ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's a little before midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note: Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. (I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) 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 1.1 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.

The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left is the current edition of my seventh published book, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult. I'd gotten irritated about the lack of decent reference works on occultism, and Llewellyn, the publisher I worked with in those days was enthusiastic about the idea of helping to fix that. It was a fun project, and includes a certain number of quiet and rather abstruse jokes; there are other occult encyclopedias available these days but this one still stands up fairly well -- though I'd make a lot of changes if the publisher was interested. (This also turned out to be the last book I did with Llewellyn for a long while, due to some issues involving their treatment of another project of mine.) If you're interested in the encyclopedia, you can get a copy here if you live in the US, and at your favorite book venue if you live elsewhere.

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JMG,

Many thanks for this wonderful resource!

I have a question or two related to performing some modest rituals during planetary hours.

1. This Sunday I said a prayer and lit a beeswax candle in honour of the Sun during 3 of the 4 planetary "hours" of the day. I didn't set an alarm to get up at 4am to do the same for the 4th "hour" very early on Monday morning, is this a mistake or is it generally fair and reasonable to do what you can and receive a blessing equal to you effort?

2. Where might I find more resources on improving my offering during these hours. My offering was the rather humble lighting of a candle and a prayer (as mentioned). Is that sufficient or does it depend on what is asked of them? I don't want to be at risk of imbalance and wish to provide the due respect. It felt fair to me, but being fair skinned I perhaps fear the consequences of a backlash perhaps more than others!

3. Lastly, I experienced heartburn just as I was climbing in to bed. Is this an indication that the Sun heard my prayers and is letting me know by literally burning up the zone of my desires? I realise the simplest explanation is probably true but found it interesting enough timing to remark upon it.

Thanks as always!

Pink Radiant Anteater

1) I normally offer a prayer on one of the planetary hours, not all four! You hsould be fine.

2) If you want to go further, you need to decide what kind of magic you want to learn, and then go learn it. There are plenty of books on candle magic, and some of the classics are long out of copyright; here's an example --

http://iapsop.com/ssoc/1942__gamache___master_book_of_canle_burning.pdf

3) Answering questions like this is one of the things that divination is good for.

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