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Seriously. I want to expand on that a little. The crux of the thing which makes it a magical act is buying the chain. Having no plan, no pre-arrangement, going to a small party, not knowing anybody else's costume plans, and buy a chain. That's a magical act.
The synchronicity of having two people turn up as matching male and female demons, completing the Tarot image, wouldn't mean anything if I hadn't bought the chain. It's the little seed of foreknowledge, demonstrated in the material world, which makes it magic.
The chain was part of the costume. I bought it knowing that. It formed the connection to the rest of the tablaux. That's a magical act, right there.
Never mind finding a pair of white pants in "FAT BASTARD" size at the last minute in a thrift store :-)
To me, at least, 90% of my magical activity is either creating or noticing-and-blending-with streams of little synchronicities like that. It's pretty subtle, but it answers most of the questions of mundane life much better than brute-force approaches like sigilization does. Finding apartments, jobs, needed items, new friends etc. without the usual "PHOTOSHOPPED INTO MY LIFE" vibe which sigilization tends to bring...
Now, it may be, kovacs, that you're such a big and powerful mage that stuff like this is simply below your notice, and that you're out there riding around on your big cannon of will pulling entities in from other dimensions, giving them orders, and telling them what they'll do for the next 800 years.
Or it could also be that you're actually one of those squeaky, miserable people who has a hard time when something goes right for somebody else. I don't know, but you sound a lot like the latter. As does a lot of conversation on Barbelith. I don't know whether this place just kind of shot it's wad a couple of years ago or what, but it really does have a rather ground-in, depressive vibe.
What's with that? Where's the joy, the hope, the optimisim. Who's making progresss, who's changed their life, who's transending their old world and living in a new one of their own design?
Who's becoming fictional, master of their course, rather than whiney, leechy, "that's just coincidence" (DUH! THAT'S WHAT MOST MAGIC LOOKS LIKE IF YOU DO IT RIGHT) suckmeisters?
I am. I actually showed up here looking for some like-minded people to play with. Ain't you, kovacs. Too goddam negative. In fact, the entire board (I've been lurking rather a lot) really reminds me a lot of the fringes of a medium-bad suburban pagan coven.
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