ecosophia | Magic Monday

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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. Quite a while ago we reached Israel Regardie, and then chased his lineage back through Aleister Crowley et al. After he left Crowley, however, Regardie also spent a while studying with this week's honoree, the redoubtable Violet Firth Evans, better known to generations of occultists as Dion Fortune. Born in Wales and raised in a Christian Science family, Fortune got into occultism after a stint as a Freudian lay therapist -- that was an option in her time. She was active in the Theosophical Society, belonged to two different branches of the Golden Dawn, studied with a number of teachers, and then founded her own magical order, the Fraternity (now Society) of the Inner Light. She also wrote some first-rate magical novels and no shortage of books and essays on occultism, including The Cosmic Doctrine, the twentieth century's most important work of occult philosophy. I'm pleased to be only four degrees of separation from her.

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Hi JMG

1: Regarding the personality of Saturn, would I be correct in thinking that while he will not give anything for free you will also get exactly what you earn with hard work, and that work will pay off? I have him in my 7th house...

2: Are the methods of developing clairvoyance that Rudolf Steiner describes in his books compatible with the magical systems using the SOP? Would you recommend any one in particular?

3: How common is it for gods to alter the results of divination's to lead you in the necessary direction, even if that means the divination results aren’t necessarily true? Are there any approaches or ways of phrasing questions that are recommended to work with them better, other than listen and learn from mistakes?

4: For the purposes of magical timing when does the full moon end? Is it at the moment the moon perfects its opposition to the sun? Or is there an effective time or orb before it finishes?

Thanks
Sea Spray

1) That's certainly been my experience of him -- though it's worth noting that Saturn is well dignified in my birth chart; if he's afflicted in yours, that may not be true.

2) Yes, and in fact the practices in The Way of Initiation are included (with attribution) in a forthcoming book of mine, The Way of the Four Elements, which is a sequel to The Way of the Golden Section.

3) It depends very much on the god! Some do, some don't, and how to work with them really does depend on who you're working with.

4) I've always found it best to start the working before the opposition perfects, though it seems to be okay to let the working continue after that moment. So there's a little effective time afterwards, but not that much.

Thank you

1: Regarding how well dignified Saturn is, how would you interpret him being in Aquarius square to the mid-heaven with a 1 degree orb and square on the other side to Pluto with a 3 degree orb. He's also 10 degrees from conjunct with my moon but I think that's out of the effective orb.

I notice that Saturn is currently 1 degree off transiting my moon as well so I've got a double dose!

Sea Spray

That's mixed but not bad, since he's angular and therefore strengthened.

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