[ SECRET POST #2260 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2260 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For Wiccans, its generally a very ritualized form of prayer, like everyone else said.

Other faiths and paths have their own forms of "magic", too, which can take the form of various kinds of divination (tarot, astrology, scrying, runegaldr, casting stones, etc.), meditation and trance work (seidr, "shamanism", the use of flying ointments, etc.), kitchen and hedge witchery, alchemy, kabbalah, creating magical talismans, and all sorts of other things that are often very tradition-specific.

Most of the time, spells are as much about getting yourself in the right frame of mind for something as they are about changing the rest of the universe. For example, if I make a talisman of emotional protection, I'm wearing it as a reminder to myself to keep my guard up and not let things get to me, more than I'm assuming the universe is going to heed my painted rock on a string and not send any assholes my way. I don't personally know any serious practitioners who don't think their work is 99% placebo effect and subjective validation. They operate under the knowledge that the placebo effect can be very powerful, and that things like tarot readings can help people make sense of messy situations.

[(Anonymous)]

Reading the tarot is a great meditative tool that allows you to sort of set everything aside and see your situation more objectively. Just going, "why do I react this way to that card?" is a great way to work through issues.

I think that force of will and just the energy we put into belief can influence the universe, but yeah, it's 99% placebo and another .9% coincidence.