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 thirtieth card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 31, the Sphere, when upright tells you that the possibilities before you are much bigger than you realize; when reversed, it tells you that you're completely missing what's going on. 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

[nebulous_realms]

One more question out of curiosity. Several people have mentioned meditating on the planets before. Are these planetary meditations referenced in any book of interest?

Trauma and mysticism?

[leahkiser]

I just got around to reading the post on Levi Chp 14 tonight, talking about astral projection, and I finally have a question for MM. Not to get too personal, but due to childhood experiences I have an uncanny ability to disassociate. I can tune people out while they're talking to me, while engaged in physical (cough)) activity, etc. But it's just a blank, and not spritual experience any way, like people say they go to a happy place? I seem to just disappear. It's like my spiritual or right brain is just gone. No feelings, often no memory. Sometimes I can be "on the edge" of "leaving" and I seem like nothing but an observer, really, quite left brain, over analytical, nitpicking even. Gevurah all the way, no chesed. You'd think that being able to disassociate would make things like astral projection and mystical experiences easy - but for me it has been just the opposite. I seem to have a deep chasm that separates me from connecting. I do have one weird strong feeling about something mystical, though: An absolute terror of mirrors for scrying or as portals, all my life since I was a teen. Even regular mirrors, I put the letter shin (like a mezuzzah) on the back at all 4 corners. I recently had to abandon a mental meditation map/world that I spent years building up b/c in one meditation a mirror broke and scary black fuzzy things came out and went everywhere. Maybe I did something stupid in a past life? But now I'm 54 and I'm tired of this and I want to figure out how to keep my spirit from being AWOL, running away to the deep or wherever, when I'm trying to connect with the Divine or have an astral experience? Any ideas? (anybody)

Druid lineage

[(Anonymous)]

Theres a big debate in traditional circles about whether and how a spiritual lineage must keep alive historical transmission. Obviously I know your position and share it magical or spiritual traditions can fold up in hyperspace and wait for spring it's useless to insist on historical continuity. That said are there any historical hints that druidry actually did manage to keep some historical flickers or embers going? It's hard not to hope for it even though Druid revival has it's own magical bona fides. Also and btw...is it normal to have MP or SOP trigger barking dogs in the distance at certain key points like the final sphere for instance? Thank you! Celadon as Fuchsia Crunching Dragon

[(Anonymous)]

No, more of a solatic. Or Jupiteritic.

[grokrathegreen]

Its very hot where I live this month. So, I started digging a pit house so I can have a decent place for an afternoon nap. So while I was doing this I got to thinking about 'Ghost Riders in the Sky', and about how nice and cool it is in my hole, while the sky is hot and brutal. Anyway I was thinking about conceptions of the afterlife from Christianity where a good afterlife is about and a bad one is below, and all of a sudden it seemed so very strange. Yet in Ghost Riders the devils afterlife which the cowpoke is frightened by is 'that range up in the sky, chasing the devil's herd across that endless sky'.

Does your branch of occult lore have anything to say about the, er uh, topography of afterlifes? Is the Christian bias quirky to itself, or it is part of a larger current?

The oversoul goes insane?

[team10tim]

Hello JMG,

Eike had a great insight on the last open post, that the collective unconscious of the west might be having a mental breakdown (or possibly an astral breakdown) and the notion matches what I see in an intuitive and parsimonious way. I have three questions about the idea.

1) could a catchy collective unconscious be responsible for Oswald Spengler's rise and fall of cultures/civilizations? That is some collection of ideas, narratives, and emotional convictions forms a egregore that is useful and appealing and its adoption by large groups and development forms the basis of a great culture?

2) is it possible that Faustion culture is going have a much greater problem dealing with its own demise than previous cultures because it is predicated on the infinite and the limitless? What I mean is that other great cultures could have become senile and lost their appeal, but their core tenets weren't directly contradicted by empirical evidence, they just becames less useful and less appealing, but Faustian culture is about to have its core tenets directly refuted by exactly the sort of empirical evidence that Faustian culture is supposed to embrace. I imagine that is going to be more mentally and emotionally challenging for people living through it than other great cultures had in their twilight days.

3) is the crud in the astral weather consistent with an egregore that is having a mental/astral breakdown? Further, does that mean we are slated for something even dumber than the Trump/Russiagate, woke hysterics, covid hysterics, Ukraine hysterics?

Thanks,
Tim