LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP

Like most mages with some experience I have often worked at the spur of the moment and had success.

However experience has taught me that unless there is an absolute emergency *it is always better to pause, do divination, and ask myself if what I am about to do is a good idea. Some of my greatest successes proved to be bitter failures.

Let me give an example. 

Ten years ago I was by the sea with the woman I loved. It was a sunny day, and I was burning with a teenager like passion. She had told me of some of her problems and was sad and depressed. Like an idiot I decided to do something for her .The only “tool” that I had with me was a bag with chocolate covered peanuts. Apart from that I could feel the power of the place.

I called on my mind whatever was there and asked that old power to make her happy, even if it meant being happy without me. I prayed fervently, threw the peanuts to the sea, and we left the place. **

Of course everybody already guessed what happened next. 

Obviously, I lost her.

When that happened my first impulse was to return to that place and undo what was done. I never did. I did not want to take the risk of something not good happening to her.

So my advice to everybody is to think before you act, and if you happen to screw up, think twice before undoing what you did, just to make sure that you will not screw up more.

* By absolute emergency I mean something like a servitor aimed at you to cause a massive heart attack, a demonic horde h(a)unting you, “something” hungry for your blood that is possessing a 7 foot tall 200 pounds knife wielding martial artist… you get the idea

**The only thing worse than an old man acting like a teenager is an old magician acting like a teenager.

Etiquette ?

Jason made an interesting post a few hours ago regarding proper etiquette in magic.

http://www.inominandum.com/blog/i-am-the-emily-post-of-the-occul/

I happen to agree with most of what he wrote, but I feel that it is incomplete.

Etiquette is not only the (proper) way to do things but can/should also be the way to improvise in a polite and satisfactory way when things aren’t working as they should.

Sometimes things/entities that come to you don’t have your experience and really don’t have a clue about the way to act.

That happened to me a few years ago. 

I could feel the hunger/desire/longing/shame of the spirit, but he didn’t touch the offerings. The image that come to my mind was one of a young man blushing with frustration. 

I asked him to wait for a while and prepared my own tea blend. I poured two cups, sat on the floor and said : “Please drink with me, tea tastes better when it is shared.” I picked up one of the cups and before starting to drink it I absorbed its energy in a very obvious manner. I could feel him watching, thinking, daring himself to do it. 

Still he didn't  touch it. 

I called a spirit that have been working with me for years and when she arrived I offered her a cup of tea. 

She took it . We chatted for a while.

He looked. Listened, .

Slowly, he started to enjoy the tea, it’s energy, aroma, warmth, sweetness. I’m not an empath but the joy and relief could be touched.

“Hello again. I’d like to talk to you for a while. I am Hanshishiro. What is your name ?“

He answered. 

The three of us talked for a while and he and I reached an agreement.

That entity is now the protector of the people that he was haunting.

Caveat Emptor / Caveat Venditor

 

Rigths of the clients.

The clients have the right to an honest treatment

If the facilitator (magician, witch sorcerer, médium, whatever) can’t or doesn’t want to perform the working that the client requests, he/she must inform the client and not accept money as if he/she is going to perform it.

The clients have the right to pay only for the performed working, plus expenses. If the facilitator has to buy some article or articles (candles, herbs, stones, etc) he/she must show the invoices of the article(s).

In most cases the facilitators buy the products in bulk, because they are cheaper. In that case they should present a copy of the invoice(s) and indicate the quantity used.

Duties of the clients

The clients must be honest with the facilitators and explain exactly (1) what they want.

They have the obligation of not harrassing a facilitator that refuses to do a working. No means NO.

Rights of the facilitators

The facilitators are entitled to a fair payment and to be reimbursed of costs incurred (2)

They have the right to say no and not accepting any cliente or working, without having to justify (3) and without being harrassed.

They have the rigth to protect themselves of people that harass or threaten them.

Duties of the facilitators

The facilitators must not use their position to obtain undue advantages or excessive favours that they  would not be granted if they weren’t in such a position (4)

It is their duty not to exploit their customers and charge only a fair price, plus expenses.

Have an obligation to inform the client  if they can’t or won’t perform a working and not charge anything or accept money for the working that is not done.

(1)

I know of a case where the clientaske d to the facilitator to make a gentleman accept to do a DNA Test to determine paternity, without recourse to the courts. The following week the gentleman underwent the test.

A few days later the client stormed that facilitators office, shouting like crazy, and complaining that the gentleman and his wife were still together.

If that was what she wanted, it should be what she asked.

(2)Most facilitators earn the same as cleaning ladies and to do exactly the same. Clean up the crap that others do.

However many still adopt the policy of having no price and accept whatever the clients want to give them.

That usually gives bad results. And old friend (and teacher) of mine agreed to do a treatment to a lady and when she asked for the price his answer was .” in the end you’ll give me what you want”

At the end of the treatment that required him do fast for 4 days and spend over 70,00 Euros in candles, the lady thanked him profusely and gave him 10,00 €. The old man had tears in his eyes when he showed me the note.

(3)The clients that insist too much may end up earing what they don’t want. Some of the things that I said to clients that I refused and that continued to insist were :
“I don’t work for you because you make me want to puke”

“Ask me that again and I promise you that besides breaking your jaw I’ll make such an hard working that even your soul will decimated”

(4)There are facilitators that take advantage of the need and desperation of the clients and that besides money manage to take possession of jewels and land (not to mention sexual favours)

Please, avoid those parasites.

We're under attack !!!

As usual the world is full of people that would be perfectly happy if magicians, witches  and sorcerers would simply crawl under a rock and die.

We’re used to it. We brush them aside like a bad dream and keep on with our lives.  And they get back again and again and again like a cockroach in zombie nightmare.

The last and more insidious attack was done by Mr. David Cameron, UK’s Prime Minister.

It is an internet filter, that prevents access to everything that is even remotely esoteric.

There are already reports of people that can’t even access their own webpages.

For thousands of small businesses (Reiki healers, acupuncture therapists, herbalists, or something that the filter considers esoteric) that depend on the internet for their livelihood it is a death blow.

So, I am asking whoever reads this to sign the petition against it.

And to those of you that are my pears in magic I invite you to join me and others and do some magic to make this perversion go away.

http://www.reachinglight.com/infographic-uk-filter-block-esoteric-content-worldwide-implications/