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 via slightly less evasive routes. The last two honorees, Constant Chevillon and Robert Ambelain, both received part of their many lineages from this week's honoree, Jean Bricaud. Bricaud was a student of Papus and a leading figure in the French Martinist movement, as well as a major figure in the French Gnostic church of the time. He became head of the Martinist Order on Papus' death in 1916, and played a significant role in many other alternative spiritual scenes of the time. He died in 1934.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For JMG and/or the rest of the commentariat:

Any suggestions for magical & protective plants and shrubs for a house perimeter? We’re moving into a new house with energetically stagnant neighbors on one side. (Their house is run down, main person living there is sour in vibe, yells at her dogs, etc…it just feels very off.) It could be worse but I would like to do what I can to improve and protect our boundary. The previous owners of our house did no landscaping so it’s a blank slate. We’re in RI.

Any suggestions? Any stories from readers (successful or not) on tackling this kind of thing?

JMG— I have your book on natural magic (…somewhere…in this jumble of many stacks of books and boxes…) and will also be looking through it for some ideas this coming week.

Thank you!!

[(Anonymous)]

I have/had similiar issues with neighbours, I planted a hodgepog of plants which screen them out and seem to make their own micro forest. Haven't had an unpleasant interaction in years. Amongest my plants I have dense leaved plants which screen and block negative vibes and high vibe plants (such as plums, cherries) which cheer and a few other flowering things. The cheer seems to negate any resentment over being blocked. I also have comfrey and other things on the ground layer (I had very disturbed neighbours on one side, they have since become much more at peace). It was so bad I put a pot of bay leaf coming up to the deck, people always used to enter via my deck and will actively navigate around the house subconciously avoiding the bay. I would use that to deter people wandering onto property, but it does grow large without pruning. So that's my experience, it takes a few years but I'm now snuggled in and nobody pays me any mind except pleasant exchanges.

[ecosophia]

Anon above said most of what I would have said. One plant that I'd strongly recommend adding to your plantings is angelica, which has a very potent spiritual energy and will chase off noxious forces.

[gullindagan]

Elderberry is another good one, and I'm going to second Angelica - though it's often a biennial and is not as permanent (if it likes the spot it'll self seed nicely though). You might also look into wormwood, or Hawthorn. It also depends entirely on the climate and growing zone where you are, though there are elder species in most zones.