Make 2015 Your Best Magical Year Ever!

Are you ready to make 2015 the year you get serious about living a magical life? If so, this is the perfect time to signup for our online Basic Magic Courses. Starting today, for the next seven days, these courses are being offered at 25% off the regular price. Just enter the coupon code - magicbl25 – at checkout to get your discount. That means big savings to help you start your magical journey in 2015. If you're not sure whether magic is for you or not, try out some of the offerings on our blog and try out real magic that works for free for yourself. Then if you're ready to move on and really start in-depth study to bring magic into your life, make the commitment to just do it.

Here's something you can get started on right away that we have all our students begin as soon as they start class and all through their studies. It is a simple daily contact ritual to start opening the way for magic to flow to you and to begin establishing a relationship with higher powers and beings. This ritual is part of the Navajo Beauty Way ritual called the Exit Ritual and here's how it's done.

The Exit Ritual
1. Everytime you leave your house or car or other enclosed area, stop and put your focus up into the sky and say aloud, "Sky Above" or "Sky Father."  If you feel comfortable doing so, you can also raise your arms in an upward facing V toward the sky as you say this.

2. Keeping the awareness above you, extend your focus into the earth and say aloud, "And Earth Below" or "And Earth Mother." You can also use the hand motions while saying this by lowering your arms toward the ground in a downward facing V.

3. Keeping awareness of both above and below, say aloud, "I Greet You."

4. Wait a few moments and see what happens. Be alert for acknowledgement or response either:
•From within you, such as a realization, a change of attitude or belief, a new awareness.

•Changes in your environment, such as a sudden breeze, a change in the color of the sky, a bird or animal suddenly appearing, or a tree or shrub suddenly becoming vividly visible or possibly a four foot skunk to come walking by.

•A response from Sky and/or Earth: a special message for you, an answer to a question, or guidance and new directions.

5. Stay aware throughout the day for any additional results. It may change the quality of your day, your awareness, send totem animals with messages, or many other ways. The more you do this ritual, the more connected you become and the more you will see magic show up in your life.

Want to Learn More?
These online courses are offered as a full 30 week course or if you are already a magical practitioner and just want a refresher, you can get them one at a time in 3 levels – Basic Magic Level 1, Basic Magic Level 2 and Basic Magic Level 3. You'll start with the basics, establishing a thorough magical foundation by studying the four elements of Air, Fire, Water and Earth and how to use them for communication, healing, balancing your own and others' energies and more. Then you move into learning about magical tools and which tools can be used with which elements for a variety of magical operations. The course also covers magical self defense, the Tarot, spellwork, simulacra magic and sonics. That's a lot of magical knowledge and wisdom passed down by our master teacher to you through audios of actual past teleconference classes, videos and class notes. The discount coupon expires July 2nd, so don't delay. Get your magical savings and start living your life with magic now.

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Learn. Live Better. Get Magical.

Are you in need of some magical inspiration? Our magic blog is a great place to find inspiration and simple things you can do right away to improve your life. We have blog articles with ideas on how to start your day with a little magic, bring blessings to your life, get rid of negativity that’s holding you back and lots, lots more. Magic can give you a creative outlet, help you deal with stress and put you in closer contact with higher powers and beings. In short, the practice of magic can make your life so much more magical. Here are a few blog posts to revisit or visit for the first time that we hope will inspire you to start your own journey into magic and give you some magical tools to make a positive difference in your life.

Three Ways to Put Your Best Magical Foot Forward

Blessed Be! What Blessings Do You Wish for Others for This Coming Year?

Want to Change Your Life Magically? Get Ready for the Big Burn

Change Yourself to Change Your World

The Magic of Silence 

The blog is the place to get all the magical inspiration you’re looking for and you can sign up to have the newest articles delivered right to your email. Life problems, creating sacred space for yourself, dealing with pain, anger, relationships and all sorts of other everyday life difficulties can be made easier and smoother with a little magic. Even better, all this magical knowledge is awaiting you online, 24/7, and free of charge.

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2 Simple Magical Rituals that Enhance Any Magical Procedure

The more magic you have in your life, the more powerful the magical rituals you do will be. By adding two C's to your daily magical practice, you can increase your connection to higher beings and powers, boost your supply of positive power, and increase your ability to hear your own inner guidance and follow it. What are these magical two C's? Consistency and Conscious Choice!

Consistency
Your connection with the higher can be enhanced by doing a ritual at the same time every day. In terms of any relationship, which is stronger; one you have contact with every day or someone you seldom have contact with? Usually family, spouse, close friends, and co-workers are the people you have consistent contact with and those are the people that are a big part of your life and that you know you can count on. Those you seldom have contact with fall more in the category of acquaintances or distant friends. They don't have much influence over your day to day life. It works the same way with higher powers and beings. The more consistent contact you have with them, the more you know you can count on them. One daily ritual that helps develop more consistency in your life and that can enhance your magic practice is the Consistency Exercise. Since magically speaking, it takes 40 days of consistency to manifest a desired outcome, the secret to success with this exercise is to work towards doing it for 40 days in a row. I say work towards that goal because even though this is a very, very simple exercise to perform, it is very hard to reach the 40 days in a row goal. As you do this exercise, just remember that it is the journey towards and the striving to that are most important. Berating yourself for missing a day, which in this exercise means you start over at day one, is not helpful and will not help you build force. If you miss a day, you simply start over at day one and work again towards the 40 day goal. Here's how you do this very simple ritual.

1. Choose a very simple act that you will do every day. And I do mean SIMPLE! It might be making a mark on a piece of paper, touching your nose with your index finger, saying a particular word out loud or any one of thousands of other simple, simple acts.

2. Choose an exact time that you will do this act every day. Make it a time that you will be likely to remember easily. If you are constantly on the go with a demanding job, then don't pick a time at work. You might want to pick a time when you know you will be sitting down for a cup of coffee or a break in the day. Consider your schedule and pick a time that will work best for you to be the most successful.

3. Now that you have chosen your simple act and a time you will do it each day, do it. Yes, it's really that simple. If you miss a day though, you have to start over at Day 1. Even if you make it to Day 38 and then forget the next day, you start over at Day 1.

Making it to the 40 day mark, you will find, is the trickier part of this exercise, but it is what really develops the consistency. When you miss a day (and I've never known anyone that didn't), just know it is all part of the process and you're getting even more practice at consistency. You will also gain insight into how mechanical our lives are for the most part and see how important it is to step out of this mechanicalness and into consciousness.

Conscious Choice
Doing this exercise at the same time as the Consistency Exercise helps you generate a lot of positive power that can be used for manifesting. The Consistency Exercise was geared towards developing focused aim. The Conscious Choice exercise gives you practice listening to your own inner guidance and wisdom and following it. For this exercise you will stop at anytime during the day, everyday, and make a conscious choice. Start with small, trivial choices such as what color socks to wear, whether to go for a walk or relax and read a book, or what to eat for breakfast. Then follow these steps.

1. Either out loud or silently, say to yourself, "I will now make a conscious choice."

2. Ask yourself the choice question now. "Do I choose to relax and read a book or go for a walk?" The question might also be "What do I choose to do right now?"

3. Take a moment to be silent and listen to your inner self. The first answer that comes to you is what you must do.

4. Do this exercise each day for 40 days. Just like with the Consistency Exercise, if you miss a day, you start over at Day 1.

We say start with trivial choices because you are just learning to listen and trust your inner guidance. In that process it really won't matter too much if you have oatmeal instead of eggs for breakfast. By practicing with these small, less important choices, you'll be able to develop your inner voice and learn to trust your own inner wisdom. That way when bigger life choices come along, you'll have the experience of accessing your own inner wisdom as well as the consistent relationship with the Universe to draw on for help in making the right decisions for you.

These two C's may not seem like much to you at first, but give them a try and you'll see the powerful changes doing them will magically bring to your life. For more daily rituals you can do to enhance your magic practice, check out our Daily Rituals For Attracting What You Want in Life ebook.


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Magic Not Working? Get Back to Basics

If you're not seeing the results from your magic practice, maybe it's time to get back to basics. A great way to do this is with our online Basic Magic Courses. If you are new to magic, this is a great way to study real magic from a real teacher that fits anywhere into your schedule and can be done on your own timeline. The same if true if you are an experienced practitioner that just needs a little refresher course on the basics of magic. You can take the full course, or if there's particular topics you want to review, the course is divided into three sections so you can pick and choose what you need. Here's what you'll find in the three levels of the course and then the full course includes it all.

Basic Magic Level 1
This first section of Basic Magic covers the Four Elements of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth in depth. You'll learn the characteristics, correspondences (direction, tool, elemental spirit, part of person, direction of view, colors, and spiritual aspect), techniques for using these elements with your hands, and receive guidance on practicing with the elements until you are thoroughly familiar with them. You also cover the Rules of the Road that govern magical practice, charging and using the Sun Candle, and doing the Navajo Beauty Way to start forming relationships with higher powers and beings.

Basic Magic Level 2
In the second section of Basic Magic we cover more techniques using the four elements with your hands for such things as self-defense including learning to use hand lightning, lightning rods, and fireballs. The course then moves into magical tools for each element, how to obtain or make each of the tools, and techniques each can be used for. Tools covered include the firebowl, Wand (magical Air tool), Athame (magical Fire tool), Chalice (magical Water tool), Plate (magical Earth tool), and the pendulum. This section also takes a dip into divination and some divination techniques to do with these tools as well as how to ward and bind mirrors for protection.

Basic Magic Level 3
The third section of Basic Magic covers the Tarot, including how to key your deck, choose and key signifiers for readings, how to do Celtic Cross readings and twelve card readings. This indepth look at the Tarot also goes into how to do progressed readings, regressed readings and use the Tarot with multiple signifiers. The course then moves into doing spellwork with single candle spells, multiple candle spells and Tarot spells as well as how to use sonics magically to enhance spells and use in other techniques. The final part of the course covers simulacra magic which allows you to do magical operations at a distance. This is particularly useful if you need to do healing work or cut psychic lines on someone who lives far away from you.

As you can see this is a very comprehensive program. That is important for magical study, especially if you are new to magic. There is a magical principle that states, "altered procedures produce altered results". This can lead to disastrous results in a karmic way for you and possibly in physical ways for you or someone else. When you begin a magical practice, you need to have a thorough understanding of what you are doing, why you are doing it in a certain way, what the ramifications of doing it are, and if it is in accordance with the Rules of the Road to be doing it. This is why we don't encourage people to perform spells that someone else has given to them or just blindly follow magical instructions. If you create the spell, then you know all the intentions and parts that have been built into it. This is not always the case for a spell someone else writes and gives to you. Our courses are designed to give you an understanding of how real magic works and present it to you as a precision science with techniques that can be duplicated over and over again.

If you are looking for a magical refresher or a place to start your magical journey, the Basic Magic Courses are the place for you. These online courses will help you develop a safe magic practice with guidance from an experienced online teacher through the format of audio files, video files, class notes and exercises to practice skills. So if you're ready to get serious about studying magic, check them out.

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Deceptively Simple Ways to Start on Your Magical Path

Contrary to Harry Potter movies or shows like Charmed, magic isn't all about blowing things up, freezing people and items, or even doing spells on the fly. In fact, magic is quite deceptively simple, especially in the beginning. Find out how by reading the many magical rituals and offerings we have on these web pages.

Magical Articles Library
Magical Blog
Magical Facebook Community 

Just to show you some of the simple magical rituals and exercises you'll find in the resources, here are a few from our articles library on ways to get your day off to a good start with magic.

PREPAVING: This is one of our favorite magical techniques from Abraham (http://www.abraham-hicks.com). Just sit for 3-5 minutes in a quiet spot and focus on what you want and how you want your day to look. We spend so much time worrying about what we have to do, what we should do and what might happen that we forget what's most important – what we want! So spend a few minutes sending the Universe a few hints about how you want your day to look, and the Universe will deliver exactly that, and then some!

SUN CANDLE: Did you know that the color sun yellow (bright yellow with no orange) actually nourishes and refreshes your Spirit? If you're feeling groggy, grumpy or grouchy, sit in front of a lit sun yellow candle for a few minutes. It will refresh you and give you happy, joyful energy.

CONSCIOUS CHOICE: We spend so much time in our minds that our Spirits don't get much chance to come out and play. Yet, we are happiest when we are living in Spirit rather than in mind. To give you a hint, you were probably most in Spirit when you were a playful child. So, to get your Spirit in gear for a fun and playful day, make a conscious choice – it exercises Spirit. Just say to yourself, "I will now make a conscious choice." Then ask yourself a question such as, "Do I choose to have cereal or toast for breakfast?" Go with the first answer you hear or receive. Following Spirit's guidance will align your energies and make for a positive day.

GREET THE DAY: One way to stay in touch with your Spirit and with nature is to go outside and greet the day. It's simple. Go outside, extend your attention into the sky and say, "Sky Above." Then, extend your attention into the earth and say, "and Earth Below." Then, with attention both above and below, say, "I greet you." Wait a moment and see what gifts the Universe brings you (this is a simple form of the Navajo Beauty Way). You will experience peace, joy, satisfaction and nourishment.

Try these out, then go to our blog or library of articles or join in the fun with us on Facebook. You'll find tons more simple, magical offerings to try out for yourself and invite magic into your life.

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How to Amp Up Your Relationship with the Universe

Establishing a solid relationship with the Universe now gives you the inside track when you really need it. Accessing spiritual information from your own Spirit or from higher beings and powers just makes life easier. The more you connect with the Universe through angels, guides, animal totems and even your own Spirit, the easier life in general will be and the easier it will be to manifest those things you desire in life. So how do you go about establishing this relationship? One way is through daily rituals. These type of rituals reconnect us with what we really want in life and put us in the energy field that allows us to receive what we ask for. There is an angel, guide, totem, and helper for just about anything in our lives. Want a new job? A new mate? A parking space at the mall? It doesn't matter how big or how small your problem is, there is a Universal being just waiting for you to ask for help. Asking is one of the keys however. These beings don't just interfere in your life at will. You have to ask for their help. Then to really get an ongoing relationship built up here are a few tips.

1. Work with the same spirit guides, such as parking angels or Spirit of Owl often and consistently

2. Thank the beings before and after the act (this is most often forgotten by people, but these guides mostly work for appreciation)

3. Ask for help as often as possible (there is an angel for everything and they gain their own ascension by doing magical acts for humans, everything from clearing up scheduling conflicts to guiding you as to how much salt to put on your food or what is healthiest and happiest meal to order at a restaurant)

Working With Spirit Beings
Not sure how to get started working with Spirit beings? No problem, we can help. First here are some general guidelines to follow when interacting with them.

• Don't be afraid or hesitate to ask for help. These beings are just waiting to be called upon. 
• Remember to always thank your Spirit or your guides when you ask for help before and after they have given you aid. 
• When asking for information ask for it to be given to you in a way that you can easily understand.
• If you don't get the information you need the first time around, thank your source and ask for clarification. Don't be afraid to keep asking until you get what you want.
• Don't second guess the information or the way in which help arrives for you. Accept it with gratitude!

Working With Angels
Now that you have some general guidelines, let's get down to specifics starting with angels. Angels are good beings to begin working with because they don't require a long, established relationship to begin working for you. Let's say you are stuck in traffic, late for an appointment, or find yourself dealing with some type of awkward situation. This is a perfect time to ask for help from an angel as they are experts at quick fixes. Here's what you do:
1. Out loud or in your mind say, "Angel expert in ___ [traffic, parking places, in-laws, etc.], please come to my aid."

2. Before proceeding, wait several moments in silence to feel the presence of an angel arriving. They are quick so you don't have to wait for more than a few seconds.

3. Tell the angel exactly what you need help with and be specific. For example, don't just say I want a parking space to be available to me. Instead say that you want a parking space at the Crossroads Mall and maybe even what city the mall is in and that you want it on the side of the mall where the Sears store is. Include that you will be arriving at the mall in 15 minutes and will need the space available at that time.

4. After stating what you want, be sure to thank the angel. Don't wait to see if it really happens, go ahead and show your gratitude now. This step is very important so that they will be more willing to help you in the future and because you are receiving a wonderful gift.

Step 4 can be tricky for some people and is the place where the communication process often breaks down and what you want may not happen. This is because angels cannot go against your will. So if you ask for help, but you are having negative or doubtful thoughts about what you have asked for, the angel can't go against those thoughts. For example, you ask for help in getting a great job. In your mind however you are thinking of all the reasons you won't get the job or how you don't believe the job will be offered to you. The angel can't override those thoughts and gets the message, "I can't get this job." See the problem? If you find your mind having these types of thoughts, you can get around it by asking one angel to help you stop your negative thinking and then ask another angel to help you get the job. Remember there is no shortage of angels to help you out with whatever problem you have, so start thinking in that direction. Anytime a problem comes up in your life, begin thinking of an angel to help you through it.

This should get you started working with Spirit beings and seeing all the magic they can bring to your life. When you are ready to move on to working with other Universal beings, our Daily Rituals for Attracting What You Want in Life ebook can help. In this ebook, you'll learn how to create your own rituals as well as find more than 35 daily rituals you can use to release pain, start and end your day properly, get angelic help, access knowledge, and to lift your mood. Daily rituals will allow you to start establishing long term relationships with Universal beings so that you'll always have magical help available whenever you need it.

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3 Ways to Take Your Magic to the Next Level

Consistency adds magical force and a great way to bring consistency to your magical practice is to engage in daily rituals. Daily rituals can include practices such as your morning yoga practice, meditation, working with spirit guides like angels or the spirit of owl, or doing the Day Greeting of the Navajo Beauty Way. Just about any magical operation can be used as a daily ritual and by doing it every day for at least 40 days you can create the "habit" of making magic an integral part of your life. These magic rituals could be contact rituals that will help you develop a working relationship with the Universe, rituals that give guidance on solving a problem you feel you are unable to solve by yourself, a healing ritual working on a particular health condition you have or just a time to experience your inner silence. The important thing is that you pick a ritual and do it every day to develop consistency. Creating this magical force inside yourself means that force will be available to you when you want to do an act of magic.

Don't have a daily ritual in mind? Well we've got plenty of resources to help you out with that. Here are just 3 of the free resources we offer and the types of rituals you'll find in them to get you started putting consistency into your magic.

Blog

• Walking Meditation
• Exit Ritual
• Sun Candle 

Magical Library

• Day Greetings and Endings
• Cleansing Ritual
• Asking For a Sign

Facebook Page

• Staying in the Present
• Communicating with Smoke
• Creating Sacred Space

There you have three free resources loaded with magical offerings you can use as daily rituals to develop your magical force through consistent practice. Try these out for yourself and see what you experience. And don't forget you can still get our free ebook 10 Magical Quick Fixes for more ideas on daily rituals to perform. 

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Three Ways to Put Your Best Magical Foot Forward

Here are three ideas for "magical" Wheaties to start your day off right with magic. You'll find these and much more in our Daily Rituals for Attracting What you Want in Life ebook.
1. Pick a card of the day from a deck of Medicine Cards or Angel Cards
2. Go outside and do Day Greetings (and Endings) from the Navajo Beauty Way
3. Hire an angel to solve possible tricky issues in your coming day

Pick a Magical Card
Take a deck of Medicine cards, Angel cards, Tarot cards or any other kind of magical card deck. Spread the cards out and move your output hand over them feeling the energy from them. Find the card that "calls to you" or feels energetically warmer or tingly to you and pick it from the deck. If you don't have your own deck of some type of magical cards, make one yourself. You might make cards with words and concepts like love, peace, joy, gratitude, etc... Or you can use a book or magazine and open it to any page, picking the first word or picture that jumps off the page at you. Your own need and the Universe's clever forms of communicating will help you select exactly what you need to hear. Whatever card, word or image you select will be your theme for the day. If you used a card, look up the meaning of the card and see what guidance, knowledge, or information it has to offer you for the day. Then watch throughout the day for messages from the Universe that correspond to your theme. The Universe is always sending us messages and has assistance waiting for us or something that we can learn. Throughout the day remain conscious of the message or theme and watch for how it applies to your interactions with others, your internal thoughts and patterns and the situations you encounter. This simple ritual done daily helps you to operate from a place of consciousness rather than from mechanical reactions and habits, builds your relationship with the Universe and actively brings magic into your life.

Magically Greet the Day
One part of doing the Navajo Beauty Way is to do Day Greetings. This is a ritual from ancient times that is non-denominational and can create powerful, positive effects in your life. It is a contact ritual that helps you establish a relationship with the Winds of the four directions, Sky Father and Earth Mother. Doing Day Greetings on a daily basis can help you in restoring personal power by the development of trust in your own wisdom gained by personal experience, enhance your creative flow and connection with the environment and the laws and forces of nature, aid you in observing and maintaining harmonious inner states, restore your inner and external balances, and develop a working relationship with higher powers and beings. For directions on how to do Day Greetings (and Day Endings) check out this article.

Hire An Angel
We all run into frustrations, irritations and sticky situations in our daily lives from being stuck in traffic to running late for a meeting. This is when hiring an angel can help us change the situation into one that works out alright, help us avoid going into negative states, and allows us to introduce magic into our situation and day. There are angels to help with literally anything you need help with and they are just waiting to be asked. By helping humans they are able to move to the next level of their evolution, but they can't help until they are asked. Angels also can't go against your will, so be sure that what you are asking for is something you are willing to receive. For example, if you are asking for help getting a job, but in your mind you are repeating negative thoughts about how you can't possibly get the job, the angel will not be able to get past your negative will and certainty that you can't get it. You can however get around this by first asking for an angel to help you stop thinking negative thoughts about getting a job and then ask a second angel to help with getting a job. To bring angels into your life and request their help all you have to do is:

1. Say either out loud or in your mind, "Angel expert in ___ [traffic, travel, in-laws, bosses, etc..], please come to my aid."
2. Pause quietly for a few seconds until you feel a presence.
3. Give specific instructions for what you need or want done and thank the angel.
4. After the situation is over or you have received the help you asked for, thank the angel a second time. It is important to show gratitude in advance and after the fact.

There you have it, three simple ways to get your day off to a good start with magic. Give it a try and see what happens for you once you start introducing magic into your life. Practice daily rituals for several weeks and then stop for a week or two. This may make it even more obvious to you how magical rituals have been at work in your life and magically enhance it.


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Five Reasons These Sources of Free Magic Will Make You Smile

We are all about giving back. Yes, we do sell knowledge according to Rules of the Road, charging according to the level of knowledge or magic offered, or whatever is being sold. But we also offer a lot of resources that are free, some are interactive, like Facebook, and others just give you magical information and techniques you can learn and try out for yourself. A bonus is the tutorial of How to Study Magic on our website. All of these should make you smile! Learn for free before committing. These free resources give you an idea of what we offer.

1. Facebook - Find out the latest specials offered on classes or materials, watch videos and read articles, tips, and quotes on magical topics, ask questions of us or others in the community, and bring a bit of extra magic into your daily life through this online resource. If you aren't checking in with our Facebook page here's some recent things you've missed:

• An image of a burning smudge stick to share and cleanse your Facebook page – SMILE!

• Magical tip: Whether you're lighting a smudge stick, burning botanicals in a firebowl, or smoking sacred tobacco in a pipe, smoke is a way for you to communicate your desires to the Universe, and for the Universe to answer you. Send your wishes up with the smoke, then look into the smoke as a form of divination. Images, ideas, feelings, and answers will come to you.

• Article: Beyond the Law of Attraction: Stepping Into Creatorship from BellaSpark

2. Newsletter  – Our newsletter comes out by email twice a month and is totally free! Read magical quotes, our latest article on a magic topic, and special announcements from the Esoteric School. If you're not subscribed to our newsletter, here's some of what you missed in the last edition.  

• Quote: We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for--sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm. As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all--and to me it is a sound--is utter, complete silence. 
  ~André Kostelanetz


• Quote: An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
  ~St Thomas Aquinas 
• 
  Quote: If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal -- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.
  ~Henry David Thoreau


• Article entitled: Personalize Your Magic to Make it One of a Kind – The Art of Cut and Fit

3. 10 Magic Quick Fixes For Your Life ebook – This free ebook gives you a good start on using magic for everyday issues such as getting help making decisions, dealing with depression and moodiness, having a lack of balance in your life, getting guidance and help with manifestations from higher beings, dealing with physical pain, boosting energy, and dealing with worry, anxiety or excess emotions. To deal with these issues you'll get instructions on using the Sun Candle, using the 3-Day Question, Cross-Crawling, Rooting, the Shower Litany and more. If you haven't grabbed your copy, just go to the Ebooks section at www.shamanschool.com and get it. It'll make you SMILE!

4. Blog – Our blog is filled with magical articles, most that give you some magical technique to experience for yourself. You can read it on the blog or subscribe to have the latest post delivered right to your email. Learn how to do daily rituals such as the Navajo Beauty Way, use Grounding for self defense, Rooting to increase your energy and dump negative emotions, and so much more to make you SMILE.

5. Magical Articles Library – An online resource to go to when you need magical answers, our article library covers categories that include the 4 Elements, Divination, Guidance and Help, Manifesting, Protection, Spells and Rituals, Healing and Health and lots more. If you haven't taken a stroll through this library, go ahead and take a look. It's free and you'll surely find a topic to fit what you need and that will make you SMILE.

Receiving a gift gives you a reason to smile and with these 5 free gift offerings you'll have plenty to smile about. Magic is real and waiting for you to use to enhance your life. These gifts give you a place to give it a try, get a start and explore the wonderful world of magic for yourself.


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Magic in Action – These Unbelievable Stories are For Real!

Magic is real and while we encourage each person to explore this for themselves we'd like to give you some examples of what others have discovered when it comes to magic. Here are some stories from students in our Basic Magic classes to give you an idea of how others have found to apply their magical training to their everyday lives.

There is the student who used the pendulum and the Tarot to help introduce his friend to a spirit living in his house and helping them establish a relationship that lead to the spirit being saving his friend's life. Then there is Mike who was able to ground out his fire energy anger to avoid a fight with his wife and Devta who used a Tarot spell to help a friend heal the rift in her family that centered around the co-ownership of a family farm business. You can see all these stories in their entirety on our Magic At Work page of our website.

Real Life Magic
Once you jump into the world of real magic, you'll find all sorts of amazing ways to use magic in your life. Some of the ways to do this could include:

• being able to stabilize your moods and energy levels by balancing your elemental energies

• change old beliefs that no longer serve you

• use magical techniques to protect yourself from physical or psychic attack and to protect your property and sacred space

• heal physical wounds, illnesses, and conditions

• communicate with others on a spirit level to resolve differences and communicate with spirit beings to receive guidance, help and to co-create manifestations to improve your life

• find lost objects, people or pets

• create sacred space and silence in your life to allow magic in

So any of these sound like something you could use? If you are still skeptical, take a look at our Is Magic Real page on our website and explore more about real magic. After you try out some of the exercises and experiments with magic we have to offer on our website and blog, chime in. We'd love to include your story of a great magical experience on Magic at Work.

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How to Reap the Benefits of a Daily Magical Practice

Having a daily magical practice can pay off in big ways. When you develop consistency in your magic you reap the benefits in your daily life by building magical force inside yourself to have available when you want to do an act of magic. Daily rituals are a good way to add consistency into your practice, especially ones that connect you to the Universe, with thanks before and after. These types of daily rituals help you build a working relationship with the Universe so that when you ask for help with a magical act, it is available to you. If you need help finding or creating daily rituals, our Daily Rituals for Attracting What You Want in Life ebook is a great resource.

Magical Acts
Since any act of intention is a magical act, another way to bring consistency into your magical practice is by using the Consistency Exercise. With this magic exercise you choose a very simple intentional act to do every day at the same time and consciously do it. This exercise helps increase the level and quality of your connection to the higher, brings you back to present time, invites magic in to be a part of your everyday life, helps you build inner force, gets you more comfortable with practicing your magical skills in public and helps in changing your habitual thought patterns. For most people there is a high level of energy and excitement when initially setting a goal or embarking on a new goal, but this energy level dwindles as we get tied up with other things. Introducing consistency into your life can help keep that energy level up to help you make life changes. It can take 40 days to make a change which is why doing the Consistency Exercise is a good tool for giving you practice at developing skills to create change in your life as well as the opportunity to make magic an integral part of your life.

The Consistency Exercise
The first step for this magical exercise is to choose a simple act and we do mean SIMPLE. You could choose to make a mark on a piece of paper, touch your nose with your right thumb, snap your finger, scratch your ear, or any other really simple act that you can easily do where ever you are. Then you will choose a time to do this act each and every day. Consider your time carefully. For example, don't pick a time when you know you are at your very busiest part of the day. If you have kids to get off to school, pick a time after they are out the door. If you usually rush around getting ready for work in the mornings, don't pick that time of day, wait and choose a time you normally take a break at work. Pick a time that will not be a set-up for failure and that you will be more likely to remember to perform your act. You can also feel free to use notes to yourself or the alarm on your cell phone to remind yourself to do your act. That's not "cheating" as this is not an exercise in memory, just in developing consistency. Sounds simple so far, right? Well here's the catch. You must do this exercise of performing the intentional act you have chosen at the time you have chosen every day for 40 days in a row. If you miss a day, you must start over at day one. This can be frustrating for many, especially if you get to day 35 and then miss a day causing you start over at day 1, but stick with it and you will reap the benefits of finding acts of power take less effort, Law of Attraction kicks in more often for you and life in general just flows a bit better. This is because you are inviting magic into your life on a daily basis and increasing your magical force. Don't beat yourself up when you miss a day either. It's all a process and following the path has its own benefits no matter how long it takes to achieve the end goal. It is doing the exercise that is important, not the accomplishment of getting to the 40 days.

Now that you see all the benefits of developing a consistent magical practice, here's how to do the Consistency Exercise.

1. Choose your very simple act.

2. Pick the time of day that you will do your act every day.

3. When the time you have chosen comes, do the simple act. Do it every day at the same time for 40 days in a row.

4. If you miss a day during your 40 days, which you almost certainly will, you must begin your 40 days over at day 1. Even if you are at day 39 and miss the next day, you start over at 1.

5. Remind yourself the important thing is to do the exercise, not accomplish the goal, so do not berate yourself when you end up missing a day and have to start over. Think of it as just seeing your favorite movie again or learn to laugh about missing that day with a big "Oops!".

If you find you need or want some more help with bringing magic into your life every day consistently, try out our Everyday Magic Email Course. Weekly simple magical rituals and lessons to practice emailed straight to you to add magic in to your daily life. Once you start developing consistency you will be amazed at the powerful impact it can have in your life. You will begin to live more purposefully and consciously instead of mechanically and from habit, begin to respond consciously to the world instead of just reacting to it which empowers you, develop enhanced communication abilities, see opportunities instead of obstacles and attract more positivity. Consistency is the key to all these things and to opening the door to all kinds of magical possibilities.

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Top 7 Reasons A Magic Spell Fails

After our students master using the 4 Elements and magical tools, they are ready to start Level 3 of the Basic Magic Course which concentrates on the Tarot, spellwork and using simulacra magic. A spell is a psychic or magical operation combining the 4 elements in some way and programming in factors to produce particular results over a certain period of time. A magic spell is a formalized intention designed to achieve a specific goal or affect a specific condition or situation. They are particularly useful when there are complex factors, barriers or obstacles that need a lot of force to overcome. A spell forms an energy matrix that is programmed to build momentum and overcome those obstacles until the goal is manifested. We teach our students to use directors and limiters when creating a magic spell so that the goal is reached safely without breaking any of the magical Rules of the Road. If a spell is not programmed with these safeguards it will take the path of least resistance towards the goal and you may get the end result, but in a way that comes about through things you don't want to happen. For example, if you just ask for a certain amount of money and don't specify that it cause no harm or loss of property or life to any other living being, you may get the amount of money you desire, but possibly it comes through the death of a beloved relative. We often hear stories along these lines or get questions from people wondering why their spell is not working and where they went wrong. For that reason we've compiled a list of the top 7 reasons we see that causes a magic spell to fail. Here's what we came up with.  

1. No directors and limiters – as we pointed out above, having directors and limiters written into a spell programs it in a way that tells it exactly what you do want to happen and what you don't want to happen. It may be that your spell is working, but that you did not put in enough particulars to see the results. For example, say you created a spell to make it rain. But did you specify where you wanted that rain and how much and within what time period. It is probably raining somewhere as a result of your spell, but maybe not where and when you really wanted it to.

2. Unclear directors and limiters – Are your directors and limiters precise and clear and appropriate for the situation? Take a look at them again or maybe have another pair of magical eyes take a look at them. It could be that you are too specific. Remember that your directors should tell what, when, and where but not how the goal is accomplished. The how part is up to the Universe to find. If you are too controlling in your spell there is no room for the Universe to do its part. It could also be that you have not written your verses, or directors and limiters in a concise and understandable way or that you have hidden issues blocking the spell. For example, if you are asking for a particular type of relationship to appear in your life, but you have not done the emotional work to really be ready to handle that type of relationship (ie.- the level of your being attracts the level of your life), then you may be sending out mixed messages.

3. Not enough range in directors and limiters – Look at your directors and limiters to make sure you are leaving enough "wiggle" room for the Universe to realistically manifest the goal. For example, if you say I want to have 1 million dollars within the next hour that is not a realistic goal. A magic spell needs to have the time to gain force and grow.

4. Binding verses or directors and limiters – Rules of the Road say binding is a definite violation of universal magical practice. If you are not following Universal laws then your spell can very likely fizzle out and not be able to attract the energy it needs. 

5. Not using a powerful enough format for what you want the spell to do – A spell can be cast in a variety of ways and you need to choose a way in creating and launching the spell that is in accordance with the amount of energy it will need. You can get some ideas of the obstacles you may encounter by doing a Tarot reading and that can give you information that will help you select an appropriate format. By definition, a chant, litany and even prayers are all spells. These may be appropriate at achieving certain goals, but others may be complex enough that they require a simple single candle spell. On the other hand if you use a simple candle spell when you need a multiple candle spell or a tarot spell, then you may not have enough force in your spell to overcome the obstacles it encounters.

6. Not matching the spell's launch date to the waxing or waning of the moon – When you launch your spell is also an important part of the planning and creating of it. If you are wanting to attract more or increase something, then you will want to launch it during a waxing moon period. On the other hand if you are trying to reduce something, shrink it, or rid yourself of something, you want to launch your spell during a waning moon period. 

7. Not having a good enough relationship with the Universe – The Universe is always ready to help, but as with relationships among people, the better working relationship you have with the Universe through the use of daily rituals, the more likely and more quickly the Universe will step in to help you.

So there you have our 7 top reasons a magic spell may appear to not be working or actually may not be working. If you are ready to move on to learning to do effective and safe spells, then the Basic Magic Level 3 Online course is the one for you.


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Voodoo Ain't Just About Dolls – How to Key Daily Objects to Create Voodoo Effects

You are probably familiar with the term voodoo doll and may even have some understanding of how one works. But using the magical arts of voodoo magic isn't just about dolls. One part of voodoo magic is using simulacra, such as a voodoo doll, in magical operations. Any objects that can hold an energy signature can be keyed like a voodoo doll and thus used as a simulacrum. A simulacrum is a likeness to something else. An object is keyed to represent a person or thing creating a psychic connection between the two and whatever magic operation you then do to the simulacrum also affects the person or thing. Good objects to use as simulacra include photographs, pictures, dolls, figurines, small models, lists, symbols, Tarot cards and layouts, chess pieces, or other objects made of stone, ceramic, wood or glass. If using a wooden object make sure it is fairly dense wood so that it will easily key. Plastic and rubber items do not make good simulacra as they will not key well.

Keying Simulacra
Keying simulacra is a very simple procedure. For a small object, hold it in your output hand and think about everything you know about the person or thing that you want to key the object to. You are not pulling energy from the person or thing to do this, you are just programming the object to be related to that person or thing. Continue until the object feels heavy, tingly, warm or energetically charged. Once you feel this type of change to the object it is keyed. You now must be very careful with it as whatever you do to the simulacrum will affect the person or thing it is keyed to. Even if you mean no harm, but are neglectful in what happens to the object you can receive backlash if you break Rules of the Road governing magical practice and let harm come to it. If you are doing a magical operation that requires a simulacrum too large to hold in your hand, build an energy ball and flow everything you know about the person or thing into it. Then throw the energy ball at the simulacrum to key it.

Voodoo Magic at Work
Just to give you an idea of how this type of voodoo magic is useful, here's a real life example of its use by one of our past teachers. He was being harassed by another of magical skills using a "watcher". A watcher is created by animating the body of a small insect that has died or by creating an energy matrix that looks like an insect like a fly, wasp or ant. They are useful in that they are able to penetrate protection shields and thus are able to spy or influence another. One downfall of using these is that there is often still a link from the watcher to the sender. Our teacher noticed an unusual looking fly that seemed to be following him around in his house and suspected it was a watcher. Using his magical Chalice, he was able to capture the watcher, deal with it and discover who was behind sending it. Here is the technique of capturing he used.

1. Waiting until the watcher was still, he was able to put his Chalice upside down over it, slide a thin piece of cardboard under the Chalice and turn it over so the Chalice would be upright.

2. He then taped the cardboard to the Chalice, packaged it for shipping, and had it sent on a slow boat to China.

3. Then he watched to see if it had any effect on the person he suspected had sent the watcher or on anyone else around him. If the sender had not disconnected from the watcher before it was captured in the Chalice, then whatever is done to the watcher would show up affecting the sender. The watcher in this case is the simulacrum.

4. He soon began to notice one of the people he suspected had created the watcher began to have nausea and turn green as if he was seasick over the period of several weeks.

Using the Chalice to capture the watcher allowed the teacher to discover the culprit harassing him and turn the tables on him. Needless to say the sender stopped harassing the teacher and sent no more watchers into his sacred space. This is just one simple example of using voodoo or simulacra magic for protection. It can also be used in a multitude of other ways such as for long distance healing, divination, communication, balancing energies and cutting psychic lines. If all this sounds like something you could use, then the How To Do Voodoo ebook is the one for you. Check it out!

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How Well is Your Magic Spell Working?

Are you ready to get into the magic of spellwork? If so, our Basic Magic Level 3 online course is for you. One of the things we stress in teaching students to create a magic spell, is how to use the precision science of magic to create and launch spells that will be safe and effective. Doing Tarot readings is one of the tools taught in this course that help with that.

How Tarot Readings Help in Spellwork
A spell is a formalized intention, an actual energy form that overcomes obstacles to achieve a stated aim. When designing a magic spell, one of the beginning steps we have our students do is a 12 card Tarot reading on the topic of the spell. For example, if the magic spell was to get a new job, the reading might use the 8 of Discs which is the career card, as a signifier. The information in the reading from upright and reverse flow lines helps in creating the spell as the reverse lines usually show the obstacles that the spell needs to overcome.

After doing this initial Tarot reading on the topic of the spell, we also do another 12 card reading to find out whether the magic spell will work. We use the same signifier as before and put the Magi card on top of and to the right of that signifier. This reading will give you information on whether a spell will be effective in improving the situation. Reversed cards in this reading relate the issues that need to be addressed in the spell or issues that the spell cannot handle and you will need to handle yourself.

These two readings also give you information needed to write the directors and limiters for a safe and effective spell. Once directors and limiters are written for the spell, it is also a good idea to do a 12 card Tarot reading specifically on them. Take a paper that you have written them on, key it, and put it on top of and to the right of the original signifier and the Magi card. Reversed lines in this reading show you the areas where the spell will find trouble or give you information on certain issues that you will need to deal with that are outside the parameters of the magic spell. For this reading, you may want to do progression readings to look further into the future as sometimes spells take time to gather the force needed to overcome obstacles. This reading will also give you information to see if you need to make adjustments to the directors and limiters that you have written. When you make changes to them, do another reading with the newly written version until you get a reading that has little or no reversed cards.

About 2 weeks after your spell has been launched is a good time to do another 12 card Tarot reading to check in with the spell's progress. Use the original topic signifier with the Magi on top and to the right of it. Reversed cards in this reading will indicate any interference the spell is coming up against. This interference could be from yourself or from outside sources. Look at the reverse flow lines in relation to your life and attitudes to see if something within you is causing the interference. This could be old beliefs, doubts, fears or any number of issues inside yourself. Do whatever you need to in order to stop those issues from interfering, wait a few days and do another reading. If you have dealt with those issues, you will see the reversed flow lines cleared up. If the interference is not within you, do a progression reading further into the future to see if the spell can overcome it successfully. As your spell is working, you can do a reading every couple of weeks to check on the progress and see if there are any obstacles that you need to deal with.

Don't worry if this sounds like a lot, it's all covered in the Basic Magic Level 3 course, from Tarot readings to spellwork of various types. Spellwork can be lots of fun and taking the time to do all the checkups will help make your spells safe and effective in getting the results you want. Even better, this week only you can get in on this course at 25% off the regular tuition cost. Just add the course to your shopping cart in our online store, go to checkout and enter the coupon code blogbm3 to register the 25% discount. Magic and savings!


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Magic for When Someone is Being a Donkey's Butt

"Is there really magic for that?" you ask. Absolutely. And who doesn't run into the occasional person acting like the hind end of a donkey? If that's the case, we have magical help for you on our blog. Read this post. If you like what you read, dig deeper and read on. Or visit our articles library, online store, or get one of our magical Kindle ebooks. The possibilities are endless. And just think, you have the person acting like a donkey's butt to thanks for it!

You'll find plenty more magical techniques to use for protection, self-defense and dealing with difficult or angry people. Here's a grounding exercise you can try out to protect yourself from a person who is angry and directing that anger towards you or using it to disrupt your space. Grounding pulls excess fire energy from another person or the environment, flows it through your body and pushes it into an electrical ground. Here's how:
•Find a source for the energy color you want to pull (anger is red-orange) to look at as a reference

•Locate an electrical ground like an outlet, light switch or a sink (uses water pipes running into earth). This is where you will flow the excess fire energy to for it to be safely grounded.

•Put your output hand (hand you point with) or your foot on the electrical ground if possible. If that is not possible, you can point your output hand toward the electrical ground, but make sure no living thing comes between you and the ground.

•Pull excess fire energies in through your input hand, through your body and out of your output hand into the electrical ground.

•Keep pulling until the anger is gone. This usually takes two minutes or less according to how angry the person is, thus how much excess fire energy they have.

You can use this technique discreetly and the person you are pulling the fire energy from need not be aware that you are doing it. All they know is that the anger subsides in them.

There you have two magic techniques to try out in dealing with difficult people. Want more? Check out the blog and you'll find more of these techniques and magic techniques on many other topics to try out for yourself. It's like having your own magic reference desk open 24/7. Enjoy!

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Ready for Tarot, Spellwork, and Simulacra Magic?

If you've taken our online Basic Magic Courses 1 and 2, and are ready for the really serious (and super fun) magical knowledge of the Tarot, Spellwork, and Simulacra, then you are primed for Basic Magic 3. This course covers these topics and more in great detail. Not only will you learn to throw a wide variety of Tarot readings, but you will learn to build on those readings to develop spells. This course also offers much more bonus knowledge just for the fun of it!

To give you an idea of what this course has to offer, here is some of the information in the class that covers Celtic Cross readings.

The Celtic Cross
This type of tarot reading is also called the Gnostic Cross and is best used to get a quick personality profile or character sketch of an animate being like a person or animal, but is not useful for situations or specific questions. For those more specific situational readings a 12 Card reading is needed. There is plenty of good information you can get though by doing a Celtic Cross reading. For example, if all the base cards in the reading show up reversed, it could mean this is not a good time to do a reading on this person because they are at a place in life where all the probabilities for them are equal and until a change happens in their life the reading wouldn't be meaningful.

Similar to 12 card readings, the cards in a Celtic Cross reading are thrown with a base card and a second card over it. The base card represents the general situation and the second card represents more specific details of the situation. The signifier card is the card that represents the person or animate being the reading is for. The Cover and Cross on the signifier give you an overview or summary of the whole reading. An upright Cover card means it represents the positive summary of the reading, making the Cross card the negative summation. If the Cover card is reversed, it represents the negative summary and the Cross card represents the positive. Just by looking at the Cross and Cover cards you get a very quick summary of what the whole reading will show you.

By doing a Celtic Cross reading you can quickly get information in these positions in the reading:
Cover and Cross on Signifier are in the middle of the reading surrounded by:

Above – This position represents unrecognized potential that may or may not come to fruition. Comparing these cards to the cards in the Outcome position can give you information about if this potential is likely to manifest by the cards in these two positions being similar.

Behind – This position show what the person has left behind or wants to be rid of or something that happened in the past that pertains to the reading.

Below – This is a foundation position and the take-off point for the reading that gives you the bedrock of this person's life.

Ahead – This position indicates the future according to the perception of the subject of the reading. It doesn't mean it is necessarily true, just how they are looking at the future and their belief or thoughts of what will happen.

To the right of this cross pattern of cards is a straight vertical line of cards that represent a Time Column. Positions in this column include:

Outcome or Far Future – The cards in this position give you a short basic look at the outcome of the reading if nothing changes. Since one of the reasons for doing a reading is to make a change of whatever you don't like, this outcome is definitely not set in stone. It merely shows the probability of what will happen if no changes are made.

Hopes/Fears or Near future – A reversed base card in this position is showing you this person's fears and that they live more in fear than hope. An upright base card here tells you their hopes and that they have an optimistic outlook.

Environment or Near Past – This position covers the time from the near past to the present and shows how the subject's environment has affected them in a positive or negative way. It also gives information on if factors in the environment are helping that person or hindering them.

Self Image or Far Past – This position gives you an idea of the subject's self-image derived from their history. If it is reversed then the subject's view of him or herself is wrong and the opposite is actually the truth.

As you can tell there is lots of information you can get that can magically change yourself or others by doing a Celtic Cross reading. Basic Magic 3 not only teaches you how to do these readings, interpret the cards and prepare your tarot deck, it also teaches you to do the more detailed 12 card readings and then how to use the tarot for spellwork. This is a fascinating form of divination that can truly help you find answers and solutions to those questions and problems that arise in your life. If this sounds good to you, then take a look at our Basic Magic Courses and start your magical journey today.

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Need Some Magical Rx?

No matter how long you have been practicing the magical arts, sometimes your techniques just go wonky--for no explicable reason! Don't worry, it happens to most practitioners from time to time. If you need some magical Rx, consider signing up for our twice-monthly magical newsletter. The newsletter covers a wide array of topics, and we also attempt to answer reader questions when possible. Or, visit our FB page, magical library, or blog. Any of those places might have just the magical prescription you're looking for!

To give you an idea of what you're missing if you aren't signed up to get the newsletter, here's some excerpts from newsletters sent out so far in 2015.

(From January 6, 2015 newsletter)
You Are Psychic
Everyone has psychic abilities. Some people are naturally gifted in this area and others need to practice to hone their abilities. If you are in the 2nd category, as most are, before embarking on the journey of developing your psychic abilities, it works best to prepare yourself. This preparation will help you develop your abilities to their full potential. Activities that will help you prepare include:

• Doing a simple meditation
• Participating in a moving practice (like yoga, tai-chi, or even daily walks)
• Practicing avoiding negative emotions
• Changing one small habit

Changing One Small Habit
These first 3 are probably things you are at least a bit familiar with so let's talk about the 4th – changing one small habit. According to Universal Law "A small change in the present will create a larger change in the future." By changing a small habit in now-time, you pave the way for larger changes in your magical life in the future. Using your psychic abilities will be a change in your future, so prepare yourself by changing some small things now. By practicing this you will change your habitual thought patterns to allow new ideas and inspirations in the future and by sticking with small changes you won't run into resistance. All you have to do is find small changes to make that you don't usually think about. For example, use a different hand from the one you usually use to brush your hair, teeth or open a door, wear your socks wrong side out, sit in a different seat than you usually do or get up on the opposite side of the bed from the side you usually do. Anything that is different and a small change that you can make will work. No one else has to know about these changes if that is something that would make you self-conscious. Most of these changes will not be noticeable to anyone but you.

(From January 20, 2015 newsletter)
Magical Operational Laws
To have a safe magical practice, ancient or esoteric names, words or symbols must not be used without a thorough and full understanding of their meanings, pronunciations and complete references. Some of the operational laws used in magical practice are:
Similarity - physical likeness creates a psychic likeness and resonance, the degree of resonance being directly proportional to the degree of physical likeness.

Identity - a physical part (piece or component) remains part of and contains the psychic whole, unless special magical operations are done to alter this.

Relationship - once there has been physical contact, there is continuing psychic contact, unless special magical action is taken to break the contact.

Symbols - a symbol may be created for any object, process or other phenomenon.

Substitution - in a magical or psychic or spiritual operation a symbol may be substituted (in the operation) for any object, process or other phenomenon.

Contagion - something done to a part, a likeness or a symbol that produces a similar effect on the divided-whole, the likened or the symbolized.

Duplication - an effect created in the physical is duplicated in the psychic and an effect created in the psychic is duplicated in the physical ("As Above, So Below").

So whether you are an experienced practitioner or just beginning your journey into magic, you'll find something new to learn, something to refresh your memory, or something to inspire or re-inspire you to add to your magical practice. Information, magical techniques, exercises to try out for yourself – they're all here for you at no cost. All you need to do is sign up with your email address and twice a month these magical treasures will appear in your inbox.

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Stuck in a Rut? Need Money Magic Help? Read the Blog

The Esoteric School blog is kind of like a wandering magical wizard. On our blog, we wander over all kinds of topics, from which elemental type you might be to magical ways to find a new relationship to money. Want love advice? We've got that, too, along with truly satisfying ways to do a Big Burn ritual to really get that frustration and anger out of your system. Good fun. Check out the blog here.

Twice a week we post magical articles on the blog that provide magical solutions to common problems and give you magical techniques to try out for yourself. If you find yourself stuck in a rut, feeling blue, losing control of your anger, needing a magical way to increase the flow of money into your reality, or a magical solution to any other problem you are facing, this is the place to find some simple, magical solutions. For example, here's just a few of the tips you'll find on attracting money:

How to Attract Money: Change Your Thoughts
Stop counting pennies and dollars in your thoughts. In fact, stop all thoughts about quantity as much as possible (i.e., food, calories, money, time). Instead, each time you start thinking that there isn't enough of something, say to yourself "That was then, this is now. There is abundance in my life now." While this seems like a very small change against a lifetime of measurement and feelings of "not enough," magically a small change in the present creates a larger change in the future. Just know that a small change--such as redirecting your thoughts with this mantra will create much larger and different changes/manifestations in the future.

How to Attract Money: Shift Your Focus
Focus on what money will do for you, not the money itself. Money has a lot negative vibrations, along with oughts, shoulds, and mixed messages from authority figures conflicting with your own desires. One way to short circuit all this is to focus on what you want money to do for you in your life. If you want to do something from your bucket list, for instance, focus on manifesting that instead of the money that will allow you to do so. The money will show up when it needs to.

How to Attract Money: Practice Abundance
Act everyday as if you already have what you want (i.e., if you want to go on a trip, start packing your bags regardless of what your bank account says). It's an internal feeling, unrelated to external facts (like how much is in your bank account). Practice feeling like you would at the successful end of your financial journey. Like the mantra, this is a small change that will produce a larger change in the future.

Seek Guidance from the Spirit of Owl
The Owl totem specializes in hunting down information that is hidden or not immediately available. Follow the steps of this ritual to request help from Owl.

1. Aloud or in your mind say, "Spirit of Owl, I request your help."

2. Wait quietly for a few seconds until you "feel" the presence of Owl. If you aren't familiar with working with spirit beings and aren't sure you feel the presence, go ahead to the next step since Owl always comes when requested.

3. Tell Owl what you are requesting. For example, in this case you might say, "Owl, please come with me today and show me what is causing my financial situation to not improve. Please show me this in a way that I can clearly understand. Thank you in advance for your help." Thanking Owl as with other Spirit beings is a necessary part of the request as the Owl totem thrives on appreciation.

4. Now go about your day with an open mind as to what Owl will show you. Owl will ride on your shoulder, whispering in your ear, giving you knowledge and understanding where you had blindness and confusion previously. The messages may come in many different forms such as an overheard conversation from a stranger, old memories appearing in your thoughts, a significant symbol or picture you come across on a sign or in a book or magazine, the words of a song and many other ways. Just stay aware and open to any communications that come.

5. Once you get your messages from Owl and have received the information you are seeking, be sure to offer appreciation and gratitude again.

Use Rooting to Get Anchored
Get anchored by practicing rooting daily. Rooting works as a way for how to attract money based on the principle that the least anchored object comes undone first. Also, people who are anchored are less likely to encounter "accidents" or events outside their control. If you are the most anchored, what you want will come to you. Rooting is a technique in which you flow earth energies deep into the Earth, releasing excess energies of any kind and pull Earth energies into you. This would be a good way to expel any doubts or insecurities you have about receiving money and give yourself the extra Earth energies to help anchor yourself. To do rooting follow these directions:

• Sit comfortably with your feet on the ground.
   
• In your mind's eye, see and feel yourself extending roots out of your feet, through your shoes, through the flooring, into the sub-floor and down into the Earth
   
• Once your roots reach down deep into the Earth past topsoil and into bedrock, lock them into the bedrock layer.
   
• Now sit for a while and breathe. Each time you exhale, send fire energies such as tension, anger, frustration and anxiety or stuck water energies such as depression down your roots and into the bedrock. Earth is a very receptive element and will take these energies very easily so you don't have to push real hard.
   
• Each time you inhale a breath, pull in the minerals, fluids and other energies from the Earth to nourish and balance yourself.
   
• Do this with your breathing until you feel relaxed and nourished.
   
• When you feel you are done, start pulling your roots back up starting with unlocking them from the bedrock, then pulling them back up through the topsoil, flooring and your shoes, if you are wearing any.

Be sure you are doing this during a time you won't be interrupted or have any reason to get up until you are finished. Moving before pulling your "roots" back in can cause you to be sore for a few days.

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