Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's 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. Along with Louis-Claude de St. Martin, last week's honoree, the inner circle of pupils of Martinez de Pasqually included this week's figure, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. A very active Freemason, Willermoz played a central role in cleaning up the mess left by the implosion of the Strict Observance (the most important Templar order in 18th century Europe) and created a new order with its own rituals, the Rectified Rite, which survives to this day. Much of what became the ritual of Martinism came from Willermoz's hands.

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

Comments

The path of the lonely ones

[(Anonymous)]

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)

Re: The path of the lonely ones

[(Anonymous)]

My partner and I differ on this as well but it isn't a problem for us. My occult practices are my own personal spiritual practices and they don't need to be shared by him - just like I have my own job that doesn't need to be shared by him. He prefers mainstream religion for his personal spiritual practice. We recognise the right of each individual to choose these things for themself. It does not mean we can't build a great life together on the material plane. Our greatest gift to each other is simply talking.

Re: The path of the lonely ones

[ecosophia]

This is an issue some people have. Fortunately it doesn't have to be a problem. If your partner isn't comfortable with the subject, don't discuss it with them. Let it be your private hobby, and keep it out of their way. You can also pray to the planetary intelligence of Venus for domestic harmony, and to Jupiter for mutual generosity and peace.