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Dr Alexander Cummins is a consultant, diviner, writer, contemporary cunning-man, and historian of magic. His magical specialities are the dead (folk necromancy), divination (geomancy) and the grimoires.

Dr Cummins’ published works include An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke (Scarlet Imprint, 2020) with Phil Legard, The Starry Rubric: Seventeenth-century English Astrology and Magic (Hadean Press 2012), A Book of the Magi: Lore, Prayers, and Spellcraft of the Three Holy Kings (Revelore Press, 2018), as well as contributions to collections by Three Hands Press, Scarlet Imprint, and Hadean Press. He is a founding editor of Revelore Press’ Folk Necromancy in Transmission series, and co-hosts the podcast Radio Free Golgotha.

The Good Doctor is a frequent speaker on the international circuit, consults for clients and organisations, and provides training, workshops, and coaching in many aspects of magical theory, history, and practice. Originally from the Midlands of the UK, Al now makes his home in New Hampshire.

 
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consulting

My consultation services are founded upon active listening, strategic analysis, and creative planning – all of which are informed by the use of divination. Divination can perhaps be thought of as a combination of analysis, poetry, assessment and ritual; all brought together to synthesise understanding and advice. Working in collaboration and through narratives of symbol and sign, diviner and client together explore patterns and processes to discern useful and above all practicable information for weighing options, making decisions, designing projects, and refining practices.

Inquiries, bookings, and further questions can be directed to consultantsorcerer@gmail.com

Geomancy

Geomancy is a form of divination that offers grounded focused answers to fundamental questions. It is a system of magic for acting on the astrological influences of everyday concerns and ambitions. Geomantic charts answer specific questions, which can then be assessed by discovering patterns in the relationships between the different aspects of your life. It offers practical life advice as well as insight into issues of a more mystical or magical nature.

tarot

Tarot is perhaps the most well-known form of divination. Especially useful for conducting general life readings: assessments on matters such as one’s life, work, love affairs, and creative projects. It is a system with a lot of room for showing you a different side or angle on something, providing ample and subtle perspectives, warnings and encouragements. It is a thorough, rich, and nuanced oracle.

cartomancy

Divination by playing cards is a very old and down-to-earth form of folk magic. Especially suitable system for questions that need short simple straight-to-point answers: for getting workable grasps on difficult life situations, for identifying key problems to address or tensions to navigate, and for establishing concrete plans of action. 

magical coaching

I also offer coaching for people looking to improve an aspect of their magical practice, engage in serious research on a topic, or learn or brush up on ritual skills and techniques. Coaching is open to beginners or experts alike, and can cover everything from a quick check-in after a particularly powerful working, to instructions on how to perform or improve a specific ritual or work with a specific spirt, to more structured teaching on the theories and practices of occult philosophy and sorcerous spell-craft. Such coaching can often include divination to help guide you in your spiritual practice.

 
 

“Necromancer (necromantes) he that practises that wicked Art, a Master of the Black Art, one that seeks to the dead; or consults with Satan in the shape of a dead man. The Hebrews describe him thus; he made himself hungry, and then lodged among the Graves, that the dead might come to him in a dream, and make known to him that which he asked, &c. Others there were that clad themselves with cloathes for that purpose, and spoke certain words, burned Incense, and slept by themselves, that such a dead person might come and talk with them in a dream.”
- Thomas Blount, Glossographia (London, 1661)