Mind Magick

I love witchy stuff. I love crystals and herbs and shoeboxes made up into miniature altars. I love watching Instagram videos featuring candle magick, ribbons and poppets. There is so much stuff to adore in the magickal world, but right now I feel as if I should take a step back. Instead of filling my cart with good, witchy things, I want to focus on mind magick.

There is a reason why magick on social media is so focused on the tangible. If you’re posting a video or a picture, you need the viewer to be able to see something, hear something. You want to affect their senses. With the right candle, or even just some dried orange peel, you can trigger the viewer’s sense of smell too. At least, they can imagine they can smell your offering.

What do you do when the magick isn’t tangible? When it’s not something you can look at/point to/touch? How does a witch who loves astral projection, for example, share this love with her community? This is the issue I’ve been thinking about today.

I love meditation, I love astral travelling, I love mind magick. I’m not sure how to show that to you. I’m not sure how to show you the swirling images inside my crystal ball, even. There is so much about magick and the psychic senses that is intangible. It feels like there’s an uncrossable divide between what I experience in magick and what I can show the world.

Maybe I could keep a journal of my astral travel adventures and the development of my mind magick. In time, I will be able to publish it on the blog. That’s the only answer I can think of right now.

Do you feel the same gap I feel? Are there things you experience as a witch/magickal person that you simply cannot put into words?