Toward Ecosophy

No, I'm very much a person (and thank you for calling me unsophisticated; I always know exactly what I'm dealing with as soon as someone reaches for that cudgel with me ;-))

I was actually baiting for people who DO get it. No one got the 538 reference! Not even my partner. Which was a significant piece of information for me. People who were really keen on the Kekistani chaos magic were seeing 538 as a significant synchronicity before Trump's election. Trump's election wasn't a disaster - but he was a big projection screen for people's shadows! And a significant shakeup to the status quo.

The magic I practice, to my knowledge, doesn't have a name. The best my partner and I have been able to come up with is Theurgic Shamanaic Astrological Jungian Chaos Magic, lol.

I know it's shamanic, because the involuntary and terrifying initiation that I had, and the way it works: Shamans must learn to heal their own selves in the spirit world, and then the gift their spirit guides give them is the one they can use to come back and help heal their community.

I know it's theurgic, because before I act, I always pray to ensure it is in accordance with the will of the deities I serve (and often, when it's really good, I can see that other people are getting signs and answers to their prayers on the same wavelength when I read Tunesmyth's prayer list).

It is also Astrological, because it works when factors in the astral - which can be predicted using mundane astrology - are such that I can see synchronicities coming hard and fast in the keywords people are saying around me, what JMG is saying the mundane astrology says.

I know it is Jungian, because I also divine on whether it is in accordance with the will of my Higher Self, and it uses my intuition, which is my inferior function - the place where God comes in, according to the Jungians - which is the part in the unconscious. MY shadow.

It's kekistani chaos magic, because it uses the same memetic techniques and hypersigils.

So when I see what is coming up for me in my daily divinations and the songs that I'm hearing in my head generate hard and fast synchronicities with what other people are saying, the hot button topics in the news, and what the mundane charts show is approaching, I know that means I have the ability to take a piece of the energy brewing the collective sh*tshorm and heal it by constellating and earthing out a part of my own shadow consciously, rather than let it earth out more harmfully in the unconscious shadow projections of the collective.

I have no idea what category the technologies of Jungian analysis and chaos magic are in - are they going out with Pluto? Or coming in with Uranus? I don't know. It's clearly in my shadow as a person, and as a Westerner. I think the Age of Aquarius has already demonstrated that the technological innovations we'll come up with are very powerful; but many are very dangerous with no real cost-benefit reward that collectively we can't admit (nuclear fission) and others are ambiguous, with real costs and real benefits, like rail travel and the steam engine. Presumably, some are both extremely powerful and extremely good. And we can't not do it, this innovation. Humans can never stop themselves from stealing that fire from the gods. We're just not that good.

JPRussell saw that meaning: it's about to get rough, the stars are clear. But, I know this: Dr. Arnold in Jurassic Park says, "hold on to your butts" right before he shuts the power off to try to stop things from getting worse. But what he set up allowed the next character to turn it back on at the main source (after he gets eaten, of course) and for the situation to turn around for the survivors.

I think, like many forms of magic, it is potentially very dangerous, in the 'blow yourself up and then become a force of destruction in the lives of all around you' kind of way.

So to check that what I am doing is as safe as I can make it, I use my dreams to guide me, and the nature of the synchronicities, and the conditions of my life (e.g. is the quality of the people I am surrounded by in my life getting better or worse? Are these synchronicities of good things happening? The symbols of beneficent beings?). To check whether it's effective, I check whether I get some results immediately in the external world as well as in terms of my own understanding of my shadow (both the good and bad parts - as all shadows are both our strengths and our weaknesses). So far, whenever that happens to me, I have seen it cascade outward beneficently in widening and slowing circles. At least, I think so: that's always the terrifying thing when we act in the world in any way. Having to test our own motivations and the secret intentions of our own hearts.

As always, thank you for your patience, JMG. I am so far extremely pleased by my results.

Thank you, I take that as high praise; and from your reading preferences, assume that you are a most excellent sort of person.