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

Comments

Excess astral/etheric energy

[milkyway1]

Good morning,

And thank you, again, for the opportunity to ask questions!

A little while back, you mentioned in a comment that an excess of etheric energy would lead to e.g. temper tantrums, emotional outbursts and the like, and too much astral energy would go into daydreaming, fantasies, etc. (I’m paraphrasing from memory here - hope I got it right!)

1. The connection between too much etheric energy and emotional drama is easy to see for me. But I’m not sure about the connection between astral energy and imagination.

Would you mind explaining how and why people would turn too much astral energy into daydreaming/fantasies (as opposed to burning it off through other means)?

2. If somebody would notice that they had some excess etheric or astral energy to burn, how could one go about that, respectively, without resorting to emotional outbursts or fantasies? Are there any more productive ways to achieve a balanced state?

(This isn’t about getting more balanced over time e.g. through regular spiritual or occult practice, but the practical question: what to do with too much energy right there and then?)

3. How would the opposite state, i.e. not enough etheric or not enough astral energy, show? (I.e. for people who are not trained to recognise these conditions and to handle them in a more productive way)

Thanks, and may you and your wife have a wonderful and productive summer week!

Milkyway

Re: Excess astral/etheric energy

[ecosophia]

1) The imagination is astral. When you imagine something you're either projecting it onto the astral plane or you're seeing something that's already there.

2) It takes training.

3) Likewise, though you could talk to an acupuncturist or other alternative health practitioner to get some immediate help.

Re: Excess astral/etheric energy

[homeopathic_meditations]

In general, if you have excess energy you probably need to channel it to something productive (in your scale of values) so that it goes somewhere and does something you approve of. If you have deficit energy you should practice it, even in baby steps, so that you will conserve what little you have and not end up with even less in the future.

Etheric energy:
* Excess: Vigorous physical exercise. Weight lifting would be ok, sports with complex movements would be better. You want to get tired and have plenty of sleep at night.
* Deficit: Gentle physical exercise: walking, swimming when possible. Make wide movements at a calm pace. Breathing exercises. Singing or playing a wind instrument would help and make this more enjoyable.

Astral energy:
* Excess: Engage in creative endeavor, practice some form of art. This is harder because there are many more competent coaches than competent arts teachers. You want to put at least as much discipline in your art as a varsity football player puts in getting a sports scholarship in a prestigious college.
* Deficit: Consume and appreciate classic art. Learn some artistic basic skills (rhyme, combine colors, music scales/harmonies).

Of course, any practitioner of alt-health can provide case specific treatment or intervention.