The Witch’s Path: Living Life as a Magical Act
A Personal Perspective on Everyday Witchcraft
What does it mean to live life as a magical act as a witch? Today, I'm sharing a more personal blog that offers some insight into my beliefs. There are a lot of ways to understand witchcraft. So take the parts that resonate for you and leave what doesn’t.
I believe that living a life as a witch is a magical act. So, what does that mean? Does it involve doing spells every second of every day? Are you constantly wandering around in a trance-like state, doing divination daily? Mostly not.
Some of these things may or may not be true for you for short periods of time. What it means to embrace life as a magical act means different things to different people. For me, it’s a mindset. It’s about believing in the possibility of blurring the lines between mundane and magical reality while maintaining a grounded sense of self and a connection to the earth and consensual reality.
Working with this concept is one of the intentions for my second-year magic class. And so I get to hear a lot of questions about this. And I wanted to share some of my thoughts with all of you.
Magic is Real
There are a lot of ways to be in relationship with and act from this view. In my personal practice, it’s a foundational piece of my spiritual beliefs. But that’s not true for everyone. Practice in a way that makes sense to you,
A large piece of my experience living this way is that magic is real. Holding the possibility that what shows up might be a sign, or a communication from the spirit world. And not immediately brushing off synchronicities as mere coincidences.
I experience my dreams as sometimes being about processing my day, and working with subconscious issues I am trying to resolve, while also holding onto the possibility that they are messages from the divine or the spirit world.
Living life as a magical act can be heavily influenced by animism. That the objects around you are in fact alive and can interact with you.
To me, it involves the concept that everything is fluid and constantly changing. That at each moment we could be at a crossroads with the power to make a choice. And that the choices we make affect not just this reality but also reverberate through all the realms.
Beginner and Devoted Witchcraft Paths
If you are a beginner witch this could show up as:
You starting to talk to and make offerings to the physical animals and plants you see as you go about your day
Believing that dreams have meaning beyond the psychological
Working on believing that you are a magical being with the power to create change in the world
If you are someone who has fully dedicated yourself to bringing witchcraft into your life’s path, this could look like getting advice from your dreams or through divination. You can let the Divine guide you on your path while bringing a realistic process of human reality-based editing to that practice. Not only is that a good balance to hold so you don’t fall into magical delusion, it’s also true that sometimes the spirit world doesn’t always understand the complexities of your human existence.
Creating a Daily Magical Practice
Finding simple easy daily practices can help provide a structure to maintain your sense of this world and your life as magical:
Lighting candles
Making offerings
Pulling cards
Magic, Justice, and Earth-Based Non-Duality
Right now, when so many injustices are taking place throughout the world, it can be challenging to hold onto the idea that we can live in balance and relationship with the spirit world.
I am not someone who has ever believed that Deity is omnipotent. I think we are the magic and we take actions magical and mundane to shift this world to be a more magical AND just place.
Living life as a magical act is a both and balancing act. Although every witchcraft tradition is different, my spiritual view leans a lot towards non-duality. I work a lot with the concept that the body, the earth, this existence is every bit as sacred as “The Otherworld”. That this place, this human realm is not just a place we pass through on our way to a “better place or afterlife”. This world and our existence are precious and deserve to be lived to the fullest.
May we all live in a world that values and honors each of us.
Colette
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