Magick of Spiders

Whatever the case, seeing and experiencing (tangible) results has a special place in the practice of witchcraft, magick, and the like. So much so, that there are frequent questions on how to attain certain results, whether keeping results also requires magick, and how it is that results seemingly come in and leave at times. Below: Getting Results, Keeping Results & Disappearing Results.

Getting Results

One of the most exciting aspects of magick is getting the results you’re looking for. The primary reason results-based magick exists, is to attain certain results. Many magicians and practitioners work hard for their results, and take pride in them.

Sometimes, results come after years of experimentation, and other times they’re just around the corner of a new ritual, spell, or otherwise similar practice. And sometimes, a little bit of patience goes a long way and results pour in a month or two, or even a year or so later from a standalone ritual.

Regardless, experiencing results is a big milestone for any and all magick done. It marks a turning point in each ritual, spell, request, etc. to have results. Likewise, it’s often personally exciting to see the fruits of our labor clearly laid before us, especially when we consider the obstacles sometimes present in getting results or the speed at which they come.

Keeping Your Results

Next, keeping results is also very important in many cases. While a lot of magick is done on a one-off basis and doesn’t require constant attention, in certain cases, keeping results gained from magick is a little more tricky, time consuming, or otherwise requires continued attention.

For example, if you make use of a death curse and find your target no longer breathing, you may decide your results have been attained and move on. However, if you decide you aren’t finished with this project, you may engage in seeking out their “soul” to perform more magick on. This task may require continued attention even after you initial results are attained.

In another example, you may have been interested in “sweetening” someone’s emotions toward you and decided on a jar, doll, or material-less spell to attain results. Once that person’s attitude has initially been swayed, you may decide either that that is sufficient, or that something is still lacking. In the latter case, it’s likely more magick will be fed into the already existing framework for the spell, instead of beginning a new one. In this way, you are working toward keeping (& expanding) your results.

In a third example, an obsession ritual is used. You are eager for someone to chase after you, fawn over you, show care about you, and consistently engage with your lifestyle. An obsession ritual is performed. You see results quickly, more so than you had imagined. You can either, wait and see what happens or engage with more magick. But there’s a secret third option here as well, and that third option is to explore the mundane.

That means, consider what in the mundane world is likely to keep this person attached to you. You can go back to magick and seek out more powerful opportunities to keep the results, which may or may not deliver what you want, but you can also consider the way mundane life factors into your results. Are you pushing that person away when they try to get close? Are you crossing boundaries they have expressed? Are you systematically expressing cruelty to them? All these questions, and many others, are ones you should consider as you strive to keep results in this example.

In other projects and types of magick, the questions will change but the baseline idea that mundane needs should be considered and met before turning to magick remains. If you’re continuously causing your own problems, they’re going to be harder to clean up and fix.

Disappearing & Reversed Results

Now that we’ve discussed the role of the mundane a little, let’s get into “disappearing” and “reversed” results. Some people are also fond of using the term “backfire.”

What these things have in common is that they are a manifestation of your request, magick, ritual, spell, etc. and nothing else.

All these words, like regression, reversed results and backfire, and others frequently used in their place have in common that people use them to deflect real issues and reallocate problems to something external. Placing the blame of consequences onto something removed from one’s own actions is something commonly engaged in by humans. So common, it’s much easier to find people who turn a blind eye to their own place in blame and act complicit in their own stories than someone who takes responsibility for how things turn out.

Magick and it’s practitioners are no exception to these generalizations. Perhaps, the higher up the food chain one climbs, the more likely one is to consider their own accountability, but too often enough this isn’t the case either.

When considering where magick went “wrong” or turned into a situation you no longer want, it’s important to remember: what these things have in common is that they are a manifestation of your request, magick, ritual, spell, etc. and nothing else. As the magician, witch, or whatever else you refer to yourself by, you are to be in complete and absolute control of your situation, especially regarding your magic and craft.

While experimentation has a wonderful role in magick, it’s usually not people openly experimenting that claim something has gone wrong and changed their magick’s course. Just as you have confidence in your work when it’s initially being performed and after initial completion, you must maintain that faith even when results seem incongruous with your hopes for results.

It is most likely that your magick is behaving exactly as it should. And as the magician, the caster, the witch, or practitioner, it is your role to evaluate with scrutiny and intensity what is going on if your results are behaving in ‘strange’ ways.

Here are some questions to consider on the way to finding yours.

• Have you neglected the mundane aspect of your magick?
• Have you overworked a ritual and performed the same ritual for something rather minor–at irregular intervals perhaps–many times in a short timeframe?
• Have you been talking to a lot of people about super amazing new spell that you cast?
• Have you taken a step back and let your ritual breathe or is it consuming your every waking moment, and even appearing in your dreams you think of it so much?
• Did you really choose the right ingredients or did you substitute 80% of them for the sake of convenience?

There are, of course, other means to decide what’s going on with your magick: meditation, divination, energy work, spirits communication, etc. But not only do some of these create a dependency on something outside the self if used with frequency, they also let you give away a chance to discover something fascinating about how (your) magick works.

Performing a banishing or cleansing is similarly something that could be important in some cases, but perhaps isn’t the best of choices in all cases, especially when you’re presented with an opportunity to tweak your craft and get to know yourself, your rituals, and your results just that little bit better. In my experience, banishing and cleansing are best reserved for when they’re truly needed.

Sometimes, results behave in ways we don’t anticipate or want.

Magick is sometimes best understood by the naïve and sometimes best understood by those who practice it regularly, with passion and at times precision. Magick can be spoken of in the most complex of words, but ultimately the concept at it’s core is very simple. In my practice at least, which is really the only thing I talk about or from at Magick of Spiders.

Sometimes results behave in ways we don’t anticipate or want. Instead of looking outside the self, instead of looking to lay blame elsewhere, or delving into complicated questions about why your results seem to be changing from positive to negative, consider that they are manifesting exactly as you’ve ordered.

Magick is simple, allow yourself to also be simple with it (at least sometimes). What you have asked for is presented. Understand this and consider how to alter your requests of magick to keep them in line with what you’re really seeking.

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Next, we’ll talk about alignment! And how when your magick, mind, and heart aren’t in alignment, there’s little magick will do for you.