Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It'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 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? 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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***This Magic Monday is now closed -- in other words, no more comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A few years ago, one of my friends' dad had a mental breakdown. Back in the middle years of the 1980s, he had a choice to make between pursuing the love of his life, or hiding that he had fallen in love with a man in order to continue a career with the military. He chose the later; and gradually came to regret it. Eventually, the remorse became such that he ended up having a full blown break from reality: denying he had ever made the decision, insisting he was still a young man, and that it was still the 1980s.

What worries me is that I think I recognize some of the dynamics that were at work with this mental breakdown playing out on a larger scale. I think the case can be made American society made a major mistake with the embrace of consumerism in the 1950s, and I think the collective consciousness is starting to grapple with this; and some of the weirder dynamics in American politics and culture look a lot like the months leading up to the mental breakdown I mentioned above.

Can egregors go insane in this fashion?

[ecosophia]

Unfortunately, yes. Much of what made Germany lose its collective mind in the first half of the 20th century had to do with an egregor that became lethally detached from reality and went crazy.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't help but wonder what sort of mess will ensue if a large fraction of the American political and chattering classes start insisting it's not actually 2023, but 1953, and the people saying otherwise are delusional conspiracy theorists. Dear gods, what a wild ride that could be...