Practical Spells and Every Day Magic
Chapter 1: Unleashing your inner Witch
Before we begin, I find it important and necessary to start with a little fear freeing exercise. Repeat aloud:
They DO NOT burn witches at the stake anymore.
They DO NOT burn witches at the stake anymore.
It is ILLEGAL to burn witches at the stake.
There. Now don’t you feel better? In the past, evolved souls have been tormented and even murdered because their inner light shone a little brighter than the rest. Light terrifies darkness, doesn’t it? In the past, women having any semblance of power has terrified men. So what did the masculine order of the day do to assuage their fears? They rounded up all empowered, evolved women, labeled them “witches” and burned them. I thought in light of the not too distant past and the fact that we all hold that cellular memory within us, we should begin with that clearing exercise.
Now, for the next order of business: Do you believe you are Magic? No? Not even a little? I thought so. Why else would you even be holding this book? I wanted to first get it straight in your mind that IT IS SAFE for you to be you. It is not only safe but REQUIRED! And YOU ARE MAGIC. Trust me on this one for now. By the end of this book, you will KNOW it too.
Chapter 2: Early signs
Growing up, I was captivated by shows like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. I so badly wanted to BE Samantha or Jeannie. What we love, who we admire and what we are really into as children holds a large thread of our divine life purpose. For me, it was magic.
I loved magic. I thought constantly about magic. I just knew if I believed hard enough I could BE magic. I also had the vague idea that God/The Universe would not “turn on” my powers, so to speak, until I was really ready for them, until I had evolved enough to be able to handle them. I have since discovered this is absolutely true! We have a built in safety net in physics…like attracts like energy. So, if we are low vibrational, negative people, thinking negative thoughts, our powers to actually manifest these thoughts are very weak. And vise versa. So, we come into this life very much protected.
Chapter Three: The Laws
To explain this, I must first give a basic magic lesson for the newcomers out there. Quantum physics 101: we are ALL just energy. Just light. Just consciousness. Just love. Just divine fire. It does not matter what you call it. We are all magic. This magical light that we are made up of obeys the laws of physics while we are here on a physical planet, living a physical existence.
Here are some basic laws the light adheres to:
- Like attracts Like- meaning a like vibration of light will always attract other vibrations which are like it. This is why people of similar thought and emotional patterns end up together. It is evident everywhere. You need but to look to see this reality playing out in your world. It is why you feel drawn to some people and repulsed by others and yet, even inspired by others. You will be “attracted” to those with similar vibrations to yours, repulsed by those who vibrate at a much slower/lower level and inspired by those who vibrate much higher.
- The Need for Speed- The faster you vibrate, the higher your level of consciousness. They go hand in hand. Low vibration emotions and thought patterns are negative. The higher your thoughts and emotions vibrate the better you feel, the more positive you are. Love, real unconditional love which is also JOY, is the highest vibration we can inhabit as humans. Fear is the lowest. Every thought and emotion is a by-product of one or the other. Anger/grief/jealousy, etc. are all by products of fear and in reality are a result of distorted beliefs. Because while fear may be a very real feeling on this planet, in reality ONLY LOVE is real. It is the essence that all creation is made up of. In the physical world though, we thought it would be great fun to EXPERIENCE the entire gamut of emotional frequency. There are many ways to raise your vibration, thus making you more magical. We will discuss this later.
- With Great Power Come Great Responsibility- In other words, once you are vibrating on a very high level, you will attract similar vibrations very quickly. You will have only to think of something you desire (a flower, a cup of coffee) and it will appear instantly, as if by magic. There are all sorts of books and shows about manifesting your desires. So many people give up and think this doesn’t work because they don’t really understand physics. God put a built in safety net for us here. And thank goodness! Can you imagine if all the negative, low vibrating people got what they were thinking instantly? The world would be a mess! Oh, but the world is a mess. Right. And it is because the masses, while weak in their ability to create anything by themselves, when collectively hold a thought or belief long enough, it will manifest. Some examples, “There is not enough food, not enough health, not enough money, etc.” this is poverty mentality and we have collectively created much poverty in the world. Now, the good news is we created it so we can change it. Just one person vibrating on a very high level counteracts thousands of lower vibrating energies. There is a book called “Power vs Force” which compiles all the scientific data in this area. So, it is powerful when high vibrating people come together with a common vision. We can literally heal the world…as if by magic!
There are many other laws of energy and physics but understanding just these three will get you far.
Still don’t believe in magic? I don’t blame you. I am a bit of a skeptic myself. In fact, had magic not been a daily experience for me my entire life, I would not believe either. In truth, your life will be as magical as you allow it to be. And if requires a degree of awareness, consciousness, higher vibrations, to discern it. I came into the world holding quite a bit of light. I could actually see the light all around and within everything. Why could I see it? Because I was vibrating at a high enough level to be able to. Which is also why I just “knew” certain esoteric truths like we are all love, everything is connected, we are never alone (I could see the angelic realms too) and we are all magic!
Chapter Four: Magic Happens
I cannot prove magic to you. You must prove it to yourself. But here are some real life examples of truly miraculous and magical experiences I have had in my life.
The Starbuck’s Story-
One day I had gone to Starbuck’s to get me and my friend and co-worker, Vikki, a couple coffees. I had just watched “The Secret” and was finally starting to understand that the universe acts like a giant mirror. It reflects back to us whatever is within us that we are focusing on. So, you can’t just keep affirming “I am free of debt” and expect to become free of debt. The focus is still on the debt. You are feeling and thinking of the debt when you say this so the universe will continue to show you an experience of debt. The correct or empowered way to affirm what you are wanting is to say, “I am grateful for my financial freedom and all my abundance.” And if you truly feel abundant and grateful for your life just as it is now (as these are very high vibration feelings!), your manifestation will zoom its way to you. So, keeping all of this in mind, the coffee in Vikki’s cup kept spilling out the drink hole with every step I took. Feeling exceptionally magical, I began chanting, “The coffee stays in the cup, the coffee stays in the cup…” and it did. So, I got to work and handed Victoria her drink. She went back upstairs to her office. A minute later she phoned down to my office and said,
“What did you do to my coffee?”
To which I replied, “What do you mean?”
“It won’t come out of the cup!” she said.
“Well, there must be something wrong with the cup. Did you check to see if the lid was blocked or something?”
“Yes. I can see the coffee down there but it won’t come out.”
Then it hit me! “I put a spell on it!” I said. “I told it not to come out of the cup because it was spilling everywhere!”
Now, Vikki was used to me and happened to be a very open minded person, so this did not really faze her. She just said calmly, “Well, can you fix it?”
I went upstairs, took the cup from her and in true Bewitched fashion, snapped my fingers over the top as I said, “Coffee, comes out of the cup.”
I handed it back to her and voila! It came right out.
I know this is hard to believe, but like I said, I do have a witness. This is the power of our thoughts, words, feelings and beliefs. I fully believed that day that I was capable of magic…and I was!
Another example of how magic happens, and I have many, was just after I had moved to Nashville. I had been alone, completely alone, for over a week. I had no friends. I had not started working yet and so I spent my days getting settled, putting my apartment together and stocking my cabinets and refrigerator with the cheapest of basics. It occurred to me after a few days that I had not spoken, not uttered a word. There was no one to talk to. So, I had inadvertently peered into the world of what it is like to take a vow of silence and I began to understand why this is a common spiritual practice. Once you are no longer talking, the mind begins to quiet down also. I was shocked by how quiet my mind had become. I was equally as stunned to realize that I had lived most of my life with this constant chatter going on inside me. Now, in a quiet connected space I had become very ONE with it all, creation, myself, the universe, GOD…whatever you call it, I did not feel lonely. So, that was my current state of being one night as I attempted to cook myself a frozen pizza. As I reached into the oven, the top of my hand grazed the heating element, burning me badly. I jerked my hand out to find the shape of the burner branded on top of my hand. PAIN! I instinctively covered my burnt hand with my other hand and visualized green light going into the burn. It immediately stopped hurting. I took a few deep breaths, coming intensely into the present moment and releasing the past memory of the burn. After only a few moments I looked at my hand to find no trace of a burn. No redness, nothing. Now, that is magic and that is the amazing healing ability each of us possesses.
I am in no way blaming anyone with a serious illness for not healing themselves. While I will always stand firm in my belief that it is always possible to heal ourselves, we can not judge another’s circumstance or possibly know the journey of their soul or the reasons why they may be choosing (on a higher level) to experience dis-ease. Sometimes, dis-ease is the catalyst that a soul chooses to awaken and is meant to be experienced. I, however, was not meant to nurture a burn from my past but instead awaken to the fact that cellular memory recreates itself new in each moment and we can choose to awaken from the illusion of “time” and live fully in the NOW or we can recreate time and bring the past into the present moment. The choice is always ours.
Now, it won’t work for everyone every time. Just like when I was four running down the sidewalk trying to fly. I really believed I could fly that day. Did I? No…but we all have to start somewhere. As you practice raising your vibration/consciousness, and strengthening your faith, you too will be able to do magic.
