Have you read Susanna Clarke's novels or short stories, where seductive magicians with titles like Pratchett's university magicians may know the theory perfectly, but in the practice life they are often caught off guard and fail to notice the obvious? We can realistically meet people like this within magic too. My aim with my posts is to get people to make magic a practical matter for them. Of course, to the extent that it will let them go on their own.
To work magically is to see reality differently, and according to the ability to see it this way, the ability to shape it grows at the same time. The old esoteric truth says that this vision must remain hidden from the outside world, and I add, especially when it comes to fellow magicians. There is no greater skeptic than the one who performs magic. Many colleagues have a clear set of how magic is supposed to work. What magic doesn't do and what magic definitely can't solve. Their conception of magic is often altruistic from my point of view because they enjoy magic for its own sake and have little ambition to really solve anything serious through magic because they decide it can't be done. Magic is a lady, but it doesn't convince anyone.
We all have the right to see things a certain way, and it is up to us how much we consider ourselves masters of the world if we refuse to admit that someone else works differently. I don't mind that colleagues operate differently, maybe even more safely, so that it doesn't happen too much again, and if it does, take it slow. Magic is meant to go at the pace of one's temperament and at the rate one chooses. There is no need to get caught up in it, to get sucked in and suddenly see everything around you differently, to change reality. Change even your desires... There is also the possibility to work magically, but otherwise not to change at all.
As soon as we openly make our magical intent known, a swarm of doubters will immediately come out. I understand the non-Warriors, they have read nothing of the sort and can't even imagine it. With fellow magicians, it's all about what they can realistically arrange for themselves. We have to be able to accept that many believe our intent is not possible. The problem arises when we have a person in the position of a questioner who would even want to help. While on the one hand, they expect us to make a miracle happen, on the other hand, they will question any idea we have. At least you can empathize with the fact that even entities don't have it easy with us. In particular, before we understand, we perform something similar to them, which is the reason for our failure.
Personally, as soon as someone starts asking questions, I answer and I see objections to it, it is very clear to me that I cannot help such a person. This kind of overcharging for power is indeed effective, but for the amount of energy it costs, the result is only momentary, nothing substantial, not worth it. The basis of a working magic operation, every spice queen once knew, is trust. Without it, even the best thought construct falls apart.
Trust is a matter of energetic alignment. Either it is or it isn't. Contrary to popular belief, I hold the view that trust cannot be earned, it cannot be awarded as a merit award. I know very well today that any action without it is only a waste of time. We may experience I don't know what disappointments, but even that does not prevent trust once we find what fits. We just need to be receptive.
If we work magic, it is not how well we can get recognition that matters, but how well we can actually fulfill our own desires.
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