Dios Voz!
Well Luxurious Mr. L has been taking a much needed sabbatical from all things resembling responsibility, and have neglected my adoring throngs of readers......Is there anything that I can do to make it up to you? How does a life size hot fudge sunday sound? I promise that there will be an extra tasty cherry at the top....lol
So Luxurious Mr. L in all his glory has decided to create the first "official" contest for this year, and the prize will be a delectable mojo of your choice. And here is how we all play........
1. I will give you a list of ingredients, both well known and some not so common.
2. You construct a theoretical or real working of your choice around them and submit to me, your god....lol
3. Originality counts for everything..... :-)
4. The winner will be decided after two weeks!
Ingredients- Clover, Rue, Five Finger Grass, 1 Red kercheif, 1 Tonka Bean, and 1 Small Mirror.
Now onto the real juice of today's column, to spell or not to spell....lol
Dear Mr L
I have so enjoyed reading your blog..Finally an advice columnist that really seems like they love life especially the pleasures of life. A wonderful mix of leisure and life. So keep telling it like it is.So I have a question about all this stuff that is part of your advice.I can understand a martini glass and sipping down the spirit of god, but do I really need all of this other stuff to keep the magick flowing and to manifest the things in my life that I would like to accomplish/ get rid of/enhance etc? Can I work with the same effectiveness using only internal energy accompanied with the spirits that travel with me? If so what is your thoughts on magick done with stuff and magick done without stuff. Thank you for your advice.
Ed Lover
Dear Lover,Mmmmmmmmm........Martini's of god, tasty treats! Lord knows I like to sip down a number of different substances.....
But to answer your question, I for one think that nothing is hard and fast, though on rare occasions I can appreciate both at the same time...lol......For me its all about where do you feel the most connectivity to you own manifesting powers. As you can tell, I am a very sensual person, and there is something to be said about feeling a mojo against your chest or the smell of an oil on your body. I also feel that herbs, curios, and such add their magick to yours and aid your own manifesting powers.
That is not to say that I constantly have to have an object to channel, focus, or harness magicks, a smile and a sleek look can do as much as any come to me oil can do. I would say its all about how you work with your own energy first. Are you able to sense and work with your subtle energy body, after all it doesn't matter what charms you have if you can't charge them.
Either way you go Mr. Lover, keep on sipping on tasty god goodness!_____________________________________________________________
Dear Luxurious, My question is not so much about a case of writer's block as it is about a general, life-long struggle to make work. I know that I am a writer and that there is no other occupation I ought to be doing, but I need some help loosening whatever this block is that has been stopping me for so long. I really want a daily (or at least a regular) writing practice. I have been told by a wise woman that there is a loop stuck between my second (creativity) and fifth (expression) chakras. This feels quite true because I don't suffer from lack of inspiration, rather I experience great difficulty with bringing my inspiration into the fullness of manifestation. Any ideas on how I can work with this situation? Thanks a lot. I love your column, by the way!Best, Loopy
Dear Loopy,
I love my column too! Don't you think I am Fab?....lol But enough of me, lets talk about you, sounds like you are in a circuit of ickiness. Sometimes, if not all the time, we become attached to our blocks, as much as we are attached to our blessings. There is an old saying among Rootworkers that one destroys with the feet, what is built with the hands, and it doesn't matter how much we work to create sustaining good habits, our bad habits get in the way. I also think that for however long we remain attached to these loops, cycles, etc, we can begin to birth, without our knowing, an energetic spirit on the etheric plains which feed and can actually cause these blocks and loops to intensify and happen more and more.My first thought would be to do some cutting work, which is to physically cut the ties that bind you to blocks, loops, etc. The longer this situation has been in your life, the stronger the working needs to be to cut you from the situation; therefore, I would recommend a physical cutting.
Ingredients
3 pieces of silk cord
Sulphur
Saltpeter
Rosemary
Spearment
Mercury Dime
1 jug of water
This working will take place over a three month period. You will start on the full moon of the first month by measuring three lenghts of silk cord which can be tied around your waist. Next submerge the cord, sulphur, saltpeter, rosemary, spearment, and mercury dime in the jug of water and leave the container out in the moon energy for a month. At the next full moon, you take the cord out and allow it to dry for a day, and then braid it with the intent of it soaking up the physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual energy which is causing you to remain in this loop. Next tie it around your waist and wear it day and night for the month. On the last full moon create a sacred space and when you feel at your most powerful, take a knife and cut the cord that has been binding you. As you cut it, imagine that you will no longer be tied to patterns that constrain and bind you. You can verbally say them out loud and proclaim your power over them, and for them to trouble you no longer. Finally burn the cord as a physical sign of your domination over these negative powers. You can save the ashes and add them to your flower bed, uncrossing oils, and such as a sign of the transformation and cutting that has occurred.
Till next time! Big kisses and such,
Luxurious Mr. L
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Saturday, May 3, 2008
How Do You Do Those Things That You Do? ...And....Heart Break Party of One!
Hola, Hola!
Luxuriously, opulent Mr. L is having a grand ol' time getting back to the basics of life, nekkid sunbathing and margaritas, quite a deadly combination.....any cuties wanna join in?
Well I'm sure all you wonderful tasties out there in cyberspace have been holding your.... breath waiting for the next installment of my soon to be world famous advice column, so without any further delay of gratification....here it is.
Dear Luxurious Mr L,
I was wondering if you could give a basic sort of introduction or overview of the area of your expertise about which you are answering questions? I note that you cover topics such as mojo, honey jars, divination, opening pathways and inviting the gentle favor of the unseen world. To a blandly white American girl such as myself, raised with only the most pedestrian variety of Catholicism, all of these things seem exotic, intriguing, and otherwise other or foreign to me. How can I learn about these things? What's the price of admission for beginning to adopt such practices? (i.e. I'd rather pay dues (of whatever approrpriate form) than blindly appropriate).
Thanks so much, and ta, darling
sexigenius
Dear Sexigenius,
Sexy and Intelligent, my kind of woman! Meow...............
You raise a couple of good questions for this week, here's winkin' at ya!
Luxurious Mr. L has been professionally in the metaphys business going on twelve years now, I am like a tree, if you split me open you can count my rings...lol....so I have been around the block a couple or three times. I have studied numerous Earth-Based Traditions, and hold title and initiations in several of them. Grace has given me the opportunity to learn and interact with some pretty exceptional Elders, and while I love to toot my own horn, in many many ways ;-) and sometimes with a partner, I find that listing them all out sounds a bit too pompous, even for me.
So...I am going to answer you in another way, and hopefully address the second question of how to start working the magicks. Lets first start out with a simple definition, that of magick. Magick is at its most basic, one's Will made manifest. It is spelled with a K in order to differentiate it from stage magic/ slight of hand/ illusion, and every culture that has existed has had their own ways of working it. Magickal systems are different from religions, in that it is one's personal power that is causing the change to happen, as oppose to any specific deity. That is not to say that doing some petition work with a specific deity doesn't help to move things along. The magickal world and the religious/spiritual world are not mutually exclusive by any means, and most magickal workers are also deeply spiritual, though I have met a couple of atheist magicians...lol.....So I have taken the long way around to answer your question about appropriation, its hard to appropriate something that is inherent to all cultures. The biggest differences in the traditions are mostly in name only, i.e. mojos, magicks, medicine making, working the root, working the craft, wise working, wangas, strega, etc. They are all talking about the same thing.
Now the second part of the question is the how part....How do I start ? While I am here to help out when I can, I am not putting on the hat of teacher yet, though I am looking to start the cult of Luxurious Mr. L worship....lol My biggest advice is to make sure and feel out people that you want to study with, and ask yourself if you want to live the life that they are creating for themselves. Be wary of people "who know all," because in this line of work, you can always learn more. Finally, here are some good places to start your research, and with all things, take what is usable and leave the rest.
European Based Folk Magick
Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner-Cunningham
To Ride a Silver Broom Stick-Silver Raven Wolf
Spiral Dance- Star Hawke
Grandmother Time- Z. Buddapest
Incense, Oils, and Brews- Cunningham
The Encyclopedia of Magickal Herbalism- Cunningham
Hoodoo/Southern Magick/Root Work
Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic: A Materia Magica of African-American Conjure.
Charms, Spells, and Formulas- Ray Malborough
Legends of Incense, Herbs & Oil Magic- Lewis de Claremont
Hoodoo Mysteries: Folk Magick, and Mysticism & Ritual- Malborough
____________________________________________________________________
Dear Mr. L,
Love sucks! I recently fell for someone who broke my heart. No matter how much I pray and make offerings I can't seem to get over it. I just want to forget about the bastard! For goddess' sake! Is there any mojo bag or any miracle that will help me? I want this feeling to cut me loose!
Trapped in Love
Dear Trapped,
Spirit knows I have been trapped by love, and there have been a number of times when I have gone ape shit because of a heart break, think Farrah Fawcett in the Burning Bed, but sans the hair flip. So Trapped, I feel ya on many, many levels. Over the years, and through many, many bottles of tequilla, I have become a bit of a metaphysical pro in helping out the ol' healing process of the heart.
The first and most important thing you can do, is to delete him from your life. If he is in your phone, delete him, throw out all photos, objects, and anything else that he might have given you, or at the very least, give them to a friend to keep from you for the time being.
For the second part, here is a wash and a mojo to help you along the healing path.
Wash Ingredients
Fresh Coconut Water
River Water
1 Piece of Rose Quartz
Anise
Mint
Common Purslane
Zucchini
Lettuce
This wash should be prepared on a Saturday, at 5 am or pm. In a large pot mix the coconut water, the river water, honey, and place the rose quartz . Next take the herbs and rub them between your palms while submerging your hands in the above mixture. As you are preparing this wash pray that your broken heart be mended, and that all memories of your past love be forgotten. This mixture is to sit for 5 hours in the sun. After it is ready, take out the rose quartz and divide the wash in 5 equal parts. Over the next five days, first thing in the morning you wash yourself while imaging that the ache of this heart break be washed away.
On the fifth day start carrying the mojo, described below, in your undergarments.
Ingredients for the Mojo
1 Gold Felt Bag
The piece of Rose Quartz from the Wash
5 drops of Honey
Rose
St. John's Wort
Jasmine
Honeysuckle
Basil
1 strand of Braided Hair
Ashes from the prayer parchment.
Take the Rose Quartz from the Wash, and place it next to your heart while envisioning the golden rays of the sun blessing and loving you. When it feels charged, place it next to you. Next, section off a small piece of your hair, and braid it while saying, "I am love, I am grace, I fill my heart with joys, and grace." Tie off the braid at both ends and cut it, and wrap it around the piece of rose quartz. Next take a piece of parchment, and write about how you are presently in a state of love, happiness, and joy, and that your heart is overflowing with these feelings. After you are finished, take the parchment and burn it, and save the ashes. In a bowl place the ashes, and herbs together while dripping the honey over them, make sure that the mixture is nice and sticky, and if need be add more honey in subsequent drops of 5. When it is ready, take the rose quartz, and slowly start to pack the mixture around it. You are creating a ball from the ashes and herbs, with the quartz at its center. Finally place the ball in the golden, felt bag, and tuck it into your bra, over your heart.
I hope this helps, and that you are no longer Trapped!
Much love, and sloppy wet kisses,
Luxurious Mr. L
Luxuriously, opulent Mr. L is having a grand ol' time getting back to the basics of life, nekkid sunbathing and margaritas, quite a deadly combination.....any cuties wanna join in?
Well I'm sure all you wonderful tasties out there in cyberspace have been holding your.... breath waiting for the next installment of my soon to be world famous advice column, so without any further delay of gratification....here it is.
Dear Luxurious Mr L,
I was wondering if you could give a basic sort of introduction or overview of the area of your expertise about which you are answering questions? I note that you cover topics such as mojo, honey jars, divination, opening pathways and inviting the gentle favor of the unseen world. To a blandly white American girl such as myself, raised with only the most pedestrian variety of Catholicism, all of these things seem exotic, intriguing, and otherwise other or foreign to me. How can I learn about these things? What's the price of admission for beginning to adopt such practices? (i.e. I'd rather pay dues (of whatever approrpriate form) than blindly appropriate).
Thanks so much, and ta, darling
sexigenius
Dear Sexigenius,
Sexy and Intelligent, my kind of woman! Meow...............
You raise a couple of good questions for this week, here's winkin' at ya!
Luxurious Mr. L has been professionally in the metaphys business going on twelve years now, I am like a tree, if you split me open you can count my rings...lol....so I have been around the block a couple or three times. I have studied numerous Earth-Based Traditions, and hold title and initiations in several of them. Grace has given me the opportunity to learn and interact with some pretty exceptional Elders, and while I love to toot my own horn, in many many ways ;-) and sometimes with a partner, I find that listing them all out sounds a bit too pompous, even for me.
So...I am going to answer you in another way, and hopefully address the second question of how to start working the magicks. Lets first start out with a simple definition, that of magick. Magick is at its most basic, one's Will made manifest. It is spelled with a K in order to differentiate it from stage magic/ slight of hand/ illusion, and every culture that has existed has had their own ways of working it. Magickal systems are different from religions, in that it is one's personal power that is causing the change to happen, as oppose to any specific deity. That is not to say that doing some petition work with a specific deity doesn't help to move things along. The magickal world and the religious/spiritual world are not mutually exclusive by any means, and most magickal workers are also deeply spiritual, though I have met a couple of atheist magicians...lol.....So I have taken the long way around to answer your question about appropriation, its hard to appropriate something that is inherent to all cultures. The biggest differences in the traditions are mostly in name only, i.e. mojos, magicks, medicine making, working the root, working the craft, wise working, wangas, strega, etc. They are all talking about the same thing.
Now the second part of the question is the how part....How do I start ? While I am here to help out when I can, I am not putting on the hat of teacher yet, though I am looking to start the cult of Luxurious Mr. L worship....lol My biggest advice is to make sure and feel out people that you want to study with, and ask yourself if you want to live the life that they are creating for themselves. Be wary of people "who know all," because in this line of work, you can always learn more. Finally, here are some good places to start your research, and with all things, take what is usable and leave the rest.
European Based Folk Magick
Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner-Cunningham
To Ride a Silver Broom Stick-Silver Raven Wolf
Spiral Dance- Star Hawke
Grandmother Time- Z. Buddapest
Incense, Oils, and Brews- Cunningham
The Encyclopedia of Magickal Herbalism- Cunningham
Hoodoo/Southern Magick/Root Work
Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic: A Materia Magica of African-American Conjure.
Charms, Spells, and Formulas- Ray Malborough
Legends of Incense, Herbs & Oil Magic- Lewis de Claremont
Hoodoo Mysteries: Folk Magick, and Mysticism & Ritual- Malborough
____________________________________________________________________
Dear Mr. L,
Love sucks! I recently fell for someone who broke my heart. No matter how much I pray and make offerings I can't seem to get over it. I just want to forget about the bastard! For goddess' sake! Is there any mojo bag or any miracle that will help me? I want this feeling to cut me loose!
Trapped in Love
Dear Trapped,
Spirit knows I have been trapped by love, and there have been a number of times when I have gone ape shit because of a heart break, think Farrah Fawcett in the Burning Bed, but sans the hair flip. So Trapped, I feel ya on many, many levels. Over the years, and through many, many bottles of tequilla, I have become a bit of a metaphysical pro in helping out the ol' healing process of the heart.
The first and most important thing you can do, is to delete him from your life. If he is in your phone, delete him, throw out all photos, objects, and anything else that he might have given you, or at the very least, give them to a friend to keep from you for the time being.
For the second part, here is a wash and a mojo to help you along the healing path.
Wash Ingredients
Fresh Coconut Water
River Water
1 Piece of Rose Quartz
Anise
Mint
Common Purslane
Zucchini
Lettuce
This wash should be prepared on a Saturday, at 5 am or pm. In a large pot mix the coconut water, the river water, honey, and place the rose quartz . Next take the herbs and rub them between your palms while submerging your hands in the above mixture. As you are preparing this wash pray that your broken heart be mended, and that all memories of your past love be forgotten. This mixture is to sit for 5 hours in the sun. After it is ready, take out the rose quartz and divide the wash in 5 equal parts. Over the next five days, first thing in the morning you wash yourself while imaging that the ache of this heart break be washed away.
On the fifth day start carrying the mojo, described below, in your undergarments.
Ingredients for the Mojo
1 Gold Felt Bag
The piece of Rose Quartz from the Wash
5 drops of Honey
Rose
St. John's Wort
Jasmine
Honeysuckle
Basil
1 strand of Braided Hair
Ashes from the prayer parchment.
Take the Rose Quartz from the Wash, and place it next to your heart while envisioning the golden rays of the sun blessing and loving you. When it feels charged, place it next to you. Next, section off a small piece of your hair, and braid it while saying, "I am love, I am grace, I fill my heart with joys, and grace." Tie off the braid at both ends and cut it, and wrap it around the piece of rose quartz. Next take a piece of parchment, and write about how you are presently in a state of love, happiness, and joy, and that your heart is overflowing with these feelings. After you are finished, take the parchment and burn it, and save the ashes. In a bowl place the ashes, and herbs together while dripping the honey over them, make sure that the mixture is nice and sticky, and if need be add more honey in subsequent drops of 5. When it is ready, take the rose quartz, and slowly start to pack the mixture around it. You are creating a ball from the ashes and herbs, with the quartz at its center. Finally place the ball in the golden, felt bag, and tuck it into your bra, over your heart.
I hope this helps, and that you are no longer Trapped!
Much love, and sloppy wet kisses,
Luxurious Mr. L
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