Part Two Of Permitted Words

As promised, here is Part Two of the Permitted Words list.   Notice how we are getting in well ahead of the impending Mars in Gemini phase – 30 weeks’ worth of mercurial mayhem from late August until March 26, 2023!

It will be a fittingly eccentric prelude to Pluto in Aquarius. Anyway, here are the words and to understand what this is all about, you can read Part One of the Permitted Words list here.

Flashpointing

A flashpoint is when tensions ignite into overt volatility: some locations and relationships are permanent flashpoints while for others, it’s a phase – they’re ‘flashpointing’ en route to a new paradigm or resolution. Astrological flashpoint signatures: Mars, Outer Planets and Eclipses in any combo. Some things/people can be stressed for a long time without flashpointing, giving the uninstinctive the sense that nothing needs to be done.

Geopower

Nonhuman forces that can – for example – cause earthquakes or be harnessed to fuel human endeavor and machines the way they have with volcanoes in Iceland. There are naturally ecological consequences to the practice but from a magical point of view, it is downright dangerous to engage with tellurian or seismic energies without any regard to their innate nature. Like the stars, they are alive and sentient, albeit not as we know it. See also Let Go and Let Gaia and The Secret Life Of Seismic Activity.

Ghosters

People who dislike formal farewells or the potential confrontation of ending an arrangement: they prefer to simply disappear without an explanation, fading out of the other person’s life as if they had been a supernatural phenom. In their mind, it’s polite and expedient – most don’t consider it a negative character trait. Ghosters often develop quick-erasure contacts list cleaning skills that would be a credit to any spy and are more likely to be Mutable signs: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces.

Glamanic

When you’re image-conscious and a shaman. Glamanic people or Glamans consciously fuse beauty, design, color and the style zeitgeist with a magical practice – using their beauty or aesthetic creations to cast spells or subtly feed seditious magical consciousness into the cultural grid. They’re not normally politically correct or sensitive to other people’s opinions of them. They have a higher mission and glamor is but one of many veils.

Grinching

Flamboyantly rejecting a widespread social custom such as Valentine’s Day or baby showers. Grinching is not, contrary to common opinion, a judgment on other people’s decision to attend something conventional. In fact “I’m grinching it” is an instinctive response – not normally part of a wider philosophy.

Gua

Literally, “area” – as in the Taoist “bagua” which means “eight areas” – and also the I-Ching. Usually pronounced ‘gwah’ it also ties into numerology, Feng Shui, Five Element theory and T.C.M. If your Gua number is Six, for example, you’d be nourished by Earth Gua people but depleted by Gua number One people or directions. It’s complicated and there are a trillion variants but if you’re dabbling, I suggest using the ‘male’ Gua number regardless of your gender because if you’re female, you probably don’t need the anti-uppity-woman adjustments.

Guilting

Guiltings are items on your drop-down mega menu of guilting material – they’re the first stop for a blame-storming session or self-recrimination bender. As guilting is rarely that successful, is more of a neurotic hangover from centuries of societal shame + blame persecutions than a recommended tactic. Not to be confused with the kinder remorse, which stems from wisdom and mature reflection. Astro-signature: Moon misalignments with Saturn.

Harpie

A storm spirit with a woman’s face and birds body – like all chimeric creatures, they’ve been unfairly villified by centuries of Christian religious mythology. The name means “snatcher” and is most frequently used to describe a hostile or bad-tempered female. In some accounts, Lilith is a harpie and they’re likely to have originated from Nekhbet, the ancient Egyptian vulture goddess. Endora, Samantha’s mother in Bewitched, subscribes to a magazine called Harpies Bizarre. For a symbol that is officially ‘bad’, they turn up on a lot of coats of arms.

Haute

French for “high” – from the same root word as “haughty” and most often used in conjunction with ‘couture’ or fashion. But there is a haute or low expression of any zodiac sign or astrological transit as well – they’re nothing to do with perceived class or status. A haute Leo expression, for example, might be performance, design or making music. A low Leo would make only scenes, thwarting a higher expression of artistry.

Heka

It sounds Maori but it is Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) and refers to magic itself. It is closely associated with several deities as well as to the spoken word. You can see the Heka symbol on the back of the Alchemy Tarot cards FYI. While Heka does refer – in some cases – to a specific god by that name (a Magician figure, carrying a staff, with two serpents), you can also ‘have Heka” or cultivate it. Hekate’s name presumably springs from Heka, far back in time. Heka is part of a trio with Sia (perception) and Hu (Creation).

Hexheimer

A mixed up version of the “herxheimer” reaction, which is basically when you feel worse before you feel better during a cleanse or detox. Hexheimer is the magical version when you throw off a hex/negative intention toward you/vibe vamping relationship and feel temporarily worse. It must not be mistaken for a “sign” that you need to take up with the hexer again.

Hippified

Completely banal and probably exploitative brands/things/people that hippify themselves in order to seem more aligned with natural magical forces that they actually don’t give a s***t about. They’re more dangerous than simply non-magical things and people because the cognitive dissonance does your head in.

Hypersigil

Coined by the Aquarian Chaos Magician and artist Grant Morrison, a hypersigil is an extended sigil or sign. A normal sigil is a symbol you make for yourself by writing/drawing a particular series of words or symbols (self-derived) until they reduce into one symbol. Your intention and the time/atmosphere you create it in is paramount. A hypersigil is a short film or piece of music – the concept carried further – and it takes enormous power.

Intox

Police/hospital code for drunk people. As in, ‘several intox males approaching the off ramp’ or one simple word to say ‘someone clearly off their fuqing face but no idea (yet) what they’ve taken. It is handy as a non-puritanical descriptive term that also avoids waffly euphemisms like “a few too many.”

Karmatic

Used to describe an event or perception that is clearly on the fate matrix but you’re not speculating or presuming to gauge it in the traditional Sanskrit sense of karma or ‘action with consequences.’

Lovecore

The commercialization of love and its aesthetic, particularly as used to shift product like deodorants and low end sparkling wine. The emphasis is on the redemptive powers of a romantic attachment and/or the potential dopamine hit.

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