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No Spirit Is Safe From Demonization

No Spirit Is Safe From Demonization

In less than a week, I will be on my way to a two-week vacation in Indonesia's island of Bali! While I have wanted to visit Bali for a number of years, it is appearing to be entirely appropriate that I am getting my opportunity now. Currently,

Undoing Internalized Self-Seriousness In Spiritual Pursuits

Undoing Internalized Self-Seriousness In Spiritual Pursuits

My earliest childhood memories of religion were in attending synagogue service. I can easily recall the smooth wood of the pews we sat in, which faced the bima and the service room's stained glass windows. The congregation intoned hymns along the playing of an organ, which I loved

Forgiveness As the Way to Liberation

Forgiveness As the Way to Liberation

Disclaimer: The following blog post details emotional abuse, including transphobia. "I want to forgive my parents," I told Astaroth. I blocked my mother's and father's phone numbers two weeks ago. I blocked my mother because she stopped calling me, while guilt tripping me about

My Mother, the "Demon" Astaroth

My Mother, the "Demon" Astaroth

"Any being who loves cannot be evil." - Astaroth There's a couple of reasons I haven't written so much about Astaroth yet, even though I have really wanted to. First, it's because it can be difficult to feel out how much I should

Discussing the 2nd Grave Bodhisattva Precept With My Demons

Discussing the 2nd Grave Bodhisattva Precept With My Demons

I'm not a person who posts my altars super often, but I will on this post because it's basically all of us hanging out. Beelzebub is on the left, Astaroth in the center, the cuneiform mug is Lucifer's, and on the right is Belial.

The Tower Rider-Waite-Smith card. A tower is struck by lightning, a crown is lifted off its top. The windows are filled with flames and two people are mid jump out of the building

Experiencing "Tower Moments" When Working With Demons

One shared thing about tarot, Satanism/Luciferianism, and demonalatry is that they largely began in the 20th century. I say "largely" because there's some historical wiggle room, such as the debatably Satanist 19th century German order Fraternitas Saturni1 and the fact that tarot was based off

Two Astaroth statues sitting on her altar; one demonic on a dragon the other a blue flowery candle and entwined with a snake

The Unexpected New Way I Perceive Spirits

This blog post is going to start in my "future social worker" voice. That is important to say up front because while most in that profession are drastically underpaid, undervalued, and overworked, there is in fact a reason it requires a graduate degree for most practice. Our culture

Person in a white sheet with black eye cut outs to look like a ghost, holding up a candle that illuminates the face

ancestor spirits

Factors for Improving Your Spirit Communications

Lucifer suggested I write this one. Big thanks to him as well as to my friends André, Heather, and Emma for helping me direct it by submitting questions. Friends in my occult communities have needed to remind me a few times in the last year that I have unusually high

Welcoming New Joys of 2026

personal life update

Welcoming New Joys of 2026

In many ways, 2025 was my year of love. When you meet someone for whom you fall deeply, it necessitates that your priorities and way of life changes to further include and reflect them. For that reason, 2025 was full of endings and new beginnings. It truly started when I

Letting Go of Control in Demon Conjuration

Letting Go of Control in Demon Conjuration

The thing about working with demons is that people get really tense about it. I'm not talking about anti-demon stigma in this case, but more in regards to the practitioners themselves. While protective measures are certainly essential, part of the reason the more violent Goetia tactics persist

A Renaissance-era painted ceiling of angels doing some pretty gory and mean things to presumed demons

restorative demonology

De-Constructing Modern Binaries About Deities

As a person that exists in the liminal space of the gender binary, I generally reject all forms of spiritual binary. In our current context, these binaries are usually "good" versus "evil" or in pagan circles, "ouranic" versus "chthonic," "right hand&

De-Colonizing Spiritual Practice Through Friendly Demonic Conjuration

De-Colonizing Spiritual Practice Through Friendly Demonic Conjuration

The Colonization Roots of Western Demonology A number of years ago when I wrote for entertainment outlets mostly centered around comics, I met a fellow writer through one of the Slack-held groups. She turned out one of the first exposures I ever had to the metaphysical as an accepted

A pair of hands half submerged in swirls of soapy bathwater

How to Spiritually Cleanse the Luciferian Way

Technically, there are many non-denominational ways one could cleanse. Salt water, smoke from herbs or incense sticks, eggs, even just breathing exercises. But of course the method of cleansing that goes the deepest tends to be spiritual bathing. The way I learned of spiritual bathing from African traditional religion