ecosophia | Magic Monday

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. Given the events scheduled tomorrow, I've pulled this one forward out of order; it's my 65th published book, the one that got me banned from science fiction conventions (despite 18 SF and fantasy novels currently in print) and dropped like a hot rock by most of the Neopagans I know. No, it's not a work of science fiction, nor does it have much to say about Neopaganism. It's a discussion of why the policies embraced by a bipartisan consensus of the elite classes in the US made the rise of Donald Trump or somebody like him inevitable. Yes, it also talks about magic -- the magical manipulations that were used for fifty years to silence any attempt to talk publicly about what the policies just mentioned did to the working classes in the United States, the magic wielded by a motley band of (mostly) young men living in their mothers' basements who marched off to the Meme Wars beneath the banner of a cartoon frog, and the magic attempted by the so-called Magic Resistance, whose attempts to cast death curses and other equally pleasant spells at the people they hate did a lot to bring about the events of last November and the days immediately before us.

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Okay, time travel in the literal sense probably is not what I'm getting at with this question, but is there any form of magic or ritual that is intended to place one's mind or spirit in a prior time period so that one can work on various issues stemming from that time? I've seen a few such books pop up in my suggested purchases on sites like Amazon, and I'm wondering if it there's anything to such ideas.

You can certainly shift your consciousness back through time to an earlier point in your own life, and work on yourself in that context. That may not change what happened back then but it can have a very large influence on how what happened back then affects you today!

That is very interesting, and I could certainly use it for some very bad experiences from my younger days. Can you recommend a book or other resource that can assist one in doing this kind of work?

I've never seen anything even halfway decent in print on the subject. I got the idea from a bit in Donald Michael Kraig's Modern Magick, but modified the working considerably from the one he did. Experiment and see what you come up with.

Yeah, the books that came up in my suggestions on Amazon were all, well, rather hokey sounding. The basic idea, though, struck me as quite reasonable. I'll get to work on it!

The book giving the greatest attention to that I know about is Weaving Fate by Aidan Wachter.

I had a truly unpleasant childhood, and am hoping to address some of these issues. Do you have any suggestions on what would be a good place to start with this?

(I use Hermetic Golden Dawn magic; I can open and close a temple as described in CoP, and have modest experience with scrying as described in PoW.)

Open a temple, invoke Saturn the lord of Time Past, and then use scrying to travel back to some specific scene in your childhood. One thing you can do -- and for me, at least, this was really quite helpful -- is to imagine yourself appearing to your child-self after some miserable experience, explaining that it really will get better, and offering any constructive advice that, on reflection, you feel you would have benefited from hearing at that time. Then return and close.

Work with only one such scene at a time, and give yourself plenty of time between these sessions -- the emotional aftereffects can be pretty intense.

I did do one ritual late last night, and what I did was kind of similar to this suggestion. I didn't open a temple but I called upon Janus to grant me access to the gods, and then I asked Zurvan (the "heretical" Zoroastrian God of Infinite Time and Space) to open the portals of time and transport my mind to a particular place and time, then just kind of contemplated it. It did seem to have some success.

A version that I was taught involves a simple a process as taking a piece of paper, writing such a date at the top, and writing.

I love that suggestion! That's kind of how I've been doing much of my work with Carl Jung, "active journaling" since my ability to visualize isn't what it used to be. Thanks!

You are very welcome! It works for pleasant memories too, and astrological transits to some degree, oddly enough. A teacher of mine told me he would pick a good transit on his chart and write the time of it on the top of his examinations, to good effect! Now he does the same when offering a class on top of the whiteboard.

It’s called Revision or Retrocausality. It’s part of our quantum nature. Use imagination to re-think a past experience just like you’d imagine a certain future. You don’t need a ritual but if you think a ritual will help, do it as a part of a ritual.

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