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)]

I did a geomantic reading on what the results would be from a hiking event I'm planning. The chart came out exceedingly complicated and I won't ask for an interpretation of it - but it's a good opportunity to ask some questions on which parts of the chart are relevant and which aren't if I want to calculate the indicators for the chart.

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1. Tristitia is in conjunction and company compound with the quesited in the fifth house. I note that Tristitia is also in the seventh house. Does Tristitia in the sixth house, since it is also a significator in this chart, form a conjunction with Tristitia in the seventh house? If that's so, I assume that means I must also include the effects of Tristitia in the seventh house in my calculations
of the indicators and in my interpretation of the reading.

2. Tristitia in the twelth house counts as a translation since it's conjunct with Laetitia in the first and fifth houses, correct?

3. You said in The Art and Practice of Geomancy that aspects only come into play when one of the significators passes to a different house. Laetitia is in the first, fifth, and ninth houses. Do I count only the trine aspect between the first and ninth houses, or do I count *both* the first-fifth trine and the first-ninth trine in my calculations? Same question would apply to the square and opposing aspects between Laetitia and Tristitia here.

4. As Tristitia is a significator in this chart, does that mean Populus - which is in company of houses with Tristitia in the eight house, and is also in company and conjunction with Laetitia in the first house - also count as a significator?

Sorry if this is a lot of questions, just trying to understand what parts of the chart do figure into the calculations/readings and which don't.

Much thanks!

[ecosophia]

The most common source of inaccurate interpretations of geomantic readings is overthinking them. You asked a fifth house question; your significator in the first passes to the fifth, and it's a very favorable figure -- Laetitia. This chart perfects by occupation, the strongest mode of perfection. The answer to your question is "yes" -- and you can stop right there.

Now of course this chart *also* perfects by translation, with Tristitia in the 6th and 12th, and it has Laetitia in the 9th trine both significators. Those simply reinforce the basic meaning, which is "yes." The crucial point, though, is that the answer to your question is determined by the presence or absence of at least one mode of perfection between querent and quesited. The rest is much less important, and when there's a definite answer given by the mode of perfection, the rest doesn't really matter.