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...

Copies? You can get them here if you're in the US and here elsewhere. Owoo! 

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With that said, have at it! 

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

Comments

Re: big questions on heavy matters

[baconrolypoly]

Please accept my condolences about your partner, that sounds like a very tough ending for him and horrible for you to witness. I hope you find something that helps and that you find the support you need.

I'm very sorry to hear about the dogs too, that's nasty. Is there an equivalent of an animal rescue place where you are? If the dogs are still there, can you get them involved to help get those dogs out? I saw a lot of cruelty to dogs when I worked abroad and was enraged by how thoughtlessly and cruelly those dogs were treated so you have my sympathy. I saw from what you'd written elsewhere that you had an unhappy childhood. My own could be described, at best, as 'septic' and I think my memories of the cruelties I experienced increases my feelings of anger and despair when I see others badly treated, whatever the species. What helped was to adopt a street dog from that country, bring him home and treat him with all the love and kindness he'd missed in earlier life. The relief of telling him 'You'll never be alone and frightened again' and then making it happen, sort of giving him what I had missed, was very powerful.

Not everyone can just go out and adopt a dog, but maybe making a donation to a charity that helps dogs might alleviate some of the bad energy.

Re: big questions on heavy matters

[kallianeira]

Thank you very much. We have what you have: RSPCA.
All this was a long time ago, I remember (Eliot sprang to mind, thank you again! https://poetryarchive.org/poem/journey-magi/), and a long way away, somewhere I only went once, so naught I can do for those dogs.

Now I am in another country town where it is as bad. People love their pig-hunting and raise certain breeds of dog solely for that purpose who live the same way, or in cages in back yards. At the same time they will pay $2500 for a dachshund puppy to have in their house. This culture is stronger than the RSPCA. The cruelty is evangelical, with hate letters in the paper vilifying cats - which some here are not above kidnapping and killing.

You and I are of like sentiment with wishing to remedy cruelty. I am a soft-hearted would-be rescuer with the good fortune not to have turned into a homeless animal shelter. My cats have been rescue pets and always will be.