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. I'm currently tracing my Martinist lineage.  That's rendered complex by the Martinist tradition that one does not name one's initiator, so we'll have to go back through less evasive routes. Last week's honoree, René Chambellant, became head of the Eglise Gnostique Universelle on the death of his teacher and consecrator, Constant Chevillon, whom I'm honoring this week. Martinist, Rosicrucian, Freemason, and Gnostic bishop, Chevillon was born in 1880, showed remarkable intellectual gifts in youth, but went to work in the banking industry while devoting his free time to occult and spiritual pursuits. He wrote seven books and many essays about Gnostic theology and practice, and his integrity and spiritual qualities won the respect not only of his fellow Gnostics but of Catholics and nonreligious people. In 1944, he and other leading citizens of Lyon were taken hostage by the Nazis in revenge for activities of the Resistance, and shot to death. He is considered a saint and martyr by most modern Gnostic churches; the day of his martyrdom, March 22, is his feast day.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hello JMG and thank you again for these Magic Mondays.

I am planning to take a required government exam as part of an immigration process. I can schedule the (online) exam anytime I want to within a few week's bounds. I was wondering if there was an appropriate planetary day and hour I might optimally choose to begin the process of logging in, registering for, and hopefully if the tech behaves, taking the exam, in order to maximize my chances at passing it.

My goal would be specifically to pass the exam, all other aspects of the reason for taking it aside..

Given that it's an exam, would the day and hour of Mercury be the best choice for this, or is there another planetary ruler more appropriate to success in such an endeavour?

Thank you kindly,

V.O.G.

[ecosophia]

Mercury is the planet I'd choose for this.

[(Anonymous)]

Do be careful. A couple months ago someone here tried planetary charity to Mercury to give them "luck" during a game show, and instead suffered a complete inability to focus during the game show and a frightening near-miss with a terrible car accident on the way back. Everyone was confused at this outcome but me; I thought that what they did might have been construed as interference with one of the temple ceremonies of market meritocracy.

I saw the word "exam" and thought competition, and was worried about something similar. But I guess it's not really a competitive exam, except insofar as immigration slots are competitively awarded (and any competition would mostly have been a prior step), and anyway an exam is less the focus of ceremony and attention than a game show. Still, you should be clear about your intentions. Do you want to be able to recall things and adroitly connect the dots during the exam? That would be Mercury. Do you want to be able to focus and stay with tricky questions until you've done your best? I'm not 100% on the associations but I would guess Saturn. (Saturday in the hour of Mercury?) Are you trying to fast-talk the immigration process even though you might not have normally passed this test? Mercury, avoid Saturn, and consider Jupiter. (It's not clear how well this will work because it's a government-administered exam about government.) Are you trying to prove you've done the work and will be a contributing member of the civic sphere? Saturn and you'd better have put in the time in advance. Is this part of a bigger project to nimbly evade a coming bad sitution in your country of origin? Mercury maybe, I'm not sure.