#bluefluke

[pandorasinfinity]

Hello! Saw in the tags the words chaos magick? I'm getting into Witchcraft again... after years of taking a break. Wanted to ask what books you would recommend as a baby witch? Do you tie Witchcraft with manifestation and shifting? There's so much I want to ask, oh my God.

Yes I do tie my practice into shifting! It's been altered a lot since I learned about shifting, but as I was raised by a Wiccan mother I still feel very connected to witchcraft. Except now I view a lot of it through a shifting lense. I don't feel the need to do spells as much as just manifest/shift to the desired result, you know? But a good sigil or ritual is still a fun little manifesting thing. I guess it's just all a lot less serious now in a way.

I don't really identify as a witch much anymore, which is why I usually stick with the chaos magick label, since the inclusion of a multiverse kinda threw off a lot of my beliefs. But I do still have an altar for a few Hellenic deities and I do still love that part of my life greatly. Witchcraft is my foundation from my mom so I don't think I could leave it

My main thing is tarot and channeling. I was channeling LONG before I found out about shifting and it has only gotten more focused now. Channeling myself from a few thousand years from now is my secret weapon lol. Besides that I have sigils on everything I own

I'm not sure what you would be interested in, but I will recommend some of my favorite books. Just keep in mind it's coming from a chaos magick perspective and not really Wiccan but I can also ask my mom if you are looking for something more on that side of things. Also that old white men will be sexist even when talking about magick so sometimes you just need to scratch out a line in a book and power through sadly

Manifesting/Shifting:

Parallel Universes of Self by Frederick Dodson (the best I have read so far) Reality Transurfing Steps I-V by Vadim Zeland (this one is from the POV of someone that wouldn't be likely to be into shifting and because of that he is good for skeptics because he WANTS you to be skeptic)

Chaos Magick Intro:

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine (good intro of everything)

Tarot:

Anything by Rachel Pollack especially Tarot Wisdom. If you get anything here this is the best. Rachel Pollack (RIP) was a queen of tarot

Anything Else:

The Psychonaut Field Manual by BlueFluke - available online and is an illustrated intro to a lot of different tings like servitors and astral projection. The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford - shadow work intro but kinda from a more Christian lens so avoid if that will be too much Magical Servitors by Damon Brand - creating servitors (basically personal entities that can manifest for you)

Feel free to ask any questions! Kinda just gave an intro to myself so its easier to figure out where I am coming from and what questions I might be able to answer! I am always willing to be a resource if I am able to!

[pauperism]

Been having trouble sleeping and I drew a card.

I interpreted this as a “at the very least you’ll be lying down”

i slept pretty well last night ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is the Atom Bomb Tarot deck by Bluefluke in Tabletop Simulator, I have an old post here on how to add it to the sim, linked in a reblog.

I just interpret whatever I see printed on the card, I don’t memorize their meanings. Did you know that today some rich dude is getting a crown placed on his head? :)

[little-laughing-alligator]

Day 5 Daily Reading Series

Atom Bomb Tarot (Thoth system) by bluefluke the creator of the Paychonaut Field Manual. Excellent material 10/10 recommend.

This digital reading was created with the Trinary Web App on the Chaos Tarot website, and I’ll include a link. By far the best online magickal tool and sigil generator imo also 10/10 recommend. And it’s free which is pretty difficult to find these days.

Today’s message indicates a need find a to make your work mesh better with the rest of your life. Things aren’t working right now in some fashion and changes need to be made. Mental health and/or financial issues are both likely contributing factors to your unhappiness at the moment. There’s a lot of possible answers as to how this change can be accomplished and they’re all highly personalized. However, as the 4 Noble Truths so aptly illustrate a formula exists, though it’s not guaranteed to be easy or comfortable and significant changes in perspective may be needed. Part of the formula revolves around how happy you are in your day to day lives with your chosen vocations. What your days look like defines your entire life, so if every day is stressed out and miserable you’ll wake up 10yrs later a very unhappy person. Quality of life is everything and far more important than having the biggest house or the most expensive car. As far as guarantees go we’ve only got this one life to work with, make happiness the main priority, don’t waste even one day.

[hillbillyoracle]

Chiming in with the Chaos Magic methods

Sigils are "charged" - usually though an ecstatic or meditative state - before they're forgotten. Whatever you put in before they're forgotten is all they're working on. The advantage for us chronically ill folks is that they're not going to continue to sap energy. They're quick and snappy.

Example: You create a sigil from a statement with the vowels erased method and focus on it as you meditate into a trance state or pleasure yourself. Once you've peaked in either, you ideally burn but alternatively flush the sigil and do what you can not to think about it.

There's also servitors which can work with energies that are larger than you either though a collective working together bring it into being or by tacking it on to existing concepts and using the act of devotion to bring them to a level they can effect change. The only energy you expend is in the design and it the devotion which can take any form that seems appropriate to the servitor's design.

Example: I always think about the user in an old forum who started giving supplications to the mascot of a delivery company to avoid lost packages and never lost another one after that. He conceptualized the servitor's design so that the attention the mascot got as it traveled on planes and trucks around the world would be it's power - because attention is needed to not misplace packages.

The chaos magic concept of local spirits are probably not the best for those with energy struggles with if you get into a more even keel period of your life, you can get them established and maintain them later which takes less energy. The Psychonaut Field Manual by Bluefluke has better instructions than I could outline here.

Hi, I hope you are doing well. I used to like creating sigils but I stopped when I started questioning where the energy of the sigil comes from. maybe it's stupid but I was worried all the energy of the sigil would be attached to me and would drain me in a way. I run on low energy most of the time, this is why it worried me. Would you mind sharing some methods to charge or activate a sigil ? In your experience is the sigil an egregore of it's own or is it always attached to the person who created it ?

Hey sorry for the long wait on the response!

I personally don't think a spell is always actively attached to you energetically unless you have purposefully made it do that.

As for how to charge sigils, there are a variety of things. You can do some focused energy work to put energy into it or you could use an outside source like I tend to do.

I usually charge a crystal in the sunlight or moonlight and then place the sigil under said crystal. I generally like the physical aspect of the crystal which is why I do it. One of my friends suggests using other natural phenomena such as rainbows and storms, another suggests the use of active energy (burning/ripping/etc) or passive energy (under a burning candle/in the sun/etc). Another suggests using offerings as you would for a spirit (food, drink, incense, candles, etc).

I also will do digitally drawn sigils and have them up on the screen as I charge my phone so that the electricity charges the sigil.

Thank you to my friends for helping with charging ideas!

@fernthewhimsical @sewceress @rose-colored-tarot @windvexer

[magick-johnson]

Exercise time !!

Taken from the incredible Psychonaut Field Manual by @bluefluke

[occult-resources]

The Psychonaut Filed Manual by Blue Fluke.

Bluefluke is an incredibly talented, artistic, and knowledgeable occultist/psychonaut. They have an entire guide up here on their deviantart. Learn the basics of psychonautics, beginning with basic visualization.

[nuibitha]

The Eight Circuits of Consciousness

[sandrock]

Hi there! I'm here to offer some resources that will help you better understand chaos magick and how it works. It'll give you more context on the ways servitors, egregores, and godforms function. And learning about other practices (especially if you consider yourself ecclectic) will also improve your own practice! :)

Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine is a good intro. Like a lot of the best resources we have available, it's a bit dated and should be understood within its historical context - can't remember if there's any misogynistic bullshit in CC specifically, but many older texts are like that. You can find it on esotericarchives.com - the site looks super old, but it's a fantastic archive of good, solid resources.

For something a bit quicker, Archtraitor Bluefluke's chaos magick primer The Psychonaut's Field Manual is a streamlined explanation of how chaos tech works in comic-form. Keep in mind it was written in 2015 and has a little early 2010s "edge", so I believe the r-slur shows up once or twice, but it's otherwise a very easy and accessible read.

The best thing about tech like this is that it's applicable to every form of magickal practice regardless of how you go about things. To make any progress with your spellwork, you'll need to be able to reach gnosis and Bluefluke's work is a fantastic guide on how to teach yourself without all the fluff of some other sources. It's my highest recommendation, here, please give it a try!

If you're interested in more modern resources, High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row by Danien Echols is a pretty great intro to the basics of high magick using similar tech. His work specifically helped me teach myself to meditate/visualize as, prior to reading Echols' work, I struggled to do so due to my ADHD.

Anyways, I hope this helps and happy reading! If you'd ever like to talk about your practice, hit me up. I can discuss my own familiar with you and how I went about making a pact directly with the spirit with no "diety" involvement at all.

Summoning Familiars

Before we begin, a disclaimer, familiars must be granted by spirits or deities. You cannot summon a familiar all on your own. The information I am providing is how to get into contact/start using a familiar, not create one. The only exceptions to this are if you join a coven or the likes and gain access to a group familiar, or if you inherit one from an active line of familial (by blood) witches. Your pet is typically NOT a familiar, unless the pet has been spiritually sent to you after you asked (ex. you ask a spirit and they say yes and suddenly the same stray cat comes by repeatedly and takes interest in your witchcraft work). Also when I say “takes interest” I mean sleeps on your altar, likes to be on or near you while you work, likes to watch your work, is overly vocal when you begin to work, or even picks up a bottle or ingredient and adds or takes it from your spell.

(image by https://twitter.com/SqueakyArt)

Typically Familiars will show themselves to you in one way or another, whether it be in dreams, visions coming from heavy meditations, or even in real life. But sometimes (say, if you have a cat and so you see cats and cat related things very often) it’s hard to tell if an animal is your familiar or if it’s something else like a sign from a deity or spirit guide or just coincidence. Therefore, a good way to know is by summoning your familiar in one way or another, and here I will give you a couple ways to do this.

Getting Spiritual Aid

You can also get help from spirits and deities to summon your familiar. DISCLAIMER 2; if you ask for a familiar, the spirit can say no and will not hesitate to do so if they don’t think you’re ready or it’s time or what have you. A familiar is a privilege to be granted by the spirit, not the other way around.

Mantras

Mantras are a very helpful way to find a familiar, and it’s fairly straight forward too. 

“Manifestum spiritus animalis”; this is a quite literal and direct way to call upon a familiar, as it is Latin for “Manifest animal spirit”. If repeated in a state of meditation involving the focus of your magickal energies, imagine the words and ideas behind the words forming a figure before you, and let it shape what it needs to. As much as you can help it, try your best not to be biased or else it may not work and you may not see the correct animal. From here you have a choice. you can manifest it into an astral body then stop it there, or you can manifest it into an astral body, then go further and manifest it into a physical body. The best way to do this is by repeating the mantra for ~10 minutes daily on an empty stomach. I would recommend doing it in the morning to achieve this. Don’t forget, you must have emotional engagement in the manifestation to get it to work.

You can also bind an animal of your choice as your familiar, given it has provided some kind of interest in your magick(consent/willingness) and the process has been approved/given by a spirit. This is done by this mantra: “You, will become my familiar, you are a strong, brave and smart (Type of animal, Cat, dog, bird ) Your name will be, (Name, not it’s actual name. Make a stage name, for the magical world, don’t call it by it’s magical name when humans can overhear.) Once called, (Animal’s Real name) now (Animal’s Magical name) in Magic(k) world. I summon you as my familiar.“ 

Visualization Spells

There is a bit of a technique to it, but there is a spell you can do that involves pouring your magickal energy into a process of manifestation. This is a ritual so it does involve ritualistic items like a ritual knife or other ceremonial item like a besom. The ritual goes like this:

Light a candle in a dark and quiet room

Use a magical wand or a dagger to draw an inverted pentagram in the air above the candle

Next, use the same ritual item to draw the shape of the animal spirit you wish to summon

Now, close your eyes and point the ritual item at the candle flame. Visualize the familiar manifesting in reality the candle flame as you pour your energy through the wand/dagger into the flame.

(ritual from https://occultist.net/how-to-summon-a-familiar/ )

https://occultist.net/how-to-summon-a-familiar/ 

https://www.spellsofmagic.com/spells/love_spells/friendship_spells/19352/page.html 

[ugly-duckling55]

[gladstones-corner]

A Personal Aside

I haven't been as active lately, mostly due to work. It's been slammed this week and I'm just now getting a breather between the end of the week and the start of the weekend, where we'll be traveling to visit some friends out of town.

I don't want to talk about work that much here, to be honest I'd rather detail some magical developments that I've been working on.

First and foremost, my wife gifted me a large-sized Thoth tarot deck for my birthday. She also gifted me The Crowley Tarot by Akron & Hanjo Banzhaf. It's a detailed book that covers each card from a variety of angles.

I've been studying both of these intensely and am experiencing what we'd call in Chaos Magick a paradigm shift. Specifically, I've been drawn to the writings of Crowley and his contemporaries--to the point where I am seriously considering integrating Thelemic beliefs and practices into my current path.

This is difficult and easy at the same time. You have to remember that Thelema is its own religion. It might have been heavily Graeco-Egyptian early on, but by the end of Crowley's life it was its own path altogether.

Large swaths of his work are applicable with little change: stillness, meditation, a regular magical practice that enflames you in prayer, and physical and mental wellness all prepare you to receive messages from the divine so that you can act in accordance with your True Will.

This is a somewhat common idea in Chaos Magick as well (see Bluefluke's Psychonaut Field Manual). It's also somewhat common in Greek mysticism (see Socrates' "Genius", "Daemon", or "Internal Oracle".

Unfortunately, large swaths of his work are also considered appropriative--particularly his inclusion of Qabbalah. This is mostly attributed to Crowley's familiarity with the Tanakh and the Christian New Testament from his childhood, then his extensive work within the Golden Dawn system.

But considering Thelema as a whole, how much of Crowley's work can be divested from Qabbalah and returned to full Graeco-Egyptian roots?

We can look to some of his early work, such as the differences in the Star Ruby ritual between Book of Lies and Magick in Theory and Practice, for illumination. Consider, too, that Crowley used Greek numerology extensively in addition to Hebrew. This means that books like Oracles of Apollo by John Opsopaus could lend us a great hand in restructuring the appropriative parts of Thelema.

However, the questions become this: how much study would you have to do of Qabbalah and Graeco-Egyptian mysticism to discover the correspondences between them? Furthermore, in that study, where does the line for appropriation come in? As scholars and practitioners of comparative religion, are we crossing boundaries for studying Crowley's work in its entirety, even if we are to replace certain practices?

I don't know. I'd like to say that no, we're not appropriating by studying Crowley's thoughts on Qabbalah, if we are going to understand how to fit the Graeco-Egyptian pieces back into the picture. After all, for the correspondences to work you must have an understanding of what you're replacing.

But I'm not the authority. It's not my place to say whether studying at all, for any reason, is appropriative. In fact, you could just as soon accuse me of erasure by studying Qabbalah with the express intent of replacing it. But that's not the intent at all. The intent is to prevent appropriation in my own practice.

This is where it's important to have a dialogue. I need your guys' input. Please refer me to sources or people who can answer these questions. Thank you in advance.

[bluefluke]

OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW57T6s7RAo Because enough people have asked me about my technique, I thought I’d throw this together. Yes, it’s a VERY slow way of doing things but the end results are fantastic. No wacom tablet. No layers. No illustrator. Just a mechanical pencil (with lots of eraser), a cheap bic pen and regular ol’ photoshop. :3

[pankurios-templeovarts]

Finally arrived - Chapter 4 of The Psychonaut Field Manual - free download of Chapters 1 to 4 done by Bluefluke.

What you get is a kind of mind-map/synopsis of a Chaos Magick approach on all different kinds of techniques of Magick, spiced with well done graphics and a good portion of humor. A modern grimoire of (Chaos) Magick - and a shortcut for everybody with a failing memory system like me ;) 

Spread the word fellas!

[little-laughing-alligator]

:::card for tonight: 6 of Swords Atom Bomb Tarot by Bluefluke This is a great card to go into the importance of intuitive meanings vs trad meanings. Trad meanings should never be discarded (imo) but rather the intuitive interpretations should be something that you add onto the read meanings (imo). Traditionally this is a card that tells us that it’s time to make serious changes in your life. A change of direction and purpose of being in order to rejuvenate your life and path and mind after going though traumas and barely having your head above water because of it all. Intuitive reading is adding your own spin onto that, born of having done many readings and noticing reoccurring patterns. One reason that journaling your progress for at least a year is so helpful to learning how to read tarot cards. In my case this card has taken on the meaning that magickal intervention to make changes in your life is advised. Other readers may or may not ascribe that extra meaning to how they read the 6 of Swords, either way is ok. In any case most readers develop their own additional intuitive interpretations of their own after time. OK! So, as to tonight there’s something, or many things, in your life that have gone wonky and utilizing magick to get on a better track. Tonight’s lunar influence may not be overly great for you to pull the trigger on that depending on your natal chart, that will be a case to case decision. However at the very least looking at your life with critical thought and deep contemplation tonight in regards to that topic would be majorly beneficial. #chaoswitch #chaosmagick #chaosmagix #divination #tarot #tarotmagick #tarotreadersofinsta #alchemy #thegreatwork #esoteric #occulture #atombombtarot #888 https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQ8KHNO3HT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[practice-is-praxis]

Recommended Magick Reading

"Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth" by Benebell Wen

"Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, and the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner" by Roger J. Horne

"The Art of Magick: The Mystery of Deep Magick & Divine Rituals", "The Art of Mysticism: Practical Guide to Mysticism & Spiritual Meditations", and "The Art of Occultism: The Secrets of High Occultism & Inner Exploration" by Gabriyell Sarom

"DMT: The Spirit Molecule" by Rick Strassman, M.D.

"Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft" and "Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols" by Laura Tempest Zakroff

"Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic" and "Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past & Telling True Lies" by Aidan Wachter

"High Magick: A Guide to Cannabis in Ritual and Mysticism" by Philip H. Farber

"Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection" by Antero Alli

"Financial Sorcery: Magical Strategies to Create Real and Lasting Wealth", "Protection & Reversal Magick", and "The Sorcerer's Secrets" by Jason Miller

"Touched by Fire", "Two Worlds & Inbetween", and "Walking Between the Worlds" by Phil Hine

"The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles" by Stephen Pressfield

"You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life" by Jen Sincero

"Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" by Malcolm Gladwell

"Healing your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help you Raise your Self-Esteem, Quiet your Inner Critic, and Overcome your Shame" by Beverly Engel

"Quantum Psychology" by Robert Anton Wilson

"The Essential Skills of Magick" by Benjamin Rowe

"The Psychonaut's Field Manual" by Bluefluke

"Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner’s Guide On How To Control Your Dreams With Different Techniques" by Austin Knight

"Creating the Person You Want to Be: NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming" by Tom Hoobyar, Tom Dotz, and Susan Sanders

"Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche" by Robert A. Johnson

[normal-horoscopes]

what is your opinion on the psychonaut field manual by arch-traitor bluefluke, if you have checked it out before

I like their art but I've never read it

[the-witchy-bitch]

About local culture in magick practice and why you feel like your magick doesn’t work

 I want to ask you two things:

1- Where are you from? Your culture, traditions, and such.

2- Were you raised into a religion or cult you didn’t identify yourself with?

3-Do you think your localization matters when practicing magick?

For me: I’m Brazilian, I’ve been raised in a Catholic and Umbandist family and for the third question, I think it depends a lot.

So, if you have a set of traditions and culture I will not really dive too much into this. But, keep in mind that the local egregore might influence your practice somehow, where I live everything is a mess but most people are raised as Christian or Catholic and may have it influencing their thoughts somehow. If it influences your guilt when making a spell because you unconsciously feel wrong about working with witchcraft and it's often not something seen as good in other people's eyes. Which unless you live alone might make you feel like hiding this part of yourself. 

It's easier to get to know your own local culture and egregore. Even if like me you're heavily influenced by Christian thinking and guilt, studying it and becoming neutral about it is the best way to open your mind to new influences. 

Most of the time I'd get angry at Christians, but not at their Gods or traditions in general. Remember it's the people who fuck it up and it will gradually become easier to be neutral about this influence. (Though, if you're a Christian magician power to you).

But what is an egregore? A collective group of thoughts might be created unintentionally or intentionally, it's an intelligent entity and if you’ve been raised into a family who loves Jesus, you’ll probably think likewise them or feel guilty and unsafe for not agreeing with them on the topic. 

For more read here.

Now the tricky question, about locations: If you already have a set of traditions and rituals in your culture this is not really for you, it probably doesn't matter much where you are because the collective group of thoughts and knowledge has been passed to you and probably in a way that your Ancestors wanted it to survive. 

That being said, if for example, I'm making a love spell with Sea energy, I will probably want to either have some seawater, salt or shells to represent the energy and symbols I want to manipulate. But you agree with me that if you transport your consciousness with meditation or actually going to the beach, setting up an altar, and making your thing there it will take your mind and energy into a place where you not only stop doubting about your magick but also try to contact a Deity to help you out (if experienced enough) and this is even better if you're a witch who's living with people who don't accept your practice.

Often people will feel like their magick is not working, this happens not just because your mind might be condicioned into thinking that witchcraft and magick is wrong but also because yourself (yes you) might be self-sabotaging by doubting or not believing enough of your own potential to manipulate energy. Which yeah consciousness is a bitch for that, and you might need to work with concentration, visualization and gnosis before trying again.

A good method for knowing wether or not your magick has been sucessful is to set a deadline for it to function. I usually set it to 3 months or 1 month. These things take time.Then take some attention to signs that maybe it didn’t work: Wanted a romance but your tinder acc got suspended or everyone there gives you a cold shoulder might mean you’ll need to try again, but don’t expect the universe to be always in your face with the signs.

                                                   Further reading: 

This article on magickal practices in urban cities, specifically in Brazil.

About Egregores in Chaos Magic.

The Field Manual for the Psychonaut illustrated by bluefluke

Even if you don’t wanna work with chaos magick, such as myself, the exercises in this Manual and the series Liber Null, Aba and K will help you develop a deep understanding on how magickal system works and help develop your mind for such.

Soon I’ll make some writings about meditation and gnosis to go deeper into that, Hope this text was helpful and always seek more than one source, I also do take criticism so if there’s anything wrong i’ve said here just @ me or send me a DM.