With the Year Of The Chaoyote’s Gregorian transmutation around the corner — the following three chapters aim to tether, or to construct a sinew, of this year’s Haunt Manual workings, the integration of my personal Disolver∴Eco∴Resonar method for examination and re-calibration, October’s Taos Eclipse tarot reading & recent trip to Portland, Oregon as a means to examine 2023 while midwifing 2024, the year of neither-either-or!
2023’s Hauntomancy Workings and their correlating October Taos Eclipse D.E.R. TAROT cards that frame the following chapter:
This chapter, part one of the Ex-hex & vex of 2023, consults the Disolver portion of the D.E.R. Method (What to dissolve, make opaque, see past) and its tethers to The Spectre Working & The Eclipse Ritual’s Temperance Tarot
The Spectre of 2017’s hexorcism rests through communion, not burial.
Mary and I, sometime after the October Moon ∴ Revel tour’s final show in Long Beach, had began to rhythmically settle back to our Seattle lives. Both of us changed and itchy; reared and rendered by the dynamism of travel and musickal entanglement. But the reintegration wouldn’t last long as my old musickal cohort and friend, Adrian of Ash Plains, asked if we wanted to jump down to our old Haunt of The Waypost in Portland, Oregon for a December gig in support of his album release.
Although the majority of the Moon ∴ Revel tour was laid to rest along the southwestern hauntological highways of our past, we bypassed Portland as a stop due to our understanding of its ease-of-travel in the future. The complex relationship we both share of our emotional ley line of Portland also had a play in ducking the city, but we knew it would come-a knocking soon. We just didn’t count on how soon.
I’m mixed up about Portland. When I began the Hauntomancy workings, namely the initial Spectre Working, it had thrust me back into the confines of a probable relocation to Portland last year. The Spectre working aimed to evoke 2017’s bounties — namely the generation of gusto that birthed not only our relationship & my doggo’s entrance into my life, but the many projects that felt flux’d in a fugue state such as PragMagick, We The Hallowed monthly salons, the Cactus Crown Audio Sigil from Dakota Slim and more.1
I called on that hauntological coordinate because I felt amiss and aimless in the throes of another new city, and I felt I needed to investigate 2017’s generative path-workings as a means to reinvigorate the present. I would find the Spectre Working’s schema and hauntological talismanic conjurations would force a reintegration to 2017’s coordinates and landmarks in the present year — like a botched time machine jump that got the place, but miffed the year! That Portland jostle afforded me a lot of closure and a reassessment of my self-lore of that time. I managed to utilize the time to reinvigorate the present, sure, but I was still roughshod about the working’s unexpected results. I was happy to leave, finding a new career trajectory and reinstating my life in Seattle, and hurrying out of the fog of 2017’s war-zone.
But I was somewhat cowardly too, all too focused to conjure the sweat equity of creating a new Hauntomantic practice of the Aspectre Working, focusing on an aspect of self thought lost instead of a year, and leaving Portland and 2017 behind. And lo — the Spectre’s confluence into this year’s minutiae held fast, and would finally erupt in a re-do…
FINISH READING ON THE HAUNT ∴ MANUAL SUBSTACK
Also… look out for a premiere of Bobby Hale and Revel Rosz, Agents 111 & 333 of Listening Post Alpha, respectively, chat about the ultraterrestrial superspectrum tethers of Twin Peaks tonight at 6:30pm PT!
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