The Chaos Magick Hand Grenade
A Magick Method To Help Revitalise Your Life!
Hello, good people of the internet, and welcome to the Redux Series, which is a series I have been running on my Patreon for the last year, but now also here in the Newsletter. The series involves me going back to my old blog posts from the Adventures In Woo Woo blog and see if I still align with them, or if I have anything to add or subtract from them. In the end, I'll collect it all together as a book.
What follows is so simple that many of you may regard it as futile or even silly. However, having done this ritual a number of times over the years to great effect, I can only suggest that you try it before you dismiss it.
The key to this ritual is to build yourself into a bit of a frenzy for it. At the moment you mentally throw the grenade, you should feel like there is a possibility that this ritual could completely uproot your life and your comfort zones, or ultimately even destroy your entire life. Aim for that level of intensity.
Also, though the ritual below is described as a mental exercise you can, and I have done it with great success, as a physical ritual. Though, it’s probably best not to use a real grenade, or even anything that resembles one. The following instructions will probably make more sense to you if you have read the piece below, so if you haven’t already, go do that and come back for the update.
Instead of a grenade, use something like an orange-something innocuous but also something you don’t want to hold on to. Start by spending a few days with the orange and thinking about the area you want to explore. Hold the orange often and energetically infuse and imbue it with the energy of chaos. When you feel it's fully cooked, then again build yourself up to it like you are really going to throw a real grenade. Then launch it by throwing it into a room that represents the event you want to be changed – like your office, your bedroom, your neighbour's back garden, or your bookshelves. You could even throw it at a particular person to catch it. Then feel/visualise the light explosion as described below.
You don’t have to be seen doing this, and perhaps it's best if you aren’t for many targets, as they might benefit from a more covert attack. Also, you could work this as more baneful magic, if that’s your style, by injecting chaos into other people’s lives – though I would, in that case, expect some sort of pushback. I doubt you’d be able to stay out of the blast radius or aftermath without some effect.
And, also you should consider other types of grenades than just the chaos version – Wyrd Grenades, Love grenades, Money Grenades, Healing Grenades etc can all be used to great effect.
Enjoy!
The Chaos Magick Hand Grenade
24th April 2017
I have spoken before about how Not Resisting Life has resulted in huge changes for me, and if you haven’t read that piece, it may be worth your while to do so before reading on.
The problem is that I don’t think I was explaining the concept too well, mostly because I probably didn’t totally get it myself. The basic idea was to stop trying to change stuff in your mind and just let life do what it is going to do. This doesn’t mean that you accept it, or like it, or encourage it or anything like that – it just means you mentally don’t resist what is happening or going to happen. I found that when I stopped trying to change the future with my worrying and just allow whatever was going to happen to happen without resistance, life became much better.
A good example is a break-up – it can take us so, so long to allow the actual break up and actually accept that it is happening. We can spend moths, even years, resisting that it has ended – mentally rehearsing and playing movies in our heads about what we could do, what our ex were doing now with other people, or any of that stuff that we torture ourselves with. The biggest pain of a break-up is from resisting that it has happened. As soon as we stop resisting that, we can move on pretty quickly.
But what I have come to see is that the thing I was resisting in life was CHAOS. Now, Chaos means a lot of things to different people, so I am going to start by defining what I mean by Chaos in this regard. In life, there are Knowns and there are Unknowns. Knowns are what we know about, our comfort zones, the things that are safe to us, that we understand, that we can deal with, that make sense to us. Unknowns are all the stuff that we don’t know about, or is out of our comfort zones or safety zone. However, with Unknowns, there are two types – Known-Unknowns and Unknown-Unknowns. The Know-Unknowns are the stuff we don’t know about, but we know that they exist, even if that’s just vaguely. An example would be that if we don’t know how to drive, we are aware that people can drive – it’s just that we don’t know how to do it. The Unknown Unknowns are the stuff that we just have no idea even exists – and this is what I think Chaos is. It is total potentiality, creativity and that sense that anything could happen. It also usually comes with some pain, as all change does, but ultimately results in a better, more positive situation.
The idea below for the Chaos Magick Hand Grenade was part of the original piece, but I feel I have now a better appreciation of the effects it may have than I did at first. This is dangerous magick, not to be taken lightly. It will probably make life seem a bit worse for a while before it will get a lot better. So use as appropriate.
THE CHAOS MAGICK HAND GRENADE
Pick an area of your life that has become stale, sluggish, not going anywhere, or could just generally do with some new energy to get to liven it up again. You can do this for your entire life, but I think it's best to start smaller and more contained so that you can compartmentalise and document the effects of the Magick more easily.
Spend some time in a meditative state contemplating the particular life area you have chosen. If it is to do with a job, then just let all thoughts about your working situation come and go in your mind with as little opinion and judgement as you can.
Then visualise in your hand The Chaos Hand Grenade. You can use some similar to the Invisibles image above, or something that works better for you. Try to feel the weight of it in your hand, the texture of it against your skin, the smell of it.
In your mind, pick a scene that is a good representation of the life area you have selected. So, if it is work, then the office or place of work would be good. If you have no job then the unemployment office, or recruitment agency or whatever. Just go with what seems the best representation.
Still all in your mind and in this meditative headspace, know that you are about to infuse this particular area of your life with Chaos, and that things are about to change. Know what you are doing, be aware of the seriousness of your actions.
See yourself pulling the pin on The Chaos Hand Grenade and throwing it into the scene you have chosen.
Let the Chaos Hand Grenade explode and encompass the entire scene in bright, bright light.
Let this light continue for as long as possible.
Come out of the meditative state and go about your life.
Keep records of any changes that occur in the area you choose. Try to recognise the chaos as it begins to appear. Try not to resist it.
If opportunities come up that you normally wouldn’t take – take them, or at least explore them more fully than you use to. If it all seems to be getting worse, know that this is a great sign, as you have to destroy the old to get to the new.
Until next time…
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Tommie
My name is Tommie Kelly, and I’m an artist, musician, writer & Chaos Magician from Ireland. I’m probably best known for creating the Magick and Divination system, THE FORTY SERVANTS. These periodical newsletters are about my adventures in creativity, spirituality, and magick. Check out my website: Adventures In Woo Woo