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 more than 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 photo? One of my readers mentioned a little while back that a namesake of mine was a R&B saxophonist back in the 1940s and 1950s. I decided to check him out, and here he is in all his musical glory. Check out one of his tunes here. As far as I know, he's not a relative, though you never know -- there's been far more interracial marriage in American history, to say nothing of less formal interactions, than anybody likes to admit in these polarized times. If he does turn out to be a distant cousin I won't be unhappy. 

(If Big John Greer was an occultist, that fact didn't make it into his online bios, but of course it's always possible -- between hoodoo on one end of the African-American community, and a plethora of urban magical lodges on the other end, there was no shortage of black American occultism when his career was rolling...) 

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Comments

Apollo-Belenus Og

[cs2]

I had what I think is contact from a god, but I've never had this before, and I'd appreciate you confirming whether you think this is real.

Friday at midnight I read a detailed prayer to Elen, asking for guidance in healing from a health issue. That night I dreamt I was teaching others to pray to Apollo. This didn't feel like a dream; it felt like my subconscious played an 8-hour tape for me to experience.

I've never prayed to Apollo or had any kind of relationship with him. I've never had a clear interaction with a deity. This area was once Belenus territory, and later Apollo-Belenus. I pray to Og daily, especially in winter when I rarely get to see the sun.

I asked Ogham if Apollo is Og (Muin), if I should pray to Apollo (Uilleand) and what I need to know about praying to Apollo-Belenus Og:

Situation: Reverse Ioho
Lesson: Uilleand
Self: Onn

Then I asked whether I could love him, and drew Reverse Eadha. I take this to mean he's not offering a lifelong loving relationship, but rather to lend me strength over the next months as I work to get out of this health issue.

1. Does this sound like contact from a deity, or do you think I'm reading too much into it, wishing for something that isn't there?

2. Is this how you would interpret the Ogham reading? Thank you.

Re: Apollo-Belenus Og

[ecosophia]

Yes, that sounds like contact with a deity, and yes, that's how I'd interpret the reading. There may well be another deity who will become your patron in the long run.

Re: Apollo-Belenus Og

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP: Is there a particular connection between the Greek and Roman deities and the Welsh Druid Revival deities? Similarly to the OP, I had made a contact, verified by Ogham, with Venus, even though I work mainly with the Welsh deities.

Come to think of it, that's probably due to trade and travel between the two regions. If I remember right, the story in the Mabinogion that involves Elen to a great degree is concerned with the journey of a Roman emperor to Wales.

Re: Apollo-Belenus Og

[ecosophia]

Wales in the Middle Ages was very proud of its Romanitas, its status as an heir of Roman culture. Remember that when Roman Britain collapsed in the face of the Saxon invasions, Wales was where a lot of the refugees ended up.