Why I keep my blog in these times?

Why keep a blog in these times, even when you are "already an author"?

This question has been asked by several people lately, and generally, I try to avoid answering, but the truth, I have always tried to be honest about what I think, what I say and what I do.

Before having this blog my only contact with the rest of the people was a small page on MySpace where I published (with enormous difficulty) a ritual or a spell every week, in fact, it was the year 2005, and it was just on a MySpace page Where I found my first coven, back then in Caracas, Venezuela, and they organized events every week in various city parks, it was there that I began to relate to "witches of the city" as I like to call them, and I met at that time the world of Wicca and neopaganism.

But since long before I was already entering the world of magic and sorcery, only for me it was more about something familiar, and I believed from a very young age that it was something that each family practiced separately at home, it was not until The 13 years I understood (by my friend Jonathan) that this was not the case, and that on the contrary, we were a minority.

The origins

I came from having lived in a tiny town in Roraima, in the Amazon for about twelve years, on the border between Brazil and Venezuela, surrounded by healers, witch doctors, and ayahuasqueros. They took me to live in the capital city of Venezuela to send me to study four years at the military school, and after that, I attended a different school on the other side of the city before attending University.

When you go from having lived for so many years among people much older than you, essentially the elderly, and then you go from there to live in the big capital city, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the people around you, mostly schoolchildren who are showing off their cell phones, collection brands of shoes and caps. Collating with them was not easy, so it didn't take long for me to become "the newbie", the one everyone wants to bully.

When you arrive in the city, the concept that you have there about magic and sorcery, or about shamanism is something very different, and certainly more superficial. Back then, Santeria and Palo Mayombe were a fashion in Venezuela, they were "something cool", in which everyone wanted to participate, and my family had been part of them from the beginning, so I saw this "fashion" as something hurtful.

Followed by this, in the city, no one looked for plants in the field or bathed in the rivers, they did not cook soup in an old cauldron on wood and wood at the edge of the river, nor did they celebrate every time they got quartz or some beautiful mineral that they could interpret as "a sign" from the spirits, or as "a gift" from the ancestors. Herbs, oils, and crystals are something you bought at the store or even from a catalog.

Shamanism and healing were somewhat more superficial, however, I was lucky to meet very good healers and witches in the city. Witchcraft was then more a fashion to follow, an excuse to look cool and meet on the weekends with "your coven", a path that called you from the inside, now it was a trend followed by people looking for a place where to feel at ease without being judged, many came there and discovered that this was their way, many others got there, just in passing, others saw this as the best way to make fame and money fast.

Social networks

Once I had my first account on (back then) MySpace and attended these meetings in the Yahoo groups, I learned something extremely important, a lesson that I have followed even to this day... It always seems to know nothing, acts with discretion, does not be the know-it-all, let them judge you, let them act in front of you, and let them teach you each in their own way, that is where you will see with your own eyes, who really knows what he is talking about, who is really there for learning, and who really got there by reading a couple of books and already sells himself as the last court messiah, and of those last ones, unfortunately, there were many.

Over time I learned to judge a little less because I discovered that in the big concrete city, you could also find great believers, pagans, clairvoyants, witches and "modern shamans", who were not superficial fools because of living in the city, On the contrary, they took advantage of this as a huge advantage to teach classes, teach others, organize rituals online, create digital groups, and even held small conventions in a popular cafe to exchange esoteric books and share opinions.

Over time I got to know the internet blogs, and from there everything changed, it was my friend who recommended creating a blog and writing there every week, my personal rituals, my book recommendations, which rituals had worked and which did not, and what was my point of view about it, like “Today I used the invocation ritual of this book, and it didn't work as I expected, but maybe it is due to…”, and my blog in Spanish was always very popular.

Years later I began to write a blog in English, and since then I have kept my space, as a safe and free space to comment, free of judgments, because the Haters do not get in here to read, much less to respond, the brain does not It gives them for this, they are so busy promoting their hatred on Twitter and Instagram that they do not "waste their time" in coming to read me, so this is still a safe space, where I can connect freely, without editions, without intermediaries, without filters, directly with my readers.

The best thing about having a personal blog, and not one of those “business blogs” with many different authors talking about a single topic, is that here I can freely express my opinions, and without having to think “this will not please my editor "," This is not in accordance with the theme of the blog "," if I publish this, another author may be angry ". The truth is that my blog in English receives an average of 900 readers daily, even on days when I do not publish anything, and yes, I know that is a low number for the "standards of today", but for me Knowing that my blog is read by so many people daily is fascinating and quite motivating.

This also means that there are 900 other people out there who connect with me and who share the same experiences, who know that here they will read about real magic, real magic, not "Instagram magic", where all spells look like magazine pictures, where healing does not look like a beautiful path of pain-free illumination, where the gods are beings of enormous power who can act in your favor or against you.

This is a space free of egos and full of hard work, do you want your spell of results? Go and work for it, because if you believe that magic is the fast way to get things, you are in the wrong place. Here we do not join the new fashion of saying "the gods are only archetypes and your powers are superior because you are light and blah, blah blah" ... Those are arguments of "Plastic Witches".

The "plastic witches" are people who spend the full moon eating Doritos and watching Netflix, while they tell you with a beautiful Instagram photograph "use the energy of this moon to meditate deeply, walk through the forest under the light of the stars and bathe naked in a river ”, this is not (Thank God for it) one of those spaces full of superficial witches who do not practice magic with blood because they fear an infection, or who do not know the incredible healing properties of the earth from the cemetery because "everything is energy and you just have to visualize it".

And I'm not saying (and I've never said it) that witches should all celebrate the full moon, prick their fingers with a needle or eat raw meat of a deer on a new moon to regenerate their power, no. The problem is not their conception of magic and witchcraft, the problem is that they sell you something that they themselves do not practice, like those who say "witchcraft is a path of spirituality to help you connect with yourself", but they are more focused on "looking cool" and "looking dark badass witches" than really being.

And it is very unfortunate that the most popular members of our community, spend most of the time accusing the followers of the predominant religions, for being "highly superficial and commercial", when at the end of the day, they are exactly a reflection of this that they criticize.

And it is for all these reasons that I maintain my blog, and will continue to maintain it for more years, no matter what happens, because if you are looking to practice real magic, not only “magic that seems cool to boast”, but you really want Contacting the other side, you want to practice that unusual power you have to see the future, enter the world of dreams, or move between worlds while you sleep, I want you to know and be sure that you are not alone, and that there is another huge group of people like you out there ready to connect with you, and there is a blogger with poor spelling ready to answer each and every one of your emails, publishing books from time to time with some spells, and learning new rituals every day that you die for sharing with you.

And do yourself a favor, when you read a spell or a ritual, and you want to practice it, do it, don't stop doing it, don't let fear or laziness win you, go and do it, you don't know how powerful he is world of sorcery when you give it a real chance beyond what is written in the books.

Elhoim Leafar

Magic & Sorcery for Beginners with me (Part III).

Sorcery for Beginners II

Greetings and Hugs, for those who are following this line of the post, here is the third part, for those who are new here, and still believe in strange things like coincidences, and think that perhaps they have come here by some chance, here I leave the links to the FIRST POST and the SECOND POST.

On this occasion, I am going to share with you a little more information for those who are beginning in witchcraft and for those who are looking for some type of information related to practical wizardry and daily magic.

About online communities.

The digital world is quite complex and is full of options for all tastes and searches, including holistic search engines. On the Internet, you will get enormous ease from online stores, which offer all kinds of items, books, and articles, to quite interesting character profiles and complete groups of "Coven Online".

Usually, due to my experience and part-time work as a publicist, I am a high critic of the use of social networks, I strongly believe that people should focus more on having real friends in the real world and more integrated into their real community, that to focus and waste so much time in online communities, but that yes, not for that reason I am a complete enemy of social networks, I only consider that they should be used with some moderation, limit the daily or weekly time in them, and not spend whole hours checking Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

Social networks, as well as everything that is created by the hand of man, has its own pros and cons, social networks may well be a double-edged sword or a tool that takes you in the direction of personal development and empowerment professional.

Coven virtual and holistic groups have, as well as everything on social networks, their pros and cons, some of which I am going to break down here for you.

Pros:

• They help you meet more people in your community who are looking to grow like you.
• They invite you to participate in events, workshops, online rituals and conventions.
• They inform you about recommended books and podcasts on the subject.
• You can meet in these communities with true experts on the subject who wander there from time to time.
• They help promote teamwork and participation.

Cons:

• They are a mine of Haters and Egolatras who are looking for a place to vent their personal traumas.
• They attract many phonies who are just looking to make money or fame (or both) at the expense of the novice and inexperienced faith.
• Many people join the groups but never participate and are only there to be.
• Some individuals tend to get used to these online communities, and seeking to relate to them, they spend more time fully involved in the internet, worried about their number of followers and likes in each photo, than living the real world.

If you realize, the pros and cons are extremely important, that is why in these online communities you must delve very carefully, and therefore, I am going to give you some recommendations on how to join them and what to do.

• Looking to join 2 or 3 communities, a mistake that many individuals comment on these Apps, is that they seek to join all the communities, virtual coven, and possible online groups, but they do not participate in any, then only the numbers increase, and these groups become They end up filling up with 1k, 2k or 10k members, but they only get one or two new posts per week. It is like going to eat at the trendy restaurant, waiting hours to enter, once there you meet thousands of people, but no one talks to each other, no one orders food, and no one knows the food.
• Search for communities where you have contacts and known colleagues so that when you arrive you can encourage conversation, so you will not feel alone, and you can start by posting a post related to what they both like.
• Be participative, if you are going to join a group, join and participate, make a commitment to yourself to participate in these as if it were a convention that you attend every week, greet the other members, respond to posts, share your ideas, be respectful of others and share posts, videos, podcasts and links related to the group's theme.
• Care about community empowerment. Be participative in a positive way, encourage others to participate, find your friends there and motivate them to talk in the group, to hold meetings in various places, or even to hold talks and online forums. If you notice that everyone in the group values ​​the work of a common member, a common author, a common blogger, talk about your work and respectfully share your views on it.

I hope you follow these tips and they will help you if you wish, I invite you to join and participate in my online groups on Facebook, I have two small groups of which I am the administrator, and I am always looking for collaborators, if you wish, here below I leave you the links, also, if you have downloaded the Telegram application, I am forming my own online tribe, where every week I am sharing tips and videos (twice a day) about magic, rituals, techniques, videos, links to posts and podcasts, etc…

The Mystical Tribe And Many Gods

Male Pagan Witches and Warlocks

About fairs, events and live workshops.

Already in these times it is rare to get "closet witches", it is quite rare, but not unusual, not impossible, we live in a society a little more open than that society that our ancestors lived and for that, we must thank. Today we have gone from those long chains of internet forums and mail chains to having online and live events and workshops.

Society, at least in most countries, has a slightly more open mind, or at least the new generations have a more open mind, and thanks to this we have a long list of events and annual conventions held in different countries.

For example in Mexico, they have the march of the witches, and throughout Latin America, it is celebrated, with increasing popularity, the Pagan Day and the day of the Goddess, while here in the USA, in addition to these famous days, we have a multitude of events throughout the country, such as the HexFest in New Orleans, the WitchsFest USA, and the WitchsFest Parade, which are held on the same day in NY City, the TempleFest USA in New Hampshire and many more.

These events and workshops give each and every one of the members of the metaphysical community the opportunity to meet and interact outside the digital world with other members of our holistic community in each city, allowing us to meet others like us, or At least, with our own point of view, they offer us workshops with the best authors, magicians, conjures, and fortune-tellers of the moment, as well as a diversity of small physical stores where we can acquire all those magic and holistic items that are not easy to find on the internet, as well as books, amulets, talismans, incenses, handmade candles, and all kinds of magic items to complement your rituals.

Conventions and events are extremely important for three reasons:

• It is the place and date where the majority of possible members of the metaphysical community and the holistic tribe gather in the same place. It is there where you will find your new friends, colleagues, participants, and members for that coven that you are looking to realize and all kinds of individuals interested in the spiritual and mystical search.
• Public conventions and events, such as WitchsFest USA, which take place on a street open to the public, a whole weekend in the eyes of all, are a way of telling the world "here we are, we are not leaving, and here we will continue" It is a way of publicly and proudly honoring all those who preceded us, and it is also a way of making ours one or more days to gather our own without fear of being persecuted.
• These events are also the ideal place for dozens of creatives and merchants who are looking to offer their handmade merchandise at a good price to an audience that perhaps does not know them, that is where you will find everything from organic handmade soaps and lotions based on vegetable oil, to wooden wands, bags of herbs and flowers of all kinds, crystals and gems, books and all kinds of charms made by witches and wizards who come here to offer them to you.

These events and conventions have hundreds of participants every year, and your attendance at these events is perhaps more important than you think because it is in this way that you show your support for others like you, it is more important to make an effort to attend to these events and support your community, that you continue to make an enormous effort to follow and support those artists and strangers who do not know who you are but who still follow you on Instagram.

Remember buy your magical Items in the next new age and esoteric Stores:

For no reason, I am going to recommend you to use Amazon, but if you are a regular Online shopper, if I am going to suggest here a brief list of online store options in which I personally usually acquire some products, or I simply know their owners and them that these are trusted magicians and sorcerers who do a good job.

If with something I am very critical it is with the magic stores, I like to distinguish properly the Botanics (more focused on voodoo, hoodoo and folk magic), the esoteric stores (where the fort is the books, tools, and workshops live) and the boutiques (more influenced by the new age movement). So here I will leave for you the links to my favorites and most recommended, if you are a blog reader, you have an online store (not phone shop) and you want to be added here, please let me know.

• Parlor of Wonders by Madame Pamita.
• Hex Old World Witchery by Christian Day.
• Omen Salem by Christian Day.
• Auset Gypsy by Auset Gypsy.
• Catland in Brooklyn, NY.

In the 4th Post (next week) I will write about... 

• Enchantments and enchanted items.
• Protection Ritual for you and your loved ones.
• Ritual to honor the protector spirits of the family.
• Ritual to close old portals in the house and clean the energy.

And remember, you are not reading this from the vision and perspective of an expert but from another seeker of power and wisdom like you.

Elhoim Leafar 

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• Seven things if you go to visit Amazonia.
• Four ways to empower your Clairvoyance.
• 10 New books you need to have this 2020.

Magic & Sorcery for Beginners with me (Part II).

Sorcery for Beginners II

For those who wonder this.

Hugs to you who wander here, through this tiny and prosperous virtual corner that does not stop growing. Last week I published the first part of this series (CLICK HERE TO READ IT), and I promised to share the second part this week with three very simple rituals that I personally suggest and invite all my teachers/followers to do.

While these are very simple rituals, they fulfill the necessary purpose for each and every one of the practitioners along the way. Also, here I will share some other tips that I suggest to my followers, readers, and magicians in general.

In this post you will find:

• Three Essential Rituals for new magicians.
• Information about online stores and my recommendations.

• The first three rituals.

Here I put the rituals that I personally suggest everyone perform when they are beginning in magic and sorcery. Combining here two important elements that many more advanced practitioners forget to teach, intention and purpose.

• The new moon ritual.

The first night of the nearest new moon, light a white candle and an incense stick of your favorite herbal or floral fragrance. Close your eyes, place both hands on your chest, and breathe deeply and slowly three times while keeping your eyes closed.

Make use of this moment of calm to clear your mind, focus your energy, feel the movement of air in your environment, channel the energy around you. This is what I like to call a sacred moment, a moment of connection with the most sacred in you, yourself, your spirit, your soul and your own energy.

That moment of complete silence, with each slow breath you take, a part of yourself is trying to reach others, so for a moment, your physical body, your mind, and your spirit are synchronized connecting as one.

Then open your eyes, place both palms of your hands open in front of you, visualize the flame of the candle and let the energy flow from your hands to the fire. If you have not done it before, with this exercise that “first emanation of energy” that you do, is essentially the energy blocks that you are releasing yourself. It is as if you were consciously releasing the stagnant water from a well in order to reach the treasure at the bottom (your own energy).

At the end of this ritual, you will feel exhausted, maybe a little dizzy and it is normal, you have just completely drained a huge part of your energy that was acting like an old skin soaked by time. Since then, just as when your body discards everything it no longer needs, you will absorb much new cleaner energy with the new moon.

• The personal Charm bag.

Yes, I wrote a whole magical book on Charm bags (CLICK HERE) because it is one of my favorite forms of sorcery, is practical, intimate, easy to load, use and recharge, especially suitable for beginners. And as your magic and learning become more complex, your rituals and amulets will be too.

I always recommend to my followers to choose a Monday night to perform this talisman. With a mixture of thick salt and rosemary, perform a ritual circle of three feet to six feet in diameter, in the center of the circle burn a little incense, light a red candle, also place a saucer with salt and a glass with water.

Fill a sack of felt fabric with a small piece of amber, a piece of crystal quartz, a strand of your hair tied with red ribbon, some cinnamon powder, white sage and bay leaves.

Bless this amulet within the circle by making prayer out loud to your personal pantheon. Close the cloth bag with everything inside and keep it close to you, either under your pillow at night or in your wallet during the day.

This little talisman will give you greater confidence in your power, unlock your magic skills and also protect you against the envy, the evil eye and the evil intentions of the people in your environment.

• Smudge the place

I always recommend it, use the method of your choice, I like to combine equal parts of sage, palo santo, frankincense, and eucalyptus in a cauldron, I set it on fire, and I move it throughout the house as a votive incense for the spirits.

This combination cleans the energy in the place, changes the eonic vibration of the environment, raises your mood, and drives away evil spirits.

I personally clean my house with this method every Monday and Thursday in the morning. You can simply use sage incense or holy stick in the corners. You can clean with a mixture of rose water and clean water from a nearby river with a few drops of holy stick oil, or rub a handkerchief moistened with sage oil and myrrh in the door and window frames.

About the new age and esoteric Stores:

Although I always choose to suggest to my followers that they acquire their implements for the practice of magic and sorcery in a nearby esoteric or botanical shop, sometimes these can be, or more distant than desired, or many times they are more expensive than online stores.

For no reason, I am going to recommend you to use Amazon, but if you are a regular Online shopper, if I am going to suggest here a brief list of online store options in which I personally usually acquire some products, or I simply know their owners and them that these are trusted magicians and sorcerers who do a good job.

If with something I am very critical it is with the magic stores, I like to distinguish properly the Botanics (more focused on voodoo, hoodoo and folk magic), the esoteric stores (where the fort is the books, tools, and workshops live) and the boutiques (more influenced by the new age movement). So here I will leave for you the links to my favorites and most recommended, if you are a blog reader, you have an online store (not phone shop) and you want to be added here, please let me know.

• Parlor of Wonders by Madame Pamita.
• Hex Old World Witchery by Christian Day.
• Omen Salem by Christian Day.
• Auset Gypsy by Auset Gypsy.
• Catland in Brooklyn, NY.

In the third post (next week) I will write about... 

• My experience with online communities.
• About fairs, events and workshops live.

And remember, you are not reading this from the vision and perspective of an expert but from another seeker of power and wisdom like you.

Elhoim Leafar 

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• Seven things if you go to visit Amazonia.
• Four ways to empower your Clairvoyance.
• 10 New books you need to have this 2020.

Modern Sorcery & Old Magic, by Elhoim Leafar.

Modern Sorcery & Old Magic, by Elhoim Leafar.

Hugs to all the readers who came to this little virtual corner, the place where I feel more like sharing my ideas and the occasional experience.

In this short post, far from debating trivialities like "what kind of magic is better?", I am going to focus on making clear some ideas on the subject that I would like to share about it, especially towards my followers and readers who are keeping me positive. busy in the course of the day.

Remember that in this post, as in all the posts on this blog:

1. We do not seek to please anyone, simply to clarify some points of view from the practical.
2. There are no editors, so the ideas are written as they should be, completely "raw" and without filters.
3. This post is written by an individual who was born in a tiny Amazon town next to the Orinoco River, was raised between the cities of Caracas and Cumana in Venezuela, and currently resides in another city different from the world, if your vision and mine do not match, that is completely normal.
4. In this as in all my blog posts, I do not seek to sell my ideas to anyone, my job is not to convince you, my job is simply to make others understand my position regarding certain topics so that they know and understand that thinking differently does not It means being isolated, you can think differently from the rest and still be part of a civilized society.

Now yes, entering the matter, we are going to define certain points for your understanding.

Modern Sorcery vs Old Magic.

Do you remember Merlin the magician? Imagine Merlin for a moment, the old man with the long beard, the king's advisor, a well-known alchemist and sorcerer who guarded the folklore of Camelot, cared for the holy sword of Excalibur and fulfilled practically all characteristics of a druid.

Merlin revered the forests in order to win the favor of the old spirits, read fate in the stars and clouds, so he would be prepared for all events. Merlin studied folklore in order to understand the past, taking care of King Arthur, to whom he gave advice when necessary, since being the King's guide allowed him to fulfill his greatest task, protect and bring prosperity to the kingdom of Camelot.

Now let's analyze for a moment the practice that was carried out by the witches of Salem and New Orleans, in the US. They were mostly women who lived repressed because of a society that did not understand them, and slaves who unfortunately suffered the contempt of a class and racist society (the latter has not changed much), and therefore, in both cases, resorted to the spirits and the old deities to ask for protection, in a time when everyone came against them, to pray for protection, in times much more difficult than ours, to pray for love, because for young women, marrying a young man was the best way not to be “sold” by his parents to a wealthy man much older than them for economic gain, as well as prosperity, veneration of his ancestors, and even to become pregnant and thus ensure the well-being of the family.

I do not know much about the historical origins of witchcraft and voodoo in North America, that is not my area, and even if I studied it, it is not for me to carry out that analysis. But what I do know well, and could say that it corresponds to my area of experience, are the origins of these practices in the Caribbean and the Amazon.

Umbanda, Quimbanda, Palo Mayombe, Candomble and Santeria have gained enormous relevance in Latin America in these two recent decades. While Amazonia has become popular among tourists who go there to perform Ayahuasca sessions and Cocoa ceremonies at a good price. Cuba and Brazil are the destinations of all those magic seekers who want to enter the esoteric world of Afro-Caribbean mysticism.

All these recent practices have ended up merging with each other to the point of being almost impossible to differentiate, however, although superficially they look quite similar to each other, internally each of these comes loaded with a whole historical legacy, which walks through the first times of the slaves that were brought to the Caribbean from Africa, until the fusion that naturally arose from the practices of these men and women from Africa, and those natives * of South America.

Now, taking distance from the whole historical issue. The practice of magic in old America was very different from ours, it was more based on the connection with nature, on the study of clouds and stars, on divination methods, on the veneration of the dead and the ancestors, and in daily practice, as well as in the constant study and oral transmission of folklore.

The old witches used natural, single-colored, homemade candles, lighting them to win the favor of spirits, venerate the spirits of the night, ward off evil spirits, ask for protection and happiness, or ask for any kind. of wishes.

The witches of New Orleans and Salem gathered the herbs in the forest to prepare ointments, medicinal oils, and burn them as votive incense to the spirits. In Latin America, specifically in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, and Venezuela. Shamans and witch doctors healed with herbs, ointments, and oils, burned herbs to dispel illnesses and evil spirits, and animal sacrifices were the order of the day. All this without mentioning the human sacrifices that were historically contemplated in Central America and Mexico.

The Magic of our time.

Yes, it is very different from the more traditional methods, but it is not "plastic magic" as some call it, although many "neo witches" are more focused on collecting books and buying a hundred herbs and beautiful bottles of oils on Amazon to post very nice photos on IG / FB. Out there you can find many great magicians and sorcerers who make use of these facilities to instruct others in the magical art of sorcery, to form appropriate Coven for the performance of rituals collectively, for the veneration of the ancestors and various gods, to conjure powers and consecrate various rituals.

Of course, the witches of the old-time did not use glitter in their spells, they did not decorate their altars with mirrors because they would rather remain hidden, they did not have two thousand different incense fragrances or used colored candles, all their candles were white and white.

But just as everything in the world continues to advance, sorcery has also advanced, and we who have had the opportunity to embrace this change can now perform magic (which at least I consider) much more powerful. Complementing our candles with symbols that direct all the energy to a more specific goal, incenses that evoke the power of our purpose, and we place all kinds of oils and herbs in our shower soaps to include small rituals of love and protection.

We have the opportunity to do all that magic that our predecessors did not have, we have the opportunity to carry out our practice openly and in broad daylight, and that has led us to study new and different techniques that combine different types of magic in one more modern, more complicated, more complex, and richer sorcery.

For the witches and wizards who preceded us, surely it was also a great change, having to go from the fires of a huge bonfire and a cauldron in the middle of the forest to working with candles between caves and huts to get discretion.

Is Truly Old Magic?

If you have had the opportunity to read the greatest magic and sorcery books ever written, such as the "Greater Key of Solomon the King", "The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King", or "the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage". You will know that those great magicians used a quite complex esoteric science, rich in symbolism and with long and very well structured rituals, their rituals were more based on ritualism and less on "that's what you attract" and these more modern elements.

Those books were loaded with enormous symbolic, kabbalistic, esoteric and astrological knowledge at the same time, all of them not to mention Saint Cyprian the witch-sorcerer "Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic", which was more based on direct practice and less on theoretical study, without stopping being one of the great books that every magician, sorcerer, and sorcerer should have in his library.

All of the above are examples of powerful magicians and summoners who were true idealists and pioneers in magic, and those practices they carried out several centuries ago still remain with us, intuitively linked to hundreds of more modern spells and rituals that we can find in the books of many modern authors.

While for many who call themselves "real witches" the modern magic seems to make little sense, or see it as a modern excuse to make money, these same individuals should discuss two important things here, the first, which probably all those magicians were also considered by theirs as "very advanced for their time", as well as those of today, and second, that everything in this world, absolutely everything that is created by man, and that includes from the sciences and the philosophy, even religion, and art, everything is linked to money in one way or another, because it is the way in which the universal law of exchange takes shape in our hands.

While many modern authors may seem quite extreme in their practice, and many other individuals are more focused on "practicing to look cool." There are still very good authors out there who combine magical modernism with traditional sorcery, achieving very good results, not only good books but also beautiful rituals rich in cultural symbolism and elements typical of traditional magic, which combine with each other to give good results, all these, fruits of his incredible study and years of practice.

Now, it is not to forget an important factor, all the magic that today many people superficially classify as "modern magic", in two or three decades it will be rather classic, which will inevitably influence the practice of many other magicians and younger and more modern sorcerers.

Note: Regarding the use of the word "indigenous", I must always repeat this to avoid the discomfort of the readers (especially American whites who often reproach me for the use of these terms), where I come from the words like black or indigenous, they do not have no negative connotation, in fact, my sisters call me black for love, and we call my nieces "negritas" (little girls), I am the whitest of my brothers and my two grandmothers are native to the Wayuu tribe in the surroundings of Venezuela, the words like "Indian" or "Indian" are not offensive to us.

From Elhoim Leafar Made With Love.

Elo.

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Bark of black pine

Bark of Asiatic black pine 🌿 It was the central part of our ritual to venerate the ancestors several days ago, the Japanese believe that the spirit of this tree is a direct door to the world of the ancestors.

A red ribbon "cures" the tree against diseases caused by the world of spirits.  It also prevents the evil spirits from entering our world from the world of the spirits, the fruits and flowers at the foot of the tree are a tribute to the gods of the earth, and as a gift, the tree let us take part of its bark that would have  fallen to the ground

 I will use this bark to make a beautiful talisman to dissipate the vindictive spirits and bury it in the garden behind my apartment.

Magic & Sorcery for Beginners (part I).

For those who wonder this.

• Magic & Sorcery for Beginners (part I).

• What do I teach my newest students/teachers?

• Tools they will need.

• My online groups.

What do I teach my newest teachers from scratch?

Hugs to you who have arrived here, I will start this with a brief personal anecdote before really getting into the matter. Like all posts in my blog, this is something entirely personal, based on my own experience and background, I do not seek to make corrections to the methods of others or impose my format on anyone, simply this is the way I, completely spontaneously, I learned to do things and I have improved them, but I'm still in a constant learning process.

The anecdote

Recently I (Elhoim Leafar) received a text message on my smartphone, this person got my phone number on one of my pages, it is not difficult to believe taking into account that I have many of my teachers (so I call my students because that's what they are) in my WhatsApp and also in a community group on Telegram where I share weekly notes, recipes, spells, spells, information about the moon phases, dates of my workshops and online sessions, etc.

This individual is an older person who has decided for some time to enter the world of magic and sorcery, is in Canada, the neighboring country, and asks me certain questions about it. With so many more qualified people than me out there (or often simply more popular), it always amazes me when people come to me, because from my perspective, I am perhaps the least qualified for it, however, my group of online teachers It does not stop growing, so I still receive everyone with a lot of love.

Because I am accustomed to this process, I have more or less a guide of steps that I always share with these people, I keep them in order, and I know that they, usually after six or eight months take their separate path and start to their way, so during those first months I like to teach them everything that is in my possibilities, recommend good books, and even invite them to participate as part of my online tribe.

My first teacher

My first teacher was Juan Diego Albares, in San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela. I was barely 21 years old, I wasn't qualified for it, and to be honest I still don't feel that I am. But this person came to me through an online platform, came to my page where I offered (at that time) sessions of spiritualism and divination, and once a year, trips to the Amazon for the realization of ayahuasca sessions, ceremonies of cocoa and rituals for the opening of the "third eye" or "eye of the native god."

This young man, barely a few years younger than me, sought some spiritual advice, and although I made it clear that I was not a professional in the field, he simply told me "teach me what you know about magic." During the following years, and even today, Juan Diego is still one of the members of my tribe, he consults with me only (of course he receives a special price) and we talk every two weeks, we organize distance rituals and he directs my small circle of magicians in Venezuela. Juan is highly qualified to carry out these tasks, and after a while, I have learned more than my own.

The first ten things that I always teach to all who come to me as a guide are:

1. Learn from everyone, and never stop learning.
2. Be always humble because you will always be learning.
3. Keep your altar lit and tidy.
4. Keep your space or room clean every day.
5. Invest a lot in your knowledge and practice.
6. Tell me brother, tell me friend, tell me uncle, don't tell me teacher.
7. Love everything you do, and do it all with Love.
8. Don't be afraid to ask for help, don't be afraid to ask for advice.
9. Do not teach others anything that you have not practiced.
10. Do not do to others (especially with magic) something that you would not want for yourself.

And I always ask my teachers to buy the following implements:

• Candles and incense, for their rituals.
• White sage, and eucalyptus, to burn as incense.
• A white notebook and pens, to create your spellbook.
• Bay leaves, so you never lack wealth in your wallet.
• Crystal quartz, for our monthly meditation rituals.

The first steps I always suggest:

• The realization of various symbols and specific writings in the notebook, this information was sent entirely privately to each individual.
• Clean and order your personal space (bedroom, house or apartment) with sage and eucalyptus incense.
• Join my meditation group on Telegram or Add me on Whatsapp to receive all the information.
• Provide me with your personal information to add to my ritual of blessings that I perform at home every Sunday night and every Monday morning.
• Send me pics of the books of magic you have with you (if you have some) to know what kind of practice your learning, and from there I will understand your steps in the magic.
• I suggest you subscribe to a small list of various blogs (Hispanic, Spanish and American) with very good writers so that they learn from different points of view, we can also discuss in our online groups some of these articles.

The first ritual

The ritual with the new moon that I share with my followers is practically obligatory, this is practically a dictatorship in the whole event (something I learned from living so many years in a Socialist / Communist government). It's a joke !, but yes, the ritual with the new moon is extremely simple and is a mandatory practice that I like to promote in my circles, not only to take them to immediate practice but also to fertilize their magical abilities.

We perform this ritual with each new moon, it is simple, it will not take more than five minutes, and I consider it necessary.

What happened to the WhatsApp group?

For those who were part of my previous group on WhatsApp, this group was eliminated in October 2019, because many of the participants were there essentially to steal our group ideas blatantly and apply them separately, or to share links to book galleries illegally distributed.

For these reasons the group was faded, and so far we have not created another one, but I still receive contacts daily on my Telegram/Whatsapp, if you have one of these two applications (preferably Telegram) you can request my number personally and I will include you in our next group/tribe / online coven.

Who are welcome to be part of my small group?

We are extremely exclusive, excessively exclusive, so much so, that we only admit humans of all colors, races and religious beliefs here.

Who are not welcome to be part of my small group?

As in all places of the universe, certain rules must be maintained, so individuals who come here to hurt or offend other members of the group, any individual who commits an act of discrimination or racism against others, are immediately blocked, and people who share links to pages that promote the illegal distribution of products.

NEXT POST:

In the second post (next week) I will include in detail the first three rituals that I suggest everyone performs when they are beginning in magic and sorcery.

And remember, you are not reading this from the vision and perspective of an expert but from another searcher like you.

From Elhoim Leafar Made With Love.

Elo. 

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Seven Combinations of Herbs & Flowers ready for your rituals.

Seven blends of dried herbs that I like to keep ready for the proper preparation of my rituals.

Greetings & Hugs, then I share several custom combinations that I keep in glass jars under the table of my altar for the realization of various preparations, rituals, charm bags and amulets.

My preparation

These recipes are simple, in my case, I like acquiring fresh herbs directly at a nearby botanical shop like "Flower Power Herbs & Roots" or "The Enchantments" in New York City, so I invite you to look for your botany closest. Then you just have to let them dry for several days in the sun until they are completely dry, after that, I store them in sealed glass jars and mix them with other herbs that maintain similar properties according to the type of energy I try to channel.

Applications

These herbal blends I use for the following purposes:

• To perform protection or channeling circles for each ritual.

• To burn like incense and channel a specific type of energy.

• To mix with clean water and perform essential baths.

• Fill Charm bags, Gris Gris bags & Mojo bags.

(If you are a regular follower of my blog you know that mojo bags and invocations are my usual practice).

• You can mix it with herbal oils to prepare magic lotions.

• To consecrate various talismans, statuettes, altars, objects and amulets.

• To offer to the spirits of nature and gods of the earth.

Combinations.

Then I share the following combinations that I recommend you use, obviously, if you prefer to replace any of these herbs with another that has a similar property, you are free to do so.

If you want a list of common herbs for magical uses that you can use, I leave here the link of my book "The Magical Art Of Crafting Charm Bags” where I have included a complete list of herbs and flowers, a list of semi crystals and stones -precious, and a list of essential oils for various uses.

Health & Healing

Laurel (laurus nobilis)

Angelica (angelica archangelica)

Sage

Thyme

Love & Understanding 

Hyacinth (hyacinthus orientalis)

Poppy

Roses (rosa)

White lily

Prosperity & Wealth

Mint

Patchouli

Rosemary 

Vetiver (vetiveria)

Joy & Tranquility

Jasmine (jasminium officinalis)

Magnolia (magnolia virginiana)

Ylang Ylang (cananga odorata)

Protection & Away from evil.

Acacia (acacia sensu lato)

Ash tree (fraxinus ornus)

Lavender (lavandula augustifolia)

Marjoram (origanum majorana)

Palo Santo (bulnesia sarmientoi)

Magic & Power

Willow (saliz babylonica)

Alder (alnus serrulata)

Orange peel

Spiritual vision & Clairvoyance

Heliotrope (heliotropium arborescens)

Myrrh (commiphora myrra)

Rue (ruta graveolens)

Verbena (vervain)

Treat your home as an extension of yourself

Treat your home as an extension of yourself

that's how witches do it.

Different methods of simple magic that I apply in my little corner to make everyone feel welcome.

It is not about feng shui nor is it about turning your home into the next cover of “lifestyle”, I do not write here about placing altars in each corner (that is everyone's decision) or about placing buddha statues in each bedroom, it Try to be aware and manifest in your environment, the environment you want to have.

A sick house only produces sick people, and that is why the house must be taken care of, cleaned and taken care of in great detail because it is there where you live, it is there where you eat, where you sleep, where you read, where you spend your free time outside of work and where you share with the people you trust, you surely do not invite everyone to go home, only the people with the greatest confidence for you, and for your well-being and their well-being it is important that the house feels good, and for this, the house must be impeccable, literally and energetically speaking.

It is easy to repeat daily "everything around you is a reflection of your interior", "the world is your mirror", and "what surrounds you is a reflection of yourself", repeating it, again and again, is extremely easy (practically all motivational coaches, bloggers, and specialists in the subject repeat it constantly), the problem is to put it into practice, and when your practice involves some magic and sorcery, the practice is as important as the theory, many times even more.

Your home is an extension of yourself, and as it looks, as it feels, all this is a reflection of your interior, and that's where you should start. A disorganized home is like a messy office, no one there feels comfortable or much less welcome, and when your mind is loaded dealing with worries and anxiety, it is easy to do this ends up being reflected in our environment, because even the busiest people usually find the time to organize your office and keep your work cubicle clean, and home is no exception.

I speak from my taste and experience.

In my case, for example, I am much more comfortable in an accessible space and close to everything (the subway, pharmacies, the market, the gym, the park, and the yoga center) than in an enclosed space, I have spent the last 13 years moving from city and even country, and after some time I have adapted to be more minimalist, and focus more on the surroundings of the place, than on the place itself, after all, I know I can convert it in my little palace even with the shortest budget.

Other people do not feel a predilection for knowing the surroundings and because of this they focus only on how spacious or spacious the home itself is, and it is only a matter of time for them to know whether or not they made the right decision.

I prefer the complete but necessary spaces, everything else comes later, but no matter how small the place is, I always have enough space to organize small meetings at home, celebrations with friends and meetings with my coven every new moon, that is I have the space I need, but I always have a couple of tricks to make the place so comfortable that I invite everyone to feel at ease.

Clean with sage:

There is much that is said about it, from a long list of beneficial properties to contradictory arguments about use by some people and groups within the metaphysical community.

The fact is that cleaning with sage is so old that it is difficult to argue who originally belongs to it, if you travel to the Amazon, Texas or Japan, you will find in each place a tradition that uses sage to clean and purify, so Here I focus on the concrete facts and their use, it is up to each person whether they want to use it or not.

Sage is a natural cleanser, purifies the environments, naturally ends up with various uncles of microbes and bacteria in the air, drives away evil spirits, astral larvae and is even used to purify talismans and amulets.

Because sage prevents many things, but, it is not the best protective agent against psychic attacks (evil eye, invasion of dreams, mood swings caused by other external agents, etc ...) I recommend you clean your home with sage and eucalyptus at least once a month, I like to do it every Monday, and on new moon days I usually clean with a mixture of sage, eucalyptus, garlic and rosemary to clean the energy of the place and charge the positive vibration.

Fresh flowers of different colors.

The flowers always give that “well cared for” aspect to every place, in our house we only live several men, however, we need to maintain the balance at home, so from time to time (not weekly) we place fresh flowers in the center of the house, and even a small glass bowl with dried flowers in the bathroom, not only because of the “new age” aspect but rather because of the aroma it gives to places and because of its representation of “nature is always present in this home. "

White and yellow flowers, especially chrysanthemums provide protection and mental strength to people at home, so it is important to keep them. Roses, on the other hand, are quite colorful, but just as they make passion flow, they also make jealousy and conflicts flow, so it is advisable to only have them at home if both people are considered "mentally strong."

A bowl of crystals.

If you have come to my apartment sometime (since I have invited many people), you will know that I keep several small altars at different points of the place, and usually at each altar I place several crystals and minerals previously washed with rose water and oil herbs.

A dish or a glass bowl with your favorite gems or with their corresponding minerals by zodiac sign will always give you an extra dose of energy, in my case, I have a small bowl full of small pieces of amber, onyx, and garnet that I bought in different stores in each city that I have visited, but I also have a saucer at the foot of Buddha full of minerals of various colors as a gift for him.

Scented candles

It is true! I spend so much money on incense that sometimes I am ashamed a bit, but more for the fragrances than for fashion, I light an incense stick every day in the morning so that all the spirits that live or work with me feel comfortable, and so I keep away those evil spirits who want to come to cause problems.

But something that I like to keep at home is the aromatic candles, I prefer to support the creatives and entrepreneurs who make their candles and sell them in the market, it is better than supporting large corporations that although they often make incredible products, The truth is that most of these times these products are as beautiful as they are overrated.

If like me, you want to support the creatives and entrepreneurs, I invite you to buy your candles in different esoteric stores, for this, below I will leave you a small list with the link to various stores that I recommend and that have incredible products.

Quartz

The world of quartz is so wide that we could spend days debating it, I love quartz and probably you too, in all my books there are long lists of herbs, flowers, and gems that you can use for various rituals, but if you have my books And yet you want to know more about the subject, I recommend you buy one of my friend Nicholas Pearson's books.

All of Nicholas's books are incredible, he is a genius who knows practically all the crystals and gems that exist. I keep small quartz crystals in each room as a form of protection, and also to make energy flow smoothly.

An image of Ganesha, of any size.

Charge me with cultural appropriation later!, The fact is this, Ganesha is the god remover of obstacles, is the god of wisdom and practical magic, has the head of an elephant decorating his horns with jewels, and is perhaps the god Hindu most popular of all.

An image of Ganesha is indispensable at home, it is one of those gods who are interested in helping you and being part of your life, it is one of those who want to see you grow, prosper, evolve and undertake, so it is always welcome at home, remember to put fruits, candies, and water with honey, and change them every several days.

My first image of Ganesha was a gift from a cousin of my partner, she and her family maintain a thriving tourism and travel business in India, on a visit they gave me a shirt with the image of Ganesha “to remove obstacles, even those you don't see, ”I suppose it should have worked, because just before that my visa to the USA would have been previously denied (not once, but twice).

I made a small altar in honor of Ganesha (right next to my altar to the Orixas), where I placed a small image of it between candles and aromatic incense, cinnamon, jars of herbal oils and a saucer with fruits, I prayed in his language every day until my next visit to the consulate, and ten days later my visa was approved without any inconvenience.

* I suppose that the wise elephant God did not care much about the “cultural” theme or my origins, he was probably more focused on my commitment and my true faith.

Avoid clutter and the accumulation of unnecessary things.

It is so obvious, but you must always remember it, true entrepreneurs do not believe in disorder, the disorder is synonymous with chaos and represents laziness, as well as lack of commitment to oneself, which is why it is important to keep everything so clean and Organized as necessary.

Do not accumulate unnecessary things, do not lie to yourself repeating “this may be necessary tomorrow morning” or “this has been broken for months, but as soon as I have the time, I will fix it!”, Do yourself a favor and do not tell yourself those lies to yourself, you left everything that is old and useless for your personal growth, old notebooks that you no longer use, torn or stained clothes, ornaments that you don't like and only accumulate dust,

Always remember, the less old things you are busy holding (material and immaterial), the more new things will be coming for you to hold on to them, and if you keep your hands busy holding the old, you won't have to hold the new.

Happy & Blessed 2020.

Folk Magic, Tradition and Reality.

These difficult days, among incredulous magicians and inexperienced experts.

Change forms, Astral Projection, Out-of-body experience, The art of flying, and other forms of Magic that the "new currents" of Bruges fear to practice or share in public.

The world of sorcery is full of fables and myths about the powers of witches, about their special abilities to change shape or be in two places at once, about their power to remain hidden at night under a veil of shadows, or levitate on the roofs at night under the moon.

In the literary world all this happens to become things associated with “context”, tradition and folklore, even in some of my books I have felt obliged to censor (or rather, self-censor) when trying to write an anecdote about it, and then limit myself to writing "according to folklore, if you make use of this gem on the eve of the new moon, you can...", and I'm not the only one doing it, and this topic came up recently in a conversation that I kept private with one of my readers via telephone.

The truth is that even many times, my own partner has read my books, and although he likes my books and considers them to be quite complete, he also usually comments “you should try to write a little more about things that you do and others don't”, to the point that recently talking with Karen, who is my friend from Peru, and a complete expert in transformations, we were remembering that day when inside a Coven in Venezuela (she visited me and stayed to sleep at my house), and in Coven, after having participated in a ritual of (I really don't remember that ...!) We invited the boys to participate in our practice session of astral unfolding and projection, and most of them simply saw us with a very expensive face rare and refused to go for different reasons, although most of these reasons agree that "astral projection and those things are only an interpretation of the magic of witches", to which Karen and I simply stare at each other, thinking "what kind of magic do these people who don't even try something so basic practice?"

And unfortunately, the modern world is full of abstract answers like these, today, where for many "the gods are nothing more than simple archetypes," magic is only "a form of energy that you seemingly develop with meditation and yoga," shamanism. and everything associated with it is "cultural appropriation without spiritual bases," and conventional spiritism is cataloged by "experts" as "a colonial way of misrepresenting and teasing old indigenous cultures," and another lot of nonsense like that, it's easy. get lost between theory and practice just for fear of being stupid.

Me,  Myself & I.

I have been a victim (so to speak) of cyberbullying many times, every time I publish something about transformations, astral projection, and other forms of practical magic in my blog or in my networks, there is always an Inbelief Witch (Incredible but true that yes they exist!), who only comments with ridicule and scorn by calling me “dreamer” or science fiction fan, which is quite ironic, considering that I am apparently the only sorcerer who is not a fan of wasting valuable hours of the day eating Cheetos and watching Sabrina on Netflix or The Magicians, or one of these science fiction series quite irrelevant to me.

The fact is that there are two very strong generations out there that are growing in the shadow of a true generation of real sorcerers and magicians, on the one hand out there there is a whole generation of young people with a lot of talent and magic skills, looking for ways to expressing their enormous power and trying to find others with their same talents, and on the other hand, there is a whole generation of Unbeliever Warlocks, who lack real practical talent or willingness to do things, who make fun of these others for trying to get out from the box and think differently, and with “think differently” I mean think like the witches and wizards of before, think that magic is something so real that it makes those science fiction movies look like something absurd.

It is quite difficult to master various forms of magic, it is not easy to levitate pens in the air, it is not easy to create fire from nothing on a saucer with water in the middle of the night, and no, it is not easy to master astral projection and unfolding, as I have commented in several previous posts and in one (maybe two) youtube videos, this requires years of study and practice, not to mention a lot of money, money that you will spend between books and books, looking for which are written by true experts and are full of real recipes, and which are written by inexperienced who simply expanded a Wikipedia article and put a title and cover, but once you get it, this is worth it.

Quoting my grandfather, "not all witches know how to fly, but at least some try, hold on to them," he always took esoteric practices seriously and his library was packed with these books, although as he said, the Most of these books were written by inexperienced people who really do not know what they are talking about.

And I am not going to apologize if this sounds arrogant, because it is disappointing to read entire blogs full of complete misinformation about it, where these “Wizards Unbelievers” (as I like to call them), have never tried in their life to make a split or a session of astral projection, but they force you to sympathize with their incredible ideas and sell you something like “magic is very powerful, you are unlimitedly powerful, here you have the love spell this week,” then they end up placing imaginary walls in the mind of others, making the less knowledgeable think that magic is limited to ethereal things, tarot readings, blurred dreams with doubtful meanings and Saturday meetings to talk about books.

Mixing the Magic

At 14 (I think I was 14, but I'm not entirely sure, maybe it was at 13 or 15 because I was new to military school), I borrowed from the collection of my mom's books the "Ars Goetia" and “the Manual of the Sorcerer of San Cipriano”, books that today most of these fashionable sorcerers have not dared to read.

And I remember something, I literally put into practice each and every one of the spells in those books, every invocation, every ritual, there I was, at 14, with a pretty ridiculous outfit, with an old and dull blade in one hand and a glass with wine in the other, burning sulfur, incense and feathers of a black chicken to invoke a spirit from beyond, and I remember that the first few times nothing worked, at some point I almost gave up thinking that none of this would work, my grandfather has always stressed: "the shamans are shamans and the witches do the rest".

Baba (grandpa) has always been really very prejudiced about it, but my mother, which is the perfect proof that if you can be and learn many things to the Once, it has always been a source of motivation in this regard for me, and with your help and many (literally too many) advice about it, I managed to continue implementing these various rituals, I added them to my personal practice as sorcerer and shaman, and I continued studying these books, even on vacation in the Amazon (where this type of western magic is prohibited by all tribes), I continued studying these books and deciphering those hidden codes that have written between the lines.

It was not until the age of 16, once out of military school, that my invocations began to give real results, the truth is that it is much easier to deal with conventional souls and ghosts and learn to master a spiritual possession than to conjure these "Gentlemen," I suppose it was not until they got tired of hearing my calls and realized that they could take seriously that they began to appear, and even today, 13 years later, some of them (three to be very specific) are still not taken seriously enough to manifest, but not for that reason I will stop trying.

The fabulous flying witches

My grandmother, who is an experienced healer, has always told us about how wonderful it is to fly at night, and although even at some point I came to doubt about it (I admit it), someday close to the traditional festival of devils of Yare (a festival of religious character in Venezuela), she spent the whole day preparing, my mother seemed to joke about it, but at night they both went “to talk” with my aunts in the courtyard, me from my window I saw them and heard them talk for several hours before midnight.

I remember that group of women sitting outside talking about politics, travel, fabrics, and other things, I remember my aunt Rosalba preparing a rare infusion with the smell of roses and cloves on the stove, I remember my aunt Samantha opening the two parts Chest of a white dove that pulled out of the cage and deposit the heart of it in a small cauldron with herbs and some flowers.

I remember everyone smearing this mixture with oils and reciting a spell (which at that time, before mastering the language properly seemed strange to me), and I remember seeing them lie on the floor in an extensive circle around the patio stove with dozens of roses decorating the ground, they seemed to fall asleep and minutes later, a group of blackbirds, similar to large crows, perched on the trees in the courtyard, six to be exact, six crows, or so they seemed to be, and what a strange coincidence that In the courtyard were my grandmother and her five daughters.

I could have shouted from my window asking for help to think that these rare blackbirds would do them some harm, but contrary to that, I felt a kind of fullness and calm to see them, shortly after they flew several times over the motionless bodies in a circle and departed together. I was stunned by this understanding of what they mean by "going out to fly," and it was not long before I woke up one of my many sisters to tell him what happened, she took it with total serenity and just made me promise that I didn't I would say nothing to anyone, at least until my Mom taught me in the future how to do it, which only generated a doubt in me that until today I have not resolved, because my sisters do not do it too ?.

I did not fall asleep that night, I stayed awake with a lot of encouragement, and shortly before dawn, around 4 am, a group of birds came back making a lot of noise, they settled on the bodies (not on the trees this time), they walked between them for a while and they left, I could swear (although I am not entirely sure of it) that these birds soon disappeared into the air, seemed to have vanished in the wind, and shortly after my uncles began to wake up, my mother among them, and my grandmother was the last to do so, after that they went to the kitchen to prepare coffee as if nothing had happened, as if they were not tired, and then, they would have no reason to be, if their bodies certainly rested all night.

It was only four years before I was the one who woke up in the middle of the night, because my cousins Alexander, Alejandra, and Daniela, though they saw their aunts sleeping in the patio while they drank something weird, so I just took them to the window and made them also promising not to talk about it, I showed them everything that happened, the birds soon arrived, and since then they also know what they are about.

Day by day

This kind of thing happens every day in our world, the world is full of secrets that only magic knows and that only through the study of sorcery could you explain, certain things are beyond our control (visa control and credit cards, for example), but magic is certainly capable of many more things than simply creating "love spells" and "divination sessions."

If for some reason, you as a practitioner are not willing to try something different for fear of what might happen, that's fine, it is no secret that many people have suffered a cardiac arrest while flying at night or while leaving their bodies to half day. But not for that reason you should limit yourself to thinking that magic is only decks of Tarot and celebrations of the equinox.

Taking up that conversation

That conversation from which this post came about via telephone, a follower of my Blog and Social media, he claims to have seen my video talking about astral projection several times, I imagined it was due to my accent and maybe he did not understand me, then He explains to me that for years he is living the same experiences unconsciously and involuntarily over and over again, I am quite accustomed to the fact that many times they are making fun of others, so at first I respond very kindly but without many details, each of his messages and the very insistent send me more and more messages explaining things that I usually know but that I have never read in a book about it, and that is where I take it seriously.

From that moment on we started contact via @mail, constantly sharing information about it, sharing experiences and anecdotes, and just as it happened with him, I have also been talking with a couple of people.

I do not read minds or move things in the distance, I have not even tried the truth, but I will not deny that others can do it, here (in this blog) I have constantly written about my experiences walking through dreams and knowing places that I do not find in the physical plane, and I am not the only one, we are rather many, and out there there is a huge tendency to believe misinformation regarding these issues.

Unfortunately, there are so many sorcerers and magicians, incredulous of their own power, out there, forcing others not to try different things for the simple fact that they cannot explain it.

In shamanic practices, we have a very simple and easy to understand scale, to be a shaman you must first be a sorcerer capable of creating real changes in the world, a student of the hidden arts and a connoisseur of language, ritual symbolism, and magic, but besides being a sorcerer, to be a shaman you must be a medium, you must be able to pass spirits between planes, between your body and other bodies, and that entails years of practice and constant work, to be a medium (and here Shamans differ with many "practitioners" of witchcraft and Western magic), you must be a spiritualist because through spiritualism you will know the world of spirits and you will enter into their practice, and to be a spiritualist and become a medium, you must first be a seer, because, to enter the spiritual world, and be able to conjure or possess spirits, it is necessary to be able to see and hear them properly, not just knowing that they are there.

In the same way, sorcery works in all its branches, constant study and practice until exhaustion only give good results after some time, although I have met a couple of quite talented individuals capable of achieving it quite quickly (unfortunately I am not one of them), in magic and sorcery, constant practice is the secret.

On astral projection and lucid dreams


This is my favorite subject, and it is the most difficult to talk about, because all the experiences are different, and it is not accessible to everyone, Hey! I have said accessible, I never said exclusive, so do not misunderstand me, what I try to explain here (and clearly I collapse in the process) is that it is quite difficult to explain to people, about something they cannot see or hear, and It takes them so many years of practice that it is simply easier to surrender in the process, especially when it comes to something that I did not learn from someone else, but happens constantly and involuntarily, and it has taken me years of treatments to prevent a possible cerebral palsy or cardiac arrest, it is much more difficult even perhaps to explain it to a doctor.

But contrary to popular thinking, these are not exclusive “gifts” that certain people have, it is like singing, only 2% of the world population lacks the ability to sing due to something called “deaf ear”, but while some individuals are born Practically singing, others learn in the process, some have great voices, others have a much more discreet vocal talent.

Well, it works with different types of magic and sorcery, everything is learned and magic is at your fingertips.

Moving in the world of dreams is not an easy task, but because it occurs during the unconscious, it is one of the most difficult ways to handle, while astral projection (voluntary and conscious practice) is easier to carry carried out over time and constant practice, although obviously, some take longer than others.

But as I have commented in some videos and posts before, there are many books out there that try to sell you an erroneous idea, like wanting to make you believe that this is something extremely accessible and easy to understand, almost without any effort, when the truth is It can take years of practice.

Trying the astral projection is for many as frustrating, as starting a diet and maintaining it for eight or nine years, even seeing that it has not given you results.

But far from seeking to discourage anyone, I simply try to make one point clear, and that is that constant practice is the result, and not giving up in the process, but 15 minutes of deep and slow breathing every morning, is a good way to advance the process.

Elhoim Leafar