Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is just a few minutes away, and so it's time to 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:  I'm going to draw a line, a hard one, under questions involving the evocation of spirits. Down the road a bit I'll be doing a post on the blog about why that's far less important than it's been made to look, and how the way of occult initiation takes a radically different path; in the meantime, I'm tired of fielding repetitive questions from people (or, quite possibly, one person using many sock puppets) that rotate gyroscopically around that one habit.

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-ninth published book, and remains far and away the most successful of my books from the peak oil era. Its genesis, like most of my other peak oil books, began on the blog I ran in those days, The Archdruid Report, with a series of posts on the appropriate technology movement -- one of the most promising of the movements of the 1970s ecological scene, which attempted to craft advanced technologies that could work within the limits of sustainability. Though it was erased from collective memory by mass media and corporate interests, it produced quite a few useful technologies, and this book was my attempt to bring those back to the attention of those who might use them. Given the steady sales of this book, I still have hope. If you're interested, you can get a copy here.

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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

[causticus]

Hi JMG,

(1) I recently started using SGO and I have to say, it seems to really have a personality! Today I did one of those "what's up this week?" readings and I got, (1) Octogram, (2) Icosahedron, and (3) Unmarked, all upright. My read is that the oracle is laying out a metaphysical theme for me. Particularly here it's telling me to treat this week in a very "Yin" manner, or at least treat the contents of my mind in that manner this week; or if concerning action, that I should to limit my own exertion of agency and let other people or circumstances set things into place. Do you think this is what the cards are trying to tell me?

BTW, this wouldn't be the first time I think the oracle has tried to lay out a theme for me to think over. I'm really liking it so far!

(2) Is this oracle good for one-card draws? Something along the lines of, "what is the theme of my day today?"

Salvador Dali

[(Anonymous)]

Hey JMG

A while ago I mentioned the artist-manual that Salvador Dali wrote, "50 secrets of magic craftsmanship", noting that it seemed to mention things that sounded occult.
I have almost finished reading the book, and I can confirm that my hunch was very correct. While most of it is fairly practical if eccentric in its advice, some of his "Secrets" are basically either simple occult exercises or odd forms of natural magic, which he explicitly admits a few times, even adding an extract of a old book on natural magic by J. B. De Porta. One odd thing he mentions is the construction of a kind of optical talisman out of a large urchin shell, which by looking through is supposed to help you judge if your painting is perfect via how well it fits in with the fantastic pentagonal geometry of the urchins interior.
I have decided to do a book-review on this strange work on my Substack at some point.

J.L.Mc12

[(Anonymous)]

(If this question is too upsetting please ignore it)

Have you heard from Sara since she died and, if so, has she aired any info about what it’s like on the other side of death? And Princess Cutekitten says Hello.

—Princess Cutekitten

[(Anonymous)]

Hello and thank you as always.

Does the Cabalistic Cross accomplish largely the same things as the elemental balancing ritual in the GD tradition? I noticed the latter was omitted from your GD series.