Who Cursed Cooper? - OCCULT CHAT #10 YouTube video by Occult Chat

Stream goes live 8pm CST on Friday! We will be taking calls — please bring as many responses as possible!

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Anonymous messages! Anonymous messages!

You can send questions to the show’s host, Alex ngl.link/balefulrays1

Logo for occult chat show. “Who cursed Cooper? Occult chat #10” main text reads: “join our search for the truth. Was there actually an attack? What was their motivation? Who is behind the attack? Submit ahead or call in during the stream”

So if you haven’t heard from me in a while, here’s why — and hopefully, you can help.

Whether it’s been just a horrible year and this is all in my head OR there’s actual magic at work, I’m hoping you can help.

Show is this Friday at 8:00 CST — you can also send readings in ahead of time!

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Hey friends! I kinda…forgot this app existed.

But you might be down to submit an article in my new magazine, “The Magic Mirror”!

Lots of blah blah but a print-only publication for magicians about magic — a walled forum as it were.

Meetings Saturday is optional!

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A ghost looking into funhouse mirrors. Text reads “In The Spirit of Things, volume one, issue one, October 2025”

Hey friends! I kinda…forgot this app existed.

But you might be down to submit an article in my new magazine, “The Magic Mirror”!

Lots of blah blah but a print-only publication for magicians about magic — a walled forum as it were.

Meetings Saturday is optional!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There’s a conversation floating around claiming Aphrodite is all sweet and some daffy practitioner converted to Catholicism after they learned to check sources the hard way.

To help the youth understand, Aphrodite is Regina George.

I thought these were so funny I had to login to post them here too.

I’m a funny man.

If we are lucky, our successors will all think we were fucking idiots who knew nothing but had the right spirit — that is a learned person’s greatest blessing.

To have a student who answers the question you yourself cannot —

I didn’t expect to use vampires as a mythic example of how to use your mind as a protective barrier but like, actually a fantastic example?

How funny to be critiquing Fortune’s theories while returning to the same examples — it’s not about proving our predecessors wrong, but building on their work.

My favorite part about my approach to magic is that it blows folks away.

I feel like a hack often — but then I actually USE magic with people and their whole world is shaken up. I forget for all the studying and talking, so few actually DO magic.

Me teaching spellcasting

"Principles of Protection" Magical Self-Defense 301 — Institute of Modern Magic This more advanced magical self-defense course focuses on how practitioners and magicians alike use their souls themselves as powerful defensive tools. Over the course of the three weeks, we will begi...

Oh hey there! Guess what starts tomorrow (or in February?!)

That's right -- "Principles of Protection!"

You can become Sherlock Holmes of magic by tapping into your "mind palace" and adapting other techniques to turn your memories into magical defenses!

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Part of why I think autistic people do well with magic is because it rewards the strict, absolutist logic that comes with the brain setup.

It’s literally easier for me to hold my own views and beliefs above other people’s or the norm.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Can you guess which planet rules each of our charts?

And pretty much everyone in our extended family?

Funny enough, if you look at my parents and me, it’s obvious I’m their kid but yeah — my mom’s mom looks WAY more like me than either of my parents.

My mom and her grandmother are also vaguely clones — surprise surprise, my mom and her granddaughter are also clones.

Somehow, every new picture I find of my grandmother shocks me.

My Moon is in the 1H conjunct her Sun. Puberty hit and I became her as a fella.

Educating my niece on our family history today. She loved Scooby and wouldn’t you know?

They’ve got a whole movie all about the witches of Salem and their descendants.

I think this image might be broken? Or maybe my phone is just spiteful today.

Anyway, hopefully this is useful!

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My friends were surprised I told them I still looked up other people’s takes on things — same as I do for astrology and science and everything else in life.

When you have a feel for the framework (I recommend 3 cards in the book but I did the cross from day 1) you can get accurate very quickly.

Applied practice will teach you the more literal meaning of the very dramatic and broad symbolism.

Use the little interpretive book without shame — learn to tell the story in context before you worry about flexing a memorized set of symbols. The power in scrying is in chaos, not illumination.

Just kill me.

Being uncle Cooper means snuggles and Scooby Doo — now Polar Express

"Playful Protection" Magical Self-Defense 101 — Institute of Modern Magic Drawing on one of the best-known games of strategy and warfare, “Playful Protection” uses chess strategies, gamesmanship, and actual chess pieces to give participants everything they need to start cre...

You can sign up here: the first session starts December 8th!

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First of the two protection classes this winter starts with the key basics: wards, barriers, and sentries!

We’ll be focused on using chess strategies and tricks to build a complete self-defense ecosystem.

Cap Moon so you know it’s only long sleeves and nothing else lol

Hoodie and otherwise naked is a FAR too common sight in my homes

Yes but the opposite — more like it’s pants off ASAP. Naked is ideal but it’s cold here so shorts.

If I’m wearing pants, I’m unhappy. I’m also known for wearing blanket robes pretty much my whole life — I’d steal blankets from my family too like some kind of textile gremlin.

Taurus 4H w/ Sun

Bad charts make good people.

One of the best parts of living in this era is the absolute glut of spiritual readers:

You can find pretty much anything you’re looking for — there’s dangers in that, but I quite enjoy the wider array of magicians that might yet be.

In the natal chart, very interested in people’s experiences with twilight.

Doing a consult today that has their Sun just beneath the horizon and their sect light is buried in the 2nd.

Rare case of the Sun being dominant in a night chart by virtue of Illumination — I prioritize the visible light.