Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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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Comments

Geomancy

[samat]

John Michael Greer, my name is Samat. I am a ceremonial magician in the making currently learning geomancy through your book.

I casted a chart recently regarding whether I should do a pathworking (also from your book) to this angel and speak with her/him that day.

Now, you write that the 8th house has to do with magick the querent performs but the figure that popped in that house was Fortuna Major, a positive figure which is considered highly unfavourable for all questions regarding magick. Why is that? Also, the court itself came out highly unfavourable (Carcer judge).

If such unfavourable charts repeatedly occur regarding communicating with angels and spirits, how can we proceed with our magick?

[(Anonymous)]

I have a question on interpreting a pair of geomancy readings I did.

The first is on the question of whether I'll be able to leave to move to another country within the next few weeks. I used a shield chart, and got Amissio for the left witness, and Carcer for the right; giving me Fortuna Major as the judge. I at first read this as "Yes, but it's a very bad idea"; but I'm leaving Canada to escape from certain troubles I see coming, so perhaps this is a no. Either way, however, this reading is a very clear "Bad idea".

Do you agree with my assessment that this is saying "No, and a very bad idea anyway"?

[(Anonymous)]

Edito. I was initially planning on asking about two readings, but the second one is one which I decided against sharing at this time.

[brenainn]

I was in deep concentration about two weeks ago. It wasn't discursive meditation or any other kind of intentional meditation. But I was suddenly hit by a, well, I'm not sure what to call it. An insight? A vision? Or something else entirely? Not sure, but I suddenly got not only a sense of spiritual presences around me, I could also (and continue to) see these presences as dim outlines of forms (humanoid and otherwise). Some of these presences seem to be aware of me, and some seem unaware of me. I've also been struck by a strong, almost overwhelming sense of unity with all things, yet also the distinctness of my own being.

None of this has faded, and seems to be actually becoming more potent as the days pass. It is actually quite hard to put this experience into words. But I'm now experiencing a sense of peace and contentment that I didn't even know was possible for me. I feel very little anxiety now, and so far, I'm not even afraid of the things that I used to fear. Is there an occult explanation for this?

[open_space]

Still the only available reference to zornvoyance 😄 Though I am probably misspelling it.

BTW. I went to the Theosophical Library. The Bihar books don't seem to have much on the minor chakras. But, I did find out all their publications are available for free with an account: https://www.satyamyogaprasad.net/

It's a little glitchy and you might have to click the login button a couple times before it recognizes the new account, it gave me a password invalid error the first couple of tries.

Ecosophia Prayer List

[tunesmyth]

At this link are all of the requests for prayer that have recently appeared at ecosophia.net and ecosophia.dreamwidth.org, as well as in the comments of the prayer list posts. A printable version of the entire prayer list current as of 11/20 may be downloaded here. Please feel free to add any or all of the requests to your own prayers.

If I missed anybody, or if you would like to add a prayer request for yourself or anyone who has given you consent (or for whom a relevant person holds power of consent) to the list, please feel free to leave a comment below.
 

***HEAR YE HEAR YE***

At the end of this year I will pruning all prayer requests which were made before July 1st, 2023 from the list entirely, with the exception of any that my own intuition tells me ought to be kept on the list. I make no claims to the infallibility of my intuition, so if your entry is older than that, and you would definitely like it to remain on the prayer list, please send a note updating your request.

(Also, if you think you might be interested in having anyone pray in support of your own self-improvement, please have a look at the Ecosophia Prayer List Autumn Special.)

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This week I would like to bring special attention to the following prayer requests.

•May the mass which upon which Yuccaglauca's mother Monica is having a biopsy performed turn out to be entirely benign and safe; may she experience healing and improvement in her situation and overall health.

May the lawsuit for partition of the family land in which Jennifer, her husband Josiah, and her father Robert are involved be resolved justly and for the greatest good of all involved, including the land and its spirits.

May the brain surgery that Erika's partner James underwent for his cancer on October 16th have gone successfully; and may he be blessed, healed and protected, and successfully treated for all of his cancer.

May Kyle's friend Amanda, who though in her early thirties is undergoing various difficult treatments for brain cancer, make a full recovery; and may her body and spirit heal with grace.

May Jeff Huggin's friends Dale and Tracy be blessed and healed; may Dale's blood and spinal fluid infection clear up sufficiently to receive a heart valve replacement; may his medical procedures go smoothly and with success; and may Dale and Tracy successfully surmount these difficulties.

In the case of Princess Cutekitten and the large bank who is suing her, may justice be done, with harm to none.

Lp9's hometown, East Palestine, Ohio, for the safety and welfare of their people, animals and all living beings in and around East Palestine, and to improve the natural environment there to the benefit of all.
 

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Guidelines for how long prayer requests stay on the list, how to word requests, how to be added to the weekly email list, how to improve the chances of your prayer being answered, and several other common questions and issues, are now to be found at the Ecosophia Prayer List FAQ.

If there are any among you who might wish to join me in a bit of astrological timing, I pray each week for the health of all those with health problems on the list on the astrological hour of the Sun on Sundays, bearing in mind the Sun's rulerships of heart, brain, and vital energies. If this appeals to you, I invite you to join me.

MOE Apprentice Attunement - Dec 9th

[milkyway1]

A heads up for the MOE practitioners:

I'm going to offer an MOE __Apprentice__ attunement (i.e. the first one in the series) on

+++ Saturday, December 9th, at 6pm German time (i.e. EST + 6). +++

If you want to attend, make sure to study the attunement requirements well in advance – you will need to practice certain things daily for at least a week before the attunement! (If you have studied the material, you‘ll know where to find the requirements – and if you aren‘t sure anymore what they are, now might be a good time to go over the Apprentice material again in preparation… ;-) )

If you‘d like to attend, but can‘t make it this time: I plan on offering more attunements next year, and so does Kyle (and hopefully, there will be even more Master Teachers soon, too!).

If you were waiting for a Healer or Master Healer attunement rather than the Apprentice: I plan on offering these early next year, too. I will be posting the anouncements on future Magic Mondays, so you might want to keep an eye on the MM comments.

Also, remember that you can always be „re-attuned“, which is likely to have some additional effects – if you already received the Apprentice attunement, don‘t be shy about attending again on December 9th! :-)

And finally, if you have any questions: I have set up a post on my website for this attunement, and you're welcome to ask your questions over there, so that JMG has less comments to manage today, and we're not bound by the Magic Monday deadline:

https://thehiddenthings.com/moe-apprentice-attunement-2023-12-09

Looking forward to the attunement,

Milkyway

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG, Sara, readers.

JMG, you mentioned Hitler being an occultist. I haven’t read whichever bio that was in. My question is, was he any good at it?

I have read Hitler’s Master Of The Dark Arts, a Himmler bio by Bill Yenne, which I can recommend to anyone with an interest in WW II, occultism, or both. Very well written. I have a sort of proprietary interest in WW II as my parents and uncle lived through it and my dad participated in the end of it (the draft board’s idea, not his).

—Princess Cutekitten

Re: Geomancy

[ecosophia]

This is a challenge that every ceremonial mage has to deal with sooner or later. Not every working you want to do is appropriate when you want to do it; not every working you want to do is appropriate at all. That's why it's so important to listen to the advice given by divination. If you repeatedly get told "No, don't do this," it may be because the working (or the whole category of workings!) would not be good for you at this time; in that case, do something wholly different instead -- and always maintain your basic practices and studies, which are the foundation for your magical development.

[ecosophia]

It's a bad idea now. Fortuna Major very often means "Yes, but with delay at the beginning." In your position I'd do more divinations to see if relocating at a later time would be a better plan.

[ecosophia]

It's called a mystical experience. Concentration, meditation, and various other forms of practice make it more likely. Now that you've experienced it, you know a little more of the truth about yourself and the cosmos, and you can proceed on that basis.

[ecosophia]

Thanks -- I'll check it out. Zorvoyance, by the way -- I'm not sure at the moment which of P.B. Randolph's books discusses it.

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List

[ecosophia]

Thank you for this as always.

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG,
Dear commentators,

I hope you are well!
Thanks for Magic Monday!

1. There are specific Psalms for the Divine Names/Sephirot. Should I keep the same Psalms for the Archangels of the same Sephirot, or would they be other Psalms?

2. What would be the best day/time to work with Metraton and Sandalphon?

3. Is there the possibility of replacing the names of the Kabbalistic cross (atah, malkuth, etc.) with divine names!?

Thank you very much in advance!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello mister Greer,i have a question. When you give someone a knife, it is customary to give a coin in return lest it cuts the friendship. What about other sharp metal objects? I am fixing up a handaxe for a birthday present. Is it ok to spend the coin or should i keep it?

[ecosophia]

Your Kittenship, Hitler's occult involvements have been a subject of endless controversy down through the years. I haven't yet seen a really competent discussion of it in a bio of the man -- most biographers don't know enough about occultism to recognize it if it rode past them stark naked on a unicycle -- and most of the books on the occult dimensions of Nazism are sensationalistic in the extreme. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's The Occult Roots of Nazism, one of the few exceptions, talks about literally everything except Hitler's own occult activities! If you read accounts written by the people who knew him early on, though, it's very clear what he was studying.

As for whether he was any good, like most self-taught occultists he was a very mixed bag, extremely skilled at some things and very weak in other directions. When time permits I'll take a look at the Yenne book -- thanks for the heads up.

[(Anonymous)]

JMG and commentators,

I lost the opportunity for a competition - which I would probably pass. To which angel/planetary sphere should you pray/ask for a new opportunity?

[ecosophia]

1) The same ones should be used.

2) Any day or time. They're not limited by the cycles of time.

3) I don't recommend it. Why not just use it as is, and benefit from the egregor established by all those thousands of other occultists who've used it before you?

[ecosophia]

1) I've only ever heard of that tradition with knives.

2) Doesn't matter. Once you receive or give it, you're good.

[ecosophia]

That depends entirely on what kind of competition it was.

Re: Geomancy

[samat]

Will this happen even for pathworking? I thought that pathworking, similar to meditation and daily practice, did not require a reading because visiting and communicating with entities in their own realm is something that they don't have a problem with?

2ndly, if say I did a working to consecrate a talisman or a tool before I started geomancy and I wanted to confirm the consecration, would we actually let the reading tell us or should we trust our abilities and let the results brought about by the talisman be its proof?

[(Anonymous)]

a competition for a teacher at a university…

[open_space]

I have no idea what's in it, but today at the library the title caught my eye so I'll share it. The title was Hitler and His God: The Background to the Nazi Phenomenon by Georges Van Vrekhem. Since it was at Quest Bookshop, I assume it is at least partially into the occult side of things.

Btw, I wanted to share something with you about Healing Hands, Our Lady of CK.

You can drop a comment here: https://open-space.dreamwidth.org/17205.html

[open_space]

You are welcome. (If the screen goes black loading the pdfs, give it a moment and then zoom in or out using the magnifying glass buttons on the right so it rerenders the pages). Some titles that might be useful are Prana and Pranayama and Prana Vidya both discussing prana, nadis and chakras and Satyam Speaks: Pawanmuktasana (It's on the Satyananda Centenary Series tab). This last one talks about the joints, prana, and how to release blockages to achieve health with the exercises mentioned.

Thanks for the reference to Zorvoyance. Does it happen to be one of these: Clairvoyance, How to Produce It or Seership! The Magnetic Mirror?

Re: Geomancy

[ecosophia]

1) That's something each mage has to figure out individually. It's your decision when to cast a divination and when to rely on intuition or simply stubbornness -- and in either case you will learn something.

2) In that case I don't recommend casting a reading at all. The consecration is an act of will, and faith that it worked is part of that same act of will.