Magic Monday
Dec. 25th, 2017 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!.***
***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!.***
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Date: 2017-12-25 09:50 pm (UTC)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?
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Date: 2017-12-25 10:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-12-26 01:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-12-26 03:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-12-26 07:11 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2017-12-27 12:22 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2017-12-26 05:22 am (UTC)-Dan Mollo
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Date: 2017-12-27 12:24 am (UTC)www.ferngladefarm.blogspot.com.au/
Date: 2017-12-26 09:54 am (UTC)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/
Date: 2017-12-27 12:25 am (UTC)Re: www.ferngladefarm.blogspot.com.au/
Date: 2017-12-27 02:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
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