ecosophia | Magic Monday

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, and at this point we've reached a genuine man of mystery, Jacques de Livron Joachim de la Tour de la Casa Martinez de Pasqually. Nobody knows when Martinez de Pasqually was born or where he came from; what's known about him is that he showed up in southern France in 1754, taught an extraordinarily rich system of Gnostic esoteric philosophy and practice to a circle of pupils that included Louis-Claude de St.-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, and then sailed away to the Caribbean in 1772 and reportedly died there two years later. The image I've posted is one of the very few portraits of the man.

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No question this week, but a data point that I hope isn't an omen for the country.

I'm going to start with, I am not generally lucky. My natal Jupiter sits in my second house conjunct Saturn, which to me has always manifested as success through hard work. I have stopped believing in coincidence. Those things in my life that look like luck (both good and bad), have always been providence.

An example, I had the opportunity to work for the federal government back during the Trump/Clinton election in what I thought was my dream job at the time, and ended up flubbing the last interview. Had I gotten that job, I would have been fired a few years ago for not getting vaccinated, and even if I wasn't, I'm pretty sure I'd be miserable working for this administration. Instead, staying with my current job saw me get a generous raise. Only in hindsight, did I realize I was right where I needed to be.

So it came as a huge surprise to me when I won a charity gun raffle a few months ago. I had been wanting to expand my gun collection, but always had an excuse to put it off. Apparently the Gods saw fit to gift me with one, and I worry it's because they think I might need it.

I asked the Sacred Geometry Oracle is this was an Omen and drew card 31 upright, Infinity. I took this as a yes, and that its part of something a lot bigger than just myself. As things continue to derail in the US, I am reminded of Yeats, the centre cannot hold...

I thank you, JMG, and the commentariat here for this small chunk of sanity.

-Trubrujah

Oof. Well, I hope what it means is that you'll have some good opportunities to add some venison to your dlet!

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