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Midnight is upon us 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.

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Dear JMG, what is your take on the current astral/etheric disturbance, as in, do you think it's landed fully on the physical plane. I am certainly noticing some odd behaviour in people, almost as if they are disconnected from reality, and a lot more of the blue screen of death stare in response to anything other than rote or routine activities. I feel myself a vague anxiety or foreboding, although, as I've ramped up practices (SoP) since the beginning of the year, it seems to be largely occuring around me, as if I'm in an odd sort of bubble that's harder to penetrate. Negativity doesn't seem to land as easily on me.

But that's just my take. I'd be interested in knowing yours, and other readers?

What I've seen suggests that it's well into the astral, quite possibly hitting the middle astral now. On the one hand, that means that many people are responding even more in that weirdly mechanical way we've discussed in this journal, with "blue screen of death" reactions becoming more common; on the other, as the uppermost parts of the astral begin to clear, people and groups that are more aligned with the spiritual side of things seem to be coming out from under a cloud. The next thing to watch for is sudden odd disease outbreaks, especially those that seem to involve a sudden collapse of health in large numbers of people; that's one way things could work out on the etheric plane.

The SoP really does help, doesn't it? I really do recommend a daily protective ritual for everyone as a basic necessity during times like these.

Thank you, I will put extra power into my SoP. I also wonder too that the more people who do the SoP means a stronger egregore attached to it. I can't imagine it'll ever get as string as the LBRP, but a bit stronger would be nice.

Yes, it'll pick up strength as more people practice it. It's subtler than the LBRP and will never be as flashy, but it's already got considerable strength.

Anon: 'I am certainly noticing some odd behaviour in people'
Yes - odd behaviour like people are distracted or something - like they are in a holding pattern and not quite functioning in the world.

"I feel myself a vague anxiety or foreboding"
A feeling that 'something' is 'in process' has been coming and going for a while but has picked up just recently - but that might just be me looking at the state of the world.

Usually I do meditation practices first thing in the morning, but this morning I woke from a deep sleep and was surprised to find myself already working/practising; accompanied with a very (very) strong feeling of the importance of doing so.

JMG: "seem to be coming out from under a cloud"
Practices have been getting increasingly strong and almost like taking on a life of their own. This morning particularly so where it seemed my waking self was picking up on and continuing something but I'm not exactly sure what!

If coming out from under a cloud includes changes in and intensity of work, then yes (but not in the form of sunny happy clappy weather); this started towards the end of last year and has picked up speed in the last month or so. However, it has been going on at the same time as having a strange sort of 'disconnected from the world feeling' myself - it feels fine and I'd just put it down to the some of the practices I've been doing... but this morning was definitely something new and made a big enough impression that my first words to the missus were "It's really important to do stuff' (where 'stuff' is whatever internal/spiritual practices one might have).

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Yes, that's one of the things I had in mind when I mentioned "coming out from under a cloud." My practices have taken on increased power and my dreams have become more vivid, for example. The sense of disconnection is also relevant: there's a lot of trouble coming, and standing apart from it is a good thing!

For those who cannot magic their way out of a paper bag, and those who have relatives spiritually inclined but perhaps magically reluctant, would daily prayer be an adequate replacement for a banishing ritual?

Daily prayer is always a good idea. (It's part of my daily practices, for example.) It won't do quite the same things as a protective ritual, but it'll benefit you a great deal in times like these. Be sure to ask for protection against evil and for clarity of mind.

I recommend, if you aren't an occultist, combining prayer with study of holy books -- for example, if you're a Protestant Christian, read a chapter of one of the Gospels every day and then pray. That'll help you attune your mind and spirit to the Divine.

You also might want to check out St. Patrick's Lorica, which is a Christian prayer of protection -- BoysMom cites her experience with it further down the page.

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Even if you are an occultist, this can be a a great help; I've found that reading myths about the gods I worship before prayer helps a great deal with attuning myself to them.

Hi JMG,

If I may ask, what would be your recommendation for a Roman Catholic?

I'm curious if you would add a third item to prayer and study, or if the second item would be changed.

Why I'm deeply interested in your answer: In my religious and spiritual wandering, from 1) at-birth/youth cultural (and cafeteria) Catholicism to 2) 20s and early 30s material agnosticism/unspoken atheism, then to 3a) 12 Step meetings and 3b) dabbling at Protestantism, as well as either 3 or 3c) taking more seriously your writings about religion/spirituality--I believe I started reading your blogs around 2008/9--and then 4) recently back to Catholicism through regular attendance at Mass, I have a commingled and confused sense of IBM-compatible Christianity.

Incidentally?, I'm really looking forward to your Wednesday post on your other blog. I assume it's about Protestantism's Islam envy.

-Eugene

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I'm starting to notice results from my banishings (though part of that could have been me fixing a visualization mistake a couple weeks back).

Patrick

As you might know I´ve been doing the DA SOP part 1 for about 5 years (on and off due to hormones, but more on) and there is a difference in where I do the SOP: at home it´s difficult, I think the house is "cluttered up" with a lot of negative energies, at my parents and parents-in-law place much easier, still I almost always have a nice and hard time to get the rays go where they should go or the rotations going as fast as they should. Sometimes at home any speed at all is almost not possible with the first circulation. This might tie in with me having difficulties to roll forward a few times without the room starting to spin.
Anyway last year we visited your country, Denver to be precise.
And boy was the SOP different there! The rays (mostly) went from laserthin light to broad and enscrolled blue-white beams of light with a nice golden sphere to rotate. I thought: so that is what it means to have a strong Egregore!
Now the question:
Since the downstairs neighbour at first was a bit underwhelmed by our moving in with ensuing difficulties that we managed to navigate after some time, I had the feeling that the ray to earth should not go through her space: I let the ray go in a bow. For a few days now I have been experimenting to let the ray go down directly and I get the feeling that somehow as if a corpse is buried under the cellar or something and it felt quite unclean. I didn´t whant to bring that energy down to earth so I started using the bowline again. I just wonder, is that something you have heard of? Or is it probably just me being squeamish because the cellar is also part vacation-home and the ray goes through a toilet, which I find...kind of strange?
Thank you and best wishes,
Emily07
ps: since Milkyway1 recommended the Essene blessing walk, I´m doing it on my way to work (on a bike) and I´m phrasing the blessing as: may you be blessed if you want to be blessed (mögest Du gesegnet sein, wenn Du gesegnet sein magst) but - this is way to slow for when I get past the spot where people get on and off a metro. I tried to to it with multiple people but then the telepatic connection is ...not there?...different?...with one person at a time I can also feel a bit on how healthy people generally are or dunno where problems or energy-tie-ups lie. So the questions are: how can I speed up to bless all metro goers and is the "energy-info" I get an intrusion that I should stop?

1) That's fascinating, that the SoP is so much stronger on this continent!

2) You can certainly direct the ray in any way that works for you. It doesn't have to go straight down.

3) I don't know anyone who can bless everyone in a crowd one at a time with reasonable concentration! I usually do it on whole groups in that situation, even though it's not quite the same.

4) No, the energy-sense that you have is part of a healing gift. When you get to the Dolmen Arch system of energy healing, work on learning to direct healing energy toward the imbalances you sense.

re 4)...um doesn´t that contradict all the don´t work on people unless you got permission thingummies? Ah, thinking about it: I probably only feel something if there is permission, and I could also phrase the healing as an offering (In the "Angebot" sense).

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I have been banishing twice a day for a few weeks now, otherwise I feel angry for no reason related to myself. It might be a local thing, mexicans are pretty angry at trump for some reason I can't understand. Well, the guy is a jerk with us in commentary, granted. But is he really a terrible man for, you know, enforcing the law? I will never wrap my head around at someone really trying to demand rights when entering a country illegally and then being offended for being kicked out; or being angry at someone putting tariffs in their own country. Anyway, so yeah, banishing distances me from that and other aspects of the astral.

In my experience it is still trickling down to the material and at least were I live, its manifesting as more than usual brutal violence and forest fires. A lot of blessing work is being done but damn, things do feel like they are coming apart in big chunks and most of what I can do is see the splash. I am fortunate to be far away from the thick of it; it doesn't seem to be slowing down yet to me.

Thank you for the data points! Yeah, that unreasoning anger is showing up in various places, and keeping a physical and spiritual distance from it seems very sensible to me.

Of course! It has been interesting to see how the same phenomena (this current downward trend in the decline) manifests in two very different societies. I've been learning astrology from your patreon and a course I am taking with the Fraternity for two years now and I am really interested in seeing the ingress charts for mexico and comparing them with the ones you make for the US. I think the Wulmnath have made their lairs in some egregores and I want nothing to do with them. Physical distance is very important in my case because I tend to pick up things very fast --one of the downsides of having psychic tendencies, its good for learning, very bad for such scenarios. Not that I need that many reasons to step out of situations I dislike though.

By the way, regarding blessing a forest. I don’t expect one group is enough to bless the 1500 hectares that disappeared to the flames in a few days, but is the appropriate deity Hesus or Esus perhaps? He is the chief of tree spirits and corresponds with water after all.

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I'm not the OP: I've been doing SOP for a couple of years faithfully -- once a day. Is it acceptable/advisable to do it more than once a day?

I don't recommend doing it more than once a day. If you feel that you need more practices, you might consider taking up a system of occult practice that includes the SoP, such as the Dolmen Arch, the Golden Section Fellowship, or the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose systems.

Hmm, yes, yes it is. I see a lot of resignation in doing what the system tells them they should be doing. The whole society feels like it is forcefully frozen into a 2023 state. I do not see overt blue screen signs, but the low key resignation adds up.
It is like a sinister fog and I can second the feeling of anxiety and foreboding, it is trough the roof.

jmg
I have had good results with SoP, prayer and MoE practices in bracing myself in this times. It gives me a feeling of being a bit removed from the madness.
But what can one do for others like close friends and relatives, partners, who are not themselves performing, or are even interested in performing banishing rituals, devotions or such. Most of them are not even in the know that I do them, either out of interest or for occult reasons.

Best regards,
V

I wish there was some way to help people like that. If they're willing to give you permission to pray for them, you can certainly do that. Otherwise? They have the right to pursue their own fate, no matter how dismal that seems to you and me.

I'd like to add a few observations - I don't really know if they relate to this - do they?

1) Breakdown of old structures - Starting in late spring / early summer last year, many old structures finally broke down. This covered a wide range of things from chicken-keeping to old friendships. We were forced to restart and reinvent, sometimes almost from scratch. Some attempts failed, but most things are slowly picking up steam again.

2) Coming out from under a cloud - yes, maybe. Sometimes it can be described as standing on a hill watching the mists pooling in the valleys below. It becomes increasingly clear (to me, at least), how thin the layer of rationality that is crusted over something different really is for many people - which might become a source for a lot of confusion and turmoil in the time ahead, even more than it already is. This perception comes with a sense of pity and compassion, but also fear.

3) A singular, but weird perception - I have a not-quite visual sense which might perceive on the astral and/or etheric plane. Sometimes, especially before falling asleep this occasionally turns fully visual. A few days ago I "saw" something like a very brief, but very intense flash while standing in full sunlight in a quiet environment. Startling.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Nachtgurke

Fascinating. I've seen both of the first two -- old structures breaking down, new possibilities beginning to emerge, and that same sense of distance from people who are caught up in the fog of hatred and fear. I've also been reflecting on just how thin a veneer rational thinking actually is; I'll be doing a post on this, having watched some very intelligent people get caught up in reactions we share with the baboons and make fools of themselves. As for that flash -- hmm. That's unnerving, though I don't know what to make of it.

One data point I can offer is that Tarot readings done this year seem to keep coughing up the Wheel of Fortune card - the card of destiny, change, fortune, karma, etc. I've gotten it far more than chance would dictate in my own readings, as well as in a reading done for me by an experienced practitioner. It could be just be me, but it's turned up in more general readings about less personal queries as well. For whatever that's worth.

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