Are You Ready to Try Casting a Spell?
With the advent of movies and television, the concept of magic, including casting a spell, has been trivialized to the point where people imagine someone wiggling their nose or pointing a wand and making things fly around the room.
In true magic and spell work, we can indeed “make things happen,” but we realize the folly of going against the laws of nature.
Wise practitioners align themselves with Nature and Spirit before attempting any magical workings. That is why most of us:
- call in or honor the elements
- ground to Earth
- orient ourselves within the seven directions
- create intentional sacred space for our spells and rituals
- work with spirit guides — animal, faery, plant and/or ancestor allies, or angels
We then raise our energy in order to align ourselves with the larger workings of the Universe. Only then do we set forth our intention. In the case of casting spells, we have worked out the precise wording of it before beginning the ritual.
Literally, we are spelling our intention and it is a really good idea to write your spell out on a piece of paper in order to engage more of your brain and subconscious mind.
The whole ritual of cleansing, grounding, and aligning could be considered spell working in itself, though some might say the actual spell is only the intention we set forth (or “spell” out) within the ritual.
Either way, the ritual is the thing that differentiates a magical spell from a simple intention.
Rituals Speak Directly to Your Subconscious Mind
Rituals serve to shift you out of left-brain logic — the part of your mind that often does not believe in magic!
Once the right-brain is activated and becomes temporarily dominant through the use of symbols, trance, repetition, rhythm, and ritual, you can more easily set your intentions in motion.
A spell is simply an intention that is offered in the wider awareness of your connection with Oneness or All-That-Is, your expanded self, the Goddess/God, or Nature.
It is a well-defined intention or wish enhanced and charged by your own uplifted vibration, within the rhythms of Nature and cosmic order.
The logical mind will never understand this. Scientists may never validate it, though quantum physicists are coming pretty close. Even a part of yourself may question it, yet we can see the results!
You will know that your magic is working when you feel more uplifted and your life begins to flow with more synchronicity. Eventually you begin to see your intentions manifesting in the physical world. Others may doubt what you are doing, but you KNOW.
When you change one thing, even a tiny thing, the entire universe must change, and that IS something quantum physics does validate.
Why Use Symbols to Cast a Spell?
Both white and gray magic are based on the language of symbols.
“The psychological mechanism for
transforming energy is the symbol.” — Carl Jung
Symbol is to Magic as language is to thought.
Language has given us the ability to think.
Symbols give us the ability to work magic!
Everything that exists can be broken down to a few universal symbolic forms such as:
- the flower of life
- the phi ratio
- the Fibonacci series from which the spiraling forms of nature are created
- the Pythagorean solids (also called Platonic solids) that represent the four basic elements of the physical universe – Earth, Fire, Water and Air – also represented by the four Sacred Hallows in the Celtic Faery tradition
Out of these basic forms, all of creation is manifested. Every magical symbol represents a flow of energy that follows these forms in some way. These symbols awaken our own creative energy by touching a place deep in our unconscious awareness.
When that deep awareness is awakened, we begin to sense who we really are!
That is the essence of magic!
Following the Magical Path in Casting a Spell
Magic is an anarchistic, decentralized spiritual path based on right-brain values of intuition, consensus, inclusion, diversity, shared power and respect for all life.
This living path is constantly evolving and shifting as each person brings their own energy and imagination to it.
As you progress on your magical path, you will create your own unique magical practice, and when you share your practice with others it will enhance the growing body of magical wisdom in the world.
The one and only basic rule of magic is to “harm none.”
It is based on the Law of Attraction and it pretty much covers it all.
Whatever you put out will come back to you. As long as you are not harming anyone or anything, including yourself, you are free to do whatever you like. Magic is a spiritual tradition, but not a religion in the sense that there is any dogma to follow.
Our Goddess can be seen as Earth and Universe, our God can be seen as Nature, Sun, and Spirit. They have many names and many faces, including the faces of ancestors, descendants and our very own face.
The physical world, in every aspect, is a manifestation of the Oneness. Therefore, we can commune and communicate with any aspect at any time.
Honor and respect for Nature is inherent in the Celtic world view and naturally, many magic workers are also environmental activists.
What’s in a Name?
Throughout history those who cast spells have been called witches, wizards, pagans, magicians, mages, sorcerers, initiates, priestesses, priests, druids and alchemists — describing those who followed the mystery wisdom path in one way or another. Each name holds a particular vibration and connotation.
Some of these words, like “witch,” have attracted persecution and they still hold a disturbed energy that needs to be healed. One aspect of magic in modern times can be to take on these names and honor them, regardless of the media images that continue to degrade them. In so doing, a gradual healing can take place.
It is not necessary, however, for you to “come out of the broom closet,” so to speak, in order to follow the magical path. Many still work in secret, but some choose to publicly speak their truth and work to clear the negative energy that has attached itself to words like witch and sorcerer.
The Reclaiming Tradition has taken a stand to use the word “witch” in order to honor our ancestors who were persecuted for their beliefs and to reclaim the deeper meaning of the word that, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, comes from the Old English “wiccian,” meaning “to cast a spell.”
Are You Ready to Start Casting Magical Spells in Your Life?
Faehallows School of Magic offers one thread in a never-ending tapestry of magical discovery.
If you would like to weave this particular thread into your own personal tapestry of life, sign up for the Magical Law of Attraction Foundation Magic Course.
We hold the world in balance (or out of balance)
through our own state of Being.
And that’s really what Magic is all about.
