The other day I talked to a couple that has been my friends for many, many years. They are sweet, good-hearted, crazy. We were at a vernissage and they were slightly intoxicated. That fact doesn't mean I took it any different when they told me that they had talked about that I ought to become a Wizard. They could easily have told me that had they been sober.
I am not exactly sure what a wizard do, but images of Alexander laVey, naked women, Hammond organs, daggers, skulls redwine, Kodachrome and candles filled my head. Not bad really. Only drawback was that they said that I had the get back on Facebook. Wizards are where the people are, which I could see was true. They wanted me to be more like Aleister Crowley, Lavey was just a showman. I argued that I was also just a showman, a sad prostitute, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. But they just told me that those days had to be over now. No more wasting my time and charisma and intellect.
Somehow they are probably right. You should gather people around you that you like and who you can influence and then let the rest of the world join later. I haven't really had time to think it over. I am a natural sceptic so demon lore has a hard time under my doubting gaze. But I did think I might start by making a tarot set. It is after all a kind of visual work. So... I started reading and that is complicated stuff. I know a little about it as my brother got the Rider Waite deck as a Christmas present once. He then started making his own version based on them because that is what he does, makes things. You can see two of them here: Tarot Major Arcana handpainted cards...Part IX (yes, 
My only question is: what deck should I base it on?
The Rider Waite? the Thoth deck by the actual Wyzard, Aleister Crowley? or should I just be crackpotting my own version? The last one sounds the most Wizardly, but on the other hand it might be useless to other people... just like my art by the way.
Any thoughts? (I am looking at 
's deck - go check his profile and upvote him on a regular basais. He's a great artist!
's deck, go to his profile to and get intense entertainment.My friend
has started to write some posts every morning - #morgenseiten he calls it - morning-pages. Here is his explanation of the project:
It goes like this: you shall each morning write from the soul, anything going through your head.
He writes a lot more, but this is the essence :) (Read his first morgenseiten post here)
I have decided to try the same. I write from the top of my head every morning or late morning if I have been sleeping late. I only correct typos and make a headline afterwards. Else everything is left as written. Expect some of it to sound like stage directions.
