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've decided that questions involving the evocation of spirits are permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I'll have a post on this on the blog in due time.

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 thirtieth published book and, in sales terms, one of my least successful works yet. I was invited by a small psychology press, Karnac Books, to write a book about the psychological implications of peak oil. It was an interesting project and one that I accepted with enthusiasm; it got a nice clean editing job and a good cover, and saw print. The result was one of my better books, a tolerably crisp analysis of the cascading mental health consequences of the mismatch between the modern mythology of progress and the reality of decline. Those few psychologists who noticed its existence at all, however, responded with horror or flat dismissal. Its sales have been so modest that, while it remains in print (with a firm that bought out most of Karnac's titles), the distributor that supplies stock to my Bookshop store doesn't carry it. You can get it from your favorite online bookstore.

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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. See you next week!***

Comments

Generally gnarly situation

[(Anonymous)]

I’m following advice you’ve given before - daily banishings (LBRP) as well as invoking helpful planets, Golden Dawn fashion, and occasional offerings to Athena. However this situation is a really difficult one and if you’ve anything further to suggest I’ll try it.

Currently I’m the de facto caretaker for two family members; it’s extremely draining; finances are not catastrophic as yet but threaten that way, housing situation is highly unstable, rents are out of control expensive and the future totally up for grabs.

Thanks to these benefits of Bidenomics I’m continually run down and exhausted. It’s scary on a practical level, but the chief difficulties are maintaining a positive state of mind so that I can cope, and making some kind of rational decision about what to do.

I’m versed in basic Golden Dawn, Hellenic style, and in basic tarot.

Re: Generally gnarly situation

[ecosophia]

First, take care of your physical needs. Get adequate food, sleep, and non-sleep rest. Regular massage is also helpful if you can manage it. You won't be able to do any good for anybody if your material body is struggling to function.

Second -- well, it's always very difficult to do effective magic when the situation has already spun out of control. Magic should always be done as early as possible, because it doesn't work well when brought in at the last minute! You're probably best off maintaining your daily practices, invoking Athena for help much more than occasionally, and doing your best; once the rubble stops bouncing and you recover from the stress you can figure out what the next steps are, and start doing magic systematically to make them happen.