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       Beginner's Help
       By: Jaguar Spirit Date: February 25, 2019, 12:50 pm
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       Some of you are new magicians...and some are not.
       When first stepping foot into magic, it can be overwhelming,
       especially if you've never read a thing on it. This thread is
       going to assist you, step by step.
       People often feel that they can put on a black hooded robe, step
       into a circle and say Aberacadabera. Well...you can, but it's
       just not that simple. That is Hollywood magic. Here, we are
       going to explore REAL magic and REAL connections to the gods. In
       fact, I am going to highly encourage FIRST...working to open
       your senses. Everything else comes later.
       1. Opening your senses. This is being able to hear, see, feel
       the gods...their energy, their voice and sometimes see them or
       smell them even. Not only is this important for learning how to
       communicate with the gods, but also to learn how to SENSE other
       entities that do NOT have your best interests at heart.
       2. Connecting with a god in an unoffensive manner. Many left
       hand practitioners use circles, triangles, and they command the
       gods. They order them around, thinking that makes them powerful
       and even more powerful than the gods themselves. Of course
       everyone has their kryptonite...and unfortunately, some gods
       betrayed the other gods and gave that secret away.
       3. Connecting with a god. This is evocation. We will focus here
       on enns...what they are, how they work, how to use them. Then
       sigils...what they are, how they work, how to get them to work.
       4. Temple set-up or no set-up evocations.
       We will start there with steps one through three. We will
       discuss as a group and continue with further steps as we move
       along.
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: Jaguar Spirit Date: February 25, 2019, 12:55 pm
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       STEP 1:
       You have your black hooded cape on (I hope not...but it's okay
       if you do), and you don't know where to go from here!
       Hold on, new magician. We are here to help.
       Step one...scroll down to Meditations in the forum and read
       Importance Of The Void. Then...Beginners Meditation. Please
       practice this until you get into the HABIT of
       meditating...learning how to blot everything out and learning
       how to clear your mind and get into the state of mind that
       changes how your energy flows.
       People often think that meditation means breathing.
       Well....certain breathing CAN help with certain things. But
       meditation is just entering into another state of mind. I
       recommend that if you use pranyama (breathing) techniques, that
       you do this at the first of the session to just get the BODY
       relaxed and slowed.
       Read over the meditation assignment and try to remember the
       small steps it includes.
       Online guided meditations such as those linked in Video's can be
       of great assistance.
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: Jaguar Spirit Date: February 27, 2019, 11:24 am
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       I feel the need to modify something here. I want to add that
       knowing the self is key to knowing what to work on yourself.
       See Astrology Section. The site www.AstroMatrix.org has a place
       to do a full chart. In it, there are aspects it shows you for
       each of your houses and all that. At the bottom is a section
       called CHALLENGES. It's going to hurt your feelers, I promise
       you...but it's accurate and if you work on those areas of your
       life, you might find that your journey will go much better.
       I'm actually copying my chart down into a word document so I can
       work on it. My feelings are so hurt that I just might cry. But
       that's shadow-work and nobody said it was easy. You get out of
       life what you put in. Part of that is this work...evolving past
       your challenges. A god could help you, or you can help yourself
       by ILLUMINATING your challenges and working on them.
       I would like you to improve in all areas. Not just learning how
       to curse the guy at the Burger King counter for giving you the
       wrong change, or whatever ridiculous bane people do that serves
       no purpose but petty revenge.
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: AzianPersuazion Date: February 27, 2019, 12:27 pm
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       [quote author=Jaguar Spirit link=topic=62.msg78#msg78
       date=1551120923]
       STEP 1:
       You have your black hooded cape on (I hope not...but it's okay
       if you do), and you don't know where to go from here!
       [/quote]
       For me it wouldn't be a cape or hoodie.  Rather its (Top Only)
       Breastplate and Helmet, White Skivvey's Underwear, armed with
       D&D Dice out in the woods in the dark of night close to a
       Campfire with other wierdo buddies.  Choice of weapon is either
       a Flail Morning Star (like Belmont from Castle Vania) or a
       Lance.
       Ok just kidding about the half armor part wioth D&D =)
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: Jaguar Spirit Date: February 27, 2019, 1:10 pm
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       My "cape" is actually a very luxurious burgundy velvet bathrobe
       with a fuzzy collar. I only wear it because I get cold. haha. I
       have certain outfits I only wear for certain gods though. It's
       not a requirement (new magi) it's just a preference. I wear a
       black, very short dress for Prince Azazel. Prince Enlil likes
       this black dress I have that has a few large roses on it. I have
       a white/gold dress I wear for Prince Enki. etc etc.
       Some people work nekkid.
       Or don what you do, hehe.
       I only played D&D once, 25 years ago (omg has it been that
       long?!)
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: Neciphel Date: March 7, 2019, 3:55 pm
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       Nice thread, it gives other way to reinforce meditation and
       advices about structures.
       About clothes....Well we are in the XXI st century :D. Some use
       smartphones instead of black mirrors hahaha.
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: Jaguar Spirit Date: March 7, 2019, 4:05 pm
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       For whatever reason, my attempts at scrying just fail. I bought
       a lovely, quite large black plexiglass and it sits unused. :(
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: AzianPersuazion Date: March 7, 2019, 8:24 pm
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       [quote author=Jaguar Spirit link=topic=62.msg410#msg410
       date=1551996347]
       For whatever reason, my attempts at scrying just fail. I bought
       a lovely, quite large black plexiglass and it sits unused. :(
       [/quote]
       Why is that?  Is this normal for you?
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: guest3 Date: March 8, 2019, 4:16 am
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       [quote author=AzianPersuazion link=topic=62.msg421#msg421
       date=1552011850]
       [quote author=Jaguar Spirit link=topic=62.msg410#msg410
       date=1551996347]
       For whatever reason, my attempts at scrying just fail. I bought
       a lovely, quite large black plexiglass and it sits unused. :(
       [/quote]
       Why is that?  Is this normal for you?
       [/quote]
       Many say its not possible to be successful in every kind of
       divination. You might be awesome with a pendulum but suck with
       cards. Or you might be amazing with cards but suck with scrying
       mirrors. I suck with pendulum, but I never really tried to be
       honest. I'm just not interest in it.
       Personally I think we can be successful with all divination
       tools as long we keep practice. Some are naturally more talented
       than others in some tools, and you might never become a master
       card reader, but you will be able to use it at least for basic
       things.
       You might see nothing on a scrying mirror in your first
       attempts, but keep doing it and eventually you will start seeing
       things. The key is to have fun. And I absolutely have no fun
       with a pendulum   ;D
       
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       Re: Beginner's Help
       By: Jaguar Spirit Date: March 8, 2019, 9:51 am
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       That can be frustrating. Try some earplugs or heavy duty
       earphones that are noise-cancelling and just put some frequency
       tones or something meditative for TGS (Theta gamma state). It
       can really help.
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