Magic For years and years I've done things that I now think of as 'practical magic.' I have a sincere heart when it comes to others. When I wish them well or empathize with them, I mean it. I do it without regard for myself. I think my selflessness is part of why it works but I have also come to believe that when I do such things, I am tapping into the power or energy of the Oneness and in a way I am also feeding it. When I look back at all the well-wishing I've done and all the times that it has worked, I see that my percentage of success is amazingly high. Coincidences begin to look more like cause and effect. Randomness begins to look like intent and purpose. I have no ego involved in this assessment. I never felt powerful when I was doing these things before. I do now, but it's more a recognition of ownership than anything approaching arrogance. I now believe that if I wish a person well, my wish adds to their chances of getting well. In some cases, my wish may be all it takes. In other cases, it will not work at all but that does not mean that I failed. It means that there were other forces at work which I could not overcome alone. I have no problem with this since I don't see myself as having the right to override the whole universe, nor do I have wish to. I will merely lend what assistance I deem suitable and appropriate and trust that it will work as best it can within the grand scheme. Perhaps you could call that Faith. There are other forms of 'wish' magic which have worked for me. One form deals with clearing my path. Primary examples are from before my awakening, sort of. I mean I recognized that there was more to my wishing than the usual 50-50 shot at the desired outcome. Anyway, during my career in the corporate world, I was climbing through the ranks and naturally that meant there had to be openings ahead of me. In more cases than I can count, I would target my next step up on the corporate ladder and invariably that step would be vacated as I needed it. I wished no harm to befall my predecessor, but I saw that I needed them to move and they did. Maybe this sounds like mundane stuff to you. Maybe you don't think of this as magic at all. Well, I do. My career was in a field heavily dominated by men. I was a natural at the work but being a woman, opportunities were just not available. Yet, despite the 'good ol boy networks' and company policies and prejudices, I moved up. I had to prove myself when I got to each new post, but nothing about the availability of those posts was under my control except for my wish magic. After a while, I could not ignore the possibility and later the fact, that my wishing was consequential. I got really careful about personal wishing after I realized that. I was actually told by a manager once that my words had more influence than I realized and I needed to be more aware of what I was saying and how. I was shocked but then I came to see it myself. It has always been true. I have a voice that draws attention in a favorable way, a command of language and a way of communicating easily with people on all levels, up and down the scale, that seems to get to them. This is power. This is practical magic. I have learned to exercise control over it. I've used it to my benefit and to the benefit of others but with great care in not being harmful or overly manipulative. Another kind of mundane or practical magic is sort of funny. I think of it as 'Insurance' and it's loosely based on Murphy's Law really. For instance, if I am going on an outing, ie, I will be outdoors all day, I always try to remember to take an umbrella. Doesn't matter what the forecast is. I am certain that if I do not take an umbrella, it will rain. I feel that just the act of taking the umbrella may cause it NOT to rain. If I take an umbrella and it rains anyway, well then, I'm still covered, literally. Insurance is sort of protective magic. It shields me against unwanted potentialities. I can forget the umbrella, let it rain, get wet, be miffed and let my spirit suffer from barking at the skies and their unfairness and audacity OR I can take the unbrella and thank the skies for the gift of rain when I get it anyway and for the preparations I took to stay dry myself. See? Practical magic or maybe 'practically magic.' It wasn't until I awakened that I realized this sort of magic was a mere shade of the real thing. I also think that the semantics are unimportant here. It doesn't matter whether you spell magic with a k at the end or not. You know when a person is doing parlour tricks and slight-of-hand for entertainment rather than purposeful magic that draws upon the power within us and everywhere around us. The magic that has sent messages to me in the sky or brought animals across my path to give me hints or showed me a two foot sparkling aura around a man who has become a soul pathmate... these were no parlour tricks. (Magic)

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