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. I'm going to jump back here a bit because I managed to trace down another significant figure from a lineage I've already discussed. Bishop Richard, Duc de Palatine was an Australian spiritual teacher and Gnostic bishop who played a crucial role in bringing the alternative sacramental movement to the United States, and strongly influenced both of the bishops who consecrated John Gilbert. Born Ronald Powell in 1916, he became a member of the Theosophical Society and then a bishop in the Liberal Catholic Church. After the Second World War he moved to Britain and founded the Pre-Nicene Christian Church, one of the major fountainheads of Gnostic Christian spirituality in the English-speaking world, and later traveled widely in the USA and elsewhere, teaching students, ordaining priests, and consecrating bishops, until his death in 1977. I've recently had the chance to study more of his writings and have discovered that he was much more influential a source for the Gnostic material I received than I'd realized -- so he's this week's honoree.

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***This Magic Monday is now CLOSED. See you next week!***

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Estimated Archdruid Emeritus,

After a long time of hesitation to learn the Grove ritual (finding the sword symbol too weird), then finally learning and testing it, I’m excited to finally prepare my first ritual in the grove. It will be a SOP of the transforming myself variety, in order to get better at my job. I’ve done such rituals before, with good effects, bur not in a grove. Curious to feel the difference!

Is it enough to do the first of seven rituals in a series inside the grove and the rest without, or should it be several repetitions?

I’m also hoping that the grove will add a dimension to my seasonal rituals - haven’t dare to do the „calling a deity“ part without it yet. Maybe I’ll finally make contact?

My final Ogham reading on this planned ritual says: Beith reversed - Quert upright - Gort upright.
I’m interpreting this as: You have been discouraged by past events in your job - The ritual will do you good - even if you still have a long path before you. Does this sound correct to you?

Many thanks for providing this wonderful course!

[ecosophia]

I'm going to suggest that you work with the Grove ritual intensively, accept the weird feelings, and see what they have to teach you. Do all your workings with the Grove ritual for the next year, and ask the gods to help you understand the purpose and meaning of the sword. You'll go much further that way.