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 sixty-first published book and my third anthology of short pieces, including all my best essays from my post-Hermetic period (the Hermetic essays were released earlier in my 2019 book The City of Hermes). It's probably the best one-volume introduction to the whole range of my ideas and interests, for anyone who wants to risk plunging down that N-dimensional rabbit hole.  It also includes my most widely cited essay, "How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse." On the off chance you're interested, copies can be purchased here if you're in the United States 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.

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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

Mea Culpa!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

I asked for Saturn's help to clear a lot of negative Karma regarding multiple things, one of which was relationships.

It seems to have worked, but I then screwed up badly--basically, a person I wanted a relationship with and whom I haven't spoken to in over a year actually called and asked me to meet her, and only after I declined (and pissed her off in doing so) did I realize that I rejected what quite literally may have been a gift from the gods.


Aside from accepting the fact that I am likely an evolutionary dead end, is there something I can do to atone to Saturn for this? I read your response a few weeks ago about sticking a $20 bill into an envelope on a Saturday, but this time around we are talking about making amends for a relationship, not for giving away money.

Thank you for any insights

Re: Mea Culpa!

[ecosophia]

Nah, you don't need to atone. Saturn is teaching you. One of his great lessons is forethought, the habit of thinking through things before you do them, and one of his main tools for teaching his lessons is pain. You're not an evolutionary dead end, or he wouldn't be bothering with you -- but the sooner you learn to think before you act, the less it's going to hurt.

Re: Mea Culpa!

[(Anonymous)]

Bystander opinion here.. call her back and tell her you think you made a mistake! She might forgive you and agree to meet you.

Re: Mea Culpa!

[(Anonymous)]

If you believe you made a grievous error, then try to fix it. Call the woman you pissed off and try to make amends. She may well come away having more respect for you, once you demonstrate that you can change your mind, care for others' feelings, swallow your pride, learn from your errors, be vulnerable, and admit your mistakes. If you can pull that off, you are anything but an evolutionary dead-end.

There's plenty of folks who can't accomplish any one of those things, after a lifetime of practicing endless bitterness and resentment. So don't let your remorse slowly twist itself into shame and recrimination. Go public with your remorse, and watch as the world around you and the people in it transform beyond your wildest of dreams.

— Christophe