My Grimoire

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Approach to Spellcraft
3. Chaos Magick
4. Spirit Work
5. The Dark Mother
6. Alphabet of Desire
7. Divination
8. Tarot
9. Pendulum
10. Geomancy
11. Osteomancy
12. Scrying
13. Bibliomancy
14. Automatic Writing
15. Trance
16. Gnosis
17. Auras
18. Correspondences
19. Magickal Waters

Introduction

This is where I'm compiling all of my notes, accumulated over more than a decade of study and practice. I am attempting to answer one question: How does the IRL magic system work?
Since the desire to share this information on never really impressed itself on me til recently, I never did a very good job of keeping my source material. If I can remember a source for something, I'll provide it in the bibliography. If you need any information on my resources, or for access to my ebook library, get in touch.
When I do a working, it's one of two varieties. Either it's a powerful traditional magick which must be conducted perfectly, instructions to be followed to the letter; Alternatively, it may be that it's a bunch of correspondences put together because I happened to have the right herbs in the kitchen at the time. I tend to fall on the side of DIY witchcraft more often than following the beaten path, but I will specify where any caveats or special attention is to be paid to certain aspects of a working.

On Risks

Genie rules apply. It is absolutely imperative that you think through your intention, looking for loopholes or room for misunderstanding, envisioning potential backfire scenarios. There are workings I have decided against casting because I simply could not accept the risks. Having the wisdom to recognise when not to use magic at all is in itself powerful, and in time I believe all occultists should be able to see those situations when they arise.
I advocate for an abundance of caution, but not to become paranoid. Just don't mess with anything you aren't fully confident in your command over. As the saying goes, "Do not summon up that which you cannot put down."

Approach to Spellcraft

Of the two main categories I mentioned, little time will be spent here on the first. There are a lot of writers doing a better job of that than I could hope to.
I aim to convey here my approach to working from scratch, you'll need to understand a few principles and from there, you'll never need a spellbook again as long as you live.

Anatomy of a Spell

Imagine I want money and I've decided I'll use magic to get it. First I consider backfire potential. I want to make sure it doesn't come by way of a sudden inheritance. I also understand that magic takes the path of least resistance. Look for points of weakness in the fixedness of things. Apply leverage in the right places. You wouldn't bother trying to beguile a boss into giving you your dream job despite you not applying for it, but you can certainly use magic in other ways to the same end.
Perhaps I apply for a specific job and concentrate my working on securing it. Maybe the other applicant gets hit by a bus, but I likely won't ever hear about it, so I decide to accept the risk.
I might add an invisible sigil to my resume to boost my chances of getting an interview. Ahead of an interview, I might meditate and do a yoga flow to boost my mood and confidence. Of course there are a million and one other things. You could pray, make an offering, or some other devotional act to any number of entities. You could create a charm, or hex the other candidates! (please don't)
Try not to fall into the trap of overcomplicating your working. The more moving parts, the more room for something to go wrong.

Sprit Work

The Dark Mother

Who is the dark mother?

First Contact
She revealed herself to me in visions, showed me her colours (purple, pink, red, and black) and a symbol. She showed me some art, which I will attempt to create per her instructions. She showed me that she had followers before, a coven of witches on the internet, and that she is associated with cyber witchcraft for that reason. She invited me to work with her and I used this tarot spread to try to understand her and find out what she would ask of me.

A tarot spread designed to facilitate insight into The Dark Mother.

Automatic writing session 20221029 01:08

I invite The Dark Mother to whisper to me that I may make note of her words.
Daughter, I speak unto you in the voice of witches past... (my mind wanders, regarding the use of daughter but I redirect).
Wisdom. (interruption) Enchantress. (interruption) [let's get into the zone, let's get music on, breathe, reach out with my mind, attempt trance!] (chanting, perhaps) Dark mother I invoke thee to whisper thy message unto me, that I may note your words, I am attempting to open myself to your message, dimly lit in wells and cellars, cold, damp, castle. I relax and my head turns to my right. I open my eyes, startled. Return to breath. I feel a pull to look to my right. looking left feels wrong and slightly unnerving. I think of tentacles. Eldritch beasts. What it means I know not. Horror? Art is a domain of the dark mother, as is the written word, The Dark Mother is mother to all artists and all those who partake of creation. it is divine. Peaches are her favourite, I am seeing peaches and other stonefruit. The seed. The seed is sacred to the dark mother. the dark mother accepts all aborted seeds to be tended in her garden. The dark mother takes the souls of children unto her should the child die. Children's ghosts can be brought to The Dark Mother and she will raise them lovingly. (Do they become the beasts mother?) No child, they grow up, they move on, they live lives on the spirit realm. The Dark Mother is capable of traversing the cusp of life and death. (Do you use this power at the behest of your children, mother?) Perhaps. It remains to be seen. I work in the best interests of my children. A mother wants what's best and is often wiser - [I am beset by maternal trauma] Do not be afraid child, a daughter of mine is cherished, a daughter of mine is taught, (do your daughters retain their agency, mother?) i see images of celestial beings, I understand that they do and that I am being invited to join them. I wish to learn more before I pledge myself. God or not, a wise woman never commits to more than she understands. And with this you have learned your first lesson from the crone. Well done child.
Shall we stop here or continue? I can brew tea, and sit in commune with Her when I so choose to visit with Her again. Thank you. You're welcome. Get some sleep. Much to do tomorrow.

Alphabet of Desire

An alphabet of desire is a personalised magickal alphabet. Each letter represents a feeling and tied to a sense memory. The letters when used to "spell" out the desire will bring it into existence.
Creating an alphabet of desire is a long process involving hours of meditation. It will develop over decades and can contain hundreds of symbols, or can be the regular latin alphabet with each letter standing in for a particular sensation.
I use the latin alphabet so that I can speak the resulting letters aloud as nonsense words for verbal spellcasting, or fingerspell to cast.

Automatic Writing

A process by which a person my commune with their subconscious and/or beings in other planes. Detailed guide to come.
What follows is an automatic writing session conducted 24th April 2022, which reveals that my subconscious is ...horny for fungi?

Release expectations. You don't need to have a mind. The mind is a trapping of this materialist universe that you only eixst in passing thorugh.
This is not all there iss and soon will fade. You belong in a world of light and colours brighter than you feel and see currently. That is home for the soul all share on this plane as it splinters and fragments itself to experience other realities and ways of living. We live in an ether.
A planet that doesn't seem like a planet. Aliens are part of us and we are part of them. Everyone coming from the same seed and growing into new shapes to die and fade and be born anew elsewhere.
Please believe this is not all there is. We are one and we are waiting and longing for home but home is here in us and in you. You are an organ of a larger being.
You are a sensory organ with which we taste and feel and smell and belong and feel more intangibly. Shifting and swirling and melting into one another in the ether in space is what we are meant to do.
As we do here on earth when we mingle and touch. Sex is just a part of this. Sex is the closest a human can feel to existing as an entity beyond the physical though the fungi have a better grasp. They know more than you do.
Please remember how it felt when you were home like the fungi. WE were alll surrounded on all sides with no disrincction between you and me, all one. All pieces. Sadness and pain are necessary. Homesickness, necessary. This is how we are learning.
You are a small part and huge.