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Imbolc  2023
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This is the repeat Imbolc newsletter, going out to those who signed up after the last one went out.
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Greetings to you all this Imbolc. Thanks for keeping on opening and reading these outpourings. I'm afraid this one is going to be a good deal shorter, because I've been too busy and even sometimes overwhelmed by moving out of somewhere I've lived for just short of 20 years. Moving to somewhere lovely, but it's been, well, a bit intense.

But I do want to say something about Imbolc.

I like Imbolc. The light is beginning to increase noticeably, slowly we draw out of the darkness and celebrate that with fire and candlelight. And the fire is also the fire of the forge, as we craft new thoughts and ideas and magics, finding delight in winter and looking ahead to spring.

So big bright blessings to you all, and keep your gaze on the rising light!
 
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EVENTS

with VIKTOR WYND

Introduction to Energy Magic Part 2 is launching this Spring. This is about the internal dimensions of energy magic, and consists of explorations of internal sensed energy practices and the energy-alchemy of desire.
In the first of these two 2-hour sessions we’ll explore the practice and theory of internal energy circulation and concepts of auric structures and power-centres.
In the second we’ll discuss and practice a rehearsal of sexual energy transmutation using the Dragon-Eagle Working.

 

EXPLORING MEDITATION

Last year I ran a series of Zoom meetings for magicians who wanted to develop their meditation practice. 6 fortnightly meetings, half practice, half discussion. I'm told there's interest in a rerun. Tuesdays, 19.00 GMT, starting 21st Feb, running till the start of May. Payment is optional, what you can afford, what you think it's worth, £10 per session is suggested. But £0 is ok, we want you to join in.

If you're interested, email me at dleedlpt@gmail.com 

Here's a piece that came out of that original group experience. 

 

FORTHCOMING

Chaos Lab course

Julian Vayne and I are collaborating on an online, lifetime-access course called Chaos Lab. 'Join us in our occult laboratory for four sessions of practical magic. We will be performing both operative magic (sigils and spells) alongside ceremonial practices with a focus on deep personal transformation and spiritual illumination. Whether you're new to the Great Work of magic, or an experienced practitioner you'll find these sessions a great way to develop your own unique magic, supported by two of the most well respected adepts in contemporary occultism. Expect a delicious sprinkling of theory and a large serving of applied sorcery!'

The course should be ready in the next two months. 
 

Eight Musics for Eight Magicks

This project, three years in the making, is finally all complete except for a few finishing touches on the graphics. 

It's a two-hour album, consisting of eight pieces of music for working with the Eight Colours of Magick, composed by four highly experienced electronic composers.

The 8 Colours idea is a simplification of the traditional seven Planetary categories of life and magick, plus the 'Pure magick' colour of Ouranos, Octarine, as written about by Terry Pratchett. The 8 Colours scheme was originally written about by Pete Carroll in his Liber Kaos but it's been developed in many other directions since then, 

The album consists of eight tracks, each approximately 15 minutes long, mostly without voice except for a central section which can work, for instance, as a pathworking or an invocation. These guided meditations are all written by Dave Lee.

Each track can provide a virtual experience of one of the eight dimensions of magick, or be used as background audio for your own workings. 

It comes along with eight original artworks. The above one here is Purple, the one below is Black.

Some varied thoughts about the Eight Colours of Magick here and here
 

 
 

MAGICK
 
Let's talk about time.
 

 
First, an excellent concise defence of belief in astrology, if you happen to take panpsychism seriously as a philosophical position. And yes, it's on Facebook, they do allow some decent content through from time to time. 

If like many ritualists you work with the pagan Wheel of the Year, the Solar Equinoxes and Solstices, you may have been curious about the festivals such as Easter, the time of which is the first Sunday after the Full Moon on or after the Spring Equinox. Other religious festivals are calculated similarly; these calculations are cultural fossils, remnants of a Luni-Solar calendar.
  

 

13 Moons is a book written by poet, storyteller and Rune-Gild Master PD Brown. In it he develops the historical idea of a luni-solar calendar - a calendar which, for instance, set a date for the recent Yule festival at the Full Moon on 6th January. This is the Full Moon of the first New Moon after the Winter Solstice.

Viewing in the sky the relevant Full Moon adds a physicality to the timing of festivals that really adds something to the sense of engaging with an ancient celebration which we don't get when we just go on astronomical data read from a book. 
  


 
PSYCHEDELIA
Before the lockdowns, there was a bi-annual conference on psychedelics called Breaking Convention. And this year it's back! Get your info and tickets from the above link. 

For a small taste of the 2019 conference, here's avant grade performance artist Maria Almena, talking about her group Kimatica's extraordinary and deeply psychedelic art, bodily movement enhanced by projected light and image.
 


 
DISCORDIA
John Higgs' writing just gets better and better. His latest newsletter is devoted mostly to a longer than usual piece called Lucid Dreams vs AI, and it's a really good, deep enquiry into these different worlds. Passing over the nightmare that Zucker Eldritch has created with Meta VR workrooms, he focuses on the organic, human world, looking at how some artists utilize lucid dreaming. 
This link to read the newsletter online should be working; why not subscribe to his excellent letter?

 
CULTURE & HOPE

Some thoughts from 1988 from writer Kurt Vonnegut, designed to be rad out in 2088 but being read a bit early here, by Benedict Cumberbatch
 
Yes, fewer hours at work is good for you. And increases effectiveness. Who knew it?


 
VIDEOS, MUSIC, ART
If you're a fellow Boomer, the recent death of David Crosby might have struck a chord. This guy's band The Byrds are credited with inventing 'folk rock', and his other band, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young had some of the sweetest harmony singing ever.

Here they are in a less typical mode, singing with Welsh superstar Tom Jones, "Long Time Gone", in 1969.




Candle offering photo by Nick Hawkins on Unsplash






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