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?  I've decided to do another pass through magical personalities, and I figured I'd start with one of my own teachers. This is John Gilbert, with whom I studied the teachings of the Universal Gnostic Church, the Order of Spiritual Alchemy, the Modern Order of Essenes, and the Magickal Order of the Golden Dawn -- this last, of course, is the parent body of the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose. This photo was taken in 2008 in eastern Tennessee at a Druid event there; it was the last time John and I met in person, though we corresponded via email and talked on the phone quite a bit after that. 

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A few months ago I asked a question about deliniating the head of state in my country for the recent Cancer ingress. The inauguration occurred yesterday with some very interesting timing, instead of opting for the Sun to be in the 10th house or conjunct the 10th house cusp, the inaguration took place with the Sun in the middle of the 8th house, and Jupiter in the 4th house, exactly conjunct the Aires 4th house cusp. The Uranus-Mars conjunction squaring Saturn which is the chart ruler. Neptune in the third house, while Venus is in the 7th house, Mercury is at the 9th house cusp, and the Moon in the 12th house.

What is even stranger is that while the donning of the presidential sash is the formal sign for assumption of the presidency, the ceremony was paused for an hour afterwards until another piece of inaugural regalia, Bolivar's sword, was dug out and brought forth to the technically now president. With this brought out is the sign for the president to begin his inagural address. By the time this began, the Sun had passed into the 7th house with Venus still in there, Mars-Uranus in the 4th, Saturn in the 2nd, Jupiter and Neptune in the 3rd, Mercury in the 8th, and the Moon in the 11th.

I am bit flabbergasted over how terrible an election the proper inaguration time is (local time 3:19pm, 20:19UT, Moon 16 Sag 25'15", Bogota Colombia). Saturn ruling the first, Uranus the second, Mars the 4th, an 8th house cusp Leo with the Sun in the middle of it. The second chart (4:21pm local time, 21:21UT, 17 Sag 2'19") is a little bit better for the Sun, but terrible none the less.

[ecosophia]

Oof! What a mess. Sun in the 8th, Saturn ruling the ascendant and square the other two malefic planets, and Jupiter conjunct the cusp of the house that governs the opposition -- I don't give his presidency long. I hope he survives his overthrow.

[(Anonymous)]

His Vice President was inaugurated a few minutes after him, thus Jupiter is still conjunct the nadir, but from the 3rd house. I truly wonder what is the deal with the sword regalia, if there is an assumption that the inauguration was incomplete until it was brought forth.

The frustrating thing was that there were good elections between 1:00pm to 2:50pm local time, which would have left him politically weakened, but would have been in line with his stated political goals, with the political classes enacting his reforms out of spite just to steal the credit.

PS: I might have posted an incomplete version of this reply.