Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 194

Apr. 22nd, 2025 10:16 am
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rememberWe are now in the fourth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary more than three years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health are anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; public health authorities government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; and the story continues to unfold.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its wholly owned politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.


5. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.


With that said, the floor is open for discussion. 
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For those who actually have vibrant, full lives: Katy Perry is a pop singer.  She sang at the Superbowl halftime show a few years ago.  

Katy Perry’s most recent publicity stunt was to take a rocket ship to the edge of space with a crew of five other women. The mission, if you can even call it that, was named Blue Origin, a generic, corporate shill moniker that would be entirely plausible as an overpriced cosmetics line or a stupidly expensive sushi restaurant. The all-female excursion that did not even break orbit cost a cool billion dollars and pumped out more carbon emissions in one shot than a billion people create in a lifetime. Jeff Bezo’s latest wife, a heavily plastic-surgeried pilot turned glamour puss, was in the group. The trip in its entirety was done to show the triumph of feminism — over what we will never know — and only took eleven minutes start to finish. Jeff Bezos, who financed it, is using it to launch his latest scheme of Space Rides for Rich People. Anyone can go on an incredibly wasteful tour of near space if he or she can cough up 150 grand in cash. The internet had a field day with the mission, with the funniest of memes invoking the rocket ship scene from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Blue Origin was by CIA spooks, for CIA spooks, and that is why the flight list included Katy Perry and Gayle King, Oprah’s best friend. Facing relentless mockery, Gayle King attempted to defend the jaunt after the fact, and was downright pissy about it. Ms. King defended the extravagance with her very own “Let ‘em eat cake” phrase: “Have y’all been to space?” and of course the internet, led by TikTok, said “No, Gayle, you probably need to be able to afford health insurance to do that.”

To state the extremely obvious, Katy Perry is not the brightest crayon in the box. I would guesstimate her IQ to be in the high 80s at best. That is why we have to take her lifestyle choices with a few grains of salt — she’s nearly in the Special category, if you get my drift, and we cannot expect a person who nearly rode the short bus to make consistently excellent decisions. Regardless of derp, when a person becomes extraordinarily wealthy and famous, it can go several ways. In Katy’s case, it has gone the way of the Wendigo. The Wendigo as most of you know is a Native American creature of legend. It is a formidable blend of cannibal and zombie that was once human. A Wendigo is created when a person tastes human flesh and develops an insatiable appetite for human meat. Yet the more the Wendigo eats, the thinner and hungrier it becomes.

Katy Perry has one or more Wendigo spirits attached to her — one craves influence, hence her absurd, vain album releases under the guise of empowering women and constant cringe faux-enlightened posturing. Another one of Katy’s Wendigos is real estate. She has destroyed more than one elderly person’s life by forcing the purchase of their homes she fancied those residences. She once roped an actual nun into circumstances that most likely caused the elderly nun’s death on the courtroom floor because she wanted to buy the abbey. Katy constantly dives into drama over houses she covets for herself, despite owning multiple large homes, which tells me she longs for a true home of the sort that money cannot buy. I’ll be talking about that true sense of home in my upcoming 2026 book, Sacred Homemaking, which is an occult take on the tidying genre.


George Michael at the height of Wham!'s fame

The day to Katy Perry’s night is George Michael, a world famous singer who died in 2016. George Michael, who was half of the group called Wham!, was one of the 1980s biggest stars and most likely went through the whole disgusting Hollywood groomer mill with the best of them. Unlike in Katy Perry’s case, whatever happened did not turn George Michael into a monster. He turned into an angel. George Michael donated huge amounts of money in secret. He secretly volunteered to help causes he believed in despite being a literal rock star. Revelations of just how charitable and utterly selfless he was were only forthcoming after his death at age 53 because he deliberately tried to keep it all on the down low. When he saw a woman on the TV show Deal or No Deal say that she could not afford IVF treatment, he secretly called the next day and gave her 15,000 pounds. She ended up naming the son she conceived via the treatment after him. He regularly left 5000 pound tips with waitresses and waiters. Entire charities said that his millions kept them afloat for years, and these are only the ones we were able to find out about. Had George Michael met a bunch of nuns who were going to lose their sanctuary instead of Katy Perry, there is no doubt in my mind he would have bought the property for them at a much inflated cost just so they could stay there as long as they wanted.

Like many greedy people, Katy Perry will remain in a state of Wendigo-driven stasis until she lets go of her fear. The gods are patient and are willing to let this process take many excruciating lifetimes. I personally would not trade places with Katy Perry for all the world, because much of her wealth is unearned. Like many who amass unearned wealth, she has failed to understand she can and will be earning it back in future lifetimes. Or maybe she does understand it deep down and it causes even more dissonance in her fractured brain. Generosity sublimates to the power of seven, and that’s why George Michael’s soul was likely able to have a great deal more autonomy after he died. Katy Perry won’t be so lucky. This is why it is so important to cultivate generosity and gratitude in equal measure. It’s not just that Katy Perry is going to get the short end of the stick later on in her future incarnations, it’s that she is horrible now. She does not act like a happy person. She acts like a person with a Wendigo. She is the author of her own destruction because she lacks humility, grace, and inner beauty. Nevertheless, it’s never too early or late to stop lying to yourself. As George Michael proved, compulsive generosity is the fastest shortcut to heal the heart, but it isn’t the only path. Though I doubt she will do anything differently, I will always maintain that no person is beyond redemption, even if that person is a space cadet bimbo.

Magic Monday

Apr. 20th, 2025 10:39 pm
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w4eMidnight is almost upon us and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.3 of The Magic Monday FAQ here

Also:
 I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

The
 image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week.  This is my seventy-fourth published book, the sequel to The Way of the Golden Section, an adaptation of some aspects of John Gilbert's version of the Golden Dawn system to the Golden Section Fellowship. What that means in practice is that this book, The Way of the Four Elements provides a sequence of rituals, meditations, exercises, and practices keyed to the four elements of ancient magic and philosophy, which unfolds over the course of a year and builds on the material given in the earlier book. Rituals for the solstices and equinoxes, and the making and consecration of the four elemental working tools of the tradition -- the book of air, the wand of fire, the cup of water, and the pentacle of earth -- are among the things included. Interested? You can get a copy here in the US or here if you live elsewhere. (I recommend getting the hardback edition; if you do the work in this volume, you'll put heavy wear on your copy, and the hardback will stand up to that.) 

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I've had several people ask about tipping me for answers here, and though I certainly don't require that I won't turn it down. You can use either of the links above to access my online tip jar; Buymeacoffee is good for small tips, Ko-Fi is better for larger ones. (I used to use PayPal but they developed an allergy to free speech, so I've developed an allergy to them.) If you're interested in political and economic astrology, or simply prefer to use a subscription service to support your favorite authors, you can find my Patreon page here and my SubscribeStar page here
 
Bookshop logoI've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Ogham Readings on Saturdays

Apr. 18th, 2025 10:04 pm
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I am happy to read your Ogham free of charge -- that's how I hone my divination skills.  Please limit your reading request to four or fewer Ogham cards: though this can take many forms, here are some common ones (all of them are basically combos of 4 cards):
 
-a single three card reading for the week or month and a one-off, one card reading
-four questions about four separate items that require one answer (card) per item
-a one card reading to answer a specific question and a three card for a more nuanced question
-Two separate readings, two cards a piece exploring the positives and negatives of two different choices
 
I am happy to do Ogham readings confidentially via email -- just email me at k steele studio at gmail during the allotted time/before deadline.  I cannot answer health questions.  If you have a question about health or another sensitive, private matter, provide a bunch of non-identifying information and the Ogham will be able to figure it out even if I don't. I'm serious... the Ogham actually tend to "know" things without me being privy to what is going on.

Please note I take time off during Solstices and Equinoxes for Druid stuff and because sometimes I simply need a break

My next planned break is from Saturday, June 21, 2025 - Friday, July 11, 2025.

I take reading requests from whenever this post goes up on Friday night until 8pm US Central Time Saturday.  

For a more in depth look into how I read and interpret the Ogham's symbols, please visit my website druidogham.wordpress.com.

I am currently trying to minimize my use of PayPal.  If you'd like to make a donation, I would be grateful if you did it here:

http://buymeacoffee.com/kimberlysteele

Your prayers of blessing to the deity/deities of your choice are welcome whether or not you can donate.

Frugal Friday

Apr. 18th, 2025 12:47 pm
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veggies are better than lawnsWelcome back to Frugal Friday! This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed.

Rule #1:  this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc.  I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #2:  this is not a place for you to sell goods or services, period. Here again, I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #3:  please give your tip a heading that explains briefly what it's about.  Homemade Chicken Soup, Garden Containers, Cheap Attic Insulation, and Vinegar Cleans Windows are good examples of headings. That way people can find the things that are relevant for them. If you don't put a heading on your tip it will be deleted.

Rule #4: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.

With that said, have at it! 

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 193

Apr. 15th, 2025 10:34 am
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doctoredWe are now in the fourth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary more than three years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health are anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; public health authorities government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; and the story continues to unfold.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its wholly owned politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.


5. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.


With that said, the floor is open for discussion. 

The Great Decoupling from China

Apr. 14th, 2025 10:59 pm
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Most people have enough knowledge to understand that you don’t separate dogs that are mating unless you want to kill them in one of the most brutal ways imaginable. A dog’s penis, when erect, looks like a little Hindenberg with a swollen middle. This middle is what lodges in the female dog’s vaginal canal and causes them to stick together while copulating.

The USA has been China’s bitch since the 1990s. When I was a child in the 1980s, clothing was still expensive because the textile industry had not yet been entirely offshored. Made in Japan labels were reliably as common as Made in China ones. By the time Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law in 1993, the evisceration of the American working class was well under way thanks to Clinton’s predecessor, George W. Bush. Republicans and Democrats alike gutted the American middle class with relish, throwing every decently paying job that wasn’t in technology or sales to a river full of piranhas. As I.P. Freely would attest, the river in question was yellow with the unchecked industrial waste of a corporate chain of I-don’t-give-a-damns stretching ten thousand miles across the Pacific.

Since Trump dropped his transparently Art of the Deal-crafted tariff anvil, a Red Army of sniveling victim-blamers has surged on social media to point fingers at Americans crying “Weak! Weak!” The most strident voice in this cacophony is none other than Xi himself, who has in his characteristically snide, backhanded way accused Trump of “unilateral bullying”. Whatever. The Chinese government and its various arms constantly engage in propaganda as shadow projection. Meanwhile, while Xi fiddles, the Chinese middle class — yeah, the same one that was built off the lost livelihoods of small town Americans from 1988 to 2025 — is cratering like a souffle in a drafty oven. Most people do not realize that China’s economic miracle only happened because China sold its own people to become capitalist chattel. Since normal Chinese people are conservative by nature, the Chinese government exploited their tendencies to work hard and obey. Where Americans spend in the present, Chinese tend to save for the future, and the Chinese government took full advantage of this by putting its poor to work in dingy sweatshops all this time while tricking the better off into investing in real estate ponzi schemes. Despite rampant censorship of the sort no one in the West can truly understand, Chinese ghost cities have made Western news because they are too damn big and spooky to ignore. For the uninitiated, a Chinese ghost city is a giant metropolis built on the money of large and small investors. Average Chinese middle class families, though being unwilling to spend on consumer goods as Americans do, were somehow willing to throw money at real estate that had yet to be built. The money that flowed into these places fueled several economies: Chinese-owned Australian steel companies, Chinese lumber operations that denuded various parts of Indonesia and the Philippines to bare dusty earth, Chinese mining operations that sucked metals out of the ground wherever there were officials who looked the other way as little brown skinned kids were dropped into mining pits to comb toxic substances out of the earth.

When Xi’s sympathizers accuse Americans of being fat, consumerist, and greedy and therefore complicit in all of our own troubles, I think the worst part of it for them was the retort “And? So what?” We Americans know we are addicted to cheap Chinese goods. I am writing this essay on an Apple computer that was made in China. Yes, it was made twenty years ago but the iPhone is far more recent. I am drinking dandelion tea from a Chinese-made mug. My IKEA desk was likely made in China. I am wearing shoes that were made in China. My eyeglasses were made in China. I could go on.

China is asshoe

The US exports 144 billion dollars worth of goods to China every year. China exports 439 billion dollars worth of goods to the US. China is the male dog, pumping away. China is the pimp and America is the hoe, wantonly servicing her master. Nobody expected Trump to come in and sever the relationship via a surprise vagina dentata feature. I sincerely thought Kamala would win — she is owned by Blackrock, which of course shares plenty of America-destroying interests with China. Isn’t it interesting that Disney, which is another arm of Blackrock, has consistently pandered to the Chinese government, conveniently papering over its DEI agenda if it didn’t suit Chinese audiences? But I digress.

The Chinese elite are a bunch of serpents with long memories and it has made them and their country retarded. For thirty years, China has been building its war machine in gleeful anticipation of World War III, where its elite jones for an apocalyptic face off to prove they were always the bigger dick dog in this fight against the West that became pronounced during the Opium Wars. Yes, the Chinese elite are still sore about the freaking Opium Wars, as if unleashing fentanyl dumps on flyover towns isn’t enough revenge for drugs sold to someone’s great grandfather in an opium den two hundred years ago. There are certain cultures that end up revolving around revenge and modern day Chinese culture is one of them. Unlike the China of the past, this current empire may end up shorting itself out due to ambition and bloodlust. The desperation of the Chinese elite has a Classic Mayan vibe to it.

We saw the horror of the Chinese psyche in crystal clarity during the Covid debacle. The unfortunate citizens of China’s most famous city, Shanghai, were welded into their apartments, their children kidnapped and their pets suffocated in large, plastic bags on the street as they were forced to haplessly watch from high apartment windows. Though many of my fellow Americans would have cucked if such a scenario came to the USA, I was ready to throw down and there were plenty more like me who would have done the same. People like me who were ready to die rather than take the quaxx may have been the minority, but we were also an armed minority thanks to the Second Amendment. When Americans say the Chinese hate our freedom, this is what we are talking about. When you have been sold a bunch of lies and you have sacrificed your life for whatever the government told you to cuck for, the nation that housed people who were still strong enough to choose death before dishonor drives your little cuck brain into self-immolation territory. Just as Americans made themselves into consumerist slaves sucking on the teat of cheaply made goods, the Chinese made themselves into servants producing those goods.

The latest thing on TikTok is where Chinese factory owners reveal what I knew the entire time, which is that brand name handbags, clothing, furniture, etc. are not worth their inflated price tags. All of those fancy $400 Nike shoes and $38,000 Birkin bags are Chinese crap. It was all a trick. That supposed couture-inspired dress with a Made in Italy tag was actually made in China and finished in Italy so an Italian label could be slapped on it along with a 500% markup. The factory owners have given us all the skinny in a last bid attempt to get us to shop direct. I saw a Chinese person literally asking Americans to travel to China to buy a bunch of cheap goods from her plant and have them shipped back. I laughed. Yet there are Americans stupid enough to still be buying "Chanel” and “Balenciaga” who will probably be taking her up on her offer. I have never owned a designer handbag. I am very proud of this fact. The moral of the story is that Chinese manufacturers were sleazy slimebags, the lot of them, who hoodwinked gullible people into thinking brand name was different and better. None of this crap was ever worth the poisoned rivers or the mountains of discarded junk. Supposedly shipping containers are stacked a mile high in every Chinese port. China is in trouble.

The stock market

Stock markets everywhere seem like fake collections of metrics that are supposed to get us to panic on command. I don’t believe the stock market reflects reality. It is a manipulation arm for the government. The Chinese stock market is down. Maybe theirs is based in reality. The yuan is not doing well. Videos on social media show working Chinese crying and begging for mercy. I don’t want normal Chinese people to suffer, yet I can do nothing about their suffering. This is, of course, something they need to take up with their government. For years, I have tried to minimize the amount of new Chinese goods I buy by shopping thrift. I saw the writing on the wall years ago. The relationship with China has been sour a long time; now it lies broken and bleeding in the gutter.

From what I can tell, China will be handily replaced and cheap goods will flow to America from everywhere else, such as Vietnam, India, and Mexico. I don’t necessarily see it as a good thing. We Americans need to start making our own goods again and wrest power away from the service economy. Restoring the manufacturing economy from its current dead state will be nearly impossible, and even if America became the manufacturing center of the world again, it is not the best outcome. The best outcome is for the US and China both to become more self-reliant and not up in each other’s business. To quote a common liberal idiot bumper sticker, it is time to learn to coexist.

Magic Monday

Apr. 13th, 2025 10:14 pm
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shhh!Yes, I'm back and have no disruptive plans for tomorrow. Midnight is almost upon us and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.3 of The Magic Monday FAQ here

Also:
 I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

The
 image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week.  This is my seventy-third published book, and the result of an intellectual adventure that began forty-odd years ago when I first encountered a copy of that odd classic of American occultism, Peter Kelder's The Eye of Revelation.  It taught a set of allegedly Tibetan exercises called the Five Rites. They weren't Tibetan, but it took me a long strange trip to find out exactly where they came from. In the process, I got to learn much more than I expected about the history of American occultism and the stranger corners of bodywork...and all of that found its way into this book of mine. Interested?  You can get a copy here if you live in the US and here elsewhere.   

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I've had several people ask about tipping me for answers here, and though I certainly don't require that I won't turn it down. You can use either of the links above to access my online tip jar; Buymeacoffee is good for small tips, Ko-Fi is better for larger ones. (I used to use PayPal but they developed an allergy to free speech, so I've developed an allergy to them.) If you're interested in political and economic astrology, or simply prefer to use a subscription service to support your favorite authors, you can find my Patreon page here and my SubscribeStar page here
 
Bookshop logoI've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Ogham Readings on Saturdays

Apr. 11th, 2025 10:03 pm
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I am happy to read your Ogham free of charge -- that's how I hone my divination skills.  Please limit your reading request to four or fewer Ogham cards: though this can take many forms, here are some common ones (all of them are basically combos of 4 cards):
 
-a single three card reading for the week or month and a one-off, one card reading
-four questions about four separate items that require one answer (card) per item
-a one card reading to answer a specific question and a three card for a more nuanced question
-Two separate readings, two cards a piece exploring the positives and negatives of two different choices
 
I am happy to do Ogham readings confidentially via email -- just email me at k steele studio at gmail during the allotted time/before deadline.  I cannot answer health questions.  If you have a question about health or another sensitive, private matter, provide a bunch of non-identifying information and the Ogham will be able to figure it out even if I don't. I'm serious... the Ogham actually tend to "know" things without me being privy to what is going on.

Please note I take time off during Solstices and Equinoxes for Druid stuff and because sometimes I simply need a break

My next planned break is from Saturday, June 21, 2025 - Friday, July 11, 2025.

I take reading requests from whenever this post goes up on Friday night until 8pm US Central Time Saturday.  

For a more in depth look into how I read and interpret the Ogham's symbols, please visit my website druidogham.wordpress.com.

I am currently trying to minimize my use of PayPal.  If you'd like to make a donation, I would be grateful if you did it here:

http://buymeacoffee.com/kimberlysteele

Your prayers of blessing to the deity/deities of your choice are welcome whether or not you can donate.

Frugal Friday

Apr. 11th, 2025 09:47 am
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get 'em in the groundWelcome back to Frugal Friday! This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed.

Rule #1:  this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc.  I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #2:  this is not a place for you to sell goods or services, period. Here again, I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #3:  please give your tip a heading that explains briefly what it's about.  Homemade Chicken Soup, Garden Containers, Cheap Attic Insulation, and Vinegar Cleans Windows are good examples of headings. That way people can find the things that are relevant for them. If you don't put a heading on your tip it will be deleted.

Rule #4: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.

With that said, have at it! 
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