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Whoops! Messing Up with Magick

 
 
Dr. Vital
20:28 / 25.11.01
Why weren't my sigils working?

I was doing everything right.
Writing them up
Drawing them out
Sending them off "in the usual manner"

Then a teacher mentioned that you should start your requests with "I will", not "I desire". Otherwise all you're managing to do is sigilize the desire back to yourself...

Whoops!
(Now I *really* desire to get laid!)

Since I've been on a diet the last few months that seems to have include heaping helpings of humble pie, I'd love to find out that I'm not the only one that has managed to point the Magick wand in the wrong direction from time to time.
 
 
Tamayyurt
09:25 / 26.11.01
Actually the same thing happened to me when I started this! Everything was "I want... " once I cleared that up it was all good.
 
 
SMS
09:25 / 26.11.01
Changing the wording didn't help me much. I only did the first sigil "It is my desire to" to see a whole bunch of friends. Didn't change my wants much, but didn't work, either. The only sigils I've made that have worked so far are the ones that ask for certain bad things NOT to happen. And since these could easily have not happened on their own (serious car crashes, for instance), I have no way of knowing if they worked.
 
 
Lionheart
14:53 / 26.11.01
Matthew: What'd you change the wording to?
 
 
Tamayyurt
14:59 / 26.11.01
and how do you charge your sigils?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:09 / 26.11.01
Adding a line to my "I want a job starting next Monday" sigil that said "exept, and this is really important, if it entails picking up litter in Hyde Park in the rain" could have saved me a lot of trouble.

[ 26-11-2001: Message edited by: Mordant C@rnival ]
 
  
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