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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Comments

Re: More Takes on "Hail Idun", and Magical Influences on Significant Historical Events

[jprussell]

Thank you! I had so far stayed somewhat away from emphasizing "immortality" or "everlasting life" in my thinking about/prayers to Idun, despite the prominence of the apples in the one full myth we have about her. I had stayed away from it because it seems like too much attachment to the eternal life of this here body and its personality tends to go to some bad places, even if ostensibly in a spiritual/religious context.

After further meditation, reflection, and drafting, though, I do think the emphasis is appropriate, if understood as something closer to the "One Life", or the "life of the soul," as I think that's the kind of "everlasting life" it's healthy and desirable to think about and focus on.

Re: More Takes on "Hail Idun"

[(Anonymous)]

2 seems best so far to me too, its subject matter is more about divinity and mortality. 3 matches the poetic form better, though.

I don't know of Idun being specifically about mortals even to just the extent that Thor is, and maybe the text would have to refer more to relationships manifested through sanctifying deeds or exchanges, and less about relationships manifested through contemplation, prayer, and grace (though these are a sort of deed and exchange).

Maybe you should just list a bunch of attributes and epithets and petitions and pledges before trying to feel through which seven or eight should all end up in there together. Obviously some are going to be more redundant with each other than others, but you shouldn't try to jam all your thinking about that into the process of revising some single way; that leaves so little elbow room and you'll be constantly distracted by premature tradeoffs.

Another thing the original prayer did was start by consisting largely of direct quotes from existing texts.