Chaos Magick & Pop Culture: Fictional Characters & Video Games in Spellwork
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- This video is a continuation of my chaos magick series. Before watching this video, I highly suggest you watch these two videos on chaos magic:
What is Chaos Magick?
• What is Chaos Magick? ...
Chaos Magick & The Avoidance of Dogmatism
• Chaos Magick & The Avo...
In addition, here is the video for my 1 year anniversary Q&A where we discussed chaos magic and pop culture among many other things:
• 1 Year ANNIVERSARY Q&A...
Here is my video on servitors that discusses what a servitor is and how to create one:
• How To Create & Mainta...
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
04:44 Using Fictional Characters in Magick
09:22 Video Games in Witchcraft
13:28 Hand Gestures & Phrases
17:35 Outro
I called upon the powers of Deadpool to increase the effectiveness of my husbands immunotherapy. I also called upon wolverine to help my husbands immune system to attack the cancer cells. I drew sigils for each on his immunotherapy medication and another one that I created to bind the two together.
I love this so much.
I love that so much ! What a great way to bring your magick into your life to help the one you love 💕
If you don't mind me asking, did this have real results?
I love doing Pop Culture magic so much. Two of my biggest influences are Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon. I even do Clow Card readings and they are so powerful! Lately I’ve been exploring archetypes of Kingdom Hearts and Xena to give myself a boost in confidence 😊
I use star trek shields. "Shields up, yellow alert" and imagine the translucent shield come up, shine like the ones around the enterprise and then turn invisible.
I do tons of pop culture magic, never considered it would fall under the umbrella of chaos magic but it makes sense! I pull a lot of character energy into glamour magic. I have a lot of Buffy days, now that I think about it. That would be my version of Beast Mode.
I love that so much!!! Buffy days sounds powerful AF!
I love this concept. I recently started to identify as a chaos magician and it's super empowering. Last year I read The Pop Culture Grimoire 2.0 by Taylor Ellwood and Emily Carlin. 10/10! I worked with Rowena from Supernatural because I took Latin in college and wanted to start casting some spells in Latin. I meditated and she was the character I got the insight to work with. I got the words Veni Pecunias and 20 minutes later a golfer at my job gave a $10 tip! Sidenote I am not a caddy and my job is a non tipping club. It was a wonderful experience!
Love this! I use anime/manga characters in my magic and am thinking of starting a blog or writing a book about it 😅
Examples for anyone interested:
Calling on a character for their essence/skills, ie, Nami from One Piece for prosperity, or Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star for strength in a banishing where you say the infamous “omae wa mou shindeiru” (you are already dead)
Really cool
Zeref from Fairy Tail perfect when I'm angry !
How Terry Pratchett represents witches and witchcraft really speaks to me. I am currently re-reading the Tiffany Aching series and making notes on their philosophies and practices such as making a ‘shambles’. Brilliant books if anyone hasn’t read them!
I’m so happy you made this video. I spoke on this on my channel years ago and it’s one of my favourite ways to work. I work with Xena warrior princess as my warrior archetype and I’m crafting a spell with her soon to share. epp 🙈
OMG I can't wait to see that!!! 👏👏👏
What a neat character!!
@@ancientmage2669 I love working with her she really gets me through a lot
I read a short essay in which the author talks about working with the energies of David Bowie kind of like a deity. I love this idea! Also Yennifer is an absolute badass. That's some powerful energy there!
OMG I LOVE the idea of David Bowie as a deity figure 😂 Badass!!
@@IvyTheOccultist When he passed at the beginning of 2016, didn't it appear that the whole world began to fall apart? I mean the shocker outcome of the US elections and then followed by the pandemic?? I'm telling you, when he left our world, he took some powerful juju with him!
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I pride myself in being a gamer and a witch/magician (hence why I call myself the GamerWitch) but the down side is that gaming *can* affect your practice as it can become a distraction from your daily activities. While I have become better at focusing more on my practice (which has pop-pantheon aspects to how I see divinity/archetypes), it is completely possible to set it aside and focus more on the games. I have a video on my channel called "How the Burning of Teldrassil Impacted me Spiritually" and although it has outdated views, it shows how powerful video games, and/or fictional characters can affect us when we're immersed in the world. Additionally, an OC I created has become a link to a deity I work with and also a stream that connects me to my subconscious, so when I get an itch to write, I know there's a message for me. Thank you for the wonderful video!
Hey Ivy! I read about this in Kelly Ann Maddox’s book Rebel Witch, she’s also a chaos magick practitioner. I love the idea of this as it awakens my inner child and I think that’s so important for so many of us now-a-days! Thank you so much for sharing 😊
The Jennifer character with her wraith and immense power. Reminds me so much of captain janeway with her power to help her crew. She's so strong and confident ofc with some emotions but yasss
Yes!! 👏 Strong, confident, and using emotions for change!! Who doesn't love a badass character like that? 😆
@IvyTheOccultist ya you are a cool person. I wanna be friends I'm interested in weird chaotic magic do you have snapchat
I don't remember what video it was, but you showed your Moira Rose candle (It was Moira, right? Not Alexis?) from Schitt's Creek, so that was an example of using pop culture in your practice.
Also, Kelley-Ann Maddox's book Rebel Witch, page 82, she talks about Heroes and Icons and using Jimmy Hendrix, Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain and Leonard Cohen in her personal practice and drawing upon their energies. Also on page 80, she talks about using fictional characters from films/books/tv series and cartoons in your practice, and touches on Servitors. That's why I love her book so much- it was the first one I've ever come across to mention servitors! Highly recommend, especially for beginners. So much good information and I know you have the book too, just not sure you read it yet!
Oh yes, the Moira Rose candle!! For when I'm feeling extra 🤣 I think that was in my first vlog. I need to use my Wednesday Addams candle too... And YES I love that Rebel Witch book by Kelly-Ann!! She's fabulous!
I discovered pop culture witchcraft when I was around 17 and I realized I'd already been doing it without realizing 😆 Sometimes I work with angels and I've always pictured/called on Gabriel and Michael as they are in Supernatural. My gods apparently knew before I did too as they reached out to me via movies, books, etc. getting me to notice them, think about them more, etc until I finally do research and I'm like Ohhhhh! Witchcraft duh moment 🤣 noticing signs after they pile up. Thank you for making this video!
The House of Night book series by PC Cast is an amazing book series (in general!!) for pop culture witchcraft! The vamps are basically just wiccan/witches. That's where I finally caught on to Nyx reaching out. Also I love the way Zoey calls on/talks to the elements, it's given me a meditative way to protect myself, calm anxiety, etc. and aid in circle casting obviously. ☺️
I built a kind of model of my future tiny house in Minecraft to help manifest it! 🏡
And OMG I ALSO USE TUTTING FROM MAGICIANS! 🙏🙏🙏 Elliot is my spirit animal! 🤩
I never thought of using amulets from Skyrim! That is actually such an amazing idea, it also means my Skyrim addiction is most likely about to be renewed, your videos are always so informative
So I definitely have been doing pop culture in my practice for a long time and didnt realize this was a form of chaos magic. I have a deck of Clow Cards from Cardcaptors and in my practice when I invoke the elements I work with them, speak to them, and interact with them in their 3D forms, like from the anime. The visuals and emotions that connect me to the cards and my inner child really help me power my spellwork. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Ivy!
I'm so so in love witth this idea, since its something I've practiced outside my witchcraft anyways. I also love the brief explanattion of chaos magic and it really sits with me and makes me realize why I'm attracted to a certain deity recently. Thanks!
I see a lot of people talking about pop culture deities on Tiktok. On Witchtok, you'll see people calling them egregores instead of deities, but the concept is the same. That said, my formative witchling years were colored by shows like Charmed, and I still use Piper's Fearless Spell (From the episode A Witch's Tail, Part 2) as an anti-anxiety mantra all these decades later. (Also LOL, I typed that at the beginning of the video and then you mentioned it at the end.)
I love video games. Some people prescribe to spoon theory to describe energy levels throughout the day -- I prefer spell points. It's a little more in Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop role playing games, but the idea is that you have a limited amount of spell points or spell slots for the day, and when you use them up, you have to sleep to recharge them.
People should be more familiar with The Magicians than Harry Potter -- just saying.
Wow!! This is sooo neat..ever since I watched The Witcher I clicked right away with Yennefer of Vangerberg♡♡ from her story to all the trials and challenges she went through to her brutal transformation, I see myself in her in soo many ways. I even posted it in a FB group that I belong to that I wanted to become like her, a Powerful Dark Mage. And what's funny is that she has the ability to create portals and that's actually of my skills while in the astral realm as also time traveling. Now I know I can "become" yennefer's archetype while working my magick. Thank you soooo much♡♡♡ Great job!!
With the whole hand gesture thing, it kind of reminds me of mudras. Buddha and various hindu gods are sculpted using hand gestures that hold different meanings, kind of like a spell. When I was young, I read tons of arthurian literature. My mothers favorite movie, play and soundtrack was Camelot. I have a huge library of retellings and original stories based on the arthurian mythos. I know that Merlin is kind of the archetype of magicians, wize sages, etc. And Morgan was the archetype of the sorcerer woman, with the evil element due to the very fact she was a woman. In fact many archetypes are found in these myths. But i always loved the books that challenged the myth of Morgan as evil. And I wanted to be like that. Felt I was misunderstood as she was. Kind of think Mist of Avalon morgan, that type of character. She has a similar theme to Gennifer from the witcher, not as tortured, but that rage that was misunderstood. I try to think of myself as that powerful and self assured when I do spells. Since I have no ability to picture in my mind, I cant visualize. So I also use jewelry as my amulets and talisman. I have a staff I found at a yard sale that was used in cosplay, which I believe is play acting as a character in a comic book or whatnot, but it has a cobra wrapped around it and a cluster of amethyst on top. It kind of looks crude, like a child made it, but I love it to help me play the part of a strong wizard in my magic. And what are magical tools but props for our character we make in our magical world? Things to help us feel and activate our imagination and our manifesting powers? Kind of like being able to use any stick as a wand, a letter opener as a knife, a dollar store goblet as a sacred chalice akin to the holy grail? We add these elements of fantasy to aid us in creating magic all the time, not so different from an actor in their role uses props. It aids in giving us the confidence to call on the powers within us and around us to manifest our wants and needs into reality.
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II used a protection spell off of an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it worked and was a go to. I also remember feeling like it being a synchronistic gift from the cosmos cause I saw it on an old tv while standing on line at a Bodega trying to buy emergency bandaids for my hand . I was like “ I have shed blood for the secrets of beyond 🪄”then every time I got a cut I’d look around and pay attention for some primordial interstellar knowledge .Those early magical experience really shape you and how belief can work🤔
❤Any channel that shouts out Hermione is where I need to be ! 😎
As someone who is also obsessed with Skyrim, I’d highly recommend Elden Ring as another high-fantasy rpg. There’s a bit of a learning curve when just starting out, but I absolutely love the settings, concepts and styles of magic in the game. After sinking nearly 50 hrs into it, i can say I haven’t had the same immersive experience with a game since my Elder Scrolls days 😅
THANK YOU! I have almost hit my burnout with Skyrim so I will definitely be checking out Elden Ring. 🙏 I appreciate the rec!
Open World Games are great Techno-Planes to do Magick in.
Especially, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, BioShock, and The Witcher series, that have Sacred Places you can use as Magick Workspaces (like Standing Stones, Caves, and Abandon Places).
In Skyrim, there's Dragon Speech, that can be used as inspiration for Sigil Speech and Spell Chants. BioShock's Vigors each have a corresponding Mundra (Hand Shape and Gesture) for each Spell cast.
In Gravity Falls, Backwards Speech and Cypher Codes are used as Spells.
Adventure Time makes use of Mundane Acts as Spellcraft (like Card Playing, Food Prepping, and Singing).
Hey Ivy! This is a video I really wanted to see! I hadn’t thought of using pop culture to empower my spells, but it’s such a cool thing to do! I especially liked the part about the hand gestures. I can see myself making hand gestures for protection and healing and fast money. I like the idea of becoming a character as well. The thing I forget to do most often is to ground and center myself after a magical working … ie. take my skin off lol! I forgot to ground and center myself after the mojo working I did tonight until I realized how exhausted I was. Btw, thank you for mentioning the group Heilung … I used their music to raise energy for my spell tonight!
I am SO glad you're getting into Heilung!! They are amazing. And yes, I do that too sometimes... I forget to ground and center myself afterwards and then I'm wondering why I feel so weird 😂 whoops!
@@IvyTheOccultist 🤪😆😜
When you mentioned The Magicians, my heart SCREAMED!!!!! I incorprated the hand gestures from that show in my own practice as well.
i personally don't do the pop culture stuff, but i heard that in Japan, in magick, Pokemon are used for everything: dieties, egregores, spirits, servitors, talismans, etc... - you probably know this already, but east indian traditions have a system of hand gestures called "Mudras;" they can be done simply by themselves, or incorporated into a meditation, spell, yoga, etc.... 🪐
This interesting. I feel like entertainment is a form of magic. When writers create a script, actors put on their characters, lights, curtains, the stage, backstage, etc. all these components to send a message to the audience. I don’t see a difference between channeling a character or a spirit.
There's this IRL fighter I think he's an MMA guy who uses Naruto hand movements before his matches. He's a big anime fan but I just think it's a good example.
I love this video so much. I love the way you use magic and don´t limit yourself. This speaks so much to me and I love to learn from you. Thank you so much
Personally have been using “shields” from my game since I learnt to create a shield around me and my husband did that too 🤣 we just did it without know if it’s a thing 😂 btw I did an update regarding my situation in your Q&A comments (I replied and continued the comment I made previously. In case you are curious how the situation is)
Oh I must have missed that comment!! I don't get notifications for all comments anymore. CZcams gives me some notifications but not all and I'm not sure why 😂 It's usually replies to comments that I seem to miss the most. I'll go check! Also, love that you're using shields 🖤
@@IvyTheOccultist In case anyone is interested I uses the “graphics” from FFXIV’s shield healers, namely Sage and my husband uses White Mage. Somehow those “graphics” simply popped into our heads when we’re learning to cast a shield 😁 oooh and regarding the banishing, apparently, I casted it in the full moon and with my strong intentions, it seems to be working, will have to wait and see if it last and will cast again when necessary.
I always associated the hand movements from The Magicians with Mudras which contain their own power :)
See, I agree with almost everything you've said however I want to add to the part where you said that you can't make things levitate or get a job without applying for one... I have personally had the most "impossible" and "logic-defying" things happen to me as someone who channels raw energy and sometimes not even an archetype or deity or a specific system. Just food for thought. Magical practice can be very much so anecdotal, lol. I respect your work though, I love this video and I gleaned a lot of insight from it!!!
This is weird and fun to do because i do it without even knowing, and i just saw this video. I imagine i am my character on skyrim , I am a powerful dark elf ,using my shouts and my endurance to make things done ✔️
This is soooo inspiring o/ And I will absolutly dive deeper into chaos magick :3
Many YEARS ago, I used to get bad headaches that would hit as I was just getting to sleep, causing me to force myself to awake enough to get up and take something for the headache. I decided to let the prevailing headache commercials of the time and use them to work for me. Instead of getting up and taking something, I would tell myself that I had just taken the pain reliever and then remark to myself about how fast it works and how easily it is able to get rid of my headache; how I could actually feel the pain draining away to the point that I could drift off to sleep. It is amazing how well that worked. My headaches began to come fewer and fewer times with less and less intensity until I no longer get headaches. Is this along the lines of what you're conveying in this video?
Great video. Really inspiring. Thank you 😀
Gamer here, I definitely get everything you’re saying. Great video by the way 💯💖
Oh thank you!! Love when I meet fellow gamer occultists! 🖤
Great video! I found the hand gesture segment very interesting.
I'm so glad you did! Thank you, lovely! ❤️
I try to channelize all the powers I got from the Elder Scrolls to my Dragon themed Ring, so I can have all that powers anywhere I go.
Also I use my Game Boy Color keychain to channelize all the powers from every Game Boy Color game I ever played.
And last, but not least, I try to adapt the powers of Shujinko (from Mortal Kombat Deception), who can transform into every character he mastered himself, gaining all of his powers. That way I can have the powers of every protagonist I ever played so far.
I have thought about using my favorite characters as Gods/ "guides", Po from Kung Fu Panda would be the first one since the first movie I fell in love with him and whenever I tell people I love Po they automatically say "I can see that", he's relatable. Then Storm from X-Men.... I mean...is that a surprise? 😝😂🤣 Then Godzilla, I've loved The G-man™ since childhood. Then of course Aquaman, what a surprise 😝😂🤣 and maybe Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh! You know how some shows character says "POWERS ACTIVATE!" Well sometimes I say that or instead of "powers" I say "[tool or item] ACTIVATE!" in my head very rarely I say it out loud, maybe I could use that in my practice.
Of COURSE you loved Aquaman. Not surprised at all! 😂 And yessss ACTIVATE! 👏
@@IvyTheOccultist LOL 😂 🤣
I deeply resonate with Luke from Julie and the phantoms cause we've been through the same regret and love music. I do something similar with the skin thing.
I almost choked when you said "don't think you can just wingardium leviosa " 😂😂😂😂
I loved this 🙌❤🙌
When I play WOW I pick a race and character that makes sense for what I need to work on at the time. I have not used the game components in spells, more like a prelude to planned life events? Like the stronger my character becomes the more ready I know I am.
I loved the description of the skin suits lol the stepping in and stepping out, it seems a great way to not lose yourself in a "skin"!
I got to know Chaos Magick, thanks to Damien Echols and a Chaos Magician called Happy Chaos
I love tnis! I've shared about using pop culture and favourite scenes etc in my magical practice on my channel! I love using them to help me visualise as I do struggle with seeing in my brain but yes I do love using pop culture in my magic xx
This was a great topic/video. I love your work.. thank you. I am older than y'all.. lol But you and kelly Ann have kinda given me permission to reach back... in time and pull out several fictional characters from my formative years. . Dr. Smith and Endora. lol Not the actors but the characters. They are both extreme, over the top, tricksters... yet I have learned alot from them. How to use humor and fantasy to protect myself as a gay youth in a hostile environment. Now as an adult+ I use images of them icon-icly in my alter space.
Using Dean Winchester for courage)))
I've created a belief system inspired by dragons and Once upon a time. I believe that we are characters who've been cursed by Christianity to forget our stories the dragons wrote for us
I do think a lot about how big shared universes like Harry Potter and the MCU are like secular mythologies for our high-tech age. Star Trek is certainly the closest thing I personally have to a religion. :)
I have a question for all the witches and I thought this interview was an apt place to put it. I'm not a chaos magician, more of a folk witch, and I've started LARPing this past year. For those of you who don't know this is like live DnD where you roleplay a character in a fantasy universe. Obviously I (and my character) was drawn to the magic, and I just find the interplay between fiction and magic so interesting in this context. There are people performing elaborate fictional rituals, in covens, within fictional magical spaces, with fictional symbology, calling on fictional beings, and this just feels like it must have some kind of magic to it...I've been too shy to do this fully so far but my character performs divination. I use my tarot deck exactly as I would in real life, although there is a shift in consciousness where you do really feel like everything is real- the world, your character, the other character etc. and I'm calling on in-universe beings. And the readings always resonate deeply on this in-world level for the characters. So is this, like, working on some level? Can you divine for a fictional being, through a fictional magical system? Through roleplay? I haven't found any witches at LARP, so I just wanted to know if anyone had opinions!
Awesome video. I heavily recommend reading Grant Morrison's "Pop Magic" by Grant Morrison, as well as his comic book series "The Invisibles." I've found my inspirations for spells in video games for a while now.
The Elder Scrolls universe incorporates a lot of metaphysical concepts, one of which is called Mantling. Basically you 'walk as they do' until there is no visible distinction between you and the being you are mantling. Kind of like the way you said that you 'put on their skin' or 'wear them like a skin'. So absolutely look into the deeper lore of the elder scrolls. Michael Kirkbride, one of the major writers for their lore specifically went out of his way to write real magick into the world's lore.
You’re a gamer! I like you even more now 😊
I do tabletop gaming. This has helped with my visualizations and energy work.
I use Legend of Zelda as inspiration for my magic
I wonder what would happen if someone tried to invoke and evoke James Heller from [PROTOTYPE 2] or maybe Pikachu from Pokemon.
Imagine having your own army of Astral Pokemon in the real world.
I wonder what they would actually be capable of doing.
OHHH you can definitely do that.....
@@AlchemyOfLife . But what could those fictional characters do after being evoked into our world?
I can't really just find out yet because I still suck at Magick.
I have a spicy question for you! So if you had to put a current “base stat boost” does your horned god “beetle” currently have? And what “stats” do you hope to boost it into once you enchant it officially as an amulet?
Also I also do this! I use Pokémon as my servitors that I’ve used enchanted crystals sort of as their “poke balls”
And with hand gestures, (I feel like such a dweeb admitting this) I do similar “ninjitsu” hand motions like in Naruto depending on which entity I’m speaking to or spell I’m enchanting. Using chaos magick I use constant shifting hand motions like the show
I will say, some spells from Harry Potter are chaos magick gems in themselves - Riddikulus and Expecto Patronum come to mind...
I’m a gamer and I like the beast mode idea lol
Two days ago I just decided to create my own deity, its a fictional person I adore from a book series and he fits perfectly. And feel like he is real to me. I also use a phrase he said once, that I like so much.
So I liked this topic very much!
Hey - if the Greeks and Celts could create their own deities, why can't you??
Cool 😃
How about using an a.i. bot to help with working with pop culture magick
Charmed actually has a lot of workable spells. One in particular is the one for summoning the dead. Also Yennefer is badass and Witcher 3 is one of the best games of all time.
As a fellow high fantasy lover and chaos magician, I just wanted to see if you’d played an older GameCube (later on the Switch) game called Baten Kaitos? I think it’s technically a jrpg and it’s maybe a bit dated based on more modern video games, but it has some really interesting concepts that I find very useful in my practice, mainly the concept of “Magnus”, which are these cards that contain the essence of a thing. I personally use this in my own rituals by making my own “Magnus” that I can use to contain the energy of whatever I please, and I’ve found it very helpful. Figured I’d share, and if you have played it, please lmk, I feel like I’m the only one whose ever played it sometimes 😅 lol
Hey Ivy, thank you for the video! I'm writing my dissertation on the usage of pop culture, or the aesthetical and narrative appeal of pop cultural elements within magical practice (with the focus on video games, series and movies). Would you maybe find the time to answer a few questions on this topic? Same goes for anyone here who would like to take part in my research:) I still have to formulate the questions and write them down, so no hurry:)
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Ok say the Character i want to work with is a Goth Character that in the movie has a scene name aa well as a given name,but the given name is used only twice
Could using a historical person as a servitor work?
Pop culture isn't fantasy for me cause I can see it on screen.
Omg I wanna be friends with you 😭
You have to try Genshin Impact :)
THE MAGICIANS ✨🥰🫶🏽 I’d love to hear your pop culture witchy reviews and suggestions! Ps I love you