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For those who aren't aware, this site has a bad reputation in some parts of the internet because it's very easy to lose track of time while browsing the site. Even so, it's been a great resource for me. The tropes speak to our assumptions and archetypes at least as well as the trumps of the tarot. A...

All plans are go. Wish me luck.

Preparation starts today. Tonight and the two nights following, leading up to Saturday, I'll be doing a pagan-style elemental cleansing of the ring in the local graveyard. From now until the invocation I'm going to fill my mind with thoughts of death. Books, movies, music, internet articles. I'm ant...

Wow. Not three minutes into the video you're getting things like, "It deifies nature! And women! Oh noes!" Amazing this was only thirty years ago. I'm glad things are a little more open these days, at least on the surface.

How do you know you've reached that state of trance when you're expected to release the sigil?

I've been wondering about this too.

And I don't know much about shamanism. I've never had any training in it unless you count perusing websites and talking to the occasional tree.

I'm not trying to be an asshole - I'm really not - but you said yourself that you had a strong believe that you were Dragon and you changed your mind. You're going through some shuffling right now - how do you know that you're not going to change your mind about being Otherkin later? ... I have hea...

I'm an otherkin [yay] Or at least, I have called myself such for a number of years. It's been shuffling around a lot lately, as have other parts of my life. When I was a kid/early teenager I strongly believed that I was physically a dragon trapped as a human; that was part megalomania, part making s...

I think I'm going to have to get a hotel room. The only other option would be to build a makeshift kiddie pool in the garage, but I really don't want anyone to walk in on this one [rofl] They would never think of me the same again, but more importantly it would mess up the ritual. I'm going to be bu...

No, the blue die isn't in the original description. That was something I'd heard about for scrying/black mirror types of things, and I was considering doing that for the bathtub. I don't think I will, because that would take a LOT of dye to get it black and it will be too dark in the room to matter ...

Okay, well, I got it figured out. But was there a reason no one responded to this?

I'm going to be performing a variation of this ritual to charge a ring as a talisman. The intention is simply to let me see the death that is happening around me, i.e. to be aware of the transient nature of things. I realize I'll have to be careful with the wording here. If I said "I want to se...

I could argue with you on that first point. But maybe a better way to say it is not that I'm trying to remove the survival instinct, which can be a useful tool, but just to gain control over it and be able to quiet it when I want. As for therapy, I've had enough of it in my life that it's taught my ...

No problem. What I'm really trying to do is get rid of all fear. I think the fear itself is more damaging that anything it might help me avoid. But my two biggest ones are falling and getting hurt (while rock climbing, doing gymnastics or anywhere there's a chance of that) and of embarrassing myself...

I am afraid of things that I shouldn't be, and I would like to change that. I've been working on this for a long time using exposure therapy and such, and of course I'll keep trying to face it on my own, but progress is slow. Do you guys know of anything that could help with this?

Thanks

I'm not addicted to cigarettes. That was an example, using what I know about cigarette addiction. Mine isn't a physical addiction, so it is a little easier to get rid of. I have enough therapy in my backround to have a pretty good sense of how my psychology works and why I do the things I do. Still,...

I am quite new to this, so tell me what you think. This is an idea I had that I had a while ago and have tried on one of my own bad habits that I've struggled with for a long time. So far it has worked well, but it has been less than I week since I used it. I'm afraid I messed up the casting and int...