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

Re: Q

[(Anonymous)]

You'd once said something about meditation on the tree of life to remediate imbalances in the birth chart.

1) So it would mean that the psycho-emotional awareness would cause these archetypes to activate in different ways?

2)Would it be okay to say that the tree of life archetypes are more bedrock psychic phenomena compared to the signs and planets? Or would it be more like, these are different maps entirely for the whole territory and comparisons are purely symbolic? (not sure if I am getting this question right)

Re: Q

[ecosophia]

1) It's a little more complex than that. Very often imbalances in the birth chart are a matter of two or more archetypes being expressed in an unbalanced way, or suppressed, or garbled together -- Freud's favorite neurosis, for example, can be seen as a confusion of Binah and Netzach, so that you mix up the mother-image and the lover-image. By working with the Tree of Life you help that particular set of ten archetypes to manifest in a more balanced and less garbled way.

2) I wouldn't say that. It's simply a matter of different maps, or different languages -- just as "chien," "Hund," and "dog" are all equally valid labels for that animal that's barking at you.

Re: Q

[(Anonymous)]

Okay interesting. In my chart, my jupiter is weak and I've a lot of negative experiences in the houses it represents (11th and 8th), and have generally been treated poorly by many people.

So from a kaballah aspect, it would mean I have a weakness in Chesed? How would I go about balancing this?

Re: Q

[ecosophia]

Answering that requires a book. It's in process and will be in print late next year or in early 2026.