#Chaote

[lycarael]

I win.

[yermes]

🪻You don’t need to buy every dumb knick knack and manifestation journal to practice

🫐Your magicial practice can look completely different than someone who does a similar practice

🧸While years of spiritual and magical teachings and wisdom from once source is useful do not count out wisdom from different streams which you may not be use too

🕯️We are in the golden age of information, research

[manicfoxmagick]

“Chaotic good fortune occurs frequently. “

༻᯾↯𖣔𖣘𖣔↯᯾༺

::to manifest random events that have a positive impact.

::Like==charge/Reblog==activate

[sea-lestial-dream-witch]

Sigil to calm anxiety related to unwanted & unexpected noises for @habibiville

•my sigils•

[diving-into-chaos]

Starting the Dive

I've been a non-Christian since 2000-ish. I have gotten into various Pagan faiths, Buddhism, and for a long period of time, I was a hardcore Atheist.

And then, for almost a decade, I considered myself a Heathen. I would sometimes call myself also a witch, but I never found that title to be fitting. I much preferred mage. And somehow I found myself losing touch with Heathenism as well—cannot say why. I just don't know.

Some time ago (a decade, perhaps), I developed an affinity for chaos. I would chaoticize (yes, that's a word now) everything, meaning, I would see chaos where there was no chaos according to some. I would get great joy out of complex systems theory, out of the complex problems I ran into in my studies (social services has plenty of complex problems), and oh, don't even get me started on the chaos of politics. All the while I would use the online nickname mage.

Fast forward to August 11th, 2024. I have been going through a questioning phase. I needed to find something, because I find Atheism tends to make me unhappy.

In the morning of August 11th, 2024, I finished reading a book called Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language, and I figured out something utterly important about how I view the world. I do not ”vibe” with hierarchical monotheism. I don't like gods that sit on thrones and oversee everything. I want chaos.

Chaos has always seemed to me like the source of strength, of eureka moments, of epiphanies. Whenever I stumble upon something I know nothing about, such as medicinal mushrooms a while ago, I don't get frustrated or sad because I don't know. I get excited. I get giddy. I get happy. So many things to learn! You know the moment you get something? When your synapses feel like they're buzzing with the energy of forming new connections? That's it. That's what I love.

In the evening of August 11th, 2024, YouTube's algorithm suggested to me videos about chaos magick after I'd watched Dr. Angela Puca's new video about chaos magick.

After watching a few, my synapses were buzzing. Not because they were forming new connections, but because the pre-existing connections felt like they were saying yes, this is it, this is why we're here.

I don't believe in guidance nor do I believe I was led to chaos by anything supernatural. I believe my affinity of chaos is just a natural part of me. And this is when the time was right for me to realise this.

And me, having spent a huge chunk of my life on the witchblr side of Tumblr years ago (if you remember the url thetaigawitch or the-taiga-witch, that was me), my next course of action was to start a new Tumblr to record myself diving into chaos.

[neotechnomagick]

The Synthesist:

Circuit's breath weaves life,

Data dances, sparks unite,

Synthesist crafts light.

Silent codes entwine,

Whispers bridge the void between,

Connected and sublime.

#neotechnomagick #magick #technopagan #techgnosis #chaosmagick #discord #modernmagick #aiart #aimagick #technomancy #connection #synthesis #network #divine #archetypes

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[trashclownart]

Newly finished! Prints will be in shop soon. “Loki Bound” Pen and Ink.

[xhashaseed]

shhhh ... im trying to talk to dead people

[el-abracadabrante-lobo-gris]

Intent sigils galore.

[lycarael]

Witchy LPT

The common denominator across all religions and spiritual practices is "faith"/belief. Tools and rituals are only a means to reinforce belief. You can use whatever you want AS whatever you want. Eventually, that becomes the ability to manifest with only your mind. No, I'm not just parroting Mat Auryn's grimoire Psychic Witch. I figured this out years before the book was released.

[yermes]

Magician in paradise

Some books that helped with my thinking as a developing chaote and magician

[manicfoxmagick]

Chaote Tips #3

Get creative with your spell work and look towards the items you have laying around the house for inspiration. I once did a very successful working for luck by writing a letter of intent and mailing it to myself, the idea being it would activate when I opened it. Chaos magick has a strong emphasis on a DIY approach, and you can turn common household items into workings with just a little imagination. A few weeks ago I used an old pill bottle as the container for a spell jar.

On the other hand, don’t be so quick to dismiss traditional methods either as they can be just as powerful.

At the end of the day, what makes a spell powerful is how much you vibe and connect with it. If you hate the process, well you’re probably not going to see the success.

Develop you own correspondences. It’s useful to have tables and charts with the traditional values of herbs, crystals, colors, or whatever, and that can serve as an excellent starting point. However, those associations were once assigned to that specific item by another practitioner who was also just going off their intuition. These associations have power because we give it to them through belief. In the end, your personal beliefs are going to be the most powerful for you since they’re the ones you vibe with on the deepest level.

Become proficient in a divination practice, any at all, doesn’t matter. This is like one of the biggest tips I’ve got because learning how to divine answers and receive insights on all manner of circumstances is majorly beneficial. Plus, I always recommend doing a reading before you do any spell work, to get an idea if you actually should or not, as well as after to get an idea on how well it went. I prefer tarot personally, along with other cartomancy methods like oracle cards, because they’re so rich with information you can gain so much detail. The pendulum is okay, I guess, but unless you have a pendulum board with the alphabet and other things like that, you’re restricted to yes/no questions, which is severely limiting. Runes are better, but they’re difficult to learn and there’s a lot of UPG being passed off as tradition within the practice. Geomancy is something I just gave a shot, and it’s a lot of fun, and it’s very insightful. Play around with a bunch of different types and see which one you vibe with the most.

[maddiviner]

Today, I’ll be interviewing Taylor Ellwood! A well-known magical iconoclast, Ellwood (known here as @teriel) authored several books on pop culture magic. He’s also written many more on other postmodern magical topics. You can visit his website here. I recommend his recent revised book, Pop Culture Magic 2.0 to any magical practitioner who might want to integrate their love of stories and popular culture into their magical practice.

E: In the past few years, I’ve seen many magical practitioners criticizing the role of consumerism in the occult and culture at large. Given that popular culture sometimes has to take cues from what’s profitable, what do you think about the role consumerism plays, for better or worse?

T: I think consumerism is an inevitable reality of culture. It’s something that has been part of human history from at least the beginning of recorded history. It has evolved and is continuing to evolve (cryptocurrency seems to be the next evolution) but it isn’t going away. Pop culture will always be influenced by consumerism because what people buy, watch, etc., is what keeps a given pop culture in circulation. My perspective is to accept the reality of consumerism but also focus on what I genuinely like and enjoy, both in terms of magical work and in terms of creating art, writing etc. If you want to work with a given pop culture embrace the reality that consumerism does play a role in that pop culture…what makes something popular is dictated by what people are willing to spend and invest money on, to some degree.

E: In Pop Culture Magic 2.0, you talk about the practice of “experience taking” in work with pop culture characters. You describe how this can work as a kind of mediumship. You, of course, give safety advice in your books about not allowing the character’s spirit (so to speak) to pervade your entire life. That is usually the major criticism or fear people have about this kind of experiment. Is this a risky practice compared to other forms of spiritwork?

T: It’s no riskier than any other type of spirit work technique or practice. It’s using the same methodology and practices. When you invoke a traditional spirit you are also experience taking. Experience taking provides another frame of reference for working with spirits that may make it easier to connect with spirits because it provides a modern context for the connection, and in particular with pop culture characters it provides a frame of reference around the experiences that are relevant to the pop culture. The reason I included experience taking in Pop culture Magic 2.0 is because it provided a great example of how we unknowingly end up invoking pop culture spirits in us when we are into the pop culture that we’re enjoying. We do this with other people as well. We take on the traits and activities because we mirror what we’re observing. What magic allows us to do is do it on a conscious level and that may provide more control of the experience taking as a result.

E: I’ve heard some pop culture mages suggest that fictional characters might be real in their own right, albeit not in our universe. Usually, this relates to the “many worlds'' hypothesis. That perspective contrasts with the idea that we’re creating our characters as thoughtforms, using our own will and creativity. As someone with a lot of pop culture magic experience, what’s your perspective on this - created, discovered, a secret third thing…?

T: I’ve taken the perspective that fictional characters can be real in their own right and that what authors and other creators have done is channeled that pop culture. I don’t see it as being any less viable than other spirits being real. What makes a spirit real isn’t a question of tradition or age, but rather a question of whether we have encountered something we can’t conventionally explain or understand that may have an objective existence. Pop culture spirits could fit that and so I’ve always taken that stance.

E: In recent years, the term “reality shifting” gets thrown around a lot on TikTok and other sites. People claiming to practice this say that they’re able to “shift” into alternate (often fictional) universes. For example, they might “shift” to Middle Earth or the Marvel Universe, only to return bodily to ours. Initially I thought this was just the younger generation’s phrase for astral projection, but it seems to involve more intense, complicated claims. What’s your take on this? Is it all daydreams? Is it something else?

T: My take on this is that it’s a combination of day dreaming and wish fulfillment. This isn’t to say they aren’t connecting with an alternate universe or having meaningful experiences. In fact, we could see this as an extension of experience taking, where they are taking on the experiences of an alternate universe. In the end the real question does it serve their spiritual work and life in a meaningful way.

E: In Pop Culture Magic 2.0, you talk about setting boundaries when channeling pop culture entities. Do you have any thoughts on those who, for whatever reason, identify wholly with a character? Sometimes the term fictionkin gets used. They say that they don’t choose such identities, but rather “awaken” to them, and often believe they were a version of the character in a past life.

T: My thought on this is that it's an escape fantasy of sorts, like a method actor overly identifying with the character. You can take on too much of something, but does that mean you’re really that identity or are you trying to escape the identity you occupy in your regular life? People may not want to answer that question, but its worth asking and answering, especially in terms of developing a grounded practice that supports your life as opposed to helping you escape from your life. Pop culture magic and spirits ought to empower us, not become an escape fantasy.

E: Pop culture magical systems remain somewhat controversial , even within the magical community. You (alongside Felix Warren’s addition) address many common criticisms of the concept in your book. Do you think the occult community will become more accepting of this form of magical practice? Why or why not? What do you think the future holds for pop culture magic?

T: When I wrote Pop Culture Magick there was a lot less acceptance. Two decades later there is a lot more acceptance. I think as time goes on the occult community will become more accepting or quieter in the disagreement that is expressed. I also think as more people practice pop culture magic and develop systems of their own this will help with the overall acceptance and it’ll become a more mainstreamed version of magic that some people practice.

E: This is perhaps a bit tangential, but I think it’d be interesting to talk about. With things like those infamous algorithms and advanced artificial intelligences becoming more commonplace, do you think high technology will change magic?

T: I already think technology has changed magic. We see more technomancy occurring already. There’s some interesting work already available about AI and magic, so as with anything else the evolution of technology will also change how some people practice and think about and explore magic. It won’t replace what’s already there, but it will add its own cultural stream to the current of magic and provide different and novel ways to explore magic. It’s not an area of magic I’m all that interested in, but there are plenty of people already working on combining technology and magic.

E: You’ve worked with many pop culture paradigms over the years. I’ve worked quite a fair share of them myself. Some were easy for me, some were hard. Do you believe that certain narratives are more conducive to magic, or is it merely a matter of personal resonance?

T: I do think certain narratives are more conducive than other narratives. For example, if you have a system of magic in place within a narrative or something to the equivalent effect, this does make it easier to develop a pop culture system or a one off working. If that’s not present, I think its harder to develop a real fit that can be worked with. That’s just my opinion based on what I’ve tried and what I’ve observed.

E: I’m asking everyone this. How did the pandemic change your personal perspective and practice?

T: The pandemic turned everything upside down in my life. I’ve gone through a lot of life changes including a divorce and moving to a new city. Those life changes have spilled over to my magical life. My magical practice is currently focused around exploring sacred masculinity, both in terms of mythology and sacred sexuality, as well as focused around embodied and somatic practices for internal work and inner alchemy. I’m also continuing to develop an approach to magic that is an alternate to the will based approach espoused in the overall occult community. The pandemic really made me question the paradigms of power and focused me on continuing to develop more collaborative and cooperative relationships.

This is all pretty interesting stuff! I’d like to thank Mr. Ellwood for this interview and food for thought!

[wizardsaur]

I've noticed something odd about the Chaos Magic/k tags....

Ya'll, Chaos Magick is an entirely different sect of magickal practice, complex as hell & very little to do with Witchcraft in it's own sense.

It isn't "Fuck around & find out" witchery, nor is it "If it works, it works". Both are very valid things, but neither are Chaos Magick.

If you wanna lose your marbles for a while & deep dive into the weeds for a few months into Chaos, I do recommend it. It helped me understand my practice better. But it isn't the same thing.

[infiniteshift108]

Okay so this didn't go as well as I hoped. Tried to do a portrait of a friend and associate.

Looks like I am not quite ready for that yet.

First night I got the basic outline and planned to improve it on night two, since the first version was cigarette-ad-cowboy rather than chaote.

Ended up making it worse and the fact I don't have the right erasers for this to be fixed.

Slightly disappointed because I had hoped surprise a friend... but not too upset because I have been relearning for less than two weeks, so it is pretty good for where my skills are at right now. Also proudAF I didn't let my two days off from practice turn into me giving up on trying to establish this habit!

Going to try to work on something different tomorrow, and possibly revisit drawing my pal afresh after I have bought kneaded erasers, and put more work into exercises to improve my portrait skills

[nothingspecifc]

Some of these ideas could be used in real chaos magick.

Urban Fantasy : Punk Magic

Graffiti sigils and runes on walls and sidewalks

BattleVests/Jackets embroidered with runes, and magic. Patches with sigils,, spikes and studs each charmed with protection. Or for diety work, patches that represent chosen god/goddess

Alternative foci : drummer sticks, chains, knives, jewelry, baseball bats, etc...

Battle vests for familiars, cats but also rats, snakes, lizards, crows, pidgens, etc...

Train Cars that act like Harry Potters Floo Network (now stay with me here) but train cars that are covered in graffiti that essentially act as portals to difrent parts of the country or world. You jump into a moving train car with a destination in mind, and then jump out again. And when you jump out, you will then be jumping out of another train car that's closest to your desired destination. Granted the train cars need to be moving, need to be covered in graffiti for the magic to work, and you can't be caught by the railway cops

Magic in the music, certain spells or rituals that would otherwise need a long chant to be memorized that are simply saved in song on your Playlist

Feel free to add more to this concept, I know I plan to as ideas come along