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.

The illustration? One of the two famous drawings from the Aurea Catena Homeri (Golden Chain of Homer) by Anton Josef Kirchweger, one of the last of the red-hot central European alchemists. The two dragons represent the two principles of his alchemy, niter and salr (which of course are not the material substances called by these names) and the metals are shown around a hexagram in the middle. 

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***Brief Update: er, folks, this is Magic Monday, it's not Ask-Me-Anything Monday.  I've had to delete a bunch of questions on things unrelated to occultism. I do an open post on the fourth Wednesday of each month over on my blog for general questions. Thank you for keeping the conversation focused!***

***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

Comments

[tunesmyth]

JMG, I was the one who argued the 8th house would be more pertinent to this question. Now, to be clear, it doesn’t affect the outcome of EmmanuelG’s initial reading, which clearly perfects whether by 4th or by 8th (though the aspects are kinder to him in the 8th version).

My argument for the 8th had nothing to do with real estate. Having done daily geomancy readings for over a year now, the 8th house only rarely seems to have anything to do with death, magic, or other people’s money (2nd of the 7th). Well, “death” works, but only in the sense of being the ultimate limit. The 8th is more generally the house of limits and loss, which balances the 2nd house’s identity as the house of possession and gain. I believe its traditional relationship to magic and the spirit world come not only from the connection with death, but also from— maybe even primarily from— its meaning of limitations, as magic is the way of willingly guiding the forces of the universe toward particular outcomes rather than just anywhere they would have gone through natural momentum. But for most questions, I find that what appears in the 8th doesn’t have to do with magic, spirits, or death per se, so much as things which are being limited or forced to end in some way.

It would be silly for me to argue that EmmanuelG’s question wasn’t about real estate— and of course it was. What I was suggesting, though, was that the real heart of the question, as it was about loss and crisis, might more properly be considered an 8th house question.

Regardless of your own judgment as to where to assign EmmanuelG’s question. Does my understanding of the 8th house accord with yours, and if not, where in your view should I revise or reconsider?

[ecosophia]

Hmm! If it works for you, by all means. That's not the way my house charts work, not at all, but the personal element in divination is always important.

[tunesmyth]

May I ask, when reading house charts and important figures pass to or are in particular relation to 8th house figures, for you does it always have to do with spirits, magic, death, or other people’s money? (And perhaps this works better for someone like yourself with a full time magical practice?)

[ecosophia]

In my reading, when something passes to the 8th, it pretty much always has to do either with magic or with my wife's money or property. But then I do a lot of magic!