Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Whatever Happened to the Curse on Tr*mp?
In the Lair of Orange Helob
Hey folks, remember the hex on Tr*mp?
News flash: it didn't work.
Dateline: Tr*mp I.
Various Wiccans and other magic-makers publicly hex Tr*mp, including regular coordinated workings.
The community publicly debates the ethics of hexing Tr*mp. Some come down on one side, some on the other.
The non-pagan media mostly snickers.
Some possible conclusions:
The hex on Tr*mp actually did work, buying us four Tr*mp-free years.
If so, apparently hexes, like canned goods, have a “use-by” date. Really, what good is a temporary solution?
Magic doesn't work.
Under the circumstances, I find this conclusion difficult to escape. Magic—at least, causative magic as literally conceived—simply doesn't work.
But then, I've never thought that it did. Thoughts aren't things. Magic is metaphor. In which case...
Tr*mp is a master magician who out-magicked all the opposition.
The Orange Helob gorged on all the energy the would-be hexers sent him, and now, bloated with power, spins his evil webs to capture yet more victims to suck dry and throw away, drained.
Dateline: Tr*mp II
American Theocracy. The War of Red against Blue. The Department Of Gutting Everything.
Well, at some point Hurricane Tr*mp will blow itself out, leaving untold swathes of destruction in its wake.
Meanwhile, let us keep up the magic; it's what we're good at. Personally, I'd recommend indirection—something sly and sideways—this time.
Frontal attacks have never been our strong point, anyway.
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Saturday, 01 March 2025
Let me add a hearty "So mote it be" to your prayers.
After the election, my friend and colleague Volkhvy--probably the most eminently quotable person that I know--said: "We've been through hard times before. If we stick together, we'll get through these, too." -
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Since the Ukraine invasion I've been doing a ritual every morning for Putin to reap what he has sown. I figure that if Trump's ideal collapses under the weight of his own corruption it might shake Trump a little bit.
Since November 2023 I have prayed that the millionaires, corporations and billionaires who have financed the overthrow of democracy in America reap a harvest of successful unionization, Eisenhower era tax rates, and stringent enforcement of anti-trust laws. I see them as the root cause of Trump rising to power in the first place.