Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just past midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is of Wilhelm Reich, Sigmund Freud's strangest and most innovative pupil, whose research into the role of sex in human psychology led him to discover the same life force that Mesmer, Reichenbach, Hieronymus, and so many others have discovered down through the years. Reich called it "orgone" because of its role in sexual orgasm, and -- again, like Mesmer, Reichenbach, and Hieronymus -- devised ways to concentrate and direct it. He was incautious enough to use it to treat illness in 20th century America, as a result of which he died in prison and his books were burnt by the US government. (Fortunately enough copies had been sold that they're still readily available today.) The moral to this story?  Don't interfere with the medical industry's stranglehold on health care in this country...at least not in public. 

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 I'm going to have somewhat limited email access tomorrow and it may be Tuesday or even Wednesday before I get to them all. If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed -- and yes, that means you. See you next week!***

Comments

[grokrathegreen]

Thank you, as always for hosting magic Monday. Is there a reason, beyond alliteration or schedule for having it on Moon day?

But, to the meat of my question for the week. I am still working my way through the SOP lesson. As I write I am just before my first inclusion of the Spirit Below. This brings up a question on keeping things balanced while customizing the SOP.

Instead of using Gods I have been told about I have been invoking three spirits at the opening each of whom I have had a dream or vision of, using guessed names or titles vibrated. So far the effects have been dauntingly powerful, and the apparent effects on my life seems disarmingly positive. Several longings in my life have been bubbling over with opportunities and realizations. I am gobsmacked, and very concerned now about maintaining a good relationship with these three, as their boons are good, and near as I am able to perceive they are coming about by wholesome means. So, when working with unknown gods, and being as green as a bean sprout what are good practices for maintaining good relationships?

Okay, that more pressing question being asked now I can move on to the SOP question. I am using divine names for the opening, but not the four elements, as I don’t have relation with gods who fit obviously to the four. But, now that I am preparing to invoke the Spirit Below I can think very clearly of a spiritual entity who fits. For this writing I will call him ‘Cowboy’ and once while I was in a depressed season and turning to ‘magic’ mushrooms, he presented himself and told me in no uncertain terms that I had learned what I had needed to learn from the mushrooms and would do well to lay off them for a long while. This was a time in my life that was very ‘underworldly’ and Cowboy did me right by that guidance. So I should like to attempt involving him in the SOP. Is it ok to have divine names in the SOP, except in the four directions? If I include him, then I presume that another will come to be invoked for the spirit above, but I don’t know who just yet.

A more minor point on the SOP, I tend to hold my hands behing my back instead of pointing at the element after it is drawn, seems to work. Also, the element of Earth has ‘Magnificent Ohm’ as its spirit animal, the name is taken from a fictional being in my favorite story Nausicca of the Valley of the wind, and is given to remember a spiritual experience I once had where a earth spirit feeling something like a rollie pollie slept beside me next to a camp fire. Pill Bugs are the earth element critter for me I guess, but as the spirit ‘felt’ larger I name it after the ohm. Ohms are very magnificent, I think you would like them. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=palemoon&q=ohm+nausicca&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fkatejohns619.files.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F10%2F600571-nausicaa21.jpg

I don’t suppose that using a fictional title to aggrandize the spirit of pill bugs should imbalance the SOP either?

Lastly, thank you for the new series of meditation, I am currently intending to finish establishing the SOP, and then after equinox once I am complete with that process, I will give careful consideration to taking on the meditative work as well… but we will see, I don’t want to try biting off too much again, better to do a little SOP really well, than a second thing second rate.

P.S. what is the role of orgone energy in sexual orgasm? Cannot have you putting up a picture of Wilhelm Reich and leave that question unasked!

[ecosophia]

1) Monday's a slow day for blogging for me, and "Magic Monday" alliterates nicely.

2) If you're working with unknown deities, talk to them and ask them to guide you in what they want.

3) No, if you're going to have divine names for some, you need divine names for all, or divine names for none. Otherwise you face imbalance.

4) I don't generally recommend using fictional images or names in magic; they tend to produce fictional effects, rather than real effects!

5) By all means take it one step at a time.

6) I recommend reading Reich's book The Function of the Orgasm for a detailed discussion of that point.

Geomancy

[(Anonymous)]

I have a question on "conflicting" meanings between the overall message of a geomantic reading and the message of certain figures in it. What I have in mind is something like this: "Will XY turn out positive for me". The chart will perfect in one or more ways, but the figure for the querent is not favorable. To give a concrete example:

I asked a question about a certain situation in my working place and whether my approach to solve it will turn out positive for me. The most relavant figures were 1st and 9th: cauda draconis, 7th, 10th and 12th laetitia, rw: conjunctio, lw: amissio, j: fortuna minor. From the nature of the questions it seems plausible to treat this both as a question for 10 or 7th house. Either way the chart perfects - by conjunction and mutation of by a double conjunction. Additionally there are aspects involved, some fortunate, some not.

The most straightforward interpretation I can think of is something along these lines "Yes, overall it's a very good thing to do so! Still, there are challenging aspects to it and it might involve you giving up on something or stop to do something, etc". The "counter-chart" on what would happen if I do nothing did not perfect and had unfavorable figures for querent and quesited, btw.

As always, thank you very much for your time and energy, MMs are a great source of information!
Nachtgurke

Re: Geomancy

[ecosophia]

Yes, that's very much the way I'd read it: the results will certainly be positive, but you will have to stop doing something or give something up in the process of making it happen. The left witness also supports that interpretation.

As a rule, I find that the presence or absence of a mode of perfection gives you your yes/no answer, and the characters in the house of the querent and quesited, and the character making a translation if there is one, tell you what will be involved in making it happen.

[amosowens]

On the outskirts of my town in Western Washington State, a resident has put up a large Trump 2020 sign in a high-visibility, high-traffic area. Predictably enough, there's now a swastika spray painted in the middle of it. However, the vandals presumably didn't know how to draw a Nazi swastika, and instead they drew a left-facing sauwastika of horizontal and vertical lines. It occurred to me that there might be an interesting esoteric dimension to the mistake, although I'm in no position to tell what that might be. What do you think? Does it mean anything? Does it have an unintended magical effect?

Thank you for all you do!

[ecosophia]

So it was this symbol?

If so, that's considered a highly auspicious symbol in many traditions -- for example, it's one of 65 auspicious symbols in Buddhism, and a common emblem of the goddess Kali in Hindu tradition. In Western occult thought, the sauvastika attracts spiritual forces, while the swastika radiates them outward. So whoever did that basically invoked a blessing on Trump...

[booklover1973]

Is there anything to be aware of when switching the gods invoked during the Sphere of Protection?

[ecosophia]

Just take some time in prayer to thank the gods you previously invoked for their help up to this point.

Psychic research

[(Anonymous)]

Hey jmg
Speaking of scientists studying psychic powers, didn’t the US and Soviet military do research in weaponising psychic power before closing the operations because even do it can work it wasn’t reliable enough to bother?

J.L.Mc12

Re: Psychic research

[ecosophia]

That's what I've read, certainly -- and it fits my experience of psychism. It can work, but it's not reliable.

The solar system

[(Anonymous)]

Does occult lore read about the fate of the sun and the solar system once the sun expands and “eats” the planets back? I’m assuming that I’ll find some answers in Theosophy and was wondering what other source you may know of that talk about this, if any.

Re: The solar system

[ecosophia]

Well, occultism isn't astrophysics, to begin with. Also, most of the occult philosophy we have now was developed when scientists believed that the sun would slowly get dimmer and dimmer over time, not larger and hotter. (There's a lot of old occult philosophy that's burdened with outdated science!) So what you'll find in Theosophy should be read as metaphor rather than physical prediction.

Affirmation

[(Anonymous)]

Last week I read the affirmations post when the discussion had already moved on, so I would like to ask a question now. I knew almost immediately after reading the post what I wanted to work on in in affirmation, and I also accepted that it would take hundreds of repetitions for a year in order to work. My doubt is whether the affirmation is prudent and ethical. What came immediately into my mind was “[My wife’s name] and I desire each other”.

Is it a good idea in this case to affirm something that also depends on another person’s free will?

The background is that when we met each other, I was both amazed and a bit intimidated to date and then to move in with a stunningly beautiful woman, who also had more varied sexual experience than I. Since she is not somebody to make or to appreciate pretty words, I kind of convinced myself that she liked me well enough as a person and that in spite of not feeling particularly physically attracted to me, her sex drive was strong enough to make it work for both of us. Years later, she told me that she did, in fact, find certain physical aspects of me attractive at the beginning of our relationship, though she would never have dreamt of telling me so at the time.

In any case, our sex life came to a rather abrupt end when our daughter was born several years ago. My now wife passed through clinical depression, postpartum and other, and though things are better now, sex continues rare and meagre. She tells me she feels no erotic attraction towards anybody at all, and I have every reason to believe her. Otherwise, I feel loved, and in spite of frustration, I still very much love her and find her the most attractive woman on earth.

All this is to say, my intention is to behave as if the affirmation were true, not to somehow force her to feel or do anything, and my hope is that by behaving with more self-assurance, she might rediscover her desire. Do you think this is a wise affirmation?

On considering various fictional accounts of people who desire, but hurt each other terribly, I decided to amend the words to “… desire and love each other”. I have used this affirmation for almost a week now and feel quite encouraged by some changes, but if you consider it ill-placed, I will reconsider.

Re: Affirmation

[ecosophia]

Have you considered talking to her and asking if she's willing to have you do that? Consent is as important in magic as it is in sex -- and it becomes absolutely essential when the two of them are combined.

Remedy against projection

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Archdruid,

Your posts on the Kek Wars brought up this question: I get the impression that I regularly tend to soak up negative projections from groups of people, and partly believing, even slightly acting on them. This happens on top of my personal mistakes and weaknesses which I’m not trying to deny here. I just notice that my assumptions about myself change according to the group I’m with. Maybe that’s regular group dynamics, or negative self-talk, or maybe a habit of picking up and identifying with shadows.

Sometimes similar things happen in my romantic relationships. I used to attribute this to my Pluto placement in the first house, forming an exact T-square with Moon and Mercury.

I’m already using regular banishings and most of the other tools you recommend, so I wanted to ask if you had a specific advice for this kind of problem?

Thank you as always for sharing your wisdom!

Re: Remedy against projection

[ecosophia]

That's actually normal; you might want to read up on what psychologists call the 'Pygmalion effect.' Unless they're on the autism spectrum -- which means they don't have the 'mirror neurons' that make this happen -- human beings get much of their self-image and most of their emotional reactions from the other people they're with.

Since I have Aspergers syndrome (which is an autism spectrum disorder) I may not be the best person to ask about this! That said, regular banishings and daily meditation will gradually give you the capacity to stand aside from what, in occult terms, is a phenomenon of the lower astral plane. In the meantime, positive affirmations can definitely help.

Did I curse someone?

[(Anonymous)]

I was having an email conversation with someone and after several emails I started to realize that it was a scam. I decided to go with it for a bit to see how far I could take it until the point I decided it was enough and called it that I knew that it was a scam. I looked online for a random picture from an occult book and jokingly said it was a curse when he asked for a picture of my info. (The picture was a description of the heaven realms and how that relates to man). After realizing how childish and irresponsible it was for me to do something like that it started to sink on me that it might have actually had some effect, even if mild.. Could I have actually cursed him? If yes, how can I undo this?

Re: Did I curse someone?

[ecosophia]

Yes, it was childish and irresponsible, but totally understandable; this page from the Scam-o-Rama website includes some slightly less occult versions of the same thing. The only extent to which you might have affected the person is if he believes he is cursed -- and if he believes in curses, he knows there are ways to get them removed, so his attempt to scam you is going to cause him to have to pay some money to get an uncrossing candle or the like. Karma!

Cloud buster

[(Anonymous)]

Hey jmg
What do you think of reichs “cloud buster” machines?

J.L.Mc12

Re: Cloud buster

[ecosophia]

I've never tried using them, so don't have any basis for an opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

Does radioactive material have an occult aspect, for example a particular etheric or astral signature or effects?

[ecosophia]

From an occult standpoint, radioactive minerals are demonic -- they're physical reflections of what Cabalists call the Qlippoth, the kingdoms of unbalanced force. That's why their effect on living things is so destructive.

[(Anonymous)]

Considering how many people remember being famous historical people in past lives, is it possible there is more going on than egotism? If someone is fated to have an interesting life, is it possible that as well as the primary soul that really lives that life, other souls could 'come along for the ride' and learn things from it too?

[ecosophia]

Everybody I've ever met who claimed to be a famous historical person in a previous life made statements about their past life memories that demonstrated pretty conclusively that they were either making it up or being misled by dim recollections of movies and books. It's also pretty consistently true that the more grandiose a claimed past life is, the more mediocre the person is in their present life. The occultist Francis King used to say that he knew 70 people who claimed to have been Aleister Crowley in their previous life, and he believed all of them, since each of them had about 1/70th of Crowley's intelligence and wit!

[(Anonymous)]

You've said it's really good for a society to have mystics who can absorb and transmute its unpleasant energy (I forget the exact words you used). If they can neutralise and enrich the harmful energy, how does that relate to karma, which is supposed to be inescapable?

[ecosophia]

There's collective karma as well as personal karma. You get to deal with your personal karma, no questions, no alterrnatives, but collective karma simply has to be dealt with by someone in the society that generates it -- thus the role of natural disasters in discharging large concentrations of collective karma.

Mystics take on the collective karma of their society and work it off. If you were a mystic, there you'd be on your knees, deliberately living a life of renunciation and prayer -- and your sufferings are absorbing and discharging a certain portion of the collective karma of your age, as well as your own negative karma from previous lives. That's why so many mystics take up austerities of various kinds: they know that they can make a real difference by embracing suffering that would otherwise afflict someone else.

horoscopy

[(Anonymous)]

As the farmers market season wraps us, and fall soccer kicks off, I'm getting a book list together for winter study, which also includes a tarot deck, so I can start figuring out the correspondences between them and the animal oracle I use now, as you suggested some time back; LRM, so I can get really, truly serious about my Golden Dawn program (which has already been mind-blowing just with PoW); Earth Divination, Earth Magic; Warnock's Astrological Magic; the labyrinth book you suggested in the last post maybe; and the L. George Horoscope Maker.

I can't remember if it's the A-Z or the New A-Z you recommend, though. Mind straightening me out on that? :)

As always, so appreciative of you time!
Tripp

Re: horoscopy

[ecosophia]

The A-Z, not the new A-Z! The newer version is watered down. You can get a used copy of the older edition -- it should be pre-1980 to be the right one -- for $15 or $20 on the used book market.

[(Anonymous)]

One of the consequences of the karma clear ritual can be going to jail for a crime you didn't commit. What does that do to the karma of the people in the criminal justice system who just sent down someone innocent (at least of that crime)?

[ecosophia]

Each of us is constantly given chances to participate in the karma of others. What we do in response to those chances shapes our own karma. If you're a prosecuting attorney, for example, you're constantly facing the choice as to whether to play the game honestly or -- like a certain presidential candidate many of us could name -- suppress evidence that would exonerate the innocent, because that makes you look tougher on crime. Which choice you make determines what karma you get.

So in the case you've brought up, an innocent person gets arrested for a crime he didn't commit in order to work off karma, and that process of working off karma will see to it that he gets a prosecutor who's willing to tamper with facts to win a case. The innocent person clears some nasty karma; the prosecutor adds some, for which he will pay in full in due time.

[(Anonymous)]

The theory that demons can be redeemed by returning them to the life cycle is how the animated film Kubo and the Two Strings ends. They trap the evil moon spirit in a human body without his memories, then con him into thinking he's always been a good person. :)

[ecosophia]

You'd have to change his character, not just his memories, and that would be tantamount to abolishing his personality and replacing it with another.

Rock star pantheon

[(Anonymous)]

Have you, or do you know anyone who has, ever invoked a "pantheon" or group of "deities" in banishing rituals that consisted of deceased rock stars or the like? My wife has been pining for David Bowie lately and was wondering if such a thing can be done. I mean, if people are invoking the Flying Spaghetti Monster to good effect, why not?

As an aside, my own rock star pantheon might begin to take shape when Nancy Wilson passes on. ;)

[Lights incense, puts "Magic Man" on the stereo, ecstatic visions commence]

Tripp

Re: Rock star pantheon

[ecosophia]

It can be done but I don't recommend it. Instead, if you want to invoke someone as one of the honored dead, use the sort of approach that Catholics use toward the saints and a lot of hoodoo practitioners use for less officially recognized holy persons. (You can get novena candles for St. Martin Luther King from some hoodoo supplies, for example.) This is standard practice in Shinto -- a dead person who's done impressive things in life is invoked as a minor kami, and if the prayers get a response, a tradition evolves.

[(Anonymous)]

If I remember rightly you said Paracelsus got a bad reputation for doing alchemy with human waste. What would be the goal of that? It seems you'd likely end up with alchemically-enhanced biological and chemical weapons. Or possibly the best compost ever. :)

[ecosophia]

There are some very good recipes for alchemical fertilizers in early modern alchemical texts, but that's not what Paracelsus was up to. The most secret branch of alchemy is the opus animalis or "animal work," which aimed at creating animate life or prolonging human life for a very long time. (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was influenced by scraps of lore involving the opus animalis; so was Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.) All of a human body's physical excretions were used in various forms of that end of alchemical work.

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG

This is about the discursive meditation thread where you mentioned closing off of earth energies, but I didn't want to derail your description of what is a start point for a process rather than a discussion so thought it might fit here instead.

Maybe I've got it wrong - since I've never been inclined to do a lot of work in the full lotus, and not wanting to be deliberately contrarian, but if one's backside is in contact with the floor, doesn't the perineum act as a point of ingress for earth energy?

Thinking about energy of the earth and energy of sky/heavens, and considering practices like skin and bone breathing; I know there are practices that do seal the energies, but while we are on the planet, are we ever completely closing off?

I can see that turning the soles up might allow for focus to alter so that the soles might act as more ingress for energy above as opposed to energy below, but that has always struck me as people messing about with switch/circuits/flow direction.

An example of a practical reason for doing this is if there is a blockage in the ren meridain where, instead of moving energy down the front, it is moved up to work at the blockage from below; but, as far as I know, that is not about closing off energy.

I think I remember you saying something about too much energy from above can manifest problems (ego?), excess energy, but is this a question of imbalance rather than disconnection.

The way I've looked at it is that we are a conglomeration of energy within other energy fields rather than distinct and separate. That separating out energy above and energy below is more about easing the way for us to understand interaction and flow - energy tendencies rather than absolutes. Focussing on one or another makes it simpler for us to get our minds around a process rather than the process being a representation of what is actually happening?

Then again, perhaps I am talking out of my perineum or some nearby body area!

[ecosophia]

The energy centers in and around the perineum have their own energy connections, related to the kundalini. The foot centers are the ones the body naturally uses to draw on telluric energy. Of course there's always some energy flowing through the body from all the sources that impinge on it, but posture can change the balance of forces dramatically; that's what Buddhist meditators are doing by rotating the foot centers upward, for example.

[(Anonymous)]

What are the occult and spiritual effects of pilgrimage? Most of what I've read related to the material world psycho-social-cultural aspects.

[ecosophia]

Certain places on the Earth's surface have distinctive flows of subtle energy moving through them. Those places where the flows are conducive to spiritual development become holy places, and going there is an opportunity to draw on those flows and accelerate your own spiritual development. That's the basis for pilgrimage: going to a place where the energies are strong and beneficial.

There's a secondary function of pilgrimage which comes from the energetic resonances of sacred persons and actions. If you revere a particular holy person from the past, going to the place where that person lived and died and doing spiritual work associated with that person in that place will bring you more closely into rapport with the holy person and the tradition they set in motion.

[(Anonymous)]

A brief update on the kittens two weeks ago: the three uncaptured vanished overnight. The young male we caught went to a friend who undertook to find him a home, the little black female has stayed with us.
Gertrude, after the patron saint of cats, the vet guessed eight weeks old, she's uninterested in magic as yet, but fascinated by mice (our house is old) and quite happy to be hauled around like a stuffed toy by the children or curl up for a nap with them. My mother's old allergies have not shown up, and little Trudy seems to be a decent fit in the family. She's filling out nicely and engages in hunting nothing human eyes can see, hopefully more effectively than she's managed the mice! She's a baby, she'll learn.
BoysMom

[ecosophia]

Delighted to hear that some survived, though I'm sorry to hear about the three that didn't. Pet Gertrude a bit for me sometime.

Democrat nominees getting ill on 9/11

[(Anonymous)]

During the last election around 9/11 Hillary Clinton was rapidly falling apart physically. Now, at around the same time, Joe Biden, the DNCs chosen nominee, starts bleeding from his eye and seems to be getting more and more forgetful and frail. Is this coincidence or is something more sinister going on?

If Joe Biden is being magically attacked somehow, isn't a person's fame supposed to protect them somehow? How would the deplorable types (If it is them again), how would they get past this protection?

If you are a somewhat public figure, how would one go about protecting themselves from the hatred of a large number of people (not that I have done anything to warrant hatred, but it seems impossible to be a public figure without one group or other hating you)?

Thanks for Magic Mondays!

Re: Democrat nominees getting ill on 9/11

[ecosophia]

Okay, first of all, remember that Clinton and Biden are both very, very old. Not that many years ago, it would have been out of the question for either of them to have run for president at their age -- it's only because the Boomers are clinging to power long after their time is up that we have so many geriatric politicians these days. Running for office is very stressful, and so it's no wonder that they had health problems!

Secondly, fame as such doesn't protect against magical attack. If you have a vast number of people beaming positive thoughts and hopes and prayers your way, that's a very solid protection, especially if that's being done in a religious context -- one of the reasons Trump has proven so durable, old as he is, is that he's got millions of conservative Christians and Jews praying for his welfare every single day. Clinton and Biden don't have that advantage -- their followers don't tend to be devout -- and Biden, certainly, hasn't attracted the kind of passionate enthusiasm that would help.

So if you're going to be a public figure of the kind that attracts political hatred, make sure that the policies you support are popular with at least one group of people who will pray for you good and hard -- and actually do things to benefit your constituents, rather than simply going through the motions and expecting them to love you anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

In societies where magic is practiced widely and openly, are there restrictions on who can do what magic based on class? Obviously if something requires literacy and numeracy, or uses expensive materials, it implicitly excludes some people. But is it ever written in law that certain people aren't allowed to do certain kinds of magic? That could go both ways and include things forbidden to the ruling class.

[ecosophia]

I don't know of a society that enacted such barriers into law. They've often existed as a matter of custom and habit -- for example, in medieval Europe, people in the upper classes didn't practice magic themselves, but hired people of a lower social rank to do it for them. But formal legal restrictions? It's possible, but I don't happen to know of an example.

Affirmations

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG, I just read your post on affirmations, and I have to say this is the first time I understand what they are actually good for, let alone how to do them properly. Actually, I'd like to start trying this over the next year (+ 1 day) and use the "old-fashioned" approach you describe in useful note #1. Which raises two questions:

1) My general affirmation is very short (four words). To synchronize it with my breathing, would it be best to say it only on the inbreath, only on the outbreath, on both, to split it between the two or to experiment and see what works best for me?

2) Just to make sure I've understood the difference between using the general and the specific affirmation: The general affirmation is said twenty times right after getting up, using synchronized breathing, and for at least one year and one day -- while the specific affirmation is said as often as I like during the rest of the day (but at least a hundred times), not necessarily using synchronized breathing, and quite possibly over shorter periods of time?

Thank you very much!

Re: Affirmations

[temporaryreality]

May I piggyback into this comment and ask if you'd be willing to say a little more about the difference between the general and personal affirmations and how to find/craft the more general variety? Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

I am a historian who has an issue in that an archive file that I want to access from the UK National Archives at Kew has gone "missing". This means that it has almost certainly been mis-filed after having been accessed by a previous reader.

Going by previous MM's, I have had the idea of asking St. Anthony to assist in the recovery of this file. I did a divination using an Ogham three card spread to see if this might be a good idea, and got the following result:

1st Card (Me): Oir reversed
2nd Card (Action): Coll
3rd Card (Result): Ailm

As the "Action" is to pray to St. Anthony, would I be correct in interpreting that the above spread is very favourable? Also, are there any tips on how I should word my prayer to St. Anthony?

[ecosophia]

That does seem very favorable. As for proper prayers to St. Anthony, I'll have to ask my Catholic readers to chime in here, as this isn't a subject I've studied.