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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Comments

Re: Druid Magic Handbook vs Dolmen Arch

[jprussell]

I've combined my responses into one comment to save our host some comment approval work.

1) Odinic Rite Blots: Is the Odinic Rite Blot book available to folks that are not members? Or is that the same as the Odinic Mythology books you recommend below? For working out when to hold rituals, I've found To Hold the Holytides by Thorbeorht Ealdorblotere quite good, which shoots for a reconstruction of the apparently Lunar-Solar calendar of the heathen Anglo-Saxons. That being said, as I am not currently a member of any religious organization, I'm open to learning from just about any rituals out there.

2) Your Cauldron Working: That sounds fascinating. I'm currently working with the DA version of the Three Cauldron ritual, which is extremely similar to what's given in the DMH, at least the first step of both is nearly identical (not sure if there's more variation when elaborated into the two dragons, the tree, or the grail). I'm planning to stick with the DA/DMH "by the book" work until I finish both books, at least, but afterward I may want to explore some, and your ritual sounds potentially promising. I suspect that autocorrect hit a few spots in your description, so I wanted to clarify a few points if you're willing to share:
a. For the "solar white pillar," did you mean "Woden" (Anglo-Saxon name for the God known as Odhinn to the Norse), or did you truly mean that the pillar is in some way "wooden," maybe associated with the world tree?
b. Is the golden plasma sun that forms located at your solar plexus, or at the same place as the lower cauldron it fills?
c. If I understand right, you have a lower cauldron in the belly, just under the belly button, that is dark blue and associated with Thor, the thunder God. Then at the level of the heart, a red cauldron associated with Tiw, the one-handed Wolf-Fetterer. Lastly, in the head, presumably where the third eye is, a white cauldron associated with Woden. Is this right? When it says the Hart Cauldron, you didn't mean an association with a deer, did you (Can you tell I've been reading a lot about the World Tree lately?)?
d. Assuming the above clarifications are correct, I imagine you would visualize the Rune Ansuz for the Woden/Spirit White Cauldron in the head, Tiwaz for the Tiw/Principled Power Red Cauldron, and what, Thurisaz for the Thor/Life Force Dark Blue Cauldron?
e. What do you mean that the cauldrons "spin on their axes?" Do they rotate like tops, keeping the open top facing up, do they roll forward/to the side, having the open top make a complete revolution, or some combination?

3) Odinic Mythology and Viktor Rydberg: Thanks for this recommendation! I've got electronic copies of Rydberg and have read some discussion of his takes on things over at germanicmythology.com, but I haven't dug in deeply yet. Sounds like a fascinating and often overlooked scholar in field, these days at least.

Sorry for peppering you with questions, and if there's anything there that you feel it's better to keep silent on ("to know, to will, to dare, ..."), then I very much understand. Thanks for sharing what you have so far!

Cheers,
Jeff