It was November 2017. I put away everything I knew about magic and challenged myself to do something new: Practice a simple daily ritual to set the direction of my life, instead of continuing to cast spells to solve short term problems.
In Will based Magic, the magician tries to impose their will on reality to achieve a result. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t. In Legacy Magic, the magician or witch applies a different approach, softening reality through repetitive magic.
What do I mean by softening reality?
The softening reality technique recognizes that there is a certain level of resistance to change, especially when you go after more improbable possibilities. This level of resistance can be turned into momentum through repetitive magic. A magical working that is done again and again and again has an impact on the reality around it. It softens reality, making it easier to manifest possibilities into outcomes.
The conventional wisdom around magical workings and spells is that you only do a working or spell once and then you let it go and do its thing. This is sometimes a useful way to approach magical spell work but sometimes it can also end up being a limitation that actually doesn’t serve you very well.
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The Principles of Legacy Magic
In Legacy Magic the focus is on designing your life through magic so it actually requires a repetitive approach to magical work that gradually steers you toward the specific result that you want to achieve. You’re not just trying to achieve a limited outcome in the immediate or short-term future. You’re actually trying to design your entire life. This requires an approach to magic that is fundamentally different from the way that you will typically learn how to do spell work.
You choose a magical working to practice each day. You’re creating an iterative process where you repetitiously practice that magical working with the specific outcome in mind. Certain fundamental principles at work make this effective. The first principle at work is that the act of repetition occurs through every single moment of the magical working that you’ve done. In other words, each time you do the magical working, that working encompasses all the other moments when you’ve done the same working, creating an iterative, repetitive process that softens reality.
The second principle is that you are present in every single moment of that magical working. When you do the magical working in the current moment, you are connecting across time to all the other moments that you’ve done that magical working. This serves a very important purpose because your future self is working all the way back to the very first moment that you began the working and creating a unified stream of magical consciousness between the last moment that you ever do the working and the first moment. It creates a continuum across time and space that unifies the magical working and allows it to occupy the entirety of your life, defining the outcome of your life through the magical work.
How Legacy Magic can change the journey of your life
Iterative magic weaves the flow of magic into your life, shaping and directing the experiences that you have. You’re actively creating your life from a place of design instead of waiting for your life to happen to you. Events that come into your life will inevitably end up playing a role in the magical work and will be part of the co-creation. People that come into your life will also play a role in your life in the same way, becoming part of the overall magical working that you’ve done and orchestrating the experience of your life that happens.
Something that is worth noting is that you will also be part of their lives in that the magic that they work (if they work magic) will weave into your own magic, creating some very interesting synchronicities. This is something that always happens when other magicians interact with you because you’re dealing with co-creative forces on their end as well as your own.
What I’ve discovered has been really helpful for achieving long-term results is to repetitiously practice magical workings and change the outcomes along the way. I have an overall outcome that I am working toward and an ideal magical life, if you will, but along the way I create results that stack up to that outcome. I work the magic toward those results. As I achieve those results, I adjust them so that I continually evolve the magical working to meet the circumstances of my life, rather than focusing on a short-term end result. This has greatly improved the overall quality of my life because I am continually changing what I’m striving toward and at the same time making it part of the same long-term magical working that I’ve been doing for years.
The reason I switched to long-term magic is because I realized that while getting short-term results was helpful sometimes, it was also a frustrating experience. I didn’t feel like there was a consistent theme in my life that was allowing me to create the life that I wanted. Sure it was fun to throw a sigil here or do a magic spell there or burn a candle during the full moon. But the question I kept coming away with is: how is this actually changing my life? What am I actually doing to create sustainable change that allows me to live the magical life that I really want to live?
What I realized is that applying will-based magic might give me a short-term outcome but what it wasn’t doing was creating the long-term change that I really wanted. I wanted to be living life on my terms. I wasn’t doing that by just doing the occasional spell. I needed something that would actually create a real, sustainable connection to the magic and allow me to soften reality so that I could achieve the results I wanted to manifest.
I changed my approach from will-based magic to long-term legacy magic because it made sense. Instead of doing spells to deal with specific problems that came up, I started doing magic proactively, creating a lifetime legacy that would allow me to steer my life in the direction I wanted to go in and improve the overall quality and well-being of my experiences because they lined up with the desired outcome that I wanted to manifest.
The first couple of years that I did this practice, there were some shake-ups. I definitely brought some real changes into my life that caused some people to fall away, relationships to change, and circumstances in my life to go in a different direction. When I compare my life now to where I was back in 2017, I do see a clear progression where my life has gradually improved and moved in the right direction.
The long-term magic that I worked has produced incremental changes that have steered my life in the direction that I want to go in. I’ve found my community, developed deeper and more intimate relationships and changed my life to fall in line with what my true values and desires are. It involves some work and the magic has been part of that work. Yet when I look at my overall quality of life, I am much happier and content because I have chosen to create a life by design instead of waiting for life to happen to me.
That’s what my class Legacy Magic teaches you how to do. It walks you through the fundamental process of changing your magic from doing magic to solve problems to becoming magic and changing your identity to align with what your deepest desires and values are. I’m not promising that you’ll have overnight changes because that’s unrealistic. What I am sharing with you is a process that allows you to start doing magical work on a regular basis to produce specific outcomes in your life. These outcomes align your life with your ultimate desired outcome and set up circumstances and events and even connect you with people that can help you move your life in that direction.
When I think back to what my life was like before I took this approach to magic, what I recognized is how chaotic my life was. I would react to problems that came up, try to solve them with magic, and then continue on without really examining my own role in the situations that were coming up in my life. This is something that can be changed but it requires a long-term perspective and that’s what legacy magic teaches.
You learn how to create a legacy with your life that supports the direction you want your life to go in and helps you manifest the experiences, people, and overall quality of life that you want to create. Ask yourself where you will be 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 years down the line. That’s what this magical practice is for. It looks at the long-term picture instead of focusing on the immediate environment around you, so you can design your life on purpose.
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