Confessions of an American Witch

The other day, I made the mistake of looking at the Great Gherkin's website. To see if he was alive. Because he accounts for a significant amount of my pageviews on my old Gleamings from the Dawn blog. Is he (and his model wife) still selling what I was complaining that they were hawking back in the day? No, the video title was about a mind virus. It seems that the Great Gherkin is selling sci fi in the second era of Trump. Probably with Democrats as the alien invaders. I didn't watch the video.  That wasn't my problem with his page. The Great Gherkin will be the Great Gherkin. No, speaking as a teacher that wrote a piece for the Hermetic Golden Dawn Flying Roll commentary book, my issue is the idea that for less than three hundred US dollars, a student can get access to all lessons of every Grade of the HGD system, just so the Pickle can include GD membership as a bonus material to his current scam. How did I get into this book?!? That the understanding of the Golden Dawn ...

Hear me, America--and the spirits of the Forty-Two Judges of the Negative Judgement--I speak for myself, the Chief Adept of a mighty current of Golden Dawn being born, as well as that of the rightful sworn-in Chief of our land, the President of the United States. How my device decided to display this photo. Hail Usekh-nemtet, O Wide-strider, who coming out from [Annu] Heliopolis, I have not committed sin, or done wrong. Hail Hept-seshet, O Fire-embracer, who coming out from Khheraha [Kher-aba], I have not robbed. Hail Fenti, O Nosey, who coming out from [Khemenu] Hermopolis, I have not stolen. Hail Am-khaibitu, O Swallower of Shades, coming out from Kernet [Elephantine], I have not committed thefts, nor slain people. Hail Neha-hra, O Terrible of Face, coming out from Rosetjau, I have not slain men and women, nor have destroyed food offerings. Hail Restau [Shu-tefnut], O Double Lion, who coming forth forth from the sky, I have not reduced measures [have not diminished the bushel]. Hail ...

Remember to love the religion of the day. We come in peace with literature. Monday be Wicca, Tuesday, hail Buddha, Wednesday Woden Tree, Thursday Hermetic lore, Friday Catholic fare, Saturday Jewish kosher, Sunday Mormon heaven. Seven choices, better by dice, chaos magic prevents reincarnation as a Texan.  You might have to be a child of the 80s to get that last joke . . . do they still make fun of chaos magicians in better magical schools? No kidding, they do, awesome. Chaos rules. 

In the official godform creation sheets provided to newly elected Hierophants worldwide, the Forty-Two Assessors of the Judgement are described as "Various Heads and Colors." A papyrus from the times of the Greek-Roman Egyptians . . . good times. Meanwhile, there is that prick who is using this as his source Image Papyrus. With Westcott's Names. Add in a modern translation, and a decent victim, off we go boom! How can you not love this papyrus? Damaged as it is. All dolled up. Maybe used in ritual once or twice.  All in good causes, we swear. Having declared a Mash-Up weekend, where would I get if I do exactly that:  NOM's 42 Judges' Names plus Images=xyz? What direction do we read in?  Osiris, the most important symbol of the setting, telling us to read Left to Right; so we will designate the Leftmost Assessor to be Number One.  And in this papyrus, he has a human-head. As he does in the Papyrus of Ani. Usekh-nemtet, you are good to go, as soon as we figure out t...

Attention all students: Posted in the page section is the book list for the Fall 2025 Golden Dawn Remote and Local  Study Group . We meet once a month, starting in September. Look for a James Wasserman edition of the Book of the Dead. For those can, either in person here in Denver, or in astral form, starting September 6, 2025, I will be starting an once an month study involving books, going out in the studio, and performing a ritual, etc. Therefore, I will "heavy lodge study" on Full Moon Saturday  until the end of 2025. Whether I go past that point will depend on how much material that I have discovered, or response, or some other measurement.  I doubt Khari will be a real factor. She says there a desire to study, but she's banking on Dragonfest . . . and Dragonfest people get sucked into that Commitment Black Hole.  No, Walnut Community Church is now a cover just in case I make money as a esoteric teacher, nothing more . . . it's not to exist because I needed a sp...

While I like to pretend that I am a good guy, a Star Trek type of guy, I am not. A work in progress--nice disguise, right? In reality, if you talk to anyone who knows me, Billie Bones, the Great Gherkin, Catherine Mock, Amy Harper, you know, the people that have banned me under Safe and Sober, he's harming both adults and children, showing up falling down drunk, never once contributed to the community . . . nice, got a screenshot of that Facebook libel and slander . . . I am a dirty Sith, as was my mentor, Maggie Moonstone; and we fought an Open War to destroy their groups, the only communities that should have any say in the future in occultism and paganism. We, Maggie and me, unfairly targeted them with our criticism.  After all, these Holy Leaders can do whatever they want, Do Wilt They Wilt to their communities without informing their membership, including banning spiritual teachers for not kissing their ass well enough at an OFM (Open Full Moon), and cite safety.  The Saf...

Being an experienced Lifestyle Journalist, I know that some of my readers have asked the question: "Won't your Secret Mormon Wife and Daughter object to you blogging about them?" Get comfortable. Strap in for Flashback City. Because of Invisible Wedding Ring. I want you to imagine that there was a time in my life before I was blogging.  The Herald of the Loco Gyro's end was a busted nose redhead.  Redhead had jumped up on my counter, sitting on it, ordering an onion ring. In hindsight, it must have been all she could have afford; she hadn't gotten a drink. Finishing her "meal," Redhead asked me, if I was hiring--I let her fill out an application.  While waiting for her onion rings to cook, Redhead had announced to me that she was Model Material.  I had done her the courtesy of not correctly immediately was strange. Her nose was not Model Material, unless you are getting Before and After photos done. I was guessing baseball bat; but rough upbringing, neig...

Correction of retraction (June 7, 2025 : As you read this post, please remember that I suffered a health crisis last year, and easily misunderstand comments on occasion. While my plans for Day C, courses for Khari's occult shop, and pagan church are still on, now that Khari understands my urgent need to have community around me, I am leaving this post up as evidence of the sorry state of my mind after the events of 2024. LVX.  Retraction of previous announcements (June 5, 2025): Day C Golden Dawn Outer and Inner events are cancelled.  Reason: Morgan does not want to work with Golden Dawn, whether Hermetic, Thelemic, Egyptian, or otherwise, because Khari does not want to--and she assumes he feels the same way. Therefore, Khari made a $100,000 business decision for Morgan . . . without asking him about economic realities of the local market, or the assets that we already had. Therefore, Morgan will not own an independent occult shop, or write classes.  Khari wants a comfort...

A core concept that is hard baked into the magick systems of Golden Dawn (whatever the flavor), Thelema, and ceremonial witchcraft is the idea that our rituals happen not only here on Earth, but also on other planes of existence as we perform to empower them. The so-called astral planes.  This idea can be found in our Theosophy ancestor (gag), the Cipher Manuscript, the work of Mathers and Westcott, Crowley and Regardie, as well as modern writers like Cicero and Zalewski. Hence one of my teachers claiming exclusive rights to the idea is CRAZY.  Yeah, I was kicked out of Hermetic Golden Dawn publicly by a Third Order blessed teacher on Facebook in 2016, for not sending ALL MY STUDENTS to Mister Golden Native for his Special Training in Godform Laying and Other Blessed by Secret Chief Teachings. Can I just say that as an actual Third Order member of a Thelemic AA system from the 80s and 90s, I find his claims of being a Hermetic Third Order contact to be insulting? No? Damn. I h...