Is magick a shortcut or a journey? It can be either, but we’ve found a way of mixing up your rituals that can get things to work in surprising ways.
Most people get into magick because there’s something desperate that needs fixing. Weird thing is, that first ritual might appear to fail, but you sense something, you know there’s something to this and so you keep going. And then later you find that first ‘failure’ actually worked; it just took longer than expected, or it wasn’t as good as you wanted, or maybe you just didn’t notice it at the time. Sometimes you find out you were lusting for result, and then you learn to get around that.
Reality shifts, and that is astounding. The results start coming to you, and then you see there’s more to life than just solving one problem.
When people first get hold of magick, there can be this rush of excitement. We often see this. You perform six rituals in two days and then on day three you wonder where your result is. Nothing happens in twenty-four hours so you feel conned and you hate magick forever. It’s not an exaggeration. Some people give up at this point, and that’s a real shame.
Easier Than Juggling
Magick is not as difficult as juggling, but it can require a certain knack, and it’s worth being cool about the rituals that don’t work. When a juggler drops a juggling ball, imagine if she gave up and walked away. Failed rituals are just one failure, not the end of magick.
If you see magick as a journey, a way of improving your life and finding out what you want and how to get it, then life becomes easier. For some it’s fast and for others it’s more gradual.
Magick works, most of the time. If it doesn’t there are often clear reasons, and all of that is explored in these pages. You can get better at it, and anybody who persists does get better.
Magick Gets Easier
The other side of this is that you can end up with so much magick, so many techniques, that you get magickal fatigue. The journey becomes tiresome because you don’t want to be doing rituals every day. That’s how I feel about people who use Law of Attraction visualization to find parking spaces. It’s just too much effort. Parking spaces already exist – all you have to do is drive around and find them. You don’t need any kind of visualization or magick. OK, I’m being a bit cynical, and I love working magick, but I want to be in charge. I don’t want to feel that I have to perform thirty-six rituals this month or else life will go to hell.
In the past few years we’ve published so much that we’ve heard people say, ‘Please, no more angel books.’ It’s weird for us, because we didn’t get it all at once. For us, finding magick, deciphering it, finding what worked, that was a long process. Decades! For you lot, it’s like a suitcase of knowledge is emptied out on your bed, and you’re supposed to deal with it. We know that it can be overwhelming. And that’s why people sometimes ask if there’s just one ritual that could solve everything.
The Ultimate Ritual
It’s tempting to ask for the One Ultimate Ritual that solves all problems, but it can’t really be done. I mean, in theory, you could create a really, really long ritual that calls on so many entities that your problem will be covered. But the easier solution is to take a few minutes, or even hours if you need to, to find the right magick for you and the problem. That gets it solved faster.
We positively encourage this sort of deep connection, where you become familiar with the various angels and rituals and what they can do – this means that when a complex problem arises, you know where to turn. Targeted and precise magick is way better than blunderbuss magick. Otherwise we’d write one ritual and go home, because that would mean magick was as simple as that. Magick is a journey that involves finding what works for you.
Combined Magick
But there is a way to bring an overall improvement to your life, that’s in line with your goals and dreams. Here’s one of the secrets that we’ve been hinting at for years, and that Gordon Winterfield recently made quite plain. There is a way of working magick that really opens up its potential, often producing unexpected and wide-ranging results. First of all, your requests should be genuine. That is, ask for what you really want, rather than something that just seems like it might be ok. Put some thought into it before you start. Then this is what you do:
Perform magick for results that are quite likely to happen, or just beyond ordinary possibility.
At the same time, perform magick for requests that are much less likely to happen.
And every now and then, put in a request that asks for something almost outrageous, something that seems quite impossible. (No, not a lottery win, but a genuine desire that seems quite far out of reach.)
If you do this, using any mix of magick, and if these three approaches are sincere, you create a force of change that can push reality a long way. And the beauty of this combined magick is that you might get many additional results that aren’t quite what you asked for, but that get you the feeling you were looking for.
We’ve often talked about not overdoing magick, not just throwing everything you can at a problem. That still holds true. Piling on magick to force a result does not help. But if you’re on the journey, if you’re looking for changes, then what I say above can be a good way to work. Gentle requests, speculative requests, and wild requests. Combined, sincerely, and with true patience, these can stir reality in the most exciting ways.
– Adam Blackthorne
Sigils of Power and Transformation gives you 111 sigils to work on health, luck, money and much more. There are no angels, demons or any spirits in this direct magick. It is proving to be our most well-loved book.
Hi Adam,
This isn’t a question, just a comment. Simply put, I just wanted to let you and the GOM know that I LOVE your Books and I admire your patience and “customer service” (although perhaps” dedication to the teaching, sharing, and distribution of magickal materials” “selfless service” or ” brotherly sacrifice” would be more appropriate terms) a GREAT DEAL!
Patience is a virtue I have been blessed with in abundance and yet even I recognize the amount of restraint that You and Damon have shown in your replies and posts.
Personally, even being as patient as I am, I still feel like it would get “frustrating” (to say the least) at times.
No wonder you have developed such skill in magick! With patience, persistence and self discipline like that, as long as the ambition is there You couldn’t help but climb to great heights of mastery sooner or later! 😀
Anyways, I’m rambling,I saw the new GOM update in my inbox and clicked on it with the intent of reading it like I always do (and then browsing the questions and answers at the end because they usually have something extra that one can glean from them,) and suddenly I just felt an overwhelming sense of Love, Admiration, Appreciation, and Heart-felt Gratitude for all the Effort that You and the GOM go to for all your students, readers, and followers!
I just wanted to let you know that it doesn’t go overlooked, at least not by all of us, and I wanted to let you know just in case you guys do take a vacation for a bit and I don’t have another chance to leave a post like this. I could write quite a bit more, but it would all be restating pretty much the same thing. Truly, The GOM is THE BEST. THANK YOU ADAM and And THANK YOU GOM!
Once again, THANK YOU! *Hugs!* May all The Divine and Benevolent Powers Bless you and everyone at the GOM with Every Good Grace and Success available and appropriate in All your Endeavors Always!!!
With Absolute Sincerity and Heart-Felt Appreciation and Gratitude,
Your Reader and Fellow Traveler/Seeker
-J.A.R
Thank you so very much. What we do is not going to suit everybody, and we hear that, but it’s good to know the work here is appreciated. Very good. A break may be required, for everybody’s benefit, here in my little cave, and out there in the wide world, but for every crazy question there’s a wonderful story of how magick has changed somebody’s life, and that makes it worthwhile. Cheers, AB.
Adam this is a question for you. I’ll ask here since it’s the only place I have to ask you. Lol. A lot of different stuff has been happening since working just 2 rituals from DoM. This morning I went to bed around 700 am central time. Had some wicked realistic dreams. Wicked as in cool and weird. But just remembered this.
Ok just had this pop back into my head. I had a dream I was listening to a conversation of you or Damon or both. The room had a reddish type lighting or glow. You were having conversations then one of you said you were born in 1965. And made a point that you weren’t really that old. Bits n pieces of other stuff that can’t recall very well. Just thought I’d throw that out there. Just really weird. The year was a very matter of fact point. If nothing oh Well! Lol. Take care. I do have some questions about response I got working with the last demon but gonna ponder it a bit more. Thank you for your time!!
Oh, this is getting a bit strange. People seem to have been picking up on our conversations. Yesterday I spoke with Zanna and Damon, (not in person, online), but while the conversation was happening somebody wrote to ask if Zanna was still writing her creativity book. That’s exactly what we were talking about when the message popped up. (And no, Zanna’s not writing anything else on magic now, for many reasons. I’ll probably finish the book for her, as it’s roughed out pretty well, but that’s going to be ages away.) Also, you seem to have picked up on a conversation I was having at around that time, but not with Damon – it was with my brother who was born in 1965. The other details are remarkably close too. How very strange.
Wow!! You said a blog on this was coming. It seems like only yesterday we were talking about this. Lol. It is starting to look like the way GoM has released the books such as the type of magick, complexity of rituals and explain the way certain things intertwin, that you have started us in Magick 101, moved to 201 and now on to Advanced classes slowly but methodically. Giving us the ability to form a very strong foundation for ourselves, *cough* if you actually READ the books *cough* and help us when we start to find ways to stretch it out. I can’t believe the patience you all have. From the first book, EVERY book has people asking questions that are answered in the book, sometimes multiple times. The only thing you could do more is give power point presentations. Some of the questions border on lazy and ungrateful. Especially when the question starts out…”I have the book but haven’t read it yet, can I……”. Please read the book at least 3 -5 times. If you have questions, write them down then read the book again. Then take a pen and paper if physically possible, NOT a computer, tablet, etc. and outline the book. Condense it like you can only have 15 pages to take with you, minus any sigil etc. You will retain and comprehend 80- 90% of the ENTIRE book. I promise!! I went to school to be an RN. At times we had tests that covered 10-15 chapters that we covered in less than 2 weeks. Writing it out keeps it locked in your brain. You may want but don’t need outlines for rituals. Outline your own. It forces you to dig into the info. When you do you truly “discover” so much more. It’s called reading between the lines. Sorry, I’ll get off my soapbox. It just gets frustrating when you see the same questions asked over and over, and you know the person didn’t even read half the book by the questions. The GoM are not asking use to prove our worthiness like it was done in the past. They did ALL the hard work and experienced the dead ends and failures over decades for us. They are handing this to us on a platinum platter. Please show respect and gratitude by reading the 100 pages or less of instructions/ info.
Thanks Tom. We love our readers, and we love the interactions overall, but it’s clear that a lot of people don’t read the books, but flip through, and it’s very obvious from the questions they ask. Although it sounds almost dumb to say, ‘Read the book carefully,’ we do have to say that. The books reveal more as you settle into them. And yes, it does get boring for me answering the same questions every day when people haven’t read the books. I took over from Damon all bright eyed and bushy tailed, but I know I now sound a bit jaded some of the time. But the interesting questions help us learn, so every now and then it’s worthwhile. Also, we like offering support. Here’s the weird thing; when the website and Facebook page were shut down, and there was no support available, during those two months we sold lots more books. It’s as though people went to the books to read more, because that was the only option. Interesting. By offering support (which feels friendly and fair) we sell fewer books. Weird. Well, now that there is so much information on here we are considering taking a whole year off – no books, no questions answered, but a very few blog posts to keep the information flowing. That way, people will read between the lines and will use the books, and will find that experience is the greatest teacher.
There have been a couple most replies to this which I won’t post – mostly because they weren’t posted as replies, but just as general comments, so they appear elsewhere on the page out of context, but also because we’re heading off topic. To be as clear as I can, I am here for the love of it, because I love helping readers. As said above, if I walk away, we make more money, weirdly enough – so I answer questions because I love magick and like to help. And I know many people struggle due to using a different language or a limited education, and I always, always have 100% patience and understanding with that. But look through any page of answers, and even the FAQs, and you’ll see that mostly the answers are along the lines of, ‘Please read Chapter 3,’, ‘Please read the rest of that paragraph,’, ‘Please see above.’ When that’s happening, it’s a concern because it shows an unwillingness to read the book. Main point, I’m here for the love of it, but I don’t love every part of it. I’ll close this thread here, because we really are going off topic, and this blog post was about a really big, useful, glowing and gorgeous process and I hope people can focus on that.