I've Been Thinking About My Path Lately, and I would like some input on my conclusions Options

I've been on the outskirts of every magical path lately. I've accepted a death and rebirth in my own life. I've decided to start again, from the ground up.

So putting it all together, I would most likely fit into Chaote, but I don't feel that's true. I have a fundamental understanding of alchemy, evocation, sorcery of other means, necromancy, black magic, warding, astral travel, and empathy.

But one element has always remained the same, and it's become the backbone of my practicing. I can summon a tingle of my spine that a good song, an amazing comment, or a good book can give me. Then I concentrate, make myself feel an emotion that I attach to the spell I want to work, and it always works the way I want to, if I feel it well enough. I've always attributed this to basic Wild Magic, but that's a subject most don't touch on, or attribute solely to the realm of faeries.

So my question is twofold.

Is this Wild Magic? If so, why can I not find anything on the subject? Is it Sorcery? What?
And
Who else does this? I find that I don't even wholly focus on a function I wish the spell to accomplish. I just go with a feeling and I trust the spell is intelligent enough to work on its own. Then I thank the energy, and after I'm satisfied send a thankful thought/feeling to my deities.

I know I'm not the only one. So rally together, let's talk about this. Something I never see.

Wild magick....do you mean wild->TANTRIC? wild->Earth? wild->Animal/totemic? Or maybe Wild as in growth/expansion/regenerative/cancering magicks?

I wrote this brief description for my website.

"In 2002, during a thunder storm at Trail of Tears State Park, I was initiated unexpectedly as a priestess by Gaia (our planet) and the elements. When the spirit journey was over, I woke on the shores of a lake, my body covered in mud. The rain and wind slowed and the lightening stopped. Out of the silence rose a thunderous chorus of frogs, my spirit animal. I knew that I was a wild mage.

I plan rituals for full moons and major sabbats, but my favorites happen on those days when my soul whispers, encouraging me to move my body with the magic of the moment and weave a spell."

I work with the Wyrd, the web of life that connects all living things and events. My views don't follow the full traditional Nordic view, or maybe they do, because I haven't studied Nordic traditions in depth. What else could I call this web of interconnected spiritual essence and potentiality? I do not know.

In my heart and mind I think of the direction I want my life to go and set my goals. Then as I go about my routine I follow my intuition and watch for signs and syncronicities.

Sometimes the incidents are small and I just feel a crazy client approaching the office and I take the necessary precautions such as deep breaths so I don't take the ranting personal and shield so I don't take on their emotions via empathy.

Othertimes, I feel the web vibrate and know something important will happen that effects my life. I feel it as energy a vibration in my solarplexas, spine, or sometimes in my crown chakra. I open my site and unless the energy into the event I'm being notified of. Sometimes I send healing, sometimes strength, and sometimes I'll fight. It depends on the situation.

Another reason I call myself a wild mage is because this is how my fae allies perform magick. They don't perform rituals. They know what needs to be done and do it.

I live in the wilds of the Pacific coastal mountains. One day driving home, I felt the pull the call of a strong fae in the valley the road goes through. I pulled aside and felt she was offering protection. My husband and I had been having a lot of astral snoops around and some weren't content to just watch. (I won't go into detail because a mage must keep some secrets. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

I pulled over immediately and saught her out. With my sight I looked for plant allies in the spell.

I picked nettels with my bare hands trying to be careful, but I did get pricked many many times. I had to focus more to shut out the pain and I went into a sort of trance.

She stood by me and held her hand out. I saw a thin shimmering thread coming from her hand. I took it and it pulled continuously as I gathered it around the nettles. She smiled and withdrew. Then I saw I was milking a spider. It had sat perfectly still for a minute or two as I pulled silk from it.

I spit into the nettles wrapped in web and threw it into the woods.

I saw the energy spread out over the valley in a web to ensnare and warn me of approaching magicians who intended harm.

So, this is wild magick to me. It is probably more common then you think.

This post has been edited by Masery: Jan 2 2007, 09:09 AM

i would work on the tingling more ... you should feel the kundalini tingling all up and down your spine which will connect the 'heavens' and the 'earth' when doing your magic. it seems obvious, that you have a strong foundation in the fundamentals, and its about development of your personal power right now. doing more magic may not do that for you, but it might; doing meditation may, but it might not. i would explore all the various "known" ways that does activate, completely, the kundalini or that tingling you feel. coming from the base up reveals, you are well connected to the earth and her magic and power, i would use that as a starting point.

good luck!

So, this is wild magick to me. It is probably more common then you think.

Go with it.



Don't bother to stop and think about tingling and other analytical observations.


Just fly and go to those place that only you and one other know about -- maybe you and the spider?

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All of the above to answer the question at hand. Wild magick is simply magick....Wild magick is the unknown magick that works.

This post has been edited by Enochian: Jan 2 2007, 03:27 PM

All very interesting. I started exercises with the tingling sensation to harness my bioelectricity back when I was concentrated on psychokinetics. I just kind of accepted it as an energy source since then, something connecting me with my emotions. And actually, the tingle starts from my left forearm when I'm trying to kickstart it, when I actually feel it coming, it starts at my nervous center, below my neck. But it soon spreads, and all I know is that it empowers me very much. It takes me higher somehow, something inside me empowering me just like any experience with a deity ever has.

Anyways. Just thought I'd see if anyone was of like mind on this. Thanks for the input.

It sounds wonderful whatever it is called. I really dont
like putting "boxes" or "names" around experiences,
because it tends to take away from the beauty and
mystery of them.

As the saying goes, "if it aint broke, dont fix it"

Explore it, be grateful you have been given such an
opportunity to experience it.

The Wanderer

All real magick starts with the breath, and then with the body. The tingles. Practice sustaining the tingle for as long as possible. Then practice spreading it. Observe how your breath relates to the tingle and then your mind and the combination of all of these.

Wild magick, black magick, white magick, thelema, rosicrucian, whatever. These arf all just constructs that relate to a system of development, and in some cases to a definition of intent (white or black). But all of these utilise the same basic "principle" or energy, and this is that tingling you are feeling. It is the manipulation of your own energy, in accordance with others to achieve a desired goal. You are much more likely to gain a safe success by keeping your practice simplistic, or wild if you will. The difference being that compared to a definite systematic path of magick, you may find you progress more slowly (you may not), and you dont have a spring of the recorded experiences of others with which to compare your own. This just means that you have to be a little bit more vigilant when it comes to observing your self, your physical mental and emotional states. You must keep a diary when practising wild magick. Your memory is not always your greatest friend.