Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just past 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. Last week's honoree, Jean Bricaud, received the headship of the Martinist Order from this man, Henri-Charles Detre, who wrote under the pseudonym Teder. Detre was active in a great many occult circles in early twentieth century France; he was the head of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose+Croix (Cabalistic Order of the Rose+Cross), headed several esoteric Masonic rites, and was also the chief of the French branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) back in its pre-Crowley days. He headed the Martinist Order for only two years, from the death of Papus in 1916 to his own death in 1918.

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

Comments

Feng Shui-ed

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! I asked last Monday about remedying the bad vibe of my bedroom, and got some helpful advice:

No feng shui pros in my area, so I did the best I could: read a book on it, as well as the "House that Cleans Itself" book that someone recommended also (despite being a book about housecleaning, she has some very cogent advice about furniture placement)... then digested all that for a bit, moved all my furniture, added a couple of strategic houseplants, and the difference is AMAZING. In case it helps anybody else, I *think* the thing that made the biggest difference was moving the bed-- it had been under a window *and* while not exactly opposite the door, it was the biggest thing in my sightline when I opened the door-- moving it to an interior wall changed both of those things, so now I no longer feel like I'm being irradiated by the streetlights while trying to sleep, and the first thing I see when I open the door is a long stretch of empty floor... which makes the room look way bigger and less crowded. Plants are helpful, but they seem to be a distant third to just moving the bed.

One interesting side-effect: for lack of anywhere else to put it, my desk, and computer, are in my bedroom. I was initially inclined to blame them for the gross vibes, but for whatever reason, moving them to a different wall completely changed how I interact with my computer-- I spend less time at it, and the internet got way more boring. I call that a win! In case it's relevant and anybody else wants to experiment, I moved it from a south wall to an east wall. Both interior walls.

I'm now very curious-- has anybody else found that the location of the computer in your house affects how much you use it, and how engrossed/compulsive you are about using it?

Re: Feng Shui-ed

[ecosophia]

Delighted to hear this. Yes, I tend to be very careful where I put my computers -- I have one I used to access the internet, and another with no internet access where I do my writing -- for that reason among others.