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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

a) When doing planetary charity, what is the key moment: the moment I write a check, or the moment I drop it in a mailbox? Or would it be best to make sure to do both during the planetary hour?

b) I've just started working through LRM, and have found that the relaxation by breathing you provide in the book causes a weird pressure on my solar plexus. You mentioned it works with the solar plexus, which makes me wonder if it's possible that I'm activating it.

c) On the topic of Pluto as a comet, I had a very unpleasant further thought: I've noticed a lot of Plutonian themes are going into overdrive among the people still clinging to the planet, and a number of Plutonian phenomena are reaching their logical extremes as the planet fades away. This is a very Plutonian thing: of course the planet will reach its apotheosis as it fades away. It makes perfect sense, Pluto being Pluto, that the people clinging to it will gradually be consumed by it, and become ever more Plutonian, even as the world around them shakes off the Plutonian.

It also makes sense, if Pluto is a comet marking the disruptive force of another solar system: as the solar system moves out from blocking the Central Stillness, those who are remaining will return to normal; while those who are still drawn to the other system will gradually move further and further away, and be ever more drawn into the disruptive influence until either it moves far enough away that they get yanked back into place by the Central Stillness and the forces of the other planes, or they move far enough away with the other system that their connection to the Central Stillness gets severed.

Brr....

[ecosophia]

1) I try to do both during the relevant hour.

2) Yes, quite possibly. Massage it gently to break up any unwelcome tension there -- that'll make sure the activation goes smoothly.

3) Brr indeed. Yes, I could see that.

[(Anonymous)]

3) This would seem to me to suggest, unfortunately, a plausible reason divination has kept telling me I need to do everything possible to cut ties with my family. My mother is resonating ever more strongly with the Plutonian, and I could see a case for worrying that she's trying (unconsciously) to drag the rest of us to the Second Death with her. Oh dear gods this is dark and cold....