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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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Combust Hours of the Moon
I've been the Vivian Robson book on Electional Astrology that you linked here a couple of times. One of the factors in there which was previously unknown to me is that of "combust hours" of the moon-- a cycle of hours wherein the moon's energies lose their force. For those unfamiliar, the first 12 hours of a new moon, according to this way of thinking, are actually *not* useful for starting new things. The following 72 hours are fine, but then once again there is another 12 hour "combust" stretch. And so on, cycling through so that every 3.5 days, exactly the first seventh of the time is combust and thus less than ideal for Election purposes. I'd heard before--perhaps from you?-- that some consider the first visibility of the moon, rather than the actual New Moon, the best time to start something new place. This May account for it. (And for why some things that I attempted to start exactly on a new moon never got off the ground.)
(1) Is this something that shows up in Horary, Mundane, or other forms of astrology that you know of?
(2) Robson doesn't go into any details, but as it's called "combust", I'm guessing there is some kind of lunar timing system going on here similar to the planetary days and hours? Where the first 1/7 of the cycle is the "12 hours of the sun", perhaps, accounting for why it might be called "combust"? I'm just making a guess here. Do you know any more about it? Is it tied into lunar mansions (which I haven't gotten to yet)?
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