Kelden

First, it comes from within, from having a firm belief and confidence in yourself and in your Craft. Second, authenticity comes from effectiveness, or having the ability to successfully work magic and to connect with the spirits.

The Wheel of Year is followed more as a narrative of the gods than as a way to work with and honor the natural world.

Through a combination of learned skill and innate magical ability, we are able to conjure forth these natural and Otherworldly forces in order to bend and shape the world around us.

There are two essential components to effectively working magic: your intention and the power necessary to back it up.

1. Determining your magical intention.

2. Visualizing your magical intention.

3. Raising or channeling the necessary magical power.

4. Projecting your combined intent and power.

In order to avoid magical misfires, you must be specific about what you want, when you want it, and the manner in which you’d like to obtain it.

visualization is a way of not only seeing but also having a full tactile experience with something mentally.

External power can be accessed through two main methods. First, we can channel power present in the natural world

Second, we can access external power by petitioning spirits for their magical assistance

In any case, you must simultaneously visualize your intention while raising or channeling power and then finally project them forth