A closer look
Dion Fortune was a prominent British occultist who claimed she was subjected to a series of terrifying psychic attacks from the jealous wife of a former magical mentor. She documented her defensive battles in a book, describing how she had to erect astral shields and visualize protective auras to stop the invisible mystical forces from scratching her physically and making her cats sick. Her famous manual on psychic self-defense essentially reads like a supernatural martial arts guide for paranoid spiritualists who think their bad days are caused by dark sorcerers rather than just bad luck. It is incredibly convenient that when highly dramatic mystics have personal drama with their coworkers, it immediately escalates into an epic invisible war on the astral plane
