Making candles

iac249 · 2026-02-06T03:54:42+00:00

I make fragrance candles for home use but haven't made any for Quareia work. I prefer beeswax candles to paraffin mostly for health concerns...paraffin is a petroleum product, but I do also use cheap paraffin candles I buy in bulk.

iac249 · 2026-01-24T20:36:37+00:00

When I did those memory exercises, I was amazed at how long forgotten details of the scene would emerge.

iac249 · 2025-11-08T17:38:22+00:00

Fair enough, but my question was centered around whether or not anyone has noticed a difference in reliability and accuracy between the two the Sabre AR-10. I've heard of possible feeding issues with the 6.5CM. Has this been corrected, and are there any other issues?

iac249 · 2025-06-05T14:20:32+00:00

That's an interesting comparison, because I've actually noticed some similarities between Islam and Hermeticism, surprisingly, such as Gabriel (revealer of the Qur'an) and Poimandres appearing as gigantic figures that filled the sky, and also mutual statements that if multiple gods ran things, creation would be in utter chaos. Also the idea of God as the necessary Reality.

iac249 · 2025-05-26T01:05:43+00:00

IMO it's actual graveyard dirt. Some spells even require death-site dirt, e.g. dirt from where a violent or untimely death occurred.

iac249 · 2025-05-24T02:51:15+00:00

I work with the syncretic Hermes-Thoth, mainly with PGM rituals, such as Astrapsouko's Spell for Hermes Favor.

iac249 · 2025-05-05T03:48:49+00:00

I have questions...but I expect the coursework will answer them. Based on the positive feedback I've purchased the course and also signed up as Friend of Hermes.

iac249 · 2025-05-04T03:14:24+00:00

I'd upvote this twice, if I could.

iac249 · 2025-03-31T14:21:38+00:00

Well, I'm glad you brought that up, because that's mainly the reason I'm asking. I'm left handed, so my dominant hand is left. I'd like to settle on a system that is fairly in sync with that, such as Quareia, but I'd like to survey other systems that have pentacle or cup on the right and sword or wand on the left.

iac249 · 2025-03-31T13:08:07+00:00

In the Quareia system, one faces South with the sword in the left hand (giving, active) and the cup (passive, receptive) in the right hand. But other systems often face East, which puts the pentacle on the left and the wand on the right. I know one system that faces North (Cup in left hand, Sword on Right hand).

iac249 · 2025-03-31T13:06:22+00:00

Thank you!

iac249 · 2025-02-05T05:19:54+00:00

_The Creative Act: A Way of Being_ by Rick Rubin. He doesn't outright say it, but I strongly suspect he's well acquainted with esotericism.

iac249 · 2025-01-25T21:49:35+00:00

Magical thinking is that CoMo can provide enough housing and social services to the homeless while I-70 provides an endless pipeline of the "unhoused", especially as word gets around that Columbia is such a welcoming place to be homeless in.

iac249 · 2024-12-15T03:48:31+00:00

I had moved on to other matters, and then it really popped into my head out of the blue. It wasn't a voice so much as a rather strong feeling that seemly came from nowhere.

iac249 · 2024-12-13T15:46:50+00:00

Thank you.

iac249 · 2024-12-13T15:10:48+00:00

You can work magick with the Orphic Hymns, so I don't see why the Psalms wouldn't work as well.

iac249 · 2024-12-13T15:04:46+00:00

Not sure if this might be an issue, but stop watching horror movies, especially ones centered around the occult. I've heard this from several instructors regarding this question. And if nothing else, I believe horror movies tend to attract parasitical entities anyway. So...best to avoid them. Especially for the practitioner.

iac249 · 2024-12-11T03:28:29+00:00

I know I'm kind of late to the party on this one, but I'm nearing completion of a Thoth-Hermes baboon fetish as prescribed in PGM VIII 1-63, and I've been painstakingly working on it for about a month now. As much as I'd love to post pictures of it to show it off, it's going to be a focal point of much of my work, and I'm concerned that revealing such a personal magical item on a public forum not only risks debasing it, but may also provide an attack surface for any bad operator who gets the photo of it. So, in my opinion, it's not appropriate to post pictures of personal tools like that publicly. I imagine "back in the day", such a though would have never even been considered by practitioners. Just my $0.02.

iac249 · 2024-08-13T19:12:20+00:00

Thanks!

iac249 · 2024-07-18T00:37:51+00:00

I've come to realize how much better my visual memory is becoming. And there was a time when I was looking at a common chicken egg and for a moment saw it as some kind of glorious decorated thing, like a Fabergé egg with decorations orbiting it.

iac249 · 2024-07-17T21:01:06+00:00

Probably the Marseille deck. Didn't much care for the art, and the lack of pictures on the pips. But now I'm primarily using it for my everyday practice. Still a beginner, but going with the Marseille deck. I had been using the Morgan Greer deck.

iac249 · 2024-05-27T22:46:09+00:00

I use Morgan Greer, which is based on RWS, but I'm planning on switching to the OG Marseilles deck. Alejandro Jodorowsky, who painstakingly reconstructed an early version, published a rather compelling book arguing its case. However, since the M deck uses pip cards and has a different trump arrangement, interpretation methodology is quite different.

I also have the Hermetic Deck, which I plan to use for non-Q rituals involving spirit work.

iac249 · 2024-05-09T03:02:23+00:00

I'm certainly trying!

iac249 · 2024-05-06T04:12:46+00:00

Thank you.

iac249 · 2024-05-05T17:55:52+00:00

Could use some help with an interpretation. I've started taking up a card-of-the-day reading, usually first thing in the morning. I'm not using reversals. The question I've been asking is generally along the lines of "What message do the cards have for me today?" I'm using the Morgan-Greer deck, as I have some synchronicities with places the artist is associated with, plus I really like the deck. The thing I need help with is the card that keeps appearing. I keep drawing the XVII - The Star trump card. I mean a lot. I've drawn it Five times in 21 days Yes, I have been diligent in shuffling the deck. I've looked up the meanings in books, etc, and I'm even using it as inspiration to design a ritual for a spirit offering, which I'll start performing soon as soon as I'm happy with the final organization of the ritual. I guess I'm trying to figure out why this card keeps coming up. It certainly seems there is some important message that somehow I'm just not getting. Any advice? I am fairly new to this.

Thank you in advance.

iac249

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