Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's almost 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 and the teachers who influenced them in turn.  Like Allan Bennett and George Cecil Jones, who were introduced over the last two weeks, this week's honoree was a teacher of Aleister Crowley. Theodor Reuss was a German occultist and Freemason who, like our past honoree Sylvester Gould, was a member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, the successor order of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (HB of L). He founded and headed the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), a magical lodge originally envisioned by Austrian occultist Carl Kellner, which passed on the occult traditions of the HB of L and certain specific teachings that originated in another of our earlier honorees, African-American occultist Paschal Beverly Randolph. Reuss passed on the teachings of the OTO to Crowley and eventually made him the head of the OTO in the English-speaking world, setting off a cascade of events that would make a first-rate melodrama or a really good tell-all book. Since I'm not a member of the OTO, my only connection with any of that story is that one of my teachers was taught by a student of a student of Reuss...

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Comments

Saturn Opposition

[(Anonymous)]

Saturn is just moving into Pisces and another cohort of people in their forties will be getting their second Saturn Opposition. I am aware of the general idea of working with Saturn, but I am not sure what exactly is meant, and how individual it is. The period of my first Saturn Opposition, by which I mean the period the planet was in the sign, was very successful in important respects except for a major issue that started right at the end of it, quite far away from the exact degree of opposition. My Saturn return was very difficult and dramatic. If it is possible to see one unified message in both of these periods, what led to success in the first opposition, and what I was pushed towards by the return, it is that Saturn likes me in what youngsters these days call "monk mode". This currently, usually looks more possible for me than it does for the average middle aged person, for example, I do not have children. But I am wondering how far I should go in actively trying to recreate the aspects that were helpful the first time - but not those that were bad for me. I appear rationalist to most people I know in every day life, so to use astrology as the deciding factor for any important decision I am unsure about feels like a little too much.

I am also wondering about Saturn oppositions and house moves, as I would be surprised if I were still living in the same property by the time Saturn goes into Aries. It is hardly unusual for people in their mid forties to move home, and this will be fine for plenty of them. We did not move, or try to, when I was in my first Saturn Opposition. Is it a good idea to use some extra prayers or offerings if this comes up? I would normally do planetary charity and candle burning anyway.

Re: Saturn Opposition

[ecosophia]

All this depends on what else in your natal chart transiting Saturn is aspecting, and what else is transiting at the same time. That's why no two Saturn returns or Saturn oppositions are the same -- by the time you get to the second one, the planetary positions you experienced in the first one have changed completely. I recommend a thorough delineation of your progressed chart or charts for the period of the opposition -- that will give you enough to go on.