{"id":1272,"date":"2004-09-29T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2004-09-29T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T16:15:00","slug":"fear-my-awesome-magicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/29\/fear-my-awesome-magicks\/","title":{"rendered":"FEAR MY AWESOME MAGICKS!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times that listing myself on Yahoo is a bad thing. Yes, I openly study esoteric, fringe sciences. (A wonderful term devised by a mage known as &#8220;Uncle Chucky&#8221;, while trying to explain the occult to a wedding party at the same hotel as a conference for Net-Mages)<\/p>\n<p>See, if you list Witchcraft, Wicca, Ceremonial Magick, or the like on a profile&#8230; well, then everyone from the Pagan world to the quiet conservatives immediately has an opinion on you and what you &#8216;do.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I got randomly messaged by not one but two girls wanting to know if I could help them with love spells. (<i>If my eyes could face the back of my head, they&#8217;d roll that far<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>The first one hit me and I had to <i>play.<\/i> Note, I take my study and philosophy seriously. But that doesn&#8217;t prevent me from being very surreptitious in practicing said philosophy while vehemently trying to teach a silly child not to play with fire. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put some comments in to give you an idea why I said what I said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more So this is how it transpired (with commentary--><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> hi, do you know any powerful love spells..<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Houston&#8230; we have a live one. Why would someone want to do anything this stupid. I mean&#8230; Like, ohmygod, like hasn&#8217;t she seen <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0115963\/\">The Craft<\/a>?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Well, that would depend entirely on what your goals are<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> what path of magic, do you study????<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Okay. What honest answer will make her believe I&#8217;m right for the job. Something that will make it sound like I can solve her problems when in truth, I&#8217;d rather she just drop this idea entirely<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Ceremonial, ritual, transforming the world to fit my will<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> ok, I need your help, I want my ex back, and I need a powerful love spell to do it, do you know???<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Agh, I&#8217;m being psychically attacked. I have these magickal headaches, what should I do?&#8230; Have you tried these magick white pills for defense. I call them asprin. I mean no offense, but let&#8217;s not use a chainsaw on balsa wood.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Well, there are several things you could do, but without knowing the situation, the wrong action could make it far, far worse<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Booga booga. Magick can be scary. If you&#8217;re being all self serving and trying to change someone else against their will you&#8217;re going to hurt them and yourself.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> are you there???<\/font><\/p>\n<p>I got these alot. The girl wanted immediate answers.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> I could explain the situation, if you would like???<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Yes. But you need to give me about 15 minutes, okay?<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> ok, can you tell, when you get back&#8230;.<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Thanks<\/font><\/p>\n<p>After 8 minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> are you there???<\/font><\/p>\n<p>And after 15&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Back now<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> ok, do you have time now&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> For a moment. What is the story?<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> well, my ex-boy friend&#8217;s ex -wife put a spell on us to breakup&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> How did she put a spell on you?<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> She went to Japnese magic worker&#8230;..<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>You know, the&#8230; no&#8230; just.. &#8220;You know!&#8221; Sigh. This now feels silly. I need to find just the right question to get more details into this.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Do you know if it was a dikuro or a kitsuyoshi?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/shimmeringjemmy.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">shimmeringjemmy<\/a> looks at me (as she is typing while I am driving) and asks, &#8220;What are those?&#8221; I respond, &#8220;Made up words in japanese that sound impressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I figure I will get 1 of three reactions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know what are those<\/li>\n<li>One of the two choices<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> Happily I have three responses ready. #2 would be the best one.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> I don&#8217;t know&#8230; what is the difference&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Well, in one case I wouldn&#8217;t worry, but in the other she&#8217;s calling on some very dark magicks that are very very dangerous<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>*heh* Translation: 1) She&#8217;s either not using magick and I really think you should find some other way of dealing with this issue; 2) she is using magicks on her end and is basically trying to manipulate someone else&#8217;s will and is really doing something stupid herself.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> do you think you could help..<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> I&#8217;d need much more information<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Like an eval on the relationship<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> Like what, do you have anything against  inter-racial relationships&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>WTF?!? Sorry, like a <b>psych<\/b> eval on the people involved. I&#8217;m one to have racial objections to a relationship? hahahahahahahaha<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Love is love. Race, religion, preference&#8230;. Nothing should get in the way of love<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Love is the most powerful magick we have<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Well actually sex&#8230; but sex under will, in &#8230; oh never mind.. too complicated. Um&#8230; All you need is love, honey.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> what type of information, do you need&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> One sec<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> I&#8217;m consulting a reference<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m driving. I need to think of something&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> ok, tell me when you are back&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> To try to figure out the types of magick used, I need to find out how you learned magick was used. Were you told, or were their signs? What were the effects that made it obvious that magick was used?<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> I went two spiritual workers and I was told the same thing ,and we had a very good relationship and out of the blue, he decided to end the relationship, after two years, a week before we broke up we were talking about marriage and kids&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Spiritual workers&#8230; sigh. I wonder how much they charged her. I actually contemplate charging her. But since I really don&#8217;t believe in that&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> And one tell-tale sign was that his ex-wife asked how my health was???<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Tell tale sign? I wonder if this was a leading question from one of her spiritual workers.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> One moment<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Well with that concern, the first issue is protecting your own health<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> You should begin shielding and setting ward immediately if you have not already done so<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>The girl is either dealing with paranoia or <b>mayyyyyyyyybe<\/b> some external influence. If she at least begins with a harmless practice of protecting herself maybe she won&#8217;t keep believing external forces are at work.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> but they said the hex was removed&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> Can you help me???<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Who is &#8216;they&#8217;?<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> I went to a  friend who is spiritual worker and he rmoved the hex and ge says that it lost its power&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Give me a moment. I will be offline for about 5 minutes while I check something<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> ok, thanks&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Of course. I will wave my hand and you are cured. Now you can rely on me to fix your problems. Now the girl believes that she is safe so she can go out and work magick on others to make up for the magick worked on her.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>2 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> are you there???<\/font><\/p>\n<p>3 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Yes. Was in the rest room<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> ok&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Now at this point, I was running more late for a date and trying to get out the door while trying to put the girl off for a little while.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> I think I can do some thing to help. But I need to run out for about 2 hrs. Can you email me general info about you and your ex so I can analyze what step to take next.<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> <strike>email@somedomain.foo<\/strike><\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> sure, but can Isend it you later tonight&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Certainly<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> I will be back on (or at least more responsive) in about 2 hours<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> what kind of info, do you need&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Full Name, birthdate and time, place of birth, (for astrological charts) current city<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Yeah, I&#8217;ll do a chart. That&#8217;ll help<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> is that all you need&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> For starters<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> It will help me cast charts of influences<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> I would also need the time and date that magicks were done&#8230; Or your best impression<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Who knows&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll find a big red &#8220;X&#8221; that says, &#8220;Magick was done here.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> ok, but I don&#8217;t know how to spell his middle name and I don&#8217;t know what time he was born&#8230;.<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Make your best guesses and make sure to tell me in the email which information you are sure of and which you are not<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> Ok, I&#8217;ll give it a try, but some are just purely guesses&#8230;<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> We will do what we can<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Are we done for now yet?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> do you feel there is hope for this???<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> There is always hope<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>No, give up hope. That will help any situation.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> Will other love spells interfere with this&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Ahh, this is a mulit point attack. Shop around for as many love spells as you can and volley them all at once. While you&#8217;re at it, Ray.. Cross the streams.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\" face=\"sans-serif\">Dr. Egon Spengler  : There&#8217;s something very important I forgot to tell you.<br \/>\nDr. Peter Venkman  : What?<br \/>\nDr. Egon Spengler  : Don&#8217;t cross the streams.<br \/>\nDr. Peter Venkman  : Why?<br \/>\nDr. Egon Spengler  : It would be bad.<br \/>\nDr. Peter Venkman  : I&#8217;m fuzzy on the whole good\/bad thing. What do you mean &#8220;bad&#8221;?<br \/>\nDr. Egon Spengler  : Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.<br \/>\nDr. Raymond Stantz  : Total protonic reversal.<br \/>\nDr. Peter Venkman  : That&#8217;s bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon. <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> I wouldn&#8217;t do any spells at all at the moment. Too dangerous. To the situation and to yourself.<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> Anyone advising spells at this stage is being irresposible to the nature of magick<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>For the love of anything you hold divine, Would you stop listening to people who tell you spells fix all your problems<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>Girl:<\/b> how soon will I see results&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><i>Oh, intone for 4-6 hours then repeat. If still intoning after 72 hours, contact a magus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beagleweb.com\/fun-taekwanleap.html\">Tae-Kwon-Leep is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"yellow\"><b>Drei:<\/b> That depends entirely on you. I will know more tonight when I get home and cast the charts<\/font><\/p>\n<p>More on this later&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1272\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/29\/fear-my-awesome-magicks\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1272\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/29\/fear-my-awesome-magicks\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1272\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/29\/fear-my-awesome-magicks\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/29\/fear-my-awesome-magicks\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times that listing myself on Yahoo is a bad thing. 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