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

Umbrella superstition

[emily07]

Last week a friend visited who was brought up on the belief, that opening an umbrella in the house brings bad luck.

Out of curiosizy: Would you, or the commentariat know anything about this? I never encountered this before, the person originally is from east-Germany.

Thank y'all!

Emily07

Re: Umbrella superstition

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,
I am of mostly British stock here in Canada and as children, we were taught that opening an umbrella in the house was bad luck. My mother thought it was because of the likelihood f poking someone in the eye.
Maxine

Re: Umbrella superstition

[jprussell]

Huh, that's a common superstition in the United States, but I've never looked into the origin. I just looked up a couple of articles (one here: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/616903/why-opening-umbrellas-indoors-is-bad-luck and another here: https://psychiclibrary.com/umbrella-superstition/) that give some seemingly-dubious origins linked to the ancient Egyptians and a more plausible, but prosaic, one linking the belief to the potential for breaking things and hurting people caused by the invention in Victorian times by spring-powered opening mechanisms. At least in America, it's in the same family of superstitions as breaking mirrors or walking under ladders - stuff that "everyone knows" is bad luck, but most folks don't take all that seriously.

Hopefully someone else has a more insightful answer!

Cheers,
Jeff

Re: Umbrella superstition

[(Anonymous)]

well, funny coincidence, or is it?
Today I (half british halfecuadorian) told my egyptian partner to stop opening the uumbrella inside the house as it is bad luck (in both my Uk and Southamerican cultural background). He mentioned it is also bad luck in egypt ( I dont know he thought dancing with the umbrella in the room was a good idea haha)

Re: Umbrella superstition

[(Anonymous)]

Data point, I was raised with this same belief via my mother, who likely got it from her Slovak mother—so the region lines up (Slovakia and Eastern Germany have had a lot of cultural links over many thousands of years).

Re: Umbrella superstition

[(Anonymous)]

No idea about umbrellas inside the house but I think maybe there's a bit of belief around them given that a sure fire way to make it rain is to forget your umbrella lol I put that down to someone in the universe having a joke on my behalf.

Re: Umbrella superstition

[team10tim]

Just an FYI,

In China umbrellas are ledt open in the hallway to dry off as a routine matter of course. There is no taboo about it in China.

Re: Umbrella superstition

[methylethyl]

I'm just American, and I was *always* told this. I don't actually believe it, but it's so ingrained that I freak out a little when my kids open one in the house!

Though... there is something to it when little kids go opening umbrellas inside: stuff gets knocked off the table, people get bumped... and then if allowed to play around with it, the umbrella gets broken.

Perhaps that was started as a way of keeping umbrellas intact!