Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's nearly 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've been tracing my lineages back as far as I can, and last week took my Martinist lineage back as far as they can be documented. The next step -- and it's the last step in the entire process -- involves a fair bit of speculation, but it's speculation backed up by some evidence. It's been suggested by some historians, Marsha Keith Schuchard foremost among them, that the mysterious Knight of the Red Feather who conferred the Templar lineage on Baron von Hund, last week's honoree, was none other than Charles Stuart, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of Scottish song and story. The claim is that in the years immediately before 1745, when the House of Stuart made its last (and disastrously unsuccessful) attempt to reclaim the British throne, Charles and his inner circle of supporters used various forms of clandestine Freemasonry to raise funds, engage in espionage, and gather arms and supporters for the planned rising. Baron von Hund's initiation was an incident in that process. Martinez de Pasqually, who was honored a couple of weeks back, also claimed to have a charter signed by Charles Stuart as the basis for his occult Masonic order. So it's possible that what lies behind one of the great traditions of Western occultism is a failed political intrigue that got picked up and repurposed by a couple of canny occultists. Stranger things have happened in the history of occultism.

...And with this, the rambling tale of the odd lineages that I've inherited comes to an end. Now I'll have to think of something else to use as illustrations to Magic Mondays!

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

***Please note -- when Magic Monday is closed, IT'S CLOSED.  I just had to delete a flurry of attempted comments posted up to eleven hours after I shut things down. I do need some time to write and do other online chores, you know, so please don't keep trying to post after 12:00 am Monday night/Tuesday morning -- there'll be a new Magic Monday in a week, you know. ***

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hello JMG!

Thanks as always for such a wonderful resource. A few questions to you or the commenteriat if I may:

1. I am approaching the one year anniversary of moving into a new home which was a big step on our journey towards our "dream life". I'd like to perform some kind of house blessing as a way to give thanks for our journey and arrival here and to celebrate all the good years to come in our new home. I'd welcome any suggestions for simple ceremony or offerings or other such things. I am completely new to ritual magic so I understand that there are limitations to what I can do safely. We normally just have a bonfire on special occasions but I want to make this one a bit more special.

2. I was visiting my childhood home at the weekend and experienced a very strange dream. I was in a room and appeared to be surrounded by members of my family though I couldn't tell directly. The room had no specific character other than it's colour being an earthy clay. I had seen glimpses of a spirit within this room, after which a female mage had asked me for it's height and proceeded to press a finger to her head corresponding to its height. This aligned with her third eye chakra. She removed her finger under which I saw for a split second a perfect black circle infilled with red ochre. The witch hastened to avert my gaze but the image flashed in my mind and I began to "faint" in my dream having accidentally glanced at this symbol. Just as I was falling over, a large figure loomed into my vision as if to catch me from my fall. They were dressed in Renaissance style clothing with bright red and yellow colours much like the characters found in the Tarot de Marseille. My physical body was hyperventilating and likely experiencing sleep paralysis. My wife awakened me after hearing the commotion and I've been left wondering since.

My question is related to the specific symbols I saw in my dream and if I should consider performing any kind of banishment on a regular basis. I tried to follow the thread through the Tarot de Marseille (trying to identify the character) which lead me to Runes but I was unable to find that specific symbol (black circle with red infill). I'd welcome any recommendations on where I could begin my investigations. Or should I chalk this down to being *just* a strange dream and move on.

Thank you!"

[ecosophia]

1) If you're completely new to magic, don't try to do anything specifically magical -- it's essential to know what you're doing before you try to do it. (Imagine never having ridden a bicycle before, and deciding that you're going to celebrate something or other by bicycling ten miles someplace!) Just come up with some symbolic action that's meaningful to you, and leave it at that.

2) Dream interpretation isn't one of my skills, but in your place I'd just consider that a strange dream and go on.