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Magic Monday
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-eighth published book and nineteenth novel, a stand-alone (so far) tale set in 2095 or so. You could call it cli-fi (the current cute label for climate change fiction) if you like, or deindustrial SF; I'd call it a deindustrial noir Shinto science fiction spy thriller with Gnostic overtones. Jerry Shimizu, the two-fisted, gun-toting, half-Japanese tough guy who narrates the story, and the world in which he lives are interesting enough, at least to me, that he may get a sequel...but we'll see. If you're interested, you can get copies here in the US and here elsewhere.
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(Anonymous) 2025-05-19 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)1) I'm thinking of getting the "Astrology of Nations" when my book budget refills. Orignially this was because it looked interesting, but then I noticed a couple weeks ago on Frugal Friday you suggested political astrology as a potential side hustle. I feel some pull to that idea. Is your book suitable as a sole text to learn from, or are there other texts on astrology one would need to consult as well?
(I'm vaguely familiar with how to cast a chart, using a computer at least, but never really learned how to interpret it for natal or electional purposes, if that helps frame your answer.)
1.b) Followup to the first question, once I get your book I was thinking of casting a series of historical charts in order to get a feel for the patterns involved-- post-dicting events that have occured, if you will. I can't think of any other way to learn the technique. Do you have any suggestions to refine that, something different to try, or is it covered in the book?
2) Completely unrelated, but how do you decide what book to write next? Communing with your muse, market research, some kind of divination, a combination or something completely different? I do shortform freelance writing and at that scale it's easy to just arbitrarily pick a topic. To write a book is more daunting, and I find myself feeling like Buridan's ass, paralyzed by choice.
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1b) That's a very good way to learn it.
2) Don't obsess about it -- just decide, and do it. Flip a coin if you have to. That you choose is more important than what you choose. Me? I decide on a mixture of what interests me at the moment, what publishers seem to want, and sheer random whim.
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