Forest Wizard

Tag: magic

  • The Word

    The Word

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

    John 1:1

    For a long, long time, my whole life, maybe, I’ve believed that magic requires some kind of secret magic words; exactly like in the movies. All I need to do to get the results I want is to find the right magic words to use.

    I followed a magician several years ago who taught that complicated rituals always work, but people don’t want to do the hard stuff so they don’t do it.

    As time has gone on, I’ve realized that this is obviously not a helpful way to experience existence. In part because it plays into this idea that if you just follow the directions exactly, you’ll do magic. It’s easy to think of magic like baking; you can’t just throw whatever you want into the oven and expect to pull out a load of sourdough.

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  • Depression, Magic, and Shifting Reality

    Depression, Magic, and Shifting Reality

    A fairly major part of occultism is the idea that you can shift reality to suit your needs. How this works depends on the tradition or system you subscribe to, but essentially the idea is that you can use your mental powers to create real, physical change around you.

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  • The Fool

    The Fool

    For the uninitiated, a tarot deck contains 78 cards that are used for divinatory purposes. These cards are split into two main sections: the major and the minor arcanas. The major arcana consists of 22 named images, starting with 0 – The Fool, and ending with 21 – The World. It’s in the major arcana that we find notable cards such as Death and The Lovers.

    The minor arcana, on the other hand,consists of four suits, each numbered ace-10 and followed by four court cards.

    Eliphas Levi said that if you were locked in solitary confinement and the only book you had access to was a deck of tarot cards, you could, eventually, learn everything there was to know. Tarot, according to Levi, is a book of universal symbols that are intended to convey universal laws.

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