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

Undoing a bad deal?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, JMG!

OK, so I made a silly wish a while back that may be plaguing my well-being today. I developed a health issue almost 3 years ago that was made worse by certain foods and drinks (had to give up sweets almost entirely, and donuts were my favorite). I was also a regular pot smoker but toking made the problem unbearable, and I gave it up for quite a while. I had a regular magical practice at the time, and worked really hard at it - 1-2 hours a day, every day, for two years. I kind of assumed that the magic drove the weed out of my life through a manifestation on the material plane.

Then one day, in exasperation, I said out loud that "I would gladly trade magic for weed and donuts." On a whim I tried the smoke again not long after that and found that it not only didn't hurt me, it actually helped soothe my problem! Suddenly so did tequila, which was the only alcohol I could tolerate at all. (I never went back to the donuts...sweets still hurt me.)

So I quit practicing magic, and drank tequila and smoked weed for a year or so instead. My problem would flare up by the end of work and smooth down as soon as I had a little of each. Terrible curse, right? ;)

But now I want to quit both, maybe for good, and go back to magical practice. I'm getting too old and too tired to keep it up, and of course there are better things to do with my time than get hazy every night. But every time I go to bed sober my problem flares up. Bad. It's like, I asked for this and now I can't get out of it.

Any thoughts on what might be done to release myself from such an own-goal?
Many thanks in advance for your time.

Re: Undoing a bad deal?

[ecosophia]

Hmm. It seems to me that you made your choice, and now have to live with it. You might, however, try divination -- either casting a reading yourself or getting help from a diviner -- and see if there's a way to undo it.

Re: Undoing a bad deal?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the candid response. Admittedly, I was hoping for "keep trying," or "do some planetary charity," or something, but maybe I have backed myself well and thoroughly into a corner here.

Not that I'm going to give up...

Re: Undoing a bad deal?

[(Anonymous)]

One more question if I may, before heading to bed (sober, no matter how pointless)...

Who is it exactly that hears me make a stupid comment like this and then changes everything about my life?

I must've meant it, in my heart, to effect such a radical change, even if I thought I was just joking around.

Re: Undoing a bad deal?

[ecosophia]

You heard it. Yes, you must have meant it.