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 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!*** 

Comments

[hearthculture]

Ok, so not really something that can be done in a month, but kinda close-ish...
Do you have a daily banishing/balancing practice? Open to one?

For me, developing the Sphere of Protection of a period of many weeks has been powerful and productive on many levels.
If you look under "Most Popular Tags" on the left sidebar of this site, click on "sphere of protection" and there are instructions over multiple posts.
You will add a new part each week. By the end of the fifth week, your daily practice will have the opening and closing and all four elements and the four cardinal directions. Along the way, it can feel strange because you will be doing something partial - almost like getting a massage on only one side of your body; but I've found that paying attention to those sensations can be quite illuminating.

I've also had trouble in the past with completing things I start - there is/was something healing about doing the SOP work. Instead of learning it whole-hog and then committing to doing it every day, building it up slowly and piecemeal emphasized, and taught me to tolerate, the feelings of "incompleteness" and "work in progress."

I've also had problems with doing something as written/given. I love to create (music, stories, etc.) and I felt that I should add my own spin to everything. I believe this actually added to my failures to continue/complete various endeavors. By modifying them, I was taking control in situations where I was intended to be receptively learning. My most recent foray into the SOP, I have been extremely strict in doing it as writ, and to much greater effect than multiple previous attempts.

I believe this SOP work can also help with the journaling JMG recommended. (It has for me.)

Wishing you well in your journey.