It’s important to understand that magick is not a box of guaranteed instant miracles. But it can be full of wonder, and sometimes the results you get are truly miraculous. In the last blog I showed that working with ordinary results is one of the best ways to get what you want. But there is a way to attract more miraculous results, and I’ll set out the exact steps you need.
The wonders are not rare. When we ran the success stories page, the stories came in fast, and we stopped updating it because logging them all meant there was too much for anyone to ever read. But I do love hearing about your success. Sometimes there are results so precise and so wildly improbable that the reader half apologises for telling me, as though worried I won’t believe them. I always believe them because I know this is the true potential of magick.
I’ve been doing this long enough that magick can become quite routine. You perform a ritual, you trust it and allow room for the result, and the result arrives. But that’s still amazing, and no matter how routine it becomes, I know that even small results are impressive. When results come, I am unsurprised and quietly amazed at the same time.
That sense of wonder is worth protecting because it helps make room for greater wonders. The first time you saw magick work, when the coincidences lined up and the thing you wanted simply appeared, you felt the floor of the world shift half an inch under your feet. Then life goes on, and magick becomes one more tool in the drawer. But you can’t let it become dull because wonder isn’t a beginner’s mistake you grow out of. Wonder is awe in the face of something real, and magick has more than earned it.
So what makes me really sit up and take notice? I love it when a result takes you a long way from where you’re standing today. The job that doesn’t exist somehow falls in your lap. Or the reconciliation everyone swore would never come happens easily. One of the best is when you get sudden money that makes almost no sense. Whether these results happen to you, the readers who tell me about magickal results, or whether they happen to me, I love these stories. I continue to be astounded even though it all fits with what I know.
I have a vague memory of something Richard Bach once said about flying, when he noticed that on the drive home from the airfield you look at everyone else in their cars, having their ordinary lives, and you know that something special has happened to you. This feeling never leaves. And what I love most is that it’s the same with magick. When it works, I always know there’s something special going on.
Flying is an interesting subject for me because, at first, it seemed impossible given my background and early poverty. Over time it was obvious that flying for me was inevitable. It’s easy to say that from where I stand now, but there’s some significance to this truth. Uncovering what’s truly inevitable for you is one of the most important quests in magick. The more you understand what truly lights you up, what really makes you feel like you’re working with reality at the highest level, the better. That’s what you should seek. And it doesn’t have to be an adventure sport. You might find the same peace and wonder in crochet, and that would be fine. When you find where you’re most at ease, you need very little magick, and the magick you do use will exceed your expectations and needs.
You don’t have to take my word for all this. What follows came to me from Patreon members, with details softened to protect their privacy. What these stories show is that when magick reaches into a life that’s ready to change, the change can seem miraculous.
A woman who’d fallen behind on very nearly everything used the Magickal Cashbook, expecting what she called ‘a modest top-up’.
‘I asked for enough to stop the phone calls. I was picturing a few hundred. On the ninth day a letter turned up about an old pension of my late father’s that I never knew existed. They’d been holding what was owed to his estate for years, and it was mine. Just over eleven thousand pounds. I sat down on the kitchen floor and cried.’
She aimed low and sensible, and the outrageous found her anyway. What I love about this story is that it sounds just like those fake stories I’d read in the Finbarr pamphlets back in the 80s. It sounds so silly and over the top, but I expect that you can also sense the truth here. The Cashbook, most of the time, works in small ways, but every now and then it can tip into wonder.
A reader who had driven the same road home for six years, and had been working the Sword Banishing through a rough patch, shows the importance of protection magick.
‘That night I felt I had to take the long way home. No reason at all. I just couldn’t make myself turn down my usual street. The next morning I heard a truck had plowed through the intersection I always cross, right around my usual time, straight through the spot where I’d have been sitting at the light. I don’t call anything a coincidence anymore.’
If you’ve used protection magick for long, and if you’ve paid attention, I imagine you may have similar stories. I have been saved from incident and accident so many times, I feel like I’ve been bumbling through life on the edge of clumsy death, yet often saved by magick. And to be clear, these were not during high-risk activities like rock climbing or flying (though there are plenty of stories there too), but in the everyday crossing of roads and driving through the city. Being saved in the moment, no matter how ordinary the way, is always a wonder. And as many readers attest, in these moments there is often a presence, not just an intuition, but a definite, real and brief presence that lets you know you were protected.
A woman who hadn’t spoken to her sister in eleven years said this:
‘We hadn’t said a word since our mother’s funeral. I didn’t even want her back, exactly. I just wanted to stop carrying it. Three weeks later she rang me out of nowhere. She’d felt the same pull, in the same week. We talked for four hours. I have my sister back and I still can’t quite believe it.’
Eleven years of silence, undone in a single phone call. And all that from a basic ritual that took minutes.
Just occasionally, magick drops the disguise altogether. One reader had a decision bearing down on her, whether to uproot her whole life for a job that looked flawless on paper. She used the evocation in Archangels of Magick and got rather more than she’d bargained for. The room changed around her. The air thickened, and she had the unmistakable sense of being quietly and patiently attended to. Into that stillness came a single, certain knowing. Not words. A calm fact arriving whole. Not this one. Not yet. She turned the job down, to the open bewilderment of everyone who loved her. Six weeks later the company folded, and the team she would have joined were let go overnight. She still can’t tell me how she knew to trust the sensation but will be forever grateful that she did.
So how do you invite this into your own life? There’s a method we’ve taught for years, and it’s built for exactly this.
When you work on the things that matter, don’t pour everything into one desperate request. Spread it across three. Perform magick for a result that seems quite likely, or only just beyond ordinary possibility. Around the same time, perform magick for something much less likely. And also put in a request that borders on the outrageous. Not a fantasy. A sincere desire that feels miles beyond you, but still vaguely plausible. Adam Blackthorne put it this way: ‘Gentle requests, speculative requests, and wild requests. Combined sincerely, and with true patience, these can stir reality in the most exciting ways.’
The reason this works is partly what it does to the pressure. Magick never fails because you got a word wrong. It fails because of that tight grip, the desperate need for it to work, which is really only your doubt wearing a disguise. When you work in these three ways, magick feels playful and curious, serious and wild, while also feeling possible and expected.
Often, the outrageous request comes home first, before the sensible one has so much as stirred. But it can happen in any combination, rarely as planned. One reader told me this:
‘The likely one was clearing a debt, and that sorted itself first. The middle one was a pay rise, and that never came at all. But the outrageous one, the one I felt a bit daft even writing down, was getting headhunted by a company I’d admired for years and assumed was completely out of my league. A director there messaged me about something I’d posted online months before. I start in a fortnight, on nearly double the money. I aimed at the moon for a laugh and I hit it.’
Two out of three, and the one that landed hardest was the one he was embarrassed to want. That’s the method doing precisely what it was built to do.
How does this work in practice? Do you do all three rituals on the same day, using the same method? It’s more relaxed than that. Use whatever methods you want, and do the magick more or less around the same time, spread over a few days if you like. No more method than that is required.
The wonders are real. And there’s no reason at all that the next fabulous story shouldn’t come from you.
Damon Brand
