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Magic Monday
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 trace, as far as I can, my own occult lineage in photos. We're still tracing Juliet Ashley's end of the lineage. Two weeks ago I posted an image of her fourth teacher, Arthur Edward Waite, the Golden Dawn alumnus who passed onto her the rituals that became the foundation for the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose. Waite, in turn, got his knowledge from the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Last week I posted an image of one of these, the redoubtable William Wynn Westcott; this is Westcott's partner and rival in the project, Samuel Liddell Mathers. Another Freemason with a passion for the occult, and like Westcott a genuine scholar and mage, Mathers didn't have the organizational skills to keep the order together once Westcott stepped down from the leadership, and the Golden Dawn promptly blew itself to pieces in the squabbles that followed. Mathers remained in charge of one of the fragments thereafter, and he and his branch of the order will appear again once I get into some of the other ends of my lineage.
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***This Magic Monday is now closed--as in, no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***
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The prayee is my friend, known to my family as "the Oil Lady", so this name may be used by anyone directing energy her way. She has given me permission to bring her situation to the attention of an online group I have described to her as "a diverse but praying lot".
She gave birth 10 days ago, and during the course of it, accepted the offer of an epidural, as she was in a great deal of pain. The epidural was done incorrectly and did not relieve her pain, and the consultant was called to administer it a second time. She eventually gave birth, and also, eventually was released to go home, but had an ongoing headache that would not stop and eventually was taken back into hospital. They have attempted a number of things, including a procedure nicknamed a "blood patch". She is still experiencing the severe headache which is now confirmed to be due to ongoing leakage of spinal fluid due to the epidural. She has been able to keep her baby with her, but is tired, distressed, in pain, and the spinal fluid leakage is unresolved. As an unfoxed mandate resistor, she remains apprehensive about being in hospital at all.
As to me requesting your prayers and positive energies, she said "yes, please, all graciously accepted."
Thank you.
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Prayer for Oil Lady
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Axé!
Fra' Lupo
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