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-sixth published book, the second workbook and fifth volume in the Golden Section Fellowship sequence of occult training textbooks. Earth mysteries, for those who aren't familiar with the term, is a catchall label for all the strange things associated with ancient ruins, folk traditions, places where paranormal things happen much more often than usual. The book on the right, John Michell's visionary masterpiece The View Over Atlantis, was my introduction to the field back in the day, as it was for so many other people -- it didn't hurt that the cover art was by Roger Dean, more famous for all that hallucinatory Yes album cover art -- and this book is partly my homage to Michell and a vanished era, partly a guide to integrating earth mysteries studies with occult training, and partly -- or mostly -- a hands-on guide to finding the weirdness in the place where you live. You can get a copy here if you're in the United States and here elsewhere; I recommend the hardback if you're doing the course, because you're going to put a year of hard use into the book. 

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

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Signs of Voice

[(Anonymous)]

Greetings JMG and all, The discussion last Monday about the dimensions of voice related to authority, magic, etc was interesting and I thought about a few times during the week. It made me think of something I’ve wondered about for a long time.

In George Llewellyn’s book “A to Z Horoscope Maker and Delineator” where he gives the properties of the signs, he designates some as “signs of voice” and “mute signs”. “Signs of voice” are Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius. The “mute signs” are the water signs Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. Upon reflection it’s easy to understand these designations, however he doesn’t say what it means and I’ve never run across the idea in any other astrology books.

Over the years, looking at natal charts of people I know, it seems like people with a fair share of “signs of voice” have a talent for public speaking, the “gift of gab” and/or a certain way of holding forth anyplace on any topic where people just pay attention…..even children and pets take notice.

It’s a very interesting tidbit to add to studying natal charts.

So is having an authoritative or “put people at their ease” voice a facet of one’s personality as a talent? Same for a talent for silence? And these would be something we work with in this life for better or worse? Have you come across a more detailed explanation of these designations? Is this the correct way to view the designations?

Thank you very much for your time and this forum!

Pink Obtuse Muffin ~ SundaraYogaShala

Re: Signs of Voice

[ecosophia]

I don't know a great deal about that classification, as it seems to be mostly natal in application, and it's medieval if not older. If anyone else has something to add I'll be interested to hear it.

Re: Signs of Voice

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! Interesting it’s a medieval or older notion. Wonder where George Llewelyn picked it up?

SundaraYogaShala

Re: Signs of Voice

[ecosophia]

Early 20th century occultists got into all kinds of strange corners of astrology, not least because some of the old classic texts were back in print then. George may have gotten it from William Lilly's books, for example.