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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Comments

Re: Microwave antennas and astral body.

[(Anonymous)]

I would not do it. For some reason anything to do with the mixing of microwave antennas and spiritual energies gives me the heebie jeebies. Yes this is not meant to be medical advice.

Heliotrope Lily-livered Parrotfish

GSF Exercises and Cancer

[pwmpernicel]

Good afternoon everyone. I've been dragging my heels moving beyond journaling, morning exercises and SGO wondering if I need to be cautious in my current condition before moving forward. First off no sad songs here, doing well. I've just switched over to mAbs for Hodgins Lymphoma. Treatment has been going well, most signs of cancer are gone. It's mediastinal which is right around the solar plexus area where some of the exercises seem to concentrate. Are there any risks I should take into account here with this sort of thing or should I just keep my eyes open and back off for a spell if I notice any negative health issues after adding the SOP? Part of me wants to believe that it would be beneficial and another keeps looking back to posts where people mentioned health issues before adjusting their visualizations and whatnot.

[(Anonymous)]

If everyone in the afterlife is busy working through their life experiences and then dissolving their astral bodies for their next incarnation, do we meet up at all with our families and friends? Or is that just wishful thinking? I had counted on meeting all my dogs on the other side... 🥺

(Okay, yes, and *some* relatives...)

Do we have downtime there? Can people just hang out on the astral beaches for a while and enjoy not having to deal with the world of the living?

[(Anonymous)]

JMG,

Aldous Huxley once compared the brain and nervous system to a reducing valve, whose function is to filter the apparent chaos of "Mind at large" (in other traditions, the mind of God) and leave only stimuli that are relevant for survival accessible to conscious awareness.

I couldn't help but relate this to the concept of the Four Worlds from Qabalistic theory, the source of Mind at large in its unknowableness corresponds to Aziluth, the contents of Mind at large (normally filtered by the "reducing valve") corresponds to Briah, the reducing valve itself corresponds to Yetzirah, and the end-product yielding the world as it appears to us corresponds to Assiah.

From this perspective, one goal of ceremonial magic is to tune our reducing valves (Yetzirah) to access a greater or different portion of Mind at large (Briah) and allow it to take shape in conscious awareness (Assiah).

Would you agree with this?

Q

[(Anonymous)]

Greetings JMG,

My spiritual experiences coincided with a brief manic period (trigged by a very stressful 2 years), which went away but has left me wondering how people manage to keep their reasoning/epistemic powers strong while pursuing spiritual paths.

I definitely noticed that after the period was over, I had over-active pattern matching which has slowly (but not fully) gone away. I'm back to performing at at high level at work etc but I do think my mind still does overindex on stuff sometimes, which I don't let affect my decision making.

I'm wondering if you have any advice on bringing the mind/perceptual abilities back into full balance? I mostly pray a lot, have good discipline in my habits, and do some astrological charity/prayers.

[fringewood]

Thank you lukedodson.:-)

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[(Anonymous)]

I have to agree. I tried to read that book after it was recommended here on a different occasion and I couldn't get past chapter two. Less about prayer (as I remember it), it was more a personal account of an atheist experimenting by forcing herself to do something she doesn't really believe in to see what would happen. I never went through an atheist phase, and that likely contributes to why I found it so profoundly uninteresting. If you're a devout person, who has felt the presence of the gods and is looking for prayer tips, well I already said I didn't finish the book so I could be wrong, but it was hard to imagine it had anything to teach me that I couldn't find elsewhere, without having to sift through the atheist introspection.

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[brenainn]

Can anyone recommend a good book (or online video) that helps one learn how to write poetry in "the metrical/alliterative rules of Medieval and older Germanic poetry"? My relationship with the Anglo-Saxon gods is really starting to bear fruit, and I'd like to begin composing my own prayers and poems to them.

Prayers for the Dead?

[(Anonymous)]

I am a polytheist who works with probate law. I would like to say prayers for the dead I encounter through my work, but of course most of them would be monotheists. I'm also not in any position to get permission from the families. How would you recommend proceeding?

Additionally, do you think there are issues of miasma/pollution involved in working with the dead at this remove, and if so is the SoP enough to deal with it?

--Plaid Nauseous Hummingbird

[ecosophia]

Nothing you want to deal with. Seriously, this is not a good idea.

[ecosophia]

The rules are somewhat different. Combustion in mundane charts is always a debility for the combust planet, though it's a dignity for the Sun if the other planet is a benefic; if malefic, it's a debility. I've never seen any discussion of cazimi in the old mundane books, but then to the best of my recollection I've never studied a mundane chart in which a planet was cazimi.

[ecosophia]

Stay tuned; this is worth an open post, and I'll link to it here.

[ecosophia]

So noted and I'm planning on it at this point. I'll post something here when it's up.

Re: A few Qs

[ecosophia]

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP, but if a curse from the gods is being made exactly what you already are, then would the blowback from this sort of working include something that looks like that?

[(Anonymous)]

Can I piggyback to ask for some good sources for Sumerian/Mesopotamian polytheism, ancient and modern (if possible)? I made an offering to Enki on a whim not so long ago, I came across a mention of him and he sounded like the sort of god I'd find a rapport with; the experience was intense to say the least, and I'd like to try following up on it.

Re: Microwave antennas and astral body.

[(Anonymous)]

I lived there, it was a rental, I saw the antennas too late and payed upfront, I had to move out as fast as possible, the first clue was that the electronic devices where showing always a higher temperature than my body felt I figured out that they have metal sensors.

The strangest thing was that a few days I kept lucid dreaming there first time in 20 years, now looking back I think the erosion on the astral level was on an it went through to some deep level to that part of the astral body I done the astral travel with it back 2 decades ago.

Re: Mass Hatred of Public Figures

[(Anonymous)]

My meditative take on the tendency of popular performers to dissolve in drug abuse is that it's not the performance "high" that does the damage, but the boring down-time in between performances. What does a touring musician do between shows, but travel, eat, sleep, and wait for the next show? (Someone should talk to Sir Paul McCartney about his apparently healthy lifestyle. I hear that he STILL puts on a good show.) Other performers might be anxious about whether their new work will be well received, whether they're getting properly paid, whether the manager might be a thief. Travel is bad for long-time personal relationships (though perhaps good for very short-term relationships). Off-stage, it doesn't sound like much fun at all, so maybe drugs are a refuge. On the other hand, your widely-hated public figures? They're playing a busy game of "survival among peers", with no place for vigilance-sapping chemicals.

Lathechuck

[ecosophia]

1) This makes perfect sense, and in fact it sounds very much like my experiences with intelligences of the Earth element.

2) Yes, exactly. I recommend doing this during planetary day and hour -- that seems to work quite well.

3) That's an intricate question I haven't solved to my own satisfaction. I've done plenty of talismans of both kinds and gotten good results with both, so it may be that they're equally good and it simply depends on which approach you prefer.

Re: A woman's voice

[ecosophia]

None of this surprises me at all. The privileged classes in North America have lost every trace of compassion for the working classes whose labor supports their existence, and I think they'd probably agree to rounding them up and gassing them if they had the chance. Since your country has gone enthusiastically into medical killing, it follows logically that the program would be expanded to include everyone the privileged classes consider disposable.

You might definitely consider a second SoP, or protective amulets of the sort we've discussed before. You're pointing out to these people that they've become the Nazis they think they hate, and so you may come in for quite a bit of hostility.

[lukedodson]

'87 birth here, and I've noticed something similar. Also, the conservative aspects of the hippy subculture are coming more to the fore, as the mass culture drifts further into woke meltdown. A lot of younger hippies and alternative types now talk about "leftists" with the same tone that my parent's generation would have talked about "squares" or "straights".

[lukedodson]

Heh! A 'neofolk' band called Death in June, whose lead singer is gay but also flirts heavily with Nazi symbolism, once merged the Sonnenrad with the rainbow Pride flag. I'm not exactly sure what kind of point they were trying to make with that, but given the Woke Left's infatuation with the Azov Battalion, maybe they were presaging something...

Re: Microwave antennas and astral body.

[ecosophia]

It would mostly damage your etheric body but yes, there would be astral and physical damage as well. It astounds me how many people don't seem to realize that electromagnetic radiation is, hello, radiation and it can damage you.

[ecosophia]

My essays on numerology here on Dreamwidth include several recommendations.

[gullindagan]

Great! Good to know I'm on the right path there.

In regards to 3, have you ever combined them? Like doing the traditional astrological talismans in an opened temple with planetary hexagrams? Most of the elections I've found have too short of a window to do this, but wondering if its worth experimenting with when there are longer election windows.