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

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[(Anonymous)]

Greetings JMG,

My spiritual experiences coincided with a brief manic period (trigged by a very stressful 2 years), which went away but has left me wondering how people manage to keep their reasoning/epistemic powers strong while pursuing spiritual paths.

I definitely noticed that after the period was over, I had over-active pattern matching which has slowly (but not fully) gone away. I'm back to performing at at high level at work etc but I do think my mind still does overindex on stuff sometimes, which I don't let affect my decision making.

I'm wondering if you have any advice on bringing the mind/perceptual abilities back into full balance? I mostly pray a lot, have good discipline in my habits, and do some astrological charity/prayers.

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[ecosophia]

This is one of the reasons I recommend regular discursive meditation. Thinking-based meditation makes it easier to direct the thought processes and to recognize when things are getting out of balance.

Re: Q

[(Anonymous)]

Could you share more about how to use discursive meditation for this purpose? (I think I do it pretty much inadvertently).

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[ecosophia]

It's not a matter of using it for any given purpose. The more discursive meditation you do, the easier it is to think objectively about your own thinking, to observe it, assess it, and decide whether it makes sense or not.