The Secret to Making Magic Spells Work
Lean in close, I want to tell you a secret: magic is play.
And most importantly, play is how magic is uncovered.
Magic is something that just exists. It’s all around us, and every spell and every ritual was created by people playing with this part of reality that is sheer magic.
It’s true that certain ingredients (crystals, herbs, etc.) do have specific purposes, but these purposes were not determined because someone wrote them down in a book. Rather, each ingredients’ purpose has been discovered again and again as a person has held the ingredient in their hand and come to know its purpose. And you too can come to know the purpose of any ingredient. All you have to do is start playing with it and getting to know it.
As you do, you may learn that really, you are not alone in creating your rituals and working your magic. How often have two strangers come to understand the same purpose behind the same ingredient without ever speaking a word? Where does this information come from? I have many beliefs around this, but I’ll let you play and discover those answers for yourself, for they’re living out there just like the purposes of the ingredients themselves.
So, let yourself play. Follow whatever feeling and inspiration arises when you’re working a ritual (ahem, spell) and don’t fear messing up.
As long as you’re doing what feels right and true for you—and you’re doing it with an open, feeling heart—then it has the power to work!
The tighter and more rigid you get about things, the less space there is for magic to flow.
Sometimes, I’m in the middle of channeling or doing a ritual or guiding someone through a calming meditation, and suddenly, I hear sirens in the background or random voices from the street. And that’s okay! This is all part of the work. Magic does not happen in a bubble. Magic happens when you tune into the connection between yourself and everything around you. Nothing is too sacred. Nothing is too precious.
Magic is like a tree in the wind. The more rigid the tree is, the more likely it is to shatter and break. But if the tree is flexible and can bend with every gust, then it stands strong and survives. Be the bendy tree.
And this goes even for the most ancient, traditional rituals. Don’t get me wrong, certain rituals have been conducted in the same manner for hundreds and thousands of years. They’ve been imbued with the creative energy of every person who’s ever participated, and as a result, they are powerful magic! And I believe, are worthy of a certain degree of reverence, but even they aren’t too sacred and precious.
So feel free to be inspired by whatever inspires you and pull together whatever ingredients speak to you and just start playing and making magic! Just remember the cardinal rule: do no harm. That means no curses, no cruelty, and no infringing on other people’s free will.
You’re here to live your life, and life has nothing to do with being right and everything to do with enjoying the ride and playing every single day.
Spirit gets this.
Magic knows the way.
