Introduction
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Many folks rush to magick thinking that spells can immediately fix all their problems. On the surface, that’s somewhat true. Spells can remedy problems in our lives and make them easier to manage. However, most spells are often focused on addressing situations in our lives, be it money or dealing with difficult people and circumstances. The most potent, most effective magick you can indeed cast is upon yourself to awaken yourself, heal, and grow in wisdom. When you awaken your psychic senses, you open yourself up to having a direct experience with divinity. That divinity may be in the form of other spirits and gods and goddesses. However, it’s also growing awareness of the divinity within all people and all things, and perhaps most importantly, within yourself. To do this, we must take our blinders off. Re-enchanting the world is about enchanting ourselves first to truly wake up so that we can respond to the world instead of reacting to it. Re-enchanting the world is about truly seeing, dreaming anew, and taking control of the narrative through magick paired with action. Magick has completely transformed me and my life in unrecognizable ways, and I’ve witnessed the same effect on many others as well. It has helped me find a more profound sense of myself, as well as a deeper sense of connection to the world around me. I have found myself more open to new and different ideas and ways of thinking. I am more confident, and I have found my voice, which has helped me be more assertive where I was once a pushover. It has opened me up to new and exciting opportunities that I would not have been able to get to without it. I have found I am more compassionate toward others, and I am more aware of my power. It has helped me overcome my fears and insecurities, and it has removed me from volatile relationships and situations. It has helped me to heal myself and others, internally and externally. It has also altered the course of situations in my life in a way that has bordered on miraculous. Some say magick has nothing to do with self-help, self-improvement, psychology, or self-transformation. I strongly disagree. Are these things the entirety of what magick is? No. But almost every magickal path I can think of focuses on improving and healing the individual to prepare them for greater and greater magickal works and experiences. In occultism, all of this is the Magnum Opus, the Great Work, which is the only true work worth doing. I wrote in Psychic Witch that “magick changes everything it touches.” A good
