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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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

Alchemy of Trees

[(Anonymous)]

JMG, I mentioned last week that I am passionate about landscaping. That sent me on a thought tangent relating to this blog. Different trees have different magical properties. If I understand the concept of alchemy correctly that means that blending different trees on a planned landscape would have different magical effects on the space. Is that correct thinking? If so are you aware of any occultists who have tinkered with this? (I would guess maybe somebody in the late 19th century landscape architect realm?) Thank you. BTW, sometimes when I ask a question on MM I forget to address you by your name at the intro of the question. I hope you don’t take offense to this. I’m a little bit of the scatter brained professor archetype juggling 5 divergent ideas in my head at once (although internally there’s usually some synthesis between them) So, sometimes I forget little (but important) details like not writing a proper intro to my question. Thank you again - Croatoan

Re: Alchemy of Trees

[ecosophia]

1) If that was done at all, it's likely to have been in China, where landscaping has always been one of the fine arts and the fine points of using trees in feng shui will doubtless have been put to good use. I don't know of anything in the West that's made use of it, but it's certainly something that could be done, and I suspect the effects would be very powerful.

2) Good heavens, don't worry about it. I'm not at all sensitive about things like that.

Re: Alchemy of Trees

[(Anonymous)]

1) I’ll give it a try. I don’t know that I have enough life left to see how it works out (depending on how mature a tree needs to be to generate the full effects, but I’m 46 so maybe) I figure even if I don’t live long enough whoever occupies my yard in 50 years will enjoy the vibe (hopefully) 2) I’m glad to hear that and I kind of figured but I wanted to ensure you knew the intended level of respect is always there.