Why Your Spells Are Not Working

Perhaps this sounds familiar to you: "Ohmigod! There is this awesome guy who goes to my school and he is sooo f-y-n-e! Can you give me a spell to make him like me?" I am bombarded every day with letters from people, usually teenagers who have the pre-conceived notion that magick is just like what you see on television and in the moves. Young people write with visions of Harry Potter and The Craft. Magick to them is glamorous and exciting and seems the perfect escape from real life. Most imagine themselves performing spells, shooting fire from their fingertips, floating through the air, and extinguishing candles with a thought. Who hasn't come into witchcraft thinking to impress their friends or scare people they don't like or even getting rich and winning the lover of their dreams?

Witchcraft does not work this way. This is the first and most important that everyone needs to understand. Magick is not like a switch. You cannot turn it on and turn it off. It isn't instantaneous and the effects are not usually very exciting.
Just stop a moment and calm down. Imaging yourself in a forest within a circle of stones. You hear birds singing. You recognize the mating calls of the cardinal and the thrush. You hear a deer walking in the silence. You can feel the trees breathing. You sit cross-legged as you cut herbs with a knife and chant lowly, thanking the forest for its abundance. You understand its language and the language of the sun and the wind. You are curious and at peace. You finally understand.