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

[stcathalexandria]

Good morning good morning -

1) On the 3rd Weird of Hali novel and just gotta ask what might be a dumb question, but what is the Voor? It is something that exists outside the novels under that name? What it is goes under a different name outside the fictional world of the novels?

2) I just received the OSA Probationer materials and it says to focus on one lesson a week, but also that most people spend 3-5 weeks on this level. There's 10 lessons, so are people doing two lessons a week? Or is this some sort of riddle I should be unlocking?

3) It hit me today that the past 2+ years of nuttiness are the lead up to something, rather than a series of events we'll be getting over. In other words, we are just getting started with this yet-to-be-identified crisis. I don't think it's shown its whole face yet. We are still blindfolded and feeling around to trying to figure out the whole creature. This feels true because people keep shouting about what's happened (and happening) in term of rationality, data, science, cycles, and human behavior. And the shouting people on both sides are very sure of themselves. I don't think either stance matters any longer because the actual crisis is coming still. Is anyone else feeling it here?

Thank you,
Murky Hyperactive Jellyfish

[ecosophia]

1) The word "voor" is borrowed from an Arthur Machen story. I needed a Cthulhu mythos term for the life force -- what's called prana in Sanskrit, ki in Japanese, ruach in Hebrew, pneuma in Greek, spiritus in Latin, and other names in every other language on Earth except the languages of the industrial nations of the modern West.

2) That is confusing, isn't it? One week minimum, 3-5 weeks maximum.

3) I think you're quite correct.

[stcathalexandria]

1) Thank you for the explainer. Now I won't go around using it like it's a word everyday occultists use and making a fool of myself. But what about the Force from Star Wars? JK
2) OK good, on the one week each lesson. The OSA work is deceptively simple, but not easy.
3) Darn it, was hoping you'd tell me I'm wrong.

[ecosophia]

1) Yes, "the Force" is another version of the same thing -- George Lucas ripped it off from Japanese martial arts. The first movie ("A New Hope") portrayed what it can do fairly accurately; later movies got stupid about the special effects and had people doing things with it that the life force won't do.

[stcathalexandria]

Omg really? I desperately wanted to be a Jedi after seeing the movie as a kid. I kept trying to figure it out and was journaling about it. Ok it’s seriously cool I could study it now and fulfill that dream.

[ecosophia]

So did I.

I went to see the original movie something like a dozen times in its first theatrical run; I took the bus up to the UA 150 theater on the north end of downtown Seattle so often I'm surprised I wasn't on a first name basis with the ticket clerks. That movie plus the original Kung Fu TV series -- Kwai Chang Caine, played by David Carradine stoned out of his gourd, wandering the American West and nonviolently kicking the bejesus out of a dozen cowboy-hatted heavies without working up a sweat -- those were the inspirations that really got me started chasing esoteric spiritual traditions. I wanted to be something halfway between this...


...and this.


Of such adolescent ambitions are destinies shaped...