An Essay On Why We All Get So Fatigued Trying To Do Witchcraft, And Some Ideas On What To Do About It.

An essay on why we all get so fatigued trying to do witchcraft, and some ideas on what to do about it.

I've mentioned a few (several?) times that I'm trying to rework my practice to be so much lower energy.

I want to practice a lot. My path has responsibilities and demands. I want to be engaged in witchcraft daily and often.

As a part of this I have had to really sit down and untangle the question of chronic magical fatigue, which then turns in to chronic regular fatigue.

I've come to some personal realizations during this quest. Here is one of them, which I would like to suggest as a concept or hypothesis but not a literal truism:

One of the most vital and basic energy working techniques you can learn is feeling how full your "mana tanks" are.

Magical battery, odic fluid, witch-power, whatever you want to call it. It's finite for all of us (even if for some it can recharge faster than they can use it).

I have yet to see a "daily practice" or "101 energy work guide" provide a resource on how to feel how much magical energy you have, and explain how to avoid over-spending it.

I have also never seen a 101 guide ever really explain that "energy-gathering" techniques which are meant to recharge you are in and of themselves draining.

Techniques which refill your mana tanks are often the same techniques as energy raising and energy programming.

E.g.: "Pull energy up from the earth" (energy raising) "and guide it to your spine, imagining that it refills and recharges your whole body" (energy programming).

This is an actively draining technique.

The only passive energy-gathering technique I'm familiar with is just resting.

As humans, this should be common sense! Eating food requires energy (to find food, to prepare it, to consume it) and then can further tire us as our body redirects resources to digestion.

As humans, when many of us get older, we start to realize our physical limits. You know how far you can get in the day on a single bagel. And for many of us, if you've pushed past your limits, your whole day is thrown off. Refueling might make you crash and nap, not suddenly fill you up with a huge burst of energy!

Yet somehow it's pervaded the 101 energy working sphere that a certain energy-gathering exercise - which drains your magical power - will just fill you up and you can do as much magic as you want again. Warnings about not over-exerting are usually like, "take it easy! Only do 1 or 2 minutes if you can't do all 15, or even take the day off ;)" but no actual instructions about how to feel out your limits and know how to reliably stop before you over-exert.

I think that for a lot of people it would be helpful to divide their energy-working abilities into two categories: Muscle and Fuel.

Your energy working Muscle becomes stronger over time. It has its own muscle-memory, and repetition of techniques can allow you to do them faster and better over time. This Muscle behaves very much like your earthly muscles: it burns fuel to work, but it also becomes fatigued and even damaged with over-exertion. It requires regular periods of rest. Once pushed to the point of fatigue, the necessary period of rest becomes a lot longer.

Your energy working Fuel can be thought of as the little magical calories floating around your energy body system. These units of energy are refilled and recharged as we do normal things like eating, sleeping, and engaging in restorative mundane activities. This Fuel doesn't do anything on its own*. In order to utilize it, you have to engage your Muscle. The more that you work with Fuel-collecting and Muscle-using, the more efficient your energy body system becomes at accepting, processing, storing, and expelling Fuel. You can use your Muscle to collect Fuel and store it inside your energy body.

No matter how much Fuel you have, once your Muscle is fatigued, you have to rest.

I can run a marathon (no I can't, but imagine with me) and be totally exhausted. If I eat an entire pizza, will this allow me to suddenly run another marathon? No, of course not!

Now, let's imagine that nobody brought a pizza to me, but I had to walk down to the corner shops to buy one - now, my poor muscles can barely hold me up. Energy-raising exercises still require you to flex your Muscle, and if it's already fatigued, you are probably just shooting yourself in the foot.

Your Fuel and Muscle are not automatically synchronised. And I think a lot of us out here are abusing our poor Muscles, demanding they work again and again and again, not understanding that they need literal periods of rest - hours and days to be allowed to relax, heal, and regrow to a stronger state. And I think a lot of people do believe that just by Refueling, their Muscles are supposed to "magically" work as if they just came of a week of rest.

In my beliefs, this Fuel and Muscle are the same ones we use for divination, spellwork, and spirit contact :) So if you're trying to do tons of these things all the time and thinking that a grounding exercise can replace rest, you're probably literally just… running yourself into the ground.

I would like to propose that if you are having a really hard time dealing with fatigue and energy levels when trying to engage with your practice**, you should learn two techniques: A way to judge the fatigue of your Muscle, and a way to judge the fullness of your Fuel.

Either of these things can be accomplished with a pendulum on a number line (using a pendulum requires usage of your Muscle, by the by!). Bodily sensations may tip you off - I get a strained feeling in my forehead when I'm close to over-exertion. You can also induce a psychic technique, such as asking yourself where you're at and waiting to hear, see, know, feel, or understand where your Muscles and Fuel are at.

I would also like to propose that metaphysical energy gathering can actually be so tiring that it might be inappropriate for everyday use. Raising a ton of energy and infusing it into yourself or objects for later use is a full day's activity, not a quick act you can shove into a morning routine. I'd like to clarify that here I differentiate between energy-raising, and meditative techniques which provide a "grounded," present-moment focused state of mind.

If you're taking suggestions, I would recommend figuring out how much magic you can do before you achieve a state of 50% Muscular fatigue/Fuel exertion, 75%, and 90%. I believe you shouldn't push past your limits. It just hurts. It feels bad, it's exhausting, and it takes exponentially longer to rest and heal. And I think many of us will be surprised at how little magic we can accomplish when we respect our limits.

*Some people who experience a great over-abundance of personal energy do have weird stuff happening around them all the time; it's the metaphysical equivalent of a cat rubbed with a balloon and set loose in a Styrofoam factory.

**Here, I mean people who notice marked upticks in exhaustion and fatigue when working magic, not people with baseline fatigue which just carries forward.

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"Fun ways to manifest"

Here are some fun ways to manifest because thats what manifestation is supposed to be :) 🦋 Interview method: I love doing this! You have to pretend that you are being interviewed about your desire. Like if your desire is appearance change the interviewer is gonna ask you how you feel after manifesting your df and if you have tips for anyone else manifesting a df and stuff like that. 🦋 Pinterest method: You are gonna create a board on pinterest where you are gonna save pins related to your desire like for a df you can have a board named "mee" or "my pictures" or something like that. i used to do this and i also explained the pictures like if it was a picture of my df in the pool i'll be like yeah this pic is from when i went to the pool. 🦋Scripting You can script about your desire. now there are different ways like you could make it sound like a diary entry or a ff 🦋Vision board: You can make a vision board with all your desires on it and whenever you see it, it'll act as a reminder to affirm 🦋 Play pretend: You can play pretend like you can pretend your sp being right beside you while watching a movie. you can talk to them as if they are actually there. HAVE FUNN!! ~( ̄▽ ̄)~

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First, let’s talk about core beliefs. Your core beliefs are the sum of your past experiences. From the moment we’re born, we’re constantly trying to make sense of our world. What do you think when you think about yourself? Do you think you’re kind & deserving or bothersome & undeserving? Our brain automatically answers these questions using the direct & indirect messages we received during childhood. A direct message could be “Jenny, aren’t you clever?” or “You are so lazy, Sam”. An indirect message is a belief your brain accepted via experience. They are the beliefs that control your actions without you even knowing. For example, if one of your parents were often too busy to spend time with you, your brain may have created the indirect (subconscious) belief that you are unimportant & unlovable. Your parents didn’t blatantly tell you that, but it’s how your brain perceived their actions, hence the term ‘indirect’ or ‘subconscious’ belief. The bad news is that until you reframe those beliefs, there’s a good chance they will continue to influence your decisions & ultimately run your life. The good news is that it’s never too late to reframe our beliefs! Take a moment to think about what subconscious beliefs are running your life. If they aren’t contributing to your happiness & well-being, then it may be time to replace them. Once you have identified the root cause of your negative beliefs, you can begin to reframe them using neuroplasticity & psychology, which I will discuss in my upcoming posts.

In simplest terms, if you don’t believe something is possible under any circumstances, you have limiting subconscious beliefs that need to be reframed. If you believe something is possible & just not possible for you, you likely have a poor self-concept and/or have been conditioned to subscribe to low self-worth stories. In either scenario, the first steps towards change is reframing your beliefs.

✨ Follow along as I teach you how to manifest your dreams using psychology, quantum physics, neuroplasticity, and just a sprinkle of magic.

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TIME CRUNCH MANIFESTATIONS & THEIR ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

manifesting on a time crunch means manifesting something by a certain date. think of a school assignment: you have to submit it by a certain date, right? time crunch manifestations work like school assignments. time crunch manifestations are practical because you know exactly when you’ll get your desires! and they’re not at all more complicated than “basic” manifestations.

so, to manifest on a time crunch, set a “deadline” for your manifestation. some examples could be: “i’ll have a boyfriend in a week”, or “on monday i’ll get 1000 dollars”, or “by next month i’ll live in hawaii”. assume that these thoughts are true, persist, and you’ll get them exactly when you planned them! ain’t that exciting?? <3

So You Wanna Astral Project!

I’ve been astral projecting for a long time now, and I do it at least 4 times a week, probably more. I think I have a problem. Anyway. Here are a few tips on what to do, what not to do, etc for all ya’ll trying to get into astral travel. A few of the things have links for places to find more information, ideas, and stuff.

1. You’re Captain America- get yoself a shield. I use 2 shields when I project, both protective spirals. Basically, when you’re projecting your body is left unprotected by your spirit so you need something else to protect you. Use any shield you like. I use one that protects my body from anything harmful (visualised as rose petals swirling around me- it just seemed right) and another that repels anything harmful away from me (visualised as bright lights, almost painful to look at). Sometimes, when I get bad vibes, I’ll use more and more until I feel safe. LAYER LAYER LAYER. A shield can only do one thing at a time, so if you want multiple protective actions then use more than one. You’ll know when you’ve got enough, as when you try to project you’ll feel safer.

2. Failure is ok. Honestly, I couldn’t project last night. It was hard and my brain just couldn’t get the focus and I couldn’t visualise anything. It just didn’t work, and that’s ok. Sometimes it’ll be too much for you, don’t force anything or beat yourself up over it. Stop what you’re doing, stretch your muscles and try again later. I usually wait at least until the next night (I always project at night) when I’ve found something a little too difficult. It gives me time to rest and to do some grounding. 

3. You’re going into Narnia. What does that mean??- imagine a door! I spent a long time trying and trying to project into the astral realm until I realised that I simply had to open a door!! When I project, I visualise a white void full of different doors to different places on the astral realm, I walk around and find my own door or draw it to me. I turn the handle, walk through and BOOM astral realm. This can take a while and it’s hard at first, when I first tried this method I found the door, put my hand on the handle and got thrown out back into my body again. Take your time, practice and you’ll get there. 

4. FFS DON’T GET LOST. When you first manage to get through the door, don’t go too far. Take your time exploring what’s around you, and anyway, it’s more fun to find every little thing that’s in the astral than just barrelling through at 100000mph and missing it. I found one of my spirit companions, A, while slowly going through this tiny patch of forest that exists in my plane. If you do go a little far, which I have done before, I looked at my wrist and found a red string wrapped around it. I followed the string back to the door. Simple.

5. Block out everything. I use white noise of a thunder storm for this, but anything will do. ‘8 Hours of’ is a good youtube channel with lots of different options for white noise. Don’t astral project for the 8 hours, but the sounds are awesome and there’s no ads that’ll interupt you. 

6. Find a mirror. Not because you’re the bloody evil queen in Snow White, but because you’ll want to know what you’re astral form looks like. Go searching, use your mind’s “eye” and listen for it, you’ll know where it is. Stand in front of it and look. Don’t be afraid of what you see, your astral form might be quite different from your physical one. As someone who’s agender, my astral form is completely androgynous, but also has giant horns and 6 ENORMOUS black wings that can wrap around me and form some sort of cloak-dress-robe-thing. Yuup, it was a surprise. Just accept that this is your form, and as it’s based on your spirit, you’ll probably like it no matter what.

7. Have any deities?? You might meet them here. I worship the gaelic goddess Brighid, as well as Persephone and Hades and I’ve met them when astral projecting a few times. You can spend time with them in the astral, get to know them and even give them offerings. There is a huge area of my astral plane that is completely dead- like Pride Rock under Scar dead- and I’m currently trying to regrow it. I’ve so far grown a huge oak tree in the centre and made a pasture for Brighid as she likes to keep cattle. Hades, for some reason, wants a massive waterfall and Persephone just wants flowers- which I’ll be doing for them soon. I’ve also seen Mac Lir and Poseidon walking together off on the horizon of the ocean. I just let them do their thing. 

8. Don’t upset Brendon Urie- CLOSE THE GODDAMN DOOR! You enter the astral through a door, close it behind you so that nothing gets out. When you leave, close the door extra carefully, don’t look back at it as you walk away. Close it and then leave. 

9. Be careful when you’re out. When you re-enter your body it may feel weird, you might get pins-and-needles or your limbs may feel heavy or numb. Just sit or lay there for a while, give yourself time to ground and get comfortable in your body again, don’t sit up or start walking about the moment you leave the astral. Let your shields come down ONLY when you’re certain you’ve completely re-entered your body. Stretch a little and then get up. Go about your day, have a nap, go to bed, whatever you want to do. 

Feel free to add your own!!!!

I use music in my own magical practice so much, and I figured I’d talk about it, because maybe it might inspire a few other practitioners:

Random shuffle makes a fine form of divination.

Sometimes I just randomly find myself singing lyrics for Seemingly No Reason. Then I stop and ask myself, “oh, hey, why am I singing this in particular?” There’s often something rattling around in my subconscious/intuition.

It works great for sound cleansing.

Music comes in all kinds of, for lack of better term, “energetic profiles.” For example, need an infusion of fire energy? Find some music that feels “fiery.”

It can also help get you into a magical mindset.

Sing lyrics with magical power behind ‘em, and you’ve got yourself an incantation.

"multiverse" - existence of alternate realities

spoiler warning : wandavision, doctor strange and the multiverse of madness.

if you have watched the movie MoM, you must have observed that every possible reality exists and there's an infinity of them. one where you were created out of blocks of cubes, another where you were paint. it's funny to think that in some reality, we might be aliens on another planet.

stephen strange happened to visit realities where christine never loved him and as always, he got friendzoned. those were his dominant assumptions in his reality. there might have been realities where christine and him got married but due to his assumption ( which many people commonly have about their sp ) that he isn't worthy of her love, he shifted to those realities where christine didn't love him.

moving onto wanda, she used her magical powers to make herself pregnant with twins while she was married to the android superhero vision. those magical powers were spells that she created but when they broke completely, her sons got erased from existence in her current reality and that was accompanied by her husband, vision getting dismantled. she desperately wanted to shift to a reality where she still had her sons and was living a happy, normal life because of the trauma of losing all of her loved ones. that turned her into scarlett witch. however, "shifting" to that reality came at a cost since she would be replacing the version of herself that was enjoying her life with her sons peacefully. she was no longer wanda, but scarlett witch. a hot yet scary villain.

In real life as well, alternate realities exist and switching realities is called "shifting". remember, how you wish you had said something different or done something else so that everything would have changed? you are switching realities with each word you say and each movement you make. but we don't notice it because of the way our minds are programed.

My Favourite Reasonable Momm- Mother🤪🤨

my favourite reasonable momm- mother🤪🤨

I want to be a dream of light made ink that is written forever in your memory. Leave in every corner of it, a smile, a ray of sunshine and rose petals so that when you look for me, I have always something beautiful to give you. I want to be that precious story that you will someday tell someone with all the tenderness in your voice overflowing and your heart beating with gratitude. Even if I can't be forever in your arms, it doesn't matter as long as you can remember my name and while saying it, it draws a sweet smile on your lips and lets shine the sparkles of the stars that I planted in your eyes, and then I will be an eternal caress in your soul.

e.v.e.

“According To The Universal Laws, The Magician Will Form His Own Point Of View About The Universe Which

“According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.”

— Franz Bardon, “Initiation into Hermetics”

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