Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Let's start things out with a bit of alchemical text from the Splendor Solis, the most gorgeously illustrated of all the old alchemical texts: 

 

"They further saw the King of the Earth sink, and heard him cry out in an eager voice, 'Whoever saves me shall live and reign with me forever in my brightness on my royal throne,'  and night enveloped all things. [...] Meaning, in this masterly art:  'Deprive the thing of its destructive moisture, and renew it with its own essential one which will become its perfection and life.'" 

 

The image is the seventh illustration from Splendor Solis. It shows, in the distance, an old king in the water, struggling and crying out to be saved. In the foreground stands a young king in a golden robe bathed in the light of the sun and a brilliant star. 

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Please note also that this is the last Magic Monday until February 1, 2021, as I will be taking the month of January off as usual. 

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you in February!***

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A Jovial (Jovian?) Yuletide Tale

More an amusing anecdote, but: Last week, I had made my customary tribute to Zeus (a portion of beef offered up under the open sky) along with the usual invocation, but, unusually for me, I also petitioned for some hospitable weather on Christmas Eve. We were having our regular celebration outside because of the pandemic, and severe storms were forecast for the area. I was hoping things would go forward for the sake of my mom, who is Christian and had been very desirous of seeing the family on the holiday.

As it turns out, the storms held until late evening and a good time was had. While most of my family was congregating in the front yard, waiting for the annual arrival of Santa aboard a fire truck, I felt compelled to offer thanks to the Aegis-bearer for the reprieve. As there was no beef around, and against my better judgement, I used a portion of pork for the offering, casting it into the fire we had going.

Two things then happened. The Santa surrogate and the fire apparatus rolled onto our street, sirens blazing. At the same time, a giant gust of wind lifted up the tent we had and sent it into the fire pit, knocking said pit over and sending embers everywhere.

In my mind, a peal of raucous laughter--definitely not "ho ho ho."

Fortunately, no fires were set to any structures and no one was injured.

Roberto Calasso said, paraphrasing: "there is nothing sadder than a prayer to the wrong god." I would add, there is nothing scarier than the wrong offering to the right god.

My takeaway: Lesson learned and message received--we will stick with the usual offering, no substitutes. I realize I will need to do some work on that front, and it's a mess of my own making.

But, per your Santa post yesterday, I have to wonder (and here's the question): Given the concurrence of the appearance of the Santa surrogate, is there some sort of correlation with the entity known as Santa? Is he working on behalf of some other henad, or...?

Axé,
Fra' Lupo

[ecosophia]

1) Oof. Never offer pork to one of the Olympians. Pork is always and only given to the chthonic deities.

2) Santa is Kronos/Saturn -- didn't you know that? The lord of Saturnalia and the midwinter revels, who dwells at what our culture traditionally imagined as the uttermost end of the world (our equivalent of Ogygia) and brings back a faint echo of the Golden Age with him -- who else could he be? So it's no wonder -- given what happened in the heavens -- that you experienced a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, or that it it brought a certain degree of disruption...

[(Anonymous)]

Quite the timing, given the recent moves in the heavens above.

Had not connected Santa with Kronos of the Crooked Ways, but makes sense!

Thanks for your time and insights, sir, and may the Gods light your path.

Fra’ Lupo