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 1.3 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 seventy-second published book and the beginning of a new fiction series. I'd spent years being frustrated by the way that fantasy fiction ignored real magic and fixated on Harry Potter absurdities instead. Once I finished my tentacle novels, that had the inevitable result and gave rise to the first of a series of novels in which all the magic is the stuff real human beings in the real world can encounter. Ariel Moravec, the protagonist of the series, is an eighteen-year-old girl who goes to spend the summer with her grandfather, an occult initiate who spends his time investigating paranormal happenings. Before long she's caught up in one of his investigations, centering on legends of a colonial-era witch and a cascade of very real and vicious spells in the present day...

There are two more novels in the series already in print, a third in press, and a fourth currently being written. It's turning into a very entertaining series to write and, I hope, to read. If you're interested, you can get copies of The Witch of Criswell here if you live in the US and here if you live elsewhere. 

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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 next week!***

Comments

Re: Night planetary hours

[jprussell]

In my case, I only really got as far as "hmm, it's after sunset now that I've gotten to my daily prayers, should I light a candle and pray to the God of the day the calendar/clock still says it is, or the God of the next day?" (e.g. it's after sundown on Sunday, should I pray to Sonne or Mone?). Thus far, I haven't experimented much, and have mostly stuck with the calendar day.

And as for the Interpretatio Romanum of the Germanic Gods to the days, I have settled on using the name of the day in English, and have left it somewhat ambivalent whether the heavenly body associated with the Roman deity is directly/somewhat/not at all associated with that God(dess), other than where it's obvious (the Sun and the Moon), though with some leaning in to trying to find the association of the planet with the God (for example, looking for ways that the traditional associations of the planet Mercury are reflected in Woden, or Jupiter for Thunor).

As for Saturday, aye, that's the rub. Some Heathens I've read that do a daily devotion along these lines treat Saturday as a "free day" to honor whichever God is most important to you who doesn't have a day. Others look for closest equivalents to Saturn mythologically (Mimir is one candidate that came up in a recent discussion, but I've also seen Ymir, though both bring up the question of whether you're comfortable offering devotion to jotnar, or some jotnar and not others, and so forth). I have erred more on the former side - I dedicate Saturday to Idun, as She is important to me personally, and she has some of the same connotations of the "softer" side of Saturn - relaxation, death and rebirth, fertility and growth, though Her being so clearly associated with "youth" stands in pretty stark contrast to Saturn's association with old age.

Overall, it's not a riddle I feel like I've wholly unravelled yet, but I reckon that regular devotion is a good idea whether it's technically "right" or not.

Cheers,
Jeff