Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just before 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 1.1 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 image? I field a lot of questions about my books on magic these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book on the left is the current edition of my fifth published book, The Encyclopedia of Natural Magic. I got tired of the torrent of wildly inaccurate books on herb and stone magic, and decided to write one based entirely on medieval and Renaissance sources -- granted, it helped that I'd gotten fairly good at reading Latin by the time I got to work on it.  I wrote this before I studied hoodoo with Cat Yronwode, or it would have had much more traditional American conjure in it.  It's still a solid book, and one I use myself whenever I need to look up the magical properties of an herb or what have you -- and it's the oldest of my books that's still with its original publisher, for whatever that's worth.  If you're interested, you can get a copy here if you live in the US, and at your favorite bookstore if you live elsewhere.

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***This Magic Monday is now closed -- as in, no further comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Comments

Geomancy questions

[ivn66]

Hi JMG -

I'd like to ask for a second pair of eyes on a house chart drawn up about relocating to a certain place. I find myself having to leave my current situation in an unexpected hurry and feel a tad unprepared, but other divinations have helped me narrow down where to go from here. This chart came about after those efforts, asking Taphthartharath if this pace I'd found would be the right pace for me to go from here: https://georatio.com/?c=371e&t=1&d=4&s=2&q=

As you can see, the answer appears to be "yes", courtesy Caput Draconis in the 5th conjunct Fortuna Minor in the 4th. The quesited's figure bodes well for my situation - a fast change à la Fortuna Minor seems precisely what's in order given my circumstances. I'm not terribly sure how to interpret Caput Draconis, other than its being a sign of starting out somewhat anew. The Index falling in the 2nd with Laetitia seems to me to suggest the move, if undertaken, would be in line with some prosperous spiritual influence on the situation. Part of Fortune in the 10th - I'm not tremendously sure what to make out of that, other than the idea that my career might come into a quietly peaceful period? That'd make sense as the location in question is considerably closer to one of the hub cities of the music I've made a career playing, where many of my colleagues live, and so it'd be a good base of operations, one which would lend itself to being able to work steadily. Also I notice that the quesited's figure passes to the 11th house of friends and coworkers.

I'm wondering if you can offer a slightly more thorough interpretation of the answer, though. My skills seem to be enough to pick up little pieces of the picture but I'm not yet so adept at placing all those puzzle pieces into a coherent whole. Anything you see here, I'd be interested to know. Thanks as always for your time.

Re: Geomancy questions

[ecosophia]

It seems to me that you've already sketched out the answer clearly enough. You wanted to know if the new place was suitable to you; the chart says that yes, it is. (That's the conjunction, with your significator moving to conjoin the new place.) You had to leave suddenly in a hurry -- that's Fortuna Minor -- and you're entering a new situation -- that's Caput Draconis. Part of Fortune in the 10th simply means that your career will benefit; Albus can mean "profit."

Beyond that? My experience is that it's very easy to overthink a geomantic reading, and this is rarely helpful. You asked a question and you got a very clear answer; that might be worth accepting.