Where To Look for Magic
& How To Find It
Magic - contrary to what the mad medieval monks might have
thought in their insane delusions - is actually LIGHT in nature.
- Magic is light, it is colorblessed,
it is filled with joy, the love of life, and it flows, sings and
dances as its very structure, in its very nature.
If magic is not approached like that, and in that spirit, it
turns weird, becomes uncontrollable, misfires, and brings misery
instead of the pure joy that is the heart of magic itself.
The dour medieval monks and all those other weird *men* who over
the years, stipulated their heavy, doomladen ideas of magic, of cast
iron rituals, designed to contain a flame pure joy and lightness, of
love of immeasurable proportions, never really got anywhere near to
the spirit of magic - magic and misery are like matter and
anti-matter; where the one is, the other cannot exist.
So what, you might ask, does this basic observation have to do
with "looking for opportunities for magic"?
Well, if you look for magic, you need to know WHAT you are
looking for, and WHERE you are looking for it, or you will never
find it.
And where you won't find opportunities for magic is IN MISERY.
A lot of people do not understand that at all.
They try to use magic to "get them out of the misery that they
are in" or even sometimes to create misery for others.
Needless to say, this isn't going to work, it never did, and it
never will, for all the furrowed brows and the midnight chanting
until the lips start to bleed ...
- Opportunities for REAL magic are
ONLY found in moments of lightness, and joy, and surprise, and
happiness.
And there, you can find these opportunities for magic EVERYWHERE.
Here's an example.
The other day, my son spotted whilst helping me prepare the meal,
that we had a perfectly heart shaped potato in the bag.
Here it is:
We both laughed at this because it happened to be Mothering
Sunday on that occasion, it was delightful co-incidence.
There's your "magic moment" - light, happiness, delightful, a
coincidence: MAGIC IS ALREADY HERE, and now, you can use that and
make some more REAL magic, if you want.
So we boiled the potato with the others, but then got it out,
divided it in half, and each one of us ate one half of the potato,
for a little mother-son love spell on Mothering Sunday.
It left us both smiling, delighted, happy, and very touched.
The heart shaped potato had been THE INVITATION to magic, and we
entered into that, and MADE REAL MAGIC on that day.
My son, young as he is, has already a developed antenna for
"spotting the invitations to magic" when they are very real, they
are right here, right now, and present themselves to you on a
platter.
This probably comes from living with someone who has made it her
business to be awake, and aware, and actively on the lookout for
these invitations to magic.
I know that they lead to the kind of spells and rituals that you
can NEVER IN A BILLION YEARS "construct" somehow by pouring over
aged charts, muttering endless rituals and surrounding yourself with
an army of paraphernalia.
And from experience I have learned that these magic moments,
where you can REALLY shift reality big time and in a brilliant
direction for your own aims and outcomes can ONLY BE FOUND IN
MOMENTS OF JOY.
You're not going to find them by digging in dusty cellars for
"lost knowledge of the ages".
You're NEVER going to find these special moments when YOUR MAGIC
REALLY IS ALL THAT IT CAN BE by looking at misery, dwelling in your
misery, plotting and planning grimly, or even running around like a
headless chicken, squawking, "Where's the magic? Where's the magic?"
You have to really take yourself in hand and say to yourself,
"I'm going to pay attention to when
things are AMAZING - good, joyous, surprising, neat, cool,
excellent, colorful, enjoyable, sensuous, POSITIVE, light, and
HAPPY."
THERE is where you find magic, real magic, and it's just amazing,
feels amazing, creates events and movements that you'll never
forget, and that totally make you tingle from head to foot and you
know that magic is not only absolutely real, not only absolutely
here, but THAT YOU CAN DO REAL MAGIC.
So start looking out for opportunities - a found penny in the
street makes THE most powerful magic moment of calling more of their
kind into your life, opening a flood gate of lucky money, if you
want it.
A four leaf clover is good luck - you find one, feel yourself
blessed and jump on the opportunity to share your blessing, make a
luck spell, a luck potion in that moment, because the magic's right
there for you to play with now.
It can be as simple as seeing a dark shadow and sunlight divide
under a balcony and making a little spell as you step from the
shadow into the sun.
Magic is all around us - if only we learn to look in the right
direction!
SFX April 2009 |
