What is Magiq?
How do you define magic/k/q?
How do you define magick? This is a basic starting point for being a magickal person, living a magickal life, and being a practitioner of magick - but so many people seem to skip over it.
Here’s a few definitions I pulled together for a class that Angela Raincatcher and I led on this topic a few years ago. I’m curious which, if any, resonate with you — and if you have your own.
The Sacred Arts (aka magick) are an interdisciplinary practice of creating catalysts for spiritual or material change. (Ketzirah haMa’agelet
)Sensing and weaving the subtle energies inherent in the universe (Angela Raincatcher)
In The Spiral Dance, Starhawk defines magic, in part, as “the art of sensing and shaping the subtle, unseen forces that flow throughout the world …” In Dreaming the Dark, she writes that magic is a “technology” or “applied science” “of how energy makes patterns and patterns direct energy”.
Magick is your perception, an active role you take in the creation of your own reality. (Christopher Penczak - City Magick: Urban Rituals, Spells and Shamanism)
“Magic” is the hopelessly inadequate Standard English word for a long-established technology which permits access to the “operating codes” underlying the current physical universe. (Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult (Disinformation Guides))
The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world." (Professor March, “The Magicians” by Lev Grossman”)
New to magick as a spiritual/metaphysical practice or as part of Jewish practice? Here’s a great interview with scholar Yuval Harari to get you started.
Thoughts? Questions?
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