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Magic Monday
It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. 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. (Any question received after then will not get an answer, and will more than likely just be deleted.) 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.The illustration? An astrologer at work. I've begun studying financial astrology, using the writings of Walter Gorn Old (aka Sepharial) and David Williams as initial guides. Since my mundane astrology project has gone very well so far, with several hundred subscribers, I figure it's time to start expanding the range of things I know how to do, and I feel rather like the guy in the image -- well, except I don't wear a ruff.
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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***
Request to Stop Book Donations and Library Update
Thanks to everyone who has donated books for my library. Right now the physical library is on hold, so I am asking people to stop donating books, at least for the moment. As many of you might already know, I rented a commercial space for the last 11 years in Naperville, Illinois for my music lesson studio. Originally I envisioned combining the music lesson space with a subscription library. Since 2020, running a small business out of a commercial space has become too expensive to sustain. Though I always seem to maintain a core of approximately 20 loyal students at any given time, 20 students is a far cry from the 40 - 50 needed to pay the bills and clear the most modest of profits. Thanks to my own Ogham divinations and help from fellow Ecosophian and horary astrologer Andrew Skeen, I made an informed decision to collapse my Studio and teach out of my own home in a nearby town. I’ll be making the final part of move by February when my commercial lease expires.
Please pray for me to find a suitable way to make the physical library happen. For now, it is at http://patreon.com/athenareadersclub as an online version. There are lots of great occult and rare books available to patrons in the continental US.
Druidry gave me sufficient antennae over the last six years to discern that renting a commercial space in the existing climate will only serve to exhaust my resources and snuff out my ability to run a library at all. Commercial rents are at all time highs. I sincerely hope it will get easier to rent commercial space in the future. For now, I’m collapsing to avoid the rush in hopes of rising again in a better climate for small-scale entrepreneurs. I am fairly sure that this is the right thing at the right time. Again, thanks everyone for all your help and book donations so far.
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Re: Request to Stop Book Donations and Library Update
(Anonymous) 2021-12-06 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)You saw what happened the last time there was a real estate crisis in 2008 - GovCorp stepped in and started interfering with real estate markets to soak up supply and keep prices high. And then the FedCorp showered GovCorp with money to make it possible to buy all that real estate.
They'll probably do the same thing again when the commercial real estate crisis ripens sufficiently. Money printer go brrr. Rents are likely to stay where they are and the price of everything else is likely to go up instead, basically.
The only thing that would change that whole dynamic is if they somehow lost their grip on things and banks actually started to fail. That might induce a fire sale and drop the price of real estate across the board. Don't hold your breath.
Re: Request to Stop Book Donations and Library Update
(Anonymous) 2021-12-06 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)Indeed about the commercial space issue. For over thirty years I have avoided it-my line of work requires lots of stuff (concert sound equipment) but no client visits. Fifteen years ago a friend who grew up on a farm helped me build a 16 x 40 warehouse-that is disguised as a suburban garage, and screened by a gargantuan patch of spreading bamboo. The side yard frontage is now a seven level terrace of mostly potatoes, which are shared with the neighbors... If had been renting space during COVID, then my business would have been utterly destroyed. And yes, I *am* working on slow collapse in the business, selling off stuff that is only required for bigger acts-stuff that also gets seemingly heavier with each year that I age. And I have my debt down to zero, which in this business is a nigh impossible feat.... (P.S. Also building a library; where I work has just disposed of over 300,000 books!!! I think, however, that the time for a subscription model is still a ways off. P.P.S I probably should have posted this on your blog. Prayers.)