Posts in magic
50 not out

I celebrated my 50th birthday last year, and am currently experiencing another important milestone, my Chiron Return. This occurs when the planet (that isn’t a planet) Chiron returns to the position it occupied at birth, bringing with it the opportunity for deep, inner transformation and healing. It takes fifty years to travel round the entire chart, so I probably won’t see another one, and that’s what makes it special. Of course, being aware of this sometime in advance I set things up so that I could max out this magical portal, and I am happy to report that so far it’s been a very rich and beneficial, though occasionally challenging, experience.

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Book Review: The King in Orange by John Michael Greer

I am not often moved to tell people about a book I read, but I am making an exception with The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power by John Michael Greer, because it covers virtually everything I have been thinking about for the past decade.

Nice and short (barely 200 pages) this is the place to turn if you what to understand the strange world that we now live in. Politics, power and the world at large cannot be grasped by standard means…

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