largest picture possible to exemplify their reach/ breadth of impact, so they try to grasp for the largest expression of a concept that they can. While able to achieve results, the stark exclusion of the physical and lack of integration of ones mortality inevitably caps degree of impact. Knowing who you are, not who you want to be, genuinely is one of the best craft tips I can offer up. You can get a fair bit done immediately by forcing yourself against the currents of the world, but your workings will go even further should you work with the flow of the fabric.
Cells are, in shorthand, the smallest definable unit of 'magic' that can be still parsed as a spell. The trick boils down to semantics and understanding at what point does a [sentence] lose potency/ semantic meaning, or otherwise loses the impact of 'intent'. See, I think it boils down to whether or not Will/ Intent *is* the catalyst (what triggers a casting) OR if Will/ Intent within itself can be the casting- basically what is the scope of impact of Mental within a practitioners praxis.
My Father taught me primarily Will-driven workings so I am biased towards the belief that Intent can be the casting within itself. This doesn't really have broader implications on Earth-dependent castings, moreso astral and spirit metaphysics; still, it speaks towards internal direction. I cast outwards, and I hold no division between 'myself' and my surroundings.
drowned cities. you call, and hear an answer
Oh! Construction is Resonance based, resonant sequences in meaning but differentiating in (grammatical) Structure.
No = I said No. = No, I said do not trespass my wards. (where 'no' is where we can derive Cells from as a unit within Construction work)
Sprinkles<--> Jimmies (sympathic linkage across Dialects)
