Cyber Cauldron

Each year at this time we look at our bank statements and our lives and start to make plans to improve them. The main problem is we try to do so much so quickly that we set ourselves up for failure.

How many of us have made New Years resolutions we such big hopes of success, giving up smoking, going to the gym, losing weight etc. we make these resolutions in the hope that our lives will improve. We tend to focus on our failings or our negative aspects rather than our successes or our positive aspects.

When we focus on our negatives we look in to a deep dark pit “the abyss” which has a way of making us focus on our inner demons but as Friedrich Neitzsche said “Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

The problem with trying to change our negative aspects is that our focus is on the surface issues rather than the deeper root cause of the problems. Each of our bad habits has a deeper cause, which can take years of therapy to resolve. The issue is when we attempt to fix our flaws we tend to focus on the flaw not the cause.

This happen not just in our daily lives but also in our magickal working when someone is sick we try to cure the illness or bring relief often forgetting that the illness is only a symptom of a deeper issue.

Our flaws are symptoms of deeper issues, and only by dealing with the root issues can we truly change the surface flaws successfully. By focusing on the symptom (smoking, lack of exercise, over eating etc.) we don’t deal with the root cause, which causes us to fail in the end.

Our flaws are like weeds in the gardens of our lives unless you kill the root then the weeds will grow back stronger and stronger. So when we are truly ready to tackle our flaws they are much harder to destroy.

For those that have chosen to life a magical life whether that Wiccan, Pagan, Witch or any other path we have chosen to live a life that is always growing developing and changing outwardly and inwardly until we have learnt to understand ourselves and the world around us.

We always have the option to cast a spell to help us but that is cheating true change comes from within and not from without. The use of magicks can be just as addictive as any drug.

Magick is a gift but we can become very reliant on it causing us to –

1 forgetting to deal with the root cause of problems and only dealing with the symptoms

2 believe that we are powerful enough to change the natural order of the world to our will

3 and worst of all we know what is best.

Now as we stand on the edge of 2010 and 2011 preparing to make our resolutions take some time to think about what you would like to change about yourself and follow this short ritual

Set up altar
1 candle colour to suit goal and 1 brown one
Needle or scribe to write on candle

Open the circle as normal

Scribe on to coloured candle what you want to change and light and say

I want change
I desire Change
Help me find the way to succeed in making a lasting change.

Now quietly think about the thing you wanted to change when you first started doing or not doing it. What where the reasons you started.

Now scribe all the reasons why you do or not do the thing you want to change on the brown candle. Place the candle in front of you and close your eyes.

Use your normal process for visualisation and see your self, standing in a pretty garden look at all the flowers and plants and see the beauty.

Walk around and look closely at the flowers and plants and the lawn and you will see that it not as perfect as it first seemed the small weeds and moss in the grass, the weeds tucked in between the flowers and bushes. Keep walking around until you find a weed that symbolises the thing you want to change. You will know which one kneel down in front of the weed and start to dig it out with your hands.

Insure that you get every root and see the words you have wrote on the candle on the roots place the roots and soil in a pile before you. Shape into a candle shape focus on candle shape and make it real and pick it up (pick up real candle) and hold it in your hands and say.

The prescription drugs online without a prescription roots of my flaw, is now in my hands and I chose to remove this from my life.

Slowly come out of you visualization still holding the candle and place candle on the altar and light saying-

I have the root cause I know why I (do / don’t)_________ now I choose to change the root cause not the symptom (light the candle) the root will now burn away and as it does the symptom will fade and I will be free of this problem.

End ritual as normal and leave both candles to burn always

NB only by thinking of the cause of your failing can you truly face them and defeat them

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