Yasmine Galenorn
Witch, please.
There was no one near us. The only movement was the quiver of a breeze gently blowing against the cedar and fir boughs. “Do you see what I see?” I whispered to my friend. She nodded and I could tell she was afraid. “I think so,” she said. “What do you see?” “It looks like a unicorn,” I answered. “I think so, too,” she said.
This “encounter,” was 19-year-old Yasmine Galenorn’s first brush with the world of magick-with-a-k, as reported in Embracing the Moon: A Witch’s Guide to Ritual Spellcraft and Shadow Work (1998). It supposedly happened in 1980. I’m reminded of a child’s game of make-believe; in fact, the exchange is strikingly like those of the story-conjuring girls in Eleanor Estes’s The Witch Family (see Oct. 16). The fact that Galenorn told the witness what to see (whatever it was; it was nighttime) seems to have escaped her. The friend later denied the incident ever happened.
I’ll say this for Galenorn (that name!): she’s a smart writer. She makes no outrageous claims for her spells and potions, and she serves up the Renaissance Faerieness with enough frankness, pop psychology, and superficial sense to inspire the occasional, “Well, hmm.”
There was no one near us. The only movement was the quiver of a breeze gently blowing against the cedar and fir boughs. “Do you see what I see?” I whispered to my friend. She nodded and I could tell she was afraid. “I think so,” she said. “What do you see?” “It looks like a unicorn,” I answered. “I think so, too,” she said.
This “encounter,” was 19-year-old Yasmine Galenorn’s first brush with the world of magick-with-a-k, as reported in Embracing the Moon: A Witch’s Guide to Ritual Spellcraft and Shadow Work (1998). It supposedly happened in 1980. I’m reminded of a child’s game of make-believe; in fact, the exchange is strikingly like those of the story-conjuring girls in Eleanor Estes’s The Witch Family (see Oct. 16). The fact that Galenorn told the witness what to see (whatever it was; it was nighttime) seems to have escaped her. The friend later denied the incident ever happened.
I’ll say this for Galenorn (that name!): she’s a smart writer. She makes no outrageous claims for her spells and potions, and she serves up the Renaissance Faerieness with enough frankness, pop psychology, and superficial sense to inspire the occasional, “Well, hmm.”
- If you can’t visualize something, it probably means that you don’t have a clear idea of what you truly desire.
- A note about lotteries and sweepstakes: It’s fun to play them, it would be wonderful to win, but think about how many people are aiming toward that same goal and you get an idea about how hard it is to sway the energy.
- The amount of riches and wealth—not necessarily financial—to be had in this world is phenomenal. We don’t have to destroy the Earth to be prosperous.
- But truthfully, the most magickal energy of all comes from a clean, well-kept kitchen stocked with good, healthy food.
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| Look for magic and you will find it. |
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