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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. Both of the last two honorees, and most of the other Martinist lineages in existence, were also taught and influenced by this man, Robert Ambelain, a prolific writer and occult scholar whose work extended from astrology and Freemasonry to Druidry and Martinism. Ambelain was born in 1907; he became an astrologer in the 1920s, proceeded to become a major figure in the Martinist scene and a bishop in one of the French Gnostic churches, played a central role in reviving several defunct occult orders, published 42 books, and earned the Croix de Guerre for his service to France during the Second World War. He died in 1997.

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

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I suspect there is a great deal of hypocrisy involved. I can't imagine woke critics of folkish Heathenism would denounce Amerindians for excluding non-Amerindians from their religion. But then, I don't pay a lot attention to the woke crowd these days. The Twitter link provided above seems to be an account whose hatred for the AFA and folkish adherents is quite palpable. It brings me back to Causticus's comment about the critics of the AFA coming off as significantly more hateful than the AFA itself. I find that rather telling.

1) It depends on the emotion. Each emotion has its own cantref. For example, anger is an emotion of Ufel, and reverence is an emotion of Nef.

2) Go ahead and move forward. You don't need to achieve perfection before proceeding, you just need to make a good start.

3) Glad to hear it! Journey Star will be back in print next year. All but one of my novels is moving to a new publisher (the one exception is already there), so there will unfortunately be some delays.

Jupiter is your friend in questions like this. He governs generosity of spirit and brings peace to potential quarrels.

1) That's a perfectly acceptable way to do that. Glad to hear that you're doing the work.

2) I'm delighted to hear this! The second volume, The Book of Haatan, is already at the publisher and should be out in the fall, and the third, The Carnelian Moon, is a little over half finished.

If you feel you're better off trusting your gut check, then by all means do so.

3) Sphinx/Aeon?

Having done a little research the past hour or so, I will say that I find the "Sacred King" thing a bit off-putting. Do you know much about that aspect? I don't want to misunderstand it or otherwise get an inaccurate impression.

Yes, Uranus is in his fall in Taurus, so coups under that placement will generally fail. Once he's moved on into Gemini, coups will tend to be more successful, but the plotters will have to keep control of the information environment or risk having the tables turned on them.

With regard to the Prigozhin affair over the weekend, I'm far from sure we have anything like the whole story on that. Hindsight may reveal quite a bit.

There are at least three different things I know of that fall under that heading. Two of them are Wiccan traditions, and I know very little about any form of Wicca; it never really interested me. The third -- well, traditional lore has it that the best thing to do with the fae is leave them strictly alone. They hate and fear humans, with very good reason, and they tend to mess with people who try to make use of them. I really don't recommend it.

Yes, exactly -- the whole point is to get your mind on something spiritual as you go to sleep, so that you can tune into the upper astral in dreams.

I have no idea what's available nowadays, but the book that was most widely used back in the day -- by me among others was Mastering the Tarot by Eden Gray. You might see if you can find a copy.

The astral is a real mess just now, though there are intervals where a certain amount of clarity breaks through. "Turbulent" is the term I would use.

Don't feel foolish -- this is very, very common, and for good reason. Of all the planets, Venus is the one most people can perceive as a being, not just a light, and so it routinely gets identified as a UFO, or something of the kind. In ancient times people were more sensible and simply identified it as a goddess or spirit!

1) That's a perfectly valid approach.

2) Fascinating. No, I haven't heard of anything like that before.

Oh, granted. Nearly everyone in the Freudian scene back in those days wrote in Old High Psychoanalytic, and translating it back into English takes work!

Glad to hear this. John Gilbert used to have dogs and cats come trotting up to him and all but verbally ask to be blessed. As for the humans who raised their eyebrows, ignore 'em!

Yes, that's what usually happens. You can certainly put one system in a holding pattern for a while so you can concentrate on the other system.

It's very simple. You are not a god. You do not have the duty or the right to tell other people what to do, or to pass judgment on them. You have the right and the duty to make moral choices for yourself and for those (such as children) for whom you have a moral responsibility; if asked, you're certainly within your rights to offer your opinion; but since you are a human being and not a god, it's not your place to pass judgment on how others choose to live, outside of very limited circumstances.

The laws of a community are the compromises that the community has agreed to make in order to allow people to live together in relative peace. None of them are perfect; all of them are compromises that allow certain harms to prevent worse harms. Religious liberty is a good example. Is it abused? Constantly. Go read a good book about the Salem witch trials sometime and see what you think of the alternative.

John Gilbert’s The Doors of Tarot is excellent, I recommend it, for what it’s worth.

That's the one.

Just writing to thank you, I have a healthy spiritual life thanks in great part to your books and Magic Monday. All the best and thanks again!

Having reviewed the videos, the clips shared in them of McNallen are from the videos of his that I watched. Some of the stuff does seem borderline, but I do not think (and especially placed in context of his larger work) that these make him a White supremacist or a hateful person. While Ocean Keltoi might be a respectful progressive, I think that progessivism is an inaccurate lens through which to view the world. Criticism rooted in it are of dubious validity to my mind. No offense is intended to anyone by that comment. But that's where my thinking is at.

I have watched a few of Ocean Keltoi's other videos. Interesting fellow. I imagine that he wouldn't like me very much.

JMG,

Thank you for sharing all your erudition, study and wisdom. You are a great inspiration to me!

My question is in regards to the Kabbalistic Cross from the viewpoint of the traditional Golden Dawn.

The light that we bring down to our foreheads, is this

a) Ain Soph Aur

b) Keter

Or

c) Tiphereth

and which aspect of ourselves would this be (Higher Self/Tiphereth or Divine Self/Keter)?

I first thought this light related to Keter but I read someone mention it’s invoking your Higher Self which in GD is associated with Tiphereth. It makes sense though considering Keter is above the abyss and impersonal. (These terms are so easy to get jumbled up.)

Thank you for the clarification and I hope you have a great week.

That's a fascinating question to which there's no obvious answer. It's quite possible that the three worlds of Iolo Morganwg's mythology are at least partly derived from the three worlds of classic Western occultism, but I don't know that it could be proven one way or the other.

You're most welcome. Potlatches weere banned in the 1880s in Canada as "wasteful, unproductive, and contrary to 'civilized values' of accumulation" (from the Wikipedia article, citing Douglas Cole and Ira Chaikin, An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast (Vancouver and Toronto 1990). A similar ban was instituted in some states of. the USA just a little later

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Re: A Druid in Psychologist's Clothing

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