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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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

Re: About a Tree

[gnosticlombe]

I may be wrong, but I believe aspens grow back from the stumps and existing root systems pretty regularly.

If it’s any consolation, with some care the tree may survive even this.

Re: About a Tree

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this but my landlord has taken this into consideration and intends to come by today and drill holes into the stump and pour chemicals into them to ensure that the tree dies. I hope the tree prevails regardless.

I honestly can't comprehend putting this much effort into killing a tree that was quite healthy and provided both shade and privacy for the house. It's really just bizarre.

FSH

Re: About a Tree

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand it either, but it seems a very common attitude among real-estate-investing types.

The two houses across from ours were purchased by a guy who "does rentals" and watching the renovation process... his whole philosophy of yards seems to be: tear everything out and sod it. The previous owner of the house directly across had rosebushes, large fruit trees, and some hardy landscape plants such as yucca and crape myrtle. Today, thanks to a crazy amount of work with chainsaws and skid steers, there's not so much as a blade of grass to be found there. Every passing car stirs up clouds of dust. It hurts to look at it. I think the idea is to keep everything "low maintenance". But I can't imagine being the sort of person who could rip out producing fruit trees to make it easier to mow. That is completely alien. The whole view out my window now is like a giant open wound, and I close the curtains to avoid glimpsing it.