Occult

Hi. I had a little bit of a breakdown earlier last week (it's okay, I'm fine, I just got upset with myself and wasn't in a good headspace to begin with) and during my little break from sanity, I threw a hairspray can at my mirror. It shattered. It's currently still on the wall (the fragments seem to be glued to the backing) and I'm still using the half of it that's not shattered, but I need to replace it soon, and despite being mostly agnostic on superstitions and stuff, I've apparently got it into my head now that I've unleashed bad luck on myself. So from a chaos magic standpoint (my belief in 7 years of bad luck being the important variable), I am subjecting myself to 7 years of bad luck if I don't either do something about this, or sufficiently convince myself that it's taken care of.

So, what can I do about a broken mirror? Stuff I read on a wiccan forum talked about grinding the mirror into a powder (impractical, I can't really see being able to do that safely with the tools and workspace I have - I'll put my eye out or something), dumping the shards into a stream that flows south (littering and doing who-knows-what to the critters that live in that stream), or burying the shards under cover of darkness (this approach seems most doable).

My question is, what would y'all recommend? And if you went the burial route, what kind of ritual would you build around it?

And afterwards, to just ensure that "bad luck" is warded away, would you think just a regular banishing ritual (like the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram) would suffice?

For those who would like a handy reference pertaining to tropical astrology (i.e., traditional Western astrology), see my following article:

• Jamie Michelle, "Tropical Astrology", Internet Archive, June 16, 2022 (orig. pub. June 11, 2020), ark:/13960/t0wq8t60r; also available here, here and here; download: here.

A lot of research and attention to detail has been put into this. This began mostly as my own notes for myself. I find the intersection between different cultures' ancient beliefs and their connection to the modern science of astronomy to be quite interesting, including how that ancientness has carried forward to the present time. For example, in English the days of the week are named after deities—mostly Norse deities—and those deities in turn were each associated as representing one of the seven classical planets. So each day of the week also has a classical planet associated with it. And this same connection goes back to the ancient Mesopotamian deities, through the Greeks and Romans, and is even found in Hinduism. There's actually a lot of overlap between these cultures, which continues to this day in our modern culture. I provide tables of rows and columns which explicate these connections in a convenient way.

A good deal of historical digging had to be done in order to nail-down some of this information. Presently there's a lot of confusion that exists regarding the referent identity of Sagittarius; and to a somewhat lesser extent, so also with Capricorn, and even some of the other Zodiacal signs. One might think that this historical cultural information would have been better preserved and known by those who make it their interest to write on such topics, but such is not the case. So my choices regarding the aforesaid referent identities haven't been made lightly. As far as what I have come across, this information has never been laid out in such a systematic and well-researched manner. One area where I might expand on this article is to give scholarly citations while explaining how I arrived at some of the possibly more surprising referent identities.

As indicated, I additionally make the connection between astrology and the modern science of astronomy, and even modern medical science. I provide a number of astronomical and mathematical resources for those who might desire to learn about astronomy more.

So if one comes at this information from the cultural perspective, one might be inspired to learn more about its scientific/astronomical aspects. Or if one comes at it from the scientific/astronomical perspective, one might be inspired to learn more about its cultural aspects. There ought to be something here for almost everybody!

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For additional writings by me, see also my below Linktree profile to find other social-media websites that I'm on:

• "jamie_michelle", Linktree; also available here and here.

Sometimes called the “Bhagavad Gita of the West”, this beautiful and inspired volume of poetic meditations contains some of the most profound material ever written on the subject of the Tarot and Qabalah. It presents twenty-two meditations on the Ageless Wisdom concealed within the Hebrew letters and the Tarot Keys. This is a book to treasure and to read again and again.

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Here is a collection of materials which Greg feels are of value to the serious student of Occultism. These materials were edited and converted to PDF by himself and others in order to ensure they remain available and in good editions.

Les douze clefs de Philosophie, in pdf form.