Satisfaction

As a solitary Wiccan it can be hard to keep motivated and stay satisfied with your path. In May I moved to my new home and I am very happy here. But since the move both my photography and Wiccan practise have taken a back seat to my teaching and language study.  I began to feel dissatisfied with this situation, but was not sure what to do. But then I remembered a little magick embedded in the word satisfaction, that is the word action. It does not have to be a big action, but if you do something to improve your satisfaction with something, this will lead to other positive changes. So I believe this small ritualistic action of photographing Ebisu and Benzaiten, then writing this post is enough to get my practise back into gear again. If there is something in your life that is unsatisfactory for you, do not wait for someone else to do something, be pro-active and do something positive to make the situation better. It will work like magick.    

Imagining creation

I believe anything that someone creates is a kind of magick. First you have to be able to imagine it and imagine that you can create it. Without that positive imagination, creation is impossible.  I strongly believe anything that we can visualise and believe in, we can bring into reality. An interesting thing in the Japanese language is the word (or I should say words) souzou, which has two meanings, imagine and create. The pronunciation is the same, but the kanji (Japanese characters) are different. I think this is a beautiful connection.