Discerning the Effects of Magic

I had some very good news this morning, which I'm going to post here since I realise I am a bit slow to post the results of magic. I am also aware that the simple fact is that the witch will often never know the results of her magic, and my magic on Laurence Soper is an example of this.

Scoffers will use the apparent lack of evidence for results of magic as the proof that it isn't real. And it is interesting how often the results of magic actually occur before the magic – naturally without the practitioner knowing, and I give this merely as an example of how the universe doesn't work quite the way we would like it to.

And here's the point: the result is never the ultimate point of magic. I was actually thinking of the ultimate point of magic on the bus on the way to work this morning, and whittled it down to two things: the union of all things, and the correct placement of the magical practitioner within all things. The intention of a single spell is neither here nor there in this greater plan.

Nonetheless it does happen and I was very gratified to discover that my Boss Curse has had further effects (the illustration to this post isn't a completely gratuitous picture of a bit of rough, but I am the Hound of Hecate and it bears a relationship to what has happened to the boss!). Similarly the man I have had a thing for has decided to stop messing about and realise I'm the best offer he's going to get. And here's the way I know that this is the result of magic (not direct magic on him, I should say, but two people moving in a direction that would bring them together): something has changed in me. And what has changed in me is that I have realised that my great insecurity in relationships is inherited from my mother and was always manifested in the suffocating impossibility of ever having enough room from her. She phrased it as wondering if I was OK, but actually it was making her OK. Like a flash, I have realised that I have to trust this man, and I have to know that it's going to be OK, without me having to do anything. Of course I'll still have to work on getting him to accept the way I always will idolise him, but the point here is that I know this is magic because I have changed, and moved towards being in my right place in the universe. And as we know, the practitioner is always in some way the object of magic.