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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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no more comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Happy Monday, JMG,
I have a few questions.
1. What is the difference, if any, in the action of a jar with salt, pepper, and nails and a jar with vinegar?
2. I'm working through your book Learning Ritual Magic and noticing that the Middle Pillar exercise works much better for me than SOP, which I practiced previously. SOP felt kind of vague. MPE feels like a metal brush, and the space around me feels like an old rusty Griswold restored to its original black shiny glory. It feels great. I would appreciate your commentary on such a stark difference. Why is that so?
3. How to evict someone who lives rent-free inside my head? I see this person once a week at a social gathering of about 100 people. We used to be friends. Not anymore. Any affirmation that would be appropriate? I also know some natural magic. I am about to finish Learning Ritual Magic. Any advice?
Thank you for being here this Monday!

[ecosophia]

1) The difference isn't much. Both dissolve etheric forms, though they do it in different ways.

2) Some people get much better results with one than with the other. If the LBRP and Middle Pillar work better for you, by all means use them!

3) You need to do some journaling and figure out why you remain obsessed with this person. Get a notebook and a pen, write the person's name at the top of the page, and then let yourself write whatever comes to mind. Don't edit or censor anything. Do this for fifteen minutes a day and let the bottled-up thoughts and feelings out; many of them may not have anything to do with the person in question, but will relate to unresolved issues from your past. Keep doing this until the emotional charge around the person has been released.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, JMG. I just followed your advice in #3 and got some things sorted out. I have a follow-up question. It feels right to me to do something in the material world. I printed out a screenshot of our last exchange of texts, so I have a piece of paper. I'd like to do something with it to symbolically part ways with this connection of mine. Burn it? Throw it into the nearest public garbage can? Throw in the nearest creek? Anything else?

[ecosophia]

If you want to break the connection, cut out all of your texts from the exchange, take the remainder with the other person's texts, put it in a small bottle or jar, go to a river that flows away from the place where you live, and throw the bottle or jar into the river. Go home by a different route than you took to get there.

(You can do whatever you like with the bits of paper with your texts on them.)