dear Caroline et al
An big issue in magick is the whole business of the position of the pole
star -
every tradition of magick in the northern hemisphere has some reference
- often veiled - to the mysteries of the circumpolar stars, especially Ursa
Major -
which isn't even visible in the south - i wonder if people use the southern
cross and the occassional appearance of Orion?? Perhaps they end up with
some new insights into the 'battles' between the gods ??
In some sense we are all Chaos magicians now - (i got that from Julian
Vayne) in that we all seem to use some sort of 'virtual' or 'imaginal'
cardinality - its funny how for example many magicians find the 'temporal'
or virtual zodiac more effective than the 'actual' or sidereal equivalent -
It may be that even in the oldest magical traditions such as Egypt - there
was a large degree of this virtual magic - the ancient egyptians may have
been capable at making very accurate astronomical calculations - but in
practice they were content with rough approximations and intentionality.
So there is quite a lot of room for fudge -
although when the star markers are so different i wonder how people get on -
migrants have often taken their symbol systems with them - as the hindus
take with them in their hearts a concept of the 'Ganges' which they project
onto the local geography - so maybe this is how it goes -
love and do what you will
mogg
So...... I do think that ceremonial magic(k)-derived magickal styles do make
a difference to whether one is in the northern or southern hemisphere. But I
wonder about more "free form" kind of magick(s)? And what about Chaos magic?
Now that's another kettle of phish entirely which does not necesarily bother
with those sort of format "rules".
~Caroline.
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