How Has Magick Changed Your Life? Options

Please give me stories about how magick changed your life and I will give you mine.

Magick has given me health, love/marriage, wealth and a very inspiring job. It's not that it didn't require hard work, but it felt that higher powers
laid the path for me with 'coincidences' and 'opportunities' showing up at the right place and at the right time. Aside from that, magick made me
come in contact with God, which made me believe in the divine and the afterlife. I also developed a more non-selfish nature, trying to do more for
others than for myself.

Sometimes (with a couple of years interval), the life path can start to go a bit in the wrong direction. Could be problems at work, problems with health or
problems with love. Then life needs a bit of magickal "correction" and after that, everything runs smoothly again.

So far though, it seems that life has been a success since I found magick.

Is this your experience too? Will there be a backlash?

I have started from the background of Yoga - learned the truths that are hidden from most in the west following traditional religions- reincarnation, karma and other laws of the universe. I had a great teacher who had weekly, guided meditations and discussions on Yoga. Unfortunately we had a fall-out and I was banned from his class after three years. From there I have started getting into Magic as a venue of practical use of what he had taught me (he was a closet magician/hermetic sage). I aspire to get what I can out of magic. It certainly did not make me rich but I have enough, I have a family and a job (plus a business). I never expected magic to make me rich because in my opinion as soon as you start going down that road you are moving towards the "dark side". It is a path I did not want to go down on... I think if you are serious about this your needs will always be met, not your wants or desires. You must curb them a little.
I practice my craft in a casino (I only work part time now). I am around money and observing "luck" as you would have it. First thing I have learned that "lady luck is a fickle bitch and her name is Karma". Most people lose because of their mindset and win because of their mindset. There is no luck.

This post has been edited by Hermes56: Jul 4 2012, 08:33 AM