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. With certain exceptions, 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. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The image?  That's the twenty-seventh card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 27, The Golden Proportion, when upright indicates that you can expect perfect success; when reversed, it tells you that your own actions have brought about your failure. The sun in the upper left corner of the image tells you that this card belongs to the final third of the oracle, which corresponds to Nwyfre, the principle of spirit and meaning.  We've completed our passage through the first two of the basic root functions of sacred geometry -- √3, the principle of the vesica piscis and the equilateral triangle, and √2, the principle of the square and its diagonal -- and now we're working with the √5, the seed from which the Golden Section unfolds and resolves all back into unity.

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With that said, have at it! 

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not even sure if this counts as a "magic" question, but it's somewhat on topic.

Do cockroaches have souls? Mosquitos? Ticks? Fleas? Annoying insects in general? Was wondering about the karmic consequences of murdering pest insects.

-deathcap

[ecosophia]

Every living thing has a soul, including plants. When you bite into a raw tomato, it screams. (You can detect this with an EEG.) All things live by killing other living things; carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, plants choke out competing plants and send their roots in search of the nutritious remains of the dead. That's the nature of life on this planet. You literally can't take a breath without dooming countless microbes to be devoured by the white blood cells in your lungs.

Since that's the case, getting squeamish about squashing a mosquito is kind of a waste of emotional effort. My rule, when it comes to insects, is that anything harmful to me, if it comes into my space, dies as quickly and mercifully as I can manage. Anything not harmful to me gets put outside. Weirdly, some insects seem to have figured this out: moths who get into my apartment will land on a wall near me and wait very patiently while I get a little cup and a piece of cardboard, then hop into the cup and stay there until I can release them out the window.

[(Anonymous)]

Moths are apparently quite intelligent when it comes to getting out of people's space! I have the same rule, if it's not harmful to me, I let it outside, but live with people who will just squash them, and the moths come and get my attention, so I can let them out before they get killed.

[(Anonymous)]

"You literally can't take a breath without dooming countless microbes to be devoured by the white blood cells in your lungs." I don't remember whether it was Camus or Sartre, but I read something very similar: whether one can take a single breath without committing murder. I don't know how it was to be understood.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish the frogs that get into our house would learn this trick! They can be very tricky to catch.

[brendhelm]

In other words: no matter how pacifist you claim or aspire to be, you've killed plenty, you're killing right now, and you will continue to kill until something kills you.

[ecosophia]

Exactly. Nor is there a single actual vegan in the world. Even the most careful Jain monk, who sweeps the path in front of him to keep from crushing an insect and breathes through a veil to keep from ingesting bugs by accident, devours dust mites and other tiny animals by the millions.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm guessing that this would mean that the big spiders, which crawl into my house, and potentially crawling over my newborn baby, if I have to kill them with the inability to put them outside, it's not such a big deal. Although as much as I dislike spiders, I don't enjoy killing them, ever (or anything else for that matter)

[ecosophia]

Of course. If you have to kill them, be quick and clean about it, and consider saying a prayer for their souls to have a better rebirth.