Category: poetry

I have my MFA in poetry, which has been really useful for me to be able to interprit symbology, from literature to arrt, including Tarot.

  • Sacrifices

    3/28/05 (Friday)

    Sun, morning

    Heard loud sound

    from SUV at

    2 AM, then it goes

    off, did ~~LRBP~~

    LRBP to ward off,

    after hit the deck

    for a while

    11:30–12:30 PM Conversation

    with Soror Hell (Barbados)

    & Sam Webster – hope

    to gain initiation

    3/31/05 Dream $\rightarrow$ taking

    over responsibility for

    lapses

    Haven’t been able to

    do any home rituals,

    but will start doing

    LRBP in bathroom to keep

    it going –

    Banishing dagger arrived,

    have to email prev.

    owner to see that

    it wasn’t used to

    cut any living flesh. I

    wonder if it needs

    to be consecrated?

    to OSOGD, don’t

    have to pay lodge fees

    cause I long distance,

    need to find

    Scott on Theurgy &

    also look “the Cult of

    Tara” about Tibetan

    magick.

    Don Milo is OSOGD initiate

    so I must be on right

    path,

    Seems like it doesn’t,

    not sure.

    Should move on to

    Crowley Star Ruby,

    because it has the

    new aeon names.

    Went to gnostic

    mass on Sunday

    Interesting experience.

    Some argue that

    a ritualized mass is uncreative,

    a rote re-run of

    Crowley’s ritual, a cult

    of personality.

    But they don’t really

    get it.

    ~~these same critics~~

    ~~usually have no problem~~

    ~~following their~~

    Well, to each their own,

    Certainly there’s a

    huge latitude for

    acting in anything.

    Crowley had some

    interesting insights, but

    his twisted sense

    of humor & general

    Zen roshi English

    madness caused

    some unfortunate

    obfuscation and

    confusion.

    Back at the beginning

    of the Christian

    church sperm

    was considered sacred,

    so when Crowley

    says “the best

    sacrifice is a child

    of highest int. . .”

  • LRBP

    Dream

    Alienated from fine society,

    running, trying to get into

    club, kicked out by bouncer

    for no shirt

    3-18-05

    Dream

    $\rightarrow$ more crowded, blocked

    ~~by trees~~ by brambles

    Scientol. trying to con-

    vince about the

    immortality of LKH

    Tarot meditation – reading

    Duquette’s Thoth Tarot,

    about Archangel

    3/19/05

    4 AM – Lesser Banishing

    pentagram – always

    good before bed,

    try to clear out

    the space, energy

    down the street,

    cops, paramedics,

    needed to cleanse

    space

    Dream – always running

    from something?

    (pentagram sketch)

    3/20/05

    Dream – worried

    worried for the estate

    of a magician passed

    on, realizing it’s ok to

    show the man having

    fun & joking, it’s ok to

    have sense of humor.

    3-21-05

    11:50 AM L.R.B.P.

    finally got it correct,

    including drawing the

    circle from center

    to center, the

    space I did it in

    has a different feel,

    like there’s more

    energy there, now

    I can add the other

    part of making the

    gesture that DMK

    adds.

    Used finger instead of

    the butter knife, since

    I need a real magick

    dagger, not some prosaic

    butter knife used for

    kitchen.

    Dream:

    someone try to

    force us to pay

    exorbitant cult-like fees

    to learn magick

    3/22/05 Dream

    couldn’t sell “cursed

    property”.

    3/23/05

    “Don’t know the world –

    running around, trying to

    sell & so forth”

    3/24/04

    – On trial for

    life, over magick.

    reliving witch trials?

    3/25/04

    still have some fear,

    suppression, oppression

    12 AM – Tai Chi –

    a pad w/

    anger / irritation

    3/28/05 (Friday)

    Sun, morning

    Heard loud sound

    from SUV at

    2 AM, then it goes

    off, did ~~LRBP~~

    LRBP to ward off,

    after hit the deck

    for a while

    11:30–12:30 PM Conversation

    with Soror Hell (Barbados)

    & Sam Webster – hope

    to gain initiation

    to OSOGD, don’t

    have to pay lodge fees

    cause I long distance,

    need to find

    Scott on Theurgy &

    also look “the Cult of

    Tara” about Tibetan

    magick.

    Don Milo is OSOGD initiate

    so I must be on right

    path,

    3/31/05 Dream $\rightarrow$ taking

    over responsibility for

    lapses

    Haven’t been able to

    do any home rituals,

    but will start doing

    LRBP in bathroom to keep

    it going –

    Banishing dagger arrived,

    have to email prev.

    owner to see that

    it wasn’t used to

    cut any living flesh. I

    wonder if it needs

    to be consecrated?

  • Another Dream

    3-18-05

    Alienated from fine society,

    running, trying to get into

    club, kicked out by bouncer

    for no shirt

    Dream

    $\rightarrow$ more crowded, blocked

    ~~by trees~~ by brambles

    Scientol. trying to con-

    vince about the

    immortality of LKH

    Tarot meditation – reading

    Duquette’s Thoth Tarot,

    about Archangel

    3/19/05

    4 AM – Lesser Banishing

    pentagram – always

    good before bed,

    try to clear out

    the space, energy

    down the street,

    cops, paramedics,

    needed to cleanse

    space

    Dream – always running

    from something?

    (pentagram sketch)

    3/20/05

    Dream – worried

    worried for the estate

    of a magician passed

    on, realizing it’s ok to

    show the man having

    fun & joking, it’s ok to

    have sense of humor.

    3-21-05

    11:50 AM L.R.B.P.

    finally got it correct,

    including drawing the

    circle from center

    to center, the

    space I did it in

    has a different feel,

    like there’s more

    energy there, now

    I can add the other

    part of making the

    gesture that DMK

    adds.

    Used finger instead of

    the butter knife, since

    I need a real magick

    dagger, not some prosaic

    butter knife used for

    kitchen.

    Dream:

    someone try to

    force us to pay

    exorbitant cult-like fees

    to learn magick

    3/22/05 Dream

    couldn’t sell “cursed

    property”.

    3/23/05

    “Don’t know the world –

    running around, trying to

    sell & so forth”

    3/24/04

    – On trial for

    life, over magick.

    reliving witch trials?

    3/25/04

    still have some fear,

    suppression, oppression

    12 AM – Tai Chi –

    a pad w/

    anger / irritation

    3/28/05 (Friday)

    Sun, morning

    Heard loud sound

    from SUV at

    2 AM, then it goes

    off, did ~~LRBP~~

    LRBP to ward off,

    after hit the deck

    for a while

    11:30–12:30 PM Conversation

    with Soror Hell (Barbados)

    & Sam Webster – hope

    to gain initiation

    to OSOGD, don’t

    have to pay lodge fees

    cause I long distance,

    need to find

    Scott on Theurgy &

    also look “the Cult of

    Tara” about Tibetan

    magick.

    Don Milo is OSOGD initiate

    so I must be on right

    path,

    3/31/05 Dream $\rightarrow$ taking

    over responsibility for

    lapses

    Haven’t been able to

    do any home rituals,

    but will start doing

    LRBP in bathroom to keep

    it going –

    Banishing dagger arrived,

    have to email prev.

    owner to see that

    it wasn’t used to

    cut any living flesh. I

    wonder if it needs

    to be consecrated?

  • Meditation

    3/3/05

    morning

    12 AM –

    double wands,

    relaxation

    Weather:

    rainy

    Body:

    lungs

    hurt, hurt

    Evening

    11 pm

    Weather:

    dry

    Body: relaxed,

    little asthma

    Pentagram work

    concentrated on

    seeing the blue

    light

    3/3/05

    borrychem, top of a

    group of 4 loud

    people who want

    to stop practice

    3/4/05

    Evening 8:30pm

    breath of fire,

    HUM I HUM mantra

    body: lungs still hurt

    weather: dry, but

    wet street

    result: total clearing

    of lungs, but

    some amplified aggression

    3/5/05 Dream -> fled

    too fast to record,

    but I’m betting there’s

    a repetitive pattern

    related to lawsuit

    DATE: 3/5/05 DAY: ~~SUNDAY~~

    TIME: 10:40 AM

    Phase of moon: 3 past last

    quarter

    weather: Sunny, not too

    warm

    Emotions: Just had fight

    about pres / leader.

    Name of ritual:

    Tarot meditation

    its supposed to connect

    each of the pentagrams

    to each other, but

    the first time I

    drew a circle about

    each pentagram,

    but then I

    re-ran the ritual

    correctly. Now I

    suppose the bathroom

    is well protected,

    but need altar &

    oil & katha, etc.

    I felt calm, body was

    normal, but I didn’t

    do yoga, just the

    meditation, but also

    had 9mg of melatonin,

    so that helps get into

    the mind-state.

    After I had some

    strange dreams, but

    had too fitful sleep

    to remember much.

    Heard a screeching sound

    outside later on,

    but could’ve been

    drunk girl coming home

    from date.

    3/15/05

    9:00am

    Dream:

    young ladies rapidly

    degrade into old

    crones in front of my

    eyes.

    11:30pm L.R.B.P.

    — used osogd ritual

    instead of DK’s, and

    osogd is much easier

    to perform.

    Now the house has a

    deep sense of calm.

    Did the ritual in main

    room, not bathroom.

    Now I need to do

    midnight sunrise

    salutation

    11:54pm sunrise salutation

    did a short 1 min

    sunrise salutation

    to greet galactic sun

    (center) just before

    midnight

    (Illustration page containing line sketches of geometric shapes, sails/triangles, and horizontal waves)

    3-16-05

    $5 + 6 = 11 = \text{I \& I}$

    (diagrams and vertical symbol groupings)

    Dream: Force used

    to control, wicked

    group, co-ercion.

    3-17-05

    3 Ahhs $\rightarrow$ worked on

    3 Ahhs, visualizing

    energy coming in, then

    passing thru my head.

    Did 2 min Zazen

  • Double Wands

    3/3/05

    morning

    12 AM –

    double wands,

    relaxation

    Weather:

    rainy

    Body:

    lungs

    hurt, hurt

    Evening

    11 pm

    Weather:

    dry

    Body: relaxed,

    little asthma

    Pentagram work

    concentrated on

    seeing the blue

    light

    3/3/05

    borrychem, top of a

    group of 4 loud

    people who want

    to stop practice

    3/4/05

    Evening 8:30pm

    breath of fire,

    HUM I HUM mantra

    body: lungs still hurt

    weather: dry, but

    wet street

    result: total clearing

    of lungs, but

    some amplified aggression

    3/5/05 Dream -> fled

    too fast to record,

    but I’m betting there’s

    a repetitive pattern

    related to lawsuit

    DATE: 3/5/05 DAY: ~~SUNDAY~~

    TIME: 10:40 AM

    Phase of moon: 3 past last

    quarter

    weather: Sunny, not too

    warm

    Emotions: Just had fight

    about pres / leader.

    Name of ritual:

    Tarot meditation

  • Dream

    3/4/05

    startled awake, something

    about evil center

    I went to roman church?

    Rite: Tarot meditation

    Weather: Dry, cold

    Body: normal

    Moon: two past last quarter

    Action: Followed

    recipe to pull

    card, pulled “The World”

    Got the idea, man is

    on the same level

    as the “beasts”, the

    woman is powerful, holds

    2 wands & is surrounded by greenery

    morning

    12 AM –

    double wands,

    relaxation

    Weather:

    rainy

    Body:

    lungs

    hurt, hurt

    Evening

    11 pm

    Weather:

    dry

    Body: relaxed,

    little asthma

    Pentagram work

    concentrated on

    seeing the blue

    light

  • Mom

    5/26/91

    Son: The insanity of

    the world is

    driving me insane

    Mom: Oh, how cute,

    he’s become an angry

    young man.

    Dad: It’s just a stage, soon

    he’ll be just like

    us. We were like

    him once, all of

    us, but look how

    happy we are now.

    Son: I think I’ll go blow

    my brains out now.

    Hopeless Romantic: I want so much

    just to ~~loose~~ lose myself

    completely in another, to

    merge, but there’s

    no depth, they just want

    a lay. They suck me

    in completely, take me

    in, then give me nothing

    of them, they ~~(she)~~

    steal(s) my soul.

    Cynic: All people are

    basically stupid

    and full of shit. All

    people are just out

    for themselves – they

    want the basics,

    comfort, security,

    a good lay. It’s

    all “me” “me” “me”!

    I used to believe

    in people once. I

    was stupid then.

    They just fucked

    me over and left

    me out in the cold.

    I was naive, now

    I’m smart, I don’t

    give a shit.

    The Fashion Consultant:

    How could you cut your

    hair? How atrocious!

    Short hair isn’t in,

    look around you, we’ve

    all got long hair, we

    care to know! You’ll

    just have to grow

    your hair out, wouldn’t

    want to look like

    a marine, would you?

    Or were you for

    the war?

    The Boss: Didn’t I

    tell you never to

    wear that ugly shirt

    on your day off?

    And how could you

    come in here with that

    goddam earring? I told

    you never to come in

    here wearing them

    goddam earrings, people

    gonna think I got a

    bunch of goddam fags

    working for me.

    And isn’t your hair

    getting a little long?

    People think you’re

    some kinda goddam

    pacenik, working at

    my store!

    Angry Young Man:

    All I ever wanted to

    be was myself. Why

    can’t you all leave

    me alone so I can

    be me. All I ever

    wanted to do was live

    my own life, why can’t you

    respect that?

    Government: Hey kid, where

    do you think you’re

    going this late, don’t

    you know it’s past curfew?

    Hey kid, what’s that

    you’re smoking? I don’t

    think we approve, we’ll

    have to take you in.

    Hey kid, what’s that

    you’re reading, looks

    obscene, have to burn

    it. Hey kid, ~~looks~~

    where’re you parking,

    that’s a red zone,

    have to take your

    car away. Just go

    home, it’s safer, watch

    a good cop show on

    TV.

    Angry Young Man:

    It’s just a simple

    thing, all I want is

    honesty. All my life,

    the whole world tells

    me to be honest,

    then one morning

    I wake up and discover

    only lies.

    The Church: Shut up

    and go to mass,

    you know the prayer,

    we told it to you,

    just pray it and you’ll

    go to heaven.

    Angry Young Man: All I want is

    a partner. A best friend,

    someone I can share, somewhere

    I can put my dick, that

    don’t have no callouses

    for God’s sake!

    ~~Woman~~ Girl: I’ve always wanted

    a little boy. You’d

    be nice to own.

    I could put you on

    my arm and parade you

    around town. Want a

    nice bracelet?

    ~~But~~ sorry, I only like

    you as a friend. But

    Jim!

    Him: Kneel down bitch,

    so I can dominate

    the fuck out of you!

    Aym: I’m just a nice harmless

    guy, what more could

    any woman want?

    Running from something?

    On freeway, travelling?

    3/5/05

    Dream of meeting

    to build group

  • Living in Irvine

    5/14/91

    Living in Irvine

    Is like playing poker

    With a pack of index

    cards.

    5/15/91

    “Standard”

    They say that God

    don’t wash his hands,

    They say that God

    created man,

    But just who is

    this God thing anyway?

    Just what’s this

    God thing anyway.

    They say that God

    don’t get no sleep

    They say that God

    is much too deep,

    For us to understand,

    For us to understand.

    They say that God’s a

    grey old man,

    They say that God

    created land,

    Out of nothing, out of

    nothing?

    But I don’t understand,

    How can God be a

    man,

    If I can’t understand

  • First Child

    4/1/91

    Imagine me,

    First child of my mother!

    4/4/91

    There would only be 3

    laws. First, all fear

    would be abolished. Next

    all hatred would disappear, be-

    cause no one would fear. Then

    finally all greed and ambition

    for power over one another

    would be done away with.

    Greed’s got nothing to do

    with money, It’s all about

    power. Certain people, by nature

    or by upbringing, seem

    compelled to gain power over

    other people. The world

    will never be a good, just

    place, until people are

  • Poems About War

    3/9/91

    Father says to son

    “Ya done good son,

    ya done real good,

    now wash the

    blood off ya’ hands

    and come on inside,

    your mother made your

    favorite, meatloaf.”

    by turning in Dash to Hackett,

    his manager Erin, ends up

    jacking off again, goes to

    confession, but priest says

    its a sinful, lonely thing,

    but priest works for Hackett,

    & turns in Arto, but Arto gets

    back, because when he’s

    celibate w/ Dash, all the

    fags want Dash to love him alone

    3/10/91 Song of a Married Man

    “This ring is heavy now.

    ~~Every morning it seems~~

    It is gold, thick, warm.

    At one time it was

    very bright, even reflected the sun,

    But now it is dull and

    tarnished with the passing

    of years.

    When I wake up in

    the morning and slip

    it over my finger,

    It seems heavier and

    heavier each passing sunrise.

    The earth’s gravity

    tugs, ~~tugs~~ and tugs, till

    I fear one day it will

    simply slip off.”

    3/12/91 For the French Girls

    Your tongues are turned

    upside-down, but

    somehow I’m still

    compelled by your

    ironwood black

    impossibly curled hair,

    spirals and spirals

    that shake nervously

    under your foreign laugh.

    I don’t understand

    a thing you say, I can’t

    speak French, but

    I can read your eyes,

    amber eyes, the

    universal language of

    your pupils, lit up

    by the shine of your

    magic brown skin,

    But maybe my

    tongue is upside down,

    or maybe my skin

    is too, too much duller

    than yours, or maybe

    my eyes are shut?

    3/20/91

    initiation by

    approximation

    3/23/91

    There are no words

    to express this,

    only pictures;

    Life is a picture,

    poems are artifice,

    This is the electric

    life, half the time

    I’m unplugged, but now

    I’m plugged in!

    It’s like folk VS rock

    Who needs the acoustic life?

    It’s too hollow and cold

    And – great american experience

    Vroom