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!***

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Inaugurations when the Sun and Uranus were in mutual reception

[slclaire]

In your Patreon/Subscribestar posts on the Trump inauguration, you discussed the effect of having the inauguration take place on January 20th, when the Sun is in its detriment in Aquarius. Since the President in inauguration charts is represented by the Sun, this means that the President begins his term with a large astrological strike against him.

However, for a short time in 1955 and then again from June 1956 until August 1962, Uranus was in Leo, meaning that the Sun and Uranus were in mutual reception during those years. That would give the Sun the same dignity as if he were in Leo, the sign he rules. There were two inaugurations during this period, Eisenhower's in 1957 and Kennedy's in 1961, in which this was the case - I verified this by generating the charts for Inauguration Day for those years. Since Eisenhower had two terms and his first term began in 1953 when the Sun and Uranus weren't in mutual reception, if the charts for the two inaugurations were otherwise the same (which they weren't, of course), my hypothesis would be that Eisenhower's second term would have been more successful than his first term. Have you taken a look at the charts for these two inaugurations? They might make an interesting test case for the effects of having inaugurations take place when the Sun is in detriment.

Re: Inaugurations when the Sun and Uranus were in mutual reception

[ecosophia]

Fascinating. No, I haven't looked at those, but it would certainly follow.