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Chances are good that if you have been practicing magic or witchcraft for any
length of time, you have been asked a question that goes something like this: “If
magic is real and you can cast spells, why aren’t you rich?”
Most of us dismiss that question because if we are serious about magic,
becoming rich is usually not our main concern in life. We have other motivation
for what we do. If you think about it, though, the question actually has some
validity. I mean, why not? Most of us work just like other people do, and need
money just as everyone else does. When you take the snide skepticism away, we
are left with a legitimate question: If magic is real, and spells work, why are we
not more successful with money magic? When you take a look at the occult and
pagan community, you can see it’s not just a matter of being rich; many of us are
not even financially stable. This is becoming more evident now that we have a
generation of leaders and authors in the community who are at retirement age
and older, and have to rely upon frequent calls for charity and assistance just to
keep a roof over their heads, food on the table, and medicine in the cabinet.
I spent quite a lot of time thinking about this question of money and magic,
and I started talking to others about their experiences. I came to the conclusion
that the magic itself is fine: our spells usually work, the spirits bestow their gifts,
and the gods respond when we call. The problem is in the application of our
magic.
Almost everyone I spoke to about financial magic told me stories of how they
used magic to fix a problem rather than build something for themselves. I was
told stories of successful magic aimed at not getting fired, or obtaining
emergency funds to pay bills. The attitude for most people seemed to be that
when everything was okay, it was best to not give much thought to money at all.
When people did talk about doing magic to attain something better for
themselves, it was almost always for something pie-in-the-sky like the Mega
Millions lottery. Though the aim of such a spell is to attain something greater
than what you have, the real attitude behind it is still the desire to not have to
think about money. Whether you are marginalizing the role it plays in your life
by ignoring it or trying to get so much of it that you never need to think about it
again, the goal is avoidance of money rather than engagement with it
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