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

[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...