Magick Made Easy: Charms, Spells, Potions and Power

402 Pages·1999·1.21 MB·English

by  Patricia Telesco

P A T R I C I A T E L E S C O
M A G I C K
M A D E E A S Y

Charms, Spells, Potions, and Power
To anyone, anywhere, who has ever wanted
a little more magick in his or her life, and to all
the people who have made my life so magickal!
and
To WADL. This organization provides support,
education, and other ongoing efforts to protect everyone’s
right to religious freedom. Visit their website at
http://members.tripod.com/~Elderpaths/WADLhome.html.
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE
OFF TO “OZ”
CHAPTER 1: Common Questions About Magick
What Is Magick? Can Anyone Work Magick? Is Magick Harmful?
What Are the Principles of Folk Magick? Does Folk Magick Have a
Religious Element? Does Folk Magick Have a Psychic Element? Say
What? Defining Our Terms Can I Create My Own Spells and Other
Magickal Methods? How Important Is Timing Really? What Should
I Expect from Magick? Are There Any Other Rules I Should Follow?
CHAPTER 2. Getting Started
Helpful Tactics Ambiance Breath Meditation 101
Projection/Direction Visualization Sacred Space Spellcraft
Secrets Successful Spell Constructs Details Count Tools of the
Trade Choosing Your Components and Tools By Earth, Air, Fire,
and Water Extra Dimensions
CHAPTER 3: Folk Magick Fundamentals
It’s a Kind of Magick Candle Magick Color Magick Green Magick
Food and Beverage Magick Knot Magick Moon Magick
Number Magick Poppet Magick Potion Magick Stone Magick
Wish Magick Word Magick Gauging Magickal Results Creating a
Personal Spellbook
PART TWO
THE COMPONENTS
Introduction
CHAPTER 4: Traditional Components
CHAPTER 5: Modern Components
APPENDIX OF THEMES AND CORRESPONDENCES
GLOSSARY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
FINAL WORDS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Praise for Magick Made Easy…
Also by Patricia Telesco
Copyright
About the Publisher
INTRODUCTION
The real magic is enthusiasm.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
Magick: the word conjures images of an enchanted time filled with court
mages and mythical creatures. Although it seems that our
technologically driven society has all but lost sight of magick’s
bewitching spark, I am happy to tell you that the god/dess is still alive
and magick is, indeed, afoot! All around the world right now people just
like you are casting spells, making amulets, meditating, and performing
rituals to improve finances, ease troubled relationships, spice up their
love lives, and tone down negativity.
Everyday folks, in all walks of life, have rediscovered magickal ideals
and practices as a way of coping with chaos and satisfying their spirits,
and you can too. Now, before the idea of working magick puts you off,
relax. Think of spells, charms, and rituals as similar to detailed prayers
to which you add some old-fashioned willpower, symbolic components,
and actions to emphasize your desire. By so doing, you put your needs
and goals before the Sacred Powers, then support that “prayer” with
magickal energy and concrete efforts. This combination encourages
active participation in making your present and future happier and more
fulfilling.
Sound complicated? I promise that by the time you’re finished reading
this book, it won’t seem that way at all. Magick is quite natural, and it’s
something we all have available to us. If you’ve recently discovered an
interest in magick, Wicca, and other emerging metaphysical lifestyles,
Magick Made Easy can answer a lot of those nagging questions that come
up in the light of a whole new way of thinking.
In fact, the main goal of Magick Made Easy, and particularly Part One,
is to do exactly what the title says—to make magick easy for you! How?
By familiarizing you with the basic art of folk magick—its methods and
tools—and then helping you feel more at ease with those methods and
tools. And why folk magick? Because, by its nature, folk magick is
pragmatic, simple, straightforward, and unassuming and therefore well
suited to our busy lives.
See, our ancestors didn’t have a lot of time for complex or meaningless
procedures. Instead, they brought spirituality together with daily living,
using creativity and inspiration to make magick out of everyday
circumstances and objects. To me, this seems like the perfect
combination for modern magick too.
Part Two is a list of potential components you can use in developing
your own spells, meditations, rituals, pathworking exercises, charms,
and visualizations. This list includes no Shakespearean elements—no
tongue of dog, no eye of newt, and no “toil and trouble.” Instead, Magick
Made Easy lives up to its claim by listing components found readily in
and around the sacred space of home, including your coffeepot, various
edibles, the telephone, pantry spices, your computer, and even the toilet!
These items become the ingredients for your magickal recipes. Better
still, they are already saturated with personal energy and
meaningfulness, so they work better for any type of magick you hope to
create.
In a society in which everyone juggles several responsibilities at once,
this approach holds tremendous merit. It advocates looking at our
personal environment differently, seeing the magickal potential and
possibilities in everything—most important, seeing this potential in
yourself. See, even without the bells and whistles—without the trappings
or any components whatsoever—you are the magick. Spiritual energy
lies inside each one of us just waiting to be expressed. This book will
help you find the right mediums and methods through which to express
your own form of magick.
Think of Magick Made Easy as a course in mystical cookery. In the
pages of this book you can examine various ways of baking up magickal
energy just right, considering the implements and components you have
available, your tastes, and the goal at hand. By measuring this
information against your personal vision, then mixing and mingling
these things in personally meaningful ways, the outcome is bound to be
more satisfying, more transformational, more life-affirming, and more
powerful. So make life and magick a little easier, beginning right here
and now. Put on those ruby slippers and turn the page!
PART ONE
OFF TO “OZ”
CHAPTER I
Common Questions About Magick
The visible is, for us,
the proportional measure of the invisible.
OLD MAGICKAL CREED
Although science seeks to unravel the mysteries of the universe, magick
practitioners revel in them. We perceive these gaps in concrete data as
the perfect opening through which spiritual truths can sneak and touch
our reality. The world of the modern metaphysician is, after all, like Oz
to our mundane Kansas—a place filled to overflowing with wonders,
potential, and possibilities. One of them is the very viable possibility that
humans are much more than simple flesh and blood, that we are,
instead, beings of soul, and power, and magick!
Some people think such talk is nothing more than superstitious prattle.
Others regard the human soul and magick as part of the supernatural
world, and as such seemingly separate, inaccessible, and
incomprehensible to most humans. I, and thousands of other people in
the world today disagree with both of these outlooks wholeheartedly.
We see both the soul and its inherent magick as a birthright and as an
important part of humankind’s makeup. Magick Made Easy builds on this
premise, recognizing that this birthright affects different people in very
different ways. Exactly how it transforms each individual’s present into a
more fulfilling and empowering future depends a lot on personal vision
and how he or she perceives this enigmatic thing called “magick.”
For those of you who have already been exposed to the world of
magick, some of the information in this chapter may be a review. I
suggest you scan it anyway. I think you’ll find some fresh perspectives in
here that will augment or facilitate your continuing studies.