Suppose you sometimes stop reflecting on where life’s adventures have been hiding lately. In that case, you need to rethink your priorities and look close up around you.
This week, I learned by direct experience that the real magick happens when you least expect it.
Slowly but surely, my husband and I have found the rarest kind of friends. You know, the good ones to whom a word is a word, brutal honesty is preferable to lies and deceit, and a favor for a favor is a must.
The magick of real life hit me direct in the heart, mind, and soul as we wished each other a blessed weekend around noon today. Seldom have I personally met more lovable people. Team spirit all the way, also through the afternoon with yet another dear friend.
I feel privileged because I have everything I need close by, and my worldwide family expands step by step. Welcome to new followers, and thank you for being here.
I live a fairytale life now. I simply cannot find anything in my past that can surpass the way things are changing for the better right here, right now.
My husband was offered the chance to maintain an old and former beautiful garden. It needs solid work, caring hands, and a lot of patience. But it has the potential to become more than beautiful.
I help as much as my physical and mental ailments will allow me to. My wooden leg hurts like hell, my knees and feet torment me, and my bipolar disorder and its friend anxiety keep pushing my limits.
But after a great week with good people, it feels a little less tiresome. So there is some leftover energy. And my thoughts are filled with tons of ideas to put into reality one by one.
The magick of real life feels like coming home.
Therefore, tomorrow morning, I will light the candles and the sage incense and do the following steps:
- Preparations: Pick your favorite witchcraft props and try to combine practicality with beauty.
- Step one: speak the following words as invitation to the goddesses and the gods of the Universe:” Goddesses and Gods of the Universe, welcome to our circle of love, faith, and harmony. Please watch over this rite and grant us the gifts of truth, inner peace, and happiness.”
- Step two: grab a deck of Tarot cards. Pick a personal significator and shuffle thoroughly. Then draw thirteen random cards; remember to save the last card for clarification issues. Interpret what your senses tell you to notice.
- Step three: make a spell bag on the fly with whatever you got of herbs, crystals, oils, petitions, and personal objects, and think of something you would like to attract to your magickal life. Then speak a personal prayer over it, put it somewhere special, and imagine the five elements enclose it and protect it.
- Step four: do any extra stuff you like to do in a witchcraft ritual and end the rite with e.g. this circle closure: “Goddesses and gods of the Universe, thank you for watching over us and our rite. Please hear our prayers and allow us to let go of what no longer serves us. This circle is now closed. Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again.
It is a thanksgiving ritual made on the fly, as I’m writing this for you, dear readers and followers.
Yesterday, I finally made good progress with my novel project. And even though that I’m physically tired, this evening will be giving too.
I can feel it in my body, mind, and soul that my inspirational muse has granted me peace in my head to concentrate enough to write something worth reading more than twice.
The magick of real life happens while you stop hunting for happiness and love. The day I met my husband, I met love. And today, I fully met happiness.
Things have definitely changed for so much better.
I’m now entirely in my manic phase, where I speak more, do more, and live more. But don’t worry, there is the correct medication, therapy, and hard work to control it.
My anxiety is also on the retreat after a couple of annoying attempts during the evenings and nights.
And I have decided to get up and make coffee the next time I wake up in the craziest of hours of the night. So I might as well try to write when I can’t sleep more than five to six hours every night.
I must confess, however, that I take an afternoon nap from time to time when I’m in this phase. But lately, I have spent my afternoons with a friend building miniature houses. The pictures of today show a flower shop and a traditional Chinese house.
Especially the latter is intriguing because the size is tiny indeed. So it will take me a long time to finish it, and some of it will be slow work and periods without trying to assemble anything at all.
The magick of real life is right around you if only you dare to look close enough and remain happy and grateful for what you already have.
I have found happiness, inner peace, a good health, and kindness now.
For that, I thank you, dear Universe.
Tomorrow will also be the day where I pull myself together and begin tidying up. Next Friday, my 83-year-old father comes for a three-day visit. We miss him dearly, but now another unique friend brings him here whenever she needs to visit her daughters.
Then he doesn’t need to use the train anymore, and it is more than fair because he deserves to be brought by car instead.
May your weekend be blessed with inspiring thoughts, creative sparks, and happy moments, dear readers and followers.
And may the world’s peoples find that the authentic way to happiness has nothing to do with money, status, and expensive symbols of own superiority. As we will it, so mote it be.
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