#lazy magic

• Lighting a candle while we clean to help purify the space.

• Open a window or two when done to help air out the house and release the bad energy.

• Use scented oils or scented cleaning supplies based on our intentions.

Some examples - Lemon for protection and uplifting energy, Lavender for peace and relaxation, and Orange for joy, happiness, and luck.

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Sometimes, this is what my witchery looks like. A few rocks in a semicircle, sage, and a candle to give thanks to the ~universe~ for keeping my head above water. Its messy. But it's something to say thank you, and I think that's what's important.

Things are kinda tough right now. I have no money, I didnt get paid like I was supposed to last week, and my paychecks are skimpy as it is. I emptied my stegosaurus piggy bank and brought the change to my bank to deposit - it was $7.55, enough for me to get milk, bread and eggs. I wont starve, I have enough random things in my pantry that I can pull through the next two weeks, albeit rather uncomfortably.

What you see here is leftover lo mein from a family gathering at my moms house, who is recovering from eye surgery. I'm worried about her. She looks old now, haggard. Shes almost 70, and that reality is just starting to hit me. My father wont return my calls, which is unfortunate because I'm relying on him financially. I'm fortunate to have him, but he does know how to make things difficult. Hes recovering from beating cancer a few months ago. I'm grateful for that.

I have enough. My house is warm with a robust heater in this "polar vortex" that had frozen the northern states this week. I have warm clothes. My animals are fed (including the little stinker about to knock the specular hematite to the floor). I am doing ok in school. I have friends. I'm thankful for things working out. This little messy semicircle of rocks is representative of the people that have helped me, and the candle a uniting power of gratitude. And sage because, well, sage.

Things are ok. I will be ok. Even though this cat refuses to get off the table.

Things I’m probably always going to be too lazy to do:

-- Grow my own plants / pick my own herbs. -- Learn about any gems other than rose quartz and whatever other ones I already vaguely know about but am mostly just assuming things of. -- Dress any candle ever. -- Draw any star with more than 5 points (six if you're lucky and seven if you're very, very lucky and I have a refernce picture). -- Any tarot spread with more than 5 cards. -- Any form of charging that takes longer than 15 seconds, unless I can just leave it on a window sill, in which case it's gonna be there for days becuase oops I forgot about it. -- Any form of cleansing other that running item under the tap / blowing air over it / tipping salt on it and promissing to clean it up later but then just glaring at it and telling myself its not done yet. -- Magic baths. (You're lucky I even shower.) -- Use any item that I can't find with 2 or 3 minutes of searching all the obvious places. -- Bless the pots and pans and dishes. (It's a good day if they get washed at all.) -- Label anything. -- Participate in sabbats. -- Make offerings to whoever. -- Wear any magic jewlery / carry magic trinkets. (I got a lot but I'm only gonna wear my fav necklace and not even regularly - anything else is too heavy, too scratchy, too in the way, too--) -- Let candles burn down all the way. (Not even tea lights - how can they take so long, they're so small! What is this?) -- Dispose of things at a crossroads, in a river, in the ocean, in a forest, etc. (I'm either flushing it, throwing it in the trash, keeping it for re-use later, or if I really do want it off my property I'll dropkick it into the empty field across the road.) -- Learn every card in the tarot deck, or even just most of them. -- Envoke / invoke anything or anyone. -- Keep a dream diary. -- Remember that I have a banishing board and I should probably use it more often. -- Read any of the magic(k) books I keep buying for some damn reason. -- Pay attention to what phase the moon is in (unless I nead to know for an immediate reason). -- Try to explain (yet again) to people that men can also be witches. (In fact, I've pretty much given up on explaining any of this.) -- Daily meditation. -- Any form of grounding more complicated than literally lying on the ground and eating a piece of toast. -- Hexing or cursing. (You're not worth the energy. I could use this candle to give you nightmares, but I'd rather use it to manifest myself a sandwich.) -- Lay out a bowl a water, a bowl of salt, a feather and a special candle for every. damn. time. there's. a ritual. (We get it! Earth, Fire, Water, Air. Do I really need the feather? Was the power inside me all along??) -- Write in my grimoire every day. It happens when it happens and not before. -- Aquire any 'fancy' ingredients - like ink, resin, fancy gems and herbs, anything with 'dragon' in its name, etc. -- Use insence. (My holders are crap and my windows don't open, and I don't have time to explain to my mum that it's just insence again and no the house isn't on fire. Also my friends have allergies.) -- Design sigils that aren't ugly. -- Snuff candles instead of blowing them out. -- Clean wax off my candle holders. -- Change out of my PJs / put on a robe when it's too hot / get skyclad when it's too cold / colour-coordinate my outfit with my spell. -- Figure out which way is north. -- Do anything with my chakras. (They known their job better than I do so I'm not going to interfere.) -- Drink tea.

...and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting.

To do the things that I like doing / that I’m not to lazy to do, and occasionally do the complex things when I can. As an example I said I’m too lazy to do a tarot spread with more than 5 cards. That still leaves a lot of possibility - a lot can be done with 5 or less cards. I just accept that I’m not the kind of person who’s going to do 10, 20, 50 card spreads. But also there’s no point me doing a 20 card tarot spread if I can barely understand a 5 card spread anyway. I don’t do 20 card spreads because I don’t understand them, but I don’t understand them because I’m too lazy to learn right now. If or when I eventually want more than 5 cards then I’ll just to move the bar for laziness.

But as another example I said I’m not going to keep a dream journal. And I probably will never keep a dream journal. I just don’t see it as important for my growth. That doesn’t mean I can’t write down when I have a really spectacular dream if that should happen. I just acknowledge that I’m not the kind of person who writes down EVERY dream and studies and interprets them constantly. (Not that everyone with a dream journal does this either.)