Magic Monday
Apr. 30th, 2023 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
It's getting toward 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, past Chosen Chief of OBOD Philip Carr-Gomm, received most of his training in Druidry from Ross Nichols, who is this week's honoree. Nichols was a poet, a watercolorist, and an educator, as well as a good friend of Gerald Gardner, the inventor of modern Wicca. He became a member of the Universal Bond, one of the most active Druid organizations in Britain, in 1954. Ten years later, during a dispute over the leadership of the UB, he founded an order of his own, first called the Bardic Order of Druids and thereafter renamed the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, which he headed until his death in 1975. He was the author of three books of poetry -- Sassenach Stray, Seasons At War, and Prose Chants and Proems -- as well as The Cosmic Shape, a programmatic essay on nature spirituality with a set of poems attached, and The Book of Druidry, which was published after his death.
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Date: 2023-05-01 09:34 pm (UTC)What happens - and I guess this goes on a wider scale - if part of a working is incorrect? I realised this week I'd missed out a step from the Sign of Salutation (bringing hands to ears, I'd swept them forward from above head). Is it like missing out a herb from cooking - the result will be similar to the desired one, if not quite as tasty as intended?
And one from Inner Grove of Earth working (also this week, now with correct Sign). I'd entered the grove, heard what sounded like a twig snap, thought, "I'm not alone" then very briefly saw a flash of what I can only describe as a snarling wolf's head (!). I focused on staying calm and that it wasn't really there and the wolf-feeling passed, though there were still a few small noises. Did I somehow create the wolf? Is there any way of guarding against this, or is it part of the experience? (Let me guess - meditation?)
My thanks as ever for your time and all that you do.
C.G Jung, Wotan and Pests Encountered on the Average American Interstate
Date: 2023-05-01 09:49 pm (UTC)I don't want to turn this post into a rant so I won't list examples of baffling driving behavior and I note that selfish pests have been on the roads ever since the automobile was invented. I'm just seeing worse and worse behavior which is just as difficult to explain than the need to go out into the countryside and slaughter an innocent sheep.
Anyway, welcome to hear other's opinions on this and thoughts on what archetypes we may be dealing with in our various countries and how that manifests during these interesting times.
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Date: 2023-05-01 09:49 pm (UTC)1) Regarding the SOP: From my experiences during and after performing the ritual I concluded that there is something "special" to the first four elements and that the protective part of the ritual is largely provided by these four. The calling of spirit would then contribute some ... distributive part? ... where the energies invoked in the first part are guided to the proper place, so to say?
2) Also SOP and beyond: Sometimes there's talking about "more potent means of protection" and every now and then (last week, for example) one can read about instances where regular practice of the SOP seems to be not enough. Sticking to the SOP and thus following DMH/DA what are those means in that tradition?
3) CosDoc: I tried to wrap my head around what it means to "absorb something into ones consciousness", especially when "something" is another consciousness. The closest experience I could come up with was one instance which happened as the result of some quite intense healing working. While I was laying on the ground, a thought entered my mind, though "thought" seems to be an inappropriate description. It consisted of just a few words, but in total it could best be described as revelation. As a result the relationship that were part of the cause for my problems completely changed to the better, because suddenly I understood. One could say that in that one moment, "everything" had changed.
Would it be fair to say that I absorbed some detached part of myself into my consciousness? Does that necessarily mean that this detached part had a consciousness of it own? How would one best describe that which was absorbed in that case?
I think that was quite lot to ask, hopefully not too much. Thank you for your patience and for this space and your support, of course!
Greetings,
Nachtgurke
(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-01 10:08 pm (UTC)Are the animals trying to tell us something?
https://twitter.com/CBKNEWS121/status/1652722108970029056?cxt=HHwWgMC-mY2A0-8tAAAA
https://twitter.com/CBKNEWS121/status/1652795056149987334?cxt=HHwWjIC8hZiW9O8tAAAA
it seems very bizarre to me!
The Death Point
Date: 2023-05-01 10:10 pm (UTC)I'm not going to share the details for obvious reasons; it should be enough to say that it involves my natal 8th house. When a planet transits a particular point in the 8th house which brings it into aspect with a certain other planet, I reliably suffer disaster.
The first time it happened it was a Uranus transit. I was hit by a car while crossing the street. Uranus retrograded back into place half a year later and I became severely ill, the worst illness I'd experienced in my life up to that point.
The second was a Neptune transit. When Neptune was then joined by a square to Mars, I was attacked by a gang, beaten, robbed, and nearly killed.
Saturn was next. When Saturn transited this point I again became gravely ill, far worse than the Uranus transit.
I'm aware of your opinion of Pluto, but he's very active in my natal chart, and I've found that I ignore his transits at my peril. He will be the next planet to transit this point, and I'm afraid that that will mark my death.
Now, modern astrology does not have many resources for dealing with this sort of thing, but I believe that traditional sources must have more to offer, as questions about death, its timing, and how to avoid it were very common in prior centuries. Are you aware of anything you can point me to? Or do you have a particular method of dealing with difficult upcoming transits you're willing to share?
(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-01 10:31 pm (UTC)—Princess Cutekitten
(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-01 10:43 pm (UTC)U.S. Labor Day is in September. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
—Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2023-05-01 10:47 pm (UTC)Transits
Date: 2023-05-01 11:15 pm (UTC)I don't really notice/can tell apart the inner planet transits, but saturn transits for me are so accurate and generally painful/stressful, it is wild.
I also am not clear if its a a herald/sign for what is happening, or there's actually a planetary spirit's energy at play causally. (For example, i don't think electional astrology is very real, as I have shared before).
Thoughts?
Re: Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 1
Date: 2023-05-01 11:20 pm (UTC)I hope all works out for the best, for everyone involved.
Re: English Synonyms for those who Practice Magic
Date: 2023-05-01 11:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-01 11:49 pm (UTC)2) That kind of thing is common. One of my teachers used to call it "astral static," and stressed that it rarely means much.
Re: C.G Jung, Wotan and Pests Encountered on the Average American Interstate
Date: 2023-05-01 11:51 pm (UTC)Re: Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 1
Date: 2023-05-01 11:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-01 11:54 pm (UTC)2) The Grail working is among other things protective; you can also make talismans or other protective devices using the DMH methods. I'm currently working out a version of the Bornless One ritual, a classic GD magical working, revised to fit the SoP and related magical practices; once it's been adequately tested, I'll be publishing that as well. It has very potent protective capacities.
3) When you can define "myself" clearly, that question will be a lot easier to answer!
(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-01 11:55 pm (UTC)Re: The Death Point
Date: 2023-05-01 11:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-01 11:57 pm (UTC)Re: Transits
Date: 2023-05-01 11:59 pm (UTC)Electional astrology is easy to get wrong, because people constantly try to use it to get things that their natal charts won't permit them to get, then blame electional astrology when they don't get it. The same is true of transits and progressions, though more people seem to realize that those are always conditioned by the natal chart.
Re: C.G Jung, Wotan and Pests Encountered on the Average American Interstate
Date: 2023-05-02 12:00 am (UTC)I've come to suspect that, whatever the origin, a lot of people are suffering from early dementia. I hope I'm wrong, because if I'm right there will be a lot of suffering in the next few years from another source than all the other places where I don't see how things don't end badly...
Re: ??
Date: 2023-05-02 12:03 am (UTC)At least a couple of us have sent some energy your way by now :-)
(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-02 12:05 am (UTC)https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/gradually-and-then-suddenly.html?m=1
—Princess Cutekitten
Re: C.G Jung, Wotan and Pests Encountered on the Average American Interstate
Date: 2023-05-02 12:27 am (UTC)Re: The Death Point
Date: 2023-05-02 12:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-05-02 12:55 am (UTC)Davidson, Gustav. A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels. New York: Free Press. 1994.