What Do You Use Magic For? Options

Magic: the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature

In it's definition magic has endless possibilities....

does it?

For some strange reason. when i am thinking up "Incantation" or "various other techniques" I have trouble thinking up what to do.

"what exactly is the problem i'm facing now? How do i solve it?" are questions i ask,

but magic doesn't seem to come up as an answer often.

and when it does, i use my trusty tarrot deck and i get BAD RESULTS
BAD BAD BAD RESULTS

so the magic i do always ends up being pure white magic since everything else seems it would go bad.

that's pretty limited if you ask me.

I view things pretty similarly to esoterica in this thread it seems.

I'd add two things though.
One, that when working with a deity, just because you're on friendly terms doesn't mean they'll be your sugar daddy. My patron is entirely focused on my spiritual development and growing understanding, I have asked her about "wealth", and honestly my intent was just to have more free time to work on my path (yes really), but she responded by saying it would only be a distraction. I trust her judgment. Though I do tease her a bit when I go to work, mentioning "I could be hanging out with you in Da'at right now... but I have to go to work" But it's in jest.

the other thing I'd add is that the numero uno thing which I learn magick for, is to further my own spiritual evolution. I use magick to learn how to do better magick, in a sort of circular pattern, with the ultimate goal of enlightenment. I don't really pause to focus on what I could do to improve my material life. Unless I think that the experience would be applicable to my greater goals, which are not materialistic. My material life isn't very important. actually most things which people think of as important, aren't very important. it's all a matter of perspective.