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

British Druid Land Surveyors?

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, JMG. I just had a chuckle yesterday when I chanced upon images of the benchmarks that pepper the villages, towns and cities of England, Wales, and the Scottish lowlands courtesy of the 19th century Ordinance Survey. Greater London alone has over 18,000 such benchmarks etched into the sides of stone and brick buildings. The thing that I find most endearing about these benchmarks is the fact that the design consists of the Druid three rays of light (/|\) beneath a straight line (_). Coincidence? Or were British land surveyors secretly Druids spreading their oddball philosophy across the country right under the noses of Church and State? Is it really the lowly land surveyors, rather than the awesome freemasons, who have been unleashing unspeakably diabolical horrors (Bond villain-like) upon the world? Oh, where is Sherlock Holmes when one needs him? Do you happen to have his cell number handy?

I do hope that as serious a topic as magic can bear with a bit of levity from time to time!

Amber Waggish Mongoose

Re: British Druid Land Surveyors?

[ecosophia]

That same emblem, called the "broad arrow," used to appear on the clothing of British convicts. Make of that what you will...

Re: British Druid Land Surveyors?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, using the total lack of logic that is typical of this day and age, I'd say that's proof positive that those Druids were up to their eyeballs in organized crime - and the State knew it! Any journals of the period record the last words of convicts on the gallows being "The Druids made me do it"? :)

- Mongoose

Re: British Druid Land Surveyors?

[ecosophia]

I see the makings of a fine new conspiracy theory!

Re: British Druid Land Surveyors?

[jprussell]

Or at least an Alan Moore graphic novel, given what he did with the Freemasons in From Hell (Jack the Ripper was a mason tasked by the queen to clean up a royal scandal by removing those with knowledge of it, with a fair dose of Thelema-flavored occult stuff).