Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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. 

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-fifth published book, the sequel to The Witch of Criswell and thus the second Ariel Moravec occult mystery.  Once again, it's eighteen-year-old Ariel and her adept grandfather on the case, investigating the theft of a rare magical book and a trail of clues that might lead to a pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the odd old East Coast port town of Adocentyn. Ariel and Dr. Bernard Moravec aren't the only ones on the trail, though, and the others will stop at nothing to get there first...

In case you can't tell, yes, I'm having enormous fun with these. You can get a copy here if you're in the United States and here elsewhere. 

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Comments

Re: Etheric / astral disturbances

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Etheric / astral disturbances

[ecosophia]

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.

Re: Etheric / astral disturbances

[(Anonymous)]

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.