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.

People spend fortunes using complex tools to try to foresee the cycles of the stock market for example. When it was discovered that the ups and downs of parts of the European grain markets corresponded almost exactly to the sunspot cycle of just over eleven years, there was an immediate response, and lots of money available to study cycles in nature. Very well off people in the know can take advantage of cycles that are unknown to the ordinary person. The multi-millionaire W Clement Stone, used cycle research to his great advantage, and financed such research.

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.

The principle of splitting the magic words so that one is at the beginning of the ritual you practice and one is at the end still applies. Eventually you can achieve the results of an extended ritual by saying the whole word, or words. The subconscious mind has got used to the word that begins the ritual and the word that ends it. Since there is no time in the subconscious it eventually produces the effect of the whole ritual when you say the word(s) you have practiced.