Sympathetic Magick

I’ll describe what sympathetic magick is by telling you about the very first time I ever used magick.

When I was 9 I drank a pumpkin spice latte at the end of August.

That’s it! Spell completed!

At the time I didn’t know it was a spell, but this has been a widely used practice as early as Greco-Roman times.

So what?

What was I doing?

Well, I was drinking a hot-ass drink in the middle of the sweltering Summer. I also wasn’t very bright.

But what I was trying to do was welcome in my favorite season: Autumn!

Why did I do this?

Besides my eternal love for the Fall season, I wanted Autumn to come sooner.

I was tired of being sunburned and I was exhausted by all the people who wanted to go out and do things.

What I truly wanted was to put on a snuggly sweater and drink my basic bitch latte in a pile of leaves.

Where did this practice begin?

First of all, humankind has not changed very much at all.

No, in fact, there’s evidence to suggest people have been laughing at the same jokes ever since they started painting on cave walls.

I’m talking about dick pics.

Drawing penises on the bathroom stalls, carving them onto old picnic tables, sending memes to-and-fro.

It never gets old, and it’s always universal.

What do dick pics have to do with magick?

It all starts with art.

Besides fertility and the sexual energy of the human form, nudity was looked at pretty differently in Greco-Roman times.

But ailments like infertility and erectile dysfunction have been a constant.

What to do when you, a penis-wielding Roman can’t get it up?

You draw a picture of an erect dick.

Why?

Because you’re trying to welcome in healing.

That’s a spell! Sympathetic magick!

How do witches use sympathetic magick?

I’ll list them off to you!

• Drinking lattes in the Summer (duh!)

• Carving gargoyles into buildings

• Placing gnomes in the garden

• Sigil art (more on that later!)

• Paintings of buffalo on cave walls

• Voodoo dolls or poppets (stay tuned!)

• Wearing the symbol of your religion

• Naming your boat after something grand

• Naming your child after someone you care about

• Nailing a horseshoe over a doorway

• Putting a Live, Laugh, Love sticker on every damn wall of your house

Really, our world is full of symbolism, and I could go on and on.

Sometimes people practice sympathetic magick and don’t even know it!

Remember that sympathetic here means to symbolically invoke a desired outcome.

To invoke doesn’t mean you have a deity.

Romans would have likely appealed to the Roman gods.

Catholics venerate the saints on their behalf.

And witches… well, witches can come from any background.

I personally appeal to the universe.

It’s all I know and all I have in my practice for now.

Eclectic witches are an absolute wild card. But I love them dearly. 🙂

The idea is to manifest desires using an image or an idea.

They don’t necessarily have to be one-for-one.

For example, you could do a banishing by writing someone’s name on a seashell and chucking that bastard into the depths of the ocean.

Or you could find a flower that reminds you of your grandma and put it in your hair. No one else knows this flower reminds you of your grandma, but you invoke her presence by carrying it with you.

Sympathetic magick can be simple

That’s why I didn’t know I was practicing my craft when I was 9. I just wanted Autumn to get its butt over here.

It’s really the easiest form of magick to practice in secret or on the go.

Need an object to help manifest your reality? Create something from clay!

Meditating and see a nice plant? Keep that baby (as long as you’re allowed) as a reminder of your mindfulness!

Are you in the broom closet and don’t want others to catch a whiff? Skip stones in a creek. Maybe keep a pretty one.

It’s all about that imagery!

What do you think?

Do you have any sympathetic magick rituals that you practice?

Let me know in the comments below!

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Blessed be,

Cat