![]() But the spell worked, and my disengagement with the outcome played a big part in that. So I was in a rush to get on the road and not thinking of much else, but I did drive past a canary yellow SUV, which made me go “Hey, that kind of reminds me of…”Īnd right then, I glanced in the other direction while switching lanes and saw a lime green truck in a bank parking lot. The next morning, I learned that an event I needed to attend started an hour earlier than I thought it did. Once the sigil was set, I charged and fired it (literally: I burned it in an ashtray on my porch), then went on with my evening, which almost entirely consisted of binge-watching Teen Titans. In fact, here’s a spell I worked over the weekend for that very purpose, using the Austin Osman Spare method of creating a sigil. It just takes practice - and an excellent way to hone our abilities is to cast spells for things in which we’re not invested, so that we can get familiar with that non-attached mindset and recall it whenever necessary. Having been to a gun range before, I can say that my first couple of shots were like, “AAAAAAH, I’M WIELDING A LOADED WEAPON AND I AM UNCOMFORTABLE.” But once I simmered down, I was able to zero in on what I was doing my aim improved, and I got sort of good at it. Literally how I look when anxiety gets the better of me. Or, I can take a deep breath, clear my head, aim, and pull the trigger, which will dramatically increase my chance of hitting my target. It’s a lot like shooting a gun: I can stress over my ability to use the gun correctly, and let my anxiety get the better of me, and get so worked up that I become a danger to myself and others. When we cast a spell, we need to do so with utmost confidence (NOT cockiness, mind you just confidence), and lust of result gets in the way of that. I know it seems contradictory - I mean, shouldn’t we want our spells to work? Of course we should! But if we get tangled up in fantasizing about what we’re going to do after a given spell comes to fruition, or if we start worrying about whether or not we did enough to manifest our goals, we’re decreasing the probability of achieving them. “Lust of result” is exactly what it sounds like: being so emotionally invested in the outcome of a magical working, that the working itself is negated. ![]() #Sigil engine how toAnd it was a challenge to learn how to do that, but it was vital if I was going to progress as a Witch. ![]() Here’s the thing, though: Once the spell is cast once the candle burns down or the sacrificed goat stops twitching or whatever, I set it aside and move on, and let the magic work without any further interference on my part. “HOW CAN YOU BE OUT OF CALENDULA?!” (Image via Pixabay.) It’s a lot like method acting, except Witchcraft. ![]()
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