Category: Meditations

We have our own personal stores of energy, we can garner energy from the natural world, or we can ask for it from whatever form of Spirit (if any) you have a relationship with. We shape and mold these energies to add fuel to our ventures. The problem is that people stop there. Magick is a supplement, not a replacement. If magick has been done, for example to find a new job, then the traditional legwork of job-hunting must still be done, the magick is just swaying the odds in your favor. -Leif Redwolf (an incarcerated CLF member)

How might you use magick to supplement your effort?

 

The oil lasted eight days, not one, so that the ritual of purification could be completed. At Hanukkah, this miracle is celebrated by our Jewish beloved all around the world. Who made this magic happen and how? That is not for us to know. We can appreciate the power of miracle and magic that resonates through the years.

What stories of miracles and magic do you celebrate?

When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and the princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks,
The work of Christmas begins:

To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among brothers,
To make music in the heart.

-Howard Thurman

Participate in the work of Christmas today, whatever your spiritual or religious background.

In the ancient story celebrated by our Christian beloved, today is the last day of Mary’s pregnancy. In her womb, the baby Jesus was gestating. Gestation and birth are thought of as science now, but aren’t they also some kind of magic? The formation of an entire being from two simple cells? And you, too, are magic, having been formed in this way.

Revel in the magic that is our being today.

Who is to argue that the spiritual is not magical and could even be examined, measured, and understood by using some sort of device or mathematical concept? Bacteria, cells, and atoms were completely unknown to us 2000 years ago. Instead, any illness was attributed to magic of a force from the gods. Why should the spirit or any magical force not be subject to such open minded scrutiny? -Liam Heimm (a CLF member incarcerated in SC)

Tell us about a time something mysterious or magical to you wound up having an explanation.