More Mondays, More Magic

[ecosophia]

Once again, it's technically Monday now -- past midnight Eastern time -- and here I am on Dreamwidth, so it's time for another 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, though it may be Tuesday sometime before I get to them all.

With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

Learning Ritual Magic

[grandswamperman]

Good morning JMG,

I have recently decided to seriously move past the dabbling stage and start working through Learning Ritual Magic. I am using the Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot as my deck, which has two different versions of the Temperance card. Do I need to use only one of these when I am going through the deck each day and for any later work with Temperance, and if so, is one version preferable to the other?

Re: Learning Ritual Magic

[ecosophia]

Yes, you should only use one of them for ordinary workings. The simpler one with the figure pouring water from vessel to vessel is the one to use; the other has a specific application to initiatory work, and is not meant for other uses.

Re: Learning Ritual Magic

[grandswamperman]

Thank you, I will proceed accordingly. A couple of related questions I thought of, is it okay to do the relaxation and attention exercises more than once a day? And if I do the attention exercise right after relaxation, should I do the opening and closing gesture separately for each of the two exercises, or is it okay to just open before relaxation and close after the attention exercise?

Finally, one question unrelated to the above and then I'll shush: did I read somewhere that you have an updated version of The Celtic Golden Dawn in the works, or did I just imagine that?

Re: Learning Ritual Magic

[ecosophia]

Once per day is enough. Beginners very often want to pile into the work, and that's laudable, but it's not usually a good idea. Open and close separately for each practice.

As for The Celtic Golden Dawn, what's in process is a little more interesting -- well, at least to me! I've got a series of books in process that use the magical system I evolved for The Celtic Golden Dawn, one of which is already under contract with Llewellyn. My working guess is that I'll end up writing four or five books, each of which takes the CGD system of magic in a different direction, and all of which will be completely interworkable with the others.