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Underworld work has also played a significant role in my spiritual work. When I first started practicing magic, almost 32 years ago, I was drawn to working with the elemental spirits, and part of the fascination of that work revolved around the breakdown and transition of one element into another. Later, as my practice became more nuanced and I became more experienced I started working with Saturnic spirits such as Euronymous. One of my early space/time magic rituals involved working with Euronymous to induce a state of near death by drawing on all the memories of being sick, or the previous near death experiences I had gone through.

I laid down in the corpse position and invoked Euronymous. I fasted for the next three days and continued invoking on the hour, each hour, and I ended up going into a trance state where I was taken down into the Earth and then instructed me in how to work with the underworld mysteries. At the time, I didn’t fully know that I had just begun my journey into underworld work, but I was powerfully struck by a sense of how that worked grounded me in my body, while also making me aware of the mortality of my life.

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I was recently asked why spells work for some magicians, but when other magicians do the same spell it doesn't work. I share some troubleshooting insights on why you might not be getting the same results.

Want to learn how to troubleshoot your magic? Click this link.

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As the days grow shorter and the nights grow longer we get the opportunity to explore the natural power of the contraction and expansion of night and day, darkness and light.

In Advanced Inner Alchemy of Wintering, I teach you how to connect with this rhythm of contraction and expansion through the underworld journey that we take.

First we start with the expansion of the darkness and contraction of the light where we descend into the underworld to:

❄ Bring ourselves into alignment with the restorative power of winter. ❄ Liberate our mind and body through stillness in the dark ❄ Dissolve grief, burnout, depression and much more through meditation practices.

Then we transition to the expansion of the light and the contraction of the darkness as we find the flickering flame of our inner light and bring it back to the world:

☀ Seeding our consciousness with the abundant potential locked within the rhythm of winter. ☀ Transmute our Shadows into Gold through collage magic practices. ☀ Connect with your inner light and bring it out into the world.

We will do all of this through a combination of ritual, meditations, and pathworkings that will open us to the power of winter and allow us to use it to transform our relationships with ourselves and with the world.

If you're feeling burned out this class is for you. If you're feeling a need to go quiet and become still, this class is for you. If you're ready to seed the new year with creative potential, this class is for you.

The journey starts on December 10th. Come join me in attuning to the rhythms of winter and let's begin an underworld journey that will transform your life from the inside out!

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Winter is the seasonal time to slow down, but so often what people try to do is speed up. Whether it's because of the holiday season or the beginning of the "new" year, there's a tendency to push through the season of winter, even though this goes against the natural rhythm of our being.

Attune yourself to the rhythm of winter and slow down. Allow yourself to receive the long darkness of the night and use it to contemplate the lessons and experiences of the year.

I want to be your guide to an underworld experience where we'll descend into the darkness and become still as we take in the power of winter and use it to help us rest, regenerate and discover the power of letting go. And what will let go?

❄The burnout of busyness. ❄The constant hustle of having to do something

And what will we receive?

❄The opportunity to take stock of our experiences. ❄The soothing stillness of endarkenment ❄The underworld journey of letting go of what doesn't serve us.

The Inner Alchemy of Wintering is an embrace of the long night and the flickering light and the lessons that each has to offer, as we alchemize our spirits and body through deep shadow work.

Come join me on this underworld journey. We start on Dec 10th.

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The rhythm of winter is calling and its time to attune to the season.

This is the time of the underworld journey, the time of descending into the shadow to do the deep work that is necessary to prepare for the spring.

Each year, I do this work of endarkenment and I want to invite you to step with me into the underworld for a 3 month journey where we'll go into the depths of our being and carry forth the flickering light of our potential into the world.

In this upcoming class, you'll learn:

❄ somatic breathing and experiencing practices designed to help you release your stress and connect with the restorative power of wintering. ❄ the sacred medicine of endarkenment pathworking which leads you to your deepest light. ❄ Scrying practices to liberate your mind and connect you with source ❄ Collage and art magic to set the theme of the year and empower if through your rest and regeneration.

This three month process kicks off on December 10th. We'll be doing a special solstice ritual and we'll wrap up in February in a rebirth ritual where we'll bring our light back to the world.

If you're feeling overwhelmed lately, stressed out by current events or burning out creatively this class is for you. It brings with it a unique opportunity to reset, recharge and rejuvenate yourself so that you can step fully into presence and power.

It works this way because we use the natural season of winter to guide us into the untapped potential of ourselves and through the process of endarkenment we alchemize our shadows into the gold that we bring back to ourselves and the world.

Ready to winter? Comment below and I'll send you details about the upcoming class. Let me be your guide into the darkness, and the path of sacred stillness that brings us to the heart of the universe.

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Lately I’ve had a few other magicians express doubts about their magical work and when they tell me they feel doubt they feel as if expressing that doubt is somehow bad and makes them less of a magician. I actually find it to be refreshing and see it as a good thing to express and feel. Having some doubt is healthy and is what keeps us grounded when it comes to magic and life. The danger of not entertaining some doubts is that you can make assumptions about your magical work that you aren’t verifying. Doubt is what helps us do our due diligence and check against what we’re doing and how its aligning with the experiences we’re having.

I find that where a magician can start making assumptions is when they don’t entertain any doubt. Certainly I have sometimes made assumptions instead of critically questioning what I was experiencing. A good example of this would be when a situation seems to resolve in your favor, with everything lining up the way you would expect it to when you’ve done a magical working…but you haven’t done a magical working.

Want to know how to handle assumption, desire and doubt? Comment below and I'll share the article with you.

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I used to be a workaholic. I would get up, work at my day job, work during my lunch break and then work when I got home. Late in the evening, I would play video games to quiet my mind.

I didn't know how to give myself a break. I didn't realize how much I was giving away of my own joy and contentedness or how much I was disengaged from my relationships.

And then I burned out. I hit a wall and like the Wile Coyote I hit the ground hard.

And I couldn't get back up.

My creativity was fried. I was exhausted physically, emotionally, creatively and spiritually. Whenever I tried to write or work on a class or do anything else, I found I couldn't do it. I simply had to rest.

So I rested. I recharged. I read books and started taking better care of myself. But even that wasn't enough. I would do it for a bit, think I was ready to get back into my creative projects and discover that I was still so tired, so burned out, so disconnected.

Can you relate to that?

I realized I had to something different, something I had never done before.

I had to winter. I had to go into endarkenment and lay still and silent, allowing myself to rest and let go of all the pressure and stress and anxiety I had been carrying around.

I had to get curious about my burnout and allow it to teach me.

What it taught me was:

❄How to slow down my life in every area and liberate myself from all the shoulds of modern society. ❄How to cultivate a stillness and endarkenment practice that allowed me to make friends with my shadows. ❄How to use underworld work to seed my consciousness and prepare it to go back into the light.

When I took this practice on it changed my life and helped me find the essential grounded practices that have allowed me to cultivate my creativity and freed me from burnout.

On Dec 10th, my latest round of Advanced Inner Alchemy of Wintering is starting. In this 3 month experience, you will get the opportunity to go on an underworld journey guided by me where we will explore the rich depths of endarkenment, the power of stillness, and the liberation of shadow work.

Ready to change your relationship with busyness and productivity? Comment below and I'll send you details.

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In this interview, S. Connolly and I discuss her book the Alchemy of Goetia and the fascinating research that she did as she explored the alchemical symbols and connections that can be found in the Goetia. We also discuss how these alchemical correspondences can shape our understanding of working with the goetic daemons and the lessons and experiences that occur when they are worked with.

Want to watch the interview? Comment below and learn more about the connection between the goetia and alchemy.

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Many years ago I learned how to cultivate the stillness within me and integrate it into my spiritual practice to open the doors of awareness to the luminous imagination of reality.

On December 10th, I invite you to descend into a 3 month journey of endarkenment with me and explore the rich path of stillness and silence as we attune ourselves to the rhythm of winter and allow it to permeate our being.

As we descend into the underworld, we'll explore how to connect with the seasonal energy of winter and use it to lead us into restorative rest and rejuvenation. You will also learn:

❄how to draw on meditative and somatic practices to enhance your mental, spiritual and physical well being. ❄how to cultivate the full potential of your creativity and imagination through the intentional slow down of wintering. ❄how to make friends with your shadows and use them to help you find your light.

We will attune to winter and draw on the season to carry us through darkness to the light.

Ready to go deeper into your spiritual practice?

Longing to make space in your for yourself?

Wanting to still yourself and let go of burnout?

Then come join me on December 10th and let us attune to the power of winter and the endarkenment of the long night.

Comment below and I'll send you details.

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When most people think of Saturn from an astrological perspective, they treat Saturn as a malefic force, in part of because the classic mythology associated with Saturn and in part because of Saturn being treated as a limiting and binding force. And while it is true that Saturn represents boundaries and limitations and also embodies fear and what happens when we react from fear, I've also discovered that Saturn can be a liberating force, if worked with properly.

Saturn as a planetary influence invites us to examine our relationship with our own limits and boundaries as well as our relationship with fear.

These are heady topics to consider and its not surprising that some people will shy away from them. Who really wants to come up against their own boundaries or limitations? Who wants to do a deep dive into their fears?

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This is another article I wrote some time ago about Aspects of Saturn work that involve weaving together and pulling apart realities. At the time I wrote the article I had just begun to explore this facet of Saturnine magic. I have, since that time, become quite adept at this work, using it most recently in August and September of this year to aid in the process of creating a new reality. Original article starts below.

Recently I created a magical painting dedicated to Saturn. when I created it I worked with the wet and dry alchemical essences of lead. It was a powerful magical working, but what happened as a result of that working was even more intriguing and powerful in its own right. I was given the opportunity to take a peek behind the curtains and I got a very different perspective of the interweaving of reality and possibility.

When many people think of Saturn as a planetary energy to work with they think of it in terms of limitations and specifically how obstacles, boundaries, and limitations can get in the way of a person’s journey to achieving specific results. Or perhaps they consider the artful application of limitations and how those limitations can actually be used to create a refined and focused magical work that gets specific results. Certainly these aspects of Saturnic work are true and the planetary energy of Saturn can be worked with in that way.

Want to read the rest of the article? Go here.

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Every so often I get requests where a person asks me to help them obtain special powers through magic. In this episode of the magical experiments podcast I lay down the hard truth that there are no short cuts in magic and life and share some of my experiences and stories learning this truth. You’ll also learn why experience is the best teacher and how to let go of unrealistic expectations.

You can watch the episode here.

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Today only I am a 30% off flash sale on all my pre-recorded classes on Magical Experiments University to celebrate my birthday.

Whether you want to learn about space/time magic, experiential embodiment or how to turn imagination into manifestation, I have got you covered and for today only you can 30% off the classes.

Use code MEFLASH. Go here to use the code.

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Your identity is a central point of convergence for space and time, in your life. Your identity creates and influences your experience of space and time, but is also influenced by the way that time and space present themselves in your life. Most people think of time as linear and they are trapped by the tick of the clock, and the monotonous grind of living on someone else’s schedule. Most people think of space as fixed and static, and so only see what is available within the immediate space that is available to them.

The space/time magician knows that time is not inherently linear and that space is much more fluid and flexible than it seems. The key to unlocking the secrets of space and time is identity.

Want to read the rest of the article? Comment below and I'll dm you.

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The word intention is thrown around a lot these days, both in magical spiritual communities and in general. I think it’s become a fairly loaded word in its own right, and yet its not a word going away anytime soon. I’ve lately been thinking a lot about the role of intention in magical work and why its so important to look at the shadow of one’s intentions.

I can have good intentions, and yet nonetheless the impact of those intentions can be anything but good. When I apply the word intention to magic, it suggests that there is a direction or a focus for that magical work. I am seeding the magic with my intentions to manifest a specific reality. That’s all well and good, and yet what else is embedded within that intention?

To get the answer to that question comment below and I'll dm you.

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The other day I had someone share with me that they didn't have TIME for a space/time magic class.

I'll admit I giggled when I heard that response and yet I get it.

Making time for a magical class in a busy, packed life, with kids, career, and other obligations can seem impossible.

It doesn't help that we have specific myths about time which tell us the following:

"There's only so much time in a day"

"I can't make time"

"I can't control time" The thing is...you have more control over your time AND space than you realize.

I know this because I live a very busy and productive life and yet I am able to regularly do all the activities I want to do and while one reason is because of time management skills, another reason is because I have a unique relationship with space and time that I've developed through my magical practice.

And I want to show you how to create a similar relationship, with all the benefits it brings:

✨Imagine being able to make time when you need it to do whatever pleases you.

✨Discover how to expand time outside of the linear perspective you've been taught.

✨Explore all the possibilities available to you.

All of this and more can be available to you, but it requires that you make some time for a class on Advanced Space/time Magic.

Here's the thing...I'm closing the doors on Thursday afternoon, and I won't be making this class available again for another TWO years.

So if you're thinking about taking this class, now is the TIME to make a commitment!

When you sign up for this class, you' be learning the following:

✨How to connect with cycles of time and space to get better results.

✨How to work with space/time spirits to expand and contract time

✨How to step in and out of different timelines and work with the alternate versions of yourself.

✨How to use the power of repetition and iteration to create a life with more space and time for what you really want.

If you still feel like you don't have time for a space/time magic class, I understand...but if you're ready to change your relationship with time, I want you to comment below.

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Do you ever wonder why spirits connect with us? What is it they want? What do they provide in return? In this episode, I pull back the curtain and share my insights around spirit work and why spirits want to connect with us. I share what they give and what they get from our connection and discuss why this can be so helpful in working with spirits in general.

Watch the episode here.