Taking a couple months off from work means I'm having to start spending most of my time marketing aggressively, the rest working on my classes, and the rest having some semblance of a social life so that I don't drive myself crazy...well more crazy ;)
As always magic is still a core part of my life, but haven't really had a lot of time to sit down and figure out if I have anything worth talking about much.
Halloween was mostly uneventful. Did some crazy dressing up, experimented with making a dragon prosthetic and doing the makeup for it. I think I succeeded. One of these days maybe I'll get to work on this stuff for films or something. That could be fun.
Hmmm maybe I should whip up a sigil for that and get to work :) Goodness knows I have plenty of free time, right? :P Ah well, I enjoy life anyway. Definitely going to sigilize that shit though and start dong more Jupiter work. I can always make more time.
As for other aspects of Halloween, after I weirded out everyone in my college classes, I came home, and spent some time with the roommates and random friends that showed up. All in all a good night capped off by spending some time in my ritual space in meditation.
I discovered recently that the blade that I'm going to be using for Sekhmet's blade, is indeed a spear head, and not an old knife blade. I spoke with someone much more knowledgeable than I, when it comes to ancient weaponry. Apparently the Greeks, Macedonians, etc, were all using socketed spears like I had thought- but the lower infantry still used things like copper spear points for throwing spears. Because they were cheap, and easy to produce for large numbers of lower ranking soldiers. The implication is that the blade I have was likely used during the time period of Alexander the Great during or after the conquest of Persia (considering the location the seller told me it was from, the type of patina it had before I removed it, and the design of the spear head being decidedly Mediterranean.) The type of spear head itself was designed for piercing leather armor, and not metal. From what I was told, often once a spear was thrown in the middle of battle, it was not recovered. This spear could have found its mark, or it could have been one of the many that missed their target and remained strewn over the battle field. Fascinating stuff really.
I've now designed the handle for the blade, and just need to make it, and get ahold of some of that ren-wax stuff once I clean up the metal again. Once I have that, I can polish up the blade again, and put the wax on to protect it.
In other news, my 25th birthday is coming up. Hopefully it'll mark a change from all of this 2012 hustle and bustle and things will actually slow down a little. (maybe) I'm going to be spending some time with a friend of mine on the East Coast for a few weeks while working to expand the market for my modeling services out that way. I've already picked up some interest from photographers in NYC just with the announcement that I'm traveling to PA to scout things out, so here's to hoping that 2013 is going to be less crazy than 2012, and that I get to meet more interesting people out east :)
