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, Dr. Gérard Encausse, who wrote about magic under the pen name Papus, didn't act alone in reviving the Martinist tradition and founding the Martinist Order; he had the capable assistance of this man, Augustin Chaboseau. Papus and Chaboseau were medical students together, and were startled to discover that each of them had received the Martinist initiation by way of two different lineages. They each initiated the other, and thereafter worked together to preserve and transmit the Martinist tradition. Chaboseau's wife Louise was famous in her own right as a leading French feminist, and one of the first female pharmacists in France.

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Comments

Re: Lottery Magic For Not Winning The Lottery

[ecosophia]

1) I've never heard of anything like it.

2) Very mixed. I tend to avoid such things myself.

3) Yes and yes.

4) Extremely grubby. It's been my experience that when people play the lottery in anything but the most casual way their lives grind to a halt and any luck they might have had trickles away. That's true of any attempt to get something for nothing, but lotteries seem worse than most. That said, buying the ticket and deliberately giving up the chance at winnings might have odd and productive effects -- but I'd recommend careful divination and reflection on the subject.

Re: Lottery Magic For Not Winning The Lottery

[(Anonymous)]

OP here
1) I guess that makes sense as most of the attention around lotteries is getting money, people typically ask for money when they don't specifically know what they want, and now that I think about the grubbiness of lotteries, if you actually know what you want, there are probably far better ways of getting it.

4) What kind of odd and productive effects would you predict?

The most productive thing I could think of would be being part of a spell for a gambling addict to shatter the glamour around gambling for them in some way.

And theoretically, if as you say the lottery tends to drain people's luck away, then given there's no such thing as 'away' it stands to reason that the luck has to go somewhere. Paying in with no expectation of getting money out might allow tapping into that luck as a payout instead, but I'm guessing you'd tap into the karma and grubbiness as well and it probably wouldn't be worth it.

In any case, I'm probably going to replace casual lottery play with my aforementioned meditation on getting from where I am to what I want, and if I need more luck, there's candles, planetary charity, and yet more meditation for that ;)

Re: Lottery Magic For Not Winning The Lottery

[ecosophia]

4) Because you're dealing with the powers of chance, there's literally no way to predict that.

The one person I know who plays the lottery without problems always prays that the winnings will go to someone else who deserves it, and when he gets any kind of cash payout, even a little one, he donates it to a charity. He enjoys the game, in effect, and his luck in the rest of life is always quite good.