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

Comments

[ecosophia]

Except that they didn't see it for what it is. In classic Plutonian style, they projected their own shadow onto the world and then tried to rebel against it, which guaranteed that they'd simply bind themselves closer to it.

The world has always been a mess. Go as far back into history as you want, and you'll find good and evil, beauty and ugliness, horror and wonder, brutality and gentleness all tangled up with one another, twined together tightly within each individual human heart and thus muddled up inextricably in the world as a whole. All through the Piscean age, people have chased the fantasy that we can dispense with that, pile all the evil into one place and get rid of it, and have only the good stuff...and you see how well that's worked. Pluto simply rubbed our noses in it. Now that the Piscean age is over, maybe we can stop making the same mistake...

[booklover1973]

This is a very Druidical way to describe the world!

[ecosophia]

Well, what else did you expect from a Druid? ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's worth noting that this is true even of the Plutonian, a point I find a lot of people seem to miss when discussions of it fading away come up. Pluto was a malefic planet, but like all of them, it had its positives. Among them:

Antibiotics, which saved a lot of lives from ending at very early ages. The cosmic order which Pluto rebelled against included at least 10% of all children dying before turning 1, and 25% dying before turning 5, even in countries with, by the standards of the time, very good medical care.

Pesticides, fertilizers, and plastic packaging allowed for a lot more food to be grown, and a lot more of it to be shipped to where people lived; which is why major famines were a lot less common during the Plutonian Era.

The ease of long distance travel and communication, which is wonderful for anyone who ends up needing to leave home for another area.

The lack of Great Power Wars during the period since 1945; enforced by the threat of MAD, this era of long peace was a historical aberration, and seems likely to end in the years ahead.

These are just the ones that come to mind, I'm sure there are others. So while it was a mostly negative influence, the positives to the Plutonian do exist, and it's fascinating watching so many people ignore them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll challenge long-distance travel and comms; a couple of specific forms of that (the gasoline-powered automobile and airplane, probably television, possibly radio) are at least partially Plutonic, but AFAICT the majority of that falls under Neptune's ambit. (Note the advent of steam travel, the telegraph, and much more reliable long-distance ocean travel with the steamship between 1820 and 1850; Neptune was discovered in 1848.)

(Also, some of the agricultural improvements may be Uranian; I'm vaguely remembering a smaller Agricultural Revolution sometime around when Uranus started phasing in along with the first glimmers of the Industrial one. (Pesticides are likely Plutonic, though.) The other interesting question is weapons - nukes are half-Plutonic, half-Uranian (note the two elements usually involved!), and Uranus alone may impose enough of a ruinous cost on warfare to mitigate it over time)

That said, on the other hand I'll note unions (at least in their American form, European ones may work differently) and antitrust legislation show every sign by timing of being Plutonic (unions make sense as Plutonic at a symbolic level, too - division of the indivisible corporate egregore into owners and workers); the Uranus/Neptune combo seems to push towards vertically integrated monopolies, judging by their rapid advent in the 19th century.

- pretentious_username