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.

A Strategic Lens with Magic -

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In my previous article, I talked about the importance of taking a 2X approach to magic instead of a 10X approach to magic. One of the reasons that I take this approach is that I am applying a strategic lens to the magical work that I am doing as it applies to my overall life.

For many people, magic is reactive. They apply magic in the moment to fix a problem that has arisen in their life or to trigger a short-term reaction that helps them reach a desired result. What is not often applied is a strategic lens that examines what the consequences of achieving that result will be or how achieving the result will affect you down the line. This lack of foresight or planning can often create unintended effects that cause you to scramble in your life. You may end up doing more magic in order to resolve the consequences that have occurred because you didn’t take the time to fully map out what you really wanted, not just in the short term, but for the long term.

Magic never happens in a void. It is always situational, based on the context of our lives and the events, people, and places that are present. Yet although it is situational and based on the context of the moment, we can still apply magic with a long-term lens that helps us design our lives.

An Exercise in Long Term Planning

I want you to imagine, as an exercise, yourself as an old person. You're on your deathbed. What kind of experiences has that person had? What kind of life has that person led?

If you were to ask that person a question, one of the best questions that you could ask is: "What is it that you want me to do that you wish you had done?" This question creates a very intentional awareness of your life that prompts you to explore what you actually want for yourself, not just in the short term but for your overall life. For instance, do you want to live in a home that you purchased? If so, that's a long-term decision.

Putting the mortgage payments aside, One of the things that you may want to think about with that home is how long you would want to live there and what you would need to do in order to make sure that that home is livable as you get older.

A strategic approach to magic looks at how magic can be applied to help you achieve the outcome that you want while also considering the variables that are inevitably going to occur in your life, such as getting older. Although we can never know the full extent of how our lives will unfold, what we can do is apply strategic planning to our lives in order to create the desired outcome we want to live.

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Why we don’t think of the long term

The reason many people don’t focus on the long-term application of magic is because they’re focused on the here and now. It makes sense because that’s what we’re living with. We’re living in the here and now, but the reality is you’re likely going to get older. You’re likely to have changes in your life that affect your ability to do certain things, and you also want to think about your future not just in terms of ease and comfort but in terms of the overall quality of your life.

The lack of a strategic lens in Magic is reflective of the lack of a strategic lens in your overall life. Many people live paycheck to paycheck and in all fairness a lot of this is because the standard of living and the cost of being able to afford things is pretty high. Nonetheless, one of the things that a person can do is choose to save some money. Even if you were to save $5 or $10 a month, each month, that is going to be that much more money that you have when you need it for down the line or if you have an emergency situation.

A similar approach to magic can be applied where you start creating the circumstances in your life that favor you for both the short-term and the long-term moments. This means that you can do magical work to help you achieve a short-term outcome and at the same time you can ask yourself how this will help you achieve a long-term outcome, such as more financial stability or a high quality of life even when you’re older.

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• How to use magic to build a life time of results, instead of one moment.

• How to calibrate and improve your life and magic through long term magical work.

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When my Magical Practice became Strategic

I didn’t always have a long-term perspective when it came to magical work. I did a lot of short-term magic, especially in my teenage years and 20s and early 30s. My main focus was on solving the immediate problem in front of me. This is something which is typical for a lot of people. What we see in front of us is the most pressing problem so that’s what we apply magic to.

I began to change my focus to the long term when I started to see how the choices I was making in the short term were nonetheless having an impact on my life down the line.

I realized that as long as I was making short-term decisions, I wasn’t effectively planning for the rest of my life. I knew that it was important to respond to the immediate situation but I began thinking about how that response would also play out in the long term.

What really brought this home for me was getting divorced in my early 40s and realizing that I was starting all over with my life. I couldn’t afford to make short-term decisions anymore. I needed to be thinking about what was going to happen to me down the line and what I was going to do to make sure that I took care of myself.

The truth I’ve also come to recognize is that even when I plan for the long-term strategy, there are going to be short-term experiences that will change what the plan is. This is true for all of us. You can plan for the long term and nonetheless have a variable enter into your life that changes the equation dynamically. For instance you meet somebody and that person changes the entire direction of your life because you choose to be with that person and you want to see where things will go. That can change your plan significantly.

The key approach that you want to take with long-term magic is that you consider the direction of your life and you plan for those variables. If someone comes into your life, for example, you ask yourself: Does this person match my values? Does this person fit in my life in the long term not just in the short term? This kind of thinking can seem a little bit cold and clinical but it’s really designed to get you to think very carefully about your choices, so that regardless of what happens you are taking care of yourself, your life and your legacy.

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Getting Real about how Magic(k) Works - How to enchant for incremental results

The other day I read a couple of articles on Substack about how magic works. One article made the argument that magick doesn’t actually work like magic (i.e. Hollywood magic) and the other article explored why results de-manifest when you’re not fully able to let the results land in your identity. They were both good articles that laid out some of the problems that people around their magical practice:

• Having unrealistic expectations how results

• Internal disbelief that magic really works

• A subconscious belief that you don’t deserve the result you want.

These are all valid reasons for why a result doesn’t land when you do a magical working. What the reasons really are, though, are symptoms of a deeper narrative around magic and the practitioner that hasn’t been fully explored or understood. Dealing with the symptom can help you in the short term, but it won’t address the long term reality that needs to be changed your relationship with magic.

What is the deeper narrative?

The deeper narrative is the set of beliefs that you have about yourself and magic that tells you what is or isn’t possible. It’s the set point you have within yourself, as well, that creates the relationship pattern you have with:

• Money

• Success

• Love

• Opportunity

• and other various variables in your life.

The set points that you carry within you create the limits and parameters that you and your magic operate in. If you aren’t aware of those set points and their influence on you, then when you do magical working that takes you outside of those parameters, identity-wise, that part of you will react and bring you back home, because the set point is familiar and feels safe. It may not be serving what you want, but it serves the part of you that doesn’t want to get hurt, rejected or lose everything.

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The 10X problem

Have you ever been given the advice to 10X your goals?

On the surface it seems like good advice. Go big or go home. The reality is that 10x-ing your goals, as appealing as it may sound, actually creates a rebound effect on your results. You go big AND you go home to your set points. The reason is because you’re reaching too far, too quickly, and that causes the result to rebound, if you are not ready to receive the results. It basically is a system shock and when your system is shocked, it fights back and reverts to homeostasis, because that’s what it knows.

Instead of 10xing your goals, trying 2xing your goals. I know it doesn’t as glamorous, but it’s achievable and it has a hidden benefit. It allows you to adjust your set point incrementally without creating resistance to the desired outcome. A 2x goals is something you can achieve with your magic and your life and you’ll adjust to it. And once you achieve the 2x goal, you can move the goal again, 2xing again and again, gradually moving your set point and increasing your overall bandwidth and capacity to receive and integrate the result.

Incremental change isn’t very dramatic, but it is a sure sign that your magic is working and transforming your life. It enables you to trust yourself as well, because every part of you readily accepts and embraces the change as something natural.  You become acclimated to the change and it becomes your new set point, transforming the way you experience yourself and the world.

Are there ever exceptions to this rule?

There is an exception to the set point, of a sort. When you are already going through a period of upheaval, such as a tower moment, the usual rules go out the window. Your set points are already disrupted, which makes it easier to manifest and keep results that fall outside the normal capacity and tolerance you have of change. For instance, if you get divorced, the tower of your life is falling apart and so your tolerance of change is greatly increased. You have nothing stable to cling and change is the only way you will get back to any stability.

A tower moment can be a  useful experience for doing magic for improbable results, because you have more freedom to turn those results into reality. Your limits are stretched and your set points are open to being recalibrated. You can do magic for improbable results and have it land without the usual resistance and pushback you would otherwise get.

A tower moment is an ideal time to create radical change. If you’ve been wanting to move to a new part of the country or take a risk on a career change and your life is already in a place of upheaval, its the perfect opportunity to take the risk. It’s a calculated risk, because you are using the existing transformation and upheaval to fuel your magic and change your capacity to receive the results.

I don’t recommend this though as a strategy for long term change. In the moment it works. In the long run, it can burn you out. If you want long term success, the incremental approach is best, when paired up with long term/legacy magic. In future posts, I’ll be sharing more about long term/legacy magic and how you can apply it to design your magical life.

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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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Decolonizing Magic: An Interview with Solomon Pakal

In this interview Solomon Pakal of Mystery Codex joins me for a conversation about decolonizing magic. We discuss how decolonizing benefits all magical practitioners and why it’s important to recognize and acknowledge how colonization shows up in magical practices.

We discuss:

• What colonization is and how it impacts everyone.

• How the modern practices of colonization show up in spiritual ceremonies and magical work.

• Geospatial magic and how to connect with the land.

• How to categorize magic without colonizing it.

• How to recognize cultural appropriation in magic.

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Why we need ritual with magic: A reflection on what ritual brings to our body and being

It was hot and bright day out, the kind of day that perfectly fits the Summer Solstice. It was close to noon. I got up from my computer and started collecting the materials I needed for my impromptu Solstice day ritual.

It had been a little while since I had done a proper magical ritual. I cast spells and do workings, but I don’t always add the formal ritual to those workings. But it had been awhile and I felt a deep longing for ritual burn with me. Today deserved something formalized for the sake of what I was calling in and for myself.

I pulled out a box of crayons and a small square piece of paper. I grabbed my rod, my drum and its beater and I went outside to my backyard.

I set everything on the ground other than my rod. I paced a circle calling in the directions, elements and spirits. I got close to the ground and called in mama. I raised my rod to the sky and called in the cosmos. I called in the Sun in all its forms and names that I know.

After setting the space and the time, I sat on the ground and I colored my own representation of the sun. Once I was done, I stood up and held my little sun to the sky and asked THE Sun if it would grant a bit of its light so I could keep that light for the winter Solstice to help the sun begin its journey back from the long night. Then I beat a drum as I walked in a circle and I did an impromptu chant as an offering to the sun.

I closed the ritual and thanked the spirits, the sun, the land and then I put my drawing into my ritual box. And afterwards I thought to myself, I really needed this.

Why we need ritual

I talk a lot about practical magic. I’ve developed my fair share of practical magic techniques and for the most part they don’t require ritual. They require focused attention, and ritual can be one way to accomplish that, but there are other ways as well.

Yet there is something to ritual that is essential to the lived experience of being a human. Ritual gets us out of our heads, into our bodies, and connected to something deeper and wider than all of us.

I don’t do formal ritual all of the time. I reserve it for specific occasions or when it feels called for. I can’t deny though how it lands in me. There’s a reason we crave ritual, in general. Ritual provides meaning and connection in a world that often feels disconnected.

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Tower Time is officially available!

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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What stops people from doing ritual

I think what stops people from doing ritual is the perception that ritual is complicated. And certainly it can be complicated, but it doesn’t have to be.

I didn’t get dressed in a fancy outfit or pull out a bunch of ritual bling for my solstice ritual. I brought exactly what I needed and nothing more. And I brought one other essential element: My presence.

When I do a ritual, the phone stays out of the circle. When I do a ritual, the focus is on the ritual itself and whoever I’m doing the ritual with. I give myself over to the ritual and that creates the magic of the ritual.

The effect it has on my body and being is really fascinating because there is this felt sense of relaxation that comes through as I do the ritual. The ritual creates an intimate connection between myself and what is called in. There is presence and energy that lands through the entire space of the ritual.

The next time you decide to incorporate ritual into your magic, keep it simple. The focus isn’t on all the objects. It’s on using what’s needed to make the contact come alive. Every gesture, every word, and every tool serves the purpose of ritual. Anything that doesn’t serve the purpose is extraneous and unneeded.

Conclusion

I beat the drum and I came up with words in the moment praising both the sun and the dark. The words weren’t planned. I just knew they were the right words. I let the ritual work through me and I trusted what it brought me.

It brought me to the Sun. It brought me to the Dark. It brought me to the union of all things and in the process it brought me to myself. The best rituals do that. They bring you back to the self that you didn’t even know you were out of touch with.

There are no shortcuts in magic (or in life)

Every so often I get requests where a person asks me to help them obtain special powers through magic. In this episode of the magical experiments podcast I lay down the hard truth that there are no short cuts in magic and life and share some of my experiences and stories learning this truth. You’ll also learn why experience is the best teacher and how to let go of unrealistic expectations.

Why do spirits connect with us?

Do you ever wonder why spirits connect with us? What is it they want? What do they provide in return? In this episode, I pull back the curtain and share my insights around spirit work and why spirits want to connect with us. I share what they give and what they get from our connection and discuss why this can be so helpful in working with spirits in general.

Can you influence peoples' minds with magic

What is the connection between telepathy, empathy, ESP and magic? In this episode of the magical experiments podcast I explore that question and share some of my own experiences around psychic perception and magical work. I also discuss the ethics that can be involved in this kind of work.

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Can I get Life Changing Results with Magic?

I was recently asked if it was possible to get life changing results with magic. In my latest episode of the magical experiments podcast I answer that question and offer a few of my own:

What is a result?

What makes a result life changing?

What needs to change about your life to make a result stick?

Magical Experiments podcast: My Work with Celestial Magic

Have you ever wondered what the benefits of working with a given astrological system could be for your magical work? Or have you wanted to do more work with celestial magic but asked how you could do it?

In this episode I share some of my own experiences with Celestial magic, including how I work with astrological currents, as well as the magic of the planets and stars.

Magical Experiments Podcast : Can I do multiple types of magic?

In the Magical Experiments Facebook group I was recently asked the following question: “Is it okay to do different types of magick at the same time, for example I am delving into PGM, Heptameron, and working with a deity (hekate)?”

In the latest episode of the magical experiments podcast I answer this question and share some thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of working with different types or systems of magic at the same time.

Magical Experiments Podcast: Is Magic a Quick Fix Solution?

Have you ever tried to magic your way out of a problem?

In this podcast episode I answer the question: Why do people think magic is a quick fix/solution to “mundane”problems, or issues that require “mundane” work.

I also explore the connection between the “mundane” world and magic and show that any division between the two is arbitrary and then share examples of how to marry the mundane to the magical.

Magical Experiments Podcast: Return to Sender Experiment

Sometimes the best response to a situation is to call back what belongs to you, while also returning what doesn’t belong to you. I recently decided to do a return to sender working, using a meditation shared by a friend. I have been working with it a few days and I have noticed some experiences that I have found useful. I share my thoughts on this work in the latest episode of the magical experiments process.

The arbitrary nature of elemental directions

When I first started practicing magic I didn’t question the association of the elements with the directions they were ascribed to. Air was east, fire was south, water was west and earth was north. The association of the elements with the directions was something I treated as a given at the time. It was only later, with experience under my belt that I questioned the placement of the elements in specific directions.

I came to question the association because as with most things magical its ultimately an arbitrary choice. If I live on the east coast, why can’t water be in the east? For that matter why can’t fire, with the rising sun? Or west with the setting sun. It seems more effective to base the directions of elements on the actual reality of what you’re dealing with.

For example if I live south of a lake or a river, water being in the north makes a lot more sense than putting it in another direction, but if someone lives north of that same body of water, then water in the south might make more sense. And yet even then it is arbitrary, a convenient placement based on your own location.

The elements are all around us. And we aren’t even limited to the classic 5 elements. There are many more that we can work with if we choose to. It’s important to question what we know or think about a given paradigm. In my book Walking with Elemental Spirits, I deconstruct the classic paradigms and systems of elemental magic and show the possibilities when we let go of the ideas that have been taught as “gospel truth”.

Discover for yourself: What is true about a given path or process, system or tradition. There will always be people who will tell you what they think is true and for them, it may be truth, but each of us ought to question carefully what the truth is and find out what it can be, as it relates to our spiritual work and our lives.

How grounding yourself improves your magic

When you think of the word grounding, what do you think of? What I think of when I consider grounding is the importance of being in presence in the moment I am in a way that connects me across all the levels of my being: Physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Let’s considered what grounded means in regards to each of these states of being.

Physically grounding yourself means taking care of your physical needs. For example, you should be making sure you get enough sleep each night. You also want to make sure your eating healthy food, moderating your use of substances and getting exercise each day. When you are grounded physically, you are also able to listen to your body, feel into the sensations it provides you and as a result adjust your lifestyle. A grounded person, physically is someone at peak health.

An emotionally grounded person is a person who is able to feel their emotions and be aware of them without reacting to them. They know that their emotions aren’t their identity. They are experiences the person is having. They provide valuable information that the person can use to be present to the situation they are in and at the same time the emotions don’t overwhelm the person. An emotionally grounded person is able to open to their sensitive heart and be fully present in a way that turns the emotions into energy for the situation and for the magic.

A mentally grounded person is someone who is aware of their thoughts, but doesn’t let their thoughts control them. They can be mindfully aware of their thoughts and consider them carefully without indulging in the monkey mind awareness that causes the mind to go in circles and circles. A person who is grounded mentally has clarity of thought and awareness and applies that clarity to help them make sound decisions.

A spiritually grounded person is in touch with their spiritual energies and with their allies. They are connected to the spirits around them, but don’t let that connection overwhelm them. They are able to see through the veil of time, but don’t let their oracular vision fool them into believing that their knowing is always accurate. The spiritually grounded person learns how to cultivate internal and external sources of energy and knows when to draw on them.

The grounded person overall knows when to take a rest from magic and other activities and also knows when to move ahead. They know how to monitor themselves, take care of the essentials and stay healthy in all the ways mentioned above. At a given time, you may find yourself ungrounded in one of these areas. When you do orient toward that area and do the work you need to do to get yourself back on track.

Magical Experiments Podcast: How I Modify Magical Entities

In this latest episode of the Magical Experiments Podcast, I talk about how you can modify existing magical entities you’ve created and share why and when you would want to modify them. I share a couple of personal examples of entities that I’ve created and modified and how doing these modifications improved the efficacy of their work.

How to accept where you are to get what you want

Are you feeling stuck?

Caught up in the uncomfortable Discomfort?

I share how to turn that stuck state upside so you can get better results with your magical work. When we learn how to accept and relish the state we are in, that’s when we open the doors to potential and unlock the possibilities that we’ve been holding back because of how stuck we felt.

How to improve your energy work

Do you feel like you can’t sense energy?

Do you struggle with figuring out what to do with energy work?

I’ve got you handled. I’m going to answer these questions and share some tips to help you become a better energy worker.

And if you want to take your energy work to the next level, sign up for Advanced Energy Alchemy, starting August 10th.