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Talk to Your Tools

There are infinite possibilities for what you can use to do magic.

The cultural projections on the objects are usually part of the larger context of who uses them: witches. Or what is conjured by them: spirits, ghosts, or demons. Because of the association with something “dark,” the tools themselves have a feeling of Darkness. Hence why crystal balls, potion bottles and broomsticks appear on the shelves as decorations for Halloween. But then again, a jack-o-lantern is as much a magical tool as a cauldron or a wand, considering its original purpose.

There’s a lot of articles already out there either listing common tools or talking over individual tools and how to use them. Some go into the history, origins, variations. I’m not really gonna rehash any of that. Instead, let me throw some thoughts at your process of discovering magical tools that I think are highly important before you buy, make or use any given tool.

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Dark Joy – Video Blog

And here I am again with a more specifically Higher Dark video. Talking about Joy, what is it really and how is Dark Joy, or just joy, experienced by Dark people a little different from what usually comes to mind?

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Riding the Darkness

The Wild Hunt

So I ran with the moon, and I ran with the night, and the three of us were a terrible sight — Emmylou Harris – Deeper Well   I realized, reading over my previous entries, that I have mentioned this difference in

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That Dark Feeling

inner dark self shadow symbols

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter. — riddle from The Hobbit

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The Dark Forest

mediatation on forest of darkness

When I wish to explore within my own Darkness, I often picture myself walking through a dark forest. There are various methods to bring yourself into a meditative state. The point of all of them is to let go of

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the Occult Spirit

  A lot of the movement within religion, or at least Christianity, in the last hundred years or so, I think, has been to bring the teachings to the people. Masses are spoken in the local language instead of Latin,

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Building A Mystery

vampire on guitar

Why is it that so often you hear beautiful songs in minor keys that have depressing lyrics? I hardly have words enough for a blog for this topic, as it’s such a simple and obvious statement. I could just make

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The Dark is There For You

awash with Darkness

I have many more assorted side topics associated with Darkness to blog about, but this weekend, while taking a long car ride, I had a bit of an epiphany (Darkness likes to sneak up on you like that). Recently, I

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Bad Boys Best

Bad Boys: vampire, biker, roadster

Why do women love the Bad Boy? (and many men want to be him) Motorcycles, tattoos, long hair, cheap sunglasses, etc. Okay, granted that’s just the stereotype. There are a hundred incarnations of the Bad Boy, from the dapper vampire

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“Through a glass darkly”

Mirror Gazer

“Through a glass darkly” When I started to write this, I couldn’t remember where the phrase originated (It’s been used frequently in titles of movies, books and TV episodes, even slightly altered for the animated film “A Scanner Darkly”). Oddly

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