Hey everybody!

[amirartpop]

Hello!

My name is Amir, I am a 29 year old gay man who is from southern Michigan.

To give you a little background, I got into Tarot a little over 2 months ago. I am in recovery and have been branching out to deepen my spiritual awareness and spiritual program. Tarot has been a really good tool for me, and a great hobby for me as well.

Recently, I have ventured out into witchcraft and learning the different avenues and what area of the craft resonates most with me. I started with Wicca; I did not realize that was a nature based religion, I thought it was an overarching term for witchcraft which I soon discovered is not the case. Then I looked through different books and threads on Reddit to learn about different dogmatic practices.

I have landed on chaos magick/sigils/candle magic as what is most resonating with me now. I am reading about the Thoth tarot right now (Understanding Thoth), and have the Sigil Witchery book, as well as some PDFs of the "essential" chaos magick books that I have seen discussed online most; Condensed Chaos, Advanced Magick for Beginners, Six Ways, Hands on Chaos Magic.

I can be a little manic and scatter brained/obsessive when I get into a new interest, so I am going to use this forum to bounce my ideas and get some insight on this journey from people who are much more experienced than me.

I am excited to be apart of this community

 

[Mh4419]

Welcome mate

 

[hollowglasd]

Welcome

 

[FraterFraxinus]

Greetings

 

[Morell]

Welcome.

 

[crooktooth]

Welcome, always nice to have another chaos practitioner! I highly suggest Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J Carroll as a starter book as well. For me it is the definitive chaos magick introduction. PDF should be available in the book shares!

 

[Reynard]

Hey Amir, welcome to the forum

Chaos Magic really appeals to me - the test/learn/grow approach (or make-it-up-as-you-go-along approach) pretty much sums me up. Hine's Condensed Chaos and Chapman's Advanced Magick are bloody awesome books.

Nice to have you here.

 

[amirartpop]

Hey Amir, welcome to the forum

Chaos Magic really appeals to me - the test/learn/grow approach (or make-it-up-as-you-go-along approach) pretty much sums me up. Hine's Condensed Chaos and Chapman's Advanced Magick are bloody awesome books.

Nice to have you here.

I have both of those in PDF form! Which one would you suggest first?

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Welcome, always nice to have another chaos practitioner! I highly suggest Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J Carroll as a starter book as well. For me it is the definitive chaos magick introduction. PDF should be available in the book shares!

I don't have access to the books quite yet, but I definitely will check it out. I've read that book isn't as easy to grasp as some of the other ones suggested. How do you feel about that?

 

[Fausto]

Welcome your supreme scumbag.

 

[amirartpop]

Welcome your supreme scumbag.

lol how’d you know ?!

 

[Fausto]

lol how’d you know ?!

I always know.

 

[HoldAll]

Welcome your supreme scumbag.

Language, @Fausto, language. No more needlessly insulting posts.

lol how’d you know ?!

Don't mind him, he sometimes gets that way for no reason.

 

[Fausto]

Language, @Fausto, language. No more needlessly insulting posts.


Don't mind him, he sometimes gets that way for no reason.

I will be back, sir.

 

[Reynard]

I have both of those in PDF form! Which one would you suggest first?

I have them both in paperback. Hine's Condensed Chaos is a classic - I'd probably recommend starting with this as it's more of a "traditional" approach to Chaos Magic (if such a thing exists!). Once you've got to grips with this, then you'll appreciate Chapman's book all the more - he has reinvented Chaos Magic and really boils it down to basics.

Happy reading

 

[crooktooth]

I have both of those in PDF form! Which one would you suggest first?

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I don't have access to the books quite yet, but I definitely will check it out. I've read that book isn't as easy to grasp as some of the other ones suggested. How do you feel about that?

I found Liber Null much easier to understand and more useful than Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine. Advanced Magick for Beginners by Alan Chapman is an easy to use resource with plenty of hands on introductory exercises to really help build core skills and occult mentality.