The Art of Spellcasting

What are the first words you think of when you read the title... The Art of Spellcasting...?  Hocus Pocus, perhaps?  That's ok a lot of people do...

Like any art or skill, spellcasting is acquired by work and a lot of study.  Many cowans, or non wiccans, believe that wiccans use secret words that, by simply saying them, produce anything that the wiccan desires without any effort, practice, or patience.  This is rather like thinking that the words hocus pocus, a phrase from old ceremonial magic grimoires, will drop gold or something into your lap.

The only way you will attract your desire into your life is to make your vibrations match the same frequency of the desired object.  For example, if you wish prosperity, you must think of positive, prosperous things and avoid all negative thoughts that dwell on lack of or poverty.  Then, you do spellwork for prosperity and hold to the belief that it is yours, while waiting for it to manifest.  Most of the time, the desired object is not dropped into your lap, but produces opportunities to gain what you want.

The words spellwork and magic are connected.  Whenever wiccans or magicians do a spell, they draw energy from mother earth and weave it into a desired visualized form through the use of certain words, gestures, thoughts, and practices.  The whole idea behind magic is to contact specific energy pools called deities.  By tapping into these pools, wiccans can add a great amount of power to other personal inner energy.  This produces a physical manifestation of the spell.  The primary purpose of every ritual or spell is to create a change.

Wiccans who are successful study constantly to refine their rate of success.  Wiccans know that by using certain colors of candles, herbs, stones, oils, incenses, numbers, and actions they raise the success rate constantly.

The practice of self-discipline, self-knowledge, and self control are the only things that will enable the wiccan to pass unharmed into the Otherworld.  Because wiccans have few preconceived ideas about what they will discover there, they are open to discoveries that can revolutionize thinking, science, and mankind's relationship with the universe and everthing in it. 

Wiccan training enables one to find, see, and understand universal symbols.  The understanding allows wiccans to apply these symbols and Otherworld knowledge to everyday life.