Ivy's Pentacles

MAGICKAL ARTISTRY

Here are some basic ways to use magick in somewhat everyday activities, and suggestions for how everyday activities can become magickal. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses in mundane life; it only stands to reason that certain magickal practices will work better for some people than others, so try some of these to find what works for you and amplifies your magick the best.

WORDS
- Write poetry, chants, or words of power for your spells.
- Say affirmations to bring needed results daily.
- Take care in your words, make sure they are what you mean.
- Notice negative and positive words and reshape them when necessary.
- Talk confidently about yourself to boost self-image.
- Focus your thoughts into words having magickal meanings.
- Re-activate past spells by chanting them again whenever you are reminded of them.
- Purposely control your handwriting to send messages.
- Interpret handwriting and symbols and signs to see hidden messages.
MUSIC
- Meditate to music.
- Infuse a sacred space with heavenly tones.
- Play a spirited or sacred piece during circle.
- Write your own music.
- Play an instrument.
- Participate in music you can control, and do so in response to group energy levels.
DANCE AND PANTOMIME
- Dance to express joy and emotions.
- Dance or walk in symbolic patterns.
- Act out scenes for ritual and spell purposes, to help visualize.
- Dance to help raise a cone of power.
- Dance or rock to induce trancelike states.
- Practice communicating ideas nonverbally to make them effective in circle.
- Learn hand signals or make up your own to enhance magick.
DOMESTIC ARTS
- Clean and cook with magickal correspondences in mind.
- Cook dishes appropriate for the time of the year and time of the month.
- Wash, fold, and mend clothes with protective and energizing motions.
- Decorate to promote spiritual healthiness.
- Rotate house decorations to make seasonal correspondences.
- Make your wardrobe match your magickal intentions.
- Arrange furniture for best energy flow, as in Feng Shui or other method.
HANDCRAFTS
- Create papercrafts to symbolize magickal goals, and put them in visible places.
- Take up a form of needlecraft and use it to make magickal designs and weave spells.
- Embroider or otherwise apply magickal patterns to clothes and household items.
- Fill homemade pillows with herbal concoctions for good dreams and sound sleep.
- Do incantations over homemade gifts in order to imbue the wearer with positivity.
PAINTING AND DRAWING
- Create drawings symbolic of spell goals.
- Use paint color to magickally enhance objects’ attributes.
- Paint or draw an inspiring divine image as a subject for meditation.
- Use free-form painting and drawing to draw out subconscious notions.
SCULPTING AND CARVING
- Use non-hardening clay to create statues for your goals.
- Carve objects with protective and powerful symbols.
- Make objects of power out of wood and decorate them.
- Use molds, wax, and herbs to create pleasantly shaped candles for spell use.
- Use appropriate woods for different magickal goals.
- Create wooden or clay amulets and charms for carrying.
- Carve a magickal signature stamp out of stone.
MAZES AND LABYRINTHS
- Create large mazes on paper to be walked in symbolism of magickal goals.
- Sketch on paper a maze of an appropriate shape and visualize as you solve it.
- Plan mazes in a trance state.
- Use the visual of a maze in meditation to help you reach a goal.
GLAMOURY
- Enhance your aura with appropriate shapes for different results.
- Emulating desired energy will attract people to whatever aspects you emphasize.
- Using glamoury can help you take on desired character attributes if necessary.
- Create an astral blue-screen effect with your aura and become effectively invisible.
- Assess aural colors of an environment and match yours to the background to hide.
- Use a pseudo-persona when there is a need to separate yourself from your actions.
- Use glamoury to emphasize the traits of yours that a mate finds desirable.
- Use glamoury to downplay the traits of yours that a mate finds undesirable.
SHAPE-SHIFTING
- Adopt the aura of an animal to gain perspectives and revelations.
- Take on the appearance of a friend to better understand their actions.
- “Become” an herb or flower in order to better understand its properties.
- “Become” a gemstone or rock to better understand its properties.

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