Magic Teacher Options

Going on guts and what you can find in books is good,

but it only gets you so far.

same goes with the community.


HOWEVER

finding a magic teacher is not simple at all.

so, being a magician, i decided i would use magic to get better at magic. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blablabla.gif)

I was thinking i could either cast a spell to find me a good magic teacher

or just evoke a magical entity such as Odin or Hermes and hope that they will teach me.

idk

what do you guys think?
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I hadn't even thought about the aspect of having a driver's licence. I've known a number of people who had to drive two to four hours to reach their coven and teachers. You might find someone nearby, but there is no guarantee.

Part of the problem is that teaching is a difficult job. Normally they hold down a regular job and teaching is something that they do voluntarily in their free time. It is usually a drain on their time and energy, and is usually unappreciated. Often the other pagan and magickal leaders in the community get into witch wars or spread negative rumours about each other. It seems to be about ego and aggression. As a result, teachers in the occult community often burn out after a few years, resulting in a teacher shortage. There are a lot more people who want to find a teacher than there are teachers willing to take them on.

Additionally, the people who set themselves up as teachers are often of low quality, perhaps only partly trained, or teaching for reasons of ego. Some are not of high ethics, abusing their students or being lazy, not putting in enough preparation time. I tend to think that a teacher ought to have trained and practiced for ten years or more. I am of course a middle aged guy so tend to see the teens setting themselves up as high priest/ess to be wrong in that way. Teens who are students, fine, but teens as teachers are wrong. But I hear of them around quite often.