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've discussed this in a post on my blog.

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 was my thirty-fifth published book and my third published novel. It had an even odder beginning than most. I'd just wrapped up a series of posts on my blog about how the United States was heading for disaster, and some of my readers were still giving me blank looks.  I decided that a fictional narrative based on historical equivalents might help make the point. Five posts later, I'd sketched out a narrative. It was simple enough. In the story, a corrupt and incompetent president gets the US into a proxy war with one of its main geopolitical rivals in the hope of seizing an important source of natural resources. Unfortunately the rival power pushes back hard, and US military technology turns out to be hopelessly inadequate in the face of a determined enemy with modern weapons. The resulting crisis sends internal conflicts in the US spinning out of control, as a failed administration desperately tries to keep its grip on power by any means, however illegal, and -- well, I'll leave out the final spoilers, but there's a political assassination in there, among many other things.

Keep in mind this was written ten years ago, and I really did intend it to be fiction.

I got an offer from a publisher to turn the original five-part series into a novel. Sales have been modest but steady, and it's still very much in print; you can get a copy here in the US and here elsewhere.

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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.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

With that said, have at it!

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

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[ecosophia]

The Picatrix (Book III, chapter 1) gives it as one of the correspondences of Saturn, the planet of fate.