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cafeconbrujeria:
teawitch:
tyrtime:
I’ve been looking into spells and sigils and such, and part of me wants to believe they work but the other part of me is stuck in the ways of “magic isn’t real and it won’t ever be real” I’m stuck
So my niece said to me very kindly “Aunt Tea, you know that a lot of people don’t believe witchcraft is real.”
And I said “Yes, but they make the best witches.”
We’re raised in cultures that place focus on belief but witchcraft isn’t about believing. It’s about doing. The best witches I’ve known haven’t necessarily been those who’ve sat around and told me, misty eyed, how they love the goddess or enthused about fairies.
No, the best have been those who pragmatically set up altars and did rituals, not because they believed, but because it worked. Sometimes they were trying to prove it wouldn’t work. That this witchcraft stuff would have no affect on reality. Except it did. So they kept doing…because it worked.
They often become very knowledgeable witches because they get caught up in research. Witchcraft becomes and experiment as they work to find the best techniques. They look into Ceremonial Magic, Hermetic Quabalah, Thelema and other systems the same way a scientist pursues research.
Sometimes I think magic works for them because it knows it has to. If it stops, then they’ll stop. And the magic wants to keep itself going.
Some of my biggest magic has been at the times in my life where I was holding my hands over my ears and screaming NOPE NOPE NOPE.
I also had an in between period of “hahah, well, it only appears to work because something something the subconscious, nothing mysterious about it a all, its just psychology!”
And then you do some kind of really externally focused spell, because, hahah, it’s not like it will WORK anyway, so–
And then things work a lot of the time and you’re like,
WELP. maybe i should just stop talking shit.
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cafeconbrujeria:
teawitch:
tyrtime:
I’ve been looking into spells and sigils and such, and part of me wants to believe they work but the other part of me is stuck in the ways of “magic isn’t real and it won’t ever be real” I’m stuck
So my niece said to me very kindly “Aunt Tea, you know that a lot of people don’t believe witchcraft is real.”
And I said “Yes, but they make the best witches.”
We’re raised in cultures that place focus on belief but witchcraft isn’t about believing. It’s about doing. The best witches I’ve known haven’t necessarily been those who’ve sat around and told me, misty eyed, how they love the goddess or enthused about fairies.
No, the best have been those who pragmatically set up altars and did rituals, not because they believed, but because it worked. Sometimes they were trying to prove it wouldn’t work. That this witchcraft stuff would have no affect on reality. Except it did. So they kept doing…because it worked.
They often become very knowledgeable witches because they get caught up in research. Witchcraft becomes and experiment as they work to find the best techniques. They look into Ceremonial Magic, Hermetic Quabalah, Thelema and other systems the same way a scientist pursues research.
Sometimes I think magic works for them because it knows it has to. If it stops, then they’ll stop. And the magic wants to keep itself going.
Some of my biggest magic has been at the times in my life where I was holding my hands over my ears and screaming NOPE NOPE NOPE.
I also had an in between period of “hahah, well, it only appears to work because something something the subconscious, nothing mysterious about it a all, its just psychology!”
And then you do some kind of really externally focused spell, because, hahah, it’s not like it will WORK anyway, so–
And then things work a lot of the time and you’re like,
WELP. maybe i should just stop talking shit.
(Your picture was not posted)
