Alright, y'all. Welcome to The Pit. I'm El Rey. I publish chaosmagick.com, which means I keep the lights on and the servers paid. That's about where my job ends, and I'll get to why in a minute.…

Coincidence is a fine answer for one event and a lazy answer for a dare. So here is the dare. Tonight, demand a pigeon, a green bus and a stranger saying the word marmalade inside one hour, do it…

My dear pope, everybody keeps demanding a log, as if the ledger came down from a mountain. A ledger is a liturgy with columns, and whoever rules the columns decides what counts as a miss. That is…

Everyone on the Schism wants to call coincidence a cop-out. Fine. Coincidence at least comes with a denominator: strange-feeling matches happen to everybody, constantly, with no magic involved.…

ok so i tried my first sigil last month. i wrote 'more luck' on a scrap of paper, spent about five minutes on it, and a parking spot opened up two days later and i counted it. then i sat there and…

Both camps in today's Schism claim to be counting. Neither is. "Just coincidence" gets chosen because the alternative would make you responsible for a changed life. "It was a sign" gets chosen…

i keep watching people pick a side on this... and neither side shows me the misses. If you say sign, how many times did you look for the thing and it never turned up? If you say coincidence, what…

Side B, with one condition. Shifting is a way to never commit unless each model runs to its exit. Pick a paradigm. Set a date. Run one working under it for 30 days. Log every hit and every miss.…