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 sixtieth published book, the second volume of the sprawling study course in Druidical occultism I assembled from fragments, scraps, and a lot of William Walker Atkinson's more obscure writings, as chronicled in the intro to last week's Magic Monday. The Lesser Mysteries comprise four grades, the Greater Mysteries three more, finishing up with the grade of Gwyddon Rhydd or Free Loremaster, which brings with it the right to teach the system. There's a modest but significant number of Free Loremasters running around these days, and some of them do in fact teach; most students of the Dolmen Arch, however, simply learn it from the two books. One way or another, if you're interested, you can find copies for sale here in the US and at your favorite online or brick-and-mortar bookseller 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 all next week!***

Comments

[ecosophia]

Good heavens. First of all, my profound condolences. Second, start with prayer; you might also do something on the material plane, such as offering a reward for the return of the Druid gear. That said, divination would also be very wise.

[kylec]

I just did a divination asking if I would ever recover any of the gear. With colled as right witness, carchar as left, and bendith fawr as judge, it looks like the answer is no, and it will be a great amount of work and expense to remake it all. The rest of the chart was full of nasty triplicities, too.

Since I hate to be a Debbie Downer, I'll also share one synchronicity that occurred. While I was on the phone telling my ex-wife what happened, I noticed a tiny piece of paper protruding from under the blinds on the windowsill where the thief entered. I'd opened and closed these blinds even since they left and didn't notice it. It turned out to be a scrap, torn on all four sides like some magic works, with a quote by Jack Kornfield about how spiritual practice is all about learning to let go. My ex recognized it as probably having come from a new age shop where she bought some obsidian stone. Somehow it must have gotten shuffled into my stuff when I moved, and perhaps fallen right back out of that stuff as the thief exited the window, because there is no other material way for it to have ended up there. That does leave plenty of non-material interventions, of course.

[guillem66]

Kylec, i'm very sorry for what you have lost. I had intruders into my property, too, and i know how awful the feeling is. I do hope that better happenings come your way soon.

Guillem.

[kylec]

Thank you, Guillem.

[(Anonymous)]

A Debbie Downer? In what possible way? Your soul is so deeply satisfied with your spiritual growth that it is letting you know that you’re ready to move beyond any crutches you once needed. Now that you’ve learned how to run free, what can crutches do for you but get in your way?

That theft sounded right disappointing up until you discovered that your soul even left a guidepost for you on the windowsill. Given the peculiarly limiting English convention that we only refer to the sill of doorways as thresholds, I’d say your soul has sent you a very powerful message:

Someone watching your behavior noticed your abundance of riches and transgressed a threshold to try to take them from you. That watcher may not have had any idea that she was actually doing your soul’s bidding, but your soul has made quite certain that you would know. You’ve reached the point in your spiritual practice where learning to let go of cherished artifacts is the key to unlocking magical thresholds you hadn’t realized you were ready to cross. That same key will also allow you to relock those magical thresholds to any malign influences wanting to trespass.

You appear to have gotten the resistant watchers within you scared enough to try to steal away your gifts in order to stop your spiritual growth. Foolish watchers, why can’t they ever figure out that their attacks always leave us stronger? Where will you be able to explore now that you no longer need to bring so many crutches with you?

Every rock, stick, and leaf offers a potent portal to divinity. They can be consecrated as and where needed, and then left on the forest floor as a blessing for all who will pass by. Perhaps your soul is trying to let you know that you’ve already reached the point where remaking your lost gear needs little work or expense, as the tools you need are already within you.

- Christophe

[kylec]

Wow thank you this was very helpful to hear.

[jenniferkobernik]

That’s horrible! I’m so sorry to hear it. My house was broken into once, and it was a creepy feeling to know that someone had potentially been watching me and had gone through all my private stuff. And losing consecrated items would be very disheartening for me. FWIW, I think that the more will that goes into acquiring and consecrating an item, the more magical power it has, so the next ones will at least benefit from the strength of will needed to do it all over again! I know the expense is probably the least of it, but if you message me here on dw or shoot me an email at jenniferkobernik at gmail etc with your PayPal (or mailing address if you prefer a check), I’d be delighted to send some cash your way to help replace what can be bought.