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 not be put through.  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 eighty-first published book, the third entry in my series of occult detective novels starring eighteen-year-old Ariel Moravec and her adept grandfather Dr. Bernard Moravec. As I think I mentioned here already, I didn't intend these to be young-adult novels -- I simply wanted a protagonist who was in a good situation to begin occult training, and had plenty of entertaining problems of her own. Nonetheless I was delighted a while back to hear from a reader whose young daughter, a fan of these novels, has begun calling them "Nancy Druid stories." 

In this third installment, Ariel and her grandfather are caught up in a mystery surrounding a strange artifact from pre-Roman Italy, a bronze plaque with wolves and an inset moon of carnelian. The Heydonian Institution wants it for their collection of ancient magical items, but somebody else is after it, too -- and circumstantial evidence suggests that the somebody in question might just run on all fours and bay at the moon on certain nights. As Ariel researches the truth behind the old myth of the werewolf she hurtles toward a dangerous confrontation on the night of the full moon...

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The Pentagram of Purification by the Spirit, or of the Elevation of the Earth a gift from the FCD

[open_space]

There has been some talk around here before, about being able to lean against noxious energies sent or around you to be used and transmuted for personal growth instead of just banishing them, by using the skills that meditation teaches, and that has been of interest to me for a few years now. Even though I do not know exactly what other people's experiences are with that, when I stumbled upon this ritual from my school as I go through the grades the idea immediately came to mind.

After some talks with Jorge Nájera, the director of studies of the school in question, La Fraternidad del Círculo Dorado, a Mexican offshoot of Dolores Aschroft's Servants of the Light, I convinced him as part of an on going project to start sharing it with other people in this corner of the occult community. The project in question is a translation of a manual by Jorge using the school's system which is very relevant to our times: The Shadow of the Tree: The Cabalistic Work with the Vices aka, the Qlippoth. It is not so much about redeeming demons but more about working with our own vices, which hide the Light according to Cabalistic doctrine, and how to let it flow and trickle down following the map of the Tree of Life.

The main ritual of this course is called The Pentagram of Purification by the Spirit and the philosophy around it is one of spiritual ecology --each energy has its rightful place in the Universe where it has a proper expression, so instead of pushing out or disintegrating unbalanced energies, it transmutes them and sends them to its proper level in ourselves to be used for our own personal development. It has two characteristics which make it of particular interest. Firstly, it manages to send the energies to their proper level by keying the tracing of the pentagrams with the inverse order of the descent of power through the Tree of Life (picture below) and secondly, it balances the martial qualities of the pentagram by adding a Venereal, that is of Venus, correspondence through the geometry of the pentagram itself and the numerical values assigned to it in classic gematria, which very much makes it feel less pointed and sharp, though not by any means less powerful. If it all, it is the strongest banishing ritual I have tried, but it doesn't leave me either pumped, nor tired but rather feeling very clean, light and peaceful. We are living pentagrams, after all. It is my wish to share this with you all, that it may bring Light, Life and Love to you and around you.



You can find the translation in full in PDF format in the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xaf_ihTIRQSkfUvjkUht49xjwn_XHS6V/view?usp=sharing

And as soon as the material in the book is available I will let everyone know as well.

Any questions or thoughts, feel free to contact me by direct message over here :-)

Re: The Pentagram of Purification by the Spirit, or of the Elevation of the Earth a gift from the FC

[ecosophia]

Hmm! Thank you very much for this.