Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's almost midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is Max Heindel, founder of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, one of the big four American Rosicrucian orders during the golden age of American occultism -- that was most of a century ago, in case you were wondering.

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.

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With that said, have at it!

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

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[(Anonymous)]

Good day to you, JMG!
I have a few questions for you today.
1. First question is about how to approach divination. Since I am a novice, when I perform a divination I need to look up the possible meanings of the fews. From there, should I consider what comes to my own mind for a connection with my life to figure out what the fews are telling me?

2. You said that you have magical workings around your books for unauthorized use, such as using a pdf from online. Would that carry over to using an electronic library copy such as borrowed from Hoopla Digital or reading from google books?

3. How would you order your mediation, divination and sphere of protection practices?

4. My second grade son was learning about the ancient Celts this week in school and parents were encouraged to take their kids into nature and talk about how the Celts based their religion around nature. We ended up talking about rivers and trees and then found a large fir tree who's trunk split in three and brought the image of the three rays of light to mind. We shared nwyfre with the tree and I asked my son what he "heard". He said "the tree knows my name...all the trees do." That surprised me in a "kids are so much more in tune than adults" kind of way. What do you think?

Many thanks.

Re: More questions

[ecosophia]

1) Yes. You should also always write down your interpretation, and then go back over it the next day and see how well you did. That way you'll quickly figure out what you're missing, learn from your successes and mistakes alike, and develop your own sense for what the fews are saying.

2) If it's legal, you're fine. Both of those are exempted from my working.

3) I cast the Sphere, then meditate in the space cleared by the ritual. I usually do divination a little later in the morning, but you can also do it right after the meditation.

4) I think your son hasn't yet been bullied into not noticing realities that our culture insists aren't there. Good for him, and for you!