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

Granite.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey jmg

Lately I’ve been meditating on granite, and I’ve had some thoughts on its planetary correspondence.
As I understand it, all granite is a mix of quartz, feldspar and trace minerals such as tourmaline.
According to your books quartz is lunar, but it has nothing on the other stones, however moonstone is apparently a form of feldspar so it’s possible that feldspar is lunar in general. So it’s likely granite is lunar, but since it is a mix of many stones it must have some correspondence with mercury, since you mentioned that alloys of metal are ruled by mercury.

Is it possible that a stone can have more that one planetary correspondence? Also if granite is lunar could this mean that the use of the stone in Egyptian temples may have had some kind of magical effect they were in exploiting?

Re: Granite.

[ecosophia]

Interesting. The Egyptians needn't have limited themselves to lunar stones -- a lot of varieties of rock have interesting magical properties, and so it's quite possible that they had magic in mind when they chose granite for certain structures.

Re: Granite.

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking of a polarity working in particular. The Egyptians were sun worshipers, the moon receives force from the sun, so a temple of lunar rock would be good for receiving the solar force.

Re: Granite.

[ecosophia]

That would make sense. You'd want to see if solar temples have more granite in them than temples to non-solar gods, though.

Re: Granite.

[gullindagan]

"Is it possible that a stone can have more that one planetary correspondence?"

Yes. Lapis Lazuli, for instance, can be used for the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.

Re: Granite. (Lapis Lazuli)

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe because Lapis lazuli is basically lots of sodalite with some pyrite ...?

Re: Granite. (Lapis Lazuli)

[gullindagan]

That's just an example. Clear quartz, for instance, can be used for both Jupiter and the Moon. Bloodstone can be used for both the Sun and Mars, &ct.