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Can I activate a spell without actually casting it?

9/24/2014

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QUESTION - Hi! I'm not very well practised in the craft so I will just establish that before I lead into my 2 questions. Firstly I will start with a story. I was reading a spell book once and went onto the love spell (or rather attraction spell) section, this was also the first time I ever considered casting a spell like that. (Now as I said I'm not very well practised in magic so I wouldn't really know where my magical talent lies but I never thought it would be spells of that nature!). Anyway I read the instructions and read what the ingredients were and thought about the type of person I wanted to attract. A day or two past (at that point I wasn't even 100% sure I was going to go through with the spell), and I met someone who had all the traits I was thinking of when I was merely thinking about the spell and the person I wanted to meet; two of these traits being that I wanted them to be from Eastern Europe and the other being for them to live in the same country but a different city to me. Now I would have thought of this being a coincidence if it wasn't for those two very specific wishes being fulfilled so I guess my first question is... Do you think it is possible I made some magic happen just by considering using it and thinking about my specific desires? 

ANSWER  - I think this is certainly possible. I've had some results myself on several occasions that have come from planned rather than actualised spell work and it is a bit of in joke between witches that on occasion we have reaped the rewards already from the spell scheduled to perform next week! 

If you think about it, the act of working magic isn't that much different from focusing your thoughts. You are sending your desire into the world in the form of energy and spell work simply provides a structure for this to happen. But that isn't to say that such a structure is always necessary. Some spells are extremely simple - think candle magic where you are simply gathering and focusing your will - unconscious casting is just taking this a step further. I'd go so far as to say that there are many many people out there casting magic without even knowing it simply by holding a vision of the outcome they want in their mind and concentrating on it. A lot of what people actually put down to luck I see as being unconscious casting. (I'd actually go even further and invite you to consider the similarities with prayer and the many religions who consistently get similar results from praying. Not really much different to casting is it...)

So an unequivocal yes to this one. And I'd add that it is worth being aware of what you do focus your thoughts on. In a couple of cases I haven't had the heart to perform negative magic against certain individuals but I've been (enjoying) thinking about it enough to get the results anyway... 

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1 Comment
Jennifer
10/9/2014 11:42:29 pm

All thoughts are potential spells as the nature of all thought is pure energy. What activates them is emotion..how you feel when you think them. A mind body connection to the energies activates them, what stalls a spell is uncertainty or fear..

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