Actual Alternatives To "So Mote It Be"

Sometimes you have to see discourse and go “wow, so you don’t understand the character or the material” and then leave. For your own mental state.

Omggg I just manifested my college degree, I guess university in my case. I dropped out of school this current spring semester because I dreaded it and it’s not for me 😭. I’ve manifested other things and I was like why don’t I manifest that I’ve already graduated and finished University. I haven’t successfully entered the void yet but I did SATs for three days at night. When I woke I went to my parents room to steal my moms skin care out of their bathroom and in a frame on their dresser was my degree….I’m 20 and I’ve “graduated” university 😩 Fuck school I finessed the system

I’m fucking shocked tho. Like I know I can have everything but when it comes I’m always shocked 😭. There’s a few jobs I’ve been eyeing that required a bachelors degree and now that I have one I’m gonna apply!! I want to move out of the state I live in and get a job in Newyork? But I also found a good job in Japan and Korea, so I’m deciding where I want to go!!

HOLY SHIT THAT’S FUCKING INCREDIBLE !! you have no idea how proud of you i am rn <3 i love how you said fuck uni and woke up with a college degree. that’s a true god, right there 👏

I cannot believe I get to live in this space sometimes

Safeness in Self

Bathtub Spell

Purpose:

To attract the best version of yourself, and to center yourself in preparation for future blessings. 

Time: 

Anywhere between 45 minutes to 1 hour: depending on your preferred bathing time. 

Allergy Warnings:

This spell uses bay leaves, if you are allergic to any of the materials I encourage you to replace the materials with ones that represent the same meanings as the originals. Please do not place yourself in harm’s way to complete this spell the way I have it written, the Craft is different to each of us, and should be explored in accordance with our own magic and not the magic of another.

Materials:

2-3 Bay Leaves: representing protection, boosting, prophecy, purification, defense. In this spell representing seeing your future self, the self you desire to be currently.

Vanilla Scented Candle or Tea Light: representing healing, protection, harmony, unity. In this spell representing centering yourself to accept the changes ahead.

Fire/Flame: representing empowerment, enlightenment, comfort, rebirth, inspiration, illumination, hearth and heart, manifestation. In this spell representing finding your shadow self where it is now in the darkness, and bringing it back into the light.

Quartz: representing clarity, cleansing, healing, purification, and inner peace, enhancement, amplification. In this spell representing protecting yourself from negative energies around you that may be blocking your aura from reaching it’s full potential.

Bundle of Palo Santo/Sage: representing cleansing. In this spell being used to cleanse the energy of the water, as well as your own energy to prepare it to be reimbued with new purpose.

Set-Up Steps:

Run the bath to desired fullness and temperature. You should be able to at least submerge yourself mostly in the water, it is okay if you cannot fully submerge all parts of your body as most standard tub sizes are quite small.

Gather all your materials close to the bathtub with you, but do not yet get into the water. Once all your materials are gathered, disrobe before beginning the spell. 

This spell is incantation-based, and you will need to cast it with intentions in mind, as well as in order by incantation. 

Spell Steps:

Begin reciting the incantation all the way through without interruption, first in English, then again once more in Latin. Both versions are included below these steps.

When following the incantation the physical steps done in time with the recitation should be as follows”

- Crumple the bay leaves. Sprinkle them clockwise into the water of the bath. Do not stir it. If your drainage system is poor or if you are uncomfortable with bathing with the herbs later, feel free to simply place them in a sachet and stir the tub with the sachet before leaving it in the tub for the rest of the spell.

- Light the Palo Santo/Sage. Use the lit Palo Santo to first cleanse yourself. Everyone does cleansing a little differently in accordance with their practice, but if looking for inspiration: I cleanse by first running the lit bundle across my whole body and then drawing the sign of Lilith on my abdomen in smoke. Then proceed to cleanse the water by tracing the outline of the tub in a clockwise fashion as many times as feels best to you.

- Light the Vanilla Candle. Place the candle on the side of the tub where your head would rest, but do not enter the water yet.

- Pick up the Quartz and hold it in your dominant hand, place your closed fist over your heart, and begin stirring the tub clockwise with your non-dominant hand. Continue to stir the tub holding the quartz against yourself until you have fully finished reciting both the English and the Latin versions of the incantations.

- Once you have finished the reciting portion of the spell, step into and submerge yourself in the water, make sure to get every piece of your body covered even if not all at the same time. For example, splashing water up onto your arms and back, or laying down briefly to dip your head into the water. Leave the candle burning until it either burns down, or you are finished with your bath, in which case please gently snuff it out.

- When getting out of the bath, stand up, and before stepping out or beginning to drain the water, close out the spell.  You can do this in any way you please, so long as the meaning is the ending of your casting. Many people choose to say “amen”, “thank you”, or may also choose to praise a chosen god/goddess/spirit guide for closing a cast. I personally do not have a token deity in my practice, so I close my spells with the simple “So Mote it Be”.

Incantation:

English Version:

In water’s mirror, I am found.

Floating as leaves towards my true self.

The smoke and scent draw me in,

To clean and steady my soul against the winds.

There I am amongst the ashes,

Safe & Sound in crystal crevices.

Latin Version:

In speculo aquarum invenior.

Flocci versus mei vero.

Fumus et odor trahunt me,

Ut emundare et stabilive contra ventos animam meam.

Ibi sum inter cineres,

Incolumis in crystallis cavernis. 

Blessings be, & thank you for reading.

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Hey Hawa!! I manifested my college degree in 4 days!! I Remember seeing a success story not that long ago of an anon who manifested their degree. I was in a similar situation and thought “if they can do it, so can I”.

Everyone was posting about their graduations and I was like that could be me if I stayed in school….but the law came in clutch. I affirmed and did SATs at night for 4 days. But not obsessively for some reason instead of feeling stressed like I do with other things i felt quite peaceful about this one.

Any who the morning of day 4 my mom was asking me when we were going to take grad pics. I was like huh? And she looked at me like 🤨. My mom told me we barley had gotten any pics during my actual graduation and she wanted to take professional ones. At this point I’m kinda dumb founded and low key still not following along.

So obviously I asked my mom where my diploma was, and in true Immigration parent nature she put it in the safe. But there was my diploma…and pics and vids of graduation…

I think this experience really shattered my logical mind. The degree I thought was plausible but the fact I’m in videos and pictures with Other students, friends and family?!!! Mind blown.

OMG U DID THAT

Overnight Notebook Manifestation Challenge

I want you to get out a notebook. An empty notebook if possible cause you’re going to need space.

1. I want you to write out your old story. I want you to write out how it makes you feel, your regrets, your doubts - ANYTHING. Literally anything about the law of assumption, failure, fears.

2. I want you to write about discovering the law of assumption and everything you know about it.

3. I want you to write out your rules of manifestation. How long does it take you to get into the void? How fast do you receive your desires? How does manifestation work for you?

4. I want you to write out your new story. Talk about the things you’ve manifested, revised, etc. Talk all about your power, your perfect self-concept, etc. How everything always goes right for you.

5. I want you to go to sleep knowing that step 1 has been revised from your past. That step 4 is your new reality.

Now, close that, by now, probably full notebook. Thank yourself for giving yourself your desires. Know that you have them.

If you’re still having doubts I want you to go back to step 1 then reread and add to the other steps. Repeat this until you’re so firm in the state of knowing that nothing can shake your confidence.

Don’t log onto tumblr, YouTube, instagram, or wherever you go first for content when you’re finished. If you feel the urge to - REPEAT step 1 and reread and add to the others.

6. Wake up with your desires. Every single last one of them.

Changing an assumption does not take time if you’re honest to yourself about your underlying feelings and assumptions.

Feel free to send me your results. Mind you, this challenge is for overnight manifestation results. Don’t start going to ifs, whats, and buts. Don’t say “well if I wake up w/o my desire I’ll just persist-“ No baby, you HAVE your desires. 4D and 3D. You have them. Don’t sabotage yourself by leaving an opening for failure.

You got this, baby!

Writing Superpowers, and Reality Warpers in particular

The difficulty with writing superpowered characters, particularly high-tier ones, is that it’s easy to make a character feel overpowered, but there is a simple remedy for this: the character’s power set should be based around one basic concept.

I’ll start by explaining what I mean by “this character feels overpowered”. I don’t mean “this character is, on paper, far more powerful than their opponent” - that can actually be a good thing, forcing the opponent to make their clash a battle of brains rather than brawn. What I do mean is “this character’s powers are so immense that the only way to challenge them narratively is through contrived circumstances or a plot device that should be used sparingly”. Superman manages to be a good example of both, depending on which depiction you look at, but he’s not gonna be the focus of this post. Instead, we’ll start with Gwenpool.

The premise of Gwenpool’s solo comic is “Gwen is from the real world but ends up in the comic book world”, and as the story goes on she learns to use her awareness of the fact that she’s in a comic book to do stuff that is essentially reality-warping. And it’s a bizarre kind of reality warping, but everything she does makes sense because it follows the core premise: “she can do this because she can interact with the medium of the comic”. She can step from one panel into the next, she can come out of a flashback and into the present day, she can grab sound effects and so cancel out noises, she can interact with thought-boxes and speech-bubbles. And because her powers follow a core premise, she doesn’t feel overpowered, because you don’t end up feeling like she can do anything the plot demands

If a character is a magic-user then they’re essentially a reality warper. The scale of reality-warping their capable of will depend on their skill, their raw power, and the magic system at play. Now, there are arguments for hard magic systems and for soft magic systems, but I think even if you’re working with a soft magic system, a core premise helps a lot. I might make another post some day examining different magic systems (I think I’d specifically look at Avatar and at Chronicles of Ancient Darkness), but this post isn’t the time for an in-depth look at that.

There are also plenty of sci-fi reality warpers. There’s often some attempt at explaining it (”higher-dimensional beings” or “extremly advanced aliens”) but if you asked me, I’d say there were three main options for how to portray a genuine reality warper in a sci-fi story, without resorting to “space magic, but we don’t call it that.” These are: physics manipulation, higher-dimensional beings, and something I’ll call constrained omnipotence.

A physics manipulator would be someone who can locally alter the laws of physics. There’s two ways to go about this: changing the values of the physical constants, like G or c, or manipulating the quantum fields that define the laws of physics. If you go with the former… well, imagine you’re a computer programmer and decide to change one letter in one line of code, and you’ll start to understand how much this can mess things up. If you go with the latter, it’s probably a similar thing. I don’t understand much about quantum fields and how they interact just yet, but I do know that raising one a few energy levels in a specific place would a) take a lot of power, b) create some really Weird Physics in that place, and c) release a lot of potential energy when it goes back to normal. I’m talking “massive explosion”. The fun part, though, is that Weird Physics - I have no idea how it would look, but if we assume that the non-reality warpers can enter the Weird Physics Zone without blinking out of existence or dying horrifically, they’ll be faced with a world that doesn’t make sense. None of their technology would work properly, if at all. And in contrast, the reality warper might have tech specifically designed to work in the Weird Physics Zone. Remember that technology is just our way of taking advantage of physics to do cool stuff - a differently coded videogame is going to have very different glitches to exploit.

The point is, a physics manipulator can do certain things: they can make physics Weird and then take advantage of that weirdness. They can’t do anything the plot demands.

A higher-dimensional being’s whole deal is going to be that they move stuff around in more dimensions than we can see. There are a few videos on youtube demonstrating how that might look, if you wanna get an idea of how to depict something like that. And once again, a higher-dimensional being can do certain things: they can make stuff appear, disappear, distort, hover, et c. by moving it around in more dimensions than we can observe. If they’re 4-dimensional, they can move throughout time, and move objects throughout time. If they’re 5-dimensional or higher they can probably move through multiple timelines as well. They can’t do anything the plot demands.

And the last one is the constrained omnipotent character. True omnipotence is logically impossible - by definition it creates paradoxes - but we could conceivably have a character who can do anything within the bounds of physics. Presumably this character can use an insane amount of energy with an insane degree of precision, since that’s kind of required to do anything as long as it doesn’t break physics - but that’s also the point. They can do anything except stuff that breaks physics. Ergo, they can’t do anything the plot demands, only certain things.

tl,dr: no matter how powerful a character is, their powers should have some sort of core concept, as this will make them feel grounded even if they’re completly ludicrous on paper. You don’t have to explain in detail how their powers work, but if you keep that core concept in mind, then you can get a lot more creative with how they use their powers than just saying “ok, what does the plot need them to do?”

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