The Return of Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Yes, Magic Monday is on again. I appreciate deeply all the kind words, thoughts, and prayers sent my way in response to the recent passing of my wife Sara. I know that a lot of people respond to grief by taking time off, but that's not at all what I need or want just now. I've been through a long, lonely, stressful time during which I had nothing to do but provide a dying woman with the care she needed and would accept, which wasn't much, while we both waited for the inevitable to happen. What I need now to start the journey back to balance is conversation, interaction, and useful work to do.

So...

It's a few minutes before midnight and thus time to 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.  

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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to know if you think I'm on the right track with a line of thinking that suggests that one of the weirder and more dramatic shifts in politics right now, the rapid change where support for the gay community has started becoming a right-wing issue instead of a left wing one, is a result of a large scale accidental magical working using "rainbow crosswalks" as an unintentional symbol.

A huge number of people in the gay community despise, with a passion, the "rainbow crosswalks". Several gay men have told me that since it's a symbol of the gay community, a lot of gay people find it distasteful because it's meant to be walked over; and the phrase, "walking over something" means something quite negative. Apparently, a very large number of gay people will flat out refuse to walk on these, stepping aside to walk around the crosswalks.

So too will a lot of conservatives I know, including myself. Many of us aren't doing it out of any animosity towards gay people, but rather out of animosity towards a political ideology that has taken shape and claims to act in their name. Many more, including myself, are doing it out of distaste for the transgender push; which is apparently a major issues in the gay community these days. A lot of them seem to be worried they'd have become trans; and that they'd have screwed up their lives.

So now, many conservatives and gay people are taking steps to avoid walking over a symbol of the gay community, with a great many conservatives doing it to avoid supporting a cause a large portion of the gay community finds horrific; while a great many liberals are enthusiastically walking over the symbol of the gay community, with some going out of their way to do it.

The end result is that there's a significant shift in consciousness as a result of this unintentional magical working, with the left increasingly coming to "walk over" the gay community; while the right is increasingly walking in solidarity with them; an outcome that no doubt would horrify many of the people engaged in this accidental working on both the left and the right.

Does this seem plausible to you?

[ecosophia]

It seems entirely plausible to me. It's not impossible, given the growing hostility on the part of the left toward the gay and lesbian community, that the rainbow crosswalk business was a deliberate piece of magic intended to make gays and lesbians more willing to be walked on.

For what it's worth, I won't walk on a rainbow crosswalk either, out of simple respect for the gay and lesbian community; I don't think they, or a symbol that's deeply meaningful to many of them, deserve to be trampled.

"What we're doing for you"

[(Anonymous)]

Looking from the outside, it seems part of the issue is that a small group have set up the crosswalks because they came up with this goal for themselves. Then they say, "Look, all you people whose sexuality makes you an activist community together, at what's been done for you! It's time for you to be grateful to us now."

The attempt is to replace a simple street safety marker, with Political Action Changes That You Should Thank Us For Using To Celebrate You All!

As one still learning to shut up when appropriate, rather than providing excessive unsolicited advice about seemingly harmless information, I can only imagine the burden of resentment on one side and perhaps self-inflicted karma on the other.

Christopher from California

Re: "What we're doing for you"

[(Anonymous)]

I have yet to see one of these rainbow crosswalks. If I did come upon one, I'd avoid it.