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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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: Astrological dance

[vitranc]

Ok, I had to look it up because the blogs that I read said 2025.
So Neptun transits to Aries this March, alone, Saturn follows in May and because Saturn is faster they meet in 2 degrees Aries in July.
Then they both reverse and separate, because Saturn is faster, and go back to Pisces.
And February 2026 they both meet and pass to Aries within 1 degree from another.
That is a good point about 593 BC. I wonder how the people back then saw it?

Interesting times, interesting times.

The closest that I can imagine is WoH: Chorazin; Owen getting a reading from Sallie Eagle. Where she looks up from the cards and says: „… but nothing stays as it was.”
The fourth book, and twelve chapters later. Fittingly we are talking about Neptune.

Re: Astrological dance

[ecosophia]

I don't know that anyone's gone back to find the Chaldean and Persian astrological records from that conjunction! The Weird of Hali reference is apropos, since Shub-Ne'hurrath is Saturn in one of its aspects, and Cthulhu is as Neptunian a Neptune as ever Neptuned...

Re: Astrological dance

[vitranc]

So just spitballing here:
If someone would find a tarnished antique sword, a black book of spells. And invite a friend with a rose gold family heirloom ring, to which she has an extraordinary attachment.
And then go to some seaside vantage point somewhere on the east coast on 14. February 2026 at about 8:00 and ritually cleave a clay fashioned five pointed star in half.

Things might get interesting 🤔.

Re: Astrological dance

[ecosophia]

I'd want to be there, just to watch!