ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's just a few minutes to midnight, so we can launch 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 was my eighteenth published book, and it happened via a chain of accidents that still has me fielding baffled questions. Here's what happened.

My first book on geomancy, the fourth book I published, was released by a certain rather clueless publisher. I warned the marketing people there that they needed to make sure that their sales staff didn't get confused and think that it was a book on Wiccan feng-shui. Sure enough, their sales staff got confused and marketed it to all the little witch bookstores that thrived in those days as a book on Wiccan feng-shui. Once they got their copies and found out that it was a book on a somewhat fussy Renaissance method of divination, of course, they shipped their copies back to the publisher with irate letters; as a result, Earth Divination, Earth Magic became the first book of mine to go out of print.

Fast forward to 2008. Hot on the heels of the success of The Druidry Handbook and The Druid Magic Handbook, I tried to place Earth Divination, Earth Magic with Weiser. They weren't interested in a reprint but said they'd be happy with a new book on the same subject. So I wrote them a new book that covered exactly the same ground as Earth Divination, Earth Magic, and they snapped it up. Much later, Aeon Books picked up Earth Divination, Earth Magic and brought out a new edition. And that, my children, is why I have two books on geomancy from two different publishers covering exactly the same material, in head to head competition with each other. Most prolific authors end up with some such bizarrerie in their backlist sooner or later...

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~~With that said, have at it!~~

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

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A little story from the this stuff really works category. I wanted to move to a small isolated place in the country, ostensibly to get good at magic, whilst also farming. My partner moved with me as well. We survived out there through covid lockdowns, a collapse of revenue, a collapse in at least three of the organisations I worked for, and family drama around us that you wouldn't believe, plus the death of my mother during that time (followed by the subsequent deaths of three other family members, and severe illness in others). My business collapsed, leaving debt we could not shift. Those times led me to a nervous breakdown, an attack of severe proportions, thoughts I don't care to mention, but somehow I held strong.

I was practising, perhaps wrongly, the pentagram ritual outside, which could have disturbed the land energies, although I suspect there may have been a curse involved, such that anything the income from the place touched led to bad outcomes, even after leaving. I started to get a string of bad luck unlike never before, job issues, constant moving to a new job, a miscarriage, extreme morning sickness with my partner, touch and go birth of my daughter. Mental situation was such that I ceased practising, but I started to realise that if there was a curse or karma involved, the only way was to clear anything it touched.

I started to give away one by one any items that had been touched,if I sold anything I gave the money to charity, leaving only my car left. Eventually I had enough money to buy it back from the old business, and my patience and politeness with the tax department debt paid off - they agreed to wipe it (which is almost unheard of). One week later, I closed down all the old company accounts, and on that exact day, my car, which was caught up in the mess, was stolen, and burned out at the river. Pretty sad, but the timing is not coincidental - it's karmic conclusion.

Safe to say, after all that, job offers, income picked up, insurance paid out, and the mental disturbances all cleared up.

Hard to know what it was - probably a number of things under that cosmic eclipse that occurred - some self-inflicted (bad choices and honest mistakes), plus stuff done to me, but hell, if I hadn't had the background I've learned on here, there is literally no way I would have got through alive, let alone wiser. Yes, this stuff works, and even when it doesn't seem like its helping, it lets you get back up again.

Thank you for what you have taught me.

You're welcome. I'm glad you got out the other side intact.

That's quite a story. If you'll have them, I wish you better days ahead!

JPM

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