I hope everyone has had a good couple of weeks since last I posted, and either had or will have a Happy Yule, Merry Christmas, Joyous Festivus, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate.
JMG, I'm wondering if I painted myself into a corner as I plod slowly towards initiation in the GSF. I thought I'd be ready for the initiation ritual early next year, after I finish working through the SGO exercises, but in re-reading the preparatory material, I realized that I switched my divination method to geomancy in March of 2024, having done daily divinations using SGO from February 2023-February 2024. Since I've done more than a year of divinations using SGO, I'm sure I would pick it back up quickly, but I'm conscious of your admonition to practice a divination method for a year before going on to another. Is that exclusively? I could easily see myself doing the initiation with the SGO, and a general "how will my day go" daily with geomancy on the same day, but I don't know if this is a bad idea?
It's also worth noting that I crave initiation, and I know it, so it's been my habit to come up with excuses not to initiate, or to push it off, so I suspect that's what I'm doing here.
So, I guess the actual question is, which of these two courses of action would be better:
Refresh my memory on the SGO symbol set, then initiate as soon as that is done and I'm otherwise ready.
Finish out a full year of daily divinations using geomancy, switch back to SGO in March, and do daily divination using it for some period of time (a week, month, quarter, or year?) and then initiate.
As I said, I'm inclined to delay, but not for any good reason, so I'd tend towards #2, with a 1 month delay before initiation, but I suspect I'm being overly cautious.
PS: I once again composed this in OneNote, since I intended to ask it on the Dec. 16th MM, but I believe I've taken the odd formatting issues into account and it will translate to dreamwidth correctly.
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JMG and Commentariat,
I hope everyone has had a good couple of weeks since last I posted, and either had or will have a Happy Yule, Merry Christmas, Joyous Festivus, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate.
JMG, I'm wondering if I painted myself into a corner as I plod slowly towards initiation in the GSF. I thought I'd be ready for the initiation ritual early next year, after I finish working through the SGO exercises, but in re-reading the preparatory material, I realized that I switched my divination method to geomancy in March of 2024, having done daily divinations using SGO from February 2023-February 2024. Since I've done more than a year of divinations using SGO, I'm sure I would pick it back up quickly, but I'm conscious of your admonition to practice a divination method for a year before going on to another. Is that exclusively? I could easily see myself doing the initiation with the SGO, and a general "how will my day go" daily with geomancy on the same day, but I don't know if this is a bad idea?
It's also worth noting that I crave initiation, and I know it, so it's been my habit to come up with excuses not to initiate, or to push it off, so I suspect that's what I'm doing here.
So, I guess the actual question is, which of these two courses of action would be better:
Refresh my memory on the SGO symbol set, then initiate as soon as that is done and I'm otherwise ready.
Finish out a full year of daily divinations using geomancy, switch back to SGO in March, and do daily divination using it for some period of time (a week, month, quarter, or year?) and then initiate.
As I said, I'm inclined to delay, but not for any good reason, so I'd tend towards #2, with a 1 month delay before initiation, but I suspect I'm being overly cautious.
PS: I once again composed this in OneNote, since I intended to ask it on the Dec. 16th MM, but I believe I've taken the odd formatting issues into account and it will translate to dreamwidth correctly.