Donald Michael Kraig

Improve Your Magick—Get Out of the Box

You do a magick ritual, spell, technique, etc., and to your amazement (or maybe not) it works. In fact, it works very well. So you mark this in your magickal journal as a method you can use to achieve successful results. Each time you use the technique it’s successful. Woo-hoo! This is something that works.
So [...]

Sergeant Howie—R.I.P.

This has been a year with numerous losses to our community. Not long ago, Ted Andrews, author of such popular and well-respected books as Animal Speak, left this world for the next one. Now, I am sad to report the death of actor Edward Woodward (June 1, 1930–November 16, 2009).
Woodward began his career as a [...]

Magickal Wand: Wired or Not?

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the many magicians who follow in that tradition, used wands for many purposes. The most common wand is used to control the Element of Fire. You can see this mentioned briefly in Regardie’s book on the subject, and more fully described, including methods of construction, in the [...]

FPG—It Was a Blast!

I’m back from Florida and the Samhain Florida Pagan Gathering. It was great! The weather was perfect and the people were wonderful. The music group, Coyote Run, really rocked the place. It turns out that one of the members had been to a lecture I gave (on Linda Falorio and Fred Fowler’s Shadow Tarot) many [...]

Come See Me In Florida This Weekend

Tomorrow morning I head off to Florida for the Florida Pagan Gathering. So for the rest of this week I’ll probably be incommunicado. If I can, I’ll blog while I’m out there as I’ll be taking “Ganesha” (the name of my computer).
If you’re in the area (Altoona in central Florida), come join the fun and [...]

Don’t Be Evil

“Don’t be evil” is the “informal corporate motto” of Google, the company that started with a computer search engine that has become ubiquitous and has now extended into numerous other areas. As mottos go, it’s a good one.
Unfortunately, it may not be as accurate as they’d like. A former employee, James Bara, is suing them [...]

Solution to Magickal Crossword Puzzle

Here is the solution to the crossword puzzle published last week.

So how did you do? Were you able to fill in the entire puzzle? Would you like to see more crossword puzzles like this? Let us know!

A Magickal Crossword Puzzle

I created the following crossword puzzle for you to try. The answers will be published here next week. Print it out and enjoy!

ACROSS
1. six-rayed star
3. Not physical
8. We agree it’s true: __________ reality
9. Not deosil
10. Go back in time
11. New plant
13. “King of the Witches”
17. He designed first successful Tarot with Pixie
18. Calling Down the [...]

Too Much Time On Your Hands?

CBN.com is the on-line arm of the organization set up by Pat Robertson. By using tax laws relating to religions, he has become extremely wealthy, with a worth of over $140 million and a mansion on top of a hill with a private air strip.
Today, guest writer on the cbn.com website, Kimberly Daniels, informs us [...]

You, Too, Can Be World Famous!

As I described in a previous post, I gave one workshop in 2008 for “New Age Self-Help Guru” James Arthur Ray. Ray recently led a sweatlodge for what seems to have been an abnormally large number of people, at the end of which, it has been reported, almost 20 people were hospitalized and 3 people [...]