spirits, Magic
Taylor Ellwood
The relationship between sacred kingship and ...

One of the books I’m reading lately is King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore and Doug Gillette. It’s a fascinating book that explores the archetypes of the mature and sacred masculine. This is currently part of the spiritual work that I’m engaged in as I explore my own relationship with masculinity and heal the ancestoral and contemporary wounds that I’m becoming aware of as it relates to how masculinity is treated and perceived in modern times.

One of the aspects I’m exploring in particular is related to sacred kingship and the land. I am in the process of exploring the new city and surrounding areas that I live in. While I’ve lived here for a year, I didn’t have much opportunity until recently to really begin exploring the area and developing a relationship with the land. I find it fitting and useful that part of the process has also involved cultivating a relationship with the land, particularly on the basis of the relationship has with their home and how that relationship plays out in sacromagical work one does in connecting with the land.

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How to start over with your magical practice

In last week’s blog post I shared the importance of why you are your own authority and I talked a bit about a moment when I had to start over with my spiritual path because I had gone down a rabbit hole of sorts. In this post, I want to share what that process looked like and how starting over with my spiritual practice ended up being one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.

Starting over with any discipline can be intimidating, because in one sense you really can’t start over. You have all the knowledge and experiences that brought you to the point that you’re at. You can’t erase it or wish it away. It’s part of you and so that will inform everything you do.

So how do you really start over with a spiritual practice?

What should a daily practice of magic look like?

The other day I was asked what a daily practice of magic ought to look like, for someone who’s starting to practice magic. The answer I give is going to be general for a specific reason: I can give you some suggestions on what a practice ought to look like, but the specific practices you decide to do are your own, and should be, because what works for me may not work for you, and vice versa. I throw that in there, because as always, YOU are the authority of your life and so you should be the one to decide what you’ll do or not do.

With that said, I do have some recommendations on daily magical practice that can greatly benefit you and is really applicable across the board to anyone who is new or who has been practicing magic for a while. And if you don’t already do a daily practice, I highly recommend it because by making it a regular part of your life, you really get the benefits that are otherwise missed out on.

So what are my daily magic recommendations?

Why I don't close my rituals anymore

The other day in the Magical Experiments Facebook group I was asked if I had a process for closing out of a ritual that I had shared in a book. I explained that I didn’t actually have a process for closing out of a ritual and that I don’t do closes with my rituals anymore. In fact, I haven’t closed out of a magical working for a long time now. I thought I would share why here.

Conventional wisdom in the occult would argue that it is essential to close out of a magical ritual so that you can banish any left over/unwanted influences from the working and so that you release the magical working to do its thing, while you go on with your life. Its argued that if you don’t do a close out of the ritual, you could be endangering yourself with the spirits you worth with or that the magical working won’t actually be executed. These are the reasons I’ve seen shared for why you want to close a ritual.

What do you need to design a magical working?

One of the questions I get asked is what does a person need, in order to be able to design their own magical working. It’s a good question to ask, because designing a magical working does have some requirements, which can make a difference in developing an effective magical working or system of magic that gets results. However the usual suspects of magical tools, spells, etc., that people think they need in order to design a magical working or a system aren’t necessarily what you need.