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 picture?  I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me. Sylvester Gould, last week's honoree, was an active member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, one of the more interesting occult orders of the late 19th century. (After many reorganizations, it's still around as the Church of Light aka Brotherhood of Light.) The H.B. of L., as most people called it back in the day, was founded by two British occultists, T.H. Burgoyne and Peter Davidson. The photo is of Burgoyne. It's also the photo of another gentleman, one Captain Norman Astley, who took over the reorganized H.B. of L. in America from Burgoyne, married another H.B. of L. adept -- the remarkable and talented Genevieve Stebbins -- and helped Benjamin Williams aka Elbert Benjamine aka C.C. Zain re-reorganize the H.B. of L. into the Brotherhood of Light aka Church of Light. Yes, Burgoyne and Astley were the same person. It's a complicated story. But Burgoyne and Peter Davidson, whom we'll be talking about next week, were among Sylvester Gould's teachers -- and behind them stands another and a considerably stranger figure.

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Comments

Bad luck or something else?

[illyria2001]

A little over three months ago, I decided to switch from the LBRP/MP as my daily protective ritual to the SOP (after doing the LBRP/MP for over two years). I'd been hoping to get more in touch with the telluric current, and I'd done the SOP in the past, so I figured I would go back to this. But in these past three months I've had the flu, Covid, and a cold. Was this just a case of incredibly bad luck, or could it have been some sort of attack by someone or something waiting for me to drop my guard? I never got sick at all in the two years prior to this, and I can't help but feel something sinister was behind it. I've done some divinations about it but the answers were unclear, and I was wondering if there are any telltale signs of a psychic attack I might have missed. Needless to say I've gone back to the LBRP/MP, and I don't know if it's purely psychological or not, but I am feeling much better now.

Re: Bad luck or something else?

[kimberlysteele]

You might want to look into vitamin supplements -- if I don't take mine every day, I start running low grade infections that get worse the second I under-sleep or encounter too much stress, Sphere of Protection or none. So this is not construed as medical advice in anyway, I once knew of a lady (who may or may not have existed) whose routine was to take a B spectrum, lots of vitamin C, one small vitamin D, and zinc 1x per day with a full meal, so she could trick her digestive system into thinking the vitamins were part of the food. She also drank matcha from powder/hot water every morning and had a big cup of strong nettle and mint tea every evening.

Re: Bad luck or something else?

[open_space]

Maybe your bodies got used to having the extra power of a practiced ritual and when you switched to a new ritual you are not used to on a very virulent winter your body got caught off guard. It's happened to me like that at least, when I hadn't established a daily practice, that when I stopped I would fall sick or things would start to fall apart. I have no idea why that happens but that's my hypothesis. A friend of mine told me too that when there is too much "pathological cold energy" one way to get it out is to dip the feet in warm/hot water with white vinegar before sleep and sweat it out. It worked for me really well, but I was also on Ferrum. Phos which slightly warms the body and can facilitate sweating.

Overall, it seems the herd's immune system is weaker too, I got either the cold/flu for a few days a couple weeks ago.

Psychic attack feels to me like someone is thinking really hard about me and my mind feels slightly pulled from where I currently have it placed to somewhere else, such as when an ex is throwing a seriously vile tantrum in the apparent privacy of her room. (She got sick after that, so that's another telltale, if you suspect someone attacks you (with your protections up) and then they get sick, it might be them). It also seems to trigger synchronicities related that person and for some reason, they show up one way or the other, usually first thing and wanting to help, but banishings have gotten rid of such things fast so I would favor the ugly winter plus change in ritual but still would check out Psychic Self-defense. as reference.

Re: Bad luck or something else?

[ecosophia]

Some people just get better results with one form of banishing than with others. Your subtle bodies might be better suited to work with the LBRP. My wife's the same way -- she's never gotten the same results with the SoP as with classic Golden Dawn ritual.

Re: Bad luck or something else?

[liamq]

Along the lines of finding the pentagram rituals to be a better fit than the SoP:

JMG, I found myself drained energetically after spending time learning and then regularly performing the SoP. The elemental cross seemed to lock me in this weird liminal space and the rest of the ritual left me feeling overly grounded and in a sleepy trance for most of the day. Pentagram rituals, on the other hand, leave me feeling focussed and alert and very nicely balanced.

Is that sort of reaction common amongst those who are less suited for the SoP than they are for other things?

Re: Bad luck or something else?

[ecosophia]

Yes. That's uncommon, but it does happen. You probably need much more solar current than telluric current, and so the SoP overloads you with telluric force.