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

Magic training and what holds it back

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

I am working my way through the book Learning Ritual Magic and I am currently on lesson 3: where the Pentagram ritual is introduced.

I am finding that I am strongly drawn into old/unwanted compulsive habits particularly after I’ve performed it (and done the Qabalistic cross, and closing). These behaviours are ones that I wish to shed and yet the draw is particularly strong some days after concluding my daily practice. Is this a case of the Watcher at the Threshold?

I have been continuing to work on the will training exercises for a number of weeks (having completed your 7 week course) and that helps to an extent but still the draw is strong. Have you any other suggestions for how I can build some more opposing momentum to these behaviours?

On the other hand since I incorporated the Qabilistic Cross (in lesson 2) I’ve found that people who would usually encourage or indulge my less desired habits seem to all be busy and unavailable! Which is a blessing in itself, and leaves only ‘me’ as the remaining challenge.

My best wishes from the UK.

PS I am very grateful you wrote this book. Magic amongst my millennial peers here in England mostly consists of doing whatever they wish it to be (with sometimes worrying results). Your book and its clear guidance is a great antidote to that!

Re: Magic training and what holds it back

[ecosophia]

Congratulations -- you're face to face with the Watcher. Those compulsions are the guardians you must overcome to proceed on the Path. This is a real challenge, and the only way to deal with it is to grapple with the compulsions and master them. There are no tricks, just you and the legacy of your own past choices.

You are always your greatest challenge. That's true of all of us, of course.

Glad to hear you're finding the book useful!