Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is almost here, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after that point will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 341,928th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.2 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 about getting goodies from spirits are also 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.  This was my fifty-righth published book, and the last contribution (so far) to the Cthulhu mythos to come from my keyboard. I hadn't planned on writing The Seal of Yueh Lao at all, but there were too many loose ends left hanging when I'd wrapped up The Weird of Hali, and this story took shape as I considered them. It's the shortest of my tentacle novels, a quiet little coming-of-age story with Asenath Merrill, the oldest daughter of the central character of The Weird of Hali, as its protagonist, and a tangled web of events borrowed from H.P. Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers for its mainspring. All in all, it worked surprisingly well. If you're interested, you can get a copy here if you're in the US and here elsewhere.

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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

Re: Q

[ecosophia]

The first three of these aren't questions that I can answer. They're questions only you can answer, at the end of a long process of self-discovery. There are many ways you can pursue that process -- meditation and journaling are the ones I've used most and gotten the best results from, but your mileage may vary.

4) That depends on just how gummed up your conscious and personal unconscious minds are. The activation of an archetype can be a mental disaster if you're too frozen up to respond to its energies. On the other hand, if you've already taken some steps toward healing, the archetype can sweep away the remaining blockages, or simply give you the insight you need to let go of them.

5) Your unconscious mind constantly speaks to those of everyone else you encounter. That's one of the main routes by which magic works -- and that's basically what happens whenever your internal processes reflect outwards. This is why I say we all do magic all the time; most of us just do it unconsciously and clumsily, and it results in trouble rather than success and happiness.

Re: Q

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks!

1) On 1/2/3 I am working on it myself but was curious what your speculations were on the link between chesed /self love and received love /jupiter as well the nurturing instinct. I'll use it as more meditative fodder.

I am also trying to figure out the link between the body and mind more generally hence the question about the instinct -> image/archetype > sephirot

2) Incidentally I have your paths of wisdom with me on this holiday, and I have a week of free time ahead. Would you recommend directly meditating on chesed (or any other sphere) to see if I can unravel some of the tension, and activate the archetype more clearly?

Re: Q

[ecosophia]

2) Always work through the whole Tree of Life first before doing any individual sphere by itself. You need to lay down the fundamental patterns of balance so you don't swing from one extreme to another.