Dear Ones,
Where is the magic in your life today? Are you aware of magic at work around you all the time? Or do you think of magic as something that a magician does in a show to fool your eyes?
When we speak of ‘magic’ here we mean the unexplainable that happens in your life with wondrous results. A person you haven’t seen in a long time comes to mind and shortly thereafter you see them or receive a phone call from them. You need to buy a pair of shoes and when you get to the store the exact shoes you were looking for appear and are on sale. You need a doctor and your friend brings up the name of a specialist she thinks is an excellent doctor. The list of possibilities goes on and on.
But do you think of these as ‘magic’ or do you still believe in coincidence?
Magic happens in your life because you project outward into the Universal Consciousness a thought that forms a picture that has an energy attached to it that creates magnetism. This chain, from your thought to the magnetic energy associated with it, is the real magician in your life. This process is at work in your life whether you are conscious of it or not. How many times have you said, ‘See? I told you this wouldn’t work out [or that bad thing would happen or I wouldn’t get what I wanted]!’ When you worried about something or thought that you wouldn’t get what you wanted you energized that picture of problems or lack and that is what materialized.
The Universe is not a magician trying to fool your eyes with complex tricks to make you feel bad. The Universe is, instead, a kind and generous place, working to fulfill the requests that you energize from a place of purity, compassion [for self and others], and a desire for the highest good of all. When you are focused on these things, you have much magic at your disposal.
So how will you use your powers of magic from this day forward? Do you think you can separate yourself from greed and personal desires and lift your thoughts into the space of what is good for all? Wanting something for yourself is not necessarily greed in a negative sense, but wanting something that is not in your highest good or in the highest good of all around you does not bring you the happiness that you are seeking. Beware of the insidious nature of greed, for it manifests in cloaked ways, masquerading as being for the good of all.
For example, there are those who seek much money with the claim that ‘someday’ they will do something philanthropic with their millions. They sound like compassionate souls but that ‘someday’ is not energizing the magic that comes into the life of someone who, without the millions today, is still helping the less fortunate. Greed for power over others is damaging to the greedy person as well as the people who become subjugated to that greed. It might not look like ‘greed’ as you would expect but condescension, arrogance, a ‘me first’ attitude, are all examples of greed for power over others. This energetic does not create real magic.
We are not saying that there is anything wrong with money or power, per se. They are both words that describe energies in the human world. What one does with money, how one relates to money and how much power over the decisions of one’s life that money has – these are what define the energy of money. Power, within oneself, becomes empowerment to fulfill one’s Soul Purpose on Planet Earth. However, when one wishes to exert power over another, one is attempting to take away that other’s personal empowerment and replace it with complacence and submission to someone else’s will. This destroys the magic in both people’s lives.
Strive to use magic in your own life as a way to make all of Life around you be a glorious expression of the power inherent in human beings to bring Light into the world. Focus on the ways that you can feel more empowered in your life, even if at times it seems that your power has slipped away. Find a single area in which you feel empowered and focus on that area. Then notice other areas where magic has occurred and notice how empowering that can be.
Pay attention to the magic in your life and you will start to feel empowered in all areas. The magic is there for you to find!
And so it is.
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BOOK LIGHTS: “Smart Women Know Their Why”
August 11, 2010 — Rosemary“You have been down that road and you know exactly where it goes and that is not where you want to be.”
Trinity to Neo in The Matrix trilogy
as quoted in Smart Women Know Their Why
by Sheri McConnell
How often do we keep going down the same road, knowing exactly where it goes, and yet expecting to get somewhere else? CREATE the new road for yourself. Make the magic work for you. Believe that you CAN and that you DESERVE the magic in your life. Let’s all agree to create a new dream reality – where we support each other in our pursuits and we cheer each other’s victories. Let’s focus on what we do want in our lives rather than on what we don’t want.
Rosemary
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