ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's a little 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.

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Had a weird day recently. Various factors-- a recent eardrum rupture which makes me half deaf, plus raging tinnitus makes me feel like I'm walking around with my head in a bucket. Hard to connect with the world in the usual ways. Was also feeling weak/anemic due to "female complaints", and had a mild headache. In the morning, I took a couple of hours to pray, at church, since I couldn't really hear the services. One of the few things I can do effectively in such a lousy state ;) Prayed for a lot of people, one of them I have a close but neglected connection to-- I helped raise him as a child, but now we talk maybe once in a year or two. Within an hour of praying for him, he called me on the phone and made arrangements to visit us for Christmas (haven't seen him in several years). Later, crawling under my vehicle, I dropped a lot of dirt in my face to no good purpose-- didn't have the tools or the leverage to remove the filter I needed to change. Went inside to consult the internet and my sibling on the subject. After four videos on how to replace the part *on the wrong model of engine* I yelled "gah!" and banged a fist on the desk. Not *that* hard! The computer stopped. Froze up terminally. I picked up the phone next to me, to call sibling... and it had forgotten all my contacts. Blank page. Both devices were fine after a hard reset (yay turn-it-off, turn-it-back-on). Neither thing is totally unprecedented-- I have a sordid history with wristwatches, and the *last* time this person called me over a year ago, was after I had prayed for him very intently (I was worried about him). Just doesn't usually crop up around the same day, or happen with bouts of temper, and I can't help but feel it was connected to... feeling disconnected.

Does "feeling absent" from the material plane make you more solid on any other plane/s?

Possibly, yes, but it can also work the other way around -- it's quite possible that some degree of awakening on the inner planes, while you're processing it, can make you feel a little absent on the material plane. Also, "female complaints" -- which I assume means your period -- can activate a lot of energy and splash it around in a not very well controlled way; have you noticed whether weird things happen to you more often at that time of the month?

Mostly get grumpy and tired around period. Never noticed it was any way connected to weird events, though it does make me feel quite out of sorts, and approaching menopause isn't helping. Perhaps I should be more careful who/what I interact with at that time, if it is an uncontrolled-energy sort of thing.

Since it was fairly clear that physical circumstances were making me feel *very* out of tune with the physical plane... I wondered if it wasn't something like... the way putting a blindfold on for a while makes you more aware of sounds and air currents, something of that sort. Though perhaps viewing physical events as *causal* might also be getting it backward. I had already decided, more or less, that dealing with the ear thing for weeks is, like many things, just another way the universe is trying to get through to me, and the sooner I settle in and try to learn whatever the thing is I'm supposed to learn, the sooner it'll get better ;) Two way street? Or does causality only go from the other planes down to the material?

That's an intriguing hypothesis. Yes, magical causality is a two-way street -- that's why rituals performed on the material plane can have effects further up.

Well then. A fine theme for meditation :)

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