practicing Magic, wicca, or witchcraft or anyy other kinda of magic??

Question

Share with me what works the best for you? I have been practicing for about a year and I really have only accomplished candle magic. Meditating is really hard for me, Its hard for me to get my mind completely clear unless I am taking a hot bath or I am lying in bed.

So what works best for you? what do you prefer?

Thankyou for everyones response and When I choose best answer it will be for the most interesting...

Answer 1

I started out with psychic development books. These helped me to concentrate and meditate. I then became interested in Wicca and learned everything I could about it. While learning I found witchcraft. I started uses the herbs, stones, candles, and other natural things to do spells. I ended up not practicing the religion of Wicca and instead focused on just witchcraft. I studied folk magic for along time. I learned how to construct sachets, amulets, candles, poppets, use teas, tinctures, salves, oil, baths, and much much more. After 8 years of folk magic I am expanding my horizons and learning and working hoodoo magic. I find if easy to work and remember. I was told I was a natural with it. So long story short I prefer hoodoo and other types of folk magic.

Answer 2

Actually, who says you can't practice magic in the bathtub or lying in bed. Don't get hung up on the 'trappings' so much that you overlook the essence of what works.

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.

Answer 3

Magick is the doing not the understanding. When there is understanding most Magick becomes at least partly science.

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.

Answer 4

You ought to try reposting this under the mythology board... you might get better responses. Whether a Wiccan practices magick or not comes and goes, depending on who you're talking to. Many Wiccans I've met feel the need to practice weekly, while others are lucky if they even think about magick. it just really depends. As to what draws a Wiccan to work with magick, it's probably more because it's there. There isn't anything that says you must, or says you shouldn't, bit since magick is pretty standard in the lesson plan of learning Wicca, most people learn it, and make use of it because it's there. That's the closest I can get to an answer for you. For myself, yeah, I can feel when magick works. But then again, I also have a lot of patience to wait for it to work, which is something many peolpe seem to lack (not specifically Wiccans). For myself, I really don't do a lot of magick. I don't see the point. I realize that the gods will take care of me, and if I just pay attn. to the world around me, the right path will reveal itself- no magick needed :) But then again, I'm not Wiccan.

Answer 5

I think you've struck on an important and frustrating truth. You ask "what works best for you". I'm sure you'll get some good ideas from people here, just remember that in the end you're going to have to find what works best for *you*. Being on a magical path often involves striking the path out for yourself.

I too, used to have a problem with meditation. The more I struggled to "do" it, the more problems I would have. In the end I had to just give up for a little while. Later I would find that I was outdoors in the woods, or in the water and realize that I was meditating without realizing it. Once you know the feeling a few times it's easier to find that place within yourself. My recommendation would be to find and enjoy your solitary places and don't worry too much if you fit a textbook definition of 'meditation'.

Blessings,
Zimmi

Answer 6

I've been practicing for quite a while and I have been reading the most INTERESTING book. It's called Instant Magick and it is a must read!
There are so many different concepts in here for everything from working with energy to meditation, and even a bit about contacting the spirit realms.

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!

Answer 7

Candle magic also works well for me. I don't have a hard time with mind clearing. I meditiated alot even before I became Wiccan. I am studying working with Runes and Witches stones for magic. I find using an object helps me focus and maintain focus for a long time if I need to. I also do tarot card reading before and after I do any works of magic. I want to see what energies are around when I am doing magic. Sometimes the card will let me know that it isn't such a good time to be doing anything magical. BLessed Be.

Answer 8

I prefer to write my own spells. I think it gives them more power when they come from your heart and not a book. Don't get me worng, I have found some useful spells in books but none of them work as well as a homemade spell. I like to look up differnt herbs, incence, and so on to add to my spells. It is hard for me to meditate too but I try my best. I have found the easiest way is to go somewhere that you can be completely alone, for me it is the outdoors, and just stare at nature and let my mind wonder before I know it I have the anwsers I am looking for and don't even realize that I have completely tuned out the world around me.

Answer 9

geomancy works well for me (earth divination)

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.

Answer 10

Well i am praticing too and well i am not yet there for spells and potions but to control my powers that i need to control. If i can concetrate i can make anything go like sometimes the time to go bye or just to listen into a conversation, but it wasnt itentionally though, and conjure up storms with the moods i have, when that happens people die in the process, still controling. ^_^