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Oh no, I'm much humbler! Haaaaa! It's good to be friends, eh?! Best! Chris

Yeah, me and Q hit it off a bit rough at first! He's one of the good ones, but he takes his job seriously. The fact that he's got my back now humbles me. Chris

No, doesn't surprise me Q. I've always known you were deep! If I had had the Catholic background I'd probably be right behind you. Chris

Ha! Remind you of anyone?:D Chris

Like, for example: I'm most familiar with the Western Magical approach which includes a westernized version of kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), tarot (the Golden Dawn system), sacred geometry and number magic, western astrology...stuff like that. So, the imagery I would selct for my "spells" would...

I think I'm just asking what sort of criteria you use to decide what sort of imagery to use. Have you studied any systems or is it more of an innate and personal sense of what sort of imagery, poems, etc. is appropriate to what you're trying to achieve? chris

Totally agreed. Chris

Easy! Quahom is a good friend of mine and a premier mod here. He's just asking you to be respectful. I thought you were, but others may not have the same impression. It's all good, so let's just continue. Chris

Agreed. I'm curious if you have some sort of system that categorizes the innate meaning of the objects you are using, or how you arrived at the decision to use the images you're using for specific spells. You mentioned the Book of Shadows, but that reference doesn't really go in-depth with the...

Ha! Golf is a tough game. Chess is a hard game with a lifetime's worth of potential learning. I'm lousy at chess, but the concepts I understand from it totally bleed over into almost every strategic aspect of real life. Tennis kind of goes along with golf. Maybe it's that both are...

Sorry. You were saying from the start that it's all about intention. I'm putting out my intention process and asking if yours is similar. I'm sorry if I'm being too abstract. That's my bad. Carry on... Chris

Yeah, I read, but it's an extension of the same thing isn't it? Chris

Sorry. I'm being quite abstract. Do you have a fix on the specific universal processes you're trying to bend to your will? Not just "I need money so I'll light 8 green candles" kind of thing. Why green? Why eight? Spells are intended to connect to these universal constructs, but to the...

Yeah! It's just a longer view with less specific objectification. Chris

IOW, rather than having specific moments of ritual I'm trying to live the ritual- all the time. Chris

The simple answer is no. I've moved on from specific devices like spells and props because what I'm participating in are large metaphysical processes which are, I find at this point anyway, slowed down and unnecessarily complicated by the digital conversion to specific archetypal...

Oh, OK. The purpose of shared ritual is to mutually confer status. It's hard without this. I'm a solitary practitioner as well so I understand the problem. Since I'm not part of an established tradition I really don't have any other option than to press on alone, so I've had to adapt. I...

Well, I dunno... Could you ask me a specific question, or was I that obtuse? Chris

Ah, that's the rub, isn't it. I added another paragraph in editing since you responded that may help, but I'm not saying I'm a master anything. Maybe a master baiter, hah! Passion and intention should drive action. There's an element of waiting for something to happen that's the crappy part...

In the past I was always into more of an archetypal "path working" approach based on the western tradition as I found it a handy way to organize my thoughts in order to establish depth to my intention. However, there always seemed to be a slight disconnect between the free-associational aspect...