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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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

Re: The Mood of the Runes

[ecosophia]

Of course you're right about the depth of cultural context in the runes and other oracles, but there may also be some other factor involved. I've known people who had no exposure to Norse or Germanic tradition (and also no heredity from those parts of the world) who picked up the runes and immediately started doing good clear accurate readings with them, just as I've known people with zero exposure to Celtic culture and no Celtic ancestry who had a similar experience with the Ogham. Maybe it's a matter of past incarnations, but I sometimes wonder if there are deeper factors -- if some people just naturally resonate with one or the other fundamental oracular structure.

As for the tarot, despite various handwaving in occult circles, the first version of the tarot was invented in Milan sometime around 1415 by Marziano da Tortona, and the version most people use these days came into being over the next fifty years or so in the same part of Italy. The transformations that turned a lively card game to the world's most popular divination system happened in France and England between 1783 and 1909. So it's a thoroughly modern Western oracle.

Re: The Mood of the Runes

[(Anonymous)]

That natural resonance you mention makes sense too; I experience that with your sacred geometry oracle even though I am not a great mathematician nor engaged with occult aspects of geometry, numbers, etc. But I doubt it would work well for me without your interpretations of the forms, not until I spent a long time immersing myself in all the work and details involved—in the culture and mystique of geometry, so to speak, as you encourage us to do with the exercises you provide.

For that matter, it may be the same resonance you mention that causes people to be attracted to one occult or spiritual path over another, whether or not it seems an obvious or logical one for them. Wyrd! :-D

Winifred

Re: The Mood of the Runes

[(Anonymous)]

So far as it goes for Tarot, you might be interested to look into Christophe Poncet and his work on the Tarot of Marseilles and the work that Peter Mark Adams did with the Sola Busca tarot and how both decks seem to encode a system of theurgy within them. The Marseilles deck seems to be a pictorial representation of the work of Marsilio Ficino.

Re: The Mood of the Runes

[ecosophia]

I haven't read Poncet but I read Adams when the Sola Busca was being made much of in the occult scene. I think he made a very good case that you can read a system of theurgy into the Sola Busca tarot -- but not that it's there already.