Levi Rowland
@levirowland.bsky.social
Magical Takes Most Tepid
Algorithmic Magical Marketing and Her Discontents
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September 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I don't think Sisyphus is happy.
June 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I don't think Sisyphus is happy.
June 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So many scholars on Neoplatonism, theurgy, etc. don't write in English. There are also palpable differences between how Italian, Spanish, French, and other scholars interpret and talk about these things than anglos. Excited to delve into these. Warning: a few are in Italian! ##witchsky #occultsky
June 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So many scholars on Neoplatonism, theurgy, etc. don't write in English. There are also palpable differences between how Italian, Spanish, French, and other scholars interpret and talk about these things than anglos. Excited to delve into these. Warning: a few are in Italian! ##witchsky #occultsky
Anytime anyone in #witchcraft or the #occult gets too serious, they should be forced to read Charles Portis' Master of Atlantis.
#witchsky #occultsky
#witchsky #occultsky
May 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Anytime anyone in #witchcraft or the #occult gets too serious, they should be forced to read Charles Portis' Master of Atlantis.
#witchsky #occultsky
#witchsky #occultsky
Is #initiation a comedy or a tragedy? #witchcraft really plays with both.
A love letter to #dionysus and to high school #theater teachers.
#witchsky #occultsky
A love letter to #dionysus and to high school #theater teachers.
#witchsky #occultsky
The Redemption of Pentheus
A few short scenes in Hell...
levirowland.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Is #initiation a comedy or a tragedy? #witchcraft really plays with both.
A love letter to #dionysus and to high school #theater teachers.
#witchsky #occultsky
A love letter to #dionysus and to high school #theater teachers.
#witchsky #occultsky
A bit of a journey describing how my mother visiting a snake handling church made me feel about #witchcraft and whether or not it is "palatable."
#witchsky
#occultsky
#witchsky
#occultsky
Strange Religion
Making Witchcraft Palatable
levirowland.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A bit of a journey describing how my mother visiting a snake handling church made me feel about #witchcraft and whether or not it is "palatable."
#witchsky
#occultsky
#witchsky
#occultsky
The real question is, do you use the Marseilles or Rider-Waite numbering for Strength and Justice?
#witchsky #occultsky
#witchsky #occultsky
April 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The real question is, do you use the Marseilles or Rider-Waite numbering for Strength and Justice?
#witchsky #occultsky
#witchsky #occultsky
Here way too early but excited to hear John Waters set the world to right! Oh, this holy filth. 🙏
April 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Here way too early but excited to hear John Waters set the world to right! Oh, this holy filth. 🙏
This one has been brewing for a while. When you hang out with the magical types but are married to a Buddhist, you have a lot of interesting convos.
#witchsky #occultsky
#witchsky #occultsky
Siddhartha's Aquarian Children
Or: No, Virginia, We're Not All Buddhists
levirowland.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This one has been brewing for a while. When you hang out with the magical types but are married to a Buddhist, you have a lot of interesting convos.
#witchsky #occultsky
#witchsky #occultsky
They're not even using dogwhistles anymore. It's just a constant, blaring bullhorn at this point. 😑
April 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
They're not even using dogwhistles anymore. It's just a constant, blaring bullhorn at this point. 😑
New CV update. 1988-current.
Lunar daemon of antiquity. References available upon request.
Lunar daemon of antiquity. References available upon request.
Some people thought that Pythagoras was such a great figure that he must be "one of the daemons who live on the moon" (Iamblichus).
April 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New CV update. 1988-current.
Lunar daemon of antiquity. References available upon request.
Lunar daemon of antiquity. References available upon request.
Reposted by Levi Rowland
just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”
March 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”
The Myanmar news is devastating.
Given the tense political issues there, a tip: check if you have any Theravada sanghas near you. More likely to find Burmese diaspora communities with direct connections there. Even Thai and Lao sanghas may have Burmese connections or members.
Given the tense political issues there, a tip: check if you have any Theravada sanghas near you. More likely to find Burmese diaspora communities with direct connections there. Even Thai and Lao sanghas may have Burmese connections or members.
March 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The Myanmar news is devastating.
Given the tense political issues there, a tip: check if you have any Theravada sanghas near you. More likely to find Burmese diaspora communities with direct connections there. Even Thai and Lao sanghas may have Burmese connections or members.
Given the tense political issues there, a tip: check if you have any Theravada sanghas near you. More likely to find Burmese diaspora communities with direct connections there. Even Thai and Lao sanghas may have Burmese connections or members.
They benefit from despondency.
Every half-baked empire claims to be eternal.
They are not.
Every half-baked empire claims to be eternal.
They are not.
March 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
They benefit from despondency.
Every half-baked empire claims to be eternal.
They are not.
Every half-baked empire claims to be eternal.
They are not.
So much God-talk in European philosophy and psychoanalysis is riddled with anxiety and formed around crisis. But...what if God-talk is relaxing? What does our God-talk's vocabulary betray about our worries and irritations?
#witchsky
#occultsky
#witchsky
#occultsky
Are you there God? If so, please respond in 3-5 business days.
God-talk and Exhaustion
levirowland.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
So much God-talk in European philosophy and psychoanalysis is riddled with anxiety and formed around crisis. But...what if God-talk is relaxing? What does our God-talk's vocabulary betray about our worries and irritations?
#witchsky
#occultsky
#witchsky
#occultsky
This time of year, my backyard gets so many birds. Recently, I watched two blue jays chase off a stray cat and then this morning a cardinal stayed for a long time while I finished my coffee. And of course, the crows come often and are very conversational. It's all lovely prep for the Equinox Sabbat.
March 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This time of year, my backyard gets so many birds. Recently, I watched two blue jays chase off a stray cat and then this morning a cardinal stayed for a long time while I finished my coffee. And of course, the crows come often and are very conversational. It's all lovely prep for the Equinox Sabbat.
Round 2, inspired by some excellent talks with coven members and friends about Witchcraft, science, and belief.
#witchsky #occultsky
#witchsky #occultsky
Mechanical Magicians
Witchcraft and the Prophecies of the Machine Age
levirowland.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Round 2, inspired by some excellent talks with coven members and friends about Witchcraft, science, and belief.
#witchsky #occultsky
#witchsky #occultsky
Neutrality never interests me. Make your choice.
I think a lot of T.S Eliot's line:
"The only hope, or else despair / Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- / To be redeemed from fire by fire."
I think a lot of T.S Eliot's line:
"The only hope, or else despair / Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- / To be redeemed from fire by fire."
March 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Neutrality never interests me. Make your choice.
I think a lot of T.S Eliot's line:
"The only hope, or else despair / Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- / To be redeemed from fire by fire."
I think a lot of T.S Eliot's line:
"The only hope, or else despair / Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- / To be redeemed from fire by fire."
I'm really missing certain things from having a way to connect with other witches, occultists, and seekers, so I'm starting on substack! I'm not sure how the social media landscape is gonna change, but I'm up to experiment. Have a look at my first post and subscribe (free)!
#witchsky
#occultsky
#witchsky
#occultsky
What dost thou want?
Witchcraft, Envy, and the Magical Will
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March 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm really missing certain things from having a way to connect with other witches, occultists, and seekers, so I'm starting on substack! I'm not sure how the social media landscape is gonna change, but I'm up to experiment. Have a look at my first post and subscribe (free)!
#witchsky
#occultsky
#witchsky
#occultsky
On women's day, I'm feeling so much gratitude for a religious community full of incredible priestesses. E.B. and C.E. and C.S., and Val who passed into the ecstasy of the Goddess, and Maxine who forged new paths, holding and tending the flame for us. So much love. #witchsky #witchcraft #occultsky
March 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
On women's day, I'm feeling so much gratitude for a religious community full of incredible priestesses. E.B. and C.E. and C.S., and Val who passed into the ecstasy of the Goddess, and Maxine who forged new paths, holding and tending the flame for us. So much love. #witchsky #witchcraft #occultsky