There are a number of interpretations of why it is that episodes of extreme High Strangeness seem to happen in remote areas than heavily populated ones. Large scale events such as the Miracle at ...
https://runesoup.com/2014/04/the-magonian-rat-queen-of-london/
From The Gospel of Mary: Peter said to him, “Since you have explained everything to use, tell us also, what is the sin of the world?” The savior said, “There is no sin, but you create sin w...
https://runesoup.com/2013/11/sacrifice-and-its-discontents-an-extradimensional-exchange-mechanism/
From the breakfast table of the hotel, I look across Charlotte Street to the Fitzroy Tavern, where Crowley and a congerie of other high imperial bohemian types used to drink and party, under the...
https://runesoup.com/2013/08/there-is-the-rescue-mission-and-the-salvage-mission/
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – “Plato” The night Neil Armstrong died we were at an outdoor opera beside a lake in Tuscany. All thr...
https://runesoup.com/2012/08/when-gamification-beats-ritual/
Just having a look at Twitter, it seems we all haven’t clearly eaten enough over the last two weeks. So here are some food-based fortune suggestions to ring in a prosperous 2012! First, two poi...
In August I came within a single day of being fired. If the CEO hadn’t been on holiday in Tuscany at the time I probably would have been out the door. (His first question to my boss when he cam...
https://runesoup.com/2011/10/volume-is-the-best-magical-strategy/
In one of my first ever sales jobs, my boss told me there are two types of sales people: hunters and farmers. Hunters went out and got new business -big flashy deals- while farmers got under the ...
Chalking up some points in the spirit model column was the distinct sensation of certain “things” riding down from the Arctic into the UK during our pre-Christmas “Freeze”. To me they fel...
https://runesoup.com/2011/02/3-steps-to-star-storm-proof-your-life/
A dear school friend accompanied me on my recent trip to Nottingham. Through a series of ‘random’ coincidences, he has ended up as the general manager of a large event construction business w...
https://runesoup.com/2010/09/7-steps-to-your-own-risk-adventure/
Jow’s recent post about magical tendencies toward forming cliques has got me thinking about beginner’s luck. Why? Because entry into a group broadly follows what in marketing is called the pu...
https://runesoup.com/2010/07/the-trouble-with-beginners-luck/
I like luck magic. It’s probably the easiest magic to perform because it relies on the universe’s inherent probabilistic qualities… You just lean into the curve a little bit more. Seeing as...