Magic Monday

[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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Comments

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 1

[hippieviking]

Well, I feel a little weird soliciting prayers when I see the folks already on the list and their rather serious problems. That being said, I’d like to ask for prayers from any so willing. My wife and I are expecting our third, or possibly third and fourth child soon.

Our first birth ended in an unwanted and unexpected c-section instead of our planned homebirth. Much of our pregnancy with our second birth (tied to a birth center near us at the time) was dominated by incessant appointments over non-issues. Labor was rather a disaster which ended with a transfer to a children’s hospital followed by, against the odds, a successful vaginal birth. Then in our moment of triumph of having beaten the system, our new baby was sucked into the NICU (unnecessarily) and we commenced a vicious week long fight with the hospital to try and get her out, and luckily she appears to have avoided any of the potential long-term complications of the unnecessary treatments foisted on her.

Given that history, we are really trying to distance ourselves from the modern medical system. Recognizing that every time we end up in contact with modern medicine things go sideways in a hurry my wife and I decided to have a homebirth and forgo all medical care other than a midwife. This pregnancy has been great and now my wife is 35 weeks along. However the midwife has been concerned that the placenta may be positioned over my wife’s c-section scar which can come with significant and potentially life-threatening complications. The midwife has informed us that we need to get an ultrasound (we haven’t had one yet) to find out if this is the case. If so, then the midwife wants us to have the child at the hospital. Of course, we are equidistant between two hospitals in our rather rural location, one has a nice birth center and a better staff the other has a generally poor reputation. We just found out that the nicer hospital, which happens to be across the county line, will no longer be accepting out-of county folks at their birth center, leaving us with the crappy local hospital as our only choice.

Now we are stressing that, yet again, despite all our efforts, we are going to be sucked back into the medical system that we so deeply despise and are trying to get away from.

My wife and I would deeply appreciate any prayers or offerings on our behalf for a smooth and successful delivery without any unnecessary medical intervention.

Thank you,
HV

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 1

[(Anonymous)]

Please note this is not medical advice. But if it were me, I'd be sore tempted to find a friend in the county where the nice hospital is, who might let me borrow their mailing address, temporarily.

I hope all works out for the best, for everyone involved.

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 1

[(Anonymous)]

Please note this is not legal advice, but it is worth keeping in mind that in some states following the above advice could be a felony.

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 1

[tunesmyth]

Regarding importance level of prayers, all prayers are welcome, at any level; although I must say yours seems quite important to me! My own most recent child started out as a home birth but complications led to it becoming a hospital birth and three weeks of her being kept in NICU during a time that Japan was being particularly stupid crazy about Covid; mom was only allowed to visit for an hour and a half a day for nursing, and I wasn't allowed in at all. I still suspect that this enforced lack of loving contact is a factor in the health problems that my daughter has had ever since. Anyway, your prayer is going on the list right now. Good luck.

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 1

[tunesmyth]

Oh, and by the way, do feel free to leave a comment at the most recent prayer list entry when it nears week 40 or the birth otherwise seems imminent. I'm happy to put your entry in the featured section at that time to do whatever we can to ensure a smooth birth process.

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List, Week of May 1

[hippieviking]

I will keep this in mind. Our daughter who got stuck in the NICU didn't have any social issues, they couldn't pry me out of the room, much to their chagrin. She did get loaded with a large amount of antibiotics and for the next several years it seemed like her immune system just wasn't anything like as effective as her sister's or the rest of the family's, but she finally seems to be getting through that. Here's hoping your daughter will grow past her troubles.

Thanks,
HV