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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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ladder experiment

hi! so this is from a hot second ago (i think maybe 2 weeks or so?) but i did Neville’s ladder experiment to prove manifestation to myself before i really “got going” manifesting. 

the gist of the experiment is, for people who don’t know it: neville says to try manifesting climbing a ladder. at night, before you go to sleep, you imagine climbing a ladder in first person until you fall asleep. Neville says to do this for about a week. then, during the daytime, you tell yourself you will not climb a ladder and put, somewhere in your vision day-to-day “i will not climb a ladder” so you don’t consciously go looking for a ladder. 

i did SATS once and wrote “i will not climb a ladder” on my arm in eyeliner two times. 5 days later (without doing any more SATS because i completely forgot to), lo and behold: i climb a ladder. i even forgot about the fact i did it for a day and a half before i realized what i had manifested. 

“small” manifestations like this are fantastic for strengthening self concept and belief, and i’m genuinely proud of this. 

note by daphne: I never tried this experiment but it reminds me of the things I have manifested. I often forget that I have manifested things just because I‘m not aware of them ^^

Start where you are

Avoid wasting time, energy and money like I did. I heard someone say once that most of leveling up is just having the money to do so. Since not everyone has 10,000$ to drop on an overnight physical glow up, it has to be done in phases. 

When I started leveling up I was so overwhelmed with all this information I didn’t what to do with. I spent the first year wasting resources on steps I wasn’t ready for. Only to have to step back and start over at the beginning of 2021. I didn’t even have an idea of what I really wanted at the end of my journey. Physically, romantically or career wise. I just knew I wanted to be rich and different than I started. 

The glow up is a journey so it may take over a year or so to complete fully but it’s so worth it. 

This is in order of what should be done and cost. 

General level up

Workout routines 3-4x a week at home that you are excited to do!

Get in the habit of drinking 2 liters of water a day

Fix your sleep schedule! 8hrs a night.  

Nails grown and done yourself

Pick 5 hairstyles to rotate

Eyebrows waxed, tweezed, or threaded. 

Have makeup and makeup remover. 

For now just use drug store makeup. As long as it looks good and doesn’t break out the skin no one can tell where you got it from. Besides drug store makeup has gotten much better over the years. 

Makeup needed: Foundation, primer, mascara, eye liner, lip liner, blush, contour, lashes, concealer, eyeshadow, setting spray/powder + Brush set.

Daily makeup style picked out

Learn to sew and fix your own clothes to fit properly

Get a notebook to track every single expense for the glow up journey 

Take online free courses/lessons. Pick up like 4 or 5 new skills to beef up your resume or your social intrigue.

Sit down with a snack, a pen, a notebook and read the blogs you look up to.

What’s the point of having access to all these tips, tricks and life hacks if its just a reblog to be tagged and forgotten or worse lost in the shuffle of your blog?

Read. 

Just in general. Read for fun. Whether its good, bad, trashy, or so bad it’s good. All reading is time well spent. 

Also read self improvement novels.There are so many of them. Pick a category (ex personal finance, emotional growth, eating well, beauty, nutrition, time management, persuasion, procrastination, seduction, romance, friend making, mental wellness, strategy, investing) and go wild. Finish at least 2 a month. 1 a month if taking notes.  

Cost: 87$ max

Nest egg

Make an emergency fund of 1,500$. 3,500$ would be ideal.

1,500$ for real emergencies only! 1,500$ saved in 1 year is 30$ a week. 60$ a week for 6 months. 107$ a week for 14 weeks. 

2,000$ for later upgrades. It’s a slush fund so you don’t have to worry about finding money for whatever you need later. 

To save 3,500$ in 1 year 67$ a week or 135$ biweekly or 291$ a month. In 6 months 582$ a month, 270$ biweekly, 134$ a week. 

There’s no reason to look like a million dollars and have 5$ in my bank account. Priorities. 

This can be done while in the General level up and Polish phase. 

Cost: Time. Discipline needed. 

Polish

New outfits that compliment your body shape. 

I will continue to sing the praises of capsule closets. Its the easiest way to go shopping and have a bunch of outfits for next to nothing. I recommend 23 pieces: 3 pants, 4 dresses, 3 skirts, 7 shirts and 2 jackets/coats and 2 pairs of shoes.

2 quality purses (1 large/1 small) 

Consignment stores have luxury bags at 50-75% off.

Gym membership (paid off for a full year) 

Take some pressure off your own shoulders by paying for it in full. Planet fitness 10$ a month, 10$ down + fees comes out to 180$ a year. 

Go 3-4x a week. For at least 30 mins of sweating. 

2 perfumes for your signature scents.

One for casual day to day wear to work, to the store, to school, to hobby classes. One for special occasions like dates, events, company parties. 

Quality Makeup that works with your skin type.

Oily, dry, or combination. Your face is your baby. Treat her well. 

New glasses that fit your face shape or contact lenses. 

Keep up with your nails, hair, eyebrows and healthy habits.

Cost: $$$

Lifestyle changes. Experiment!

Lifestyle (diet) change. 

Research and experiment until you find one that keeps you full, satisfies you and allows you to eat your favorite snacks/meals in moderation. 

Skincare routine

Makeup remover, cleanser for morning and night, toner, serum, essence, anti-aging creams, moisturizer, sleep mask, exfoliator, sunscreen. 

I started with the Korean 10 step skincare routine to find what worked for me and got rid of the steps I didn’t like or didn’t need. Like sheet masks, and essences. 

Full Body Beauty Routine put together: 

Skincare, shower routine, haircare, nail care, below the neck skincare.

Upgrade your room, sleepwear and loungewear!

Invest in a room you actually want to work and relax in.   

Map out that business you wanna start.

Business plan, website content, business cards, goals, products, licenses needed, social media presence. Look into grants to get your funding.

Write down short term and long term savings goals

Saving mindlessly makes people more likely to spend it because its money in a jar, coming out of their check for no defined reason. Give yourself a reason and you’ll be less likely to mess up your own progress. Examples of goals:

3-6 months of emergency savings- long term

Retirement- long term

Business start up- short term

Last round of upgrades- short term

A house- long term

Investing money- short term

Vacation money- short term

Make a budget and start saving in earnest!

Set aside time for studying, reading, relaxing and recharging daily.

Make a vision book/board

Make a lookbook of outfits, makeup styles and aesthetics you love

5-10 year goals written down

Pick out any further degrees, certifications, licenses you want for your career. 

Pick up new hobbies.

Keep reading, learning and gaining skills from free courses.

Research different personas and brands to find which you want to represent.   

Clean up your social media presence.

Cost: Time, patience and $$$

Full reinvention

Get a lock box for your birth certificate, SSN, check book, warranties, and receipts. 

Get your teeth straightened and whitened.

Braces, wisdom teeth pulled, veneers, filled in crowns ect. The smile is the most inviting thing about the face. Make it pop. 

If you wear glasses or contacts: laser eye surgery.

Body hair removal. Laser or Electrolysis.

Both work. Electrolysis destroys the hair follicle but the sessions take longer and may cost more because it may take 6 or visits to do the full area. Laser is cheaper but most women have to continue to go back for maintenance and its easy to burn black women, even in an office. Home laser devices usually don’t service brown to dark skinned women. 

Start seeing a dermatologist, nutritionist, and personal trainer monthly

Get a passport booklet

If you want plastic surgery, start saving/get it done. 

Start that business! Order the business cards, design the website, create the products. 

Get a closet full of clothes that matches your persona or personas. 

Sets of outfits for Work, Casual, & Formal settings. You can pick different styles for each type- Cottage core casual, business barbie for work, and 1950′s pinup for formal events.

This is where you go all out. Nothing but quality fabrics, statement pieces, and jewelry that will last at least 2 years or more. 

I’d go with a 40 piece capsule closet: 10 tops, 10 skirts, 10 Dresses, 5 Jeans/pants, 3 shoes, 2 Jackets.

Don’t forget stockings, panty hose, breast pasties, and bra strap holders.

Examples of styles: Cottage core, classic feminine, sexy, cute, alternative, sporty, business, y2k, 70s, 80s, 50′s, soft glam, barbie/bratz doll. Ectera.  

Take those hobby classes

Get your scholarships, degrees and certifications

Pick a persona and create the social media, and irl community presence.

Keep track of your costs! 

Treat it like a business and you’ll see where you’re wasting money, how you can improve and create a budget for future use. 

Keep notes too- what brand was the lipstick you bought, what color, how did it feel on you, did it look good, how long did it last, did it come off easily when eating, would you buy it again? 

Sections: One time static costs. Recurring costs, Product page with notes. 

Cut out toxic people. 

Anyone that makes you feel less than or perpetually uncomfortable should have their access to you provoked. 

“I did XYZ to better myself, and this is how they treat me?”

It’d be like paying 2,500$ for a seat at the La Scala, Milan for the best classical music concert in the world only to be behind a pillar in the corner with someone next to you on their phone all night. 

Or applying for a job after you got the highest degrees available in your field, were valedictorian, and only applied for established multimillion dollar companies. Only for them to offer you 10$ an hour on a position worth 50$ an hour. 

This one is last for three reasons. One it’s not always as simple or easy as blocking them and never speaking again, an exit strategy may be necessary. Two sometimes it pays, literally, to have these people around. If they have contacts I want I’ll get them before I go. If being around them cuts down the costs of something significant in my life I save the extra money while I plan my exit strategy. By the time I’ve left I’ve gotten my payment for any sabotage they’ve thrown my way. Three it’s an ongoing process. New friends can turn to new enemies in the right conditions. You may never be 100% free of having any snakes in your garden so it’s good to stay vigilant.

Cost: Time, Patience, Empathy for yourself, $$$$$

Slow down. Take it easy. Work smart. 

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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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

MAKE LAWS FOR YOURSELF. Stop the overthinking. Inspired by @kristheassumtionqueen

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Bro, if you struggle a little with overthinking in the beginning I highly suggest you make rules for yourself, laws as god, about what you are nervous is contradicting. Ofc there is no such thing as this, however writing everything down as an official document of laws and signing it, has seriously helped me. And it’s fun! You can choose your colors and decorate however you want. First I started off with an intro that looks a little something like this,

As the god, the creator of my reality, everything written on this page becomes true in an instant. They forever remain the truth until only I, say otherwise. These laws take effect immediately, in every dimension and in every reality, in all of the multiverse as soon as my e signature is written on the page, and this is because I am in full control. Absolutely nothing can take away the power of this document and of my laws, even typos because I know that I am on the pedestal here. New rules may be added at any time and still have the same effects as previous laws.

Great! So you have your intro, now time for the rules. What is limiting you? NAH NAH, No more hun, get that out. YOU ARE LIMITLESS, here are some of my laws as an example. (I know it may seem silly and obvious but like I said, writing really helps, it’s like a placebo that it sets it in stone, even though I know I am the power that does that.) Here are some examples of laws that were created to get rid of the overthinking.

A deadline is a deadline, it does not matter how close or far the deadline is because, I am the manipulator of time anyways. What I want must be mine either before or after the deadline. (I just love how this rhymes too LOL)

Negative thoughts, unhelpful thoughts, intrusive thoughts, overthinking, resistance, limiting beliefs, have no power. Only I choose what I give power to, nothing can diminish my manifestations, that is not possible.

Even though there are some rules on this document that are similar, that is totally ok. There is no such thing as laws contradicting or canceling each other out. That is a limiting belief and as I have already stated, limiting beliefs do not hold any power whatsoever. They rarely occur anyways.

Pressure from anyone does not affect my manifestations and what I want. Even pressure from myself may only aid or maintain the manifestation.

YAY! You’ve created your own set of laws. That is that, nothing can change them, (unless you choose differently at some point ofc) Some of them may seem silly and obvious but who gives a shit when you’re out there living your dream life right?! Now, all that is left to do is sign! Get your favorite color, or font, if it’s electronic, and write your signature!!!! You can come up with a cute catchy line or just sign your name! This is what mine was…

On the only pedestal is where I ______ and only I, ______ remain.

After this you are no longer allowed to limit yourself, and you don’t even have to worry about it because you just ELIMINATED those unhelpful thoughts, they are powerless now. So go have fun, get what you want.

𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛：

♡︎ I always...

♡︎ it’s a fact that…

♡︎ it’s so obvious…

♡︎ Everyone knows that…

♡︎ I am known for…

♡︎ Of course…

♡︎ I have no doubt…

♡︎ Why..?

♡︎ It’s natural for me…

♡︎ It is my birthright to…

♡︎ I am known for…

♡︎ It’s crazy that…

♡︎ I am certain that…

♡︎ i have always…

♡︎ It’s normal for me…

i will hold a conversation with my reflection in the mirror because well that’s not me