Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. (Any question received after then will not get an answer, and will likely just be deleted.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. I'm not very familiar with Nietzsche, but from what I do know of him and his writings, I was struck by the sharp contrast between how he acted in his mundane life and the tone he adopted in his writings. It always seemd to me that was indicative of some deep inner conflict.

To put it in the language of his three metamorphoses, the impression I got of him is that he longed to become the child but couldn't let go of the lion.

Re: Human Limitations

[ecosophia]

Gwynfydd is not limitless. It extends further above where we are now than we can possibly imagine, but it has a limit, which is Ceugant.

Furthermore, and crucially, when we speak of "human possibility" we're speaking of the possibilities we have now, as incarnate human beings at this stage in our spiritual evolution, and in that context we exist within very sharp limits. It's by accepting those limits and learning the lessons they have to teach that we will evolve to the next level.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

First, I would like to give you a big thanks for introducing me to the SOP and discursive meditation, which I have been doing daily for about three years now. These practices have helped me make a number of profound improvements in my life, most especially in my relationships. Thank you!

I am currently working my way through the Dolmen Arch, closing out the 2nd grade right now. I am really enjoying the DA coursework, and I believe it will give me all sorts of good results for spiritual development. My question is on the practical side--what magical practices would be best for improving my business and finding opportunities to earn more money?

[ecosophia]

First, plenty of hugs, and the simple fact that you'll listen to her, will help a great deal.

Second, you can give her some simple protective rite to do. Children in traditional Christian settings are taught the sign of the cross for that purpose; other faiths have their own equivalents. If you don't belong to any such faith, this very simple practice might be worth considering.

Re: Mundane Astrology/Lunar Eclipse

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP, but the problem is that the vaccines only provide partial immunity. In much the same way that bacteria evolve to resist antibiotics which are overused, an emphasis on immunity to a single protein will encourage the virus to evolve to find ways around that. Most people's immune responses are not based on a single protein, but on plenty of them, with some idiosyncratic variation thrown in just for fun as well. This makes it harder for the virus to get around the immune response than just using a vaccine.

[ecosophia]

Probably not. To find out, cast your natal chart for exactly the same date and time of birth, but as though you were born in whatever place you're considering. That will move the house cusps slightly, and if it moves a malefic planet away from an angle, or a benefic planet into a better position, you might consider moving.

Bedside Geometrics

[kimberlysteele]

You might try a bit of natural magic, including small bowls of vinegar and salt near the bed to interfere with any terrifying non-corporeal entities on the etheric plane. I have two videos on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouv3fw8Dlqc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxDd_HD5Qus

To disrupt the entities on the astral plane, you might try a bedside geometric:

https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/26916.html

[open_space]

As someone who just finished crafting a set of simple tools for my own practice I will just say that if you don't do them yourself (or assemble them and make them your own in a way) you are loosing a fine bit of magical and will training. I also wouldn't want anyone else's energies unless I know them well in my practice and ritual space. Made by yourself really is better than fine craftmanship in my opinion!

[ecosophia]

That makes sense. Yeats always used to say that every great creative mind was trying to embody, in his or her creativity, whatever was most opposite his or her own personality...

Re: Update on Dr Abbott

[ecosophia]

Fascinating. Many thanks for this -- you've succeeded in extracting a forgotten occultist from oblivion, which is always worth doing.

Re: A Geomantic reading...

[ecosophia]

I wouldn't consider that a positive reading at all. The right witness is the past -- Acquisitio: you have the space. Via as judge changes figures into their opposite, leading to the left witness in the future, Amissio -- you lose the space. I would definitely recommend other readings to explore additional possibilities.

Re: Evocation Circle Materials

[ecosophia]

You could use cord and paper, yes. I made mine from heavy paper, cut out in individual arcs and fastened together with removable tape. The cord should be white, however, to represent the protective force of spirit.

Meeting magical people

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG and fellow readers,
I just had an interesting experience. a young lady came over to pick up a pair of hens and I ended up showing her my garden. I was telling her about my collection of magical plants. As soon as I mentioned magic, I started to get tingling sensations throughout my body as has happened before when talking about magic with other people who have had magical training. The tingling got really intense when I told her lilacs were good for exorcism. I stopped and asked if she was a magical person. She had been training as a Wiccan for 7 years. She was experiencing the tingling too.

This sort of thing only ever happens with people who are interested in magic rather than just nice people or religious people. Only magical people. My question is, does studying magic give people a different charge than non-trained people?
Maxine

Re: Is Permaculture an Alchemy ?

[ecosophia]

Good. Yes, exactly -- permaculture in its full form depends on an alchemical philosophy, and if you take that away, all you've got left is a grab bag of landscaping hints. Of course people want to do that, because it allows them to remain comfortably stuck in the rut of modern pop-culture consciousness.

Interestingly, the same thing is true of biodynamic gardening. That depends on Western occult philosophy -- it was launched by Rudolf Steiner -- and can be debased just as readily, though even in debased form you can still get decent vegetable harvests.

Re: A Muslim Druid

[(Anonymous)]

It's OK. May be one day we'll meet a muslim druid...

[ecosophia]

1) This sort of astral static is quite common. It might have a message from your subconscious, which you can unpack by journaling. What does that celebrity represent to you?

2) Scrying can be like that! When you get an itchy energy center, by the way, try to relax it as much as possible; that'll let the energy flow.

Re: Radionics, Prayer Batteries & the Aetharius Society

[ecosophia]

Ah, the Aetherius Society! I didn't know that it was still around. Yes, it's one of the more interesting of the UFO-themed new religions -- like most of them, a revamped Theosophy with flying saucers added for local color. I'm glad they survived the death of their founder -- always a challenge for a new religious movement; they have a good reputation -- even the nastiest of the skeptic sites have no accusations of bad behavior on their part -- and who knows? They might become Europe's next great religion in another thousand years or so.

Re: A Geomantic reading...

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks very much.
I think I got carried away there.
I'll explore the situation a bit more and wont do anything rash....

Re: Tarot Book Opinions

[open_space]

Just as a data-point. I have Pollacks 78-degrees and it is good but if you like her, don't miss out on The New Tarot Handbook which she wrote decades later and it shows. It is still a handbook but very nicely done.

That said, I've never used Tarot decks in the french style so I don't know if anything from there applies to it (Pollack's books both use the Smith-Waite and its accompanying symbolism)

Re: Perched on the Wheel of Time

[ecosophia]

I really have no idea. One of the things that's central to my own work is a focus on older writers and teachers -- thus my comment "I mostly read books by dead people" -- and I've kept my distance from trends in current intellectual culture, precisely so that my work doesn't get bollixed up with the latest trends.

Re: My experience with the Chenrezig mantra as a non Buddhist, aka Good Is Not Nice

[(Anonymous)]

Valuable? Maybe. Safe? No. Surely anyone who's been a fool in the name of compassion — and I am one — is going to recommend a touch of caution about flinging oneself wholeheartedly into a compassion practice, and double caution about goosing it up. If you're lucky, you only wind up giving more money to a beggar than you'd otherwise consider appropriate. If you're not lucky, you'll tangle with someone who is both vulnerable and exploitative/destructive, and you'll get a much more expensive lesson in "idiot compassion".

Re: Middle Pillar First Expansion

[ecosophia]

Just keep at it. This is quite common, and will improve as your aura becomes clearer and stronger.

[ecosophia]

Steiner made the mistake -- very common in his time -- of thinking that the images of the prehistoric past he got from the astral plane ("Akashic records") were accurate images of material conditions in the past, which they weren't. (As far as I can tell, they were symbolic expressions of astral conditions.) He also ended up making some very weird claims in his late and famous lectures on agriculture, again by treating astral experiences as a reflection of the material plane. That's what I had in mind in terms of his confounding the planes. It doesn't vitiate his work in general -- far from it -- but it's one of the ways in which a reflective attitude toward his writings is much more useful than the sort of rigid literalism too common among mainstream Anthroposophists these days.

Medical geomancy again

[bendithfawr]

Hi JMG,

I asked last week about medical geomancy for my daughter. As you recommended, I tried again asking the specific question ("Can we do or refrain from doing something to heal our daughter's symptoms?"). I assumed 1st house myself, 5th house our daughter, 7th house my wife (who's fittingly a doctor) and 10th house the symptom.

I received this chart:



The significators are very fitting to the characters of the persons mentioned but I'm not sure how to interpret the result. There's a conjunction between myself, my daughter and my wife so I assume it's me having to do something. Caput Draconis does a translation between myself and the symptoms. So I'll have to bring in someone or something else or start something new.

To make sure I asked if a doctor would be able to heal the symptoms, with the 7th house now standing for an external doctor. This resulted in this chart:



There's no perfection between 7 and 10 so I believe this is a "No". Does this sound plausible to you? Is there anything you might add to the interpretation or would you interpret it differently?

Thank you so much!

Re: Mundane Astrology/Lunar Eclipse

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not convinced by that argument. Mutations, like copying errors, are random. Most vaccinated people aren't going to get infected, so those who do will generate some variants, but fewer of them than if ten times as many people got infected and produced copies. If variant B is much more able to infect vaccinated people than variant A, then in a heavily vaccinated population variant B, and variants based on it, will become dominant. But how is that any worse than not vaccinating, and having everyone get sick with variant A? (It could be worse if variant B is also more virulent, but the opposite could just as easily be true.)

Second, all the emphasis is on production of antibodies to the protein because - or so I get the impression - that's what it's cheapest to test for, but the immune response to vaccines, like infections, apparently does also include production of T cells, which may go after cells that are infected even with variants that the antibodies don't recognize well.