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

[causticus]

I'd love some decent resources on this too! I've noticed that internet searches tend to turn up a whole lot of bad information. For example, searching for "contemplative prayer" turns up results mostly from frothing-at-the-mouth Protestant fundamentalist websites which do nothing but denounce the practice in the tone of shrill indignation (i.e. how DARE people have their own spiritual experiences!!) for being "unbiblical." The vastly more sane Catholic and Orthodox explanations of this practice tend to be buried beneath those obnoxious and unhelpful results.

This actually has me thinking of a potential project: to put up a website that explains these practices in a positive and informative manner, and uses an assortment of keywords to bump these articles up in the search results. Articles would also contain links to helpful books and other resources on these topics. It seems like there's a lot of very beneficial practices from the old sacramental churches that have been almost left for dead and can be very easily reclaimed and repurposed myriad spiritual persuasions.

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[jprussell]

Well, I don't know how SEO-friendly it will be, but I was planning on at least putting together the resources shared here into a post for Sane Polytheism.

Re: Eagle's Mead and Prayer Resources

[methylethyl]

It should be fairly easy to unearth Orthodox sources for contemplative prayer, if you just add some search terms like "Jesus prayer" "Orthodox meditation" "way of the pilgrim"... there's even a book by Frederica Matthews-Green on the Jesus Prayer, that might be helpful.