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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

1) I was doing some divination regarding the possibility of mRNA vaccines being introduced into livestock feed. The Ogham indicated that it was kind of a done deal, the program would go through and resistance would be futile, but the mRNA vaccines wouldn't harm anyone, and also I would get good results from banishing the stuff from my personal food supply.

Which all seemed a little suspicious, after what people were seeing with divinations on the Covid vaccine. Has anyone else tried divining on the same subject?

2) I'm trying to figure out how to do a talisman consecration using the DMH methods. It seems like I could adapt the method used to enchant the stones of the circle, so that I'd be breathing in the color of the few and then imbuing the talisman with it.
Or I could try to call up the Telluric, Solar, and Lunar currents and enchant the talisman with those, but it's not clear from the book at which point I would declare the intention of the talisman. The wand, cauldron and crane bag seem to be general working implements, while Ogham magic is for more specific intentions.

Do you have any advice on how to do this?

3) I've been getting stocked up on meditation material, in case social upheaval makes it hard to get ahold of books. Some of the material is on the Cabala. When meditating on the Cabala, can I keep my current polytheistic SOP, or would I need to switch to a Judaeo-Christian form?

Thanks,
Cliff

[ecosophia]

1) I haven't, precisely because so many divinations over the Covid vaccines were dubious. I'm sure it will be tried; the question is how long livestock operations will keep doing it, given the likely death toll among the animals.

2) I used the Druid Wand working, and inserted the statement of intention at the point in the ritual low down on page 163, 2nd paragraph from the bottom.

3) Nope. I was doing a Druid SOP all through the period that I studied John Gilbert's Cabalistic teachings. The Cabala is a Jewish reworking of Greek Platonic and Pythagorean traditions, which is why it's proven so useful in polytheist magic.