The Golden Dawn: The work and the fruit (A Review)

Today I attended a presentation of the Golden Dawn presented by Robert Hagar.

Robert Hagar is the chief of the Bennu-Wadjet Lodge in Formation in Bakersfield, California. He started his path in occult study in the 80's when he walked into a B-Dalton bookstore and discovered The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie. He was a member of now defunct Bennu-Kheper Lodge where he served the office of Premonstrator.

The presentation began with a history of the Golden Dawn followed by a journey of a Fool named Fred. The Journey took Fred through the application process through adept.

Robert spoke of what the Golden Dawn is to accomplish for the student. The final portion of the presentation involved how modern Neo-Paganism borrowed from the Golden Dawn system. To show that Golden Dawn Occults are not a bunch of pompous elitists complaining that everyone takes their stuff, Robert showed that the Golden Dawn also borrowed from Egyptian and Jewish mysticism along with other occultist's work.

The talk was well presented and very informative overview of The Golden Dawn system of Magick. The material presented had the potential to be dry and go over one's head. Robert's presentation style made the class enjoyable and easy to find the gems of knowledge. Robert Hagar is definitely someone to watch for in the occult scene. I highly recomend The Golden Dawn: the work and the fruit, to anyone interested in or curious about The Golden Dawn system of Magick.

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A Psychic Faire in February.

So I attended a psychic faire at the Enchanted Cottage earlier this month. I read Runes again. My buddy Robert read Tarot next door in my canopy. I had quite a few clients come in. The questions ranged from relationships to career. To be quite honest I was on top form. I used a three rune spread for the majority of the readings. In a few of the readings I pulled other runes if I had a question on a perticular to find the root of the first rune in relation of the question. Being Valentine's month I used a special heart shaped spread split for the couple for relationship questions. It worked beautifully. I'm going to use it in future readings.

I plan on working on my Geomancy skills to present it at psychic faires.

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PantheaCon

Its finally coming up! The greatest indoor pagan convention on the west coast and probably the nation. It will take place Presidents Day weekend. The web site www.pantheacon.com has the program schedule uploaded as of today. I will be blogging on the events, classes and off schedule stuff. If you have never been to PantheaCon, I suggest you make every effort you can to made it.

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A concert worth going to part two.

As I had posted back in September of last year, I attended a concert by Wendy Rule. To say the least, I was blown away. I also posted that she might be coming back to the United States for the upcoming PantheaCon in February.
We emailed each other last night and she said she will be at PantheaCon this year. In fact, her concert will be on Saturday night at 7:00 PM, February 19th. If you haven't seen her concert, you have got to go. You will not be disappointed. I can't wait.

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Theory on Divination

My wife and I recently celebrated our twentieth wedding anniversary. Its a monumental occasion. We decided a couple of months ago to celebrate it at the beach. Cambria, California to be exact. The plan was for me to work until midnight, the wife and kids pack up and be ready when I get home then we drive that night so we will be at the beach and ready to celebrate our anniversary the next day. Sounds like a plan huh? We thought so too. What the hell does this have to do with Divination you ask? Stay with me, I'm getting to it.

I got home two hours early to get a jump on the trip. So far so good. Then it starts. My wife and I then get into an argument the day before our anniversary and a bad one too. We get to the point that we say we shouldn't go. Then we get over ourselves and get back into the groove to going on the trip. We get packed up and pile into the truck. We drive over to the nearest gas station and fill up. Then nothing. The truck is dead. Did I mention it was raining? Yeah, raining a lot. All day and night. So much its making me have a dreadful feeling about driving in the middle of the night in the rain on the dreaded Hwy 46 AKA Blood Alley. So, its raining and the truck won't start. I decide to bite the bullet and walk ten blocks back to the house in the middle of the night, in the rain. I'm walking home, get the van and drive it back to the gas station where my family is waiting for me at the closed store. I jump the truck battery which starts right away. We drive home and decide wait till sunlight to drive to the beach. While in bed, my wife tells me that she has been having bad feelings about trip too. Red flags about the trip huh? So my wife asks me to pull out my Runes and do a Divination for her about the beach trip. She doesn't tell me what her questions are as I pull the Runes out of the back. I just interpret the Runes and she tells me after what her question was. Anyhoo, all of the answers were negative that we shouldn't go to the beach. When asked why, the answer was that of a female energy source. We took it as to the Goddess. So, we decided to not go to the beach. Funny how the universe has a way of putting blocks when you are not meant to do something. The next morning, was a bit sad. Our twenty year anniversary was upon us and we wern't doing anything. I tell my wife if we are not going to the beach then why don't we go somewhere else like Hollywood. We did another Divination with the Runes and this time its all positive. Off we went and had the time of our lives. Here's to another twenty years together.

What did that have to do my theory on Divination? I did have a point in there somewhere. My point was when someone does a Divination or has someone does a Divination for them, They are tapping into their concience and unconcience mind either by themselves or by using a vessel (the reader). In doing a Divination, when the quierent has a question in mind, they also know the answer to their question. They just haven't tapped into the answer yet and needed the Divination to bring it out. Also the quierent uses a focused thought to help choose the particular card, rune etc. It is even more amazing when a reader is in the zone in fact is in the zone with the quierent working together to form a Magickal Mind Link (MML) to do the reading. The reader is the vessel in which the quierent is actually doing the reading through the reader's abilities.

The opposite applies too. I posted earlier about a lady I did a reading for during a psychic faire in which the lady completely walled up and was difficult to do a reading for. The lady had a focused thought to have a reading and completely wall up to make it difficult for the readers. She did a great job.

My theory is simply the quierent plays a very important part in that they provide the focused thought to the reading and that the quierent knows more about the answer to the question than they realize.

A good friend of mine once said...Imagine what you can do with a focused thought- Lon Milo Duquette.

Yule!

Tonight we had our Yule ritual. We started with a gathering of friends for a very well prepared and fun dinner. It was a great start to the evening with lots of conversation and laughter.

After dinner we went to the living room and began our ritual. Ravengrove Coven led the ritual. The Yule log was filled with hopes and dreams for the upcoming new year. We had a small meditation with candle work. We did a banishing using a besom along with salt and peppermint. A friend and I did a reenactment of the battle between the Holly and Oak Kings using plastic knives.
Its been a long time since my wife and I have hosted a ritual at our home. We had a great time and I expect more to follow. The most important part of having celebration ritual is to have fun and enjoy the Sabbot. That is true magick.

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Not much going on here today Pt 2

I decided to take the trip to Texas and see my dad in the hospital after his surgery. It was determined he had a clot in his brain and was bleeding. The doctors said they needed to operate to remove the clot and stop the bleeding. The operation lasted for about an hour and a half while I was on a flight to texas to see him. The operation was a sucess and on the road to recovery. When I arrived, I saw him and though he was sleeping semi-concious, he recognized me and called out to me. Most of what he said I couldn't understand. We just enjoyed the time together.
My time with him passed and he was getting better. I returned home and enjoyed time with my family by going to Disneyland for Thanksgiving. The next day I received a call that my father took a turn for the worst. He was unresponsive, had a high fever and the doctors were unsure as to why. I then received a call that my father did not show any brain activity and was placed on a ventilator to keep him alive. It turns out he survived the stroke however he contracted E coli while in the hospital. His body quickly deteriorated and my family decided to remove him from the ventilator. My father's body lived for another thirty minutes after being removed from the ventilator. He passed away November 30th 2010.
I'm glad I was able to see him before he died as he was able to recognize me and communicate to a degree. I didn't go back when he no longer had brain activity as I believed he had already passed and his body was being kept alive artificially. My wife and I flew back to Texas to attend his funeral. My dad was buried on December 4,2010 which was his 29th wedding anniversary to my mom. That date was not our choice. Sometimes the universe has a way of making things happen full circle.
Love you Pop.

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