Good morning JMG and everyone. Thank you for doing MM.
I had a few questions I hoped you might know something about.
1. Is there a generally accepted occult view on fate/destiny vs. epigenesis/free will? It seems like both are real things even though they are contradictory to each other. Magic supports the idea that we can affect the course of our lives, but I realized in meditation that even the Logos is bound by the fate of the Cosmos in the sense that it must work with the cosmic matter that happened to be along its path toward the 7th plane. Is it as simple as there being certains fates that we are bound to no matter what, while other aspects of existence aren't as critical to the overall pattern and can therefore be altered? Are fate and free will in some sense actually a yin-yang type unity rather than opposing polarized?
2. I have come to realize that one of the things I would like to alter about this incarnation is the persistent and often overwhelming self-doubt that seems like a constant life companion sometimes. I was wondering what planets/zodiac signs/deities would be the best to work with to reduce this self doubt. I know the Sun is an obvious answer here, but I would rather not switch to arrogance, rather just reduce the insecurity, but maybe that is a distinction without a difference.
3. What is the resolution to the differences in correspondences between the 4 triplicities and the 12 houses? Something like how spouses fall under the seventh house when looking at the 12, but they correspond to the 4th daughter when looking at the triplicities. Does one of these supercede the other, or is it just a matter of keeping these different interpretive methods separate from each other?
Questions
I had a few questions I hoped you might know something about.
1. Is there a generally accepted occult view on fate/destiny vs. epigenesis/free will? It seems like both are real things even though they are contradictory to each other. Magic supports the idea that we can affect the course of our lives, but I realized in meditation that even the Logos is bound by the fate of the Cosmos in the sense that it must work with the cosmic matter that happened to be along its path toward the 7th plane. Is it as simple as there being certains fates that we are bound to no matter what, while other aspects of existence aren't as critical to the overall pattern and can therefore be altered? Are fate and free will in some sense actually a yin-yang type unity rather than opposing polarized?
2. I have come to realize that one of the things I would like to alter about this incarnation is the persistent and often overwhelming self-doubt that seems like a constant life companion sometimes. I was wondering what planets/zodiac signs/deities would be the best to work with to reduce this self doubt. I know the Sun is an obvious answer here, but I would rather not switch to arrogance, rather just reduce the insecurity, but maybe that is a distinction without a difference.
3. What is the resolution to the differences in correspondences between the 4 triplicities and the 12 houses? Something like how spouses fall under the seventh house when looking at the 12, but they correspond to the 4th daughter when looking at the triplicities. Does one of these supercede the other, or is it just a matter of keeping these different interpretive methods separate from each other?
Thank you again for hosting MM
Geoff