God Shuts His Eyes: On Magic & The Eclipses
words of wisdom passed down + an invitation to commune with the Dream Weaver
“Why can’t I practice magic on the eclipse?”
A few years ago I was in a small online chat with some magicians and astrologers, where someone kept pressing the group on their thoughts around practicing magic during an eclipse. Despite a unanimous “just don’t do it,” this person kept pressing on until astrologer Freedom Cole, whose words I’ll now paraphrase, spoke up:
In India, they say that God shuts his eyes during an eclipse. The lights go out. While, yes, this could be a time to perform magic that benefits from the cloak of secrecy, if something goes wrong, there’s no one there to help you.
God shuts his eyes.
Each time I hear these words, they summon the first lines of Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Mad Girl's Love Song”:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
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