'Spells' Articles
There are a lot of different arts that could be called spellcasting from Native American ceremony to Buddhist chanting. But they all have things in common, and all have the same general sort of impact. People constantly cast spells. Spells are simply you spelling out reality to yourself, but spells are not just self talk. For those who would actually do them on purpose, they can do much more.
We all cast spells, but we don’t do it in a crafty way usually. Before we take up a craft, we don’t make actual use of the process. You are ultimately trying to achieve one of two things in spell casting. Unity with the divine and service to it. Or to attain the power of it and to serve yourself whether with wisdom or not. I myself view both ways as legitimate.
“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it” Emily Dickinson (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)
“Some of mankind’s most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases” James Bryant Conant
Under A Spell
First, what do you know of spells? Very little. Just from the movies, witches brew stuff and TV like Bewitched and Sabrina the teenage witch. Oh, movies are both very good and very bad for this information. You can’t see the truth behind the ideas. Have you ever had a spell? If it sounds like trick wording, there is a reason. Would smudging be a spell in a sense? Yes, it would. Like a dizzy moment? And that would be a spell also. Any idea how those could both be spells? The same reason songs are also spells. I guess… Seek More
Power Symbols
Beyond words we have symbols. Some people believe that symbols have innate power, some do not, but ultimately it doesn’t really matter. They are still useful for spell casting. How many different intentions do you have in the average day, really? Not a lot. A handful maybe. And there are symbols that can represent those, likely do, either deliberately chosen or not. For most people, they are not deliberately chosen so the awareness of them becomes scattered, and your car fails to build up any real power for you. But your car can build a great deal of power if you… Seek More
Move The Mirrors
Anyone want to share a seemingly inexplicable problem they have? Some chronic issue that just keeps popping up for no apparent reason? My fear of talking to strangers on the phone. Ok. You always begin to talk to yourself about phone calls. Maybe you had a really bad one a long time ago, but don’t really remember it now. You don’t have to remember it, the spell lingers with you. I do remember it. Ok. So your attention goes to that every time someone calls. It builds more power. Even when you don’t intend to think about it, it comes… Seek More
Gods Intention
What is a Gods intention? Gods intention is the law of reality. Gods intention is why a rose smells like it does, and why our planet is where it is in relationship to the sun. It’s also why we can see and hear and think, and why this has any structure. Our senses are the language of God, or the Gods if you prefer. They are infinite. But for the sake of spell casting, having a divine mentor can help. This is why so many magick using faiths are pantheistic, and why tribal cultures had totems of one form or another.… Seek More
Witches Potion
In the movies, the witches spell can be a complex mix of elements. The witches didn’t just flip their lids and get a lot of ideas out of left field. They had a very intuitive and holistic grasp of how people relate to reality. The witches potion is embedding the elements into a liquid so it can be transmitted? Yes, and they included elements we considered vulgar because these still have power. They would include dung in incense, because it was repulsive. Can you be very afraid when you are too distracted by a disgusting smell? If it is the… Seek More
Styles of Spell Casting
Styles of spell casting are like styles of art, really. In my belief, no one style is better than another. Like music, rap isn’t better or worse than pop music or country. But a style of spellcasting may be better or worse for you personally, and finding your spellcasting style is a realization of self. An element of self discovery, compatibility or affinity. In fact, many use rap as their style of magic. Yes. I will even add that it can work, if the song is deliberately chosen for that purpose. And if you find a real good rap mage,… Seek More
Finding Your Spell Casting Style
The styles of spell casting do divide into different domains, but these domains are psychological more than metaphysical. Human opinion more than universal reality. The two broadest perhaps being light workers versus night kind. These are not actually opposed, but people having strong opinions like they do, they created oppositions. There have always been those who loved the night, and who were what other people might call morbid. Who would contemplate a kill they found in the wild, or contemplate how they should live and think after death in an immediate and personal way rather than the theurgic way. There… Seek More
Spell Casting As Problem Solving
Now we will go into spellcasting as problem solving. I will just use one style. You can take your pick friends. Theurgy? Shamanism? Your favourite tradition? Necromancy? I often find that using a style that people consider negative often makes things very clear. Your pick. Necromancy. I will go with it. Even necromancy uses the principle of mirroring. As above so below. But in the case of necromancy, the above is the living world and the below is the realm of the dead. They believed that everything that happened here either had its origin in the land of the dead,… Seek More
