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

[causticus]

Happy Monday to you Archdruid. A few quick questions,

1. When invoking a pagan deity, in either prayer or ritual magic, how important is it to visualize their popular visual depiction? Does visualizing animals and/or plants associated with them help as well?

2. Are the core CGD practices compatible with the FHR system?

3. Where does the concept of the Solar Logos originate from? I’ve found it in Theosophical literature, but I can’t seem to find it in earlier traditions. In your estimation is the Solar Logos concept something akin to a Solar Deity? An Archangel? A planetary spirit/intelligence? An aggregate of all of our solar system’s spiritual entities? Or something else?

As always, thank you for everything!

[ecosophia]

1) I don't recommend visualizing their popular depiction at all. Rather, clear your mind and see how they want to appear to you.

2) To a limited extent. You can do the Druidical LBRP and Exercise of the Central Ray (the Middle Pillar equivalent) for the ritual aspect of daily practice in the FHR, but beyond that I recommend following one or the other.

3) I'm far from sure where it comes from -- certainly it shows up in Theosophical lore, but I don't happen to know where the Theosophists might have gotten it. In my understanding, the Solar Logos is the god of this solar system, or if you prefer a polytheist vision, the supreme god of this solar system, with the star logoi and the Lords of Flame as either archangels and angels or lesser gods, depending on what symbolic language you use.