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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.

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a) Do you see any problems with wearing the red bag amulet almost continuously for an extended period of time while making arrangements to move somewhere less toxic? I currently live with someone who is having a borderline psychotic breakdown over the election, and while I am making plans to get somewhere else, right now I think it will be at least a few months before I can accomplish this.

b) Part of the way I wound up in the nasty situation I’m in right now is an odd one. Any divination done about how to deal with issues which involve my parents will always suggest that I go along with whatever they happen to want, no matter how destructive to my interests and my values. If I listen, then I always lose, while when I ignore the divination, things usually turn out better.

It’s also interesting that this is true whether I do the divination or someone else does it. These effects have also occurred with multiple systems of divination, including ogham, geomancy, tarot, and horary astrology.

These odd results occur even where my parents have not fully explained what they want to me; and in the most recent case where this happened, it involved a reading where neither I nor the person doing the reading realized my parents had a vested interest in a given result. As far as I know, they do not use any kind of magic, but it is reliable enough it’s getting spooky.

Do you have any ideas what might be going on here, and how to protect my divination?

1) This should be fine.

2) That's really quite odd, though not completely unheard of. No, I don't know any way to get the effect to stop.

Hi,
Everyone uses magic all the time. The untrained people are unpleasant because they do not know they are using magic and they have not been taught any magical ethics.
Maxine

I once joked to a friend that she didn't want to be initiated into Wicca because then she would have to get control and follow the rules. Totally a coincidence that her ex-husband became ill and sh*t himself when he remarried. Riiiight.

Rita

Perhaps doing a ritual work where you create a barrier against unwanted intrusion, a clearing of the space around you, and an invocation of Light and harmonious energies (ie, a SOP, for example), would be helpful. It seems to me, just off the cuff, that one or both of your parents, either intentionally or nconsciously, is beaming stuff at you, and this is bouncing in and effecting your divinations. See if doing a clearing and protecting thing of some sort would help.

In particularly toxic work situations, usually involving a few of the same colleagues, I imagine a sphere of protection around me in the room. I don't always achieve it, given the degree of energy required at times, but it does work. I hear the nasty stuff, but the energetic effect of it just bounces off. It effectively is the raspberry jam principle in action, except a faster rebound time. It can drive people mad, I just have to be super careful not to be satisfied at the result, as that is the pathway to equally nasty magic.

Your divinations might still be giving accurate readings, if your questions were particularly broad. Their short-term outcomes could align quite well with your interests, while their longer-term consequences could be dramatically opposed to your interests. Depending upon how your will and soul interpret your conscious ponderings, your divinations could easily be providing answers to the broadest interpretations of your questions and intents. To find out if something like that is taking place, try breaking your inquiries down into several more limited queries, such as "would this align with my short-term interests?", "are there any long-term drawbacks?", and "will this end up having more downsided than benefits?"

Should that line of questioning yield more reliable readings, then you would come away with more nuanced data by which to plan your best course of action. Should divination reveal that your parents' resistance to or resentment of your autonomy were sufficiently detrimental, you might want to consider taking some protective actions, like getting a P.O. Box to receive any mail that might upset them, or opening a new email account that you never log onto from computers they can access.

Should more bite-sized divinations yield no better results than before, then the task before you is more challenging. That would point to your will being deeply divided. Most certainly, your parents don't have a greater influence over the life force than the gods do (in other words, divination works.) However, your parents may well have that potent of an influence over you and your subconscious. Whatever energetic parasites they have succeeded in implanting in you could easily be distorting your divinatory efforts by making you too afraid to ask, too distracted to hear, or too doutful to trust the wisdom if the divine.

Magic often feels like someone whammying us from outside, but we have to have the vulnerabilities inside of us for that to work in the first place. Clear away all those parasites that are not you, and only your own energies will be left to shine through in their divine truth. Have a blast scouring yourself clean!

— Christophe

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