Flirt with the bouncer?
Or stride right in?
This post is about magic.
I’ll keep saying this – magic is a weak force with limited capabilities. It is persuading someone who was indecisive to go one way instead of another. Which is why it is commonly associated with love…
Nightclub queues, and the yeah/nah are a good example. An A-Grade Witch will just stride in, leveraging the should I / shouldn’t I aspect.
But flirting also works as magic… charming. That is ritual magic, a 20 minute flirt that gets a result. Walking straight in is chaos magic – dispensing with ritual and just doing. It is a higher magic but 100x harder to pull off. It is Harry Potter without a wand or spells and just doing.
Oddly, magic only works when you don’t try – which is why ritual is easiest, you get lost in it and forget to try. Without ritual it is super hard, but practise helps a lot.
Last year I worked magic, of a sort. I realised that making a shoe rack was the first real improvement to my apartment since I had moved in, and it perhaps indicated that I was ready to receive people into my world. So I placed importance on it.
(everything I do is magical, the magic was implied…)
Within weeks I found the love of my life, past friends turned up after decades apart, and I discovered long-lost family members. All from making a shoe rack and leveraging it with magic.
Present Day: I want to rent a house in Ballarat, to spend more time with my kids. The more I consider it, the more important it becomes. Yet the house that I get to rent hasn’t arrived.
Time for magic, something I have purposely used only a handful of times ever.
I won’t farewell anything that I will visit again. But all on the list above, I will do one last time, symbolically.
But here’s the trick – I have from now forgotten about magic. I am just a deluded fool saying goodbye without a destination in place. Tick off boxes I forgot why I made.