Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight as I type this, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. This week's classic of Western occultism, since I've been indulging in Ross Nichols' poetry of late, is The Cosmic Shape, published in 1946, which contains his brilliant essay "An Examination of Creative Myth," which discusses the need for nature-myth and ritual as a counterbalance to the artificialities of modern life, and his related Arthurisn poem-cycle "The Cosmic Legend," as well as other poems of his and his fellow poet James Kirkup. He clearly discussed these ideas with his good friend Gerald Gardner; those ideas ended up playing a central role in the creation of Wicca as well as the transformations of 20th-century Druidry. Here's a bit from "The Cosmic Legend": 

I have made my ceremonies; the crisis
comes. None may reproduce, no water flow,
until the sword is from its sheath pulled.
Only I, the medicine-man Gawain, instructing 
at midnight Galahad, the pure one of 
spring -- only I can save you, faithless 
with the fallen leaf. I prove to you,
O my dead people, once again that
I alone am your strength.

In the first ray beating touching on the centre altar-stone
to the eye prepared at vigil-end, the vessel of the sun,
cup and heart, to Galahad. 

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG -

Three questions for you this evening:

1) Does the amount of experience a person has with divination determine the accuracy of the result? In other words, if I, having no experience with geomancy, cast a chart, will the chart give an accurate answer to my question even though I may not be able to interpret it correctly?

2) I’m doing the green candle spell to earn more money, and I’ve had the experience that the first opportunity that came up conflicted with a job commitment that was already in place, so I wasn’t able to take it. No other opportunities have come up since. Did I nullify the spell?

3) I’m looking at protection and money magic on Lucky Mojo. Are the spells there generally safe for people with no magical experience?


Thanks, as always for giving your time.

David

[ecosophia]

1) I don't know that anyone's ever done the necessary experimentation to find out.

2) Pretty much, yes. If you're going to do such a spell you need to find some way to take any opportunity it brings you, even if that involves serious difficulties. I'd encourage you to keep doing the spell, and next time, take the opportunity no matter what.

3) Protection, yes. Money magic? Always, always, do money magic to bring yourself opportunities to earn money, not to try to get money you didn't earn. Everyone I've ever known who tried the latter ended up losing money, usually quite a bit of it.