Fellow witches, especially those new to The Craft:

Please remember that *almost anything* you do can be magical.

I'm going to speak from my experience as a musician and composer here, as that is what I am most familiar with.

When I perform music, I enter a state of altered consciousness. It's very similar to the Buddhist "focused mind".

I cease to be "myself" and become solely a channel for the music I'm playing.

When composing, my musical thoughts come entirely from some nebulous "elsewhere". My mundane brain works out the mechanics, but the sparks come from somewhere outside of me.

(Con't...)

IME, it's about intent and focus.

If you decide something magical is going to happen, you channel forces outside of yourself to that end.

Music is a great example, because sometimes through melody and harmony alone, you can create a mental/emotional state in another.

That is magic!

But so many other media lend themselves to the same principle.

I occasionally make jewelry; in doing that, I manipulate metal through heat to create objects imbued with a certain fundamental power.

*Any* endeavour can be imbued with this psychic intent. Some more easily than others.

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