#workplace magic

Hello friends! I recognize this is a break from my current content series, however I have been working like a dog recently balancing university, work, social life, and medical problems so I felt inspired to talk a bit about the magic I do while working!!

To preface: I work 3 jobs total! one of them requires me to travel, One is a remote desk job, and the final one is a waitress! While I don't recommend this lifestyle, it is the one that I and many others have fallen into as life has unfolded. First of all, to all my hard working witches, you freaking matter dude. Your boss may not see how hard you work, but trust me you guys are hustlers! Its hard to balance a spiritual life with everything else going on but today lets tackle that!

How can I cultivate magic, even with work/school/etc?

First, we have to find where the magic is within us and this is easier said than done. In previous post I talk about magical frameworks and theories and this would be a good time to put this to use! I believe that magic is all around and within us, we can harness it at any time, enjoy it! Even simply reflecting on the magic in your heart can be enough to feel spiritually fufilled. We as humans like acknowledgement, and when we just simply reflect on the magic around us then we tend to feel more fufilled but that gets lost on us sometimes.

Got it! What ideas do you have for me?

Lets think about jobs for a second! We have all sorts of jobs out there, desk jobs, standing jobs, hard labor, etc. I believe there is magic for every profession, type, etc, but that is a looot of jobs. so lets narrow it down to the three types I have experience with!

Travel + Speaking

these jobs include teaching, public speaking, management, and more. These jobs often are a form of public service but require an element of writing, desk work, etc. It also is somewhat a form of authority in the aspects of people looking up to you for information, conflict resolution, and more. Usually this job has a commute, a level of strong responsibility, and traits like leadership and confidence are seen heavily.

Witchy ideas:

As you wake up, get ready, and commute, give yourself a pep talk as a form of glamour magic. Bonus points if you make it a chant

Enchant your toothpaste to help your words carry

Keep crystals like angelite, Rose Quarts, and Pyrite close

Create a weekly spread to give you insight into the week so you can prepare as needed

Wear bright colors for confidence

Wash your hair with the intention of unblocking flow of words, and making things run smoother

Public Service

Public service are jobs like waiter, bank clerk, and floor salesman. These jobs require you to be informational, polite, and taking on a lot of side work in the process. Your job is to get someone to purchase something and help facilitate that, resolve minor conflicts, and honestly team work with both your coworkers and customers.

Witchy Ideas:

When you can: Don't wear socks with your shoes. A lot of dress shoes and work shoes can have hygienic insoles, and this can help facilitate grounding!

Create an oil out of a carrier oil, basil, thyme, and rosemary and you get a general 'workplace luck' oil!

If you work for commissions: Eat a mint, tic-tac, or sugar packet before work to sweeten your words to customers and get more sales

If you don't work for commissions: Place Vaseline or lotion on your elbows and knees to facilitate swift work and smooth customer interactions

Carry obsidian, super seven, bismuth, or chrysocolla with you

Keep a 'talisman card' in your pocket, pick a tarot card that resonates with your goal for work. My go-to's are the queen of swords, king of cups, the emperor, and the magician

Remote Work

Remote jobs are any jobs that can be done at home, and after the pandemic these jobs became a staple so many companies kept the position. These jobs could be done day or night, internationally or locally, and so much more. The best traits to have would be organization, punctuality, and perseverance.

Witchy Ideas:

Maintain a home altar where you do work to induce specific energies

Before a virtual meeting discussing important personal goals, set up an online vision board of what you want

Have a prayer or chant ready during a project to help it move along

Create digital sigils to deflect crappy co-workers

Use Tigers eye, ulexite, and yellow calcite to help the work day

Leave a tarot card on your desk as a talisman.

For sure, here’s 2 sigils, plus I sigil I already have that should help

“Peaceful Atmosphere”

I wanna do my first big spell/ritual. Everyone at work has been feeling awful lately-- sickness rampant, stress high, injuries and car break-ins and bad luck all around for literally everyone this past month and I. Have had. Enough. I want to come in on a weekend soon and I FORCEBLY REMOVE every once of negativity from the entirety of my work space and enchanting the shit out of it so that everyone's lives stop falling apart already damnit. Random chances of fate don't have shit on me, I'm a witch, I'm making the rules now and rules say eveyone at work gets love and peace and success and a free hug

Ideas for this event include:

Screaming the bad away

Fabreeze everywhere

Sigils on ALL THE DOORS like I mean ALL OF THEM what's that u gonne go poop well now you get hit with a protective buff just wallkin in the stall door congrats

Maybe recruit the resident ghost into helping, he's friendly and everyone loves him and he's already considered good luck

More screaming

Story:

I work as a Nurse Practitioner and today one of my patient’s who had recently had another stroke was actively dying. She was having a worsening time breathing, she was anxious, she was pointing at the walls and saying she was seeing other people than the nurses and “demon things” in her room. She was in pain. I was mortified. We had nothing available to give her at that time for the pain or anxiety that I could legally prescribe in this state. The nurse aide’s came to me in a tizzy all upset and anxious because their patient was upset and anxious. They have good hearts. I went straight to the patient’s side while the nurse phoned the doctor and, as subtly as possible, set up a protection barrier bubble around the patient’s bed and funneled Reiki into the shield bubble and into the patient until her whole bed was filled with Reiki energy. Just as I got finished I was called to another patient’s room but 5 minutes later, before the order for pain meds had even been faxed by the physician, the nurse aides came to me saying “What what did you end up giving her? Because the patient is awake and calm and denying any pain at all. She is breathing so comfortably. Do we even need the doctors order?” To which I responded “HECK YES! We need the order.” She is still actively dying, as we all will one day, she is just doing so, now, with dignity and comfort instead of in anxiety and pain. I’d call this a win. We obtained the physicians orders and as soon as she got a dose of medication I took down my shield bubble. She was resting comfortably and awake when I left.

Thoughts: 

1. I couldn’t tell them that I wouldn’t be able to hold up that bubble forever because how could I, a western medical practitioner, explain that energy work had helped their patient without drawing a lot of questions from my bosses and possibly getting fired?

2. I’m so glad she wasn’t experiencing hallucinations (or seeing actually energy creatures, I’m not certain) or pain anymore. I am so relieved it worked. Thank you @crystalwitch-in-the-tardis for being my Reiki Master.

3. So I had a brief self-doubt period about what I did due to ethics. The patient was not oriented, didn’t even know who she was, so she was not able to give consent for energy work to be done on her. However, she had given the facility at which I work the consent to treat her physical, mental and spiritual well being. She was also not in the position to give consent for anything as it was an emergency and she was in active emotional and psychological distress. After conferring with my protection mentor, Guardian Stormcatcher, we determined that a practitioner of healing and protection should do what they need to do without hesitation in the case of an emergency.

What a day. This is the first time I’ve utilized magic on someone else in the workplace. I’m glad it helped.

Instead of stirring your coffee after you put in (liquid) cream or, just blow over it and it creates clouds of energy and intent as it swirls around. As you sip it further mixes into blended magic potion!

If you work at a job and have to commute to a dedicated workspace, you know that you end up spending a fair amount of time there. In my own situation, I’ve always been of the mind that a person should create their own magical space in their workplace, for several different reasons.

The first reason is that a workplace is a place where you live, so why not make that a bit more comfortable and fitting with your personality? What you see day in and day out may as well at least fit who you are and what is important to you. I do recommend not being too blatant about what you’re doing, but the little shrine here and there and the aesthetic setup can bring your magic into workplace.

When you work at a job, no matter what that job is, you work in a corporate environment and in this video I want to share how you can do some magic in such a space and why it might beneficial.

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