What do you need to design a magical working?

One of the questions I get asked is what does a person need, in order to be able to design their own magical working. It’s a good question to ask, because designing a magical working does have some requirements, which can make a difference in developing an effective magical working or system of magic that gets results. However the usual suspects of magical tools, spells, etc., that people think they need in order to design a magical working or a system aren’t necessarily what you need.

Magic by Design is now Available!

My latest book Magic By Design is now available.

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN MAGICAL WORKINGS THAT GET YOU CONSISTENT RESULTS?

Of course you do…

But you can’t create a magical working if you don’t know how magic works or how to design a magical working from scratch.

In Magic by Design, I teach you how to create your own magical workings, instead of having to rely on magick spell books that may not provide the results you want.

I’ll show you how simplify or enhance an existing magical spell, to get better results.

I’ll walk you through how to apply the principles of magical design to create your own unique workings that get you results.

I’ll share multiple case studies where I show you how the principles of magical design were applied to create original magical workings that got results and explain why they got results.

And as a bonus you’ll also learn how to create long term magical workings and how to design your own magical systems.

This is a practical magic book that shows you how to create your own magical workings and get results with them.

Get it now and get better results with your magical workings.

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Stillness and Creativity

In my continual work with creativity as an element, one of things I’ve been very sensitive to is the rhythm of creativity in my life, and knowing when to let go of the need to do anything, and instead simply hold space/time in stillness. At one time, I wouldn’t have felt comfortable doing that, but a three year stint of working with stillness taught me a lot about how to become comfortable with stillness and trust in it, instead of resisting it.

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Elemental Balancing Ritual Creativity Month 14

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11-23-2019 I started working with Tzadkiel/Jupiter/Chesed this month. It seems particularly appropriate that I work with them this month as I’m preparing to leave my job and go into full-time indiepreneurship. I was looking up information about Tzadkiel and I came across this passage in William G. Gray’s Ladder of Lights (Affiliate link)": “The greatest and most genuine benefit Jupiter can possibly give us on this Earth, is to fulfil our material necessities so that our minds and souls will be set free to seek nobler aims than drudging for a bare livelihood.” I read that on a day where I’ve been feeling stressed about leaving my work, because some unexpected expenses have come up. Kat has reassured me we’re fine and we can stay on course.

And on that same day, today, I was writing my newsletter on the topic of how to use magic to get through tough times and I read my advice, which among other things including letting go and trusting that the journey will take you where you need to go…and point made. I’ve been holding on, resisting the very change I want and I just need to let go, especially when its clear the means have been provided that I can do so.

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How to embrace and work with the shadow aspects of yourself

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As I’ve been working with the Chesedic current this month, one of the elements of the work I’ve been encountered are the shadow aspects of that current, which have manifested in being more aware of my own selfishness and how that selfishness shows up in my life. I’ve also had this mirrored for me in a fiction series I’m reading, where the one character’s selfishness has really stood out to me more than it may have in the past. Yet what I’ve found most fascinating with all this is a very interesting approach to this work with the shadow aspect that’s being called forth.

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Magic by Design available for Pre-order

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DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN MAGICAL WORKINGS THAT GET YOU CONSISTENT RESULTS?

Of course you do…

But you can’t create a magical working if you don’t know how magic works or how to design a magical working from scratch.

In Magic by Design, I teach you how to create your own magical workings, instead of having to rely on magick spell books that may not provide the results you want.

I’ll show you how simplify or enhance an existing magical spell, to get better results.

I’ll walk you through how to apply the principles of magical design to create your own unique workings that get you results.

I’ll share multiple case studies where I show you how the principles of magical design were applied to create original magical workings that got results and explain why they got results.

And as a bonus you’ll also learn how to create long term magical workings and how to design your own magical systems.

This is a practical magic book that shows you how to create your own magical workings and get results with them.

Pre-order it now and get better results with your magical workings.

Pre-order the e-book
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What Death Stranding can teach you about spiritual work

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Photo by Tom Swinnen from Pexels

One of the games I’ve been playing lately is Death Stranding. It’s a fascinating unique game, where you build structures, while trying to deliver packages to different locations, all while trying to avoid ghosts and mules (delivery people gone rogue). But that description really doesn’t begin to do justice to what the game is about. Over on my fiction blog, I’ve written about the connection aspect of the game, but here I thought I would write about the spiritual aspect, because this game has made think about my own spiritual journey quite a bit.

In Death Stranding, you have to figure out the best possible path to deliver your goods, without letting them get damaged and that isn’t necessarily easy, even with the array of tools you have available to help you. You have to figure out how to navigate the inevitable obstacles, both natural and unnatural that you encounter and you need to be patient and take your time. It’s a lot like spiritual work actually.

As you may know, I’m in the process of doing some intensive spiritual work with the Sphere of Art. I’ve now entered into my second year of doing this work daily and it is very much a journey in its own right, which continues to evolve and change in nuanced ways that have required me to adapt and adjust. I welcome it, because it providing me an opportunity to redefine my relationship with magic and with the journey I’m on.

As I’ve been playing Death Stranding, I’ve been reflecting on my journey. One of the biggest lessons of that journey has involved learning to let go and trust the journey, instead of focusing on the end of the journey. There have been times where I’ve thought I’m close to ending this particular segment of the journey, and then new data and experiences have come in that have informed me otherwise. And each time what I learn is to let go, focus on the journey itself and do the work without expectation. And really that’s a lot of what Death Stranding seems to be about. You’re walking along, trying to get to the place you need to go, but what you really need to do is focus on the journey and be present with it.

It seems to me that a lot of people ignore a key dimension of spiritual work, which is that it is long term work that is oriented around a purpose. That purpose dictates what you do and why you do it. And there isn’t necessarily an end in sight. You are on a journey and on that journey you take on what you need to carry to get you where you’re going, but the journey changes and you, by necessity, must change with it. And yeah I’ve been learning that all a long, but playing a video game which is all about the journey can be a great mirror to remind you of the lessons that you’re learning along the way.

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What is Righteous Wealth Magic?

This month I’m working with the Sephiroth Chesed, the archangel Tzadkiel, and the planetary energy of Jupiter, all of which plays a role in prosperity and wealth magic. And I’ve had some interesting situations come up, which are helping me reframe some of my perspectives around wealth magic. I’m also reading a book called Sacred Economics (affiliate link), which explores a different relationship with money, based around the approach of a gift economy.

I’ve been employing some wealth magic at both my job and for indie author business that I’m building with my non-fiction and fiction. I discovered this week that in September I had my first four-figure month (You typically get royalties 2 months later) and for the last few months I’ve sold books every single day. I also discovered this week that I broke 5 figures on amazon. That’s not the only platform I sell books through, but for the moment its the main one, so that makes me happy.

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0-22-2019 I am creating a drawing of the archangel Khamael for this month’s work with Mars/Geburah and of course Khamael. I’m also watching one of my favorite movies, A Beautiful Mind, which is a biopic of sorts about John Nash, the eccentric mathematician. I like the movie because I can identify with the character, both in terms of his awkwardness with people and the unusual perspectives he used with his mathematic work. And I can appreciate his struggles, because of my own, though mine aren’t the same as his. I know what its like to be on the edge, to flirt with madness as you pursue genius, as you pursue the distinctive ideas that matter, going against the grain of conventional ideas to discover the potential that lies within the unconventional. I also know what its like to let my own arrogance delude me, and the subsequent fall that can happen with such delusions. At some point in the movie, his roommate tells him that his problem isn’t in the room he’s in, but in the world out there, that he has to discover the problem that other people have. It’s advice I resonate with. It’s what lead me to explore magic from a process perspective, because the problem I’ve found again and again is that magic isn’t approachable from an esoteric perspective. What point is there to practice magic if the work is harder than it has to be?

And I know the doubt all too well that one feels when what you’re trying to pursue doesn’t seem to work or come together. It’s taken me a long time to find what works, to discover the path forward. It’s involved failing and falling, and then climbing back up because I won’t give up on my ideas, on my work, and on the magic. It’s required discipline as well, finding the routines that work and sticking with them even when in the moment there has been despair. Now I am the phoenix rising from my own ashes, and from the hard earned and learned experiences that will always ground me by reminding me to stay humble, while pushing me to continue exploring the edge and embracing the unconventional.

5 lessons you can learn from a fantasy book about magic

One of my favorite fantasy books is The Soulforge by Margaret Weis (affiliate link) and one of the reasons its one one of my favorite books is because it has some valuable lessons to offer about what it takes to practice magic. Now, you may read that and wonder why a fantasy book would have any valuable insights to offer about real magical practice, but as I’ve discovered time and again, some of the best lessons you can learn about magic come in the form of stories.

Just in case you’re not familiar with the book, it’s a story about how Raistlin Majere becomes a magician. In the story, Raistlin has to make some critical choices that test who he is and defines how he becomes a magician. I want to share some of the key lessons we can all learn from this story and discuss how they apply to the practice of magic.