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Write down all the reasons you should keep going. Charge it each night with starlight. Read it every morning. Think about the fact that if the light of probably long dead star can can travel through space to end its journey on a piece of paper owned by you, then nothing is impossible.

Not that I want to but in here but this is an adorable spell okay. And I just want to highlight it.

It doesn’t have a lot of notes, so I’m wondering if it’s because it maybe doesn’t look like one could really do a whole lot with this. But this actually does execute several different magical techniques at once.

1. Paper – Paper is a very common medium by which people write and do a lot of spells on. In fact, paper itself can be one of the most important elements to particular spells. Some people use paper to create contracts, some people use particular types of paper to create art with and use that art to enchant things, some people use particular paper to hold things [like creating an origami box, to create a spell trap, just for instance]. Paper can be folded, cut, burned, stripped, written on, painted on, sprayed on, etc. It’s extremely versatile as a medium used in witchcraft. I have used paper in shapes before, I have written on paper and let it soak in acid/vinegar, I have done all kinds of shit with paper. 

2. Writing – WRITING is also a really good construction for spells. Written (or rather words that are in a form that are not verbalized, I should say) is an extremely common thing in witchcraft as well. Usually it goes hand and hand with paper magic. But not always. FOR INSTANCE, writing in honey on a plate, and then running water over it, and drinking the words. Or writing in water on your skin to absorb the words. Or stitching words into garments. The very act of writing it down may help solidify things for you from a magical perspective.

3. Repetition – so this spell does have a repetitive element to it, with every night and every morning. Repetition is very common in what I like to refer to as “layered spellwork.” Meaning you wear the spell down into itself over and over again, putting one more layer on top, one more layer on top. It’s really a foundational member for a lot of folk magic paradigms. The more times you do it, the more time you put into it, the stronger that magic becomes.

4. Charging via Celestial bodies – so charging can happen through a variety of means, for instance one can charge an object by putting their hands on it. But there’s also the idea of charging things by the sun, the moon, under a certain star constellation, under a certain day [you bring it out to absorb the day and put it away at midnight]. It’s extremely common in my opinion, in more simplistic spells, for there to be a charging component via a celestial body. 

5. Visualization or Mental Processing – The thinking or processing of the star light traveling through space to the paper is another very common spell mechanism. Now some people cannot visualize light passing through to the paper, so that’s why I’m also grouping the thought together with this one. It’s very mental, it makes this thought of these items here, very internalized. There’s a lot of internalization magic in the world, especially when it comes to Sigil working sometimes. There’s this idea with particular sigils that you think and process them so hard that they literally become a fundamental thing in your living body. They become embodied in your brain cells and ultimately become *alive* or *activated*. So this is a very, very, very specific form of thought magic.

But I thought looking into it that it was very near that concept. 

So this is an extremely advanced spell [meaning it has 5 or more things, depending on if you add on some other things like, what kind of ink was used, how the the words were written, like in a spiral, for instance, or over each other, or as a list, as a picture poem, etc etc etc] and it’s extraordinarily simple and awesome.

APPRECIATE THIS SPELL. LOVE IT.

THAT’S ALL I’M SAYING.

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