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-ninth card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 29, The Dodecahedron, when upright tells you that spiritual forces are involved in the situation; when reversed, it warns you that you will have to embrace personal change in order to deal with what's happening.. 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

[jeanluc_12]

Dear Archdruid Emeritus,

Blessings to you and my fellow readers! Thank you again for hosting Magic Mondays.

Would taking into account one's natal chart be useful in planning certain magical operations? For example, I wanted to attract a relationship, so I go about doing rituals to make myself more lovable, speak to Venus as laid out in the Picatrix, etc. Yet, say, I have a well-dignified Saturn as ruler of and in the 7th House. Would it be wise to consider this? Like, doing a ritual or expecting a manifestation during a positive transit?

Jean Luc

[ecosophia]

Good heavens, yes. If you have Saturn ruling the 7th, make sure that Saturn isn't debilitated in your election, and if you can have Venus applying to a neutral or well dignified Saturn by trine or sextile in your working, the results will be even better. (Look for a woman who's at least a little older than you, btw, and who may not be conventionally attractive; you'll be very happy together.)

[(Anonymous)]

Does the advice about an older partner apply if Saturn is in his fall in Aries? Or does Saturn become a "You shall never marry" malefic?

[ecosophia]

An afflicted Saturn ruling the 7th is a very poor sign for marriage, true, but you should check the dignities of the Moon and Venus (if you're male) or the Sun and Mars (if you're female) -- if those are well dignified you might be able to make something work.