Level Up Your Life

with Color Magick, Introspection, and Affirmation

I’m not a health professional. This is for entertainment and information.

Ready to live a life of contentment? Well, stop chasing what you don’t actually want. This article  is not a collection of spells for getting laid and getting paid. There are plenty of other sources for that. What do you want, anyhow? Let me give you a hint. It’s not a noun, it’s a verb. Maybe several. If you’re thinking I’m full of shit because you want something, then ask yourself how you would feel with it or what you would do? That’s what I mean, your desired noun is the means to your real end. Humans use tools. Feeling prepared relieves anxiety. See? Stuff to verbs again. We want verbs.

How do I know which verbs I really want? Here’s what I did. While on the Faith Blind Council Discord Server I saw their literature on a nonparadigmal color magick system of servitors. Yeah! That last sentence can be a lot if you are unfamiliar. I can wait…

All caught up? Great! Well, I was inspired by a passage from Thee Psychick Bible about it being better to enchant for the qualities that lead you to what you want rather than for things you think you want. I was game. Frater Yaramarud’s color magick servitors were ideal because the eight colors represent all aspects of a magician’s life. Creating the servitors to aid me in altering my personality would mean that I had considered the eight main avenues of experience a person can engage in and planned what would be an ideal version of myself. One that has the experiences I want.

In doing so, I codified my very own personal value system! I won’t share mine, I don’t need to. It isn’t relevant to you. Only you can say what your relevant values are. 

You’ll get a boost here, because now you begin to focus your mind and thoughts every day toward your values, and in turn, your goals. With my direction added over Yaramarud’s instruction in the NPM document, you will have a delightful little pack of thoughtforms in no time! 

I like Aidan Wachter’s opinion on the phenomenon; a servitor creation ritual is simply a job posting. The role of a servitor is filled by a spirit/ energy /thoughtform /ultradimensional/ angel/ demon/ fairy /etc that already exists. Anyhow…

Now that you’ve got your pack, you need to hang with them and review the plan. Regularly. In fact, this has become the most consistent part of my practice.

I was hesitant about it at first, but an offering practice is a very chill way to do this. I fretted about being subservient to a spirit because I was giving them stuff. Visions of blood sacrifice and evil sprang to my normally nonvisual mind. After hearing a few compelling arguments, I dabbled and now agree that it’s more like serving chips and beer when your buddies come by. I don’t know if they get any use out of it other than the attention you invest. That however, is time well spent. Sometimes, after I do affirmations (we’ll cover that next) I will just sit and open up. It is time that my allies can inspire a thought. I leave my mind clear (or reset it to clear as needed) for ten or fifteen minutes. I do an offering every morning. Most mornings, I pair it with a fun little twist on gratitude and affirmation.

I wrote a haiku for each of my allies. Servitor, elemental, deity, disincarnate human priestess, whomever I kick it with in ritual or the Imagination Zone. They all get a haiku that expresses their role in my life and my gratitude for their help.

There’s a reason here and it isn’t because I usually get down with poetry.

Frater Yaramarud inspired the poetry during conversation, and it’s because poetry, and symbolism (similes and metaphors) are the only role in written language that the right hemisphere is involved in. The rest of writing is the domain of our autopilots. In other words, our magick minds write in poetry! 

One Haiku can help me review an ally’s job, a personality trait I’m strengthening, and also express appreciation. 

There you have it. Probably the single most powerful piece of magick I do. The best way I know of getting everything you truly want out of life. It’s really just a matter of scouring yourself to really know what’s important, then celebrating the knowledge and pursuit of those values for a couple minutes each day. Make a plan, check in on it. Do your part, then watch the synchronicities start clicking into place.

Mrs. Mindbender is still shocked at how flexible I’ve become to life changes. Before I would have really got pissed about changing plans. Now I can go with the flow. Before if I entered a spat of sobriety, it required me to substitute one thing for another, but now, I’ve enchanted to feel comfortable sober, and it fucking worked! I’m normally very private with my specific workings, but this particular thoughtform has been such a sweet relief, that I will share it with you, dear readers! 

Nym

Equanimity

Sober is Satisfying

I’m comfortable

Nym isn’t actually one of my eight color magick servitors. Please don’t feel limited to doing it my way. That would be dogmatic. Eris says, “Fuck dogma!” I asked… With this particular servitor and habit, I drew Nym on my body in an inconspicuous place and every time I wanted to indulge in something mind numbing, I looked at Nym and repeated my haiku until I felt comfortable again. For the first time in twenty five years, I’m satisfied with sobriety. 

In the interest of full disclosure, I had to bear with physical discomfort for about a week. Nym is helpful from the neck up, not the neck down.

We talk a lot about freedom in our society, and in magickal practice as well, but what I’m offering is a whole different level of freedom. With this technique, you can be free of the flawed acculturation that imperfect guardians, culture, and circumstance assigned you. You can truly be free to pick who and what you are because this technique rewrites your personality deep in your subconsciousness. 

I’d like to close this article by offering my suspicions about the practice of affirmations and supernatural energies (whether you call them archetypes, deities/spirits, thoughtforms, or Ralph). I think there are gateways within us that we can shape. When we shape them, the energy that flows through them becomes limited to the shape we provide it. While some people have reported nasty things when they turn within, I have not experienced them since I started this practice. I suspect that my carefully crafted thoughtforms only let applicable energy flow through my imagination and into my life.

Now go mold the gods into your ideal image!