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I’ve been doing urban influenced magic for most of my time as a Chaote. I lived close to the city and I still spend most my time in the city though I no longer live there. It started from the realisation that magic as I had started it in the ‘burbs just didn’t work right in the city. Energies move totally differently for a start, there’s more emotional turmoil and it generally just has more feedback magically that hinders rather than helps unless you adapt.

Adapt I did and became, over the years, reasonably good at what I do, but for all that my magic is still mostly indoor out of the way kind of stuff. Working with the flow of the city but not the city itself. After a few threads on various boards I’m beginning to look into the later. With the weather so cold (what the hell happened to those nice mild nights?) I’m doing the reading and thinking part at the moment, but I want to move beyond that.

For the curious the excellent Ekistomancy blog is a good place to start.

Here is my city, that I fully intend to get to know:

Melbourne: Southbank after dark

I plan to start talking to the city at the lights out front of Reservoir station that I cross every time I want to go into the city or go home from the city. Close to home and then work in…