To release your magic, follow these instructions exactly.
Do not falter, do not hesitate. Do not look back from where you’ve come, or forward to where you’re going. Be here, in this moment, right now.
Pause.
Breathe in, fill the lungs, the chest, the belly.
Breathe out, let your shoulders release away from your ears.
Breathe in, fill the lungs, the chest, the belly.
Breathe out, clear your mind.
Select your instruments. Parchment, paper, stationary. A quill, a pencil, a pen. The right surface, the perfect writing tool – these things are art in themselves.
Write “MAGIC” at the top of your page. Take your time. Feel each letter as you etch its shape. Words have power; letters fuel the fire.
Underline “MAGIC” twice, as deep or as shallow as feels right.
Gift yourself five minutes.
Write every word that seeps into your mind when you think MAGIC. Do not censor. Do not steer. Let yourself fall into stream of thought, far and deep.
Heavy drapes. Incense. Whispered secrets. The feel of velvet. Old keys. Forest depths. The smell of old pine. Locked boxes. Curling wood smoke. Full moon howl. Dancing. Midnight.
Pause.
Breathe in, fill the lungs, the chest, the belly.
Breathe out, let your shoulders release away from your ears.
Breathe in, fill the lungs, the chest, the belly.
Breathe out, clear your mind.
Examine your list. Do not think too hard. Instead, breathe it, meditate upon it, muse and deliberate and reflect. These processes are profound in their nature.
Magic has a feel, as unique to each of us as a fingerprint. It calls to the deepest, most secret parts of ourselves. A place of yearning, of forgotten pieces and half-remembered lifetimes, of beauty and darkness and longing.
MEGHAN VICTORIA
To know your magic is to know yourself.
Are the words that curl across your page part of your life?
How often do you find yourself in the depths of the forest, howling at the full moon? Listening to the secrets of the universe? Dancing at midnight?
How often do you wrap yourself in velvet and draw the drapes and burn the incense and unlock the box that contains your soul?
How often do you set your magic free?
This is a list that calls to your blood, to the secrets that lives deep in your bones.
Take it. Live it. Set your magic free.
