Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

 As noted on the blog last Wednesday, instead of an "ask me anything" post this week on ecosophia.net, I'll be hosting a "Magic Monday" today. What does that mean? It means "ask me anything about occultism, and I'll post an answer here." Since this Monday is a busy day for a lot of people, being sacred to two popular religions -- Christianity on the one hand, and Consumerism on the other -- if comments trickle in on Tuesday et al., I'm not going to be a stickler for the point. 

That said, have at it! 

***PLEASE NOTE: as of midnight, 26 December 2017, this Magic Monday has packed its tents and gone away. If you have questions you haven't posted yet, please save them for the next Magic Monday on January 1!.***

Comments

[yuccaglauca]

I have a clarification question about the lower astral. Does the term "lower" here include the meaning "closer to ether" that is sometimes used to talk about different densities of astral material, or is this a separate axis of "lowness?"

Also, you've recommended good magical practice to cause someone to resonate less with the lower astral. Is this a simple matter of moving away from the lower astral and so not being as involved in it, or does one still need to take care to cultivate better patterns on the lower astral, even while changing focus to higher levels? More clearly, I'm concerned about making sure that nothing is being repressed that will caused the sort of problems that repressed things often do.

[ecosophia]

Lower as in closer to the etheric and physical. The different sublevels of the planes seem to sort out according to something equivalent to density, and the lower astral is denser than the middle and upper astral, with the etheric being denser still.

If you're engaging in regular magical practice, the result isn't to repress the lower astral, it's to attune your astral body to the middle and upper astral -- rather like getting up onto the sidewalk so you don't have to keep walking in the gutter. You're not repressing the muck, you're just not wading in it any more.