The effect of moving (house) on magical practice

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#1

I move a lot currently. Everyplace I’ve lived has also effected how I think about magic in a pretty big way. Some have made it so that I don’t practice at all, some so that I take different approaches that I wouldn’t normally take, none have been the same.

Now, maybe it’s not the places, maybe it’s the experiences, the people, the stress, the jobs, or something like that. I don’t know. But I would be curious to know if your findings matched at all with my own. Yet I do know that local spirits and other things of the like can have vast impacts on their environment.

What do you think? What has been your experience with moving to different

#2

The location of your home should have nothing to do with how or why you worship. If your home is too busy, noisey, or if you have roommates or a spouse, many simply find a quiet place to perform a ritual. Your worship or spiritual beliefs should be your internal beliefs, your determination or desire to practice the Craft or whatever religion you practice.

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#3

I wasn’t talking about worship, but magical practice. That is, I don’t always focus on spirits, in fact it’s my least common form of worship.

In any case, since I wrote the original post I have moved to yet another country. So now I have lived in four different countries in the past eighteen months and visited three more for extended periods of time. In general I would say that the ideas I have about magic and the things those ideas drive me to practice changes a great deal depending on the way that the physical and social environment impacts the metaphysical one.

For instance, in the past I was studying and depressed and moved to D.C. where I was also studying and depressed. My psychological and social environment were basically identical, yet I ended up using systems of magic as a mainstay that I had never really cared about before. Inventing new methods of manifesting that I had never considered before.