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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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[(Anonymous)]

When a Pagan Prays: Exploring Prayer in Druidry and Beyond by Nimue Brown.
I found this book had quite a bit of train the mind utility.

Cerridwen: Celtic Goddess of Inspiration by Kristoffer Hughes.
Just started reading it. Might be a good template for your work.

Rhydlyd

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[jprussell]

Thanks very much for these!

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a bit surprised you found "When a Pagan Prays" to be useful. It's one of the very few books I've literally thrown across the room. The chapter "Prayer Doesn't Work" in particular seemed to ooze with contempt and hatred toward people of faith. I bought the book assuming it would be all about the history of prayer in pagan cultures and the reclamation of prayer for contemporary pagans, but as the ending suggests it's as much a chronicle of the author's evolution from loathing to (reluctant) engagement with prayer (and her realization that she'd been a victim of spiritual abuse). No doubt it's a much more amiable book for people with an irreligious or atheistic background like the author, than someone like me who never questioned the existence of Gods, only the tenets of monotheism. For me it was so impious I had to purify after reading it, and I'm not hyper-sensitive to miasma. FWIW.

--Sister Crow

--Sister Crow

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

[jprussell]

Huh, thanks for these perspectives Sister Crow and anonymous. As someone who went through a fairly strong atheistic period before becoming a polytheist, I mind find those bits more relatable, but I'm also more interested in "okay, I believe you that prayer/devotion is a useful practice, so what do I do?", so it might not go at the top of my list.