Magic That Works: Healing a Hawk

Today we'd like to share with you a story of magic that works from one of our students. This is one of the many stories you'll find in our Kindle Witchcraft Spell Books series books as examples of magic that works in real life and various ways our students have found to use the magic techniques they've learned.

Healing A Hawk
Shortly after I began taking the Basic Magic class, my husband and I were driving down from the mountains back to town. As we drove on the highway, my husband saw a beautiful hawk sitting on a fence post. Just as he started to point it out to me, the hawk took off and flew head first at top speed into our windshield.

In the rear view mirror, my husband saw him land at the side of the road after being thrown over the top of the car. Our windshield was broken, including three large crack marks down the middle to attest to the force with which the hawk hit. We just knew he could not have survived the impact, but stopped anyway to see if we could do anything.

My husband found him at the side of the road and miraculously he was still alive, but something was terribly wrong with his left wing. It just hung uselessly, and looked like it was hardly attached anymore. He stumbled along the ground as my husband approached. The hawk was unable to fly away and looked seriously hurt.

I then remembered what I had learned in Basic Magic, and thought it couldn't hurt to try some energy work. I first gave the hawk some Sun Yellow energy, and then some Sky Blue Air and Clear Air. Suddenly the hawk took off just as I had finished my energy work, and we watched him soar, flap, and use that wing as if nothing had happened. We watched until he had totally flown out of sight and I was sure he would be fine.

Witchcraft Spell Books
If you find this story intriguing, you too can learn a variety of magical techniques and daily magical rituals right from your Kindle, Smart Phone or computer. To give you an idea of the type of magic that works you can learn in this format, let's look at what some of the topics covered in the first book in the series, Learn How to Do Witchcraft Rituals and Spells with Your Bare Hands.

• Using a Book of Shadows
• Beginner Rituals and Spells: Rituals and Spells Done With Your Bare Hands
• Contact Rituals for Sky and Earth
• Hiring Parking and Other Unemployed Angels
• Talking to the Spirit of Owl to Find Hidden Information
• Bathtub Litany for Relief from Negativity and Pain
• Walking in the Rain by Running Water for Fresh Insight
• Using the Water Bowl for Scrying and Psychic Messages
• Walking Meditation for Those Who Can't Sit Still
• Walking Litany for Invisibility and Other Magical Effects
• Rooting Yourself in Mother Earth
• Beginner Weather Working with Clouds
• Protection and Disconnection Litany

If these sound like skills you'd like to learn, check out this book and the other 3 in the series at Amazon.com. You'll get lots of magic that works bang for your buck with the Witchcraft Spell Books series.

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Magic That Works: Asking for a Sign

Whether you are looking to develop psychic abilities or doing some other form of magic, doubt, fear or negativity creeping in can affect your results. The more you practice magic that works, the more confident you will become. Part of that practice with many forms of magic including developing psychic abilities is establishing a strong relationship and good communication with the Universe. The more you see verified results of information you have received from the Universe, the more confident you will be in using techniques and in your quest to develop psychic abilities. Here is an exercise we present in our Psychic Development ebook that you can practice to develop this type of confidence.

Attract Something Into Your Life
In this exercise you will be making a formal request of the Universe. This will be a request that can be verified. Start out with simple requests and keep it light and joyful. Here's what to do:

• Each morning, decide on an event or thing to attract into your life that day. It could be any item, a song, a person, or just about anything. 
• State out loud that you would like the Universe to show you the subject you have decided on sometime during the day. 
• Throughout the day, watch for signs from the Universe connected to your chosen subject.

The answer could come in a very obvious way, but it also could come in a much more subtle way, so keep alert. For example, if your subject was "cherries", you might be given a bag of the actual fruit, or maybe the vanilla ice cream you order for dessert comes with a cherry on top. But more subtle responses could include hearing a song with the word cherries in it, or reading a magazine article that mentions cherries, hearing the word in a stranger's conversation or smelling a cherry scented candle. You get the idea, be open to a multitude of ways your chosen subject can be brought to you.

If at the end of the day, you have not received a sign or message with your chosen subject, don't worry about it. Just try again the next day. When you ask the Universe this time, add that you want the subject to be shown to you in an obvious way that you can easily understand. The point of this exercise is to get practice refining your communication channels with the Universe, so the more practice you get, the more confident you will be in those communications. Keep refining your request and staying alert for responses until you are getting reliable, verifiable results most of the time.

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Tarot and Divination: Why Use a Signifier?

Most people using tarot and divination today do not use signifiers. We find using signifiers useful however in doing tarot and divination and teach this method to our students. A signifier is a card that represents a person or situation that you are doing a tarot reading on. Using a signifier helps define a specific situation, issue, or question that the reading is about. We also key the signifier which ties it personally and more specifically to the reading. Signifiers for people generally are chosen according to their chronological age and their sun sign. In the Waite-Rider tarot deck, which is the one we have our students' use the following guidelines help determine the signifier to use.

Tarot and divination guideline for the chronological part of card selection is:

• Age conception to teenage years – Page
• Teenager – Knight
• Adult Female – Queen
• Adult Male – King

Tarot and divination guideline for sun sign part of card selection is:

• Wands – Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
• Cups - Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
• Swords - Aries, Leo, Saggitarius
• Discs - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

So for example, if doing a tarot and divination reading on a 40 year old Libra man, you would use the King of Wands for the signifier. Likewise, for a reading on a 32 year old Aries woman, the signifier would be the Queen of Swords.
 
Other Signifier Considerations
You'll notice I said earlier that this is generally how the signifier is selected for a person for their tarot and divination reading and that these are merely guidelines. You also want to consider the individual person, their behaviors, characters and actions and take this into consideration when picking a signifier. For example, you may be doing a reading on a child who is much more mature or responsible than usual or you may be doing a reading on an adult who is particularly immature. This could affect the card that you pick for a signifier. Also the deck you are using can have other options. For example, in the Crowley deck there is a female and male card for the Page presented as Prince and Princess. The Knight in this deck represents the adult male because of Crowley's belief that there is no such thing as an adult male since in his view males never reach maturity.

Situational Signifiers
Situational signifiers are chosen from the meaning of the card or cards. You will need to be very familiar with the meanings of the card in order to choose a card or more than one card to represent an issue, situation or specific question that you are doing a tarot and divination reading on. Here are a few examples of cards you might pick for specific situations or questions:

• Travel by Air – 8 of Wands
• Career Plans – 3 of Discs
• Hidden Enemies – 10 of Swords
• Legal Matters – Justice

If you cannot find a tarot card to represent specifically what you are doing a reading on, you can make your own signifier using pictures, logos, business cards and similar items. Place these items in the same place to the left of the reading that you would if using a tarot card. Whichever type of signifier you use, placing it upright will instruct the reading to how conditions that favor it and reversing the signifier or placing it upside down will instruct the reading to show you conditions that will prevent a favorable outcome or problems that you may encounter.

Tarot and divination are a very interesting part of magical study, but as you can probably tell there is much to learn in order to become proficient at it. If this is an area of magic that you are interested in pursuing, take a look at our Tarot Homestudy course. This course will help you with the meanings of the cards, how to throw and interpret readings and pick signifiers. Tarot and divination are a great way to access information and see what may lie ahead in the future for any given person or situation. Having this type of information can allow you to make a change in the present that will affect that future if you don't like what you see. Using signifiers in your readings lets you get very specific as to what your reading is about so that you get the best information you can to make choices and decide outcomes for your life. 

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The Best Self Defense Magic Against Attack: Use the Attacker's Own Energy

Protection magic can sometimes offer you the best self defense. One technique students' learn in our Magical Self Defense homestudy course is how to use protection magic to turn the tables on an attacker and use the attacker's own violence against him or her. For those who are not inclined to use violence or fighting type techniques themselves, this technique offers a way to protect themselves just by transferring the attacker's own energy back at him or her. Basically you provide yourself with the best self defense magic has to offer by pulling the angry, violent energy emanating from the attacker, storing it in your own body to let it build force and then releasing it back towards the attacker in a single blast of energy. You should be aware before engaging in this type of protection magic that it can hurt the other person and in some cases, according to where you redirect the blast of energy, be lethal. For this reason, you will want to make sure you are within your rights according to the Rules of the Road that govern magical practice to use a technique like this. If someone is physically attacked you and you have not instigated the attack or done anything to cause it then you are certainly within your rights magically to engage in any means necessary to protect yourself.

This magical protection technique in a sense allows you to use your own body as a lightning rod. Here's how it's done.
- When grabbed or attacked instead of showing resistance, just go limp. This is so that you do not waste any of your own force.

- Use your body to pull in the attacker's energy into your own body as quickly as you can. The attacker's energy will probably be fire energy in the red orange and yellow orange bands which correspond to anger, anxiousness, fear, stress, pain and other emotions that the attacker will be more than likely be radiating. It will be obvious and probably strong and since fire energies are radiative, they should be easy to pull in.

-Continue pulling the energy from your attacker as quickly as you can, storing it all up in your body until you feel the attacker begin to relax.

- At this point flow all the energy you have stored up into your output hand (the hand you point with).

- You can add in any red orange or yellow orange fire energy of your own to the stored energy and flow that also into your output hand if you wish.

- If you can now get your fingers from your output hand in a position to tap them on the attacker, pick one of these target areas to use your pointer and middle finger to tap him or her there:

• On forehead
• Between the eyes
• On the throat
• Over the heart

- As you use your fingers to tap one of these areas flow all the stored energy out your fingers in a smooth, quick flow.

Your results will vary according to the strength of the blast of energy released onto the attacker, the target area you flow it into and the band or bands of fire energy released. In many cases, especially using the over the heart target area, the results can be lethal. It may appear to others as if your attacker has had a heart attack. So again make sure you are within your magical self defense rights and that you are prepared for this type of outcome before you decide to engage in this type of protection magic. Magic can be fun, but in cases of self defense, magic can be serious and save your life. Stay calm, think it through and you'll find yourself prepared and able to give yourself the best self defense that you can.

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Psychic Games as a Way to Develop Psychic Abilities

Psychic games are a fun way to develop psychic abilities. Psychic games can help us develop our Spirit senses to get information. We all have psychic abilities. Some people just have a more natural talent than others. Those without the natural talent need to practice to develop psychic abilities. Psychic games are a perfect way to get the practice tuning out the five body senses and tuning in spirit abilities.

When you start practicing to develop psychic abilities and using psychic games, don't get frustrated with initial results. Learning to ignore the outcome is one of the keys to success. Over time your psychic abilities will get stronger and more accurate. In the beginning don't worry about if your results are "right" or not. Keeping this in mind, here's one of the psychic games we present in our Psychic Development ebook for you to practice with.

The Psychic Perimeter Game
This psychic game starts you on your way to develop psychic abilities by shutting off one of your five senses. In this game you will close your eyes, thus cutting off access to visual data. This allows you to access or "read" the psychic or energetic information around you. Here's how to play the Perimeter Game.
1. At least once a day (and obviously not while doing something such as driving) set up an energetic perimeter around yourself of about 10 – 20 feet preferably in a public place.

2. Here's the part that tells you why you don't want to be doing something like driving during this game – Close your eyes. Close your eyes and in your "mind's eye" see a circle of energy surrounding you.

3. Be aware of anytime someone enters your perimeter area.

4. When you have the sense that someone has entered your area, open your eyes to confirm it.

5. Once you play this psychic game enough that you are getting accurate at sensing someone entering your area, you can increase the diameter of your circle or take another sense out of the equation. For example you might pick a noisy area so that you don't have your sense of hearing.

Have fun and develop your psychic abilities at the same time with psychic games such as the Perimeter Game. Remember that having fun, relaxing and not putting emphasis on initial "results" is all part of the process. Check out the ebook for more psychic games and exercises that will help you claim your birthright to use psychic abilities to access information not available through the five body senses.

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