Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just past 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 taking a momentary break from chasing down photos of my lineage. Today is the spring equinox here in the northern hemisphere, one of the holy days of the Druid calendar, and this is a photo of the spring equinox sunrise as seen from an ancient stone chamber at South Royalton, Vermont -- one of many astronomically oriented megalithic sites here in New England. The photo's courtesy of New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA), which was gracious enough to send it around yesterday morning.

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

Comments

[jprussell]

Not exactly a mantra/affirmation, but a potentially useful frame for thinking: Jordan Peterson recommends treating yourself as if you are "someone you are responsible for helping" (it's his second rule in 12 Rules For Life. The idea is that if you have a friend, loved one, or pet that you care about, there are a lot of things that you would see clearly that you might hide from yourself or not do for yourself (true fact: more people make sure their pets take a complete course of medicine than take it for themselves). It also accounts for overly-positive thinking that doesn't catch bad patterns - if you saw your best friend dragging himself into the same problems over and over again, eventually you'd tell him to stop, rather than saying "I'm sure it'll be fine".

At any rate, if you wanted to turn it into an affirmation, maybe something like "I follow the advice I would give someone I love in all situations."

On a more magical/symbolic side of things, one thing that seems to be helping me is to focus on the watery/heart-based side of things to balance out the airy/mental side. "Feeling" things more clearly and strongly is not all sunshine and rainbows, but it does seem to be helping the more I let myself do it.

Best of luck in your work,
Jeff

[open_space]

Thank you Jeff! And thank you for your message before that too. Funnily enough I've been trying to do something like that, looking at it from the outside to try to avoid the pitfalls. That idea about self-responsibility is definitely part of it for me, and I need to root it in self love, for otherwise I feel that I am just an angry boss with myself that demands to keep going forward no matter what. Sometimes that self-responsibility is to take it easy with oneself, I don't want to face burn out or something worse.

I think I need something like that about focusing on the feelings as well, something that focuses on not removing value from what I do too despite that I don't like it. It might not be the best, but doing bad work in a bad mood is worse that not doing any work at all... Hmm. I do need to think this through for a bit more but I feel I have a tentative affirmation now that can help me get up from the mud, clean myself and start walking again. Wish me luck! Transformation ain't easy, huh.