Dear JMG, This is a troubling and messy situation, so I hope can state my question in a way that you will be able to offer some advice.
It all started years ago, while I was reading your stuff online, I was not actively doing any of it, still it proved useful advice in some situations. Then I met my current partner. And due to life circumstances and job availability it made sense to move across the country and I found myself in a new envronment, my partners home town. And I was new there. For personal strenght I started working with your Druid Handbook and Druid Magic Handbook. And over the years what was a fancy became a practice, became what in a recent post of yours Mother Maria Juliana called an imperative. For me. But not so much for my partner. Recently in a discussion it became painfully obvoius. There is no interest for this stuff, and if I started to explain it I would be declared crazy. Furthermore there have been terible disagreements in the recent years, corona measurements have been particularly rough. And I find myself thinking on some examples from your novels. The trouble that Martin Chaudronnier had with his wife, The diapointment of Trish. I have heard this is the path of the lonely ones. I know you have trouble giving social advice, so I would ask diferently: 1. There are negative examples of relationships between occultist and someone who is not into it in literature and history. But are there positive ones? What comes to mind is "The world we used to live in" where Vine Deloria Jr. mentiones that the medicine people had to find someone who supported their work. 2. What could I do to help in this situation? Magically and ethically speaking.
(DH, DMG practice, OSA lessons, daily prayers to planetary intelligences)
The path of the lonely ones
This is a troubling and messy situation, so I hope can state my question in a way that you will be able to offer some advice.
It all started years ago, while I was reading your stuff online, I was not actively doing any of it, still it proved useful advice in some situations. Then I met my current partner. And due to life circumstances and job availability it made sense to move across the country and I found myself in a new envronment, my partners home town. And I was new there. For personal strenght I started working with your Druid Handbook and Druid Magic Handbook. And over the years what was a fancy became a practice, became what in a recent post of yours Mother Maria Juliana called an imperative.
For me. But not so much for my partner. Recently in a discussion it became painfully obvoius. There is no interest for this stuff, and if I started to explain it I would be declared crazy. Furthermore there have been terible disagreements in the recent years, corona measurements have been particularly rough.
And I find myself thinking on some examples from your novels. The trouble that Martin Chaudronnier had with his wife, The diapointment of Trish.
I have heard this is the path of the lonely ones. I know you have trouble giving social advice, so I would ask diferently:
1. There are negative examples of relationships between occultist and someone who is not into it in literature and history. But are there positive ones? What comes to mind is "The world we used to live in" where Vine Deloria Jr. mentiones that the medicine people had to find someone who supported their work.
2. What could I do to help in this situation? Magically and ethically speaking.
(DH, DMG practice, OSA lessons, daily prayers to planetary intelligences)