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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-09-24 11:21 pm

Magic Monday

wooden diskIt's getting on for 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 hereAlso: 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? A wooden disk. In the traditions of the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose and the orders and systems related to it, the disk or pentacle is the emblem and working tool of elemental earth.  The disk is traditionally painted or decorated with a symbol the individual initiate considers sacred, whatever that happens to be -- I saw pentacles made by Christian initiates that had an image of Christ on the cross on them, for example, surrounded by Christian holy names and words of power. The disk can be used as a means of magical protection, imposing the unyielding solidity of the element of earth between the initiate and any hostile magical force

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Dreams and other weirdness

(Anonymous) 2023-09-25 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Dear JMG,

For the last few weeks, starting a bit before the earthquake in Morroco, I've been having strange, very active, and mostly disturbing dreams. My girl friend is suffering from the same, and today at lunch I found out that my whole family is dealing with the same issue. We're all having a very active dream space. I've been doing the SOP (for quite a few months now), and when I feel it's going to be a bad night, I pray 10 Hail-Mary's and an Our Father before going to sleep. The bad dreams went mostly away, but the amount of them is still immense. If it was just me, I'd just blame my unconscious, but since it's affecting other people, I wonder if you know some other cause.

So, the question is, do you know what might be happening? Weird stuff in the skies? Astral crud? Mass amounts of people dying (Morocco and Libya?)? Any indications on how to have a less dream-heavy sleep?

Second question is, I have a daily prayer ritual, in which I talk to Gods that are in the various directions. Today, I went to the direction where Michael, the Archangel usually is (he recently moved from North to South), and I'm pretty sure it wasn't him I interacted with. The whole time we were together felt strange. Long story short, I went straight to the Godess with whom I have the closest relation with, and after talking a bit, she told me to go away, since it wasn't a good time to be there. By there, I got the meaning the light trance/astral place I use to go and communicate with them. And that I did, saying my thank-yous to the gods fast and coming back to waking consciousness.

It was a very odd experience. I've had this daily prayer ritual for more than 3 years, and they never told me anything of the sort. Do you have any idea of what could have happened?

Kind wishes, and thanks in advance.