#Ivy the Occultist

[maeviuslynn]

Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley ft. Richard Kaczynski, PhD

"This video discusses "Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley" by Richard Kaczynski, PhD. A writer, lecturer on social psychology and metaphysics, and now crowned Crowley's official biographer, Richard gives insights into the mind of this influential and controversial occultist.

Richard is also the author of Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis, The Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley, Perdurabo Outtakes, and Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City, as well as co-editor with Hymenaeus Beta of The Revival of Magick and Other Essays."

[cavorta]

May 12, 2024 Magical activism Ivy the Occultist writes: "Calling all occultists, witches, spiritualists, or anyone who is in tune with the spiritual power they carry... THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION! Use the sigil provided in this video in whatever magical working (or spell, or ritual) you are doing to provide safety and comfort to innocent lives trapped in Gaza."

(Btw, I am not going to discuss the politics of this conflict here, this spellwork is about innocent lives who are in mortal danger.)

[hompunkulus]

Information magic is about quick results. In this video the Witch of Wanderlust talks about using dryer lint for quick spells.

With that, I decided lint will be associated with my cyber magic. Lintcense!

Fun fact: I asked the Monster Fucker question. You're welcome. I still need to read the book Olivia suggested.

[schrodingersdragon]

K so I recently came across YouTuber Ivy the Occultist and I cannot explain to you HOW FREAKING HAPPY THIS WOMAN MAKES ME OMFG. like ok first off the obvious that she covers like a shit ton of topics in a really scholarly yet condensed and comprehensive way but the thing that almost brought me to tears was what can be found in her bio- she’s HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL, and an undergrad student in BIOSCIENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY. so obviously my little aspiring biopsychology heart exploded in solidarity, but also. Like. Guys. So many people think magic practitioners are absolutely off their rocker- nay- that we have never laid eyes let alone ass on a rocker in our lives. That we’re absolutely insane and have no concept of how the mind or body works- meanwhile we’re out here getting our degrees in both of those fields. We DO know what we’re taking abt. We DO know what we’re doing, and yes, it is real.

[thecupidwitch]

Hi ! I hope you're feeling well and taking care 🫶🏻💜! I wanted to ask, do you have any tips/suggestions for beginner eclectic witch's? I want to get into witchcraft, but there's so much in the practice, it gets overwhelming for me (I have ADHD). Any tips/suggestions? I'd really appreciate it 💜🫂? Blessed be <3

Hello🙂

You don't need to learn everything in one sitting, witchcraft takes time to learn and even the most advanced practitioner still don't know everything. What you need to do is learn about all the basics of magick. This includes:

What magick is and how it works

Tools

Correspondences of herbs, colors, oils, days and moon phases

Divination

Visualisation

Meditation

Energy work

Grounding and centring

Shadow work

Protecting and cleansing yourself (you need to learn how to protect and cleanse before you do any other spell)

Also trust your inttuition above everything else. Always.

books recommendations

The Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews by Scott Cunningham

The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells by Judika Illes

Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham

The Sorcerer's Secrets by Jason Miller

The Green Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

The Art of Mysticism by Gabriyell Sarom ( step by step guide on how to do meditation, breathing exercises, mindfulness and becoming attuned to energy)

Encyclopedia of Witchcraft by Judika Illes

Sigil Magic for Writers, Artists and Other Creatives by T. Thorn Coyle

Some youtubers:

Ivy The Occultist

Mystic At The Crossroads

The Witch Of Wonderlust

Temperance Alden

Willow Grace Astrology (if you are into astrology give her a listen)

Sorry i don't have any tips to help you learn with adhd but if anyone have any advice to give please to anon please do :)

[snapdragonsandwhiptails]

Could you give a list of resources (books, websites, accounts, etc.) for witchcraft? I'd like to do research, but I'm not sure where to find information

Yes!

For books here’s the top of my list:

Elements of spellcasting - Jason Miller

Protection and reversal magick - Jason miller

Financial sorcery - Jason miller

Spells for change - Frankie Castanea

Sacred Gender - Skye Alexander (amazing look on queering your craft. As a trans person I found some resonant pieces of writing in here)

SigilCraft - Lia Taylor

YouTube channels:

Witch of Wanderlust

ChaoticWitchAunt

Ivy The Occultist

Esoterica (specifically for history and information on neo-christian high magick as it relates to alchemy and demonology/angelology. Think 1300’s Cornelius Agrippa) ��

Fellow witchblr accounts:

@ad-caelestia

@windvexer

@buriedpentacles

@creature-wizard

I’m definitely forgetting like 10 thousand accounts but this is just a quick list!!

[windsweptinred]

I've moved this here @bobbole because we HAVE to expand on this! I HAVE THOUGHTS!!

Snapping on my shipping goggles. 'If' The Dreaming comics have to be canon then this for me is THE Corinthiel moment. This is when they realise it's love and they're the one. The fact the Corinthian is abscent from the Dreaming when everything goes down is so relevant. They're still both relatively young here, at a point where establishing their individual identities, separate from their predecessors must have been the most challenging. And the very moment the Corinthian is gone, (The only being who can really empathise with and aid Daniel in this plight). Daniel's memories of Dream overwhelm him and he immediately reverts to following in his predecessors behavior patterns. He's desperate for love and goes looking for it in all the wrong places. When it's RiGHT THERE waiting for him. It's such a Morpheus thing to do it pains me. I know the comic implies there's a measure of sorcerery in Daniel pursuit of Ivy Walker. But even so, I'm going to fanatically stand my ground that if Cori hadn't been off on a side quest at this formative point of Daniel's reign, none of this would have happened. The moment The Corinthian is gone Daniel looses his grip on HIMSELF.

......

So the moment the Corinthian returns and finds out what's gone down is a pivotal point in Cori 2.0s development for me. He's presented with a very similar senario to the one his predecessor once faced... Dream 'imprisoned' by occultists and the taste of freedom. And instead of bemoaning missed opportunities, he goes apoplectic. His fury is a declaration of absolute loyalty in itself. And his incensed rage at the thought of loosing Daniel, of someone touching what is HIS, a revelation of love. And here's the thing, even at this youthful stage as Dream, there's no way the Corinthian could hurt Daniel without Daniel allowing it. But he does. He allows Cori to shash that cursed mark from his skin. To vent all that fear, and rage and brand him anew. Mark him as his. This is Daniel's, he's the one, he's always been the one moment of realisation. It's the most fucked up version of 'I love you' 'I know' in the history of existence. And it's so unapologetically them.

[soulmuppet]

Gardens of Ynn, by way of SoulMuppet Publishing

Find a wall covered in ivy, vines, moss, or similar, and clear that vegetation away. Using chalk and charcoal draw a realistic door (with keyhole, hinges and doorknob) on the surface below. Write upon the door: “Ynn, by way of [the current location]”. Leave, so the drawing is no longer visible, and on return the drawing will be replaced by a real door.  When it is opened, the Gardens of Ynn will be on the other side: infinite, overgrown, extradimensional. This realm is full of magic and treasure, worthy of exploration and plunder by sellswords, occultists and adventures.  The doorway remains there for a full day, after which it fades away as if it never existed, leaving anybody still on the other side stranded.

After working with Emmy Allen (@cavegirlpoems) to remaster The Stygian Library in 2020, we’re teaming up with her again to remaster its sister book The Gardens of Ynn. This time working with the fantastic RiotBones on the interior art. We’ve got plans for a fancy clothbound cover for The Gardens of Ynn, as well as a matching reprint of The Stygian Library you’ll be able to pick up on the project.

The Book

The Gardens of Ynn is a point-crawl adventure set in an ever-shifting extradimensional garden. Each expedition generates its route as it explores, resulting in new vistas being unlocked with every visit.

The adventure is perfect as a zero prep session for any party of fantasy adventurers, no matter the system or the sub-genre.  We found most ‘zero-prep’ adventures to be bland and lacking in colour, so in Gardens of Ynn every room, encounter and monster is popping with vibes. It's a big garden full of whimsy and delight and surreal perils. 

Gardens of Ynn is statted generically for Old School Systems, but you would have absolutely no trouble using it in a game of 5E, if you were comfortable statting up some weird monsters. 

Included within: 

Systems for generating locations within the garden, including hothouses, memorial gardens, chess lawns, the Mask Gallery, hypnotic gardens, fleshy gardens and of course the Splicing Vats.

50 monsters tailored to the Gardens, including myconid composters, rose-maidens, rust-bumblebees, floral spiders, bonsai turtles and the enigatic Sidhe.

Details for The Idea Of Thorns and other dream-viruses.

Tables for generating treasure, Ynnian mutations, and various other useful details.

A unique class of Ynnian Changelings, human survivors adapted to the garden. 

[cursecuelebre]

I know I promised a blog about permission and connecting to Nature which is still coming out just still working on it but I do want to put a little poll up to see what we have in common. This time is what Witch content creators we watch, on YouTube, tiktok, instagram, podcasts this is my personal list of people I watch and follow on a regular basis. Feel free to say if you follow more than one!

[aureliaeiter]

Building my inner temple on The Sims 4:

A while ago I watched a video made by Ivy The Occultist in which she talked about the concept of mind palaces / inner temples which basically is a metaphysical space to do spiritual work and connect with your deities.

My issue is that when it comes to the scale of the ability to visualise, I'm kind of in the middle. I can visualise but I need to have some sort of reference, I can't just make up in my mind something that I've never seen physically. So in order to be able to visualise my mind palace, I've decided to build it in the Sims 4.

I'm dedicating different spaces for different deities + a room for my inner child that I won't show here.

Each room has a seat where I can meet the deity and some sort of fireplace for offerings.

Apollo:

For Apollo I decided to build this sunny art workshop. It has some musical instruments, as well as poetry books and bunch of notebooks to write ideas for songs. There's a lot of sun and gold motifs. There are some sunflowers and hyacinths, and that green plant I'm gonna pretend it's laurel. There's also a potted palmtree (as a way of honouring Apollo's birth)

After I took this screenshot I also added a small lab to create medicine (I'm not gonna use that but I figured he might like it). I also added a tea set both for drinking and for divination. As you can see the windows are very big and there's a lot of natural light. At some point I will also add a porch for beekeeping.

Venus:

For Venus I created this suite-like room that has both a bedroom and a bathroom. It has a ton of mirrors, red and pink flowers and water elements. It also has reference to her swan and ocean correspondences.

It's a place where I'm meant to cultivate self love but also romantic love (that's why I put those romance books over the chimney, since that's a genre I've always struggled reading).

Diana:

When it comes to Diana I thought it would be better to do something for her outdoors, so I created this garden. The first thing you see when you enter is a pond which is supposed to be reminiscent of Lake Nemi. On the left there's a throne where she can sit which is surrounded by cypresses, which are Diana's sacred trees. You can't see it in the screenshot but under the cypresses there's also beds and toys for dogs as I've set this building lot to be a place stray dogs can go to.

On the right there's a palm tree, just like in Apollo's workshop. There's a bunch of wild flowers and bushes to represent the wildlife but there's also some pots where I can plant my intentions.

[magickkate]

Hey friends! Here are a few ways to embrace the magic of Crystal Magic:

🔮 Choose Your Crystals: Select crystals that resonate with your intention and desired outcome. Each crystal has its own unique properties and energies, so choose ones that align with your goals.

🌟 Cleanse and Charge Your Crystals: Purify your crystals by rinsing them under running water, smoke cleansing, or placing them in sunlight or moonlight. Then, charge them with your intention by holding them in your hands and visualizing them being filled with light and energy.

📿 Work with Crystal Grids: Create intricate patterns or grids with your crystals to amplify their energies and manifest your intentions. Place them in geometric formations and activate them with your intention and focus.

💎 Wear or Carry Crystals: Wear crystals as jewelry or carry them in your pocket or purse to benefit from their energy throughout the day. Choose crystals that correspond to your goals and intentions to keep their energy close to you at all times.

🕯️ Incorporate Crystals into Rituals: Use crystals as focal points in your rituals and ceremonies, placing them on your altar or holding them in your hands as you work with their energy. You can also place them around your space to create a sacred and protected environment.

There are many good resources of information for crystals. Here are some of my favorites:

Books:

“Crystals for Beginners: The Guide to Get Started with the Healing Power of Crystals” by Karen Frazier. This book covers crystal basics, including how to choose, cleanse, program, and use them for different purposes.

“The Crystal Bible” by Judy Hall. A comprehensive reference guide that provides information on various crystals and their properties.

"Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic" by Scott Cunningham. This guide to elemental Earth magic helps you harness the power of over 100 gems and metals for divinations, spells, tarot readings, and more!

YouTube Channels:

HearthWitch

TheWitchOfWonderlust

Ivy the Occultist

Feel free to leave your favorite books, blogs, videos, podcasts, etc. below!

Whether you're a crystal collector, a healer, or simply someone who loves the beauty of gemstones, crystal magic offers a profound and transformative way to connect with the Earth's treasures and harness their magical energies. So dive into the world of crystals, explore their mysteries, and let their magic guide you on your journey! 🔮🌿

[cavorta]

January 24, 2024 Interesting video (ca. 23 minutes) with good explanations: "The ONE Thing Every Occultist Needs To Master: Altered States of Consciousness" by Ivy the Occultist.

[truffzetruffle]

I'll just watching Owens new pirates episode about how he got kidnapped, and like, seeing as it was over a month ago the whole saving and revenge stuff started I was curious.

Why didn't the occultits take Apo and Acho? They clearly had the power to take multiple people at once. Did they not have room on the ship? Then why not take them when they were at the island. Speaking of the island, why did they lead them there? Did they want then to free the pirates? Why did they petrify Marnie when they had Owen for longer? Why did they only petrify Marnie? When and why did they take Hook? What gain would killing Hook have for them?

Do they want to find Sandro? Is Ivy just another tool they are using to find him? Are the Pirates accidently aiding the end of their time?

but most importantly,

What the hell is the even about Saturday? "Final Wishes"? Is it going to be about Marnie and Hook? About their final wants before dying? Would Guqqie and Aimsey also count, tho? Surely Guqqie would, at least! Like, Aismey wasn't just left after their death, and Guqqie's death has more of a meaning now after finding out what the occultists do!

[musings-on-wisteria]

Watched Ivy the Occultist’s recent video about the occult not being safe, and I definitely don’t agree with everything she says or does but I do think she had some strong points in that video. (If you’re wondering why I don’t generally like her, the fact that she offhand mentions “Lilith” will basically sum up my qualms)

I guess I would nitpick the idea that the occult/witchcraft isn’t safe by default, because it *can* be fairly safe- i think things like various polytheistic religions and folk paths that end up in the community fall into this category- just because they weren’t exactly made to be occult. They were (and are) just religions and traditions that got shoved into the “alternative” box. Saying that Hellenic polytheism, for example, isn’t meant to be “safe” is a mischaracterization, in my view. Laypeople participated in these traditions in ancient times, and one still can without it being at all scary or risky.

I actually think there’s a spectrum of depth. You can be a christian who goes to church and believes and is in every way practicing that religion, but you can also study the occult sides of the religion, get into chanting latin and gnosticism and whatnot. (Don’t come for me I don’t know what I’m talking about)

The same is true of like, basically every religion, including those that overlap/fall into the pagan label. If you want to go deep and find the mysticism, you probably can.

Ivy has the idea that witchcraft needs to be a little dangerous to be truly transformative, and I definitely agree with her there. I think something that’s been huge in my practice lately is recognizing that the feeling of “whoa- am I sure about this?” is a sign that I’ve found something that feels real to me.

I think feeling just a little bit scared, like you’re taking a bit of a risk, can be a good indicator that you’ve found the “good stuff.” Because power should feel a little scary. It’s like learning to drive a car on the highway- it shouldn’t feel like you’re spiraling out of control, but if you feel perfectly comfortable, you might not be doing something all that big (unless you’ve grown accustomed to it already).

Of course, in the “mundane” world, we can tell when we’re given power or if we’re on the highway. But in the mystical one, it’s not always as easy to tell how much power you’re wielding. Little clues like that instinctual nervousness can clue you in to the magnitude of what you’re working with.

Because if I sign a contract with a spirit and I feel nothing, I just made a nice gesture. But if signing that contract in blood makes me a little nervous, then I know all of me is on board. All of me believes that what I’m doing is powerful and binding. And some of me is even scared of that.

[apilgrimpassingby]

Some of you may remember me making a post a while back about "urban dark Abrahamicana". Well, now I've gone and made a setting for that aesthetic.

This will be a long post. Tagging @idylls-of-the-divine-romance because I think you'll like it.

The City of Bevel-on-the-Water

(Sorry for the poor quality of the image; that's the lighting in my room. Try turning up the brightness of your screen to make it clearer).

History

Bevel-on-the-Water was founded in the 13th century in northern Lincolnshire atop Bevel Carr, an alder carr that is now reduced to a few fragments. The town remained a minor settlement for several centuries, before expanding in the late 18th century with the Industrial Revolution, with the several rivers passing through it and its location between the coalfields of Yorkshire and the economic centres of the southeast making it a valuable transport artery, and continued to grow and prosper thanks to adopting rail technology.

The town has been less fortunate in the 20th and 21st centuries. In the Second World War, it was a target for German bombing raids, and much of it had to be rebuilt. Combined with the closure of coal mines and privatisation of railways in the 1980s, and the city spent the last quarter of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st as a shell of its former self.

However, from the 2010s onwards it has been improving economically; the rock-bottom rents and proximity to important locations make it a popular place for young graduates and immigrants; in particular, the area is a popular "staging post" for Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants, who spend a few years working here before accumulating enough money and experience to move somewhere more upmarket.

And most are very eager. The history above can be found in history books; the history that the people of the East Midlands and Yorkshire would recognise it for is not found in those, but in folklore collections, internet forums and, above all, stories on the streets. Some of it will be related below.

Areas of the Town

Bevel-on-the-Water Halting Site

The trailer park located on the south bank of the town, filled with caravans and campervans atop litter-strewn stretches of tarmac and sickly grass housing not just the city's unusually large Romani population and various other poor people but stranger things as well; caravans home to itinerant occultists, tents home to demoniacs, shadows dancing in the night. The aforementioned Romani are well-established here, and hence are unusually well-liked and prosperous.

City Centre

The old medieval centre - albeit now mostly consisting of neo-Gothic architecture with substantial Brutalist additions - of the town, containing both the Town Hall and Bevel University, a university founded in the 1920s and shuttered in 1994, with much still inside it, including a great many ancient and esoteric texts rotting inside its crumbling Neo-Gothic library.

Eastwalk

Eastwalk is a small suburb on the east bank of the city, near the edges. While as impoverished and decrepit as the rest of the city, it is notable for having an active Anglican community (based around the city cathedral, St. Michael's Cathedral) and almost none of the macabre legends attached to the rest of the city. Other Christians, most notably Methodists from a major campaign conducted here in the 19th century, are also here.

Greensford

A large and particularly declining neighbourhood, located in the southwest of the city. The decay affecting almost everywhere here is particularly acute in this neighbourhood - ivy smothers abandoned buildings, dandelions and brambles carpet streets, and half-feral children spend their days playing in the adjoining woods and swapping stories of sorcery, ritual murder and even cannibalism - many of them true.

Ironfields

The centre of economic activity during the city's industrial heyday (and still containing its train station), and an exemplar of its decline today. Everywhere one turns are crumbling houses, shuttered factories and graffiti. Only people who bother (or dare) to spend time there see what lurks beneath; the saints and crucifixes adorning the hearths and doorposts of inhabitants, the se'irim dancing inside the factories and seen only out of the corner of the eye, the graffiti proclaiming "Satan lives" and "Jesus Christ conquers" in equal number.

Johnstow

The smallest of the neighbourhoods of the city, located south of Eastwalk. The main characteristic of this neighbourhood is the great number of junk shops and second-hand bookshops, which become noticeable, like everything else, upon closer inspection - the bookshelves contain The Hypostasis of the Archons and the Nisibene Hymns, the shops sell icons and censers and the like. The most notable one, Johnstow Books, has a mysterious proprietor - John Egapus, an extremely ancient Near Eastern man who seems to have been doing his job as long as anyone can remember.

Mortlake Heath

Mortlake Heath is the richest neighbourhood of the city, with an abundance of genteel 18th century houses and statues in the street and a shortage of children due to most of them going to private school; however, almost all of them eventually return to Bevel-on-the-Water or vanish. Again, a little look behind closed doors is a walk into darkness - candle-lit rituals in basements and attics, occult books hidden under the covers behind mundane ones, pentagrams and sigils drawn on the walls of rooms that the inhabitants think visitors won't go into.

Northgate

Northgate displays openly what the rest of the city thinly veils. Hardly a street lacks a portrait of Baphomet or an inverted pentagram, and everyone here has seen a ritual with inverted crucifixes and people dressed in black. Bloodstains are also not hard to see, and everyone dreads going into this district of the city - few people in Lincolnshire or South Yorkshire have not heard stories of occult murder or demon-summoning associated with here.

Oldstreet

West of Eastwalk, Oldstreet is another strong representative of the city's decline. A 19th-century suburb that never recovered from Second World War bombing, every turn here shows a burnt-out building or a rotted house, and the few people still living here are old and haunted. The most famous site of destruction here, St. Paul's Chapel, is a burnt-out church with the floor carpeted in thorns and a single crucifix shining amidst the rubble.

Southgrove

Southgrove, to a passer-by, looks like a pristine town - all hedgerows and suburban housing and smiling families. The town keeps its secrets well, but not infallibly - all those who research find that self-harm, domestic abuse and alcoholism run rampant here. Deeper research finds yet more things; sigils drawn in the margins of books, rites conducted in the school basement, books of magic in the library.

Stonewater

Stonewater represents the 20th century rebuilding project; a great mass of concrete towers and blocks where people live, perpetually bathed in mist and rain. This is where most people live, and is no less accursed than elsewhere, having its fair share of stories of Satanic sacrifices and sorcery, along with tales about mysterious strangers and visitations from Heaven.

Westcourt

Westcourt is where the city's immigrant community has always lived; Irish in the 19th century, Eastern Europeans today. As such, it has a large number of Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, as well as plenty of dark myths. Few people live here for long, with most moving from one of the many cheap flats to a more prosperous town as soon as possible.

Forests

Bevel Carr: The primal forest of the city, now reduced to three pateches in the north, east and west, with ravens croaking and warblers piping amidst waterlogged meadows of ferns and mead wort, mist rising up amidst the clusters of alder, willow and birch and the wind singing mournfully.

Bevel-on-the-Water Tree Plantation: The tree plantation is a large and gloomy forest of spruce, planted after the Second World War in the hope of providing jobs. The plan largely failed, but the expanse continues to carpet the western edge of the city, and provide the backdrop to dark myths; everyone has heard of the human sacrifices atop Hanger Hill on May Eve and Halloween, or the revenant who lurks in an abandoned maintenance shed, or the spirit of the elder oak remaining from the previous forest.

Johnstow Woods: Outside the town of Johnstow lies the woods that give it its name; a hollow filled with hawthorn and rowan, centred on the tomb (or stow, in Old English) of the 9th-century abbot who lived here inside St. John's Chapel, a small Anglo-Saxon church.

Demographics

Total Population: 264,900

Ethnic

White British: 74.2%

Bulgarian: 9.8%

Romanian: 6%

Black British: 4.2%

South Asian: 2.8%

Romani: 2.2%

Other: 0.8%

Religious

Non-Religious: 58.2%

Anglican: 11.8%

Orthodox: 10%

Methodist: 9.6%

Pentecostal: 5.4%

Roman Catholic: 2%

Islam: 2%

Hindu: 0.8%

Other: 0.2%