A Hall of Mirrors - A Series of Portals to Greater Inspiration

Enthusing about In-Person Events, RPGS to re-enchant the social blueprint, and bizarre, invigorating writing

Hello, how do you do?

I write to you from the depths of the cold, cold night, which seems to fall earlier and earlier up here where I am.

Speaking of which! If you’re going to be in the Philadelphia area next month, I’ll be appearing on December 10th at the following event:

I’ll be in full Phoebe’s-Moving-Occult-Shop mode!

With a variety of wares including magical materia, sensuous herbal products, subversive necromantic literature, and -physical box sets of Amor Fati- the tarot-based roleplaying card game you’ve heard so much about.

The Tarot-Based Roleplaying Card Game you’ve heard so much about.

The digital edition of Amor Fati remains available on my website. And stay tuned because I’ll be announcing the Box Sets online shortly for those who can’t make it to the market in person.

Have you been reading anything good lately? I’ve been inspired by this very impish work called “Manual for a Worldwide Manuke Revolt” by Matsumoto Hajime. It’s about the creation of in-between places, free spaces, weird and silly ways of thinking and being, creating culture and making money outside of established patterns... It’s theoretical, sure, but it’s suffused with so much fun and authentic mischief that the ideas are that much easier to absorb. The highly enthusiastic tone of the author is so refreshing in an age of internet irony and it really makes me want to sit with his unusual, simple, oblique ideas.

Here’s a little quote from the beginning:

“Throughout Japan, nay, the earth, huge morons have started making tons of unthinkable spaces in opposition to this pointless world. Totally fun places, places that seem on the edge of shutting down but keep it together and persist, extremely cool spaces, places with a full-throttle feeling of freedom, places that are too stupid, places where unexpected people of mystery appear one after another…”

You can read the whole first chapter here. (skip the introductions)

Before I go, some more recommendations from the depths of the online occultosphere:

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• I recently received word that Chiron Armand is opening his bookings again. A highly talented and devilish queer with a lived anti-colonial understanding of spirit work across many traditions, Chiron is an initiated Houngan in Haitian Voudou, a Tata in Brazilian Quimbanda, a trained Hoodoo root doctor. This link is for his Voudou Lesons, but he offers custom talismans and magical consulting at the meeting-place of many traditions, for which he can be reached via email. He also wields a killer sense of humor.

• I swear I use Lunarium every day. It’s because I’ve been working to align myself and my efforts more deeply with the Moon’s transits between zodiac signs and her stopovers in the Lunar Mansions. But the site has a lot of useful tools like the Universal Lunar Calendar, Planetary Hours Calculator, and a live-updating chart of the Planets’ locations in the sky.

• A friend told me about this NHK program on the esoteric origins and practices of the ninja arts in Iga. Yes, the announcer’s voice is pretty cheesy, but it’s a short 15 minute video in English and I had no idea how incredibly radical, grassroots, and ceremonial Ninjitsu is and was when it began. Worth a watch.
  

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  So what about you, dear reader? What are you working on? What are you reading and thinking about? Please be in touch because I’d love to hear more, so we can all help each other stay vital, so we stand a chance to rise above our station in the unlikely but inspiring way that the Iga ninja did. And maybe we can create some “unthinkable places in opposition to this pointless world”. Or even better, some “Totally fun places”!

  What’s the point of reviving all these dead magics if we don’t create something better, something delicious, something unlikely?

-IN NOMINE REGINA GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE-

”MAGICK DEFENDS ITSELF”