Why people are so afraid of black magic...
and how to get over it!
First off, let’s face it: judging black magic as evil *is* racist… We can do better than that!
- I am a Daughter of Lilith, and by the way, YOU are a witch too.
Those were the words with which my new goth transexual friend b¡tch-slapped me, as I sat speechless on the squeaky wooden benches of that rock pub, sipping my cheap beer and staring in disbelief at her total-black emo figure...
"That girl must be crazy. I mean, she looks crazy, all dressed up with mystic symbols drawn on her face and multicolor dreadlocks. How can you take anyone who openly declares to be a witch seriously?"
My legally-trained, logic-obsessed, rational mind was thus trying to come to terms with this new reality. The scariest part, for that hard-built ego of mine, was the incredibly strong pull I could notice in my whole body towards that witchy universe. It felt exciting, electric and… life-threatening dangerous!
No wonder coming out as a witch feels dangerous, when you consider our collective conditioning, especially since I remember past lives when I was burnt at the stake… Have you?
As this whirlwind of thoughts spun inside my head, she gave me a long compassionate glance and explained further:
- Look, you don’t need to worry, we’re a whole community here. A sisterhood. And we don’t get burnt any more, it’s actually pretty fun stuff we get to do. You’ll see as you keep exploring your new powers!
- My new powers? - I wondered.
- Yes, your new powers. They’re not technically new, it’s just you’ve been unconscious of them for most of this lifetime. You are a green witch, though, meant to work with nature. And a red witch, cause you are great with emotion, you help people feel everything they’ve been repressing.
Now my jaw dropped: how did she know that about me? We’d known each other for less than a week, I’d just met her at the local bellydance group, where I went to make new friends in my new city. Upon relocating to Southern Spain after a year and a half locked down in Italy, with a pit stop in Madrid to do my hypnosis training, which had revealed itself to be a wonderful healing tool for body, mind & emotions.
My whole life had collapsed during the pandemic, and I was adding new therapies to my yoga and ayurveda, mainly to help myself deal with 30+ years of accumulated trauma. I’d been toying with the idea of offering hypnosis sessions officially, but I was too shy and insecure to put myself out there as a professional therapist; coming out as a yoga teacher had already been hard enough, after studying to become a Law Professor for more than 10 years.
Demons, in Tantric Buddhism, are but negative thoughts: fear, insecurity, anger… We all have some, and we can all learn to use them in our favor, with a lil practice. Black magic at its best!
So there I was grappling with all my family-acquired judgment towards magic (I could hear their voices in my head: “you gotta study hard to get a good career, work harder, money doesn’t grow on trees blah-blah-blah”), especially the dark kind this goth girl seemed to embody, when it hit me: I had already reached rock bottom. I had already tried to kill myself, I had been so miserable in the life that I thought others expected me to live, that I had nothing to lose any more.
- Fuck this shit, tell me more!
She then proceeded to give me a whole lecture in magic. After which, she requested to try my hypnosis sessions, the ones I’d only practiced on friends and family so far, and I hadn’t told anyone in my new city about - yet.
Three years later, I still remember that heart-warming magic initiation with a smile. That “random” encounter lit a spark in me that would only grow stronger over time. Ever since, I’ve remembered my past lives as a witch, read countless books on magic, and studied with world-renowned teachers from all over the globe: tantra, shamanism, Qabalah, shadow work, Tarot, astrology, Thelema, Jungian psychology…
In hindsight, I can see CRYSTAL CLEAR how all those tools helped me dig myself out of the hole I was in, when I met that first witch friend, and nothing in my life made sense. I was lonely AF, alternating between anxiety and depression, and feeling exhausted just by trying to manage unmanageable bouts of chronic pain. Today, I have everything I decreed I wanted in one of my first spells from 2021: a thriving business, a loving community, a beautiful house by the beach, and my twin flame (more on that another time).
This is the POWER of magic, of which black magic is an integral and fundamental part!
The thing is that, as I progressed on the magic path, I realized that WILL alone was only getting me that far. I had no idea about WHY back then, but the spells and visualizations that worked wonders in the beginning, gradually seemed to have lost their charm. More and more of my fears were materializing in front of my eyes, to my dismay, and the coaches and therapists I consulted couldn’t help me either.
I felt STUCK and FRUSTRATED, big time. The people who were meant to support me were turning against me, as I was traveling the world alone as a digital nomad, looking for a new place to settle while I grew my online business from scratch. A pretty vulnerable situation, if you ask me now, with more perspective!
Back then, again, I had little to no idea about any of this. No clarity whatsoever. Until… I found shadow work, THE REAL KIND, not the adulterated vanilla version for white boss babes my first coach had taught me. No, my demons were strong MFs, so I needed the strong tools of legends like the Buddha, Jesus Christ, and the like. All of whom were powerful wizards, in case you didn’t know, who mastered the art of black magic. AKA facing your demons, and showing them who’s on command, so that they volunteer to work FOR you, instead of against you.
Demons are actually cutie-pies, once you learn to speak their language, which millennia of Judeo-Christian conditioning made us forget by using the very black magic they told us they were protecting us from. Yup, you´ve read that right…
Black magic, to which the main antidote is shadow work, is the science and art of controlling others through FEAR. By applying this definition, it is very easy to realize how fucked-up society actually is: parents are taught to raise their children though fear, society & governments keep people obedient through fear, ads & marketing make us belief we should buy shit we neither need nor want through (you’ve guessed it) - fear.
If you’re tired of abiding by other people’s rules on how YOU oughta live YOUR life, then you NEED to learn black magic, lest you stay a prey to this fear-based conditioning.
The opposite of fear, for magical purposes, is love. Love and faith, which are the same thing, in practical terms: when you love yourself (or anyone else, including the Universe, or God), you have faith that they can make the best choices for themselves. That they mean well. That they want to help you out.
So black magic aka shadow work, this current buzzword in spiritual & psychological lore, is all about IDENTIFYING your demons, then OWNING them, and PUTTING THEM TO DO GOOD WORK. For you. Cause you’re the goddamn boss, you just need to show them, and they’ll obey you. That’s it.
The main motto of Thelema (ancient Greek for “will”), one of the main modern Western occult philosophies, popularized by Aleister Crowley, based on a mix of ancient traditions. My favorite definition of Thelema, by my teacher Carolyn Lovewell, is as tantric Christianism.
OK so far we’ve got white magic covered (the power of sheer will, for our own good, and the good of all), as well as black magic. The former is what most spiritual people are comfortable with, the so-called lightworkers, the latter is the shadow work we ALL need to be doing in order to set ourselves free from the demons of fear and emotional manipulation.
Those two types of magic, as indicated by their colorful names, are polar opposites. As in, the WILL is the positive driving force that motivates you, and the FEAR is the limitation that slows you down. Both are actually necessary in duality, for both have valuable lessons to teach us.
The way to transcend and integrate the apparent opposition between white and black magic, as with any dualistic paradox, is to seek the third way. That is the path of red magic, surrender to the divine within & without, what Thelemites like to call “Knowledge and Conversation with your Holy Guardian Angel”. You can also call it your Godself, Kundalini rising, or Christ consciousness. We don’ discriminate here, magic is a universal phenomenon that comes in all shapes and colors.
Paraphrasing the Buddha: we’re here just to fuck around and find out :p You ready to go beyond fear, towards surrender to the divine will? The only price to pay is your ego lol
Now, I’ve tried to condense the journey of a lifetime (or many) in one single article, so please forgive me for any omissions or errors. If you want a fuller picture, including what Gurdjieff (a visionary Russian mystic) called the Fourth Way, and its MASTER TOOL, the enneagram… You gotta come to my free masterclass!
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