Occult Book Review: Pagan Portals - Chaos Magic

From Roman Saturnalia, to Tudor Revelries of Misrule, to the modern gap between Christmas and January when no one knows what day it is, but we're happy to drink Baileys for breakfast, this is the time of year for chaos. I decided to embrace the spirit of the season and read Pagan Portals - Chaos Magic, a book about manifesting your desires by throwing out dogma and making magic fun.

Actually, as an eclectic witch who honours Eris, Goddess of Chaos, I'm all for that at any time. However, I found this book a great reminder to clear the clutter of old ways of working, look at things with a fresh eye, and aim to start the New Year with a new attitude. Those are things chaos magic really helps with, as it offers oodles of techniques for embracing change. 

Here's the synopsis of Pagan Portals - Chaos Magic from the website of publisher Moon Books:

Divided into two parts - Theory and Praxis - this book is a primer for those seeking to explore the philosophies of chaos magic, its principles and practical applications. In Part One, you'll learn to harness the power of intention, belief, and creativity not only to shape your reality according to your desires but also to decondition your mind, remove limiting beliefs, enter altered states of consciousness, achieve gnosis, and more. In Part Two, you'll learn to work with sigils, hypersigils, and magical entities, as well as explore powerful techniques, such as visualization and invocation, and the controversial realm of pop-culture magic. Presenting an understanding of the core concepts of chaos magic, this book provides insight into how to embrace chaos and unleash the mad scientist within. Your reality is yours to create.

The book is by Ivy Corvus, an American occultist who has been practicing chaos magic and other esoteric techniques for over 15 years. She's known on YouTube where she has cultivated a reputation as an experimental chaos magician. This is her first book, but it's extremely well written and easy to follow. Each chapter has practical exercises which build on each other. It's perfect for beginners who want to learn, but is also good as a refresher course for those with more experience.

You can view Pagan Portals - Chaos Magic on Amazon.

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