Cast Iron Chaos: 2011-10-17

The long day of walking all over the place and being out of the house on Saturday really wore me out, to the point where I spent all day yesterday relaxing. I was on the pager, which also kept me at home; but it was a very quiet day for calls, thank goodness. At least I did a fresh load of laundry, and cooked a yummy pot of rice pudding. (Tonight I'll make that fish chowder I'd been planning to make.)
Besides doing the laundry, I did accomplish something by going to Dollar Tree and getting a bunch of little toys to give out on Halloween. There are enough doodads here to fill my 9-quart cast iron pot, and having the pot hanging from my tripod stand should make for an impressive sight. Since I'm on the third floor of an apartment building and my neighbors have already said they're not much into Halloween, I have the beginnings of a plan in mind…find a public lot in an area where a lot of kids roam around, bring my car there, set up the pot with toys, and play some music while waiting for kids to show up. I still plan on getting food involved in this, somehow.
I was so tired I didn't even feel like doing meditation…if only because I knew I would have only fallen asleep. Some people can meditate in lieu of sleep, but I'm only a beginner to this and I have a lot of practice to do before I reach that level. So…I'll keep practicing.
I've looked briefly at ways to find other people who are into this, and I realize Chaos magic (or "magick" ) is a practice that mostly involves solitary practitioners. This, I suspect is one reason why the catchphrase "belief is a tool" is used in this practice – it allows us to find and hang out with other so-called pagans, even if we think the Goddess stuff with the candle energy, crystal energy, herbal magic et al don't really do anything except serve to enhance your inner magic.
One amusing occurrence yesterday was the way Ron Paul's drones showed up on my YouTube page to berate me after I called them "Ron Paul drones." [1]