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Cunning Plans for 2006

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20:07 / 18.01.06

As long as you're my bestman at the wedding, M$

20:12 / 18.01.06

2005 left me feeling like the suckiest suck who ever sucked. I made some big mistakes and will spend at least the first 3 months of this year paying those off. So 2006 is back to square one for me. I plan to do a literal slash-and-burn on my journal, toss out or destroy any tools or ephemera that've not been used, and just plain simplify. More importantly, I'll be examining my entire practice and getting rid of what doesn't work or seems to hold me back from improving myself.

20:16 / 18.01.06

And, uh, what Mordant just said there.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

20:17 / 18.01.06

Sorry, I meant cataclysmic. Or maybe catastrophic.

Just give it some room to breathe, you crazy kids!

20:26 / 18.01.06

Here's a cunning plan for myself: try ang go a whole 24 hours without making some sarcastic un-PC joke. Ain't gonna be easy.

Starting... now!

17:47 / 29.01.06

This year, I'm going to try and get back into magic, after a couple of years drifting in and out. So, more discipline, more learning, and more discovery of the world around me (helpfully, a new job and a bus ride in/out of work will be helpful in this regard).

I activated my first servitor for the year, "magic e", on Friday, and I'm making plans for using the viral workings of Animal Crossing: Wild World for magical ends to help improve my sister's nerve pain condition…

07:13 / 30.01.06

Here's a cunning plan for myself: try ang go a whole 24 hours without making some sarcastic un-PC joke. Ain't gonna be easy

How about just not mentioning that shit at all, because you're becoming incresingly tiresome? Rather than making an rotty post, designed to draw attention to yourself?

09:20 / 30.01.06

That was twelve days ago, you know...

09:25 / 30.01.06

Sorry dude. Hope you're keeping it up.... I find it rather aggravating to have to keep reading the same battles over and over again.

09:29 / 30.01.06

yeah, me too. I have a (bad?) habits to make jokes at everything and everybody. For people who actually know me - and therefore know I can make jokes about a subjects and still be serious about it - it's not much of an issue, but it does cause hostile reaction from people who don't know me. I'm trying to keep it down, for the sake of diplomacy. Guess you can call that a "cunning plan for 2006" also, at some level

23:09 / 06.02.06

I will begin the next phase of my work in massage therapy with
'bodylogic' my new studio that offers massge, accupuncture, and spa services.
Getting serious with my Bikram yoga practice too.

23:32 / 06.02.06

I think you all know my cunning plan, I've already started to enact it.

http://www.barbelith.com/topic/23257

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

16:54 / 07.02.06

Last summer I made a list of "things to do before I turn 30", which happens this summer. Sadly I've made little progress, due partly to laziness but mostly I feel to having been sick for about 6 months now. Anyway in addition to several not-all-that-magical things, I am supposed to step up the pace a bit and finish that tarot deck I've been fucking around with since 2002, and complete some kind of ego-dissolving ritual...and for my actual birthday I'm planning a fairly significant event with my friends in which I hope to test my willpower and endurance to the point of destruction - based on a dream I had last year in which they staked me out in the sun and I was really excited about it...

Boy in a Suitcase

19:45 / 07.02.06

Buy some new pants. I really need new pants. I only really have two pairs that are acceptable for work. And I've been riding on those for a year and a half by golly.

05:48 / 23.03.06

I spent a lot of last year trying to learn some more aspects of Buddhism, and this year I'm with the Tao. Going from withdrawing from the world a lot to trying to be in harmony with it instead.

nyarlathotep's shoe horn

16:03 / 23.08.06

measure of progress:

just got 5-ball juggling yesterday.

calendar development at: theabysmal.wordpress.com

how's 2006 passing for all the rest of y'all?

ta

17:16 / 24.08.06

I have done more working than reading this year so far which is good, mainly because of having a new job where I can meditate, practice visualation and other skills at my desk, which balanced out the amount of reading and theorising I have been doing to stave off boredom in said new job.

Blood magic stuff is going well with a side shoot of BSDM happening. Plant and Land spirits stuff is tougher to describe but getting there, I'll post something up in the relevant thread once I can put it into words.

As for the last part, not feeling like I'm behind everyone else.... To be honest I forgot about it so I guess that worked in sense.

11:11 / 05.09.06

I'm intending to start my year and a day with the local Wiccan coven. I'm going to help my boyfriend learn witchcraft and I'm going to buy a salvia plant.

Also, I'm going to use magic to help me get my novel published.

11:16 / 05.09.06

Oh, and finish my divination/poker deck, and start tai chi, kick boxing, possibly capoeira if I can find it. Do more dance and start a performance poetry troop.

00:25 / 11.10.06

I've been feeling the pull to get more serious with my magic. In the past, my practical work has been sporadic and I'm determined that this should change. So, I had my mind set on starting to work with enochian magic, which interests me a lot, but a few attempted workings proved that I'm nowhere near ready for it. I need to work more on my basic skills.
I have therefore decided that the next few months should be used to practice some more fundamental exercises. Specifically, I noticed that my grasp of the hexagram ritual was lacking. So, I'll be working on that, on the Supreme Ritual of the Pentagram and on the middle pillar exercise.

Hopefully an increased familiarity with and understanding of these practises will then culminate in a succesful enochian working sometime before the end of 2006.

What are you all up to?

02:40 / 06.01.07

PPPWWWAAAAAARRRRRPPP! Pencils down, people.

Looking back, I think I've got my debts paid up. There's a formal closing/dismissal rite that needs doing which I'm hoping to get taken care of this month. The journal got a pruning and a shuffle, a whole heap of printout texts went in the recycle bin, and my %vast occult library% got a good cleaning out. And I'm no longer sure that I need to "improve myself" so much as appreciate who and what I am.

How'd it go for you?

09:18 / 06.01.07

1. Yup, workable things have emerged from the tantric stuff and that's still going.

2. Progressed in my martial arts, though I haven't kept up twice weekly classes due to work commitments. One of my goals for 2007 is to get back on the wagon.

3. I still haven't got a full time positon but I have got supporting hours, thst's something at least. Had an interview yesterday - I didn't get it, but I'm trying at least.

Biggest change has been I'm much less interested in some aspects of magick (Crowley etc) - more interested in very specific areas. The gap seems to have been filled with reading a lot about exercise and physiology which is in keeping with one of my main interests, the body and it's interface with spirituality.

And I'm no longer sure that I need to "improve myself" so much as appreciate who and what I am.

That sounds really good Monk. Much my own feelings.

nyarlathotep's shoe horn

13:52 / 06.01.07

And I'm no longer sure that I need to "improve myself" so much as appreciate who and what I am.

i'm going to refer back to the above quotation throughout the year. monk, you're a frikken genius.

15:04 / 06.01.07

There's a formal closing/dismissal rite that needs doing which I'm hoping to get taken care of this month.

If you'd mind keeping me updated on that I'd be very appreciative!

'06 saw me trying to work more with communities, including this one. Strangely enough I feel much more comfortable here in the Temple than in IRL groups. Might be my skittishness with group drama which is thankfully slight here. It's been a great help to bounce ideas off of everyone, get support, and engage in critical debate. Thanks!

Though for '07 I've already set myself in motion to do more public ritual.

Unconditional Love

22:18 / 06.01.07

Well the buddhism practice slipped, big time, yet i cant help but think i got it half right, mahakala is great time as in the cycles of time, i am currently working with anubis (over 3 monthes, a world record) who has associations with the cycle of time, something i am finding common to alot of figures whom are associated with images of death.(death and renewal really)

My mens group is still going strong as well, despite some shuffling around, it helps alot, hurts alot but helps alot.
I seem to have a knack for letting other people see that its safe to talk as well, patting my own back. I think thats a big part of self healing, healing others as best you can as well.

My ego is still a nightmare, quite literally somedays, and i still have bad days where i would just push that button, but they are fewer, i am making slow progress.

I have quit exercising and put on weight which i could do with shifting, i think i am going to shift my focus to something that requires self discipline, rather than being disciplined by another, try my hand at plain old fashioned working out.

If my current intrests are to be trusted this year seems so far egyptian and hermetic and probably golden dawnish with light sprinklings of enochian, golden dawn based work and exploring figures like giordano bruno and other figures of the enlightenment.

I am thinking of going for a beach body so nobody kicks sand in my face.

03:11 / 07.01.07

Well, 2006 found me experiencing a kundalini awakening I really hadn't planned on, so for 2007 I plan to get more serious about my practice. I'm taking it as a sign and trying to make sure it wasn't all for naught.

I may even try and decide on a specific tradition to follow, since I've been playing the thieving magpie and going on instinct for quite some time now. Every once in a while I ponder the idea of joining something group-like, but I think maybe I'll save bringing other people into the mix for 2008.

I'm going to start instruction on some Neo-Reichian techniques, do some deep psychological digging, and work through some of my more stubborn blocks this year. Sort of my Be All You Can Be project. And if that fails, as these things are often wont to do with me, then I like monk's idea a lot too. Maybe even better.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:15 / 07.01.07

Well mine went tits up, but it went tits up in a really interesting way. Well, I thought it was interesting anyway.

When I started laying the basic plans and foundations for my animist-electronics project, I quickly found that

a) the direction I'd planned to take (very close to the kind of work I was doing a few years ago as teh l33t chaote) just didn't go anywhere, and that

b) when I found a direction that did go somewhere, there was a bunch of Persons of Restricted Embodiment waiting for me. They were watching what I was doing very very closely, because I was veering dangerously close to their turf and they reckoned I might be there to nick stuff. (Which I suppose I sort of was, except that I didn't realise it belonged to anybody.) I can't take the work any further until I've sorted out a few things, negotiated passage, got the right People on my side, worked out the rules of the game...

I'd go into more details but frankly the whole thing scares the willies out of me and I don't want to say anymore in case I piss someone off.

13:58 / 08.01.07

I managed half mine which is alright I suppose, but it wasn't the most productive year. Here's hoping '07 will be less reactive and more, um, what's a word that means 'proactive' that isn't wanky?

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