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

[(Anonymous)]

(Violet)

Many thanks for hosting this! In the past few weeks I've spent a goodly amount of time with dice, doing geomantic readings about possible paths I can take in the near term future. While doing this, I've been noticing that I struggle to imagine a path, or even a destination. It's like the future is extra-foggy.

For about 9 years I've practiced different systems of divination, and the last time I had this sort of uncertainty was during the aftermath of the 2008 housing crisis. I'm concerned that it may be difficult to 'see' into potential futures because of disruptions in the normal flow of emanation from spiritual plane on down, or put differently there is a kind of 'storm' in the anima mundi, or the part of the anima mundi that relates to human groupings. Sometimes of a future imagining has, seemingly led me, to its realization on the physical. My guess would be that I feel some sort of contraction of possibility in the near term future. My question is: how does one best proceed when the future is murky, and it's hard to even get a good visual? How does one proceed when the amount of possibility, rather than just desirability or pragmatics, is hard to discern?

[ecosophia]

How does one best proceed? Very, very carefully! Occult tradition has it that as a society drifts further and further into delusion and dysfunction, one consequence is that the lower astral plane -- the end that resonates with corrupt emotional states, degraded thoughtforms, and the like -- becomes overloaded with energy. That makes it very difficult for ordinary astral functions such as clairvoyance and precognition to operate. (The reason psychic phenomena are so much rarer and weaker today than they were in earlier times, according to the theory, is that the modern era has seen a buildup of static on the lower astral unparalleled since the days of a certain legendary and long-drowned civilization.) That proceeds until the corrupted energies find a way to discharge themselves into matter, usually by way of disasters of various kinds. These become more frequent and damaging until finally the lower astral is reasonably clear. I think you're right that a "contraction of possibility" is approaching -- that's a useful phrase, by the way! -- and divination may be of limited use until it passes.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if such times being particularly unpredictable/'random' makes them harder to divine, but more easily influenced by magic.

[ecosophia]

Good question. I haven't noticed any particular change in the efficacy of my working, but then I don't do a lot on the lower astral.

[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.

[(Anonymous)]

How local is this phenomenon? For example, would a clairvoyant who travels beyond the boundaries, material or otherwise, of her delusional and disfunctional society notice a difference in her abilities?

-Dan Mollo

[ecosophia]

It's somewhat localized, by all accounts. You can't get wholly away from it by physical travel, but there's a decrease in its intensity.

www.ferngladefarm.blogspot.com.au/

[(Anonymous)]

Hi John Michael,

Sorry to add in a data point here, but I thought you my be interested to know that I am observing that there seems to be a lot more folks in a state of heightened emotions than I have ever previously observed.

I am unfortunately sensitive to such things and it causes me a mild feeling of distress, but living a quiet life up in the mountains provides considerable relief to that aura.

Cheers

Chris

Re: www.ferngladefarm.blogspot.com.au/

[ecosophia]

Doesn't surprise me at all. Things seem to be really building toward crisis.

Re: www.ferngladefarm.blogspot.com.au/

[(Anonymous)]

I would go so far as to call it a lower-astral psychic hurricane. A friend of mine who is also psychically sensitive and I have been suffering from excruciating and intractable sleep-problems ever since Pluto started transiting within one degree a sensitive point in our charts that we share in a manner of speaking (she has Venus in 18-Aries and I have Mars in 18-Libra). And it's really strange, because the permutations of this issue we each experience parallel with one another exactly (including beginning in earnest when Pluto moved into that one-degree transiting position in the middle of January of last year). Both she and I are watching Pluto move beyond the range of 18-Capricorn this year with our fingers crossed!

[(Anonymous)]

Is there any way to assist in 'grounding out' this corrupt energy? Standard regular magical practices like banishing and meditation no doubt help an individual navigate these conditions better than most and stop contributing to them, but is there anything that can be done to take some of the sting out of it and ameliorate the disasters occurring on the material plane? I am aware this is a natural phenomenon, and it will proceed and resolve itself in due course, but if there is any way to spare my nearest and dearest some of the worst of it, I would like to try.