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 1.3 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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Wow. This may explain something that's dogged me for quite some time. After my father's death almost 30 years ago, my mother would regularly "gift" me and my sisters with several thousand dollars each year. Long story short, my parents' marriage was a mess, and Mom believed that with my father's death from cancer that the world would go her way. Whatever that was. It didn't, and she resented how well off my father left her. So, she throws money overboard on an annual (or more frequent) basis. Here's the thing: It stopped feeling like a "gift" quite quickly for me. I accept it, and thank her (which she prefers we not do - perhaps because it actually is NOT a gift). At this point, both of my sisters, who live several hundred miles from me, derive a significant portion of their income from her.

I expect others would be envious of me; tens of thousands of dollars over several decades for just sharing some DNA. I'd prefer a warm and loving mother with nothing to her name over what karma gave me: An angry, bitter woman who can't look at what her late husband left her without feeling the urge to shovel it (and him?) out the door. Even after he's long dead. She's mad at the world. It's nice to get a check, but it has a certain stink on it; like a cross between garbage and protection money. Our relationship is infrequent contact (her choice) and strictly surface communication when it happens at all. Boy oh boy, I hope I'm paying off some major karma navigating this with as much grace as I can muster.

Radiant Pooka

I think it's more the person than the money in this case, but yeah, the money isn't helping!

"It's nice to get a check, but it has a certain stink on it; like a cross between garbage and protection money." Perhaps you could accept the money, then give it away to a carefully chosen charity, without telling her?

Thanks! I'm married, and husband is delighted with the checks. So, we agreed some time ago that we'd give 10% to an assortment of our favorite charities and bank the rest. It's not ideal, but close enough.

Radiant Pooka

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