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. Two weeks ago I started on the OBOD end of my lineage with past Chosen Chief Philip Carr-Gomm. During the time of his teacher, last week's honoree Ross Nichols, the remarkable Vera Chapman, shown here, was the Pendragon of the order. Chapman was one of the first women admitted into Oxford University -- the two big British universities kept women out until well into the 20th century -- and in her pre-Druid days was an influential member of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, the most interesting offshoot of the Woodcraft back-to-nature movement, which we'll talk about a little more next week. (That's the Kibbo Kift seal below on the right.) Later still, during her Druidical years, she also helped found the Tolkien Society and was an influential figure in Tolkien fandom until her death.

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***This Magic Monday is now closed -- as in, no further comments will be put through. (Ahem.) See you next week!***

Comments

[ecosophia]

That establishes a connection between your aura and the egregor of the Catholic church that lasts until the end of that incarnation. Back in the Middle Ages, when the church egregor still had a lot of power to it, that link made it much harder to perceive nature spirits or work certain kinds of magic, but it doesn't seem to do much of the sort now.

[(Anonymous)]

Is this link established through infant baptisms as well? If so, is there a way to break it?

[ecosophia]

It's much, much weaker when it's not established willingly by the baptized person, thus infant baptism is nothing like so strong. I don't recommend breaking it; just accept it as one of the things that comes to you from your childhood, and go do something else if that's what calls to you.

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a reason you don't recommend breaking it?

[ecosophia]

It takes a lot of doing and can sometimes result in various kinds of blowback. Why not just deal with it as part of your karma?

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. I'm not the OP, but I hope it's okay to follow up on their question and your reply. I have been a follower of Christ (and the Virgin Mary) for a long time. I unequivocally experienced a Marian miracle during a harrowing moment in my first pregnancy--I had been praying to her many times a day, and out of nowhere, suddenly smelled a strong scent of roses in a shut room with no flowers or perfume of any kind nearby--and my daughter survived the serious complications. I was previously a catechumen in the Orthodox church, but for various reasons I have not gone through baptism. (I was not baptized as an infant; my parents were actually occultists). There are a few reasons for my hesitation but the major one is the intuitive feeling that my ability to immediately sense & understand spirits and entities (especially nature spirits) would be blocked. And I can't quite let go of that, as it has been a helpful skill for me at times. But perhaps it would not be entirely so, or there would be ways to continue to be hyper sensitive? Something to meditate on.

Just adding that I know quite a few Catholics (and Orthodox) who have what I would call a deeper relationship with the multiple levels of the worlds around us (including those of the natural world and the spirits and planes surrounding them). But I can't think of a single Protestant like this and in fact the hardcore Protestants I do know (evangelicals mostly) are the furthest from this kind of sense and understanding/awareness. Maybe the egregore of Evangelicism/Mainline Protestant is even more barren around these matters than the current liturgical churches?

[ecosophia]

None of this surprises me. The Christ and the Virgin Mary are unquestionably divine powers, and they grant miracles -- divine beings do that -- whether or not the person who invokes them has gone through this or that formal ceremony. If you have a good relation with them, that's what counts.

As for Protestantism, it varies a lot from denomination to denomination, church to church, anbd individual to individual, but I've met the kind of people you describe, and yeah, the egregor of their faith is pretty bleak.

[(Anonymous)]

I once knew an outright saintly Evangelical Protestant, and a lot of them are basically good folks, but they get caught up in the fear emphasized by their religion. I think the same thing happens to fundamentalist al-Qaeda types. When you’re afraid, it’s hard to think straight. I know from experience.

—Princess Cutekitten

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve noticed God seems more up close and personal, at least to me, in forests than anywhere else.

—Princess Cutekitten