Homemade Magick by Lon Milo DuQuette

Author:Lon Milo DuQuette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic, magick, high magic, high magick, ceremonial magic, ceremonial magick, lon duquette, home made magic, home made magick, homemade magic, memoir
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2014-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

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So, if you think you have nowhere to go to learn magick, you’re wrong. Your own home is the campus of the only true magical university you will ever attend, and you are the dean, the faculty, and the janitor.

If your life circumstances are such that you can accommodate a few guests in your living room one night a week, I strongly encourage you to at least consider offering an informal class right in your home. Don’t worry if you don’t think you know enough. Just schedule the class and study the very things you most wish to learn. It works like magick. Post a small, attractive, and well-worded notice at your local bookstore, college, or natural foods store. If you are concerned about giving out your address, screen your prospective students by chatting a few times back and forth via e-mail or meeting them at a coffee shop.

Schedule the class and then hold it. Even if only one person shows up, hold it. Even if no one shows up, hold it.

What are you interested in? Magick? Grab a good book on magick and use it as your text. Modern Magick36 by my friend Donald Michael Kraig is a great instructional text, as is my book The Magick of Aleister Crowley.37

Interested in astrology? There are plenty of texts out there to begin with, and plenty of free online astrological calculators. Offer a class where everyone casts their own natal chart from scratch using their birth information. (Don’t know how to do that? Learn how along with the class.) Then, to understand a little about the charts you cast, systematically learn about the planets, zodiac signs, and aspects as they appear in each of your charts.

Interested in Tarot? Lots of people are. Put up a flyer at a health food store and your living room will be packed. Get a deck of Tarot cards and a good text by Mary Greer38 or Rachel Pollack,39 or even my Tarot of Ceremonial Magick40 (and book by the same name41) or Crowley’s master text The Book of Thoth.42 Spend a few weeks on the trumps. Learn which cards represent planets and elements and signs of the zodiac. Then spend a few weeks on the small cards, and by doing so learn the basics of Qabalah without even trying.

Just schedule the time and host the class. The class itself is the magick. The subject matter is secondary to the fact that you and your guests are magicians meeting to discuss, practice, and live magick. Help each other. Soon your weekly gatherings will take on a life of their own; strangers become friends, friends become colleagues, and colleagues become an informal homemade magical order.

You can conduct your classes however you see fit, but we’d like to share a few secrets that we believe have helped our Monday Night Magick Class endure and thrive for thirty-five years.

• Have a consistent and regular schedule. In the long run, more people will attend more often and consistently if the class is held every week rather than biweekly or monthly.

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