Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just a few minutes to midnight, so we can launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and 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.  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.  And further:  if you ask a question about some occult topic and I tell you it's not something I can or will help you with, and you keep on asking more and more questions about that same topic, don't be surprised if your questions just get deleted. 'Nuf said.

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 twenty-fifth published book. During my time as head of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, it became clear that we needed a few books for members with rituals and the like. This was the first of them, a guide to the ritual work of a grove (that's what you call a group of Druids) in AODA. It was a pleasant, simple, straightforward job, and I didn't (and don't) make a cent from it -- all proceeds go to AODA. It seemed to me that this was appropriate for what was, after all, a labor of love.

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Good morning and thank you as always.

I was thinking about the part in the Book of Haatan where Dr Moravec tells Ariel that she should imagine herself as a mage to help her begin the journey to becoming one.

I can see how this kind of exercise could be useful for many things in life, but it seems like it could also risk becoming and ego trap because of how easy it is to fall into contemplating how others would perceive you if you became whatever it is you’re visualizing (such as business success or being a capable artist or the like.) I also worry about how to balance fantasizing about what one would like to be with maintaining sincere self awareness.

Is there a good way to approach these kinds of visualizing exercises that is meant to avoid these pitfalls?

[ecosophia]

Ah, but he didn't say "visualize yourself as a mage." The point is to imagine the possibility that you can practice magic, that you can become a mage -- not that you should sit around wallowing in fantasies about what other people will think of you. Instead of visualizing anything at all, just ask yourself: how would your life change, for better and worse, if you gave up the fantasy of being a passive victim of circumstances, and started consciously using the powers of will and imagination to shape your life?