Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's a little past midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is Gladys Miller aka Mother Serena, for many years head of the Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIA), one of the many magical orders active in the US in the 20th century.

Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer, though it may be Tuesday sometime before I get to them all.

I've had several people ask about tipping me for answers here, and though I certainly don't require that I won't turn it down. You can use the button below to access my online tip jar.

With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed to new questions. See you next week!***

Comments

Re: Questions

[ecosophia]

1) I use homeopathic medicines -- specifically, the biochemic cell salts, which have been the mainstay of my household health care for the last thirty years -- to deal with such things. Herbs and acupressure also seem to work well; I don't know of a magical method that's anything like as effective.

2) If you have your friend's permission to do so, prayer is always a useful option in such situations.

3) Yes, but I had the great good fortune of watching enough people crash and burn trying to get rich through magic to figure out what not to do, and the Order of Essenes correspondence course I discussed over in my other blog helped me figure out what actually works. The very short form is that changing yourself is always more effective than changing the world around you; if you work magic to develop your talents and skills, to shed bad habits that keep you from making the income you need, to assist you in finding and pursuing opportunities, and -- this especially -- to learn to waste less of the money you have, you'll prosper. The fascinating thing is that as you change yourself, the world changes with you, while if you try to change the world without changing yourself, the world resists you at every turn.

seasonal allergies

[deborah_bender]

I used to have severe allergic reactions to the pollen that privet trees release in the summer. On the advice of my herbalist, I started taking two capsules daily of either dried nettles or a proprietary compound called HistaEze that contains nettle extract, another plant and some minerals, starting one month before the time that I usually start having seasonal allergies, and continuing through the period of the allergies. it is important to start ingesting the dried nettles weeks before you start having allergic symptoms, because the effect is not quick-acting.

This has helped me tremendously. I no longer have to take massive daily doses of OTC antihistamines and oral Prednisone during the heaviest pollen releases, just one antihistamine pill a couple of times a week and I'm fine.

Dried nettle capsules are sold in drugstores in the vitamin section and are pretty cheap. The proprietary supplement I mentioned is more expensive. My herbalist says that nettles are chock full of helpful minerals and that fresh young nettles (cooked) are a good spring tonic. You can consume nettles year round and they don't dry out your mucous membranes.