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 my fourteenth published book, and my first book on ritual magic that wasn't basically a rehash of what I'd learned as a Golden Dawn practitioner.  The Druidry Handbook, my ninth book (and one of my bestsellers), didn't talk about magic much -- its purpose was to help people make sense of Druid nature spirituality, which can be related to magic but doesn't have to be -- and I got a lot of questions from Druids, and people interested in Druidry, who wanted to know how to practice magic in a Druid context. This was my first answer. (We'll get to the others.) Looking back on this project, I'm pleased by it; it sets out a straightforward course of magical training and seems to work well for many students. It's still very much in print, and you can get a copy here if you live in the United States and at your favorite bookseller 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

Re: Overview of The Seed of Yggdrasill and Thanks

[isaac_hill]

You did it! Yeah it's a slog, but there are some nuggets. I pretty much agree with your feelings/analysis of her book, she really needed an editor... and an index... but translating those names is fantastic for meditation, and I think there is value in approaching the gods as aspects of the One, as long as they are also recognized as individuals as well (the way they do in esoteric Hindu and Neoplatonic traditions.)

BTW, did you know that she actually does have a translation of the Poetic Edda out?

Re: Overview of The Seed of Yggdrasill and Thanks

[jprussell]

Thank you! And I agree - the name translations are A+ meditation fodder, and many of her interpretations are as well. Also agreed that it can be useful to think about the unity behind the Gods (if for no other reason than to "train the mind" rather than to "inform it," as we so often hear around here), I just feel like Kvilhaug doesn't put as much weight on also recognizing them as individuals as I'd prefer to see. That may just be a personal difference in gnosis, though, of course, and my views may change, who knows!

And oh wow, really? The whole thing? Because I have her The Poetic Edda - Six Norse Cosmology Poems, which, as the name implies, has some of the most significant poems from the Poetic Edda, but not the full corpus. If she's put out a more complete book, that would be very interesting indeed, but I'm not finding anything else on her publisher page. I see that she does have a new book compiling references in the lore to magical and spiritual practices which might be quite interesting, but which I doubt I'll be tackling anytime soon: https://shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the-great-knowledge

Re: Overview of The Seed of Yggdrasill and Thanks

[isaac_hill]

Oh, no, just "The Poetic Edda - Six Norse Cosmology Poems" - not the full thing.
Yes, the individual natures of the gods are very important to recognize, something I'm especially realizing as I study Vedic astrology and get into remedies.