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

[gullindagan]

So I finally did a (Heathen) Ritual of Conjuration, based on the CGD one, and conjured an Intelligence of Earth. It was very interesting- the sigil he gave turned out to look like a stylized version of some very old trees and a rock pile on a hill/mound on the land I inquired about. In your instructions, you say that names for spirits change every 40 years or so, that would mean the spirits have lifespans, etc. In talking to him it seemed like in a way he was that row of trees and rock pile on the mound... the trees and rock pile existing for ~80 years or so , the mound for much longer, but very much bound to time, history and the land. Does this make sense?

I assume I can conjure intelligences and spirits of the planetary spheres using the Hexagram rituals in this context, yes? Would it be better to do one when the respective planet is in domicile, on angle, in hour, etc?

I am also proficient in traditional astrological magic, and one of the things I like about doing both that and GD work is that one is working with external forces, and the other with imagination and will, though both with both too... but in what case is it better to do GD style astrological magic vs traditional(Picatrix, Agrippa, etc)?

[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.

[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.

[ecosophia]

I haven't tried that, partly because of time window issues, partly because there's a limit to how many Golden Dawn talismans it's a good idea to make and my existing ones are doing their job very well. By all means give it a try if you like.

[gullindagan]

In a related, but somewhat separate line of inquiry, do you think its a good idea to explore making talismans of outer planets? Most people in trad astro magic will not touch this (finding some of them very rigidly fundamentalist) and it seems potentially dangerous, but Neptune is in Pisces for the only time in a very long time currently...

[ecosophia]

I'd recommend that work only for very experienced practical mages.