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

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[jprussell]

Through meditation I've gotten the impression that some kind of regular, fairly structured prayer might be a helpful part of my spiritual development. I was raised a rather lukewarm protestant, went through a phase of materialist atheism, and have found my way into a religious practice with the Germanic Gods that so far seems to be working rather well for me. As such, I have almost zero knowledge of the rosary or other Catholic prayers, besides what I've seen in movies.

With the very little research I've done so far, the following points have struck me:
1) Like the Lord's Prayer, the rosary in English was composed by folks with a good ear for poetics but also for maintaining the spiritual significance of the translation
2) The Rosary has a very solid and deep structure: it begins with two prayers re-affirming the overall religious view of the universe of the church (Apostle's Creed and Our Father/Lord's Prayer), moves into three Hail Marys on the broad Marian themes of Faith, Hope, and Charity, and then proceeds into the mysteries being contemplated in this session, which collectively cover the whole Catholic liturgical calendar, and then closing prayers.
3) The actual length of saying the Hail Marys spaces out how long to spend on each aspect of the mysteries being contemplated. The very fact of getting the prayer to the point where you can recite it while also actively thinking about something else strikes me as likely a pretty powerful technique
4) The very nuanced interplay of repetition and novelty strikes me as very likely spiritually robust (for example, you're saying the same Hail Mary over and over again, but thinking about different aspects of the mysteries, and different mysteries on different days of the week, but you come back to them every week, and so forth)

All of which is to say that I think studying the rosary will do me some good in coming up with prayers to my own Gods, but I'm so new to all of this that I would very much appreciate if anyone can point me to "oh, St. So-and-So did a thorough analysis of the Rosary" or "Such-and-such academic looked at the Rosary and Buddhist bead-prayers and found the common structural elements". If not that, then any experience with what the rosary/other contemplative prayer has done for folks, what has worked for them, and so forth, would be most welcome.

Thanks much!
Jeff

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[(Anonymous)]

You should be able to find all the information you are looking for at ewtn.com . They used to recite the rosary at least once a day on their cable channel, which will help you hear how we do it. If they don’t air the rosary anymore, see if you can find a local church that prays it (usually once a week). And if THAT fails, you can order a CD of Pope JP II praying it, but be aware that as an old, pre-Vatican II guy, he prayed it in Latin.

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