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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. Last week's honoree, Violet Firth Evans aka Dion Fortune, had the great advantage of coming of age when the British occult community was close to its apogee, and she had plenty of teachers. Some of them, such as Moina Mathers, have already appeared here; some of them, such as Maiya Tranchell Hayes, apparently didn't leave any photographs behind -- but there are several others, and this is one of them: Frederick Bligh Bond, who was the official church archeologist at the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey between the two world wars, and discovered a whole series of lost features by digs that just happened to go to the right place. Then it turned out that there was no "just happened" about it; he was using spiritualistic methods to talk to the spirits of long-dead monks, who told him where to dig. The church threw a fit and dismissed him, but he went on to publish several volumes about his experiences, at least one of which can be downloaded for free (here). Dion Fortune studied with him for a while and also did trance work with him; her connection with Glastonbury continued to the end of her life, and in fact she's buried there.

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Hello everyone,

Just want to report that after last week's weird (almost night terror) like dreams where I thought I saw an astral object on abruptly waking up, I tried Kimberly Steele's recommendation to put a hexafoil design nearby after a positive divination (L9), and I haven't had a major incident since, so it may be working? Thank you, Kimberly (I'd noted it off your site a year ago).

dear JMG,
1) I also divined if I should try the bowl of vinegar and protective amulet for these problems, both were positive as L9, but then I wondered if the protective amulet could be L8 (as a magical working), and the vinegar would be L9 (since its not a strict magical working)?
Could you correct me if I am wrong here?

2) As an extension of the above, how do you generally delineate L9 and L8 significations for personal spiritual work? Would a hoodoo bath, or a renaissance talisman be L8 for example?

3) Extending on last week's comment on my discontent with electional astrology:

jmg, yes I have tried timing a good chart with my natal chart (strong waxing moon sextiling my ascendant lord or the lord of the topic at hand etc) and nada, each experience was very similar to the Liz Truss chart situation (and I've seen choosing average timings go well).

gullindagan, could you say more about the 10-15% boost you've found? I would imagine that type of margin would be hard to even detect. Wondering what you've found and if I am missing something here.

BTW, I will give a example of what I have seen work (the herald theory):
I looked back later at one of the most important moments of my life, where I flew halfway across the work to work a big work project that could fail (still can), and the chart of the moment of my plane taking off was incredible:
1)sun aries on the exact ascendant at the time of taking off;
2) moon in cancer 4th house sextiling my natal ascendant lord venus; also trining jupiter.
3) saturn (my natal L10, enthroned in 11th) sextiling the sun in aries;
4) pluto opposing the cancer moon from the 10th;
5) some other natal stuff.

It was a very challenging, life-changing trip, and I was frankly blow away that I booked this exact flight without knowing anything in advance.

I noticed the same thing with other important moments.

By 10-15% I mean, marginally better but not extraordinarily better. For example, I regularly release certain content into the world and notice that when I elect the time it's marginally better received, by around 10-15%, then when I don't.

1) Don't second-guess your divinations! If your reading comes across as positive at the time, treat it as such.

2) I assign all magic of every kind, natural, astrological, ceremonial, you name it, to 8th house, and all divination of every kind to the 9th.

3) Interesting. Thanks for the data point.

Sonkitten was having nightmares a while back. Vinegar chased them away and they haven’t come back.

—Princess Cutekitten

I'm glad to hear this.

Oh I was just worried that using L9 for some of these more natural workings (hoodoo bath, vinegar) may give the wrong divination answer, it sounds like you're saying it is okay even though you use L8 for them.

Thank you.

That's correct.

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