Magic Monday
Dec. 12th, 2021 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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. (Please note: Any question received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) 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 image? That's the first card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle, which is hot off the press and on its way to stores and warehouses as I write these words. Card 1, The Unmarked Card, when upright indicates that the situation is wide open and you can make of it what you will; when reversed, it means that you don't have any way of knowing what's actually going on and you may want to back off and wait for more information before proceeding. The oak leaves on the sides of the image tell you that this card belongs to the first third of the oracle, which corresponds to Calas, the principle of solidity and materiality.
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Latest Transcript
Date: 2021-12-13 04:59 am (UTC)This is going to be the transcript I promised to provide to JMG as well since I don't think Sri Arya makes transcripts of his Youtube talks.
It's extensively annotated as well with my own notes from things I've learned from other gurus.
Anyway...
Here's Part 1
https://happypanda.dreamwidth.org/#entry-7622
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:00 am (UTC)If I see a rabbit run across my yard, do I draw a stave and ask a question about the significance of the creature and the event, or should I look up Ngetal since its animal is the hare? Or both, or…?
Many thanks.
Rhydlyd
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:04 am (UTC)I got the opportunity to answer some of my questions on your post announcing The Way of the Golden Section, so I've a got a few fewer questions today:
1) With the Winter Solstice coming up, I'm wondering about a specific intersection of your oft-repeated advice that magic and religion are not the same thing: are seasonal rituals more important for religion, for magic, or equally important to each for different reasons? If the answer is both, what distinct things are such rituals doing for each approach?
2) I have worked my way up to the full SOP and will shortly embark on using it practically. When I do so, does the practical SOP take the place of the daily "standard" SOP, or should I do both? For example, if I'm using the sample given in the book and trying to invoke desired personal qualities and banish undesirable ones, should I do a standard SOP in the morning and the personal qualities one later in the day, or just the personal qualities one?
3) I've started Sane Occultism recently, and I know Dion Fortune has heavily influenced your views on the occult, so I'm curious: in what ways would you say your own views differ most strongly from hers?
Thanks much,
Jeff
Discordian SOP
Date: 2021-12-13 05:05 am (UTC)Thanks for doing these. Do you know how one would do the Discordian version of the Sphere of Protection?
Re: Latest Transcript
Date: 2021-12-13 05:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:11 am (UTC)2) Experiment and see what works best for you.
3) Her attitudes toward sexuality are very strongly shaped by her Christian faith and the attitudes of her time, and I think she was seriously mistaken about some details.
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:12 am (UTC)—Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:14 am (UTC)—Princess Cutekitten
Re: Discordian SOP
Date: 2021-12-13 05:18 am (UTC)Instead of six points in a nice orderly arrangement around you, there are five, and you have to figure out clairvoyantly where they are, as they move around at random. (One of them may be under the couch, for example.) The symbols you trace for each point is the outline of a golden apple. The holy words you invoke at each of them are of course the names of the five Discordian elements, chanted five times each: "Prickle-prickle-prickle-prickle-prickle," "Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom," and so on.
When you've found and invoked each of the five elemental symbols, stand in the center of the space and visualize a golden apple surrounding you, causing every hostile force to get confused and wander off in a daze.
(Ahem. Yes, it's very silly. The remarkable thing is that it works quite well in practice.)
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:25 am (UTC)Re: Discordian SOP
Date: 2021-12-13 05:28 am (UTC)—Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-12-13 05:31 am (UTC)Today I have a question about energy centers. I had an etheric sprain, so to speak, this June after a minor shaking perhaps in the form of a kundalini stirring that left the right side of my head feeling "weak" and the top of my head a little sensible. I experimented with letting the shaking happen or hold it during the LRP which is when it happens and at least for the moment the answer has been to hold it, at least until the sprain heals completely because it makes it worse as if the pipe is still weak. Relaxing the scalp helped a lot to relieve the pain and got rid of it very quickly, in day or two, and get the energy moving up and around that felt stuck at the crown.
Something curious happened as I sat down for meditation not long ago, a few weeks perhaps. I have slowly felt how the area gets filled in, specially since I incorporated exercise that makes me breath heavier than usual. I noticed during the pore breathing and meditation that energy along my body seems to have a wavy pattern or at least during the practices I feel it coming and surrounding me in a wave along the surface of my skin but I noticed the waves would reach the right side of my head at the level of the forehead it would just stop there thought the left side still let the wave carry on. So when I breathed light through the pores I consciously focused more attentively into that area of the head and "filling it in". And it worked! A few minutes later I felt two spots "coming online" on the surface of my skull on that side of the head as if stuff was let to flow in.
1)What happened? Do you think my etheric body was not sufficiently strong at the moment it happened and the right side channel shorted somehow or perhaps more accurately, sprained? Or perhaps there was a blockage and that wasn't letting energy flow?
2)It seems to me that there are different classes of centers: small ones like the pictures of Chinese meridians that run along the surface of the skin, the side of the head my palms and feet and bigger ones. Is there a classification for these and what their roles are both small and big?
3)I had a memory come back to me about when I was a child were once I sat and would imagine a circle --staring as big as my head with one edge on the top of my head and the other at the height of my chin-- closing in in my mind through my face coming to a point at the tip of my nose and then expanding again, following the surface of my head expanding until the midpoint and contracting again unto a point on the back of my head and so on. I got to the point, I recall, where I could feel it in my skin and soon I discovered I could run the same waves through my whole body, kind of like a rubber band wrapping the section that I wanted. Have you heard of this? And is it useful? It feels a little bit like a massage for the etheric body.
Afflicted by Landlord
Date: 2021-12-13 05:32 am (UTC)For the past few months we have endured repeated invasions by workmen sent to compensate for said negligence by fixing things that should have been repaired years ago: and also much cosmetic work obviously intended to help her sell the place. It has begun to feel like quite a flagrant violation of our rights.
The place is such a dump that there have been no buyers. So she has decided to sell it to her daughter - or at least that is their story. Tomorrow morning at 10 AM (Monday Pacific time) her daughter is to arrive with a bank loan inspector to assess the property.
There is more than one variety of evil that can befall us from this situation, and I am not sure which to fear most. Is there any fairly simple ritual or prayer that I can perform to help things work out in our favor?
I work in the HOGD tradition with Hellenic deities. I’ve also been meditating on the Violet Flame, with appeals for protection to Archangel Michael. I need all the help I can get!
Re: Discordian SOP
Date: 2021-12-13 05:39 am (UTC)"GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it."
And of course there's always the fifth of the Five Commandments of Discordianism, the Pentabarf:
"V - A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads."
(On the off chance you haven't yet, you can read the Principia Discordia online here.)
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:40 am (UTC)SOP
Date: 2021-12-13 05:44 am (UTC)Before I started that one, I had been doing the four directions for many weeks , then ending with the Lords Prayer. Last week I was just into the Lords Prayer when the computer behind me woke up and startled me out of it ! It was in sleep mode, but it re-started itself, making that loud, initial chime. I tried to refocus then start the enlarging of the sphere again, but it was off, I still then closed with the Lords Prayer in full to finish, but the energy(?) place I was at was of course broken, not the same. Right now I am working in a very small space so cant get away from the computer, but in general assuming I ever get out of this small trailer and back into my house, is it best to be away from electronics while doing this ?
Even if I were into my house, there is no noise privacy, so if anyone else is in the house, I dont see how I could do the SOP. Can it be done in a whisper ? but then how to try and vibrate the names ? Same for when I was away at a relatives house for 4 nights last month. The only time I was alone was in the rest room. I shared a room to sleep with another family member, but even if I had a room to myself, I could not have done the SOP outloud. How do people do this that do not live alone ( I usually am living alone right now) ?
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Date: 2021-12-13 05:49 am (UTC)2) There are various classifications in Asian systems, and even more varied and contradictory classifications in Western systems. A lot of work remains to be done to sort that out.
3) I haven't heard of it, but you can certainly experiment and see what results you get.