Bathroom magic is the easiest to do. Lying in a bathtub, place four teacandles in each of the four corners. Designate one corner as north, and light them clockwise. Bingo, instant magic circle. And the relaxation of the bath means that the spells and/or divination that you are attempting will occur much easier because you are in a more receptive state than normal. You can even do this at the end of your bathing, instead of at the beginning, and have the symbolic ‘finish’ of the spell being you getting out of the bathtub.

The same idea works with the bedroom. Light four candles, then lie down in bed to do your rituals. Magick real magick is really done with the mind; the rituals are just trappings used to focus it. So, if you simply ‘imagined’ your rituals in bed, not only would the power be more easily directed, but you could then expand them beyond what you normally do. Instead of ‘meditating’ in front of a single flame, you could ’see’ a flame as tall as a building or a mirror as big as a planet.

The point is to ‘ease’ the transition from normal to magickal. How you accomplish that, as opposed to how someone else accomplishes that, can make all the difference. Get past the ‘process’ and you will begin to see what real ‘magick’ is about.

Another book is Buckland’s ‘Year and a Day’. This book follows the journey of a year and a day, giving you one thing to concentrate on every day. It includes god and goddess aspects, herbalism, tarot, astrology, and correlations between the elements. This is also a must read, though some of it is for the VERY beginner.

Blessings and good luck!

Just don’t undo the knots!

as does candle magic and meditation. meditation is a hard thing to accomplish. but try not thinking of it in the eastern sense of removing all thought from your mind. but as focusing your mind on one thought. you will find that you accomplish much more with a mind that is cfocused on a songle powerful thought than with an empty mind.

crystal and stone magic work fine.

but for me the most powerful and useful spells are the prayers that i send to my gods.

to me prayer is a very big thing. and requires some degree of time. it is not uncommon for me to spend hours collecting my thoughts before a prayer and more time than that sending it.

There are 700 kinds of Magick and language in Papua New Guinea, alone.

I can break a bottle from a mile away. Is this Magick? It once could have been, but now it is science. I fill the bottle with water and put in it in a freezer and go have a couple beers.However, There is still the Magick of shrinking and expanding water–especially when you’re coming to the part where you find out water is not compressible.

When a young man of a Native American people fasts for days then receives a vision of a Totem animal. The science…fasting can bring hallucinations. The Magick is that through the years the Animal visualized will play a big part in the young man’s life.

There is Magick in rubbing a piece of onion paper then sotting it with a candle. The science–soot will stick to oil and persperation. The Magick is the images you find on the paper.

I can walk into the woods of Texas with a single stone in my pocket and nothing else and have a fire going in 15 minutes. Is that Magick-No-it is geology, but once it was known as Magick.

If you want the Truth…..Ask a Pagan.

Fungo!