Tag: techniques

It’s Hot! It’s Damn Hot!

USE A BOTTLE OF WAR WATER TO REVERSE WORKS OF NEGATIVITY

The Southwest has its own kind of beauty and its own kind of conveniences. Something we have an abundance of here is heat. I like to use this and our other natural resources in my workings whenever the opportunity presents itself, like in this next…



There Are Masters and Then There’s Everyone Else

MOTHER OF THOUSANDS

When I was a kid, a friend of the family who knew I loved plants gave me a Kalanchoe. It was the neatest thing to me because I had never seen anything like it. She explained that each one of the babies, along each one of the leaves, would drop off and a whole…



Ways To Spiritually Clean Without Incense/Smudge

IS BURNING INCENSE OR SMUDGING A PROBLEM FOR YOU?

It is not uncommon. You want to clear the environment of the yuck, but due to health or other concerns (read as: coworkers or nosy parkers), you can’t just spark up some incense or a stick of sage. What to do, what to do!? Well, fortunately there…



A General Guide To Working With the Saints

LEARNING TO CONNECT WITH YOUR SAINTED ALLIES

The intention of this guide is to provide a basis for a beginning practice of working with the saints. It is but a brief introduction to allow the average person a starting point on the…



Piggybacking Work

NO SWEAT, BABY!

The gist of this article is to get you thinking about how you can use something that is already happening, or may happen with very little effort on your part, to help advance your own magical agenda.

There is a phrase that I say whenever I go to buy lottery tickets. It’s my lucky…



Working In Miniature

GREAT THINGS CAN COME IN SMALL PACKAGES 

Some things in conjure are stronger, work better, work faster, when they are bigger — High John the Conqueror roots and lodestones come to mind — while a good many things can work just as well, even better, in miniature.

Small things are easy to hide and easy to carry….



Slowing Things Down, Blocking & Reversing

TIME TO END THIS LITTLE TRILOGY OF CHRONOLOGY

I didn’t set out to make it a trilogy, but I’m nothing if not flexible. As one might imagine, there’s not as much call to slow things down as there is to speed things up, but slowing has its place. Blocking has its place as well,…



Heating Things Up & Getting Them Moving

LIKE A BAREFOOT TOURIST ON A PHOENIX SUMMER SIDEWALK

So, on my previous post, I touched on some of the many ways one can utilize different types of timing to increase the effectiveness of your work. In addition, there are a number of things one can do to “turn up the heat” on…



How to Work with Sachet Powders

USING LEGENDARY CONJURE SACHET POWDERS

Sachet powders are great as a follow up to a spiritual bath. In fact, layering a spiritual bath, with sachet powders and conjure oils, is the best. But that is just the beginning. Sachet powders are used much the same way as conjure oils, but…



How to Dispose of Ritual Remains

YOU’VE COMPLETED THE WORK, NOW WHAT?

Keep in mind the original intent of the work and the intent behind the traditions associated with the disposal method when looking to dispose of ritual remains.

When considering disposal methods, ask yourself the following questions:

Was it a positive work or a negative work?
Is…