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 thirty-second card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 32, Squaring the Circle, when upright is an omen of success and achievement; when reversed, it tells you that you're trying to accomplish something impossible and you need to accept that you won't get it. 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]

Interesting. You'd want to ask someone with a good background in Mexican culture, however, because the entire concept of susto and its various expressions are things that, as a gringo, I'm not equipped to interpret.

[homeopathic_meditations]

To the best of my understanding, "susto" is an energy blockage caused by paralyzing shock or terror. There are multiple psychosomatic manifestations, but all ultimately come from the stagnation of life force through different systems/meridians in the body. The ritual that cures susto, by the way, involves exposure to mild fright or startle, so that when the body reacts normally to those and calms down, some part of the stagnant energy will find the normative path and flow along with the release from the little fright.

"Tocado", on the other hand, is referred in this context as to someone who is out of their mind after a shocking event. It comes from the same root as the English expression "touche", which refers to a devastating blow to one's argument. The common ancestor (from the French?) refers to a literal, non lethal but disabling, piercing wound.

I don't know why the ladies in the article refer to themselves as tocadas, though; I would have pegged them as suffering from susto instead. I have only heard the word tocado in third person as the victim should not be aware enough to recognize their condition, and the interviewees sounded highly functional. Maybe it is a regional distinction, or I don't know. In any case, neither term is an earthquake exclusive malady, as the author would have you thinking.