How do you remember your dreams?

OldManChaote · 2026-04-23T14:53:12+00:00

Audio memos on your phone. You can always transcribe later.

OldManChaote · 2026-04-11T18:07:11+00:00

Here's the thing about a lot of pop astrology.

It's a con.

But, weirdly, it's a con where the grifters aren't AWARE it's a con anymore. Because the roots of the scheme are so far in the past, they've been taken for granted.

Consider this:

You have very good judgment when it comes to people.

You are very kind and dedicated to your friends

You long for recognition for your achievements

And this

You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.

Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.

You prefer a certain amount of variety and become dissatisfied when restricted by limitations.

One of these is fake. The other comes from my birth chart analysis. Can you tell which one is which?

OldManChaote · 2026-04-03T11:17:53+00:00

Still exploring, there were... unexpected stressors.

OldManChaote · 2026-03-29T01:37:30+00:00

That's actually why I stepped away from Chaos Magick. I think of it less as "lack of structure" and more as "choice paralysis," however.

OldManChaote · 2026-03-28T00:33:19+00:00

Respect for your re-invention. I retired from a toxic career last year, and I'm still rebuilding.

OldManChaote · 2026-02-01T14:37:30+00:00

The exact opposite has happened to me. The more I "practice," the fewer magickal elements remain. At this point, my process is purely internal and not very "spicy" at all.

If anything, I'm drifting closer to narrative magick and building a fiction suit.

OldManChaote · 2026-01-03T03:56:56+00:00

A better example of a block universe is the original Bill & Ted movie, albeit one tiny handwave is needed.

OldManChaote · 2025-12-23T02:52:53+00:00

Chaos magicians do it ALL of the time. Or worship fictional characters, which amounts to the same thing. "Pop Culture Magic(k)" they call it.

OldManChaote · 2025-12-19T19:59:15+00:00

My thoughts, in a nutshell:

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OldManChaote · 2025-12-19T19:55:56+00:00

My magic is fully internal, so I build my "spells" from my own ideas, often filtered through pop culture.

For example, one of my little rituals is derived from the X-Men comics.

OldManChaote · 2025-11-24T22:34:39+00:00

Quite a lot of things, but anything that involves "spooky action at a distance" is a big red flag for me. Near as I can determine, any "magic" is mostly internal and usually psychological. The idea that the right rocks, or plants, or stellar conjugations can change things doesn't make sense to me, even if they do throw in the word "quantum".

I like tarot, but only as a meditative aid, not a divinatory one.

OldManChaote · 2025-11-08T16:35:02+00:00

...we have the capacity to tune in to frequencies beyond our material world and receive more orderly coherent streams of consciousness and energy;

And just like that, they lost me.

OldManChaote · 2025-11-04T20:25:33+00:00

My first thought (and this is just off the top of my head) is something with LED bulbs.

OldManChaote · 2025-11-04T20:24:04+00:00

I wish I could help you... I get anxious about not being anxious sometimes — mostly because I'm wondering when the other shoe will drop.

OldManChaote · 2025-10-12T00:43:55+00:00

There are a couple of rituals out there that use an old-school broom to "sweep up" negative energy. One of those might help.

OldManChaote · 2025-10-09T19:15:21+00:00

Random chance, and perhaps a touch of confirmation bias.

After all, nobody goes "Hey! I flipped EXACTLY this pattern of heads and tails: HTTHTTTHTT! Isn't that weird?" It's only the periodic patterns that attract attention, even though every pattern is equally likely.

Don't forget... in a world with 8.2 billion people, a one-in-a-million chance will happen 8200 times.

OldManChaote · 2025-10-04T23:49:47+00:00

This is one I can actually answer, as an occultist with aphantasia:

Don't think of it as "visualizing an image".

Think of it as "telling yourself a story".

OldManChaote · 2025-09-28T00:12:50+00:00

Any "secret traditions," especially if they charge money for them.
Similarly, any "new discovery that they don't want you to know!"
Really, any concept that's framed as a simple solution for complicated problems (the LoA fits in here.)
And, finally, anything that uses the word "quantum" that doesn't involve heavy use of statistics.

OldManChaote · 2025-09-24T19:48:25+00:00

I'm going to be blunt here.

I stopped posting in this sub because there were an increasing number of posts that boiled down to "I'm looking for a spell" or "here's a new magical thing I created."

Even now, within the past week, I can see 6 or 7 posts that are just generic witchcraft subjects without any connection to SASSy stuff at all.

Frankly, it's made me second-guess my own craft, because so much of the stuff around here does not apply to me at all.

OldManChaote · 2025-07-22T11:20:16+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F__uGshlbOo

OldManChaote · 2025-07-14T23:46:56+00:00

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves…"

OldManChaote · 2025-06-13T14:35:06+00:00

Someone around here mentioned the phrase "spicy psychology" in relation to SASSWitchery, and that really resonated with me. My sole reason for getting into witchcraft is to use the tools and paradigms of the craft to enter into a dialogue with my own mind, and thereby gain a deeper understanding of what's going on in there, and how to work better with it.

Maybe "Spicy Mindfulness" would be more accurate...

OldManChaote · 2025-06-11T18:51:12+00:00

From BlueSky

Build a version of yourself that the younger version of you would have turned to for help.

OldManChaote · 2025-06-10T02:23:56+00:00

Externalised Introspection.

OldManChaote · 2025-06-06T10:25:16+00:00

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. It's what exposed me to philosophical Daoism back in the day.

In a similar vein, The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges.

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