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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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

Re: The inner dimmensions of language learning

[(Anonymous)]

I think of systems of things like astrological or mythological symbolism and egregores as only having the same kind of inherent connection to an underlying reality as language does. It's not no connection. Short words tend to be used for more common or important things, and grammar tends to make it possible to compose important meanings, and the words for species tend to put the boundaries in compatible places. But some other category boundaries aren't that shared, and of course the words themselves are in significant part random accidents of history.

It's sort of unsettling, seeing the tendency to fall into thinking of the forces or beings in a given system as being fundamental, while knowing that there are some ways in which this makes about as much sense as interpreting cosmic symbolism into the spatial relationships of letters on your keyboard (they had to fit together somewhere, otherwise you wouldn't have a keyboard!), and yet also suspecting that there are some benefits that can't be realized without letting part of your mind treat the system uncritically. I wonder if that's how a non-linguistic being would feel about having to adopt the meaning conventions of any language in particular. Then there's the thing reported by artists where learning to work within a system of apparently arbitrary constraints can help you recognize things you wouldn't have discovered in freeform.