Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

 Midnight is just a few minutes away 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 1.3 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 is my sixth-eighty published book, and -- like some of the other things I've written -- it landed me in a certain amount of hot water. I noticed, not long after I started doing the kind of intermediate astrology that involves tracking transits of planets across natal chart positions, that most of the resulting predictions worked very well, but that those involving Pluto didn't. I then noticed that political and economic predictions involving Pluto -- not mine, in this case -- also flopped spectacularly. That launched me into a research project that convinced me that Pluto is in fact not a planet, but that it functioned like one in birth charts and mundane charts during the short period while astronomers mistook it for one. That led me to write The Twilight of Pluto, which talks about the complex way that planetary discoveries and downgradings relate to astrological prediction. 

The reason this got me into hot water is that Pluto has a huge astrological fan club. It's weird; no other planet has that kind of frankly addictive emotional hold on people. No other planet sees people make one false prediction after based on its movements, and just keep on doing it, without ever noticing that they're making fools of themselves. I didn't get into that in this book, but Pluto fans took offense anyway because I dissed their favorite planet. The book's sales have been slow, though a remarkable number of people seem to know about it. I still think it makes a valid case, I don't use Pluto in my political astrology...and, ahem, my predictions are more accurate than those who do. If you're interested, you can get copies here in the US and at your favorite book outlet 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 further comments will be put through. See you all next week!***

Comments

Re: Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Am

[(Anonymous)]

If I may ask, what are the bedside jars you describe and how do you make them?

Re: Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Am

[ecosophia]

Take any convenient glass jar. Fill it with rock salt, kosher salt, or any other form of salt that's relatively pure. Into this, put several bright iron or steel nails that have been bent to a right angle (or thereabouts) with two pairs of pliers.

This is the large-caliber version of the red bag amulet described in the Magic Monday FAQ. It will soak up quite a bit of nasty etheric substance. You know you need to replace the contents of the jar when the salt discolors and/or the nails rust or corrode.

Re: Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Am

[jprussell]

Out of curiosity, is there any traditional guidance on how many "several" nails should be? Is this a "more is better" situation, or perhaps symbolic considerations are helpful (I went with 9 as a holy number in my own beliefs)?

Or is this all in "experiment and find out" territory?

Cheers,
Jeff

Re: Thoughts on A Short History of Ethics and Question on Etheric Effects Thwarted by the Red Bag Am

[ecosophia]

It's very much "experiment and find out," as the entire notion of the jar version of the spell was invented in a discussion here on Magic Monday a while back! Nine nails sounds like a good idea for what it's worth.