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

[ecosophia]

I have to admit I've always preferred "America the Beautiful"...

[brendhelm]

After some meditation on the subject:

"The Star Spangled Banner" is triumphalist, both in the lyrics and in the music itself - better suited for the bombast of brass rather than the comparative serenity of strings and woodwinds. A celebration of victory, very suited for an imperial power, delineating an astral pyramid with a martial and somewhat solar focus.

"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" is, as pointed out, the same melody as "God Save the King/Queen," which suggests that it's probably still tied in with the British egregor in some sense. Some might want that; some might not. Note that nowhere in the song - including the verses hardly anyone knows - is the name "America" ever actually mentioned. That said, the emphasis on liberty and freedom espoused in the lyrics of the song would seem to support the building of an astral pyramid focused on those principles. It seems to have strong Saturnian (harkens back to Britain in its melody, "land where my fathers died," etc.) and Uranian (liberty/freedom) vibes (although all these songs have liberty/freedom vibes in them).

"America the Beautiful", besides actually mentioning the country, actively invokes a divine blessing ("God shed His grace on thee"), is strongly Venusian ("beautiful" in the title, lots of nature imagery, "crown thy good with brotherhood"). There are some Martial themes in the obscure third verse, but they evoke images of heroism rather than simply victory - Mars at his best, in other words. The same theme of freedom is present in other verses, too.

"God Bless America" should also be mentioned. Obviously a divine invocation, but a briefer one - as far as I know there is only the one verse. The song references America's natural beauty and therefore has some Venus in it. The imploration for God to "guide her...with the light from above" sounds quite Jovian. There is however no mention of freedom or liberty, so it's probably better used in conjunction with one of the other hymns.

[(Anonymous)]

I will start singing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" because I like liberty over military adventurism.

Patrick

[(Anonymous)]

That song works too, as does any other American patriotic song like "Hail, Columbia" or "The Star Spangled Banner". I mostly chose "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" in my comment because it has the same melody as the British national anthem so you're at least singing the same melody as Kimberly Steele every day.

[ecosophia]

For the reasons Free Rain brought up, I'm by no means sure I want to be singing the same melody...