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On Wednesday Plutonic.net nominated occulture’s darling Kara Rae Garland for the The Galloway Chronicles‘ 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive competition.

Late yesterday, following several embarassing scandals amongst their top judges, the winners were announced. Not Kara.  (She’s fine.) Continue reading »

The Galloway Chronicles, an occult blog which tags itself as an “occult resource of extremely limited appeal”, is running a (fairly informal, from what I can see) contest for the 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead).

The contest, billed as “the most important beauty contest since the judgement of Paris”, is described as follows:

This annual contest, normally held exclusively on the astral plane, has been moved to the blogosphere per orders of Dr. Dee, who is trying to make room on his back lawn for events of what he calls “greater occult significance.”

Plutonica.net officially nominates Kara Rae Garland, better known to occultists as Soror Ceilede, for the newly coveted title of Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead). Continue reading »

The idea behind guest blogging is to showcase other bloggers and writers. It offers a chance to promote someone else’s work, and provides a change from my voice and style. Additionally, there are topics I might not think to cover that another person would.

After Kara Rae Garland (Soror Ceilede) guest blogged for us last month I’ve been looking into featuring more guest bloggers on Plutonica.net and have made some inquiries with several talented writers, and others have approached me about the possibility of writing for the site.

In light of this I’ve put together some suggestions covering the most common things I’ve been asked about here in Suggestions for Guest Bloggers. It covers things like topics, post length, and what to include in your byline.

If you’d be interested, or if you’d like to know more, contact me.

Kara is a second generation chaote hailing from just north of Portland, OR. She’s been published in Konton, Key23, participated in the Infictive Hyperwiki and Occulterati podcast, and now graces us with her presence here on Plutonica.net as our first guest blogger.

This is Part II of a two part post, click here for Part I.

Philios can inform and expand True Love for the self and vice versa, Philios pointed inwardly informs and expands True Will, which in turn, informs and expands the Great Work, which necessarily flows back into Love and Will. In this cosmology, Love, True Will and the Great Work are all tied in together, flow into one another, expand and strengthen one another. (The symbol for recycling comes to mind here.)

So what is True Will and how does one discover this deepest of motivations? I believe that the answer lies in the subconscious mind, the background signal of the soul, so to speak. Instinct or what we often call intuition is at the very heart of this knowing. Intuition is that little voice in your gut that tells you whether something feels right or wrong at a basic level. If you use it as you would a pendulum to gage your feelings about situations and people and courses of action, I believe it will never steer you in the wrong direction. I believe that the human instinct is infinitely more advanced and elegant than we would usually care to imagine. It seems like an animal thing and we like to forget that we too are animals with keen senses.

“Its inherent Strength is perfected, if it is turned into Earth.”

This line from the Emerald Tablet, that most treasured code of alchemists, effectively sums up how I feel about the natural progression of intuition. As you use intuition, it grows in strength exponentially. You come to understand it, trust it and rely on it. I believe that when you continue in this direction, the intuition becomes tempered with logic, experience and resolve. If and when this enlightened intuition becomes personified, one attains Knowledge of and Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel. The HGA is your deepest need and motivation given voice and utilized as a guiding force and motivator, broadcasting the True Will. This voice can be so powerful that it may seem alien and external, and it has been known by many other names: Higher Self, Spirit Guide, Gwo Bon Anj, even God. And it can be fierce, it can be terrifying. Continue reading »

Kara is a second generation chaote hailing from just north of Portland, OR. She’s been published in Konton, Key23, participated in the Infictive Hyperwiki and Occulterati podcast, and now graces us with her presence here on Plutonica.net as our first guest blogger.

This is Part I of a two part post, see tomorrow’s post for Part II.

I do not believe in sin as typically described by the various sects of the world’s major religions. In my heart, there are two kinds of sin: sins against humanity (abuses of human rights) and sins against yourself. It is with the latter that the following missive is primarily concerned, heavily informed by Thelema, New Age philosophies and Modern Satanism.

A sin against yourself is something that only you can judge. You sin against yourself every time you do something that goes directly against your True Will. When you do not live up to your honest potential, when what you do holds you back instead of propelling you forth, even if that thing is refusing to forgive yourself for past mishaps, I believe you are sinning against yourself. (It should be noted that I do not feel this applies to normal, natural, healthy periods of stagnation, contemplation and plateau states.)

I used to think that the concept of True Will was malarkey. No one I spoke with could tell me what True Will was or how to discover it. I kept asking and wondering what kind of person doesn’t know what he or she really wants in life? But then I took a good look at the society around me, and I saw that we tie ourselves into secret knots all the time, constantly confusing ourselves about what we want and what is best. Continue reading »