Living a magickal life means being constantly in tune with the spiritual world around you, it’s about listening and being open to your intuition and to the messages from your spiritual guides. It happens twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred sixty-five days a year. Does this mean you need to run around shouting “Love and Light to all” of course not, that’s crazy.
The image most people have of those living a magical life is often of a robed priest or priestess, dancing around a bonfire, under the full moon, or mixing exotic herbs in a mortar and pestle. While this can seem very exciting and theatrical, alas we are not Laurie Cabot.
Actually, most of the time life can seem pretty daunting and un-magickal, between caring for our families, going to work, going to school, cleaning the house, running around stubbing our toe on that box we have meaning to put away since December. However, all it takes is a shift in perspective to see how the mundane can become magickal. Magick can be incorporated into your daily life simply just by being mindful and putting a little extra effort into your everyday life. You don’t have to perform an elaborate ritual every day to be connected. It’s about being aware of the simple things around you. That is not to say that there is work involved. It does not come easy, as the internet would have your think. You can not find it on tik tok or youtube. It takes work and dedication.
One way is by paying attention to the natural world, the seasons, the phases of the moon and how the world around you affect the way you feel or how it may correspond to aspects of your life. By doing this you are actually tuning in to the energies of the universe, which can give insight to how life will be during those times.
Secondly, Take the time to get in touch with nature and the land you live on. Even if you live in a big city, there is nature all around you. Just take a second and connect with that weed growing in a crack of the sidewalk. He may feel just as lonely as you do or he may have advice on how to deal with that loneliness.
Another way is to listen to your gut, your intuition. This takes a little practice but once you understand the feelings, life changes for the better. In most cases your intuition is your first thought or feeling, the first thing that pops into your mind and trust me it’s usually not the most logical of thoughts.
Lastly, when you are doing something mundane, think about how you can use it in a magickal application. For example, when you’re baking cookies, consider what sort of magickal working you can incorporate into the recipe. There is nothing wrong with adding a little passion magick to a meal you make for a lover.
Another way I is to keep a sort of magickal schedule and routine. It’s about dedicating yourself to doing one magickal act every day of the week. Of course, as with anything, this schedule can be as simple or as complex as you want to make it and not only will it keep you connected but can open the doors to learning about your path and yourself as well.
There are also a few other practices that you can incorporate into your daily magickal life, such as regularly openly communicating with your deities and spiritual guides. Through daily meditation and devotions with your deities and guides you keep the lines of communication open. This is by far is more complex of the methods of spiritual guidance there is. It doesn’t happen overnight.
One practice that is rewarding is working with your ancestors. By building a relationship with your ancestors you can inherit valuable information about almost anything. Who better to get advice from then someone who has lived through it. There are many ways we can reconnect with our ancestors, some of which you probably already do.
Some of the most common ways to connect with them is with use of:
Relics: these are personal belongings of the deceased, photos, written items by that person, even the cremated remains of loved ones.
Altars and shrines: Altars are a place to hold your collection of relics and to give offerings and whereas shrines are usually dedicated to one person and temporary at the time of death until they are moved to your altar. However, both are a place to honor and communicate with them.
Offerings: are how we feed the dead, we are not physically feeding them, we are feeding the link between us and the physical world and the spirit world.
Communication: conversations are a form of offering. At first this may seem a little strange, but once you do it after a few times it becomes easier. When starting out openly speaking to the dead it is recommend you do this just before bed. You may find that you may receive answers to your conversations in your dreams
By connecting or reconnecting with our ancestors we bring the past and present together and bridge the gap between generations. They are and will become a foundation to your magickal life.
Another practice is with working with animal spirits. Of course, this could be an entire blog post on its on as there is so much information. One rule of thumb is, if it shows up three times consecutively it has something to say and not every encounter with an animal is an omen.
Then how do you know if it’s a message or if it’s your imagination? There is two ways to answer this question.
1. Ask for validation. It’s ok to ask the spirits to validate your thoughts and questionings.
2. Be aware of possible causes. If you are constantly seeing a deer on your way home from work, is it because it’s in the evening when they come down out of the mountains to graze, or maybe it is hunting season when deer seem to be running amok?
Here’s a little story:
Someone that swore up and down, backwards and sideways that their spirit animal was the red tail hawk and that they follow them everywhere and even circled their home. Ok, yes, this person lives off a mountain where red tails frequent, however, they do not regularly circle, especially in multiples. Although, It is obvious what these birds were, everyone left it alone. Until, one day at an event, and said person pointed out “their” hawks. We looked up and what do you think we saw circling above…. Yep, turkey vultures! Nope not a sign, just normal animal behavior.
Whether you are working with deities, the dead or animal spirits, the simplest way to connect to them is sending out your intentions to make contact.
And although, these practices can take a little more work than the previous, they can be very helpful in making your life magickal. That’s not to say that you shouldn’t try. If you open yourself up to the endless possibilities, the possibilities for yourself could be endless.
Living a magickal life really is an art, it’s about being able to balance the mundane and the magickal. it’s living consciously and subconsciously, in harmony with the worlds around us and to the best of your ability. It’s about acquiring knowledge, not only about magickal practices, but about yourself and your own life.
The Sea Witch of Cooca Village 