Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just on 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 or comment 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. 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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meditation paths for self improvement

[(Anonymous)]

JMG, I am grateful for your continuing kindness in answering all these questions, and hope you will give me some guidance on my glass bead oracle project.

It occurred to me that there are 5 singles, 8 dyads, 8 triads, 4 tetrads (in triangles with 4 points), 1 square and 1 cross with 5 points in the arrangement of the beads, which match the SOP directions with spirit within at the centre. I hope that makes sense. I can't draw it out for you, but if you wish I will create a page and get some diagrams on it.

When I get an unbalanced dyad (both reversed), for example, I realized that I can bring in a third point (any of the 3 others which are balanced) to use in meditation to resolve the unbalanced dyad. For example, if both mind and body are unbalanced because I'm fretting over some physical symptom and going off the deep end about it, I can bring in water, which taps into intuition and the subconscious to explore what's really going on (and get a sense of how the mind can make the body sick), I can bring in fire, which may use will to override the nonsense, or I can bring in the higher self to resolve the issue. Each one is a different method of dealing with the situation by which I can learn more about myself as I proceed, how the various parts of me are connected and how they affect each other.

When the oracle gives me a triad or a tetrad, depending on which bead is upright and which is reversed, the oracle tells me which connections, or paths if you will, I should explore in my understanding of the situation.

I am finding that the meanings of the readings are taking on a much richer interpretation because I am connecting layers of me as I develop this.

When I get singles with everything else reversed, it tends to mean something very specific: the white one means "Trust your higher self. Help from the spiritual world"; the green one only usually means "You need to focus on the material/physical world", "pay attention to your body, rest." When white is combined with green, that generally mean "Healing" and "Blessings".

My question relates to whether the exploration of the connections is somewhat what the Kabballah does. I know next to nothing about the Kabballah, and wondered if it, or another similar system does the same thing? When you talk of pathworking on the Kabballah, I'm assuming one is exploring parts of one's psyche? I realize the Kabballah is a much richer system with an incredibly rich history, but I was wondering if there was a parallel. For some reason, I have no desire to master the Kabballah, if that is relevant, but I would like to know if what I'm doing is similar. Actually, the Tarot does the same thing, right? Except that it goes well beyond the higher self.

Thank you so much for your time!

Re: meditation paths for self improvement

[ecosophia]

Hmm! This sounds very interesting indeed.

The Cabala includes this kind of work, though it also goes well beyond it; the Cabala provides a schematic map of the cosmos, the human individual, and the relations between them. Your project could end up doing the same thing eventually, but don't worry about that now; it seems like a workable scheme in its current form, and will unfold its other potentials over time.

Re: meditation paths for self improvement

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! That is very encouraging.

I do have two other beads, purple for spirit above (which in my mind seems best represented by the Sumerian An) and orange for spirit below (represented by Ninhursag/Ki), but my understanding of them is force and form, inner and outer, spirit and material. When I am done exploring the 4 elements and the inner spirit (in about 2 years or so, ha!) maybe bringing in the other two will open up other possibilities.

Your guidance is much appreciated!

Re: meditation paths for self improvement

[ecosophia]

Those certainly should be brought in when you're ready -- but all in good time.