From Reactive to Responsive in your Magical Life

The Tower card is associated with crisis and emergency. When it shows up in a Tarot reading, the signal is that the tower is falling. When the tower falls, your life or the specific situation is falling apart. That’s one way to read the Tower card. But in Tower Time, Sheena and I share that there are other ways to work with the Tower. One way you can work with it is to shift from reaction to responsiveness in your magical life.

The Tower card is a warning as well as a signal.

It tells you that your life as you know is going to blow up and some changes are incoming. You can react to the Tower. Many people will react in an attempt to try and control the outcome or avoid the crisis that the Tower is signaling. Many people will react from a place of fear, which actually fuels the crisis even further.

On the other hand, you can choose to be responsive and prepare for the Tower moment. You may already be in the moment and trying to resist it will just make the fall harder than it has to be. One of the best adjustments you can make is to accept that the collapse of the Tower is really just removing what you don’t need in your life.

Our Towers are built of the complications and compromises we have allowed into our lives for the sake of surviving. When the Tower breaks, the illusions of the comfortable discomfort come tumbling down, leaving you with the opportunity for stark clarity and a choice: You can rebuild the Tower and replay the same patterns or you can choose a different path. The fall of the Tower offers you the choice to react or respond.

Your Tower walls are made to lock you into a comfortably numb life

The compromises are small at first, almost invisible and you tell yourself they are worth it. You take a job you don’t really want, but the pay is good so you justify it. You stay in a relationship after the expiration date because its what you know. You can probably think of some other compromises you’ve made in the course of your life. You know the cost, perhaps in hindsight, but you know it. The Tower you build creates a life for you to settle into.

Then one day the Tower comes down. The reactive approach is usually about rebuilding the Tower. It’s familiar, comfortable and gives you the illusion of control. You know the Tower. It may make you feel boxed in, but you know it. When it falls, the reaction is to try and put it back together.

The problem is that rebuilding your Tower just puts you back in the same patterns that caused it to fall in the first place. You start to break up with someone and then you panic and go back to the relationship. You leave your job and then you find a similar one even though you hate the work. People go back to what they know because it seems to be safe, when in fact is the real danger you aren’t facing.

You’ve reacted to the fall of the Tower by rebuilding and putting yourself back into the cage that you didn’t really want to be in.

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The Tower’s Fall is the Freedom you’ve longed for

The Tower falls and your life is shaken, stirred and upside down. Everything you know falls away and you are presented a blank slate. You can react and rebuild the Tower, but you already see where that’s going to take you. The fall of the Tower is an opportunity to claim your magical life on your terms. Yes, a lot will fall away. I’m not making light of that. You have been given a clarity call and you can respond to that call with curiosity.

The magician who steps into Tower Time takes the catalytic energy of the Tower fall and uses it to get curious about what their life could become. They break free of the numbing comfortable discomfort that the Tower put them into and walk a path away from the rubble, because they already know that rebuilding the Tower will just delay the inevitable.

The responsive magician chooses to let go of control and surrender to the current that is called in by the Tower’s fall. They surrender to the current and leave the tower behind to seek their north star and come back to the truth of their lives…the truth that brings them into integrity with their calling and with themselves.

Pull the Tower card out of a tarot deck. Look at what’s really happening. The Tower is broken. People are falling. The collapse of structure is the release of all the patterns that have gotten in your way. It’s also the opening of your next adventure. You can react or you can respond. If you respond you will definitely be taken out of your comfort zone. You’ll be challenged but you will also step into your most magical life and find what you’ve been looking for. The tower walls blocked it out, but they’ve fallen.

The lesson the Tower teaches about emergencies is that they are moments of existential awareness that bring your life into clarity. Embrace the moments, explore the opportunities and let your life be magical because you took the risk to do something instead of sticking with what comfortable.

Tower Time, Magic and Spirits: When to work with spirits and magic during tower moments

When you are facing a Tower Moment, a moment of emergency and crisis, it can be tempting to turn to magic to “fix” the moment. It can also be tempting to turn towards spirits.

In this episode I talk about how to apply discernment to your magic and spirit work practices during a Tower Moment. I also cover the following:

• Why it’s important to take responsibility for your magical work and the consequences and results that come out of it.

• What to consider when choosing to work with spirits during a Tower moment.

• The two types of tower moments and when to apply magic to each of those moments.

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When the Tower falls, a magician is forged.

You didn’t come to this path to stay safe.

You came to wake up.

Tower moments are initiations that tear through your life without warning, but they are not mistakes or punishments. They are thresholds. And every serious practitioner of magic must pass through them.

In Tower Time: Turn Crisis into Catalyst with Practical Magic for Radical Change magicians Taylor Ellwood and Sheena Witter hand you the keys to navigating collapse as a crucible of magical development.

This book is a tactical guide for transforming crisis into power, rooted in decades of lived experience, shadow and somatic work, and practical sorcery.

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Space Time Magic during Tower Times

When you are going through a Tower Moment, such as a divorce, a job loss, or a death in the family, it feels like your entire life is getting turned upside down. In the face of that experience, a question naturally arises: What Magic can I do to help me with this Tower moment?

In this episode, I answer that question and explore the following topics:

• What the different types of Tower moments are.

• Why magic isn’t your immediate go to in a Tower situation.

• What mundane actions you can take when you feel like your life is blowing up.

• When and what type of magic to employ in a Tower Moment.

The Tower card signals crisis and emergency. When you are going through those emergencies will show you what you can do to apply magic to the Tower moment and come out the other side ok.

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Near Life Experiences in Tower Time

The first time I watched Fight Club what stood out to me was a line from the movie where the narrator is told he had a near life experience. It was a powerful inversion of the near death experience, calling in how vivid a person feels when they nearly die and experience that clarity of still being alive. It’s a Tower Moment and its an imaginal portal that changes everything.

I want to be clear here: I’m not advocating purposely seeking out near death experiences or randomly crashing into cars so you can have a near life experience.

And I’ve had more than a few near death experiences. Each of them has created an indelible imprint on my life that has transformed my life in the moment and my overall appreciation of being alive. I even had one recently, almost a year ago, when I hit a deer and my car was totaled. I’m grateful I was able to walk away from that experience and it definitely was an existential Tower Moment for me.

There’s something transcendent about going through a near life/death experience that is reminiscent of going through a Tower Moment. When the Tower falls, your life changes, usually in the form of a loss. Maybe it’s the loss of a job or a relationship or a loved one. Maybe it’s something more interior, such as a feeling of confidence or joy. Whatever it is, the experience of the Tower is one that people try to avoid.

I don’t think the Tower can be avoided

It’s an experience all of us have at some point, losing a structure in our lives that we thought would last forever. The lesson of the Tower is that instead of avoiding the fall, accept it. The deeper lesson, however, is that what you lose also paves the way for opportunities to come into your life that the Tower was blocking you from.

I’m not sharing that as a platitude. It’s a reality I’ve lived first hand. When I got divorced, I lost my home as well as the marriage. But I had a lot of opportunities open up as well. The Tower fell and in it’s rubble I found a new path forward, which gave me options in multiple ways. The Tower challenged me to stop settling for the status quo and actually discover what I really want for my life. In that way, it was also very similar to having a near death experience.

Tower Time is imaginal time. You are experiencing the breakdown of your reality as you know it and if you are wise you are inviting your imagination to come and play. At one point, several months into my divorce I had a realization: I could choose to uproot and live somewhere else. I had a few friends still in the area I was living, but I wasn’t attached to the area. I had lived there a long time and I began to wonder what it would be like to move somewhere else for the sheer sake of choosing to start over.

I explored a coastal town and ultimately decided not to live there. Then I moved 2 hours south to a college town, where I still live now. I was drawn down here for the wrong reasons, a rebound relationship, but it turned out to be exactly what I needed. I left the familiarity of what I knew, the Tower, and embraced the unknown. It wasn’t easy. There were a number of times I questioned my choices and that’s the point of the Tower. It challenges you on an existential level. In one form or another you are having a near death/life experience that causes you to question your existence.

When we question our existence as we know it, the fall of the Tower offers us glimpses of the possibilities we blocked out of our lives. In my case, it was having adventures and traveling. I had spent so much of my life not doing any of those things, and as my Towers fell, I started doing the activities I had denied myself. I got into martial arts, finally, after many years of wanting to. I traveled internationally and I chose to pursue my professional life as an occult author and magic coach in a way that was in alignment with what I really want for myself and my community.

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The Tower isn’t just constructed by you.

It’s also constructed by the people in your life and the compromises you accept to have those people in your life. Sometimes it’s worth it, but a lot of the time you are making agreements to keep the peace or accommodate someone else while costing yourself something essential in the process…and that’s when the relationship becomes a tower.

Towers fall because you need them to fall. You tolerate a bad job or go with the flow in a relationship even though you are deeply miserable. You settle for less and it costs you, because while that tower may feel safe, it’s actually crushing the life out of you.

When the Tower falls there is a strange exhilaration that is simultaneously terrifying and liberating. It falls and you see the stars and sky that you forgot was there. You discover the possibilities that you put aside.

Now you can claim them, or you can rebuild the Tower. I’ve done both. I rebuilt a Tower a few times over, but it always collapsed. The foundation is faulty and cracked. I’ve walked away from the Tower, leaving the rubble behind and discovered a new path, leading me onto the next adventure.

When your Towers fall, embrace the fall and walk boldly forward. You deserve the opportunities you’ve denied yourself and your Towers will keep falling as long as you deny yourself your essential truth - that messy, inconvenient one that makes you feel alive.

The path forward, scary as it may be, is also the choice that your soul is singing for. You can deny it only so long or you can use the fall of the Tower to be a clarion call of discovery. Get curious, rewrite your life and discover what you really want, unshackled of your fears and the limitations of others.

Choose your Star…it’s calling for you.

Temporal Sovereignty: Working with Saturn beyond the Clock

Years ago, although I remember it like it was yesterday, (how’s that for time?) We drove past a church billboard that made us stop and do a full double-take. It said, “If you kill time, you murder success.” My partner was immediately outraged and sputtering mad. It’s become one of those phrases we can bring up whenever we want to rile him up or provide a pattern interrupt, because it’s such a perfect encapsulation of the version of time that so many of us have inherited.

This is our TikTok time. It’s linear time. It’s calendar time. It’s productivity time. It’s the idea that the clock is a moral authority, or that every unused moment is a crime against our future, or that rest is suspicious. It’s even the idea that success is always being murdered by our failure to optimize.

That billboard was Saturn in one of its most distorted forms: Kronos, the limiter, the punisher, the devourer. Time as something that eats you if you do not outrun it. This is Time as the stern authority standing over your life, measuring whether you have been useful.

This is not the only way to understand Saturn, and it’s definitely not the only way to be in a relationship with Time. Most of us were taught that Time is something to manage:

- We save time.

- We spend time.

- We waste time.

- We run out of time.

- We’re trying to catch up.

- We have deadlines

We all carry beliefs, rules, and wounds around Time. Relationships don’t always deepen during a productivity sprint, and spiritual practices can’t be rushed into maturity just because the calendar or our expectations say they have to be done now.

Circularity, somatic adaptation and spacetime magic

In my martial arts and qi gong practice there is a specific concept I’ve been learning more about and applying to my magical practice. This concept is circularity. Circularity, in this context, refers to how the body moves in a circular way. For example, the arms have a circular movement. So do legs. The majority of movements in the martial art practice I’m learning have elements of circularity as well.

I recently starting learning a specific practice of circularity that draws on Nei Gong or inner work. this practice is called circling hands and on the surface it seems simple. You are circling your hands and arms parallel to each other while causing the rest of your body also engage in a vertical circling practice. When doing this practice I feel the energetic channels of my body are activated. This activation serves to release the tension on all levels of my being, while also helping to refine and amplify the natural energetic currents.

As I’ve been learning this practice, I’ve been applying it to space/time magic. The circle is another form of the spiral, seemingly compressed into a singular line, but with the circularity practice I can spiral the qi. the spiraling of the Qi activates the energetic principles of the body, as well as the physical somatic resources. These can be applied to the benefit of our health, but they can also be applied for magical purpose, and in my specific cases, I’ve been using the spiraling of the Qi to access and work the different probabilities of time that are available to all of us.

When I spiral the Qi I can use it to activate my awareness across space and time. I can send myself back to a younger age or move forward to a possible future. The circling spiral opens the possibilities of past and future because I am present in all of those moments. What has limited me is the everyday linear sense of time that functions as a way of making sense of space and time in the physicality of our bodies. When we unlock our bodies through circularity we can embrace the non-linear sequence of the spiral of time and find ourselves in multiple moments of time.

When you’ve done a given action multiple times that action becomes a point of reference that allows you to access the action in a given moment and through that action open the door to another time and another space. Circularity practice can take this to another level because we are engaged in somatic circular actions everyday.

Try this exercise. Stand up and rotate one of your arms in a circle. Do this a few times. Then do the same action with the other arm. After doing this action, do it again, but this time do it with the intention to move across time. There are moments, not conscious ones perse, but moments nonetheless when you’ve been engaged in some rotation movement. Allow your body to guide you across its history of awareness. It knows the ways through the doors of time and it can lead you to another place, another space where you can then use that rotation to bring your forward, back, or sideways through time.

Your body knows time through and through. Everyday we engage in activities that we have done again and again and again. Let those activities lead the way and you’ll discover another way to access the hidden opportunities that await you in the potentiality of time.

Processes for mediation of planetary and astrological influences

In this video I discuss how I use sound, scrying and pentacles for the purposes of directing and focusing planetary and astrological influences. I also discuss the purposes of the overall purpose of these processes in relationship to ongoing work I’m doing with the sphere of art.

Visions of alternative realities and space/time magic

My girlfriend recently told me about a short story she was reading from Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinkser. In this story the main character is just one of many different versions of the same person and she is invited to a convention where she gets to meet the alternate versions of herself. I started reading the short story and it reminded me of a technique I came up with long time ago, and shared in my book Space/Time Magic.

The technique works along a similar premise, namely that there are alternate versions of ourselves and each version of yourself has something about them that is different from you. However they also have a connection to you, namely being an alternate version of yourself that is tied to you through your identity. I think its possible to connect with alternate versions of yourself utilizing magic in order to exchange information, swap skills, and otherwise interact with the alternatives of you. I have used meditation and pathworking techniques to connect with my alternate versions and this has proven to be a helpful process for skill swapping.

The way it works is that you pick a skill that you want to learn. There is an alternate version of yourself that knows this skill. For example, say you aren’t very good at managing money. You could connect with a version of yourself that has really good money management skills. That version of yourself can share those skills with you through spiritual transmission. You are already connected to each other by virtue of being the same person, albeit with some differences so the process of transmission is very easy.

You do a pathworking where you visualize the DNA spiral of the universe. The spiral contains infinite versions of the world and each version has a version of you in it. Seek out the world that has the version of you that has the skills or information your desire. Call out to that version of yourself or invoke yourself into the version.

When I connect with a version of myself that has skills I want, then I also have to determine what skills I can offer to that version that it may want. What I’ll do is a skill swap where I’ll transmit the skill I have to my alternate self in return for the they have that I want. For example a long time ago I reached out to a version of me that had really good financial skills and asked for those skills so I could become better at finances. In return I gave him some skills around spiritual work.

It can be fascinating to connect with alternate selves. I do this working every so often and I always find it insightful because it gives me a glimpse of my life if I had gone down a different path and made other choices. I still have this life I’m living but there are alternate versions of me living different lives and all of us have something to offer to each other.

How to Re-Write and Re-wire Memories

Awhile back I went to a restaurant and took myself on a dinner date. I don't normally eat out alone, but I wanted to re-write and re-wire a memory and I've found that sometimes the best way to do that is to revisit a site and make a new memory that overwrites the old memory.

But what if we can't do that? What if we're too far away or if the memory is simply too triggering?

We may still want to change the memory, but we may need to take a magical approach to doing that work that liberates us from the trauma and tyranny of the past, while also enabling us to transform our present and presence. 

I like to take two different approaches to this kind of magical work.

1. Use pathworking to rewrite the memory and create a new story and narrative

I have used pathworking to rewrite traumatic memories. In the book Magical Imagination by Nick Farrell (Affiliate link), there's an excellent script you can use where you create this idyllic garden in your mind.

The garden seems really peaceful, but there's a rotting tree in it and that tree represents the memories you need to work through. You go into the tree and you find a corridor of doors and each door leads to a memory. 

You go into the memory but you have complete control of that memory. You can change it anyway you want and rewrite the memory and experience however you please.

You can make different choices and cause different actions to happen and transform the way the memory unfolds. It's magical and it can help you change the deep patterns in your life.  

2. Transform the memories with the memory box.

You can also use a magical tool like a memory box. A memory box is a tool where you store memories in order to transmute them into energy in your life. It's similar to that magical tool in the Harry Potter fiction...the pensieve.

I created my first memory box many years ago and I've used it for a variety of space/time magical workings, but one of the workings I do is I store memories in it, and convert them into energy for transforming my life.

The traumatic memories become fuel for empowerment. By removing them from my active and unconscious memory and storing them somewhere else, I let them go from my life and this frees me from the trauma I would otherwise be holding onto and allowing to define me in my life in a way that empowers and frees me from the past so I can embrace the present.

3. And sometimes you just need to do a cathartic magical working...

I said I was only going to share two ideas, but I thought about it and sometimes what you need to do is a cathartic magical working where you release the emotions, thoughts and triggers of the memories.

In the summer of 2022 I hiked Mt. Pisgah. I took with me three letters I had written. Two of them were written to an ex. One was a letter where I just vented over my hurt feelings and another was a gratitude letter. The third letter was for me and in it I wrote about the life I wanted to create for myself. It was an act of magical writing designed to help me create a new narrative for my life.

I hiked all day and I found three different spots. At each I did a ritual where I buried a letter and did a ritual of release where I cut the ties that bound us, and in the process began healing from the traumatic experiences and memories I was feeling. By the end of the day I was physically and emotionally exhausted, but I also feel cleansed and this began a process of healing that is allowing me to radically transform my life.

Our memories don't need to define us. We can turn them into tools, we can heal them and we can let them go and live our best lives.

The Role of Astrological Cycles in Iterative Magic

Iterative magic is a form of space/time magic which employs the cyclical rhythm of time and space in order to create consistent results. One of the cyclical rhythms that iterative magic draws on are found in the astrological cycles and currents that all of us experience in our lives. In iterative magic, we purposely draw upon these cycles to empower and inform our magical work. Each iteration of a cycle refers to the previous and future cycles. When we understand this we can draw on the past, present, and future cycles of a given cycle to enhance the magical work we are doing.

For example Mercury going retrograde would be an example of an astrological cycle that all of us experience. While this cycle is notorious for bad communication, it can also be treated as an opportunity to apply iterative magic to our lives. We recognize that Mercury is going retrograde and instead of hoping that we’ll somehow avoid miscommunication we do iterative magic to either help us improve our communication skills or apply the mercurian cycle in other ways that are related to its influence. We can also apply this same approach to when Mercury is going direct.

We can actually apply iterative magic to any retrograde/direct cycle for any of the planets. Being able to do this doesn’t even necessarily require that you become well versed in astrology either. It may require working with an astrologer or learning some basic knowledge, but once you have that knowledge you can develop iterative magic workings for specific cycles and use that to help you tap into the deeper energies that are present and utilize them for your magical work.

Another approach I’ve taken to astrological influences is to do iterative magic around sun and moon cycles. The moon cycles every 28 days and sometimes there are eclipses which can also be factored in for this work. The sun has its own cycle which we experience through the progression of a year. Each of these can also be used as examples of astrological cycles we can work with iteratively. For instance you can choose to work with the sun at different times of the year (we see this with the wheel of the year) and have each time of the year reference the next and previous times. The same understanding can be applied to moon cycles.

We don’t need to limit iterative magic to astrological cycles, but they are one of the more obvious examples of this work and can be helpful for understanding how iterative magic works and how it can be applied to ongoing magical practices.

A space/time Divination Experiment

I share my latest experiment with divination and discuss the protocols of the experiment.

A sneak peak of Iterative Magic

I talk about Iterative Magic and what it is and give you a sneak peak of my upcoming class iterative magic

How to connect with the spiral of time

I discuss how to attune yourself to the spiral of time so you can connect with events in the past and future and bring them into the present in order to shape and manifest your life.

How to work with a memory box

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I was recently asked a question about the memory box tool, which I’ve shared in my book Magical Identity, and how it’s created and can be worked with. This prompted me to follow through on a decision I had made a while back: Namely to offer the Memory Box as a magical Tool for sale. To get a memory box from me, click the button below. I’m also going to describe how it can be worked with below.

I created the memory box to be a physical representation and aide for working with the web of space and time. The web of space and time is an intersection of nodal space points and trajectories of time which bring possibilities through those nodal space points. The memory box serves as an interface for accessing the web of space and time, but it also has a few other functions that may be of interest to someone who wants to work space/time magic with it.

To access the web of space and time, place your hands on the sides of the box, with the thumbs touching the interior of the box. The lid needs to be open. You can stare at the web glyph I’ve created on the lid or in the box itself and use it as a visual guide to access the web. You may also wish to call on whatever spirits you work with that are space/time spirits to help you navigate the web of space and time. I can also provide a list of said spirits when I send you the box.

Nodal space points are people, places, things, events…nouns. The trajectories of time are the lines of time that go through the nodal space points. When you work with the web you occupy a given nodal space point and if you want to change your identity or move to another nodal space point you use the lines of time to move you to a different nodal point.

I’ve used the web of space and time to help me shift my identity from one point of identity to another identity. This has been a helpful practice at different moments of my life, where I really wanted to shift to a new point of space and time and leave the one that was no longer working for me behind. For example I used the web of space/time to help me with the process of moving to a new city. More recently, in conjunction with my self-love practice I’ve been using the web of space and time to help me manifest opportunities that move me toward creating the life I truly want to live. This is helping me making changes in my career, life, relationships, etc.

One of the other ways I use the memory box is to store physical items to saturate them with chronal energy. I place the items in the memory box and allow it to take in the energies of the web of space and time. These items could be photographs, or small jewelry or whatever else and you can then use them in your space/time magic workings.

I also have stored memories in the box, like in Harry Potter, the Pensieve, using the memory box as a battery for those memories, but also as a way to clear out whatever I don’t need or to store raw information away for when I want to draw on it. In one sense the memory box can become a physical representation of your mansion of memory.

I’ve also used the memory box to cultivate closer relationships with spirits by storing their sigils in the box. You can use the memory box for a variety of different purposes. It’s only limitation is your imagination and what purpose you apply it for. If you’re interested in getting one for yourself, click the button below.

How to Rewrite and Re-wire memories

Recently I went to a restaurant and took myself on a dinner date. I don't normally eat out alone, but I wanted to re-write and re-wire a memory and I've found that sometimes the best way to do that is to revisit a site and make a new memory that overwrites the old memory.

But what if we can't do that? What if we're too far away or if the memory is simply too triggering?

We may still want to change the memory, but we may need to take a magical approach to doing that work that liberates us from the trauma and tyranny of the past, while also enabling us to transform our present and presence.

Why it can be good to get a second divinatory opinion

I discuss why it can be good to get a divinatory reading from someone else, in order to confirm details of a situation or get a different perspective and why an unbiased reading can be beneficial if the person doesn't know much about you.

Timing and Magic Part 2: Further thoughts on when to do magic

I explore the significance of planetary hours in magic and share an experiment I’m currently engaged in and what some of my thoughts are on the experiment and how its allowing me to explore my process of magic from a different perspective.

Manifestation is the realization of the imaginal

When we manifest the imagination into reality we turn the seed of potential into a new identity for ourselves and reality. I explain what this means and why it can change your approach to magic when you approach manifestation from your identity instead of from your scarcity.

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Imagination as the seed of reality

Imagination is where reality begins. It is the seed of potential and the promise of manifestation and I share why your imagination can be one of your most potent magical tools, as well as how to work it in to your magical practice.

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How to attune your intuition to the right timing

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One of the ways that I work with my intuition involves connecting it to the right sense of timing, in terms of taking action on something that I want to manifest. Not all moments are equal and the right timing can make all the difference in terms of manifesting results that allow you to move forward in the directions you want to go in. Bad timing, on the other hand, can hold you back, preventing you from succeeding because you are picking the wrong time to take action.

Some of the ways you can determine the right timing can involve learning about your astrological cycles and using those to help you take action or doing divination to ascertain when you want to take action on a given project. A way that I tap into the timing is also through the aid of spirits that I am working with. For example, there have been several times this last year that Saturn advised me to take action on specific situations. I had done magical workings to call the Saturnic influence into my life and work with it, and given that Saturn plays an integral role in time, it didn’t surprise me when there were some moments where I clearly received a message that NOW was the time to act.

For instance, during my house buying process I looked at a number of houses, but none of them felt quite right. Then I woke up one day and got the message, “Today you’ll find your house.” My magical partner also told me to go buy a house and it felt like she was tapping into that same current. I want out with the realtor and the first house I visited felt right. I put and offer in and by the end of the weekend had it accepted. There were some other facets to that experience, but the timing played a role and my receptivity to the spirits (as well as my partner’s intuition) clearly made me aware that it was time to buy a house. Interestingly enough an astrological reading I received also indicated a time span that would be ideal for me to buy a house and I saw the house on the very first day of that time span, which was the beginning of a saturnic cycle for me.

There are multiple ways to attune your intuition to the right timing. One way that I find helpful involves paying attention to your body rhythms. Your body is often attuned to the subtler aspects of reality around you and will tell you something about the environment around you that you can draw on. If you spend time working with your body consciousness through meditation, qi gong or some other type of activity it can help you start paying attention to the more subtle messages that your body is sending. Intuition is one of those subtle messages and so is timing, so you can combine that awareness of time with intuition to help you determine the best moment to take action.

Take a given situation where you need the right timing. Do some meditation or some qi gong or something else to tune into your bodily awareness and once you are tuned in, bring the situation up and ask your body to notify you of when you should take action. When the time comes you’ll feel a sense of intuitive awareness, a ping on your consciousness that will tell you to take action. It may come in the form of a picture or words or it may just be a sensation. Take action then, because what is happening is you are tuning into the optimal moment that you’ll have the success you want.

These seems like a simplistic approach to take to tuning into the timing of a moment, but you have to keep in mind that you don’t need to make something more complex than it already is. Tapping into your intuition can be an experience where you feel into the awareness you already have available to you and trust that it will help you get what you need.

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