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

[jenniferkobernik]

Since doing the SoP is not recommended while pregnant/nursing, is there something pregnancy-safe you would recommend to replace the spiritual “hygiene” aspect of the ritual? I don’t like the idea of all the built-up ick over months of pregnancy/years of nursing.

Also, is setting up a shrine/altar okay during pregnancy? I’m not sure if this would count as prayer or stray too much into the realm of working magic. Assuming I did not do any rituals to consecrate it or anything, just set up a space with objects, figurines, etc. and prayed or made simple offerings (laying a flower on the shrine, for instance). I am trying to deepen my devotional practices while my magical practice is limited, and it would be really nice to have a shrine. (I swear I read your FAQ about magic and children, but this answer still wasn’t clear to me).

Thank you!

[ecosophia]

Um, Jen? Anything that's not ceremonial magic, according to the FAQ, is just fine. Hoodoo cleansing baths? Not ceremonial magic. Other natural magic preparations? Not ceremonial magic. Devotional work? Not ceremonial magic Setting up a shrine or altar for your prayers? Not ceremonial magic. And, er, I defined ceremonial magic in the FAQ.

It amazes me that so many highly intelligent people have their brains turn to mush on this one topic.

[jenniferkobernik]

Thank you very much for your answer, and your patience in putting my question through!

In my defense, a quote from the FAQ:

“Kids are fine around natural magic—in most traditional cultures it’s common to use various forms of natural magic to protect and bless children from the moment they’re born. If you’re pregnant or nursing, have your partner or a friend do the magical work; otherwise, you can do as you wish.”

As I am currently pregnant, I took that to mean that I shouldn’t perform the work myself, even for natural magic.

But I am most relieved to hear that I can do this sort of work without waiting years to finish breastfeeding, and willing to take the hit as a mush-brain! Perhaps I can blame the fetus for stealing my neurotransmitter precursors, since she cannot yet defend herself against such calumny.

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations!

[jenniferkobernik]

Thank you very much!

[(Anonymous)]

Good luck! It's an astonishing and wonderful adventure.