u/Witch_of_Whimsy

We are REALLY not trying to be, I swear.

This is an excerpt from Eliphas Levi's book "History of Magick" that explains it really well.

-God and Nature alike have closed the Sanctuary or Transcendent Science and this in such a manner that, beyond a certain limit, he who knows would speak to no purpose, because he would not be understood.-

-The revelation of the Great Magical Secret is therefore happily impossible.-

#AKA: You don't understand because you're not there yet.

#It's the NATURE of magick.

I've got some times for 3 card readings in exchange for a review

DM me your questions!

-- I used the wrong flair at first! Sorry!

#Why use a strategy?

You might still be asking “Why spend all the time and energy creating a strategy?”

Because backfires are not some unrelated thing that happens to a spell, they ARE the spell working.

You probably think, like most witches, that the biggest hurdle in witchcraft is getting your spells and rituals to ACTUALLY work. 

Well that's not really the case, in my experience.

The hardest hurdle in witchcraft is keeping your life together while the magic works. You know those horror stories. 

  

You might be asking yourself, “if I could be certain that all of my spells would work,why wouldn’t I just do a few big spells for what I want and call it a day?”

Well…Many witches have tried that. And technically succeeded. But they call it a backfire because it brought bad, with the result they intended.

Like I said, Backfires are your spell working as it was constructed. So the construction itself is the issue.

I’ll explain.

Rituals for things energetically far away from your normal, will create energetic rifts in your life.They have to in order to make room for the thing you wanted. Spells for big changes will happen through big coincidences you might not want. We use spell strategies in order to control and keep those coincidences inline with things we are ok with happening.

#Maybe that was too abstract. So Money is probably the easiest area to demonstrate why strategies are so important in spell work.

Because money seems to be this larger than life energy, people are afraid to do money magick. 

A big and common fear that people have around money magic specifically is that one of their distant relatives is going to die and leave them an inheritance. I also had that fear. I still have it actually. As they say, the only things guaranteed in life is Death and Taxes.

I still have this fear after 7 years of dedicated practice as a witch because if that is the only avenue through which you can get a large sum of money, then yes that is a real threat and a real issue. That's a valid fear and should not be understated. 

 I would be actually very careful about doing rituals for large sums of money if you have no other avenue through which it can get to you. Or anything that is energetically far away from you.

 If you're asking yourself, what is an avenue through which money can come to me? I'm going to tell you all about it don't worry. 

#I bet you are a clever little rat, and you thought to yourself, “if I want a large sum of money I'll just do a spell to win the lottery. No one has to die for the lotto”

Last thing and then we’ll go straight into the steps, I am not going to be the one to say that you cannot use magic to win the lottery. 

I am going to say that I personally don't know how to do that and I haven't met one person that knows how to do that. I will also say that I'm pretty sure if anyone knew how to do that they would not tell anyone else how to do that because of the nature of the lottery. That being, in order for One person to win the lottery, the rest of the participants have to pay that person. The money comes from them buying tickets in hopes that they might win bigger than they're paying. 

You would be much better off doing rituals and work to create a stable financial foundation through other means.

The lottery is the least likely way to do affective money magick because of all the variables. 

The reality of our capitalistic system, is that it's more likely for you to receive a million dollars from a successful business venture that takes you 3-5 or even 10 years, than it is likely for you to win big in the lottery. 

A big reason why people want to win the lottery is because they don't understand capitalism. And so it seems easier for them to buy a few tickets and do a ritual and cross their fingers, then it is to learn basic business and do spells for that. I digress.

#So we use strategies to control the flow of magic in small bursts instead of one large explosion. But these small bursts are not reactionary.

If you have any questions, please ask ☺️

I've been practicing for 15 years, but more seriously the last 7 years.

I also posted this in r/Witchcraft_Support , if posting it again is against the rules, please let me know. I read the rules and didn't see anything about it.

I see it like this :

Emotions are like waves that crash and recede on the beach.

Some feel bad, some feel good, but they're all waves.

Your self concept/ energy set point is the beach.

And to continue the analogy, your manifestation comes to you like a little boat on the water.

If you try and hold back all the emotions from the beach, it will hold back the manifestation. (This isn't always true, but it is for most situations )

If you feel your feelings and fully process them, you'll be able to calm the waters, and the manifestation will come to you easier.

If there's anything I need to clear up or you have any questions just let me know 🤗

I'm an intermediate witch, and I love helping baby witches and other leveled witches learn more. And I love sharing my own experiences, but I feel it's more useful to have sources and resources for stuff, so people can learn for themselves.

My issue is that I've read a bunch of books, blogs, and watched a bunch of videos and documentaries from 2010-2026(present) and I can't remember where I first read/ heard certain things.

QUESTION: When giving sources for things, do you guys just pick the one you like best that has that information in it? Or do you try and remember what thought group/movement each concept comes from?

I see a lot of the Internet spiraling into unsourced thought pieces being portrayed as facts, and I wish to no longer add to the problem hahah 😅