Most of the day’s work is done. I’ve done my casting for the Magical Friends With Benefits group. Down to only a few runes left in the blanks I’m making for a friend and my fingers are too sore to continue.
This left a bit of time for some rumination.
One thing I’ve been coming back to recently involves the similarities between servitors and spell casting. I’m sure it’s been discussed elsewhere (and I’m not aware of it), but recently, with some workings I’ve been looking into and performing, it seems that non-petition-based spells are just specific constructs that are given life, purpose, and set free to do their thing.
I’m sure this isn’t a new thing, but it could change how some people view their rituals. After all, if these were constructs, they could be powered up through successive casts/rituals, until they are strong enough to get the desired result… Since we know that those types of rituals exist, this isn’t far off. I know in some of my more…involved…workings, I take this approach.
I’ve done this inadvertently in the past, when focusing on a goal for a long time (several years). I wasn’t actively doing anything with the Occult at the time, but was still doing magic in this manner, looking back on it. I would charge it up by connecting to and powering up my goal, without ritual or ceremony or calling on outside help. It seemed to work, unexpectedly. It’s worked in smaller ways since, to help others that have done the work and needed a boost to help tip the odds.
What I’m noticing more over time is that those periods where I didn’t do anything, I was still learning and actively using, even if I didn’t realize or recognize that those were instructional at the time. Not the same as actively working at things, in my opinion, but it’s nice to know that the Universe doesn’t kick your ass into the background when you’re not busting your ass. I’d also noticed that I didn’t seem to lose much in the way of ability when I would take long breaks (like, several YEARS, not just months).
Two songs tonight, to reflect what I was listening to when typing this up.
Okay, a third, to represent how I felt after typing this up…