Magic Monday

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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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They work really well. One thing that is popular back home along the same lines, in case you are interested, is getting a red piece of yarn or a red bracelet on the left hand and as you tie it, you pray over each knot or recite an incantation. e.g "I discern what I should allow into me, this bracelet protects me and guards the gate of my well-being". It works better if somebody else does it, but self-tying also works.

Usually, they sell them with an evil eye charm or a St. Benedict's medal on them. Eyes have a real pull on things, so a similar string is also tied to personal belongings that you don't want moving towards others --like a backpack when traveling. Mothers also use it with their newborns and young children. If it starts untying, it can be tied again but it should be changed. Untie it and dispose it, don't cut it with metal.

Another thing that is done out of the syncretism between Mesoamerican traditions and Christianity is doing a yauhtli (the fog plant, also used in the trad recipe of chocolate) or a mexican marigold cross "cruces de pericon" on Michaelmas eve and hanging it from the main entrance and the front of cars because it is said it is his day-off and the gates of hell (Or Mictlan, the Mexica underworld) are unguarded.

They were associated with the god Tlaloc in one of the codexes, either Badiano Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis or Hernandez Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus

They look something like this. A small bit, as it is an incense, burnt in a cauldron with coals also cleanses a place really fast an it is used from the cross when fights or grief happen in the house during that year, but this should be done with windows open as it creates a lot of smoke and it is mildly anethestic.