This is a re-run of a popular November 2006 article because of the imminent arrival of the movie this week of the Half Blood Prince. The article was written before the publishing of the last book in 2007 and I have left the speculations in that I made at the time.

Any magician can use the material in the Harry Potter books, though the visual results are not Hollywood fireworks but changes of conscious state, which is the aim of spells. Here we go.

Since I posted the article about why I dropped studying astrology as a life blueprint system and began using numerology instead I’ve had several local people who read the site and know me, ask me about it. They were all conversant with some House System or other as used to calculate their natal chart.

So here is a little more about house systems as an introduction as to why I do use something that seems totally arbitrary like the Gregorian calendar and the numerology based on the ideas of Pythagoras, and some more recent followers of Carl Jung.

Almost everybody now and again has concerns about the future. It seems a very human trait to ignore what is familiar and always there, like waitresses in my last posting, and to be concerned about what might happen some time in the future.

In November 2005 I posted a blog entry entitled Become a Magician in which I outlined a simple method that practicing magicians could use to make their "spells" more effective. It’s in the archives. Since a year has gone by and the last Harry Potter book is apparently scheduled for release on 7/7/07, a neat nod to Crowley’s book, 777, I thought to add a little to that posting and a few further hints on the matter of using dog Latin for your spells.