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

[brenainn]

I've been getting more into alternative health modalities and the occult aspects of our health. I seem to recall some recent questions about surgical removal of organs but I don't quite recall your answers. Two questions have occurred to me:

1. If a person has a limb amputated, do their etheric and astral bodies also lose that limb or is the loss solely on the physical plane? I'm wondering if "phantom pain" in amputees might have an occult basis, rather than the naturalistic psychosomatic explanation.

2. I had a friend who recently had an orchiectomy done to treat testicular cancer. It wasn't bilateral (thankfully) but it did get me wondering: does becoming a eunuch have any impact on the etheric and astral levels, or on magical ability?

[ecosophia]

1) It's been standard occult teaching for a long time that an amputated limb is amputated only on the material plane, and that "phantom pain" and other phenomena of the same kind relate to the etheric body.

2) It's been so long since there was a large population of eunuchs in Western countries that I don't think the information was preserved. One of the upsides of the current transgender phenomenon is that we now have plenty of eunuchs among us, so it should be possible over the next couple pf decades to find out.

[violetcabra]

Hi Brenainn,

Since I'm both a eunuch and an occult practitioner I can share some details from my experience. First, it doesn't appear to have much effect on magical ability, at least on the level of the mental or astral plane. That means practically that my body can serve as a conduit for magical energies. Furthermore, if I formulate an intent with conscious will I've had good success helping it to come on down the planes into form. So it appears that a person can live as a eunuch and still work with magic.

As for etheric or astral energies, certainly something subtle does happen. I've known other post-operative trans women or eunuchs and they always strike me as different than those who aren't cut. Frankly, eunuch's have something eerie energetically going on. Relevantly, way more of the eunuch trans women I've known have serious spiritual lives than non-eunuch trans women.

Probably Mercury rules eunuchs along with other people who don't fit cleanly or well into either "male" or "female." All of this said, what I'm discussing are all humans who freely choose to become eunuchs rather than people who had it occur through some other means such as surgery or an accident. I'm not sure how much the elective aspect of it might be important. For this reason I feel reluctant to write on the general category outside of trans related concerns.