Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's a few minutes before midnight, so we can launch into 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 these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left is mine only to a limited degree. Most of it was the work of my wife Sara under the pen name she used then, Clare Vaughn. We sent it to the publisher with the authorship as "Clare Vaughn, with John Michael Greer." The publisher used to make a big deal about being feminist, liberated, etc. -- but somehow that didn't extend to giving a female author the credit she deserved, at least in this case. So my name got put first, where it didn't belong. (We also had to deal with a sustained attempt by an editor to sandbag the book; turned out the editor had a friend who was writing a similar book, and wanted ours to fail.) There are reasons I haven't placed anything with that publisher for years. Nonetheless, Pagan Prayer Beads came out very well. Yes, it's about exactly what the title suggests: how to design, make, and use prayer bead strands and rosaries for the deity or pantheon of your choice. The publisher's kept it in print, too, which is more than I can say for some publishers; if you're interested, you can get a copy here if you live in the United States and at your favorite book retailer if you're elsewhere.

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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

Comments

5 rites question

[(Anonymous)]

Even though I had read the book, evidently I think I misunderstood how many times to do the first rite, the spinning. Somehow I thought I was supposed to spin until I got dizzy and count that as one repetition, and of course I was supposed to do 3 repetitions of each rite to start with. The first night I was dizzy after one spin, so that was fine that I then waited and did that 2 more times, but as I can do it slightly more each night, last night it was too much to repeat that amount 3 times as I felt some dizzyness then keep on thru the rest of the rites. So today I went and re-read everything again, and think I now may have it straightened out.

So, I am supposed to spin no more than 3 times around total at this point, correct ? And in general, the first rite is done either until too dizzy or until the amount of spins corresponding to the repetition level one is at ( for example, 3 at the beginning) ? In re-reading I see in the appendix, eye of revelation further information that he says it is fine to up the other reps of rites 2-5 even if rite 1 is more limited. I do get dizzy in general very easily, so I dont think I could spin 3 full times right now, we will see as it is almost my time to go do it.

I havent done the solar plexus part yet, so was also re-reading to figure out where it is. I was thinking on the level of my belly button, but back towards the spine, the internet seems to say that it is on the level of where my rib cage stops meeting in the middle, but back towards the spine. As you can tell, I dont realy know were my actual stomach is inside, anyways, which outside markers that I can use to find where the solar plexus is ?

I have been doing a wash cloth tepid water wash after the five rites. I think I have come up with a way to do it and not get chilled. My bathroom runs too cold to take a tepid shower. I am using the trick I had to do when all I had was absolutely cold water for 2 winters and I just only expose half of me at time. Maybe this is obvious to others, or maybe this will be a helpful hint for others in the winter. So I first take off my wool hat and use a boar bristle brush on my hair, brush my teeth, and wash off my face and neck with the tepid sink water and towel off. Put my hat back on. take off all my day clothes top layers and wash off, towel off and put on a pajama top. Same for the bottom half. This has worked well, no chills, refreshing.

Re: 5 rites question

[ecosophia]

1) Yes, you got it wrong. One repetition is one rotation only, and it's best to do it slowly enough that you don't get dizzy at all.

2) Forget about dizziness -- that's not the point. Turn around three times only, slowly, so you don't get dizzy. Then do three of each of the other exercises. When you're ready to go to five, five reps of each -- meaning you turn around slowly five times.

3) Don't do that yet. The "sixth rite" is to practice once you've gotten up to 21 reps of each of the five rites.

4) Press your fingers gently under the bottom of your ribcage on both sides. Now slide them toward each other in front, still keeping your fingertips against the bottom edge of the ribcage, until your hands meet. Your stomach is directly behind your hands, and your solar plexus is between your stomach and your spine.

5) You can certainly do that if you like.