Scheduling posts makes me feel like a supervillain. Just looking at my watch doing something totally innocuous but counting down like there's going to be some massive explosion which I'm being totally nonchalant about because it was always a part of my sinister and overly complicated machinations.

Not so much a review as a confession: I am enjoying Roland Allen's The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper so much I am finding myself bringing it up to enthuse about and recommend it at the absolute drop of a hat.

Excited to both attend and present at the joint Sacred Space / Between the Worlds conference in College Park, MD over the next couple days. Tickets are still available: www.sacredspacefoundation.org/at-conference-registration Come say hi!

Hello folks, I've just kicked off a Candlemas Sale offering 40% off all class and course recordings over on my site for the next couple weeks. Browse available materials here: www.alexandercummins.com/talks

Happy New Year, 'skyfolks. Given it is almost Epiphany, I'm teaching this new class tonight, and excited to get into Magi lore and charms and such. I hope you can join me! 👑 👑 👑 alexander-cummins.squarespace.com/live-classes...

Hullo folks, here's a reminder my current sale on all my class and course recordings ends this coming Friday, so you can still save monies on them until then. www.alexandercummins.com/talks

Hello there. I have a couple of live online classes on geomantic divination for home protection and blessing coming up in a couple of weeks. You can grab tickets here:

Hello there 'skygang. I'm running a sale until Friday 12th Sept offering 40% off all class and course recordings on my site. You can browse everything over at www.alexandercummins.com/talks

As folks on my mailing list and Secret Llibrary of a Patreon will already be aware, I have a new batch of Venusian ritual tools for sale; these Artful Bracelets of Puella. You can read more about them and order here: alexander-cummins.squarespace.com/products/pue...

Delighted to be part of this hot new zine journal, and had a blast chatting about folk necromancy, geomancy, and more in this interview.

Dan Harms has very kindly taken the time to review my most recent book, _A Similitude of Nature: Giorgio Anselmi on the Images of the Eighth Celestial Sphere_ medium.com/@danharms_29...

Preparing slides for the first class of my new series beginning tomorrow on goetic operations in various historical "Books of Secrets" - sometimes even marketed/hyped as "Books of Supernatural Secrets" - and my one regret is not finding a place to use this image. Yet.

Here's just a wee reminder that my Summer Is A'Coming sale ends soon, so you can still pick up my class and course recordings until Mon 30th at 40% off. Cheers! ☀️ www.alexandercummins.com/talks

For the first time in a fair old while, Jesse is offering this excellent foundational grounding in the Afro-Brazilian sorcerous tradition of Quimbanda. I highly recommend it. Jesse's even kindly offering a significant early sign-up discount for it at the moment! www.the-pact.store/foundations-...

Hello folks I'm kicking off a Summer Solsticetide Sale today, offering 40% off all the class and course recordings over on my site until the end of the month. www.alexandercummins.com/talks

Tabitha's history work on cunning-folk and service magic is some of the most important going on at the moment. Im very excited to get to hear this chat.

Upcoming Ember Days of the month look to be 11th, 13th and 14th. Also who doesnt love the mnemonic "Lenty, Penty, Crucy, Lucy"...

These endpapers tho 🖤

Hi folks, I just wanted to let you know I'm kicking off a new live online course series on Goetic Spellcraft in June. You can find our more via the link below. I'm currently offering an Early Sign-Up Discount which lasts until the end of May too! alexander-cummins.squarespace.com/live-classes...

I had a wonderful conversation with Icy Sedgwick for Fabulous Folklore recently, and you can listen to it here. We talked about geomancy specifically and practical divination more broadly, and the realities of being a service magician that does this sort of stuff. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PgV...

I'm running a Rites of Spring Sale at the moment! www.alexandercummins.com/talks

I am thrilled to announce my newest book, a collaboration with the excellent Brian Johnson - The Black Raven, a Faustian handbook of demonology and folk necromancy - is available for pre-order now from Hadean Press! hadean.press/products/the...

Happy Feast of the Chair of St Peter to all who mark it, from myself and A Certain Goat at RFG HQ. Cheers! 💀

Are you a trans or nonbinary writer? Clarion West just announced a new scholarship that covers all six weeks of tuition:

I'm very excited to be part of the excellent roster of teachers and workers contributing to this course series on snake magics. I'll be talking about traditional British Serpent Cunning in November, and am looking forward to catching many of these great classes from colleagues and pals too. 🐍

You can now browse and purchase excellent class recordings from Kadmus on goetia, necromancy, ane ancient Greek religion and magic over on their new site.

Happy Feast of the Ass from Radio Free Golgotha 💀

I'm excited to kick off my new live online three-part course series tonight, exploring a sixteenth-century English grimoire, the Book of the Science of Nigromancy. And there's still time to join me for it! www.alexandercummins.com/live-classes/scienceofnigromancy

Hello folks, here's a quick reminder that my Sale of the Magi - offering 40% off all class and course recordings on my site - ends tomorrow evening (Sunday 12th January) and so you can still enjoy big discounts until then! You can browse and buy over at www.alexandercummins.com/talks

NEW EPISODE Episode 42: The Feast of the Holy Innocents Holy Innocents • Paimon • Fennel • Lead • Camel • Blood Sacrifice • Cauda Draconis • The Hermit • Ehecatl • Erichtho A Solemn Childermas to you all! radio-free-golgotha.squarespace.com/episodes/202...

Hello folks, in case you haven't already heard, I'm runnning a Sale of the Magi right now, offering 40% off all my class and course recordings. You can browse and buy over at www.alexandercummins.com/talks

Speakeasy of the Dead is back to celebrate the End Times of 2024 with fancy necromancer pals to raise some charitable donations. Come join us!

Hello folks, I'm excited to announce my new live online course - a three-part series examining the Book of the Science of Nigromancy, a sixteenth-century English handbook of goetic spirit pacts and applied conjurations - starts in January. www.alexandercummins.com/live-classes/scienceofnigromancy

A great write-up of working with the three purifying herbs of the Grimorium Verum. And some kind words about my talk on this for Botanica Obscura Conference this year - thanks Micah! www.al-kemi.com/new-verum/

I will be chatting about the Magic of Books for the New Moon Salon tomorrow evening. I'm looking forward to chatting with folks about grimoires, library folklore, magical bookbinding, and much more You can join us for this free salon via the New Moon Salon Discord over at discord.gg/AvrheqUBs9

Hadean Press has announced pre-orders on Jim Baker's forthcoming survey of spirit communications in (grimoiric) history and practice, An Inquiry Into Necromancy. How exciting! hadean.press/products/an-...

@heatherfreeman.bsky.social's Magic in the United States approaches the history and folk necromantic mysteries of Saint Cyprian of Antioch with help from Katarina Pejovic, José Leitão, and our own @jessehathawaydiaz.bsky.social www.magicintheunitedstates.com/s3e3