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Date: 2022-04-21 08:04 pm (UTC)1. Point well-taken on amateur divination readings. I am at a point in my readings (~11 months of daily Ogham readings) where I usually feel pretty good about my interpretation, but for weightier decisions, I get a bit of cold feet. Luckily, when it comes to "what should my spiritual practice be for the next few years?", the factors are mostly within my control, as long as I stick to some basic magical safety the risks are pretty low, and I can always course correct as I learn more, so it's not quite as dire as deciding whether to move across the country or something!
2. Excellent point! After posting this, I realized that I had buried some assumptions in there, so yesterday afternoon, I did a reading asking "Should I set aside the DMH and its work while our daughter is too young for me to do magic?" and got the following:
- Setting: Ur
- Work: Huath (Reversed)
- Outcome: Saille
I took this one to mean that I have a strong spiritual base to start from, and that I need to be flexible moving forward, but that it would be rash to totally set aside the DMH. Which leads me to your third point.
3. Here is the assumption I've been working from that I don't think I conveyed above: one of the reasons I took up the DMH, rather than keeping on with a cobbled together set of practices (Heathen LBRP+MP, Daily Rune Reading, Meditation themes taken from Norse myth), was that for a variety of reasons it would be valuable for me to take JMG's advice to pick a published system, and follow it to the letter beginning to end before trying to move on to any kind of customization or the like. As such, I have been assuming that after it is safe to do so, I will come back to DMH and complete it as written, and I've worried that jumping to a completely new system would be undermining my resolution to do DMH front to back (even if it takes a pause in the middle).
Given those assumptions, I was a bit leery of deciding "Eh, DA and DMH are pretty much the same, except for the ceremonial magic, it should count", hence the divinations. That being said, something very much like your logic is what led me to ask the question I did (I had already started reading DA and thinking "how should I start fitting this into my daily practice?")
So, in closing, you've got some good points I'm definitely going to consider, and yes, I think I'll ask a condensed version on MM, unless any comments here and/or further divination and meditation make the right way forward clearer!