My Fate I Weave with Weaver’s Hands
Three Sisters Shape my Destiny
My Fingers Deep within their Web
Of All That Was, That Is, Shall Be.
Weaving Fate presents tools to help restore our connection to the Field, the Others, and our own intrinsic natures. These practices can help us to re-imagine the possibilities available to us and to shift our lives into more beneficial forms.
The Black Book is a journaled form of hypersigil, a longform written approach to magic that allows us to write the life we desire into being.
The Corridor is an imaginal tool used to visit other times and places. Though it we can shift unhelpful influences from past events in positive directions and connect with our future selves to help manifest the lives we desire.
The Fever Stone is a magical process for releasing energy trapped in traumatic events and ancestral pain-states. We can then transmute this energy into raw power for use in creating the internal and external changes we seek.
Weaving Fate is for those willing get their hands dirty in the guts of the thoughts, memories, internal, and external forces that shape our lives. It is for those who understand that our fates are mutable and that we have great power to influence them.
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From Weaving Fate:
There are three main tools, parts, or practices integral to the work described in Weaving Fate: The Black Book, The Corridor, and the Fever Stone. Let’s take a quick look at each so we can then consider how and why they may be used.
The Black Book is a form of what is called a hypersigil. A hypersigil is a long-form narrative work of magic. In our case, it takes the form of a journal of events or things we would like to experience that haven’t happened yet, written as a diary of things that havealready come to pass. That may be a confusing concept, so let’s break it down. Imagine you wanted a new guitar or another musical instrument. In many forms of magic, we would ask for what we want using a statement of intent, petition, or by evoking a spirit and asking for it directly. In the Black Book, we will write about already having what we desire in our ‘diary’, in as much detail as we can. We embellish this ‘diary entry’ to such a degree that we can feel it, taste it, smell it, and we use certain cues to anchor the experience in our consciousness. We work towards our desires through as many diary entries as needed, to flesh out all aspects of how we want things to be in our life. We treat the Black Book in specific ways to help it become and remain magically active.
The Corridor is an imaginal construct used to envision distinct places, times, and events of the past or future. As in the Black Book, we use it in order to bring about the changes, shifts, or experiences we desire. It works best in conjunction with the Black Book as they reinforce each other in ways that have a strong synergistic effect.
The Fever Stone is a practice I received from my allies that seeks to mitigate the undesired psychic effects carried forward from traumatic past experiences and frees up the energies trapped by them for use in better ways.
One of the ways that I define magic is that it’s an art of change. Some part (or parts) of our life, like a relationship, job, or perhaps our luck or our connection to the spiritual realms is in some way not quite how we would like it to be. This may be mental or emotional stuff or external aspects of our life. We can use magic to help change these things into a form that suits us better.
Since magic is an art of change, Weaving Fate will work best for the person who is seeking to mix things up. These things can be internal elements, like a sense of self, identity, or limiting beliefs. They can also be real-world practical elements, like finding a new and better job, a romantic partner, or developing skills that you are interested in or need.
Weaving Fate is a close relative of my first book Six Ways: Approaches and Entries for Practical Magic, but it takes a very different tack. I wrote Six Ways as a wide-open handbook of highly effective magical approaches, covering a lot of ground (or tools) in a small space.
This book is focused on the application of a small set of tools that we will explore in much greater depth. These are practices I have used for a long time but only taught to a few close friends. It is also heavily focused on exploring various mechanisms that control our lives and worlds, from cultural indoctrination to self-limiting beliefs.
While this book stands on its own innumerable feet, I do suggest Six Ways (added note: or Changeling, either will work in this sense!) as a helpful adjunct text if only as a closer look at my general thinking and conceptual bases as they apply to magic and sorcery. For those with some basic skills and experience in magical work, it’s not a prerequisite for using this text, but it may come in handy.