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GLAMOUR MAGIC
THE WITCHCRAFT REVOLUTION TO GET WHAT YOU WANT

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Content
Everything is fair in Glamour War
You are not like the others

A small thing

The revolution begins in your boyfriend's wife's bedroom.

Mirror Mirror
No one woke up like this

Failure is always an option

You don't have to like it, you just have to do it.

In the valley of your hunger

Level up

Expressions of gratitude

Bibliography

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You risk it all.

Do you dare?

The desire of your heart always has a cost. If it were easily obtained, you wouldn't desire it so much.
There is always the darkness of the dream forests that you have to push yourself to walk through. Here is
they hide the bad things and reside your great and small battles. Your goddesses and spirits
They must take pieces of you; friends will become enemies and then friends again.
again; You will see unexpected mercy shown by tough rivals; hollow victories and
cordial defeats; lost causes will be won; surely the bets will be lost; There is
to walk on high and low roads.

You must be willing to have your face down in the mud with everything that ever mattered to you.
snatched by the impassive Moirai and then equally ready to seize the opportunity
when inexplicably they have started to favor you again. It must be cunning,
He must be cunning, he must be willing to employ tactics that are not considered fair.

Like the glamour.

What is glamour, anyway?

The word glamour has two definitions:

1.

What makes you exciting and interesting to others.

An illusion spell.

The second definition is useless to us. It promotes the dismissal of the real community of
witches because it's easy to get carried away by the appearance of Hollywood special effects. The
magic doesn't work like that, we get scolded by our elders. And that is a waste of its use.
anyway, even if it could work that way. It is quickly dismissed as a bad trick of
prestidigitation. You could change the color of your eyes much faster with contact lenses.
that concentrating large areas of your magical practice dedicated to them. And so, the glamour
dismisses it as a party trick not terribly realistic instead of a subtle magic that
It shakes the earth and uses what makes you exciting and interesting to others.

It is no coincidence that glamour is also associated with feminine beauty, especially if this
beauty dares to be attacked by cosmetics or clothing. We have been taught that women

deceptive, her Spanx full of lies, her Manolo Blahniks deceptively shiny.
The lesson has been that if someone dares to try to take your power, not with absolute
domain, but embracing everything that is fascinating and charming to others in it,
if he dared to try to become something he wanted or truly achieve the desire of his
heart especially using magic, their appearance, cunning or bravery; must be slapped
and embarrassed. Society relentlessly tells us that a real person of substance
would never get involved in the real use of glamour (definition one or two) of any kind to
improve their luck in life. That kind of behavior is reserved for strippers,
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sexual identity, vagabonds, scammers, and you. Yes you. Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
Witch. Occultist. Mage. Any word that you have placed on your own forehead and sealed with
blood, saliva or myrrh oil, we are Another. We have more in common with spies, assassins,
pirates and highway robbers with the modern population in general. They may no longer
let's live on the edge of the dense ravine of the forest where we offer sacred offerings for
our services, but time changes and so do we. Glamour is not a magic of
landscapes that never really existed; it is all the interesting and exciting things about you that already
you have within you. If it's already there, asleep and resting at the bottom of your brain, in the
pending in your stomach, in the hollow of your insides, what can you not achieve once you
Do you know how to use it? We are used to being denied as Others. We have...
used to accept less and to apologize for everything we are that is not accepted
easily (yes, even now). We apologize to our goddesses, spirits, and ancestors
only what we feel we truly deserve, and then just a little less to be
insurance. We should never be seen by anyone as someone who overstepped, as someone
who clung, like someone who is acquisitive. Not for our families, not for our
friends, not for our communities, not even for the universe itself.

Think of fairy tales, think of reality shows, think of operas. Who is the story?
with a moral? She is the bad girl. The one who took more than she should have, the one who asked for retribution, the
who forgot her place, the one who did not need to please others if she could promote her cause. She
she is the one that must be destroyed, she is the one that must cry at the bottom of a well for her
crimes, it is she who must be brought down at all costs. It does not matter what her gender is, she can
identify with the archetype of the bad girl if they have ever made you feel "less than", if
Have you ever been a scapegoat or reprimanded simply for defending yourself when you shouldn't have?
it was convenient for others, if it has ever solved a problem with a strategy that
others would not dare.

Nice girls are the ones who are rewarded. They must be patient, obedient, and kind, not
not for the sake of any of these virtues, but so that they may be redeemed and rewarded. Thus
that we are compelled to be Good Girls, because we are shaken by the consequences that
we have seen through cultural narratives and by the satisfaction we have seen in others
people when they dethrone a Real Life Mean Girl. It doesn't matter how much it bothers us
in this paper, we will grit our teeth because this is how our narrative will progress. It is the only
a way to ask for something, politely, and just a little less than what we want. It is the only way
to receive something for us without trembling before our enemies. If we are just,
We will be worthy. We hope, we do what we are supposed to do, and we move on.
waiting until we become bitter that our virtue has not been rewarded nor has it been a
sufficient reward in itself. Regardless of their gender identity, it is possible that
it relates to being a good girl if she prefers to move on to get along even if
puts his personal ambition at stake, if he is courteous even when the time for courtesy has
a long time ago, or if it follows an intricate set of rules to please the
others. We all have something in common here as kind girls: being kind did not manifest
our most illicit desires.
What if it were possible to be bad without ceasing to be good?

You can be both. You can be bad enough to work to fulfill.

your aspiration using mundane work, glamour, and magic, without ceasing to be what
good enough to have a personal code of ethics that keeps one grounded
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Start right here, right now with your Great Work.

Your great work is driven by your desire. In alchemy, your great work would refer to the
creation of a philosopher's stone, which would go through four stages of development and would be used
to become a more powerful and possibly immortal alchemist. The colors, the
Birds and other symbols would help you through the Work, but you would create your Stone.
Philosophical for your personal enlightenment. Its power, the materials it has selected, its
The interpretation of the texts and their ambitions would greatly affect the creation for you.
from the Stone.

When I refer to your Great Work, I mean your most intimate transmutation, which begins
when you are able to identify what you want. Yes. It desires: the true heart of the
darkness in their fairy tale of everyday life. Witchcraft is meant for those
they want something as much as the heroine or the villain of a fairy tale. If you didn't have a
glow of unfulfilled need within you, why would you embark on a journey that will
unknown and terrifying consequences? He will not be able to trace every step of this path, no
He will know what will be asked of him to feed that fire, and he does not know if he will succeed. What will he bring to your

life? What will it take? No sensible person would travel through dark and unknown corridors to
less than ... they would want something fiercely in the darkness of their heart. However, before
to take our first step on this journey, we need...

A study program for our ritual esoteric experiments A ritual can be

as simple or as elaborate as you make it. You are the captain of your own ship. You can
decide for yourself what works best for you in the Esoteric Experiments that you will find at
throughout this book. That said, I encourage you to step out of your witchcraft habits more
comfortable and investigate the practice in different ways. Comfort often does not
guarantees success. For example, I personally have a television habit of
reality that I recently (mostly) broke. It is comfortable and makes me feel interested,
but it prevents me from using my time to practice witchcraft, read, write, practice yoga,
actively relate to others or watch plot-based television. So I must
break this deliciously comfortable habit if I want to see a
real change in other aspects of my life.

If it usually forms a circle, do not do it. Use another method of protection. If for the
The general refrains from asking his goddesses and spirits for small favors, ask and see what
It happens. If it usually has a careful choreography, see how its work functions.
when is more improvisational. Take note of what you have done that is different from what you do
habitually and from the results he sees from his altered work. It is very difficult to change the
habits that provide us comfort, but witchcraft was never designed to make us feel
safe or comfortable. Witchcraft was created to shake the world both externally and internally.
internally. It is a primal scream that demands to be heard.

The rituals (Esoteric Experiments) of this book are intended to be carried out in the order in
that are presented. The design of each experiment is intended to awaken its own
creativity; they are not meant to be used as an exact format, but as a
compass that will indicate the correct direction to find the desired objective.
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is to find it. You can ignore all my suggestions in the Esoteric Experiments or follow them.
as close as you want, it depends on you.

If you choose to step out of order or skip any, there will be no generational curses upon you.
head, the spirits will not chase you while you sleep, nor any of those things
exciting. That said, if you really want to manifest your glamour and take advantage of it to
to achieve his Great Work, it would be advisable for him to carry out each ritual with care and consideration in
the order in which it is presented.

Just like your DNA, fingerprints, and personality, the Great Works of no one will be
exactly the same. Your Great Work must be something that requires effort for you to achieve,
it must be something that is profoundly meaningful to you, and it must be something that requires both
practical work as magical work to complete. The great potential works can
being anything, from having a regular spiritual practice to finding a spouse with
Who to marry or discover my professional path.

Achieve a specific creative effort to buy a house in order to put down roots. This
The first Esoteric Experiment will help you discover what your Great Work is, and throughout
book, you will be given opportunities to use your glamour magic to give you more.
opportunities to obtain your Great Work.

Esoteric Experiment No. 1

Objective: Discover your first Great Work.

Pack your bag with the things you may need and can carry. A leather journal that you
They gifted you something you have never used and a good pen. A playlist.
selected for your phone. A vintage blanket. A travel mug filled with kava tea. A
baked roll with carefully chosen herbs. battered tarot cards. accounts
wasted bad. A compass that belonged to your grandmother. Drawing pencils and heavy paper. A
aroma that evokes a particular memory. Sturdy boots. A worn sweater. A little
packet of salt. A second small package of unadulterated tobacco. A protective amulet.
Pomegranate seeds. A lipstick as red as the rose. A compact mirror engraved with
clandestine stamps. A sacred text. An enchanted balm.
Go to the forest. No, there isn't. It's not your forest with the tree that cradles you among its branches and the
blackbirds that sing to you. It must be an unknown grove that doesn't remind you. Follow the
paths drawn for you by strange helpers until you become deeply entangled in this
foreign grove. Walk until you find trees that sing to you, walk until you
find a place that feels like part of your kiss. Step off the path taking into account how
go back to him. Walk until you find a hidden place. Lay your blanket down.
First, offer your tobacco to the forest. Say simple and natural words for you. Place your
offering at the base of a tree. Define your workspace and create a protection for
you putting a ring of salt around your blanket. Turn over a piece of your clothing.

Arrange the objects of your baby carrier on your blanket until you are satisfied. Set your
intention. Express your desire to find your Great Work in a careful and concise manner. Use
your chosen objects to help you.

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Free writing. Draw. Modify your headspace. Trance into your playlist.

Steal letters until the path is clear. Eat pomegranate seeds until your
Let the spirit manifest. Mantra: Sooo (inhale) Hummm (exhale). I am that.

Look for signs and omens in the birds, the trees, the squirrels, the deer.

Stay until you have a great concise one-sentence job. Stay there, beyond the
boredom, beyond frustration, beyond anger, beyond existential anguish,
beyond the chatter in your brain. Persist until you have your answer. This is your mission.
This is the beginning of your journey.

Write the desire of your heart in a sentence. The emotion of fear that runs through you after
Writing it with such boldness is real. But if you are careful, if you are cunning, if you use sorcery
what beats inside you, you can live to tell it. If it doesn't burn you alive like a white moth and
dusty first, of course. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Glamour is not just a flame, it is a bonfire.

Now that you know that

Do you want it, how will you achieve it?

Now that you have discovered your Great Work, are you surprised by what you found it to be? Is it something
that you always knew was burning inside you? Take a breath and take some of it
time to start planning the mundane work necessary to achieve it. Use
any method that works for you: drawing, writing, using an organizer, collecting
photos or anything organic for your process. Start brainstorming ideas on how
practically achieving his Great Work will put him in the right mindset to perform the magic of
glamour to achieve it.

Once you have brainstormed, here are some practical tools for
break down your great work:

1.

Start telling people about your great work. Nothing motivates someone like shame.
to be too lazy to achieve what you set out to do.

Telling other people also gives you the advantage of having cheerleaders who encourage you when
failures and they praise you when you succeed.

2.

Break it down. Let's say you want to start your own business. It's a long process, like
I know from experience. It's too big in that way; Facebook will distract you. What is a
good starting point for that great work?

Analyze what type of business and then what is needed to be successful in that type of business.
Start as a side hustle with social media and a website, and then see if it's everything
what I wished it to be. I performed the magic of glamour to incorporate the influences
appropriate. Consider how you would like to present yourself in your business. Make a statement of
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save a little more money as a cushion, and so on. You should divide it into steps.
reasonable and, at the same time, allow failure and unforeseen circumstances, both
positive as well as negative.

3.

Be disciplined, committed. If you have a deadline for certain aspects of your project
work, must fulfill them. Even without deadlines, the best way to achieve your Great Work
it's through ... well, work. It makes sense, right?

It needs to be hurried and polished both in its glamour and in its practical work. If not
He constantly works on his Great Work, he will not achieve it. It will be just another lost dream.
You may be wondering, what does constant work mean? If someone asks you what you have
recently done to move forward with your great work, do you have a response from
Immediate? Are you fed up with your great job? Have you secretly begun to hate it? If so
He answered yes to all those questions, so he is in the right place.

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You Are Not Like the Others

As witches, we have learned to shed our fang in exchange for a place for us in
small towns, cities, and suburbs. It would be a real falsehood to deny that it is
It is beneficial for us to have at least a thin veneer of respectability.

So, we offer fresh mint water and homemade meringue cookies with smiles to
our suburban neighbors at Pagan Prides. We lead the PTA committees. We walk to
We have dogs and adopt cats in our local shelters. We serve in the army.
We join our hands together in marriage, giving birth to little babies with names.
full of unfulfilled promises. We live in condos and cabins, we work in the media
of communication, we work in accounting, we work in hospitals, we honor our
recent ancestral family inheritance at Christmas, at Rosh Hashanah, at Ramadan, at gatherings
relatives. We are everywhere. We want everyone to sleep well at night knowing
we are like everyone else. There is nothing to fear, we offer songs for peace and
We are volunteers in our local food cooperatives.

All the better to mask what we do alone and together in the darkness of the moon.

Don't be mistaken about this, we are Others. Whenever you move away from the dominant narrative in
your culture, you become Another. If you are a woman in a traditionally male role, you are
Another. If you are a man in a traditionally female role, you are Another. If you do not identify
As a genre at all, let's stop there, you are Another.

Tolerance is not the same as acceptance, but! But! So many pop culture witches!
I wear my favorite witchcraft symbol in a visible place and no one bothers me! We work.
very hard for the chaplains of the U.S. armed forces to recognize us and when
let them bury us for dying for this country, now we have four complete symbols to choose from!

Correct. Except that almost all the witches in pop culture that I can think of have
to be punished in her narrative. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow is considered a
A witch addicted to magic is punished for it when her girlfriend, Tara (also a witch), is
murdered. In Wicked, Elphie is dead at the end of the book version (although someday
can return to life) and has to leave Oz forever. In the musical version, he cannot
Tell Glinda that she survived. Glinda is trapped in Oz with all her loved ones.
disappeared and forced to take on a role that you may no longer want. So you are punished if
you are a pariah and punished if you also play, which makes Oz a very appealing place for the
witches.
In Frozen, Elsa is not allowed to have a love interest, although Hans easily could have.
has been written as both the villain and a romantic interest for Elsa or Anna, leaving Kristoff out
sister "incomparable" remaining (it's still Disney after all).

In magical practice, aunts are marginalized in their community for practicing the Art. Proof
Halliwell in Charmed receives a double punishment: when she becomes a 'super witch', she is
murdered by a demon. It's a double punishment because Shannon Doherty couldn't get along.
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They were thrown out of the program and were never seen again. And what about the list of murders in American...
Horror Story: Coven? Too much time to even get in.

We can be more public with our profession, but how often do you talk in a way
significant about the figures of authority in your life? No one would ever tell him that he was
fired or excluded due to their beliefs, but they could certainly find others.
Reasons to let it go or not include it. Does that silence you?

As a Witch who is part of the Other by refusing to submit to monolithic religions.

in power in a first-world country, it is expected to behave in a certain way in order to
fit into society. You are expected to be a shining example of morality; you are expected to
keep altars in your home that do not bother others, you must have a career in the
that helps others, you should only use your power for the good of yourself and others, it is expected that
behave within the community code of social customs. You are expected to work
harder to prove your worth to those in power, which generally means
to demonstrate that you are like them, except for this small thing (Witchcraft. But also:
sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, ethnicity, social class). The more Other
The less pleasant it is for those in power, as it will create more
disorders in the dominant order). So, if those who have power over you consider you the
good enough as a shining example despite your otherness, you may be given
some crumbs from your table and you are allowed some nominal power.

That is the path of the Good Girl. If you are a Good Girl, the only type of Other you can be.
It is one that allows itself to be commercialized by its 'better' and stands out like a pony.
of exhibition that can act when ordered and make everyone else feel
educated and tolerant. You will read the tarot when ordered, you will heal when ordered and
you will produce an open circle that everyone who is ordered to can attend. When your
oppressors show you where you are supposed to be, you accept it gracefully and
gratitude. If you have the option to lower the tone of your practice to make others feel
more comfortable, you should always choose that option. You are a very special episode of Degrassi or
Skins where it is your duty granted by the goddess to educate, defend, and never make a mistake that
it cannot be corrected immediately by your tears washing the feet of your oppressors.

Or you could be a bad girl. Bad girls are there to function as fetishes in the
witchcraft community. What strange things can you do in bed for me under the gaze
Are you aware of your goddesses (or better yet, demons) in your bedroom? What curses will you cast on me if
Shall I pay you enough or give you what you want? What will you wear for the board meeting?
schoolchild so that you can click your tongue in disapproval? You are there to be a
warning of what happens when subjected to a thirty-kilometer radius of fear,
suspicion and jealousy. You are the sand in their eyes, the stone in their shoe, the pea beneath their
Good Girl mattress mountain. You must be suppressed and brought down whenever possible.
because you interrupt your local cultural narrative. You are the enemy. The Witch that must be
prevent him from achieving anything. You must be silenced as soon as possible. You must avoid having
lovers, family, friends, along with any commonly accepted measure of success.
Any mistake you make will be recounted time and again with languorous details for
remind your sisters Good Girl what happens when a bitch forgets her place.

Or, one could acknowledge that every little decision they make has the potential to claim
subtly power over another person, and can work to use these small decisions
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possible that you provoke a micro-rebellion. Throughout your day, you are taking small
decisions to have power over someone or something else. The food you eat that
comes from animals and plants that had to be sacrificed to sustain you, the
text messages that you avoid because you don't want to deal with the offered drama, when you
you refuse to back down on a decision even though it makes the lives of others more difficult,
send your child to bed an hour earlier because they still can't tell the time and you have
had enough for one day; all these are 'power over' decisions. Small decisions
of "power over", but decisions of "power over" nonetheless.

Witchcraft is a tool of the oppressed to gain an advantage in a world that

has given us many fewer advantages than others. That is why the rich traditionally
currently) outsource their actions to a Witch instead of becoming themselves in
Witches. They want to know that he is being taken care of; they don't want to dirty their hands with him.

This is your secret power: use it

Think of it this way: the old, heterosexual, privileged, white friends never
they have been particularly concerned about how money and power will alter their
personalities. There is no doubt that having privileges will change their relationships with others
because it is not a concern. They accept money, prestige, and power as what it
the world owes them and they take care of their affairs by leading the world. Perhaps it's time for
let's stop worrying about what is not our place and obsessing over how
our actions could discomfort others and fight for ourselves and our
Great Works.

You may be concerned that all this potential power changes who you are internally.
unexpected ways, which is a valid concern. If you do it correctly, you will.
moral compass can change, could make regrettable mistakes along the way, could
learning difficult things about yourself. Glamour is a guerrilla war, so
It should not be taken lightly. Especially because it is not a fight you will always win.
How much do you desire the deepest wish of your heart?

If you are still unsure whether witchcraft qualifies as otherness, I invite you to participate in this
optional social experiment.

(Optional) Social experiment No. 1

Objective: to know the true feelings of a loved one about witchcraft.

Step one: Among your non-magical circle of family, friends, and acquaintances who know that you are a
Witch, wait until one of them has a semi-serious problem with another person. Maybe this
the antagonist may be causing problems for their loved one at work, perhaps their loved one
Dear, I have a troublesome ex-lover; there may be problems with the landlord. Listen.
the problem.

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Step two: Ask your loved one if they would like you to work magically with them.
antagonist who is causing him problems. Do not provide any Craft modifier.
standard to this statement. The standard craftsmanship modifiers include, "Just energy
positive!" "I only work with white magic!" "I would never work with another person without their
Permission! Even if those statements are true for your personal practice, don't say them. If you
They ask if you plan to do black magic with the antagonist, don't get involved. Shrinking from.
shoulders, to say that he is still not sure.

Step three: Observe your loved one closely to see if they react. In most cases,
you will see something like fear and/or disgust on their face along with a hurried "No, thank you!"
regardless of the personal beliefs or the moral code of your loved one. The minority
he will want you to work with his opponent, in which case offer to help in any way
in which, generally, you would magically help someone according to your own code of
ethics. Most people do not want to be Macbeth for your Lady Macbeth, even if their self
wakes up says he doesn't believe in witchcraft.

I invite you to delve into that Alterity and make it the cornerstone of your Art. There is
strength in embodying the unknown, the discarded, the feared. Some of you may be
worried that this could lead to 'power over' versus 'power with'. If it is
using it correctly should lead exactly to that. Make the odds
always be in your favor.

Starting now.

It is not enough in his Great Work to mix with the masses in general. If that were
sufficient, it would be called a mediocre work.

Your otherness gives you power, your otherness enhances your glamour, your otherness can potentially give you
opportunities for your great work because you are different.

Esoteric Experiment No. 2

Objective: Delve into your otherness.

Wear clothes that feel more like an expression of yourself. Choose the music that resonates with you the most.
expressive. Gather small representations of your otherness that are meaningful to you.
Charms, herbs, bones, stones, images, whatever is special to you. Use a small piece.
from a piece of clothing that she can no longer wear and that is too damaged to
Donate. Wrap your items in this piece of cloth. Use thread to wrap your package closed.
About your package, breathe your intention to enter into your otherness. Breathe your intention that your
alterity helped him achieve his Great Work. Breathe in his intention for his alterity to be part of
its glamour. Keep your package in your pocket, your bra, or bag until you feel
firmly entrenched in its otherness. Then, keep it in your altar or bedside table.

Your actions have consequences

Now that we have decided to take this adventure seriously, let's analyze what
it should really be done here. On one hand, it is easier (morality aside) to go to the forest,

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find the maiden who is more beautiful than you, and cut her heart yourself, making yourself
thus the most beautiful forever and ever, amen. It would be less challenging if you simply needed
committing a bloody and forbidden act and then receiving your wish. That is the seductive part of
fairy tale, the sluagh in the forest that promises you a life far from your despised ones
parents in the Land of Fairies if you kill them first.

Perhaps, for some of us, it is that simple. Dark acts, pacts with demons.
correct, and then it is a smooth path to your desire that does not require you to change, have
inconveniences or work harder than you wanted; everything is just as I imagined.
I can say that I know no one (not even the urban legend 'a friend of a friend') who
I have not had that kind of luck or grace regarding the hidden, so I feel secure in
I sincerely doubt that it is this way. You.

Your journey towards achieving your purpose will not look as you imagined, so your success (if not
he is so lucky) it won't look like he imagined either. He will have long and dark moments in
those who will feel as if they are lost in their internal Schwarzwald forest, no better.
whether Hansel or Gretel.

The people who really care about you will openly doubt you ... and you
You will doubt yourself. You will be rejected in places that hurt you. All your flaws, all your
defects, all your sensitive points will be thrown at you like a tar pit
Black. You might wonder if all your suffering, all your pain, all your anxiety will be worth it.
the pain of reaching your coveted desire.

Maybe. Maybe it is.

But maybe it isn't.

What you think you want and what you really want are not always the same; sometimes it is
quite bitter to discover the difference.

None of this matters. I can tell you that the oven is hot and it will burn you, that guy just...
It will break your heart and eating belladonna will kill you. But if you are forced to walk a path, nothing
It will stop him. Surely, it never stopped me.

However, if you want to succeed in achieving your desire, no matter how advisable or ...
Regardless of how incorrect it may be, it must be considered in an integral way. Do the job.

All of that. Do the tedious tasks that do not require candlelight. Do the work that requires
that you recruit others to help you, letting your glamour immerse them in your cause. Do
the witchcraft that leads you to a deeper understanding of your desire and sets the
odds in your favor. Do the work that you are avoiding. Do the work that makes you feel
uncomfortable. Do the work even when your passion has died and you would rather watch videos of
YouTube in its place.

That said, as much as you desire your Great Work, you must also be able to sleep at night.
glamour, like any other magic, has a price. Magically speaking, it will be difficult to see if
your magical work is having an effect on your karma because karma is actually a
super complicated process based on good and bad actions throughout life that
weight over various bureaucratic spirits and goddesses who have the task of the tedious work of
to keep track of when you are naughty and when you are kind. The law of threes is a
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Of everything, if we only practice white magic and we are all just Good Witches, there is nothing that
fear if they transgress against us. Without an easy-to-follow rhetoric that promises
keeping ourselves in check, what could we not do? Being tied to the tales of morality of
Good Girl about being rewarded for virtue and the morality tales of Bad Girl
Being punished for ignoring social customs won't help you here.

Perhaps, he sees himself as someone who is morally more flexible. Perhaps manipulating a
situation at the workplace where you feel great and are a good coworker.

You can't stand being fired, it doesn’t bother you. Can you believe that a witch needs power?
to enchant and to heal. Maybe you want to show your sister who is in control by sleeping with
your husband. Perhaps none of this bothers you.

I am not here to shake my finger in disapproval at morally questionable acts or

to intimidate you into committing acts that are outside of your moral code.
I am here to tell you that you have to be able to live with yourself every day, no matter what happens.
pass. I can't tell you where those lines should be. I can tell you that it is very likely
that you make some mistakes and, without realizing it, you go beyond your moral limits while
practice the magic of glamour. I can also tell you that if you ever leave your house and you
When relating to other people at any level, it is equally likely that I will make mistakes.
morales accidentally because that's how life is as a human.

Where does that leave you? It leaves you like a witch. A witch is someone who is not limited by
always do what society accepts as 'the right thing' to appease others and that
may be inclined to actively work against those who would harm or prevent it from doing so
He achieves his goals. A witch is also someone who may never want to work.
actively against someone and may find it morally repugnant to participate in certain
acts both mundane and magical.
What witch you are depends on you and only you. It can start as one type and then you can find yourself as
itself as the other; it can be found in a kind of morally gray middle ground.
But it is vital for a Witch to have a strong understanding of her own personal moral compass and
work to live within your own moral code of ethics.

It can be an intoxicating moment in which you are embracing your glamour, and it is
understandable that you may be wishing for it or handling it quite recklessly. Without
Embargo, finding a comprehensible situation is not the same as finding it excusable.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. You must be able to think critically about your magic, your
spirits and goddesses, the people you interact with and your Great Work. This also includes
learn to predict the possible consequences of their actions and take responsibility for
they.

Sometimes, seeing that another suffers damage can be an action one is willing to take on.
responsibility. Sometimes it isn't. Only you and your moral compass know what the collateral damage is.
acceptable that it can inflict on the world in general.

Let's suppose that he does something that another party considers morally questionable, but that does not affect him.
it seems to have been a morally questionable action. He must be able to participate in his action
and accept that the other party may not agree that it was the right thing. It is not their place
convince the other party that in some way they had the moral authority because it is
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But that doesn't suddenly excuse you from the consequences of that action. Other parts can
disaffiliating from you due to that action may be poorly received in your local community or
workplace, can have unforeseen consequences years later that you did not anticipate.
You must decide if these potential repercussions are an outcome you can live with. If so,
Good luck. If not, here is that crazy idea again: don't do it.
The most important thing is that it doesn't matter if your intention was pure and good and then after some
the way it derailed, it was a bit bad and then it got out of control, or it was a bad action that
He had planned, but he didn't like the result, he must take responsibility for his actions.
when it transgresses. Avoid "but, but, but the magic", like in, "But, but, but it wasn't my
intention! No one else cares about that when you hurt them. The intention can help the
another part to understand why he did what he did, but that's not an excuse. The attitude
Defensiveness is not an apology. Blaming others is not an apology. An apology is
I'm sorry for doing x to you. How can I fix our relationship?

Glamour is not for the faint of heart. One must be capable of owning every action that
comet and, when it makes a mistake, it must be able to apologize for it and offer help. If you want
winning your big and small battles will require other people. What you do with
other people depend on you and only you know what is morally right and wrong for
That is why you should conduct a moral compass check before proceeding.

Esoteric experiment No. 3

Objective: Define your own moral ethical code.

Find a place that is suitable for meditation: a shed in your backyard, your
a workroom or an overnight camping trip in a remote area.

Twilight is the suggested time frame for this rite.

Select a physically vigorous activity for you: moon salutations, dancing

ecstatic, a long walk, making love.
Surround yourself with protective herbs. Cedar tips. Vervain. Acorns. Heather. If you think you can
surround yourself safely with a circle of glass candles, do it. If you have doubts about how
setting fire to your house, your garden, or a forest, use a series of fairy LED lights that work with
batteries to create an inner circle that surrounds it. I burned a stick of palo santo wood.
in a heat-resistant container. Use something that flows: a tulle skirt, linen pants, a
long cotton dress. Lie down in the savasana (corpse) position: palms up,
lying on your back, with your legs slightly apart. Take small sips of air.
with three heartbeats of difference. When I can no longer take sips of air, exhale
deeply. Do this until you feel centered.

Travel inward, to places that are sacred to you. Consider the possible actions and
consequences. What do you find morally repugnant? What actions could you take in this?
What are the unforgivable things for your conscience? What repulses you when someone else does it?
Does that affect your decision to do that for others? Are you willing to work on others to...
your own goals? What are your limits with that? Are there actions you could commit that
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Disapproved? What would you do if someone started working with you because of your actions?
Can you get out of a mess? When you feel that you have developed a conscious outline of your dilemmas.
Morales is now ready to move on to the next stage of glamour: involving others.

Your darkness and your light: perfect together

There is glamour in the darkness, in the evil queen, the Witch in the forest.

There is something exciting in the feathers, the bones, and the blood that covers the tangled hair,
a dark cloak and the cabin that could save you or suck the marrow from your bones. The stranger
offering the maiden everything she ever wanted ... with a small catch. Likewise,
exciting is the handsome paladin, the Good Witch, the beloved queen. The beauty of the armor
shining, the crown of jewels, the dried herbs that smell of life and love. All those things
live inside you: the bad girl who became good, the good girl who became bad, the
Patient princess, the dark queen, but we tend to favor one over the other. Why
What? There is a deep power in the intimate knowledge of one's own aspects that
more they shy away, especially the parts of you that are Other and that you are trying to gentrify for the
comfort of those around him.

When you know the great and terrible things that you are truly capable of, when
you know what lives inside you, it's when you truly own the space you are in
you find. Think of the wild beauty that comes from that knowledge, the constellation
wild glamour that will shine in every molecule of your skin.
If you can take advantage of everything that is cruel and fierce about you, everything that is wonderful and
beautiful, wouldn’t the Moirai notice?

Esoteric experiment No. 4

Objective: to learn the truths that have been hidden about oneself.

Decipher how to use these truths to get closer to achieving your Great Work and as part of your
glamour.

This rite is best performed during the waning moon at night. Use a room without
windows with a door that can be closed, like the wardrobe in your bedroom. Choose a time
and a day when you are not bothered. Bathe in the smoke of the purifying herbs. Wise. Lavender.
Romero.

Dress simply in dark colors; leave your hair and face unadorned.

Organize your space in such a way that it is comfortable for you to sit for a period of time.
potentially long time. Once fixed, reflect on which of your tools
rituals will help you better in the darkness. A black glass chalice filled with sacred water. A
dark mirror. Rosary. A doll of spirit. Bones to throw. Trance music
gently touched. The sound of running water. Organize your tools. Hang a
protective amulet over the door inside your room. A hamsa, a Brigit cross, a
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Start your journey about your hidden truths. Stay in the space until you have
found what had been hidden from himself about his darkest and lightest pieces and
consider how to use them both to achieve your Great Work and as fragments of your glamour, which
makes it more fascinating and exciting for others.

Your glamour will not resemble anyone else's; it shouldn't. You're not trying to imitate an actress.
the one you aspire to be; you are working to be your best self. Your best self is just that: you in your
best moment. You are the smartest, the most beautiful, the most clever, the most cunning,
the most compassionate, the most kind. You are at peace with your darkness, your anger, your sadness, your pain, your
insecurities.

All these aspects will open doors in the universe to your Great Work. Stay with me. The
glamour is despised and spat upon because it is an artificial construction.

We want the most real! No, it's not like that. You think you do it; we all do. We believe that this
it's love, beauty, and success, without effort. If it seems that they put a lot of effort into something, in some way
Inexplicably, it will be less valuable to others.

Let's be clear: this is a completely ridiculous notion. Anything worthwhile

doing is a lot of work. Glamour is a fantastic form of witchcraft because it is
completely created by oneself. It is not about presenting a false façade; it is about
manipulate real aspects of the personality that are within you and external constructs
that others find interesting and attractive. If you are not concerned about long tabs, that doesn't
It will be the cornerstone of your external glamour. If you believe that long eyelashes are glamorous.
but yours are short, you can find the perfect mascara or learn to
placing false eyelashes because it is significant to you. If you don't have eyelashes and want to use
false eyelashes, that is also your right and privilege. You didn't suddenly become a
false version of yourself because now you have longer lashes when before you didn't
you had them. Your new false eyelashes can give you a boost to be more flirtatious or
Bold, but they won't have you rob a bank if you weren't planning to do it beforehand.

Reflect on what you learned about yourself in the fourth Esoteric Experiment. What are
Did you decide what the best and worst parts of yourself were?

How can you work with these aspects to modify and shape how you present them?
The others? It is important to keep in mind that your glamour will not resemble anyone else's, nor
you (or should) become someone you are not. You want to attract opportunities, influences and
people towards you, not a false projection. In terms of witchcraft, if it presents a front.
completely false, the energy that attracts will not 'stick' either, because there is nothing
there is really nothing to cling to.

Choose an aspect that is part of the bright side of your glamour: your kindness, your charisma, your
humor, his compassion, his adoration, his intellect, his courage, his resolve. Consider how
take a generically "good" trait and turn it into something glamorous. Reflect on
these two examples:

People think I'm smart.

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2.

People think I am smart because I am very well informed about hermeticism and
I can talk about him in a way that is identifiable and interesting, even if the other
the person is new to him, both in person and on my blog.
The first one is good, but it is very general and it is difficult to do much with it. The second one is much
more specific. You want to stand out in the minds of others (also including the goddesses, the
spirits and the universe) because that's how you progress. Consider how to do that regarding
this trait and find small ways in your daily life to "read" as specific in that
trait and not in general in that aspect. Find a mantra for it, keep it simple. My
Courage is glamorous to me and to others. Start accumulating energy within yourself.
while focusing on how he sees this aspect. Imagine that the energy of this aspect rises
from the ground, on your legs, on your back, and then on your head, on your throat,
over your chest, over your stomach, over your sex, over your legs, and then back up.
seven times. On the eighth time, when you write it, see yourself completely surrounded by this
aspect. No matter how you see this aspect, amplify it until it is an ocean within you
about how you see this aspect. Focus on how this aspect will help you achieve your Great Work
and in what his Great Work will contribute until he feels surrounded by this aspect of his
glamour. Keep notes in your diary about how this affects your daily life. Keep working.
with this appearance until I noticed the change. Once I noticed a change in how it looks at itself
the same and how others treat him on this aspect, it can lead to a darker aspect.

Find the glamour in your darkest aspects. Shyness can be glamorous.

Bad mood can be glamorous. Ineptitude can be glamorous. Hesitation can be

gorgeous. Anguish can be glamorous. Melancholy can be glamorous. Everything
it depends on how you present it. On an energetic level, it’s about how you project it. What sounds
attractive

1.

I haven't showered in a week, my clothes are stained because I don't dare to

worrying and I am eating handfuls of cereal from a box because I am too
demotivated to do anything else.

2.

I have an air of sadness, I wear a simple dress because I am too sad to

worry too much about fashion, and I make a humble meal of chicken and vegetables.

Both are essentially the same; he is depressed, he is miserable and probably is not
doing everything he thinks he could do. Both require approximately the same
amount of effort, but one sounds sad, depressed and unkempt, and the other sounds more like
a novel by Brontë. The way you see yourself affects the way others
(including the goddesses and the universe) see you.

Think about how to shape your intention with this dark aspect of your glamour and expose it to
universe. How do you see this aspect? Are words attributed to it? Feelings? Colors?
Images? Sound? Music? Scents? Really develop it fully.
internally. Your glamour is a part of you, so you can decide how to shape it.

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How can you take this difficult aspect and make it appealing to yourself and to others? How
it will change some small daily habits so that they go from being tolerable to being glamorous,
both for you and for others?

Do the energetic exercise described with the light trait now with the dark trait.

Choose a simple mantra, My sadness is glamorous for me and for others. Continue
writing in a diary until I see the change as we discussed and then continue
alternating between the light traits and the dark traits until one feels they have a good
idea of how its glamour functions as a cohesive aspect of its magic. You will know that it is
working when it feels more like a recipe that is memorized and doesn't have to
think about creating it instead of trying to cook a recipe for the first time (So many steps!)
So many small adjustments to make!)

Once you master these aspects, you will be able to delve deeper into your toolbox of
glamour, becoming a formidable force for your autocrats: beauty, charm,
discipline, conviction, and organization.

Unfolded glamour

Beauty is what the media controlled by the oppressors say is beautiful, otherwise it
what people really find beautiful in their daily lives. Others, of course, will want
help those they find attractive. Others, naturally, will want to help those
that they find attractive. Think about what you feel for baby animals.
Of course, you want to help them because they are very small and adorable. It's the same for
many people with human babies. Beauty, however, is relatively static without
glamour that spices it up. Glamour is everything you do to your beauty: the scarves that
The scent you use and the clothes you choose. How can you make beauty a part of
from your glamour toolbox to achieve your Great Work?

Charm covers aspects such as wit, good conversation, and connecting with others.
all of which is very useful to achieve your goals. Beauty is and charm makes it. The charm
you can make yourself appear more beautiful to others than what is merely on your surface because
it is an external manifestation of your inner spirit. Glamour is the spell you cast over
others with your charm. How can you make charm a part of your box of
glamour tools to achieve your Great Work?

Organization is fundamental in glamour. Without organization, you will get stuck in the
first stage of glamour (people giving you / buying you small things) instead of with a
uprising completely formed by your ambitions. If someone shows you a plan of
well-prepared business, will probably be more inclined to give a large sum of money
That when someone says to him: 'Do I have this idea? Can I have five thousand dollars? The glamour is
the spark that inspires him to turn a waking dream into a structured plan. How can
make organization part of your glamour toolbox to achieve your Great
Work?

Conviction gives authority in his Great Work, as it shows his passion and commitment to it.
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failure and fatigue. Glamour gives you the strength of your conviction. How can it make you
Is conviction a part of your glamour toolkit to achieve your Great Work?

You will need to be disciplined to successfully manage your glamour.

None of these aspects are easy to handle, but you must become an expert in
handle them all individually and together. Think about your great work. How can you use the
beauty, charm, organization, and conviction (together and separately) to help you?
Remember, you don’t have many resources like the oppressed and will need to wield all your
carefully perfected glamour tools to be able to move forward. If one
stopping halfway through their work towards their goals will lose momentum and their efforts will be lost
power. He wants to avoid this at all costs.

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A Little Thing

Having said everything about the use of glamour for more than trivialities, it is important not to
discard the utility of glamour when acquiring desirable trinkets. After all, if
you don't manage to get fed by hand with pieces of homemade cured duck ham like a dog
small, how do you expect to unravel a kingdom? Make the beautiful boy behind the
counter falls in love with you enough to put more pain au chocolat in your
bag. Be clever enough so that the person attending the bar ...
I bought a violet candy filled with rose petals and crushed herbs. A sudden flirtation.
from your best friend's wife. Suddenly, all your exes are eager to help you
move. Your piano. Go up and down three flights of stairs. Get the contract you need.
signed along with a wine-soaked dinner paid for by his client.

Your most secret and coveted desires are not for anything as trivial as a promotion with a
tiny salary increase or a slightly better car. He is not using clever tricks.
forgotten to achieve something that could be achieved simply by paying a little more attention
to its environment.

Discovering how to be treated like a queen in a very low-level scene is not your ultimate game,
Your great work really is.

However, Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli did not write Il Principe while he was living in the
his mother's house, he ate sausages and worked for a bakery. He needed to be a counselor
from Cesare Borgia, lead an army against him, lose the battle, be tortured, and then exiled to
your estate to complete your Great Work. If that small representation of the whims of the
Moirai scares him and leaves him inactive, so perhaps his Great Work is not as grand as.
I thought. In the words of Machiavelli, 'One must consider that there is nothing more difficult to
to undertake, neither more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than to initiate a new order of
things.

Let's move on.

The first piece of your new world order

Our first rite in current glamour magic must be small. We must start with
small things because without the mastery of the small, there is no hope of mastering the larger ones
grandiose. Then we will weave a tapestry of big and small acts of glamour until it is what
strong enough to become fabric. What may seem small in the
first reading can be huge and vice versa.

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Esoteric Experiment No. 5

Objective: Enchant an object to receive small favors.

You should select your object carefully. Ideally, it should be something new, something that you can ...
use something without previous energetic resonance. It doesn't have to be expensive, but it must be something that
it seems beautiful to you. Something that makes you feel amazed. An evocative fragrance. A pencil.
decadent lip. A shirt that fits you perfectly. Whimsical cufflinks. A pair of
impeccable shoes.

Undergrounds that are completely flattering. A necklace with a sacred stone.

Once you have chosen your object and purchased it, select the date for your ritual. Choose
a date that is powerful for you: a Friday because it is the day of Venus. The date of the
full moon because you feel your power increasing during it. Saturday, July 23, because no one
she will be home for the first time in months. Mark this in your calendar. Distill the favors that
I would like the boys to flirt with me.
What strangers will buy me cocktails. I wish the merchants would give me
intentionally more than I bought. I want to be praised for my beauty wherever I go.
I want others to say that I am clever and charming.

It must be simple, it must be a trinket that can be easily detached from, although not
always be easily given. Whisper the date and your intention to your object every night before
go to sleep. Hold your object in your hand and caress it as you would caress a lover while
you whisper to him/her.

When the chosen date arrives, prepare for your ritual.

You must be alone, which will allow your power to flow and flow without being disturbed by energy.
of others and the pre-existing egregores. Each decision regarding your ritual must be addressed with
attention, as each decision will affect the outcome of your intended enchantment. Clean yourself of
ritual form in your bathroom by candlelight. Draw a bathroom filled with rose petals, petals of
jasmine and wild rose with essential oil of frankincense. Use your most luxurious scrubs and washes.
to cleanse yourself of previous energies. When you leave the bathroom, apply olive oil on yourself.
hot and myrrh. Consider whether you prefer to be naked for your ritual or dressed. If you choose to dress,
What will you use to demonstrate your intention? With what jewels will you adorn yourself? Your feet must be
barefoot.

Decide which part of your house would be best to perform this ritual. A room with a door.
what closes facilitates energy extraction. Consider what ritual tools would be
best for this rite. A double-edged dagger. A chalice filled with cherry juice.
Elemental representations. Images and offerings to your goddesses and spirits. Incense of
bee propolis in an incense burner. A board of spirits. Piles of roses. A vase
cordial full of St. Germain. A cup of tea full of dirt from sacred places. A
small jar filled with your blood, your saliva, your vaginal fluids, your semen. Your chosen object.

Seal the door with rose water, using a seal that protects it. Seal any mirror or
window with the same seal. Arrange your selected objects. Start to increase the
energy singing, singing, playing the drum or dancing. Once you feel you have gathered
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offers has selected to give them and why. Request their presence and attendance. Keep your
object near you. Breathe into your object until you feel the spirit of your object
shake and awaken. Anoint your object with the chosen fluids. This will be what feeds the spirit
of its object regularly, so choose wisely. Whisper your desire to the spirit.
of the object. Put on your object. Look for an omen if you wish. Disperse the energy that has been raised.
if you are willing to do it, putting it back inside, into its object, into the earth or
opening the room; otherwise, it will naturally dissipate in the coming days.

Use your object regularly and continue to feed it and whisper your intention to the spirit.
of its object until its intention is fulfilled. Be prepared for it to take several
weeks or even months, and it is very similar to how a watched kettle never boils. The more
the more you look at it and obsess over it, the less it will work. Look and observe with the corner of your eye and
the brain; that's where most of the glamour happens. Don't proceed with the next
experiment until it has been completed.

Once I can successfully complete this experiment regularly, it is important

remember not to completely deviate.

Being pampered and celebrated can distract even the most intensely focused, as
many of us are not used to it. Don't lose sight of your great work and
keep going.

Historical glamour

Glamour is used to subtly influence situations. Nothing demonstrates this better than the
examples of historical disturbances. These women were not even considered people
during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which meant that owning land and having money and
agency over their bodies was incredibly rare.

While it is likely that most of these women were not practicing witchcraft,
sure that it did not prevent most of them from being accused of it, nor did it prevent
some of them died because of the profession.

What would you do if you had a Great Work burning inside you and no one even considered you one?
Person? You would use glamour, of course. It would be the only available method to achieve something.
It should be subtle, it should be delicate. These women couldn't begin.
directly epic battlefield battles to achieve their Great Works. Their options were
limited and they knew it. That never stopped any of them. Throughout the book, I will use examples
of these women so that I can see how women without direct means found their
path towards their Great Works.
So that he doesn't think that all these horrors were committed hundreds of years ago and we are
completely entrenched in a new and happy world where we do not have to
worry about these things, in the United States, in 1972, women without husbands still did not
they could easily apply for loans. they have their own credit cards or have insurance of
automobile. Women in general could not have legalized abortion until 1973. The
people generally could not have homosexual relationships easily until the last
twenty years, and mental health issues were often treated with institutionalization
involuntary until the early 1960s.

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While the current world we live in is far from perfect in terms of rights
civilians and economy, we have access to many more rights (if not money) than these examples
historical. If they could achieve their Great Works using the subtle influence of glamour without
real rights, what could we not achieve with glamour in this place in history, even
like another?

Red rose, white rose

The question for the aristocratic families during the War of the Roses was never a topic.
Are you good or bad? The Wars of the Roses would provide ample opportunities for
you both be equal in measure. Bloody hands, conspiracy, accusations of
brujería, matrimonios de oportunidad, traición, pérdida de fortuna, arresto domiciliario,
spoliation of titles and lands, dehorn and re-crown, flee in search of refuge in the Abbey
from Westminster not once but twice, accusations of witchcraft, a bastard lineage with blood
real, a single child born to a teenage girlfriend in the jungle of Wales who was so far from the throne
that was almost in another solar system, a secret alliance between enemies and two prince children
dead. It would make an excellent soap opera. But it is a true story between two women, the queen
Isabel Woodville and Lady Margaret Beaufort, and it is the story of two enemy friends who together
they founded one of the most legendary dynasties in the history of Western Europe, the Tudors.

Elizabeth Woodville was a very unlikely candidate for royalty. She had married a
I had become a widow with two small children at a time when generally one
I preferred virgins for queens, which is kind of funny given how obsessed I was.
with the succession in the era of the Renaissance. One would think that having a proven track record is a
advantage, but I am digressing. Also clearly not in his favor: although he was noble (of noble
crown), was not of royal blood (the family had been kings or queens for generations). Only
A woman without royal blood had married a king before in all of English history until the
the time of Isabel and she was not crowned queen consort. Jumping over the moon probably seemed
more likely. He also came from a family of traitors, which was not popular either, but not
it was rare during this particular war.

Nevertheless, she lived in genteel poverty when she requested her grant from King Edward that her
mother-in-law was denying him. The legend says that he did it waiting under a tree for many
bushes that the king and his men would pass by. He should have known that only
would have very little time to defend his case. She was known for being a great beauty,
which probably did not harm his cause, but must have had a bit of glamour
to go as far as she did. Maybe she wore her best dress, maybe she tied knots of
love in the hair, perhaps she had a jug of wine to offer the king. Whatever it is
the strategy employed must have been carefully thought out, making the best use of its
ingenuity, beauty, and glamour. The king was very much in love with her, so he married her in secret.
with her at the small farm of her family.

That part is not actually terribly impressive, as it had the reputation for doing so.
probably to attract women to his bed with the promise not only of a marriage
respectable, but also of a royalty) and it is known that he did it at least once. before with
Lady Eleanor Butler.

Several months later, it was much more impressive when the king publicly claimed her.
as his wife and made her a full queen consort, despite the plans to have her.

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to marry into the French royalty. The star of Elizabeth Woodville rose so quickly
that it should not be surprising that she soon found herself surrounded by jealousy and envy.

In the ongoing battles for royalty, Queen Isabel's husband lost, which forced the king
Eduardo fleeing the country and Queen Isabel Woodville seeking refuge in the abbey of
Westminster with her children. During this time, the mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville,
Jacquetta was judged for the first of several times for accusations of using witchcraft. She was
accused of using Art to make King Edward fall in love with Queen Isabel. Be it
whether Jacquetta was really a Witch or not, if she had been found guilty of any
from their judgments, they would have executed her in a brutal way. Fortunately, she always managed to
that they will find her innocent.

Finally, King Edward returned and was able to reclaim his crown and rule for thirteen years.
before dying from a sudden illness. Queen Isabel Woodville had two children
with King Edward. She and her family tried to retain power, but the king's brother
Eduardo, Ricardo, imprisoned his eldest legitimate son in the Tower of London and quickly executed him.
the key nobles who opposed him.

The queen must have known that her options were bleak at this point, but she did not stay.
sitting on her hands waiting for someone else to tell her what to do. She fled in the midst of the
night with her children and once again sought refuge.

However, it was just a matter of time before the new King Richard took his
another royal son, although Queen Isabel Woodville and her daughters remained in sanctuary.
It is clear that both children had been murdered in the Tower, although it is still a
It remains a mystery to this day who ordered it. Most likely it was his uncle, the king.
Ricardo.

Quickly, King Richard annulled Queen Isabel's marriage, as her husband had
was previously contracted with Lady Eleanor Butler. The pre-contract was considered
legally binding as a marriage at that time, so I could not be
married to Queen Isabel while being married to Lady Eleanor, which made everyone
his children as bastards. Their lands were quickly redistributed to the king's favorites.
Ricardo, leaving her deprived of her real children, her husband, and her wealth.

For some, this is where the story would end. Living in misery in a sanctuary, without
political relevance, powerless and defenseless. Queen Isabel Woodville knew better.

While the story of Queen Isabel Woodville was unfolding, another story was developing.
in Wales. Lady Margaret Beaufort was of royal blood, pious and educated. She married at twelve with
the half-brother of Henry VI, Earl Edmund Tudor, who was twenty-four. After
to marry and to lie down, the battles of the War of the Roses broke out, and Count Edmund Tudor
he was taken prisoner and died of plague when Lady Margaret was thirteen years old and was
pregnant. She gave birth to Henry Tudor, but it was a difficult affair; she would not become pregnant again.
pregnant. At fourteen years old, she was married to Sir Henry Stafford. The marriage lasted
thirteen years until Sir Stafford died in battle. During this time, Lady's son
Margaret fled the country with her uncle Jasper Tudor and lived in exile in France, as she was a
aspirant (distant) to the crown.

Although Lady Margaret was not known for her beauty, she was known for being very charming and
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strategically chose Count Thomas Stanley, who had the largest private army of
England at that time. During her marriage to Earl Stanley, Lady Margaret conspired
against King Richard and helped in a rebellion. The shared hatred towards King Richard was
probably the bond that united our two enemy friends, at least at the beginning. The
Lady Margaret's husband managed to convince the king that, somehow, despite living
together in the same house and being married to Lady Margaret, I had no idea of her plans
rebels and was completely safe under the king. Once the king was convinced of the
the loyalty of Count Stanley and his lack of complicity in Lady Margaret's plot, took
all her lands and riches and gave them to her husband and put her under house arrest. It is very
likely that two smart politicians like Lady Margaret and Earl Stanley were playing
intentionally on both sides to improve the fortune of his family.

During this time, all the other possible heirs to the throne were dying.
slowly in one way or another, by illness, battle or execution. While still being
Under house arrest, Lady Margaret saw the opportunity to place her son Henry in the
throne.

Since she and her best friend, Queen Isabel, had bonded over how much they hated the
face of the king through secret letters exchanged by his common doctor, Lady Margaret
he took that moment to say something like: Hello new friend! We are both from
agreement that King Richard is the worst in every way. Hey, since he killed your children,
Maybe we should try to get my son to the throne? Because then! He could get married.
totally with your daughter and we would officially be real (well, real again for you, because
supposed) and, of course, best friends forever. Queen Isabel was not stupid; she knew
that Lady Margaret was as crazy as a fox and that her husband had a huge army, so
she replied with something like: What a great idea, new friend! Let's do it!

Shortly after that, Henry, Lady Margaret's son, finally managed to land in England.
with a decent military force (although smaller than King Richard's army), thanks to
the plans and schemes of her loving mother. The last and significant battle of the War of the
Roses was going to develop in the Battle of Bosworth. Lady Margaret's husband had a
own military force that was large enough to influence the battle of
any way. Earl Stanley, a gray-haired military strategist, refused to compromise his force
in one way or another on the battlefield until it had decided who would be the winner,
despite the fact that King Richard was holding his son for ransom, threatening with
to kill him. Once Lord Stanley made the decision to side with Henry and deliver his troops,
the battle was a decisive bloodbath, with King Richard killed along with many of his
men. The historian of King Henry VII stated that the battle crown of King Richard was
found in a thorn bush and Count Stanley crowned King Henry with the diadem.

Lady Margaret was then known as Milady the King's Mother and signed all her
documents such as Margaret R. (Margaret Regina), and Queen Elizabeth Woodville became the
widow queen; they married off their children together as planned. If it were a story and not
history would end there with everyone happy again and all the loose ends carefully tied up
tied up. But it really ends with Margaret R. choosing her best friend to be
exiled to an opulent convent to no longer have to compete with her.

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Lessons from Liz and Marge

These two women would ruin a current presidential election; they were political beasts.
What is important to keep in mind for your great work is that you have come this far.
they did so due to two factors: using their respective types of glamour completely
different ways to influence situations as much as possible and to win and recover the
favor when they were in disgrace. Glamour does that: you can regain favor with pure
the strength of your glamour. They spoke with sweetness when they needed to, they expressed
regret where necessary, committed espionage when necessary and they
they ensured to always have people who sympathized with their difficult situation and could
help them get out of crazy situations. It is advisable to find out how to incorporate those aspects
practitioners in their Great Work in case it goes off the rails. Moreover, they always had a plan,
but they kept him loose. Queen Isabel would never have expected that her brother-in-law
(probably) would have casually massacred his two legitimate heirs. The right to
throne of Lady Margaret's son started so far away that it could well have been in a
different planet.

They both had a long history of passionately despising each other. There was no
no reason to think that they would be able to plan for their two children to take the throne
together and founded a new dynasty, the Tudors.

Let's get uncomfortable

In order for your Great Work to achieve real greatness, you must be good at predicting outcomes.
potentials of any action I take to advance my Great Work. Not only the
probable outcomes of each action, but also the improbable outcomes and the results
contingencies. This requires strategic thinking and glamour.

Let's start with strategic thinking. Before taking action, research.

Research is a broad word here, it can mean real book research and
it can also mean talking to people about their experiences and gathering intelligence
verbal.

Let your research inform the possible outcomes of your action first.
continuation, you want to use this information to create a coherent strategy, noticeable
Which information seems more solid to less solid according to the sources? Then, prioritize what
it must happen so that I can take action.

Let's suppose that your great job is to play music professionally. Your research in
this case would be: Find a place that is friendly with the type of music played and then
ask about the owner of the first chosen place. You will want to know what it is like to work with them
owner, what is the owner's reputation and how and when do they pay. Then, once
get to know a little about the owner, you will start going to the place to collect your own
impressions while starting to develop a relationship with the owner, using their
glamour to make the owner interested in your music. Once the owner you
After an audition, you must ensure to prioritize your actions prior to the audition: you have a
great piece to play that you have practiced, you have a style that reflects your glamour, you have been
Making magic to boost the hearing so that it follows the path you want, and you did everything.
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the voice or the hands, not getting distracted by external events, etc.) and then following up with
the owner. The potential results of this could be: becoming famous, becoming famous
for all the wrong reasons, ruin your hearing, get the concert, but not receive
the payment, getting the concert and being fired from his daily job, getting a contract for
his work, to get the job. concert and never get another, play the concert and then
ruin it due to a social misstep, get the concert, and fall in love with someone who
you met there and then strayed from your music, and so on. You need to have an idea
general about what I would do in these situations that I can predict and master the prediction of
potential results, as it will give you the greatest number of opportunities in your Great
Work.

So, what do you do with results you can't predict? They could be outcomes
desirable things that he hasn't even thought about or could be terrible things that he never saw coming.
It's no wonder that everyone wants to be a control fan over their operation.
Magical! But the strict casting limits the opportunities you want, but you don't even know.
What do you want? So let's work on keeping it flexible enough to give us
as many options as possible while we work on our skills of
strategic thinking.

Esoteric experiment no. 6

Objective: To cast a net wide enough to catch unknown opportunities.

Choose a night when the sky is clear. Outside, create a small sanctuary with
elements that make you feel lucid. Coffee. A pair of spare glasses. Shoes for
run. Your yoga headband. Your diary. Take a transparent container filled with drinking water.
from the tap. Draw protective seals around yourself. Consider your great work and all the
results you would like to achieve. Imagine results you haven't considered possible. Look
the stars and draw lines between them using your finger to create a web. Think about this web
as a place where your great work will yield unexpected positive results. Draw the network
from the sky to your bowl, either with a physical movement to do it or with words
whispered. Drink the water. Repeat this ritual until your network feels strong.

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THE REVOLUTION BEGINS IN THE BEDROOM OF HIS GIRLFRIEND'S WIFE

Glamour requires beauty. Ironically, beauty is often one of the first aspects
what is considered unnecessary when life gets tough, as if we lived in a kind of
of a gray dystopian society. But why? In the Renaissance, beauty and art
they were considered important, and it was very likely that she would die of plague or childbirth. When the
modern society talks about being 'an increasingly violent society', it's hard not to laugh.
Elizabeth Báthory was only told to stop bathing in the blood of virgins when
began to eliminate the princesses.

Public executions often took place in the city squares, which led to
they would consider minor offenses or not offenses at all by modern standards. The
land warfare that would destroy their home as collateral damage was an aspect of daily life. And
this was in 'civilized' societies. I'm rambling. Life for most people
It has always been difficult. The world has been ending since it started. Why, then,
Do we rush to trivialize beauty in modern society? What are we living for if
Is it not for the beauty?

Glamour looks like you

When we start discussing the external equipment of glamour, it is easy to get bogged down in
how do you think glamour should look like. Link. James Bond.

Joan Holloway, queen of the secretaries. While glamour sometimes looks like this, it is a
excessive simplification limits all the glamour of Craft to the whims of the media. Also
she is equally proud to be Dr. Frank N. Furter, Motormouth Maybelle, Carrie Black,
Lloyd Dobler, Megan Beals-Botwin, Myrtle Snow, Hermione Granger, Hiro Nakamura, Clarice
Jones and Lafayette Reynolds.

Glamour is a demanding art to serve, requiring you to present your most exciting self.
and beautiful as often as possible, both for you and the rest of the world. It
It takes a lot of work and dedication to be willing to do that. It takes courage to
to be willing to seduce oneself. If you cannot deceive yourself, how do you expect to attract others?
so that they can help him with his Great Work?

You deserve the chance to fall in love with yourself. Once you start to treat yourself
constantly like someone you love, beauty ceases to be optional.

Would you deny your beloved beauty? A concert that makes her heart soar? A book that...
Do you shed tears down your face when you read it aloud? The most perfect cup of tea and the
delicious buns that make them kiss you passionately when they see the table you set
Did you prepare? Of course you wouldn't do it. Who doesn’t feel a mutual joy when their
Does the lover experience beauty? Who doesn't receive a little gem of glamour from that?
shared experience?

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So, why do you abandon yourself, my love?

The concept of treating yourself like someone you love may sound like just another attempt
half postfeminist (No. No. No.) of making you buy Dove products, but it's a part
critique of your revolution. We have talked about being Others. We also have to
facing that, like others, we are told that our value is lower each day in great and
small shapes. Don't you identify as a gender? Outsider. Are you a person of color?
Outsider. Is your body different from what your culture defines as beautiful? Outsider.
Are you part of the QUILTBAG? Outsider. Oh, is your socioeconomic situation difficult?
Foreigner. Do you have any disabilities?

Outsider. Are you a witch? Outsider.

You are not one of us, so you will never be beautiful or valuable. You will never be welcome.
at the table, you will never be good enough. Ever. If I were, I would meet the
beauty standard of your culture. You would be white, of course. You would be born into wealth. Your
spirituality would have a suitable place of worship, preferably four or five houses
in its name, in its city for them to see. They would love the opposite sex. You would have a
opposite sex. Your body would be perfectly shaped in every way. If you had to
sitting at the table like a real person, you wouldn't ask so many questions and you would do what you
family, your spouse, and your culture expect you. You would sit down and be quiet.

How much have you internalized this toxic waste dump that we have all been
accumulating together daily? True glamour, true beauty comes from being
firmly rooted in your power. It comes from knowing who you are and what you are worth, especially
like Another. Beauty is terrifying and scary. It is not meant to be accessible, it is not
destined to be linear. If beauty were something that could be easily defined and quantified,
we wouldn't be so confused trying to achieve what is considered beautiful by a
second hot time. It's a waste of time for everyone and simply irritates.
all the parties involved. Chic heroin is in fashion for a couple of years and then the
Curves as far as the eye can see are in fashion. Your body cannot do both.
Your body shouldn't do both things. Yet, we are told that we should, for
what we twist and contort ourselves, trying to meet the expectations of
other people about how we are supposed to look and how much space we are allowed
occupy at a physical and energetic level.

Anne B. Focused on the big picture

Going back to our Renaissance women as examples of how to overcome the

problems related to glamour in this modern life, Anne Boleyn is a great example
to deal with not meeting their current social expectations of beauty. Instead, they
focused on her wit and glamour to go from being a mere not-so-real lady-in-waiting to the
queen who overthrew the Catholic Church and gave power and authority to a new religious movement.

Before becoming the lady-in-waiting of Queen Catherine of Aragon, she was becoming
the It Girl in France with her sister, Mary, who was a famous royal mistress. Anne became
known for her experience in the game of courtly love, as well as being known for her
skill in literature and music, and her talent as a dancer, all things that were very
appreciated in their time.

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When he returned to England, he set his sights on Henry Percy, who had fallen in love with
she. He would become the earl of Shrewsbury, a very powerful position in England at that time
moment. Unfortunately, the commitment failed when no one gave permission for the
marriage.

Mary was soon dismissed as the lover of King Henry, and Anne stepped forward.
while continuing to serve Queen Catherine of Aragon, which is a brilliant and cold maneuver
like a stone. Oh, hello, Queen Catherine. Everyone is deboning your husband. I'm going to snatch him away.
and I will marry him, which is almost an impossible task, but I feel good! Good talk. Ready
why do you dress up?

Then, Anne Boleyn managed to be crowned as a titled aristocrat in her own right.
King Henry) when she was named queen, despite the fact that the general population hated her
face for being a new rich and not Queen Catherine. She would throw herself with Cromwell when it would be.
necessary and it was known that it was a power behind the throne of Henry VIII. She gave birth to Elizabeth I,
Who was the first queen to rule in England without a king.

Naturally, given that I had what could generously be called 'a problem with the'
"authority", that took her exactly to where it would be expected to take her (one head more
short), especially because he had not had a male heir. The false accusations of
adultery and incest with her brother they locked her in the tower for

betrayal, although it is incredibly doubtful that she was really guilty, since she was
crazy like a fox and it seems very unlikely that he would have done anything intentionally
to lose one's head and the throne.

Lessons from Anne B.

Now that you know the basics about her, let's see how this matters to you. One would assume that it must
to have been the epitome of what was considered beautiful during its time to have placed
upside down in such an impressive way to the establishment, especially if its material of
the main source is the television program The Tudors, where it is portrayed by Natalie
Dormer, who is also the epitome of what our current society considers beautiful.
Naturally, many of the documents from the time of Queen Anne were filled with
reports about how horrible it was, but Ana had a ... tumultuous relationship with most.
of the diplomats, for which they were a bit biased against him. Then, for
Supposedly, there were reports of people who wanted to be in favor of the king, so his beauty
was exalted to the conventionally beautiful heights of her time.

The truth, like most truths, is probably somewhere in between.

Queen Anne was probably not a great beauty; she probably looked
quite normal with brown hair and olive skin, none of which was considered
beauty traits of their time.
It was said that his eyes were attractive and it was known that he was fashionable and intelligent. Without a doubt,
she made the most of what she had in both scenarios, creating a glamour around herself
that lives to be a continuous part of our literary and dramatic landscape until the day of
today.

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Now then, having said all this, do you think it was more important for Queen Anne to be
conventionally beautiful for her time or to convince King Henry that she was the greatest beauty
that I had never seen using her glamour, her wit, her cunning, and flirting?

Occupy the space where you stand

It is incredibly difficult to take up space when you are Other. We are taught to shrink and
apologize for having defects, for being older, for not having a specific size or for
any other reason you can think of. But that is exactly the reason why
we need to occupy space. You have the right to the space that your body occupies, but more than
So, you have the right to define beauty as you wish to define it and not to apologize for any of it.
those things. Once you feel comfortable internalizing those statements and synthesizing them to
body level, you will be able to understand that the true foundations of glamour are not about
how symmetrical your face is and how committed you are to the beauty standard of your
culture. but making itself present in its body in its current form and using glamour to
to shape the way one is presented to the world in general.

Esoteric Experiment No. 7

Objective: to reduce your baggage about external beauty and to enchant the beauty in yourself.

Select a ritual space that has a sink. Organize your ritual objects. A bowl.
large adorned. Your best chipped teapot filled with hot water. Your softest towels.
A beautiful vintage scarf. A cauldron with Epsom salt and alcohol. A small pile of
joss paper and a black marker. Matches.

An eyeliner pencil in the color of your choice. A plate that once belonged to your aunt.
grandmother chorister, full of dried hibiscus, chamomile, and rosemary. Cone candles made of beeswax in
supports that do not match. A small jar of cocoa paint that you have created. A brush.
Recorded images of your goddesses and spirits. A large mirror.

Create your space by placing salt over the threshold of the room and then pressing your tongue.
against her index finger and pressing it against each wall of the room with the intention of
create a sacred space.

Purify yourself by writing down or inscribing any harmful thoughts you have about your body.
Physics on paper joss. Ignite the fire of your cauldron. Let everything be consumed. Focus your
intention in the fire purifying itself from these useless thoughts.
Take off your clothes. Sit in front of the mirror looking at yourself.

Continue looking at yourself beyond the comfort zone. Continue looking at yourself.
same until he only has kind words and intentions for himself.

Use the eyeliner pencil to inscribe your mirror with sacred seals and symbols.
for you and your path towards your desperate longing. Look at yourself through the mirror
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to enter a sacred mental space, sing, visualize, or drink an intoxicant until you
you arrive there.

Pour the water into the container and put a drop of your saliva in it. As you pour the water,
also pour your intention into the container. Breathe in your herbs until you feel that it
revive them and add them to the water.
Wrap yourself around the bowl with your scarf or towel, focus your intention on taking the beauty within you.
same while the scented water enters your skin.

Guess using water until you see how to use your beauty as a tool to obtain it
what you have been longing for. When you know the answer, seal it in your body by painting words,
glyphs, seals and illustrations on your body with your painting and cocoa brush. Sit down with your
intention until I feel that I know what actions to take, both magical and mundane.
When you're ready, wash the paint off your body.

Ritual Cacao Painting

1/4 cup of plain Greek yogurt

1 tablespoon of quick oats

2 tablespoons of cocoa powder

1 tablespoon of honey
Mix everything together.

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MIRROR
MIRROR

You are beautiful. Right now. You are worthy of glamour. You are worthy of beauty. You are worthy of
love. If you can't internalize that, think of RuPaul's words: 'If you can't love yourself,
yourself, how the hell are you going to love someone else? If you can't internalize that you are worthy
of love, beauty, and glamour, how will anyone else do it? There is the omnipresent
myth that if you care about your appearance, you are vain and bland. Life is so full
of heavy work, so full of dishes, filing, going to the supermarket, and maintaining your life
a float.

Why would you deny yourself the opportunity to enjoy a pair of sexy stockings, a nice jacket?
made to measure, some beautiful leather boots or whatever you like? Is it because you have
feelings about all this?

You are not superficial, you are motivated.

Some people feel very annoyed by having to work on their appearance; it's something
So they shouldn't have to worry. Do you know what is sexy? Your brain. Do you know what
More is sexy? Your meat suit that you are currently encapsulated in.

I don't think what the media says is magnificent.

Fuck the media.

I don't know how to feel beautiful.

We are going to change that right now.

True glamour is not about putting on a disguise. It's not about conforming. It's about
What do you think is beautiful? If you had to go to a party tonight at the last minute,
Is there something you can take out of your closet and feel wonderful immediately?

Do you feel like a fabulously fat Audrey Hepburn when you wear pearls?

So put them on. Do you feel like a decadent Jamie Dornan when you wear a certain scarf?
So put them on. Do you feel like Eddie Izzard and/or Tilda Swinton when you wear your glasses?
favorite suns? Then, of course, use them.

If you have difficulty accepting your body as it is now, reframing is a good

place to start. The purpose of reframing is to take negative thoughts
current ones that they are having and change them in their mind so that the way they see themselves
It starts to change slowly. For example, I am very aware of my arms. Rare
you will see a photo of me wearing something sleeveless. Even when I try on clothes, I am
sure that I will take a cardigan with me to not ignore flattering clothing because I am
too busy looking at the top of my arms. It's something I'm still
working, but I started to make real progress in being willing to accept my
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How, ugh, my arms are fat and horrible and look like bat wings, it would remind me of myself.
the same as Anna Karenina admired chubby arms, especially those of Anna and herself.
she was a sex bomb. Of course, she throws herself under a train, but even so, she was
submerging and doing it. So I thought to myself that my arms are fat
to be cordial enough for the revolution.

The change in your thought processes will not happen overnight; it requires
constant attention and sometimes it will slip, even after years of practice.

All of this is fine, we are not seeking the enlightenment of the entire body here, simply
we are working to be kinder to ourselves. Reframing myself has
helped me to be much more positive about my body and my appearance. When I look at the old
diary entries from ten years ago, I feel my insides curl up like an insect of the
pill because Deb, twenty-six years old, was very hard on herself and she was that way all the time.
I look at photos of myself from that time and I have no idea why I was so full of hate.
towards myself. I simply did not have the experience or knowledge of myself yet.
to be kind to myself. All I could think about were all the ways in which
what I was missing, everywhere where I had too much or too little. Thinking about all these
terrible things about me were a waste of time and energy when I could have been
learning to dress for the body I actually had, not the one I thought I would have
magically one day, learning to put on makeup and style my hair in a way that makes me
it would be natural instead of ping-ponging between weight gain and weight loss and
the corsetry and the eyeliner and the ponytails and the yoga pants. Knowing this
it doesn't make it easier for either of us to stop, but we could be
creating art, creating joy, creating wonder instead of focusing on what
we perceive as imperfections.

It can be helpful to take a moment to see through someone else's eyes. When
I was a nanny for an adorable and wonderful two-year-old girl, she liked to sit on my lap.
lap and then dive straight into a roll of fat on my belly. When she would do
this, I would feel disturbed inside. There is nothing like a small person
curled up directly in a place on my body that made me feel very self-conscious to
to call my attention to how subconsciously displeased I was with him. But she was
little one and I was usually exhausted, so I accepted it. One day, she looked at me and smiled.
and he gave me some pats on the belly with approval, as if to say, thank you for this,
Madam! I enjoy the time back together because of your softness. I kept my hands away from the...
lovers of this area of my body, but when a small child without malice was
Satisfied with the shape of my belly, it was easier for me to accept than it is for humans.
Adults also liked it.

And if other people could love the shape of my body, could I not do the same for myself?
body?

A moment of indulgence: I have been dreading writing this part of this chapter.

If I talk about appearance, the desire to distill a creature as complicated as glamour into a
appearance is almost inevitable, even though beauty is simply an aspect of glamour. If
I only frame glamour in terms of 'Just be yourself, no matter what, in all the
circumstances, always", you may feel inclined to think that you simply
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Except ... no one knows your secrets, charms, and most intimate pleasures deeply when you
you met for the first time. They are not on display. However, their appearance, their diction, their
ingenuity and a small measure of his intelligence indeed are. So that he does not think that it is
simply the cruelty of our oppressors who engage in this behavior
less desirable, keep in mind that you (yes, you) are deciding how you feel about
someone in the first seven seconds when they meet that person too.
If you want to achieve your Great Work, you will need new influences.

Dates, networking, job interviews, parties, conventions, and meetings: it will be impossible.
advance without at least some of these aspects. It will need to change the impression that some
people in their life already have of you and leave favorable impressions on the people who
they will recently enter your life.

If you want to see a real change in your life, you must be able to maneuver subtly to the
people in your life who hold positions of power and privilege over you because that is how
you will win the war. If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always
obtained. If you wanted what you already had, what is the point of achieving your Great Work?

Dress for the job you want, dress for the life you want to live? Yawn.

Pass. The glamour will be immediately distracted by the girl with the faded and washed out.
vintage floral dresses that run exuberantly through the puddles with heels of
purple kittens. If achieving success in your ambition were as simple as buying new clothes, wouldn't it
Wouldn't they all have done it already? Wouldn't they all be living the life they want to live?

Cultivating your own sense of style does not 'just' happen. It requires effort.
conscious. It's easy to disregard style; it's easy to overlook this chapter as just another montage
of image change. If you are achieving your Great Work using glamour, it must be subtle. The clothing
It could just be clothing if you wanted it to be, but why wouldn't you want to wear it like a
tool? Choose this fragrance to use when you need the influence of the Moon, choose this one.
color to use because it is your nemesis's favorite color and you want to show them that you can
use it better, wear silk because the goddess you are working with demands it, wear heels
because your spirits say it will be a sacrifice, comb your hair like your grandmother did
because it makes you feel as bold as her when she built planes for the war.

Glamour doesn't work unless you use it.

If you are unarmed and about to enter combat and someone hands you a knife, do you
you are going to throw to the ground outside of the sand and say: 'Hey, thanks, I know my opponent has a'
crossbow and a horse and I have never been formally trained in combat or anything, but
I feel good entering this with bare hands? Because if that's the plan ... I have
What can I tell you that is not good? If you keep considering your appearance as optional, you are
discarding a weapon from your arsenal. Use style as a weapon. Discarding weapons is a decision.
silly. Don't be silly.

Because glamour is something that is made for oneself rather than simply a gift.
For you, this is such an exciting opportunity to present yourself however you want. Use the
Glamour as external expression gives you the opportunity to create something that seems right to you.

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charming. It is not about being pleasant to everyone who crosses your path; it is about
to occupy the space where your feet land.
It is to choose what seems sexy to you, what seems beautiful to you, and what seems powerful to you, even
if no one else understands it at first. Others may take some time to understand the
stylistic expression that you choose if it is outside of your comfort zone, and that can be difficult to
to understand. It is hard to be a pioneer. It is terrifying for everyone; it makes you afraid to feel perceived or
perceived in a way more different by others than how you felt before, and it is
overwhelming for other people you encounter if they have never seen someone like
you.

But there are goth girls in the workplace of real life, pin-up moms in the
supermarket, older fashionistas with rainbow pastel hair at the concert, plates of
genderqueer fashion in restaurants and impeccably dressed gentlemen on the subway.
Obviously, if you live in a more conservative area or work in a conservative environment, you will be
A very light touch is necessary for this to work and not turn your life into a disaster.
This can be a delicate maneuver and difficult to understand and may take some missteps.
to find the right place.

From my own experience, I hate wearing a 'corporate drag' which I personally define
like: pants, heels, buttoned blouse, jacket, conservative jewelry, a full face of
makeup and hair that are carefully straightened every morning. To me, this sounds like
a circle of hell. All that time, effort, and synthetic fabric. I love how they look
other women in him; Effy from Skins, Grace from Will & Grace, and friends and coworkers of
real life. But for me, it feels like I am using something that somehow
it would please my mother and not me, as if my clothes were using me.

I started working for a conservative company recently and the idea of going back to that makes me
it gave me goosebumps. With slow and careful experimentation, I have come to find that
a retro/boho style with lots of shiny jewelry is appropriate for the workplace, and
I receive a lot of compliments from both my coworkers and my clients. I wear skirts.
cupcake type, jackets with ruffles, kimonos and dresses inspired by the 1950s with
a bright red lip and tied-up hair. Would I be able to "get my way" if I didn't dedicate
a lot of effort was made to appear polished and neat and present a confident face while using
these things? I doubt it.

Would this work if my hems weren't conservative and if my tops were low-cut?
It shouldn't. Does it help that the only other person my age who is shopping is in the same...
places? Yes, because that means this is what the 'young people' wear (... I work in a
larger environment).

Beauty is static, glamour is magic

Beauty is not something that can be changed so much; Dyeing your hair blonde is not going to change
In some way your bone structure, no matter what the beauty industrial complex tries
Tell us. Does that mean you shouldn't use cosmetics? The fallen angel Azazel gave us
cosmetics to use, according to the Apocrypha. Are we here to create witchcraft or make cakes?
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hair, jewelry, clothes that are worthy of sumptuary fines. Oh yes. Yes. But just like the first
Since you summoned a particularly exciting spirit, there are reservations.

First of all, you should have a realistic expectation about what it will really do for you.
use of the products you choose. It is not what you want it to do or what false glamour of
their advertisement campaign tells you what it will do, but what it will actually do. Dye your
a raven black hair will not make your belly magically flat, but it will make
that your hair turns black. That's all. A smoky eye will put eyeshadow on your
eyelids, it will not remove stretch marks. A new top will not remove scars.

Once I can do it well, the game will begin.

Although not so fast.

The second equally important warning is something that many of us have

learned the hard way: your credit card is not a natural extension of your income.

Let me repeat it, because it took a long time for that to really sink in for me.
brain: your credit card is not a natural extension of your income. You might want to
desperately a Hermès bag. It is a finely crafted bag, it was a word of
Fashion in the media for a while is a status indicator and can make you feel more
glamorous. He won't do any of those things if he can't pay his mortgage to get it.
Does that mean you can't have one? No. It means you have to really want one. It means
save all your change and give up your other vices like smoking, frappuccinos, movies,
takeaway food and other similar things for possibly a decade. If it's something that
If you want it so much, do it. Do I think a bag is worth that level of commitment? Currently not, and I am
a very well-known bag whore. But you make your own decisions for yourself like a
real and alive adult.

Your style, curated

Part of developing a sustainable style is having a serious conversation with yourself

about what you can really afford. If you can only afford to modify the items in the store
second-hand or free cycle items, it's fine. People will see it as a
carefully selected appearance.
Maybe I'll take a close look at the seams in the clothes from Target and Forever 21 and only buy pieces that
they appear timeless and also a very occasional piece "in fashion". Maybe I will go to pharmacies
that have cosmetic testers to ensure choosing the right shades for
You will look effortlessly elegant.

Perhaps she can afford to spend on an occasional good leather handbag, shoes made for
last, a cashmere coat and a consultation session with a beauty specialist. You will look
armed and elegant.

At the end of the day, most people (unless they are fashion enthusiasts) cannot
note the difference between this season and last season. Instead, they are watching
to see how good something looks on you. People who do not want to associate with you
because he is working to avoid acquiring an epic level of debt to keep up with
People outside of their income level are not people they want touching their Great.
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it's currently in fashion or if you bought it on sale because it's from the last season, still
They are looking to see if it suits you well. Nine out of ten times, they do not meet with everyone.
your other friends to judge you; they mean it when they congratulate you.

Speaking of compliments, if you want glamour to work, be good at accepting one.

fulfilled with grace and not dissolving into a pile of self-contempt apologies.

You don't have to return a compliment with a compliment; in fact, in most cases, you don't.
He/She does it. Wait until he/she says it sincerely and it is not a quid pro quo of courtesy.

The compliment scale will balance out. If you give a compliment first, make sure to say it with
sincerity and do not expect anything in return, as this will create a more genuine bond between
you and the other person.

And finally, if you are worried that others think you are showing off or somehow
In a way, you are not being yourself when you pay attention to details or if you are in a relationship.
with someone who wants you to dress or not dress a certain way (the same happens with makeup).
and other products), that is actually the last barrier between you and your feminist self
fully realized. Choosing to use, or not use, any article of clothing or cosmetic in
particular is a feminist choice. Allowing another person to dictate how you
presenting to the world outside the workplace (because earning a living is important) is not
a feminist choice. At the same time, using something once in a while because it makes your...
a partner is a choice you have the right to make. Allowing another person to dress you like if
you were a little boy on a twisted, non-consensual stage, it is not.

What type of clothing do you like? Why do you like it? How can you feel delightful while
Do you wash the dishes? What could you put on the bed that would make you feel delicious? What could you
Do you want to feel powerful and in control at your workplace? Does the fabric matter? The
Does the country where it was manufactured matter? What is your budget? Do you already have everything you need?
If not, where can one buy items that are within that budget? What do you
What makes you feel bad about your appearance? Could you get rid of what makes you feel
Bad? If not, what could I add to make it feel better about it? Accessories?
Sexy underwear?

Tailoring?

If those questions make you feel lost, consider organizing a clothing swap.
There is something truly magical about connecting with friends and friends of friends and stepping out of your comfort zone.
comfort and trying on clothes because someone says: I think you would look great in this. It gives you the
opportunity to play in an environment that feels safe (these are your friends, so you already
they love you) and it's a way to experiment with a new look without having to invest
real capital in it.

Your glamour checklist (external)

Does your clothing and shoes fit you well? If not, there are many online tutorials to teach you.
how to fix it without a sewing machine.

There are also many tailors and shoemakers who are happy to take your money.

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2.

What condition is your clothing in? Lint rolling your clothes in the morning is a good first step.
Shine your shoes if they need polishing, iron your clothes if they need ironing. Make the repairs.
necessary. Do you wear clothes that cannot be recovered due to irreparable wear? Can you
replace those elements or manage without them?

3.
Do you know what will look elegant on you? If you are struggling with this point, you can never go wrong.
with the basic black. Kelly Cutrone is a fashion public relations expert, and she hardly
She wears makeup, never does much with her hair, and always wears a nice black outfit.
adjusted but bland with his signature. I tried to say something about my appearance, I dare to look.

Black top, black background or black dress, black shoes, black wallet and/or black bags.
black socks or stockings, ready.

4.

Do you drink enough water every day? It makes a difference in your skin.

5.
Do you take care of your skin? Cleansing and moisturizing is good for all skin types. If you are not sure about
What to use, talk to someone with knowledge in a store like Ulta or Sephora.

6.

Have you been to the dentist in the last six months? Teeth are an indicator of social status in
modern society. If they are stained or missing, that is part of what causes their first
Dental cleanings are often available at a discount at schools.
of dentistry or Groupon.

7.
If you have a beard, do you take care of it by washing it with shampoo and conditioner? Do you put a little on it?
oil to make it look shiny and healthy? Shiny and healthy hair is also a
social status indicator.

8.

How does your breath smell? Ask someone who is honest with you, like a parent,
spouse, brother or lifelong friend. If it doesn't smell good, it will be problematic. Consult with
your dentist about what can be done. Remember to brush your tongue and palate with the
toothbrush.

9.

Do you style your hair? If your hair looks messy or unkempt, it does not make a positive impression.
Once again, the Internet is full of tutorials for the challenged.

10.

Do you wear makeup? If so, apply a little noticeable lip gloss and a little of
Color moisturizer for daily use if you are unsure of what to wear.

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11.

What is your posture like? People who sit and stand upright are perceived as
safer. We are working to attract useful influences for our Great Work. This
will help with that.

12.
You want to look polished and put together because it’s an easy way to make yourself believe that you are capable of
the radical changes you want to make every time you look in the mirror. It is also the
first step to charm others and get them to join your cause.

Optional social experiment No. 2

Objective: To be treated the way you would like others to treat you using your style.
as a weapon.

Before modifying your style, keep a photo diary of what you wear for a week. Take
notes every day about how others treat him.

The following week, once you have created your style and are following the checklist,
observe how others treat him as well.
Is it different? You should pay special attention to how you styled your hair when they treat you like
do you want to be treated? How did you feel about yourself every day? If you feel good about your
style and they treat you the way you want to be treated and that helps your cause, so do it
successfully created a new tool for your arsenal.

Developing the kosmesis

In Greek mythology, queens, goddesses, and demigoddesses performed kosmesis, the art of dressing and
adorn. In the Iliad, Hera decides that she will seduce her husband, Zeus, so that a battle in
specifically develops as she wants. She has a complete makeover set up in
the one who bathes, puts on scented oil and cosmetics, braids their hair with the latest
fashion and choose the dress and jewelry that you know will make Zeus despair over coming down with
Her. What better way to use your style as a form of magical glamour than to do something
what the goddesses and queens did to prepare for battle, seduction, or their Great Work
Actual? Use kosmesis whenever it is particularly important to make an impression.

Esoteric Experiment No. 8

Objective: To perform kosmesis as a sacred ritual to utilize its physical glamour.

Extend the chosen outfit ceremoniously, including the underwear and accessories.
Place the cosmetics, moisturizers, hair tools, accessories, and fragrances in
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you wish to cause. Bathe yourself with the intention of how you want to present your glamour. Comb your hair and
cosmetics with your intention while you look at yourself in the mirror until you feel confident in your
intention and the impression you will give.

Your glamour needs to be active

Do you treat glamour like Pinterest? Pinterest is so seductive because everything is beautiful and nothing
it hurts there. Your friends set the diets they will never start, the improvements they will never make in
their homes, the crafts they will never do, the projects they will never complete with their
children and the newest and healthiest recipe they will never cook. Everyone has a plan for
the bright future with good decisions that will never be made. It's easy to treat your glamour
like a Pinterest board of good intentions and poor follow-through.

If my glamour worked the way I wanted it to, I would be dressed in a beautiful dress.
of silk that flows over my body like water. I would be at a party where everyone is
beautiful and charming and use beautiful things. We would be drinking wine from goblets and
eating fresh figs and we would all be as witty as Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde.
We would dance, frolic, and then I would lie down on the table with the guests at the party.
they would close the table in an improvised boat and lead a procession to take me
floating on the lake like an Arthurian legend. Does this description sound familiar to you? It's a video.
from Florence + the Machine for their song 'Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)' and it has no
similar to the life I really live. My body is not suited for silk dresses, my
friends do not entertain themselves constantly and I actually do not have chalices.

One could argue that I could build my life to better fit this fantasy of
glamour. Surely, I could pick up some chalices in some thrift shops,
I could have an outdoor party, I could have more interesting conversations and change.
some silk dresses and maybe I could work on the choreography of the ship (maybe), but
Even if I did all of that, it can't be my life all the time.

We need to wash the clothes, we can't live only on figs and wine (... I think). We must write
books and blogs, one must spin yarn, one must pour candles, one must buy milk, one must
process the tax documents, phone calls must be answered. The biggest challenges
Son, how can you find a moment in your day that feels like your idealized version?
of glamour so that you can properly feed your glamour magic? How
How do you reconcile your Pinterest version of glamour with your real-life glamour of blood and saliva?
you can be true to your glamour in your real life that you are living now while you continue
working to satisfy the desire of your heart?

When in doubt, ask a goddess.

Reconciling her idealized glamour with her everyday glamour is a difficult task, just like her
Great Work. In these tasks, in addition to becoming fully aware of its glamour, is
It's completely okay to ask an adult for help. By adult, I mean your goddesses and spirits.
with those you already work with. It is tempting to want to stay in the mindset that each goddess and
the spirit does some specific things and nothing more, but that is truly limiting, isn't it?
like this? It is more productive to see your goddesses and spirits in a way more similar to how you see the
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selling ice in the middle of winter during a snowstorm, is a karaoke artist

incredible and she knows the lyrics of every Brat Pack movie by heart. Your sister is not just
Mom person and dish-making person, has many other things in which they are amazing.
Now, this doesn't magically make your sister good at things she is not good at. You know
what is terrible with social situations; you know I had never been a lawyer before.

The fact that I really need a social worker and a lawyer right now won't make
that your sister can suddenly do those things for you, no matter how much she wants to
do those things for you. You need to observe your relationships with your goddesses and spirits and
contact them using the methods you usually use and find out who it is
good option for what. Remember, just as people sometimes exaggerate to get
a job, some goddesses and spirits will do the same. So start with something
small. It is also key to keep in mind that you are still asking for a favor, no matter
how well or poorly they do it. Again, treat them as people. Be grateful, and if it is
better in your relationship to offer a quid pro quo arrangement (if you do x for me, I will do it for you)
you), go ahead. It's also fine to throw a totally fabulous party for your goddesses and spirits.
with offerings and praises and then say: "So ..." Just remember, just like with people,
If you never throw them a fabulous party without asking for something, eventually they will be about you.
So, in the meantime, make sure to make regular offerings. I would define a 'regular' offering.
as a compliment, talk about your life, candles, fresh water, incense, the first bite of your dinner,
etc. things that don't cost much but are appreciated.

It is very tempting to want to start a new relationship with a new goddess or spirit.
known for its glamour, luck, or whatever you are working on.

Sometimes, that is the right choice. Perhaps your goddesses and spirits do not like glamour or the
deadlines and don't want to be bothered with that.

Perhaps your goddesses and spirits have done everything possible for you and there is nothing more they can do.
to do and you still need more help. These are situations where it can be beneficial
to get to know some new goddesses and spirits. But just like in life, their best option is
Start with goddesses and spirits that are already committed to you. It's the difference between
ask a friend and a stranger for ten dollars.

Before starting a new relationship with a new goddess or spirit, remember that, just as
You have the option to work together, they do too. Many times people confuse
goddesses and spirits with gumball machines that can't wait to give you sweets instead
of beings with their own thoughts, feelings, and agendas. This means that sometimes
they simply don't like you that much. Take St. Expedite. Most practitioners of Hoodoo
They swear by him. He does shit, quickly. He likes rum and cake; he sounds like a party guy.
When Jow and I first learned about him, we were very excited. He is fast and
He is motivated. Other friends of ours like him and he likes them. We took our little one out.
sanctuary, we made offerings, we put on our best smiles of a new friend and we
we serve our best rum. We gave compliments. We asked for nothing, we just tried to establish
a connection.

We wait.
And he/she waited.

And waited.

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We tried to call again. Perhaps you didn't receive our message. That happens, new friend;
We understand. Call us!

We wait.

And waited.

And nothing. He didn't want to have anything to do with us. We were outraged.

How is it possible that a new friend doesn't like us? We are incredibly pleasant,
we were educated and kind. We tried to talk about the trash that a new friend would find.
Interesting. A new friend likes our other friends. How is it possible that he doesn't?
Shall we taste a new friend? We would be super amazing friends, new friend! Not yet
we really know why, just like in a cocktail, you don't really know why someone doesn't
gets excited about you. We weren't desperate per se. We weren't asking for anything, no
we were in a desperate situation. We just wanted a new friend to be a friend of
us. Not everyone will like you in this life or in the spiritual life. That's how life is!
When you invite your potential new friend, treat them as you would treat a potential new friend who...
Arrives for the first time. Make an offer that you think will impress a potential new friend.
He/She will engage in a good conversation and don't ask for anything yet because it is strange and unpleasant.
See if you feel there is a connection. Invite a potential new friend a few times.
while making offerings and conversing. Make sure to know what they like and what they do not like.
possible new friend. Just as you can offend a potential new friend of someone,
you also have a lot of space to offend a potential new spiritual friend. Offended
It doesn't always mean that they will ruin your house as individuals usually don't do that (but
we all have that friend); sometimes they will just leave angry or will treat you silently or will you
they will quietly remove the friendship. Take some time to make a connection, ask for an omen
if you are interested. See what happens and continue from there. It is important to remember that it
that a potential new friend thinks is good for you may not always match with
what you think is good for you; what a potential new friend asks for may not be something that
you want to give. The new friend is not obligated to always tell you the truth, and the new friend
it may seem like a really good new friend, but it turns out they are not. If you no longer wish to be
friend of a new friend, step back slowly, gently and politely. If a new friend does not
understand the clue, involve your current goddesses and spirits.

It is likely that a list of Google contacts of potential new ones is expected here.
friends to send text messages and become Facebook friends so that I can
establish contacts with them, like their states, and keep them on the cover in case of a
emergency of glamour. That would make your life much easier, right? Am I giving you the
names of my personal friends for you to get annoyed? No? The same applies here,
Friend! Do a little research, work some magic, make those connections for yourself.

Don't hesitate to ask your goddesses and spirits, as well as your personal friends,
presentations and connections! This is how your normal life works; this is how your magical life works.
It should also work if you ever want to get somewhere.

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Esoteric Experiment No. 9

Objective: to reconcile your idealized glamour with your daily glamour. Be the change you want.
version.

This experiment should take place in a bathtub, if possible. Use sanctified water and
Draw a circle around your bathtub. Choose what will enter your bathroom as if it were a
cauldron in which you will be remade. Oils Perfume. Glitter. Dried flowers. Light only one.
light a candle on your dresser or sink and wear your best robe. Before preparing the bath, consider everything
What could their glamour be if real life were not an obstacle? Take a bit of earth that
have collected from a place you find irritating and put it in a container that always
he has disliked it and rub your hands on it. Wash your hands with salt, lemon, and soap, wash your
hands and watch how it drains down the sink. Focus on letting go of your previous vision of
its glamour when the dirt leaves its hands.

Undress. Start preparing your bath while singing a song that is sacred to you.
You. Offer your goddesses and spirits a tray of treats that they would like. A cup of
champagne, a perfect piece of dark chocolate, a sliver of truffle on pâté, fresh bread,
incense, flowers, a perfume, cosmetics, a book, a leather mouse. Whether your words
be simple and austere or floral and elaborate, use what comes from the place of your heart to
invite your goddesses and spirits to join you, and then say aloud what you are offering them and
ask for help in your glamour.

Turn off the faucet when your bathtub is full. Focus your will on making the bath a place
welcoming so that your goddesses and spirits can communicate with you. Remember, "communicate" is a
a broad word to work with goddesses and spirits. Communication is not always words
expressed, sometimes it's a letter, bibliomancy, a sound, a smell, a taste, a vision. Get in
in the bathroom. If you do not receive communication while the water is cooling, drain a little and
add more hot water. Focus on traveling within yourself to your inner temple,
a place where it is safe to receive visitors. Kindly ask your goddesses and spirits to visit you.
If your house is still empty and there is no communication, keep performing this ritual every night.
until I receive communication on how to work towards reconciling how to make your life
daily a place for glamour.

Make divinations, record your dreams, seek omens, and ask for the help of your goddesses and spirits.
in your Great Work. When their suggestions help you, be sure to show the due gratitude.
Never, never make promises that you cannot keep. Never, ever make vows that you cannot
fulfill. Never, never promise offerings that you cannot give. Just like breaking faith with
a human lover/friend/family member can break their relationship in two, the same will happen
Here too. Breaking your faith with them could make them reject your presence, cloud your
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Take it off slowly

When attending the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the most exciting part is the
Dr. Frank's entrance to the theater. The audience starts to stomp loudly with the click of their heels and
regular customers stretch their necks towards the back of the house to try to
to envision who will play him. The role asks a lot, as most do.
papers in Rocky Horror. The wig, the panties, the corset, the stockings, the heels, the lipstick
of a vampire, all in front of a room full of people that probably include
strangers, friends, lovers, exes, and possibly family members. No one wants to see a
Dr. Frank nervous and shy, even if that is how the actor feels at that moment. When
the cape is removed to reveal her complete outfit, she only has one moment to get it right.
When done correctly, the entire audience cheers and claps with delight. When they finish
with inhibition, well, everyone politely applauds and hopes that Eddie can at least dance
with Columbia with poise because, otherwise, why bother watching Rocky Horror in
alive?

Gypsy Rose Lee did not start her career in burlesque. She was a girl who sang and
she danced and took the opportunity to become a showgirl when a
he slipped off his straps one night and began to chat with the audience about it. His
The knocking was so good that it appeared in a mainstream movie, Stage Door.
Canteen, interpreting a part while doing a highly qualified striptease for adults. Yes
Well, Gypsy Rose Lee was very beautiful and talented, her glamour was not in her body, it was
in her ability to keep everyone's gaze on her, even when she was still
completely dressed, through clever monologues, facial expressions, costumes
brilliant and their presence. Having control of their audience allowed them to decide when, how, and
what to reveal to your viewers.

Part of what makes you interesting and exciting to others is how you reveal yourself, in
action, conversation, and physically. The way you dress, when you tell a lover that
you are in love with her for the first time, a long gaze of a lost look at a stranger,
how you tell a story about yourself, how you treat others, all these little
components. invent your glamour.

What to reveal and when not to is something that most Americans don't spend much time on.
time thinking. Until I started reading books about the je ne sais quoi of women
French, I never thought about that. After all, I'm a blogger; I vomit intimate details.
all the time for all of Internet to judge me in silence and find me wishing for everything
time. But in typical and general terms, in American culture, the speed with which the
that one shares intimate details of their life is a sign of how interested they are in each other.
the other as friends or lovers. While this often begins in an exciting way
Do you like cake? I like cake! Do you like cute animals doing cute things?
about animals? I like cute animals doing cute animal things!), This is not
a flawless process. Generally, when you feel like you have known someone forever in the
a lapse of two weeks, you are also vomiting secrets and more intimate traumas.

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Is this relationship serious?

But the problem here is that feeling like you have known someone your whole life and having met
someone for life and two different things. When it comes to a feeling, sometimes
You may feel inclined to share more than you intended and then discover aspects
disappointing about this new person: they are an unrepentant gossip, which means that
Now everyone in their social circles knows this information about you, they are inconsistent.
What does it mean that you had this close bond and have shared significant things about yourself?
just so that the other person loses interest and walks away with all your secrets forever
return, or has other less desirable traits.

If I hadn't been so blinded by what I wanted to see (in every sense it's similar), it is
it is possible that he took things more slowly and shared his stories and secrets
at a calmer pace. Information is a valuable asset for one reason: once someone
You know something about yourself, you cannot ignore it. You have trusted this person to take care of your
stories and secrets and I didn't use them against you. Wouldn't it be better in most cases
wait to be sure that the person can be trusted with these sacred things first
to throw them in the name of the link?

Returning to my cherished books of je ne sais quoi, although it is very unlikely that, like
Americans, let's protect what we do to make a living from potential new friends.
and lovers for several months for inexplicable French reasons, along with several others
untranslatable French ideas about Without the need to officially call anything an appointment,
we should consider some aspects of French home life while we
we guide with glamour.

You can become a more interesting conversationalist about literature, local events,
world events, art and cinema to reduce personal information overload when getting to know
new people and with people you already know. Being a good listener is never a bad thing, and it's true that
people love to talk about themselves, so ask questions about their
experiences or thoughts.

When you speak, speak clearly so that you are understood. It's never too much to have some
anecdotes about your recent life experiences that can be shared with several circles
social. Make sure to give the other people you are talking to the opportunity to
talk too. Every issue or problem that crosses your mind does not need to be held onto.
immediately to present it to the world; one can take some time to think about it due to his/her
count first and consider how and to whom it could be presented. It is not necessary to go through each
moment of each day in the company of others; it can work to forge some niches
small moments to have time for yourself, both to unwind from being seen by
others in order to focus on achieving their Great Work.

A new relationship of any kind with someone is an opportunity for you to form bonds.
that could last years, possibly decades. It is the beginning of a journey that will unfold
as fast or slow as you and the other party allow.

A pajama party atmosphere is very nice, but if you have told this new person
everything there is to know about you over the course of a night or even a month, what
will you have to share in two years? Burlesque is not very exciting to watch if the stripper is
take off the clothes in a pile on stage in thirty seconds. At the same time, you must do
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she could take off her gloves in half an hour and captivate everyone with just a glance. Still
You are not Gypsy Rose. How interested is the other person in you? Ideally, you will want to leave.
an interaction with the other party wishing to have more time with you, not grateful for your
exit.
If you know that you will have an interaction with a new person, it might be helpful to consider what
I would be willing to share with the other party and why, as well as what should be kept confidential.
later.

Think of it this way: in most circumstances, it is very unpleasant to hear about the
horrors of the exes from the other side on the first date. If that is coupled

With the discussion of financial problems, the displeasure for mutual friends and acquaintances.
and the expectations about this relationship, it is very likely that he will distance himself as quickly as possible from
this other person and the whole situation. You want to avoid being that date.

More than anything, practice will help you discover the mocking aspect of your glamour. Like
As we have said before, it is very unlikely that your great work will be carried out.
with some new influences. An easy way to get new influences in your life is
expand your current social circles. This happens by saying yes to external events with more
frequency. Shows of all kinds, trips, craft circles, meetings
professionals, the events in the communities of which they are a part, the conventions,
parties, festivals, and conferences are excellent places to showcase your show
gira.

You have to leave the house for the glamour to work.

Before going to one of these events, consider what you would like to gain from the event itself.
Do you want some sexy play with a friend's friend? Do you want to find the best things?
for eating and drinking? Do you have interesting conversations? Do you want to make new friends and
lovers? Do you want to learn new information that can provide you with new experiences?
Do you want to say yes to things you normally wouldn't say yes to? Do you want to wear clothes that
rarely do you get to use? Finding specific people or situations in this event
Will he/she promote his/her great work?

Keep in mind that not making plans to achieve the things you will find at these events.
it could make him feel dissatisfied. At the same time, even if he plans everything so well
careful like a debutante's dance, you may still find that nothing went according to plan
with their plans because they felt personally overwhelmed or that the agendas of others
people are less strict than yours. When their plans involve other people
(which they will often do), expect a certain amount of chaos.

It may be useful for you to plan your event broadly. If you start networking
Before the event through social media, it can help you discover
What events might be of interest to you? During this time, it is possible to have a social schedule.
complete before going to the event for the first time.

Appointments, meetings, gatherings, classes, and lunches with small groups are easily accomplished.
through some charming and clever online jokes. However, keep in mind
some things.

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Sometimes people (possibly you) are more charming and interesting on the Internet than in person.
persona. No one is (probably) trying to deceive anyone.

Everyone has time to think of the perfect bon mot to share, and with the ability to
delete possibly regrettable statements, everyone can show their literalness.

best angles in their photos, those aspects of themselves that they believe will be the most
glamorous. Internet exchanges are a great place to explore possible ways to
introducing ourselves to others. From a glamour perspective, it is the ultimate sandbox.

But the great chemistry online can fail in person, and the lukewarm interactions in
Internet can spark in person when hormones and visual cues are involved.
Often, it's a good idea to be open to the experience when making plans with someone you
is not sure because it could be amazing in person. In any of these situations, he
It is advisable to have an exit strategy in case a major connection becomes obsolete.
But before running like a scared rabbit, if the conversation derails because the other
the person does not stay on topic, they can ask questions about the real topic to return to it
conversation. This can make him less desperate to escape because he is
again on the subject and affirming some agency in the situation. But if something is needed.
I'm going to buy a drink, which can be adapted to your event.
Oops! It's two o'clock and that's the workshop on how to make human hair crowns that I...
I promised my friend that I would go with her. I have to leave, nice to meet you! Also
you can use other escape methods. Often, it's easier to exit a conversation if you
you focus on the other person and what they are saying, you give them verbal feedback
You heard what they said and then you make your excuses (I am very happy to
having caught up, I have to run!). If you know that this will be a conversation from which
wants to escape before the time or feels that he will want to escape from the beginning, give a framework of
time. I really want to focus on our conversation, but I have x amount of
time before having to run, just so you know. If you are trying to untangle more
long and slow (especially for getting rid of someone from your space), it is useful to change from
space with the person.
Hey, I'm going to grab a drink in the kitchen, come with me. Spend some time together in the new one.
location, focusing on what the other person is saying and then excuse yourself to go to a
new space alone. It was great talking to you! I have to make a call outside of my
room. See you later!

As always, make sure someone knows where you are when meeting new people.
be sensible so you don’t end up shattered in someone’s freezer. If you have no friends
In the event, you may consider installing an app like Watch Over Me on your phone.
intelligent. Watch Over Me allows you to choose an event for what you are doing (walking
home alone, take a taxi, go on a date with someone new, etc.) and how long it should take.
If you do not respond to the application when the time period ends, your GPS coordinates will
send it to your designated security contact. It also has an emergency button.

An event like this is short-term, which means just that: it is short. Be selfish, be
selective. You can't always do that in your daily life, eventually the people who you
tolerant being a wild psychopath while trying to achieve your Great Work eventually becomes
They will get tired of you being constantly selfish and 'selective.'

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(Family first communion party without alcohol and without a rebound house? Pass). Ideally, that
I supported him in his effort (the parts he wishes to share, at least) and be
willing to listen to their snot and cries. to fail in life until exhaustion and, from time to time
when, to put cookies on your face. If you're very lucky, maybe some of your
dishes.

If one reserves firmly for the entire event, the opportunity to be spontaneous is denied, and if
meet interesting new people, he won't be able to do anything about it. It's an experience
very limited (and liminal), so if you find yourself cornered by people who are not
glamorous for you and it is unlikely that they will also be useful for your Great Work, you must
withdraw as soon as possible, not even necessarily politely in some cases because to
Sometimes others are not good at picking up social signals.
It's very easy to get exhausted at this kind of event because you're having an excellent time and you're
excited to be surrounded by like-minded people.

Maintaining personal care during this type of event is essential. Make sure to
sleep at least five to seven hours. Eat regularly. Shower regularly. Take
your medications. Drink plenty of water. If you start to feel completely overwhelmed,
take a breath and read a book or take a nap and regroup. Try not to catch germs
from others: wash your hands frequently, do not eat from common plates or bowls
(potato chips, unwrapped candies, etc.) and take vitamin C and zinc starting a few days before
from the event and ending several days after the event.

The serious gothic face is not always necessary for glamour.

Glamour is not always serious, neither at events nor in your daily life. If you have ever seen
Dita Von Teese on a daytime talk show to promote a new book or a
lingerie line, she is giving the hosts lessons on how to dance on a cup of
giant martini (as is very likely to occur in everyday life). or another of its sets
of burlesque dancer skills friendly with television during the day. It has done
so often that it is very realistic about it and even a little silly about how
explain how to run this event.

Don't be mistaken about how playful she can be now, sketching for college.
Humor about how to eat a Lean kitchen in a sexy way: he's still a mogul who has arrived.
where it is due to how it presented itself. If you woke up one morning and decided to become
a stripper in the late 1980s, where headbands were king and Tawny
Kitaen was considered the pinnacle of beauty and you looked nothing like the other girls, it is
It's possible that you have escaped home and become an early primary school.
professor. Dita didn't do it. She walked into that smoky bar, looked at the bleached blondes in
bikini dancing as if they were in a music video and concluded: Nobody else looks like me!
This is great! I have a niche! She built her empire from that point.

Dita's brand is not diminished by her daytime television antics, and yours.
Neither. You don't have to be serious all the time, you don't have to create a facade that ignores.
whole parts of yourself to pretend to be just parts that are easier to swallow for
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you glamour if you do not fully commit to the path you have chosen to take
express your glamour in the moment.

In acting method, you always hear the phrase 'what is my motivation?' If you are
sincerely committing to your character as an actor, you must have a reason for each
line that comes out of your mouth. I want to convince the other character, I want to lie so
convincingly that she believes me, I want to seduce her, I want to win this argument. You are
trying to do something active with sometimes passive lines. If you only half commit to
your character, the audience only half commits to your version of that character, it
that generates bad reviews and a lack of future opportunities. You want the audience to
involve because that's how you can keep acting. Glamour works in a very
similar. When interacting with another person, what are you trying to achieve? Are you
Building a friendship? Do you want the other person to think you are intelligent and attractive?
Do you want the other person to know how accomplished you are?

Do you want to please the other person because you like them? Do you want the other person to help you?
with an opportunity? Are you joining? Do you want the other party to find you sexy?

Think of someone dressed very attractively. Now think of that person moving.
in that outfit like a little boy forced to wear a dress and a Easter hat. No
It's not that the person suddenly becomes less attractive, but rather that this person has undermined their...
own credibility. In glamour, what you do is less important than how you do it.
many ways.

If you visit a friend and her house looks like a hurricane hit it, but she doesn't apologize and
Serve a complete tea with all the clean and shiny appropriate accessories, are you going to be
busy judging her in silence about her house or satisfied with the tea they are sharing
with you while you swallow buns in your throat? She chose to commit to serving tea
adequately instead of tidying up her house and committed to not worrying about her
opinion about your house in its current state, which will probably make it more
committed to enjoying tea and not realizing the state of the house.

Perhaps he made a mistake at his workplace. What will be more charming for his
employer? To sob, to self-flagellate, and to be wrapped up in it for the rest of the day, or a
sincere apologies, questions seeking clarification, and a small, smart comment
modestly as he goes through his day and plunges back into your work?
If you are on a date and spill red wine all over your white blouse, is it better to run to the bathroom in
a humiliation attack, or rolling your eyes, smiling and saying: 'Is that why I can't have...
good things," and then ask for sparkling water?

It would be amazing if glamour made you perfect all the time and completely.
attractive to any other human being you meet in life, but a
a key component of glamour magic is that it offers a way to be elegant when
a situation doesn't work. the way you intended. We laugh when cats fall
accidentally from something and then they adopt a pose as if they intended to do it,
but we laugh because it seems charming and endearing that they are trying
recover from a mistake. It is always much better to try to recover from a mistake in a way
that it is pleasant for its witnesses instead of huffing and getting angry, or worse, denying that
it happened, which in turn annoys its witnesses.

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As human beings, we tell each other all the time that everyone makes mistakes, so be
owners of their own. It makes you identifiable with others. If occasionally it seems that
needs help because she is clumsy like a burning heroine or burns the barbecue and others it
They find it adorable, hasn't he helped himself to receive support for his Great Work?

Esoteric Experiment No. 10

Objective: Practice controlling your glamour.

Choose a place where you've never been and no one knows you: a café known for its espresso.
perfect, a wine tasting class, a convention or conference taking place in an area
of your interest, an Airbnb in an adjacent city, a store you are never enough
Brave enough to participate, a blind date. How would you like to be seen by others in this?
place? What aspects of yourself do you want to reveal to strangers in this new place? What
aspects has specifically chosen not to reveal to strangers? This is an important aspect of
incorporate burlesque as part of its glamour. If a burlesque dancer shows something
that had no intention of showing (or worse, is illegal to show), has lost control over
your performance. Think about your previous work on what makes it glamorous. How can you
work to make those aspects of yourself evident to strangers?
How can you show your glamour to others? Is part of it what you wear? The drink.
What do you ask for? How do you flirt with a stranger? The distance that comes into play when reading a book.
specific? Any funny and clever comments you make? Do you want everyone
I was blinded by the sheer power of your glamour or just a few specific people ... or
Perhaps a specific person? Practice turning your glamour on and off at will.
drawing it and dissipating it, using any method one would use to extract energy for the
magic and then dissipating the energy after your rite has concluded. Dedicate at least
three days to contemplate this, as having control of your glamour is important to achieve your
Great Work.

Once sufficient time has been taken to decide on the course of action, proceed with the
ritual aspect of their rite the night before the practical part. Choose a place to carry out
this ritual that is conducive for writing: your office outside of hours, the kitchen table, the
a bed, a nightstand, and a sofa. Dress simply in basic black. Select your instruments.
of sacred writing. Calligrane silk gauze paper, a white goose quill like
milk with Chinese ink, a calligraphy brush, and black ink from nightshade, a machine of
write and linen paper, a handmade journal and your best pen, your MacBook. Decide on
any other ritual implement you may need: a ritual oil charged with berries of
juniper for self-anointing, a candle that has been dressed with the appropriate herbs and oils, its
favorite book for bibliomancy, sacred music, a canvas and charcoal, quartz crystal. points
that has been cleansed with the light of the moon, an egg to cleanse oneself, a drink of whisky in one of
my favorite mugs, the Golden Moth Illumination deck.

Draw your power through yourself and walk slowly in a circle around your area of
I work three times while uttering convincing protective words, prohibiting the
spirits with bad intentions from your space. If words are not always their method of
preferred communication, use what it is: drawing, singing, dancing or creating a card. Use your
ritual implements, however, flows organically for you.

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Write your intention or pour your intention onto the paper and seal it with wax. Breathe on the paper to
finish sealing your intention.

Keep the paper on your person for your adventure: your pocket, your bra, your handbag. The day of your
output, keep in mind all your actions, as every small decision constitutes your greatest
glamour.

Dress with intention. Speak with a purpose. Use your body language carefully. Observe
your unconscious gestures. Are you revealing what you intend to reveal? Is it being seen in the light
with which he intended to be seen? Once you have completed your practice, break the seal on your
paper and take some time to reflect on whether you achieved what you set out to achieve. If you didn't, don't
despair. Rarely does something new happen the first time. Try the ritual again from start to finish
in a new place for the ritual and practice. Once it works, see what happens when it
use with people who know it. That may require several attempts before it succeeds,
since they will be less susceptible to their charms.

Glamour and great work: midway record

Have you established what your Great Work is?

2.
Have you come into your power as the Other? How will you use your place as the Other as part of your
glamour?

3.

Can you get small favors from others using your charm?

4.

Have you established a strong ethical code for you to follow?

5.

How has she used her glamour to progress in her Great Work?

6.

What steps have you taken both in practice and with your glamour to progress in your Great
Work?

7.
Which goddesses and spirits have you chosen to work with for your glamour?

8.
How has she resolved her 'idealized glamour' into her 'real glamour'?

9.

How will you use your glamour to advance your Great Work?

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10. Have you developed a sense of sustainable style?

11. How will you use your glamour to present yourself to others?

12. How will you use your glamour in a new environment?

13. How will you use your glamour in a family environment?

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NOBODY WOKE UP LIKE THIS

You cannot win a battle alone, even if your saints and spirits are guiding you, you hear the
voice of God himself and you have a map of everything you should do and everything you should avoid. The
The maiden knew. She knew that if she wanted to unite France like an illiterate farmer during
a time when women were still property instead of people, I would need
powerful allies. Always the cunning tactic, he knew that if he found a way to get to the
King, everything would fit. King Charles VII was not anointed, he was desperate and losing ground.
constantly against the British and the Burgundians. Their situation was sufficiently
serious enough to seek something, anything to renew the hope of its followers.
What could be more inspiring than Joan of Arc, a young peasant girl guided by God, her
standard waving in the wind, its armor shining in the sun?

First, Joan needed to get to Charles. It wasn't exactly an easy journey to reach him;
Even in the Middle Ages, people used to give you a wide margin if you had a really good idea.
great and you affirmed that saints and angels guided you. Juana convinced her cousin that the
will lead to see the captain of the garrison of his town to get him an escort to see the
King. He was initially received as well as one would expect. The captain told Joan's cousin.
that would take her home with her father, where she should be beaten for having ideas. However,
it was a small town, and it's not hard to imagine Joan lurking to see the captain every time
who went to the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker using the old tradition.
adolescent of perseverance about his request. until he was too tired to
say no.

While Joan was working on the captain, two soldiers became interested in Joan's cause,
especially when they discovered that her 'Lord', whom she continued to refer to, was not a
noble without God. Joan told the soldiers something like: Of course I would prefer to be in
house doing what women are supposed to do! I would rather be spinning and
helping my mother like any good Catholic girl. But if God, the saints, and the angels
They say they need to save the country, they can't just ignore them, right guys? What
they probably found it reasonably plausible, especially because Joan must have
shining practically in the dark with glamour.

The two soldiers convinced the captain to grant Joan a second hearing.
Here is where Joan tells the captain: "Oh, by the way, even though there is no logical reason for the
that a peasant woman should know this and this battle is taking place in a place very far from
here, let me give you an unlikely prediction about how this is going to roll.
So, Joan correctly predicts the outcome of the battle of Rouvray. After that
the messengers confirm their prediction, the captain decides that he has not much to lose in
this point, as it suggests to Joan to wear men's clothing to avoid being raped in the
road and sends her to meet Charles. a small escort.

Eventually, he goes to the court and is granted an audience with the future king. It is likely
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he did it in private, but it was his mother-in-law, Yolande of Aragon, who financed Joan's campaign and
confirmed her virginity and her title as 'the Maid'.

Then, Joan was sent to the ongoing battle in Orleans, where she received an arrow in the neck.
and survived. Once Juana arrived and the French were offensive in the battle, the English
They withdrew. This convinced the Duke of Alençon to accept Joanna's advice, which helped him.
to win the battle in Jargeau. Troyes was taken in a bloodless siege and shortly after that,
Carlos was crowned. Joan never participated in an active battle herself; instead, she led her
standard for his army.

Finally, Juana was captured by the Burgundians and held by the family of Juana of
Luxembourg. The countess and her ladies were immediately drawn to the charm of
Juana; they treated her well, although she was not one of the easier prisoners to catch. In a
At that moment, Swan jumped from her tower into the moat to try to escape. Shortly after
that was sold to English custody.

Although Joan was essential for Charles's rise to royalty and the support he received,
he decided not to change her for a comparable English prisoner and instead accepted
approximately the equivalent of USD $100,000 for her.

It is difficult to say what Joan's emotional state was at this moment. Any young person from
Nineteen years would be exhausted by the constant interrogations and the terrible conditions.
of life. Probably, Joan was even more discouraged for not being able to attend church,
to confess or talk to a priest. While she remained stubbornly loyal to Charles,
now he was doing the real equivalent of refusing to acknowledge her because she was no longer one of
the popular girls at school.

He had received an arrow in the neck, a sword wound in the thigh, and an injury to his
jump, none of which could put her in the most lucid mood.

She signed a confession to appease her inquisitors who sympathized with the French.
English, and from there he had a life in prison to await what probably included food and
moldy water, sick bedding, and trying to avoid being raped by their captors.
Who knows what really happened for Joan to 'relapse' into cross-dressing (which was
considered perfectly acceptable by everyone until it became a burden), perhaps
their voices told him: "It's not going to get better from here, sister. Let's get out of peace." Maybe
I had no other option.

Maybe he didn't really want to live in his twenties like that. But he did put on men's clothing,
what her official crime was, although she was also accused of witchcraft and was quickly sent
to the bonfire.

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Lessons from Joan

If a fifteen-year-old illiterate medieval farmer without means or family influence could

to arrive at the royal court and manage to have an unlikely candidate crowned as king
using only her natural glamour and the strength of her conviction, what Great Work could not do?
Do you succeed? It is possible that Joan did not have strong alliances with powerful women when
she began her search, but once her glamour helped her gain his support, she was
unstoppable.

Empathy is not optional in glamour.

When working with others, empathy is very important to achieve your Great Work, but not
it is everything. You need glamour and empathy to be an unstoppable force. In short, the
empathy is what you do and glamour is what you are. In Hinduism, the god Shiva is being
And the goddess Parvati is doing it. If it is too much to be, while she can reach the
lighting, can also wander aimlessly through the cremation fields smoking
marijuana for an eternity. If you do too much, it can do as much as Martha Stewart,
but it can get caught in the clothes instead of the lighting. Shiva and Parvati are
married, which symbolizes the unity of masculine (passive) energy and feminine energy
(active) of the universe. When they merge, they form the deity Ardhanarishvara, who is both
ferocious and gentle, as well as loving and destructive: all the possibilities of the universe in one being
balanced.

Empathy is the starting point of the active part of glamour. Essentially, empathy is
when you sense what another person is feeling and you feel it yourself.

For most people, this is an automatic reaction. A loved one feels

sad, because you also feel sad. At this level, empathy is called empathy
affective. If you can understand what someone is going through (loss of a father, loss of the
work, divorce, etc.) because you have experienced it yourself, you are participating in the
experiential empathy. Cognitive empathy is when you discover how the other feels.
a person about a situation by actively interacting with them through listening and doing
questions.

Finally, imaginative empathy is when you imagine yourself as the other person and
you discover how you would react in their situation.

If empathy is not a skill that comes easily to you, do not despair. While it is important,
it is not an exact science and has its own limitations. You will not always imagine how it
feel the other person correctly. Something that makes you feel angry if it happened to you can
make the other person feel scared or sad. It is unlikely that empathy for oneself
just inspire you to help the other person. While they may feel happy, sad or another emotion in
that moment with the other party, can continue with their day as they normally would without doing
nothing to help the other party. Even if you don't feel empathy for someone else's situation,
you may feel inclined to help her because you feel it is the right thing to do. In general, also
There is an unconscious human bias to want to help the people we encounter.
adorable or attractive in front of people who also do not seem appealing to us.

You can use empathy and its limitations to drive your revolution. First, let's work on
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ears and a mouth for a reason. Do you talk a lot? Start by being quiet. This is infinitely more
harder than it seems, like someone who often cannot stay silent.
Are you having trouble knowing what to say? You should start asking questions and showing him/her to the
another part that is listening and that is not an indoor plant secretly participating
actively. If you don't know what to say, ask something like: 'How did that make you feel?' Once
that expresses a feeling with which one can identify, say something like 'I would feel like the '
the same way because ... (any reason you would feel the same way).

People like people who listen and the water also wets No talking /
talking is really the first step here, but it becomes more complex. You also have to treat
the other party as if it were the most important person on the planet. Generally, this is
relatively easy when the other party is agreeable, but it becomes much more difficult when they are not
he likes it. Guess whose help you are most likely to need to forward your big
work? Correct.

Start this process by being completely present with the other party. Don't daydream and
drift in his mind while she speaks; find something interesting about what she is
saying and ask questions to learn more or comment in a way that indicates that you are
actively participating. Checking your mobile phone (unless you are expecting a
call / real emergency text) is the fastest way to say that he is no longer here. No
it matters if the other person is, the other person (probably) is not scheming a
little revolution ... you are. At the same time, it is a delicate balance between interested
the inquisitor.
As someone who tends more towards the inquisitor than to interest, I can understand the difficulty that
exists. It is not trying to extract a confession from the other party (in most cases),
is trying to build a genuine connection with them. A genuine connection is what
will make the other party put in extra effort beyond making vague noises of interest in
and offers you real assistance with your Great Work.

This is where it is much more important to be a genuine human being instead of trying to
imitate a sociopath. After all this intoxicating talk about the choice of your
choice about your moral compass, this statement sounds suspiciously like I said
what to do. Listen to me. Of course, you can choose to be a sociopath, but frankly, I don't
you are going to be very good at that. In general, can you tell when someone is really
interested in what he is saying instead of just calling him on the phone?

Generally, you can tell when someone is truly passionate about something instead of
put on a show? Most people can also do it, so it is not
a great approach. While you may have a more ambiguous moral compass, authenticity
it is a truly important aspect of glamour.

Once upon a time

Let's consider some traditional knowledge of fairies as fairies known for

perform glamorous magic. Many types of fairies, such as sluagh, pixies, redcaps, and their various
brothers of the dark side of the year, they really have no human sense of morality.
They were restless spirits of the dead, prone to drowning passersby, and they were painted the
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mortally suspicious morality. Sinister fairies could lure you to death,

hold you captive for days in the Lands of the Fairies just to push you back to the
mortal world where ten years have passed and exercising your power to make you do all kinds of
things you shouldn't be doing. But in most fairy folklore, fairies
they cannot lie.

It didn't matter if they were good fairies (seelie) (who were also quite scary,
especially if they felt despised) or evil fairies (unseelie). They couldn't lie. Oh,
they could evade the truth, they could change the subject until I forgot what it was
asking, they could refuse to answer your questions, they could become intelligent and
formulate it as a riddle, but they couldn't lie. How could so much glamour work?
If it were linked to a complete falsehood? I couldn't, which is why the fairies
Traditionally, they cannot lie. There would be nothing for their magic to cling to if they could.
There must be that core of authenticity that comes from his inability to lie to
let your glamour magic unfold.

If glamour is supposed to be about what is interesting and intriguing about you, how do you
a complicated web of lies (the first definition of glamour) would help you achieve your Great
Work? How could you really build connections with other people if everything is a
lie?

If you think of popular fictional examples of sociopaths, they always have someone with whom
they have a genuine connection: Hannibal Lecter with Clarice Starling, Sherlock Holmes with John
Watson, time lords with their companions, etc. What makes them glamorous in part.
for the reader is to imagine that you could be that special person with whom your sociopath has
chosen to have a genuine relationship or, conversely, that you would have that special person whose life
it would essentially revolve around you. Even in those stories, having a genuine connection is a
important aspect of history. Think about beneficial situations that have arisen from it
long of his life. While some of them may have arisen solely from luck, the
most of them come from genuine connections that he has formed with others.

You need to connect with people who hate your face

When it comes to enemies and foes, find genuine points to connect with.
Finding common ground can make both you and the other person look at.
different way, especially if most of your mutual dislike comes from the
rumors and the opinions of other people.

There will be times when you have to work with people you don't get along with and/or
that you don't like, but remember our previous conversation about Margaret Beaufort and
Elizabeth Woodville, working together clandestinely to marry off her children and
begin the Tudor reign. They founded a dynasty together and are well documented in
how much they hated each other.

When you make connections with people you can't stand for any reason,
finding a small part of them that you can support is the fastest way to achieve.
a genuine and sincere connection. Perhaps both have Pomeranians, perhaps both are on diets.
Paleo, maybe both of them like the novels of Danielle Steele, whatever.

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When can you really start to worry about this other person in some way?
little, it is when it is more likely that they will worry about your dog and your pony show
in exchange. If you can establish a superficial connection, it may be easier for you
establish deeper and more sincere connections that begin to take root between you
two. Perhaps they were the same age when both lost their parents, perhaps both have
children with special needs, or perhaps both have gone through a divorce.

Shared experiences and the genuine connection about them make these roots
green shoots begin to sprout. Perhaps you will find that you were wrong in your impression
previously or perhaps he will simply find himself more moderate in his feelings. When
you can open yourself to experience without expectations (which is much easier said than done)
by doing so), new bonds can be formed.

At the same time, to be completely naive and believe that everyone is good all the time and
That no one has their own agenda will get you into trouble.

Everyone has an agenda; you have one, I have one, your friends have one, your parents have one, your
work colleagues do it, your lovers do it, your enemies and friends do it, your
goddesses and spirits do it, everyone. Sometimes it is the best for you, sometimes it is what they believe.
What is best for you sometimes shamelessly is not the best for you. All of these
results are possible from all the listed parts for the different events that are
they present. No one acts the same way all the time, including you. The more I can
be aware of this and see what the agendas of other people are and accept this about them
Moreover, he will be able to have a clear vision of others and will be able to work with them.

The agendas of other people do not make them evil or toxic or any other word.
Exciting in itself, just means that they also have a plan for their Great Work, which can
like it or not and whether you agree. If you can see a place where your Great Work
they may fit with your Great Work, they will be able to work together.

It doesn't have to be the whole puzzle fitting perfectly, just a piece of yours and one
your piece that can fit into its place.

Remember the details about the other party as best you can: what they get from Starbucks, the
names of the people in their families, their interests, the foods they cannot stand, the
political beliefs, religious beliefs, the music they like, just as you do. I can
remember. If you are a staunch liberal and the other party is an extreme conservative, do not
pretend to be conservative. The truth will come to light in this peak of social media that
we are all having together. Instead, remember not to talk about politics. If the conversation
It becomes political, gracefully changing the subject to a more neutral topic that allows you to connect.
Like most of the skills discussed in this book, this will require practice. It's possible
that he/she wishes to deliberately place himself/herself in situations that he/she knows will make his/her blood boil
(political conversations in the break room, unpleasant relatives at dinner,
discussions on the Internet) and find out how the topic will change completely or will maintain the
conversation. productive and neutral conversation.

From a magical point of view, when you establish a genuine connection with the other party,
is forming a delicate bond between the collective energy threads that reside in each
one of you. The more threads you can gently let go of the other person and tie them to the
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connection, the stronger the tied threads are. That is why genuine connection is emphasized
about acting.

From the point of view of witchcraft, you will have a much stronger position if your bond
energy with the other part is solid. It is possible that the magic of glamour does not care about the
imitation in the face of sincerity, but that will not make an insecure bond become strong
suddenly.

Most of us are not naturally talented

People with a lot of natural glamour have an unconscious way of easily achieving this.
We don’t have that luxury, so it will be very uncomfortable until I improve in training.
these connections based on practice. Think about the people you know in your real life
those that everyone immediately likes. What do those people that you
don't you do and in what you can work? Once again, focus on personal growth
against imitation.

Jow is one of those completely annoying people that 90 percent of the

the population loves and wants to establish friendship immediately. They are so used to receiving
immediately a shower of praise, affection, and adoration that, if it meets someone who
dare to be part of that other 10 percent, you will instantly launch a campaign
unipersonal for their affection until they have fallen prey to their affection. inherent glamour and
tolerant.

I am not one of those spoiled children of the universe. I have too many sharp edges, I am
too openly and clearly motivated, I hope you are too; I seem
distant, I talk too fast, I don't listen incredibly well, I tend to group the clothes or
check my phone the moment you stop being interesting to me, I don't wear jeans or
t-shirts, and if you know me in person first and haven't read my blog, I don't look like someone with
who can relate a lot. All my ENFJ traits from Myers-Briggs are noticeable from
immediate for new people who are less ambitious and feel quickly
intimidated to any degree dictated by their internal world and, in general, they want to flee or not.
interact directly with me.

If they have prominent similar ENFJ traits, there will instead be sniffing and tasting.
first meeting. Jow finds it incredibly stressful and distressing the mere fact of
to witness the sniffing and the tests, but it seems much less exhausting to me than trying
with someone who clearly fears me to a certain extent.
I couldn't be Jow even if I wanted to; I will never smell like him on an energetic level. I won't be
tolerant, I won't be incredibly interested in your problems just because they
you are vomiting in front of me; I am not interested in you wanting to be my best friend
immediate.

However, I can lower the intensity and increase my natural playfulness, I cannot be a
idiot who hits other people and focus on the conversation I have at hand,
I can consciously slow down my speech. These are all the things that
I can do and in which I have worked for purposes of first impression. What can you do?
work to make a better impression?

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When learning to connect with other people, make sure to take mental notes about the other.
part. Can you tell when the other person is really laughing? Can you know when
Is the other person sincere? If the other party is naturally very glamorous, in many cases
You will instinctively want their words and actions to match, even when they don't.
Observe the other person carefully.

Does the way the other person perceives themselves align with their actions? For
For example, the other party is considered very charitable, but you have never seen or heard them speak.
of her as a volunteer or writing a check for charity? In most cases, no
It is up to you to correct how the person sees themselves compared to how they act.
reality. It is likely that he will continue to see himself as he had before and
he will see it as wrong for pointing the opposite. This, in turn, will make him see you less.
favorably unless they are close friends, family, lovers, or allies and it has already been
it is established that this type of criticism is welcome. It is much more important for you to notice
mentally these inaccuracies, as they can come into play as you move the
pieces across the chessboard to achieve their Great Work.

Multitasking is challenging even for prophets.

In the Book of Judges and the Midrash, Deborah was the modern career woman of the 12th century B.C.
who juggled marriage and leadership over Israel, as well as a relationship
demanding with Yahweh as a prophet. Among these duties, he found time to discuss tactics
of uprising with the commander of his army, Barak, since the Canaanites had been
oppressing the people of Deborah for the last twenty years. During a
from her study sessions on the rebellion, Deborah suggests to Barak that he gather ten thousand.
soldiers to unleash the dogs of war against the Canaanites while she rides to
to take care of the commander of the Canaanite army, Sisera, and then there will be peace in Israel.

There is a long pause while Barak gives Deborah the girl, you are very crazy and then tells her to
Deborah would rather come and help gather the troops because convincing the
farmers that they will go to war and that they will actually return home is hard. work that is
adapts better to a judge. Deborah shrugs and basically says: 'If that's what
you want, loser. For your information, according to Yahweh, a woman is going to take down the punk ass of
Sisera, and you will always be remembered as a loser, a loser. Always ready to let go.
that their subordinates have a learning experience, goes out to gather troops with Barak and
launch a surprise attack on the Canaanites. The battle unfolds according to the prophecy of
Deborah, and the Canaanite army is completely destroyed.

Meanwhile, Sisera and Jael independently see the writing on the wall that the
tides would change. Jael was Cenea, which made her people neutral for both the
Israelites like for the Canaanites. Sisera sees how his army is massacred and goes out to the
road, heading to the Kenite camp. Jael is at her home in her tent.
while her husband goes out hunting, she plays cards with the boys or whatever it is that men do.
in 1100 BC they did so at some unknown moment of the day. Women generally
they were responsible for organizing the home, moving small items from one place to another, fixing the furniture,
set up and take down the tents, so Jael is relaxing, putting Post-it notes on
your IKEA catalog on how to do it. better organize the lives of migrants or any
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Sisera arrives running at Jael's tent and lets himself in, even though her husband is not there.
house, and demands that he hide it from the Israelites. Also, how about a glass of water? Jael establishes
an informal and flirty conversation to find out what the hell is going on and learns about
that the Canaanites were crushed and the Israelites were looking for Sisera. While there is no
a way to know what Jael was considering while opening a bottle of milk and pouring it into
his best dish for Sisera was probably something like: “Alright. I can wait for Heber
take your ass home before Sisera decides to be terrible, or I can make a decision about
I command to gain the favor of the new Israeli boss in charge and to take care of the problem myself.
same.

All the flirting and the milk after losing a great battle has left Sisera out of
fight.

He starts yawning and rubbing his eyes like a sleepy child, and Jael covers him up.
a blanket and he falls asleep, feeling safe that, since all his demands
They have been fulfilled and some more, their important privilege of friendship will keep them safe and sound.

Jael finds her mallet and an extra stake in one of her bags and slips towards Sisera.
She is deeply asleep and drives the stake into her head with such force that it pins her to the
ground. Finally, Deborah arrives in the city with Barak and Jael says: "Hey, girl, I have something for
Deborah says to Barak: 'I told you, loser.' Deborah judges Israel until she dies.
Forty years later, and Jael receives a place of honor both during her life and in the
Song of Deborah, which is one of the oldest songs/poems that have survived.

Lessons from Deb and Jael

The lesson here is that you have to learn to be able to change as your situation changes, and
you have to be able to guess very well what your opponents will do. what your
opponents. Game theory is used in economics and politics to evaluate why
a person or an animal makes a decision in an interaction. a person or an animal in
an interaction, like in a real game, a social exchange or a dispute over resources.
social exchange or a dispute over resources.

In practice, rarely are two players evenly matched. It is unlikely that when you
you confront other people to carry out your Great Work that their intellect, size, appearance,
success, strength, and income level are exactly equal.

As we have extensively discussed, you are likely to be the disadvantaged party in this.
particular interaction. The other party has something you want them to help you achieve your Great
Work, whether money, power, influence, prestige, or a good discount at your favorite store.

An introduction to game theory

What would be the reward (the benefit) for the other party to choose to help you in your Great.
Work? The evaluation of motivation will help you decide how to appeal to the other party to
that helps you. Will he like having a protégé, making your success a part of his success?
Do you feel a sense of satisfaction knowing that you have helped 'fix' your situation?
Does the other person value being thought of as a charitable person? Has it helped them to...?
Getting out of a jam and the help you give will make you both look good in their eyes? Will it?

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Does she like that others are in debt to her? Does she like to be considered a martyr of the
Goodness? Does she think that her success could be useful to her later if the wheel of the
Does fortune suddenly turn against her?

You already know what your reward will be in this exchange. In order to attract the other party
To help you, it is important that you understand what their reward is. You can use your glamour.
to subtly influence the other person if you can accurately gauge what their
reward. As has already been said, coming from a place of sincerity is what will lead you to some
part. If your future success was of interest to the other party, after making your request
It would mean a lot to me to have you involved in this project. And
Who knows? If this turns out as I hope, I will be able to help you (because the discount in the store...
he/she got an interview at a big company that is hiring in your field/because of you
sponsorship managed to get this funded artistic project that gained the attention of the
media and I will mention your name everywhere/because I have attained you
subscriptions to the opera as a thank you for introducing us)

In very general terms, game theory states that people are divided into two
groups: let's call them angels and demons. An angel will want there to be peace and equity and will prefer
avoid violence to preserve what is important to him. A demon will want what
wants, without taking into account the wishes and well-being of others and will be willing to be
aggressive to get what he wants and may use violence to achieve it. A
Angel can try to use reasoning with the demon so that it is not violent and
respect their wishes, what may work. The demon may decide to take into account
the opinions of the angel to satisfy the purposes of the demon, but it may be that the
demon no do it and be willing to kill the angel by his own means.

As we mentioned earlier, people rarely define themselves in such a way

convenient.

Someone can be an angel in most aspects of life, but be willing to

use demonic tactics in certain particular areas. demonic tactics in certain areas
particular, and vice versa. Let's analyze an example. Rachel thinks that stealing is wrong, but she has
hunger and has no prospects of help to obtain food or money. Mónica also
She thinks that stealing is wrong, and she owns a bakery. The laws of her city state that she must
remove all unsold food at the end of the day. unsold food at the end of the day. Rachel no
wants to steal, but knows that soon he will die of hunger if he doesn't eat. He could choose
by asking Monica to give him the leftover food at the end of the night, explaining that
she is hungry and cannot find work (an angel strategy), she could ask for
Mónica a job in exchange for money or goods (an angel strategy), could
steal goods or money from Monica's store (devil's strategy), or I could steal in the
Mónica's container at the end of the night (a devil's strategy). If any of these
the strategies work for her, Rachel's reward is that she doesn't have to go hungry. Monica
could be moved to give Rachel food or a job at the end of the night, which would give her the
the reward of Mónica feeling like a good person because she gave Raquel food or
an opportunity. It could allow Rachel to steal from her, and the reward for Monica would be not
to feel guilty for putting Rachel in jail and not having to deal with the closure of the store
to go to court. I could not allow Rachel to rob him by processing Rachel in the
courts, which would give Mónica the reward of setting an example in the community so that not
they take it, ensuring that their profit margin remains positive.

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Rachel can choose which strategy to use with Mónica based on what she knows about
Mónica based on her own experiences and the experiences of those she knows in the
community. If you know that Mónica is charitable through her work in the community, you can
ask Mónica for a job or leftover food. If she knows that Mónica is not charitable, she can
to take risks and steal. If Mónica is known for prosecuting thieves in her store, Rachel
can choose not to steal from him and opt to steal from another person. Rachel can also choose to
to employ what is known as a mixed strategy in which first it is an angel (Rachel
he asks for a job and Mónica gives it to him) and then a demon (even though Mónica gave him a job,
Rachel still steals from her anyway).

Game theory gives you the opportunity to logically view a situation that can be useful if
there is a lot at stake or if your emotions intensify about your current place in your Great Work.
You won't know what the other party will ultimately choose and it is likely that you won't know why either.
chose what he chose, in addition to his speculation and the data he has acquired through his
personal experiences and the experiences of others. However, if you can take account of
most of the probable outcomes and has a plan for each one, will help you have more
success in your Great Work. Keep in mind that it is not omniscient.

The other part will take you by surprise when it does something you could not conceive it doing.
at that moment, all he can do is try to make a decision based on the
information that has been previously collected and the results that were seen as possibilities and
try to increase your glamour to recover as quickly as possible.

Should I look at every social interaction through these lenses? You can, that doesn't mean that
You have to do it. If not for any other reason than it sounds completely exhausting to go through all this.
mental gymnastics just to choose between The Hills and Sex in the City and pizza or food
takeout Chinese with a friend or a lover. However, when you work to achieve your Great
Work, game theory is an additional weapon you must use along with your glamour.

Optional social experiment No. 3

Objective: to learn to accept help from others gracefully.

If you are someone who has trouble accepting help from others, you will have many
difficulties in starting your battle. Spend some time writing in a journal about why
he has difficulty accepting help from others, and then spent a day getting himself ready
deliberately in situations where one is forced to accept the help of others,
ideally a combination of strangers, acquaintances / colleagues and beings
Dear ones. It doesn’t have to be big requests from everyone. It can be as simple as accepting.
may a door open for you literally. When you accept the help, look at the other person in the
eyes, smile and kindly say: “Thank you. I appreciate it.”

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FAILURE IS ALWAYS A
OPTION

Glamour likes to give the illusion of being fierce, of owning the space you are in.
you find, giving a small adorable smile after saying something completely obscene
and challenging, to look polished from head to toe and to launch and complete your Great Work is effortless. The
Beyoncé's song 'Flawless' became an instant meme because we all
I would like to think that someday, we will wake up as beautiful as Beyoncé without any
effort.

Beyoncé doesn't wake up looking like Beyoncé. Logically, we all know that.

Emotionally, it's a completely different story. It's easy to disdain Queen Bey.
because he is at the top of his game. "Anyone can look amazing if they have a team of
stylists, nutritionists, and personal trainers." True. But Sasha Fierce did not start
with a team of all those things. He had to carve his way to that point, which
it meant that there was a point in his early career where he had to build an image for
herself that finally brought her to her current success. "Beyoncé has an incredible voice and is a
"truly talented dancer." It is also true! But natural talent will only take you so far.
certain point without constant practice, just think of all the cautionary tales of
Behind the Music.

Practice makes glamour

Most things in life that seem effortless are the result of hours and hours.
of effort to perfect a skill or talent. Most people cannot do
a perfect cat-eye eyeliner on the first try; the same can be said for
the jumps in figure skating, the direction of workshops, publication, the creation of a
small business, competition in child-rearing and ironing a shirt
correctly.

Our oppressors can buy organization. They can buy assistants to find
documents that have been lost in your offices, intricate cabinet systems for
keep your clothes in perfect order, domestic help to hang up the clothes that have fallen down
I have personal chefs to make healthy dinners, personal trainers to maintain.
their toned bodies, personal relationship agents to maintain their social networks
updated and pristine, and staff to do all the diverse tasks they no longer want
complete in their daily life.
We do not have these advantages. If we are lucky, we have friends, lovers, and family who support us.
they will help us not to drown when we bite off more than we can chew for projects
from class, grocery shopping, and a big job, for which we must always be
incredibly grateful when we receive the grace of these advantages.

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Not having access to these advantages that facilitate organization means that we have two
options: to complain that we do not have the privilege, the wealth, or the opportunity that it
they would facilitate and do nothing; or organize ourselves.

If you are going to use glamour as your weapon of choice to achieve your Great Work, you must be able to use
all the aspects we have been discussing that make up glamour together in one
cohesive unit. Remember: beauty, charm, discipline, conviction, and organization. You are
disadvantaged. Their opposition has more power, more strength, more money, and probably more
physical power. Is this a position where it is useful to ignore useful tools? Like
as we established earlier, it is not.

The words 'organization' and 'beauty' tend to provoke the most resistant responses.
Emotionally. You may have internalized feelings about not doing it.
sufficient regarding the fact that they are easy to wrap in rhetoric. For example: "I don't know if I should
to use lip gloss or not. I love how my lips look with it, but I hate the expectation
of gender that accompanies it and, as a feminist, I feel conflicted about this.

In summary, bad. Is it wrong to feel this way? As we are taught, feelings never
they are wrong. However, actions are often right or wrong. Personally, I do not
I am interested in whether you use lip gloss or not. I don't care. But you're losing a lot.
time and energy with the internal debate that they could be using instead to work on
its Great Work. You decide to use it because you value how you feel above expectations.
gender. You decide not to use it because you value not feeling gender about how it feels to use shine.
lip. Choose one, stick with it until it no longer feels right, and then reassess.

The same happens with organization. You can link that to a lot of feminist debate.
rigorous about how you shouldn't be obligated to live like Martha Stewart / your mother. It is
Good. But if your great job is to open a store on Etsy that helps you financially and not
you have space to create crafts for your small business due to the mess, you have
a problem. After a certain point, the time to feel has passed and the time to act has arrived.
is present. I will teach you a sacred phrase that I say to myself when I have a
emotional response that prevents me from acting: it doesn't have to please him, it just has to be done.

Achieving something great is difficult

If you want to make a real and terrifying advance in your Great Work, it will force you out of your comfort zone.
and do things that will make you feel desperately uncomfortable. If your Great Work were
within your comfort level, you would already be doing it. You can't tell yourself, I want
win a ice dancing competition and then enjoy eating Doritos on the couch
and see dancing on ice on television.

That's why your Great Work can't be a whim; it must be something you're willing to
to dedicate yourself to something you are willing to face the anguish for, something you are willing to
to sacrifice yourself and something that makes you face everyone. the things you don't want to confront in order to
achieving what you desire most. Do you still feel confident in what you have chosen for your Great
Work? If not, redo Esoteric Experiment No. 1 and come back here when you are.
very confident in the decisions he has made.

Suppose you have decided that the goal of your great work is to change careers and
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elevated or are more based on spirituality; we are simply using this as a

example to discover how to make some real progress with this and organize ourselves
regarding.

First, you must select a nursing program to enter and determine if

Does he/she have any of the necessary credentials or does he/she need to start from scratch? Meanwhile
He/she visits the universities, and it is likely that he/she will meet with advisors.

Organizational opportunity: schedule daily time to research programs until

find three that suit your needs.

Magical glamour opportunity: enchant a compass to sit on your desk

next to your monitor while you search, so that you find the right school, even if it is
different from the three you chose.

Now she has found three programs that she likes, so now she needs to enroll in them.

Organizational opportunity: make sure to complete all the required documentation, ask for
a friend who edits your essay and checks with the schools to ensure they received it.
information.

Magical glamour opportunity: be sure to meet with admissions representatives and

nursing schools, even if it is optional, as it gives a face to these people who
determine your future. Choose your outfit carefully and make sure it projects the image that
desire. Use your glamour to make a good impression when finding common grounds to
connect with these contacts. When you find common ground, use your magic of
glamour to give that connection an extra boost to intertwine your threads. Make a
follow-up on these new connections with thank you cards and emails
informal and friendly with relevant articles about the common points that you found of
reliable sources. Be open to the unexpected options presented by these new
friends, like a grant in an adjacent program.

Now that he has entered these programs, he needs to do the work and the work.

Organizational opportunity: find out when is the best time to study with your schedule
current job. Find out how to maintain your home and family and what can be delegated.
Make sure the selected parties you want to delegate are on board. Plan
how long will it take to complete the program and find out how to manage some internships
in local hospitals during their winter and summer vacations for future opportunities
labor issues.

Determine how much sleep you need, how much food you need to ingest, how to manage some
movements and how to maintain self-care. If you fall behind, ask for help and continue
move forward instead of wasting energy reprimanding yourself.

Maintain an excellent GPA.

Magical opportunities of glamour: Regularly meditate on the position you desire.

enter and use your glamour to be able to recognize potential options. Use your magic of
glamour to keep their coworkers useful and understanding while being
charming them and baking products with the intention of keeping them sweet and useful
for you instead of trying to push it when its performance lags due to the
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in the community; make sure to use things you have loved so that other people do not
they can realize how tired he really is so that they do not perceive him as weak
less than you wish to be seen that way to get additional help). Recruit
teachers and internship leaders for your cause to write you beautiful letters of
recommendation for a future career in hospice.

She has now completed her nursing program and started looking for a position.
nursing.

Organizational opportunities: create an excellent resume, follow up on interviews with

handwritten thank you notes, follow up on opportunities
potential and opportunities to network in real life and online, and select
the perfect outfit for interviews.

Glamour opportunities: Enchant your job search so you can find the position
correct, even if it is different from what was expected, perform a regular glamour rite so that
others want to help him get the right position, charm the interviewers so that
they have a great impression of you, charming an object that you always have with you to
interviews to obtain their career choices for selection.

I briefly presented this as an example for you to understand the practical aspects and
of the glamour of this. Its drive will be to ride on the difficult parts (that's what everyone does),
especially once you have completed your Great Work. Let's return to this example. You are going to
the school part-time, while you work full-time. There may probably be
I have been out of school for some time and I may need to take some classes.
more than once. To become a licensed nurse, it will take about five years.
before being allowed to search for a new career. The job market is tough in general and
Many people want jobs in the healthcare sector. It is likely to take you six months to
a year to find a job. During this time, your adult responsibilities do not.
they magically fade away; their children will not suddenly become autonomous, you will not be able to give up
to his job, his home still needs maintenance, he needs to maintain his support network and
certain feeling of sanity. So, you are looking at six years of hard work, at least. Six
years of fighting to keep up with their studies and maintain their current career, six years
of limited free time, six years of overwhelming responsibility.

Your great work is just that, awesome. If it were a lesser job, you could probably pull it off.
in a few months. It will take a long time to complete a great work. Once I have it, just like
the delivery, the difficult parts will become blurry and you may even feel nostalgic about them. But
that doesn't mean it was actually fun or easy.

Now I feel nostalgia for when I was a nanny, but if I asked my mother about that
time, I would probably remember how much my back hurt, how often I was
sick, stress from unpaid leisure time, my unwashed hair, my weight gain
weight, when I called her sobbing on the phone saying that she would never get anywhere
as a writer or creator and that I could never have money saved for retirement, and that
nothing was ever going to work; the future only holds darkness and dragons for me. Am I thinking
Is that when I miss being a nanny? Certainly not! I remember rocking them to sleep, I
I heard my name for the first time, the way their little faces lit up when
they saw me, read to them, play kitchen, sing songs together and hug them tightly.

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Glamour keeps you motivated

It is completely normal to feel discouraged. Most people give up on their great

work. That's why there are so many movies and books about people who almost make it or disappear.
When planning your great work, you must take the scale into account. Perhaps having a fan base
local but fiercely devoted to your band is all you need to feel satisfied
As an artist, you actually don't need a contract with a major record label.
you once thought you wanted to earn $75,000 a year, but after thinking a little and
research in which it was realized that $50,000 would be enough, perhaps to learn a
New skill and mastering it is all you need, and you don't need to be a leader in the field.
Take a breath and discover what you want.
At the same time, you should not convince yourself not to dream big. Conduct an assessment.
honest about her skill set and what she has achieved so far. Do people always
Have you been impressed by what you are trying to achieve? Have you already had minor successes in your Grand
Work? It may just be a late development; many people work hard in
his craft for a long time before being recognized. If this is something completely
new, give yourself the opportunity to see if the new experience is right for you. It may take
more time to master your new skill set and it may be harder to learn things
new as an adult, but that doesn't mean it's not possible.

Dividing your goals into small steps with magical work and daily life to achieve them
allows for small achievements along the way. If the goal is simply to "become a
certified nurse without taking smaller steps, he is more likely to give up because
it is a very difficult task to walk for six years without any sense of achievement in it
path. It is likely that this will also make him more prone to wanting to abandon his Great
Work and give up because he is tired of working so hard for not receiving treats.
measurable.

You should prepare measurable treats along the way as you achieve each
goal. Small rewards for you (buy a novel, a good bottle of wine,
a long bath, a pedicure, a new piece of clothing, going out at night doing something that
As you achieve smaller goals, they will help you stay on track.
As you achieve your most important goals, there will be great rewards in order,
things like taking a class on something you have always wanted to learn, a new technology
for you, excellent seats for a concert, a massage or whatever is special for you.
and everyone would help you stay motivated. You must ensure that there is a way to
measure your progress to stay focused.

The glamour in your daily life will also help you avoid drowning. If your world is reduced
To nothing more than monotony, it depresses you and demotivates you. It's hard to be happy and feel accomplished.
when you don't see any place to find joy in your life. The little pleasures you
will help to get through incredibly long days. A well-prepared, good home-cooked dinner, a
bright spring flower bouquet, a brightly colored umbrella, a French Vogue
in the bookstore with a cappuccino, and anything that restores your faith in the beauty of this world
can help you regain your perspective (and composure).

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Sudden success can cause fear

Let's discuss success in its glamour, as there should be a notable change at this point.
For some, it can be very exciting! Sudden flirtations, literal doors and
figurative ones that open up, small favors, people who now offer to help you, new
opportunities, all by virtue of how she has worked to exert her glamour.

This could give you tremendous satisfaction in your power as a Witch by instigating your own war
civil personal.

Alternatively, you may be considering blocking your glamour so strongly that your
energy can also be a princess in a tower without a door and a window forty feet high
height because this is super scary and intimidating for you.

If you are satisfied with yourself, excellent. Continue reading this part in case you
find in a change of opinion or in an unexpected situation so that I can turn to for
himself.

My scared rabbits, you have probably noticed that now that you are illuminated so
brilliantly like a Christmas tree for the universe, they are receiving a lot of attention
what they like and a lot of attention to what they don't. It is possible that they might feel a little uncomfortable for being

noted much more than what was felt previously or may even feel overwhelmed by
attention. Part of this comes from being more used to being the powerless part in a
interaction. If you are used to being overlooked and are more familiar with
to interpret the supporting cast in your life, which, instead of being a protagonist, the transition can be
a little difficult. All those eyes on you, the new expectations that have been imposed on you
due to your new glamour skills. In most cases, it is not a transition
fluid and effortless.

It would make our lives much easier if all we had to do was shake our
hair, using what our 'best' told us is in fashion and taking off our glasses.

Now we are the most popular in school, as all the movies show.
adolescents.

Those are the parts we remember anyway, because the changeovers of

images are very fun. There is cheerful music, uncertainty about the use of the product and
Then, ta-da! But remember the parts that usually come after the setup where the
the protagonist now finds himself forced to make some uncomfortable decisions: to feign stupidity or
no, going out with the least popular pair or not, continuing to be friends with old friends or not, doing
less harm. popular students or not. Even if they have already passed school age, they will face
new decisions that must be made, just like our school movie actresses
secondary. The transformation is difficult: the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, but not before
throw all your internal organs into a blender at the chrysalis. You will also have to
make decisions for yourself that challenge your moral compass.
His instinct may be to stop being so noticeable, to distance himself from his glamour, to hide his physique.
gain or lose weight to be less noticeable to others, hide your intelligence, everything
to self-sabotage and distance oneself from success.

You may feel that you don't deserve this promotion in your life, you may feel scared and
overwhelmed, but whenever you want to hide, force yourself to confront what

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you want to hide and not tone down your glamour so that others feel more comfortable. or
to avoid attention.

The best defense is a good offense.

Everyone's urge will be to tell you to listen to yourself better magically, but in my experience,
A stronger shield prevents the light of your glamour from shining as brightly as possible.
You want to be noticed. That's why you're doing this. For your goddesses, for your spirits, for the
merchants, by the people in power, by the people you want to seduce (or be
seduced), by your friends, by your family, by your co-workers, by everyone. If you do so
If you always do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten. If you were satisfied with your
progress in her small rebellion prior to her glamorous work and felt that she was
doing everything I could be doing, I wouldn't be resorting to witchcraft and certainly
He/She would not be resorting to glamour to achieve his/her Great Work.

You will have moments of doubt, insecurity, and uncertainty. In those moments, it is natural
even falling into impostor syndrome where you feel that your achievements are based on the
perceptions that other people have of you or about luck and nothing to do with your witchcraft or your
hard practical work. You may feel that you do not deserve the success you have achieved because
he used glamour to help himself achieve it. He may feel that because of these
these aspects are new to you, someone will see the novelty of your achievements in your glamour, magic and
success, and he will call him a charlatan.

In their daily life, when these thoughts float to the surface, the immediate solution is
he must kill them with fire because they will only delay him from achieving his Great Work. If you have a
positive brain and resistant to internal dialogue, you can severely tell yourself no when
Surjan. You could write in a journal about your fears and the underlying causes, meditate to
clear your mind from this broken thought process, mantra to let go of these
thoughts, list your achievements for yourself or create a regular ritual in which you cleanse yourself,
or any combination of this general idea. But at the moment, when someone else is showing you
potentially call or you are acting in some public way, you need a little
magic to overcome it.

Esoteric Experiment No. 11

Objective: to call upon your glamour when you feel anxious.

Choose a ritual space within your home. Wear clothes that make you feel safe and comfortable: your
favorite shoes, your most comfortable pants, your lover's shirt. Surround yourself with small
mirrors that you bought at your favorite craft store so that you reflect your intention to
around you. As you place each mirror, say words of protection. Build a small
temporary sanctuary to express its glamour within the circle, using elements that
find in your home and garden: fresh strawberries and cream, flowers from your garden, bread that has just
bake, her favorite jewel, a sacred image of her glamorous uncle, or tea candles made of wax from
bees. Contemplate your sanctuary and draw strength from the physical representation of your glamour that you have.
built with your own hands while being aware of its transient nature.

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Relax. Lie down if you want. Be aware of your breathing until you can find a
trance space using the methods that are most useful to you. If you are not a person
visualize, think of your expedition with words, impressions, or whatever comes most naturally to you.

Think about going inside yourself to the center of your spirit, wherever it resides in you. This is
your sacred space. What does it look like? How does it feel? What does it smell like? What does it sound like? Take a moment

time to completely create this space within you.

Once you have created your space, start exploring it. While you explore, think about your
glamour. Think of your glamour as a weapon, as a tool, as an instrument.
In your space, find the physical representation of your glamour. You will know it when you find it;
be patient and be open to whatever it is. When you find it, hold it in your hands and ask for it.
call the spirit of the object by its name. Call its glamour by its name. Open your eyes.

When you find yourself in a situation where you feel doubts about your glamour and your power,
maintain your glamour name until you feel centered in your power again.

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YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT, JUST

YOU HAVE TO DO IT

You may find that you sabotage yourself when you are close to achieving your Great Work. You
entertains signing the contract, postpones doing the work that others have entrusted to him
He lets himself be convinced not to go to important events or tells himself that other things
they are more important, gets scared and stays on the edge. of achieving your goals, too much
paralyzed to jump. So that I can deal with self-sabotage accurately and effectively,
must have a really strong control over when they are trying to deceive themselves and
when one really needs to take a moment.

Meet deadlines, have tracking information when sending physical items, do

What he promised to do, find out what his next small steps are so that I can follow.
go ahead and take a small step that same day. If social anxiety and/or depression is affecting you
They hinder attendance at events that would be useful for your Great Work, find out what you need to
carry it out: Do you need to talk to your therapist about how to make a plan? Having a friend
Would having someone accompany you to the event make you feel more secure? Having an ending time?
A defined exit strategy would really help you assist? A reward per day
Is the next one an incentive to go? Does it help if you practice the conversation with someone in whom
Do you trust on topics that may arise? Does it help that your fashion expert friend chooses your
outfit and I made you up? All those things can be achieved, you just need to give yourself the time, the
space and the energy to achieve them. The more you practice something, the better you will do. You may...
never be the best at it or even be excellent at it, but you will definitely be
better than you were when you started ... and that is a very precious achievement you must achieve.

Your real physical body may rebel against your imminent success with stomach ailments.
sudden, vertigo, colds, migraines, eczema, dandruff, rashes, acne
menstrual problems and exhaustion. All those manifestations are real and must be
treated by a medical professional if they have no prior experience. Change is difficult and
terrifying, and causes a very real stress in our psyche and our body because our
minds, bodies, and spirits are connected. Do not disregard your body's reaction to
change, make sure to take care of your body with as much gentleness and kindness as you would if a
friend will experience these effects.

As if all this discomfort weren't enough, by this point you have probably
I noted that this additional attention does not exclude the unwanted notification of vines.
too jealous suitors, people who think that soliloquy is conversation,
space invaders and other pests. Some of them will be strange and therefore new
for you, and some will be people you already knew and who are now very interested in
you.

Not everyone wishes you the best

Remember that your uprising is a small war, which means that there is always a
Element of risk, danger, and harm to you and others. This sounds really scary.

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until you remind yourself that every time you step out of your house, there is also
a risk, danger, and harm element. Sometimes you don't even need to leave the house! When dealing with
people who are not desirable to you for any reason, think first if you
it will benefit that your opponents show who they are, what they want from you and if they could
help him with his Great Work. As Maya Angelou said: "When someone shows you who they are
son, create it the first time." This will require patience and some use of game theory. It must
be patient and strategic when trying to get your opponent to reveal their plan and you must maintain
those aspects while considering what to do with that information.

Sometimes, their opposition is simply people with agendas and thought processes.
opposites; make up most of your experience dealing with difficulty. In those cases, you must
spend some time considering how to better align their schedules so they can work together
together and discover some common points they have with these people so as not to go through everything
your time in a hate attack for them as we have mentioned earlier. This
It will require a commitment, which will require a great consideration of what you are willing to do.
and is definitely not willing to compromise. Ideally, he should be willing to
to commit more than one is not.

What happens if there is no reason for me to interact with any of these?

recently interested people who are causing you pain by demanding your time, energy,
Magic and possibly even sexual favors? Should I just accept this attention?
unwanted like the cost of glamour? You've been reading this volume faithfully, haven't you?
Like this? You're waging a guerrilla war, why would you accept an unjustified attack against
your person? Protecting yourself as hard as a tiny insect shows this opponent that
It has power over you and could defeat you; it gives them the advantage because it has allowed them the power.
to make you small and scared. You may feel small and scared, but you must not be
small and scared.
Let's first talk about the magical assault, before the practical attacks. In this case, the best thing is
counterattack. Push your slippery and viscous energy forcefully towards them,
but reflected to enhance the effect. If you are very skilled, you can use a real mirror and a
enchantment of your choice to do this. If you are a
a little more clumsy, quickly find out how he/she sees / feels / senses / tastes / perceives his/her
energy. Then visualize (or any method you use for magic) increasing that energy
as much as you can, and then push it as hard and fast as you can into your third eye / aura /
root chakra / solar plexus chakra, what is most helpless, weak and lazy. If it is not
sure where to put your energy in them, no one likes to be hit in the face (third
eye) or the trash (root chakra), so both are good options in case of doubt.

Does that make you feel conflicted? As always, seek guidance from your moral compass. That said
This, witchcraft does not require you to constantly turn the other cheek. You are defending yourself.
attacking after having been attacked. You are showing that one should not mess with you and that
you will not go to bed and you will suffer abuses.

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Esoteric Experiment No. 12

Objective: Use it when you feel threatened, but you must remain firm.

Focus on occupying the space you are standing in. Send roots into the ground and branches
that spiral up towards the stars through the crown of your precious head.
Think about your breathing and how it circulates the cells throughout your body and how
Every time you breathe, you are creating new life within you at a cellular level. Now think
in yourself at an energetic level. You are afraid, which causes your energy to coil tightly.
around your body like a blanket. Keep breathing air into your energy that surrounds you to
inflate it and enlarge it. Make yourself big and imposing, bigger than your opponent and much more
fierce. Put your will into creating additional members, terrible claws, fierce tails, maws
open with terrifying tongues, screams of blood from a banshee and wings that beat with rage. You are
the embodiment of the most horrible aspects of your goddesses and spirits.

You are Morrigan, Kali, Lilith, Hecate, Nyx, and all the primordial spirits that know you.
name. You are not pleasant, you are not pretty, you are not accommodating. Your glamour is in your
terrible fury and ability to eat everything that completely opposes you. When there is
past the danger, dissipate this energy with a sharp exhalation, as if you had extinguished a
sail, and look at yourself in a mirror to rearrange any part that is out of place in your
usual appearance of your work.

Practice this skill at random moments when you do not feel threatened at all.
only slightly threatened. If they are friends with other witches, work together to improve
this skill. Observe how you change, observe the change in those around you. Use this as
your magical self-defense.

You shouldn't make everyone happy.

Magic is a good option to have and should be used, but you will also want to have some.
mundane applications. In previous chapters, we discussed the importance of being able to read
others. This is especially important when you find yourself in a situation where you do not
do you want to be: stuck behind a table at a bake sale, stuck on a bus
the plane, trapped in a party where another person was driving, any amount of
situations where it can be difficult to escape. Start by listening to your intuition. Is it telling you
Are you saying your instinct is telling you that this person has bad intentions towards you? Do you feel insecure?
Don't you trust the other person? It's easy to want to dismiss these feelings, especially if
it has been socialized in a feminine way, regardless of its gender identity,
because it has been trained to please others.

Do you know what that person will not like? Apologizing abruptly, asking the assistant to
flight another seat, stand up to make a fake phone call or call the
forces the other person to feel uncomfortable. You have been socialized in a way
female. The undesirable person in question will consciously or unconsciously use it in their
benefit and will remind you that it is their job to make you feel loved, regardless of
your personal feelings.

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For some of us, it is actually our job to make this person happy.
especially in the fields of sex work, the fields of management, the fields of
customer service and customer service fields.

Due to this, we will sometimes obediently carry out any task that the other party
feels that they have the right, either because of our socialization or because it is literally ours
work. Sometimes we accept harassment in silence because we are afraid to draw attention
about the fact that it is not wanted due to fear of the consequences that could end in the
loss of employment or in a physical, emotional, or sexual assault.

We have been taught that validation from others is fundamental to our sense of self.
of identity, so that, although we are filled with hatred for this undesirable person,
Somehow we want this other person to think that we are nice and pleasant. Yes
this undesirable person thinks we are nice, accommodating and pleasant, it means
that we are a good person because the undesirable person said so. So we agreed.
to stay, even when we shouldn't. We have been indoctrinated not to make a scene,
to go in silence and not cause a scandal. Like witches, like people who wield power.
arcane and use glamour as a force, it is not necessary for them to consider us kind.

Powerful, fascinating, remarkable, yes. Pleasant and accommodating, no. When it starts to adapt
Due to your social conditioning, consider whether that is the action you truly want.
to carry out. Sometimes it benefits us and other times it does not.

But we have to stop moving forward to get along; we have to stop doing
that right now. If you want a real uprising, you must be willing to cause a stir,
even if it is only in their head, as it goes against their socialized training.

You need to find out what the best ways are to deal with these situations head-on without
putting oneself in danger. Sometimes, walking away and making up an excuse works, sometimes it will be a tone
monotonous and completely disinterested saying: "No, I don't want to do that," sometimes doing
a light joke helps ("Oh, darling, you couldn't handle me, bless your little heart"), sometimes
looking into your undesirable's eyes and saying: 'You have no right to say that to me. The only one who
I have authority over my thoughts, feelings, and actions, and if you try to do
this shit again, you will regret it a lot.

It is essential to know what response is justified, when, and what will keep it out of danger.
in the hands of this undesirable person. He must be willing to learn to escape unharmed from
uncomfortable situations. We have been trained to ignore our internal sense of
danger. Never do that again. If you start to have a bad feeling about a person
or a situation, get out. Immediately. Using all necessary means. You may that
it has been unjustified, you may feel silly about it. But it is much better
to wonder if someone was really a good person with good intentions deep down
to have proof that it wasn't. Use the exit strategies we talked about in the
conversation. Put some physical distance between yourself and the undesirable person. If they try
enter their space, continue putting space between the two of you. If they try to make you feel
Blameworthy or stupid for leaving space between you two, you were obviously right about that.
person. Tell the undesirable person that you don't feel comfortable being so close together. Place
a physical object between you and the undesirable person. I feel safe with my shop in
public events because there is always a table between my clients and me, unless I choose it
contrary. In my setup, it's physically impossible without dragging myself under my desk.
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He needs your help to escape immediately. The screams and self-defense are also always
options we have. Don't be afraid to use the Esoteric Experiment No. 12 with great
impunity in these situations.

Let's assume you can walk to work, which will take more time and energy, or stay
trapped on a bus with the same terrible and undesirable person every day; it's possible
that prefers to walk. However, if your work ends after dark and the location
due to the high incidence of crime at their workplace, they may prefer a space
closed with many witnesses. Must be able to plan for known potential hazards,
be quick regarding unknown dangers and forgive yourself when you are nervous. The
time, energy, and constant attention to improve to be better prepared
They will make you less nervous about the unknown.

If you have been in situations where you had no power, it is never your fault.

Please, know that. Cunning, asking for help, training in self-defense, and doing all the
"The 'right things' they taught you are sometimes not enough. Someone who wants to cause harm,
it will cause harm. We are trying to learn how to change the platform, but sometimes it is not
sufficient. If you have been assaulted, therapy can help solve it. You owe it all to
justice and the revenge that he feels he needs to help himself, through our
legal and magically system if you wish. Even in 'minor' circumstances, in which
someone made you feel uncomfortable or obliged towards them but did not assault you, if you couldn't
find a way out of the situation and, instead, you remained silent to avoid making it worse.
situation, you survived to fight another fight, which is sometimes all we have.

But we cannot allow our past experiences to beat us down.

glamour demands your right to occupy space; glamour demands your right to present yourself in the
the way you want the world to see you; glamour demands your right to shine
intensely; glamour requires a backbone of steel, courage, and cunning. To occupy
space when we have been taught to apologize, speak softly and go unnoticed is
terrifying. Suddenly, you are an object for the gaze of your oppressors where now you must
act like a lap dog to entertain them. You're so beautiful when you smile! Come here and
Talk to me! Give me a kiss! Won't you sing for us? It can be difficult at the moment.
knowing what to do when it happens.

You can consciously choose to act for your oppressor, as Jael chose, while waiting for the
opportune moment to discover how to drive the allegorical stake through the brain of
your oppressor. You can politely decline. You can shout your rejection. You can say something
smart and escape.

The difficult core of the question is: "Is this a person who might need later on?
"for your Great Work?" If you write a scathing report on your blog or call HR about her, your
the oppressor will not want to help you. Many times, it is worth burning that bridge, salting the earth and
find another way. You don't have to sell your conscience to achieve your Great Work; you are not
forced to accept the trail of the snail of your oppressor in your hands. Sometimes, however, it is worth it.
the pain of biting one's tongue and finding a way to twist the hand of one's oppressor to their advantage
Favor. You need to take some time and carefully weigh your options. Only you will know.
what is an acceptable situation for your moral compass and what is not. This is not a girls' path.
good / bad girls, it is a rebellion with many shades of gray. Mistakes will be made, we will
It can give grace and sweetness. No one leads an insurgency unscathed.

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Your best friend/enemy

We have dealt with the most obvious people with whom it will be difficult to interact, so now
let's get a little closer. Most of us have at least one person in
our life that we love to hate, that we love and distrust, with which we cannot
avoid competing in an endless struggle like Jennifer's Body Jennifer Check vs. Needy
Lesnicki. Friend enemy. For most of us, with age, most of the time
We can overcome this relationship, but we will continue to fall into this familial and seductive pattern.
until we recognize the other person for what they are.

We try to tell ourselves comfortable lies about why we have allowed ourselves to be in this
situation: the frenemy has a long history with you, so it traps you, both have
had good times together, competition can inspire them to be their best selves.

Correct.

There are some relevant points you should also keep in mind: It is likely that your pressure
arterial is higher when interacting with an enemy than with an opponent / oppressor
absolute. A long history does not magically create a healthy environment; if it did, the
the family dynamics of everyone would be amazing.

Competition ceases to be productive when you stop using that energy to be better, more
fast, stronger and instead, you use that time to lie on the ground whining with
your best friends about your enemy, which is probably what you are doing.
You have probably fought with your real friends and they probably have habits that
do you find irritating? Do you constantly talk about past fights that have been resolved and you
Are you obsessed with your little sins? No.

Why do you choose to remain in this situation? Human beings generally love the
things that are bad for them. The forbidden has always been delicious. You know what is
assume that you should do in most cases: put some distance between you two,
Stop participating and focus on your Great Work. Are you doing this? Probably not.

It's so addictive, that wave of triumph when you feel you have outdone your frenemy.
verbally, in achievements or in physical presentation. It's a delicious high that is hard to
resisting is even difficult for the most self-disciplined. However, once you have proclaimed your
triumph to your best friends, you are back at the beginning of the cycle you are trying
to discover how to outperform your enemy friend.

We have agreed that glamour should be used to achieve your Great Work and that, often, it is
It is necessary to go to war to achieve a Great Work and it can put us in positions
unknown and often tense. It could get dirty. It could get dirty.

Should you use glamour to go to war against your enemy friends? As always,
You are in charge of your decisions and the consequences that follow them. You are free to do what
elijahs.

Let's set aside for a moment your enemy friend and use a hypothetical example.
that most of us will not find in our lives to demonstrate taking
decisions and the consequences based on glamour. Since you will be out of most
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in mitigating circumstances and excuses that he undoubtedly has about his frenemy. Should you
use glamour to acquire black tar heroin?

You could. You could use your glamour to make friends with people who use, who then
they will introduce you to your distributor. Then you could use your glamour to get the dealer to
Fall in love with you and then let you live with her and have all the heroin you want. Is it a
paralyzing addiction, potentially becoming a trafficker and potentially dying from one
overdose a Great Work well thought out and executed? According to the moral compass of the majority of
People are not. The fact that you can do something does not mean you should do it.

Taking it back to his best enemy friend, the root of the problem when he goes to war with
it is unlikely that he will ever conclude his business with his frenemy at a
level that he considered sufficient quid pro quo for the injustices he received at his hands. In
change, it is much more likely that you will find yourself trapped in an ever-increasing cycle of revenge
like Kill Bill, Hamlet, and Xena: Warrior Princess or any soap opera (and most of the
royal operas). Is that what you chose for your Great Work, at the beginning? Did you open your heart and
spirit to your true self, to your goddesses and spirits and what came to your mind is that I will bring down my
enemy? I suspect not. Since it was not his Great Established Work, it is simply a
distraction. So, in almost all circumstances, you should not invest that level of time,
energy and magic in going to war with your enemy. Once again, just because you can, do not
it means you should do it.
If you really want to break away from this cycle, you must first recognize that you are an equal player.
in this arch-enemy. He would not have escalated to any point he has escalated to without a dose
healthy that you also hate the face of the enemy friend. Both have taken the time
and the care of building epic sanctuaries of resentment within themselves.
You are also participating in ambiguous compliments to undermine the other person ('Your
a chunky build really helps you take off your boots!"), You never admit failure in
public or your friend enemy, so they will never gain an advantage over you. you are
pretending with them that their public relations campaign of a person on social media
it's your real life instead of your projected life, and you may be actively sabotaging
your enemy friend.

Your enemies and oppressors deserve this level of attention, possibly. Someone who gets involved
beneath your skin because it has something (possibly just an infinitesimal amount more than you)
What you don't have doesn't deserve this level of attention.

It's time to have a real conversation with yourself about what you want your friend to have.
enemy and to make concrete plans on how you can achieve it for yourself instead of
constantly vomit words about the enemy friend as the rest of the world is your
reality show confessor. Step up your routine, do your great work, create some glamour and stop
be a stalker.

Stop silently following their social media. Be genuine when interacting, which will create
more real glamour than this show of fake dogs and ponies in which he has been
participating. Do not escalate, do not try to outdo it; in fact, it gives you a weaker position, like
your insecurity shows. If you start to get heated and involved in your soap opera of two
people where obviously any annoying behavior that is done / anything that is said
it's completely about you, because everything is about you (just as everything is about a
enemy), take a breath and assign a neutral reason for whatever has irritated you.

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As mentioned earlier, of course, you could use glamour to try

to control another person, like your enemy friend. However, doing so requires care and
a constant vigilance, which is more work than it's worth.
No matter how strategic you are in trying to magically control another person, you won't be able to.
account for all possible outcomes that may arise from it and it is possible that he/she may not enjoy
of the final result. Finally, when you are working with another person, you are tying yourself more.
to the other party. Sometimes, that will be a valuable consequence, but often it will not be, since
tends to make you obsessive and too involved in the other person's life, which does not do
nothing too fantastic for you. So, as always, you are welcome to do what
you magically want, since I am not here to teach you how to behave, but neither
I am here to teach you how to get out of a mess.

Let's focus on using our glamour in a way that is much less tedious and similar.
like that of Sisyphus, focusing on what is significantly easier to control and manage:
our own actions. If it is really taking a step back (and not simply
telling himself that he is doing it), it is possible that his enemy is not ready yet
to renounce this intimate relationship that you both have invested so much time and energy in
building together. It is very likely that everything that makes you want to go to war will increase. If
choose to participate actively, just restart the cycle.

Don't bite the hook. The bait is designed to make you want to take it. It is meant to be
Delicious. It is intended to capture your interest. It will also be designed to hide the hook.
that will pierce your tender mouth and take you out of the environment you need to survive. It is
fundamental to ignore the bait, no matter how desperately one wants to bite it.

Instead, choose a new path. Deliberately choose minor flaws and shortcomings to
showing them to your enemy friend. It will force your enemy to see you as a real human being in
place of a campaign on social networks. Direct the conversation so that you can praise
Honestly to your friend, what will ease the situation.

Safety comes with practice

You have arrived at a place where you have developed your glamour into a weapon.
complete that you are choosing not to use against this person. Instead, focus on observing
physical signs that show insecurity: biting nails, stroking their own hair,
touching the face, speaking too quickly, chewing anything that isn't food
(pens, lips, headphone cables, whatever), smile too much. (it makes you look like a
contestant of a beauty pageant and not in a good way), moving the fingers,
moving the leg, cracking the knuckles, tilting the head too much (as it undresses you
the neck, which can be seen as a gesture of submission), condensing its body as if
I was afraid to occupy the space that I truly embody, playing with my jewelry or clothes. If
you're flirting, much of this can be interpreted as quirky and cute. It's not
flirting here, she is sending the message that she will not participate and that she trusts in her power.
Removing these hints from your physical vocabulary will also help you deal with enemies and
real oppressors.

Think of it this way: Have you ever seen political candidates competing for
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speeches? Have you ever seen celebrities or members of royalty showing

nervousness during televised interviews? No, you don't. You need to have your language.
corporal at the point, not only when it comes to friends, but in critical battles that impact
his Great Work, where he can be called to speak during a conference, a meeting or
even more publicly. Record your conversations with people (with their permission)
while working not to use any of these clues, and then look at yourself to see how much
It was successful.

Esoteric experiment no. 13

Objective: Cut the ties that bind you to a frenemy.

Wear clothes that make you feel confident or choose to be naked. This ritual must be completed in its
bedroom at dusk. You will need scarlet thread and scissors. The material of the thread is your choice:
nylon, cotton, silk, or whatever you find at the bottom of your sister's sewing box. The scissors
The embroidery will be the easiest for this. Close the door and then seal the closed space.
rubbing aloe vera from an aloe leaf around the door frame while saying words
of protection. Seal all windows, additional doors, and mirrors in the same way.
Sit on your bed and make a circle around yourself with the stones of your choice: stones of
polished river stones, washed stones from their garden, raw amethyst points, anything that works
for you. Extract energy through yourself using the method that works best for
you. When you start to wrap the thread around your non-dominant hand, say aloud
anything you have said or done to your friend that makes you feel bad, not because of what
Do you think you should feel remorse, if not for what really makes you feel bad. It may
it may take some time, but be patient with yourself. When you have named everything aloud
high, observe your hand and the way the thread looks and feels around it. Sit with that
for a moment. Decide not to get tangled up in these behaviors anymore. Think about what
will stop behaving that way. Then, grant yourself grace and forgiveness for your
previous actions and seal your intention within you to act in the way you find
Favorable. Cut the strings that connect your hand so that it doesn't function to help you behave.
in the way you want to behave. Wash your hands with warm water, salt, and lemon to
to finish and get caught.

Hatred is not the opposite of love, indifference is.

Let's move on to the even more complicated part of your glamour. Now that it is more polished, more
prepared and determined for the revolution, they will not only be enemies, random people and friends who
they will try to bring him down, but he will also be the closest and the most loved. Before
start with how your loved ones are going to try to put you back in your place, it is
It is important to take a breath and remember that they are your loved ones: the people you love and the
people who love him.
When you are depressed and feel like you will never accomplish anything and that you will disappear even before.
If you achieve it, they are the people who will help you recover. They will take on work.
additional to ensure that you have enough time for your Great Work; they will listen
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breaks to send text messages gracefully, will go to your first shows/readings/what have you
sea, and they will tell you that what you do is important and has meaning.

Of course, they will be more inclined to do all these things if communicated in a way
open and honest, and they will be more helpful if you ensure they agree with these changes
dramatic things that he plans to do now, as they will also affect their lives (I know this is going to be
very difficult while I work twelve hours a day and we do craft shows
weekends, but we will be able to go to Europe as we always dreamed with this money. to make the
most of the household work and pour all the candles for this to happen?)

It is really difficult to achieve a radical life change without the support of your loved ones. So
remember that their lives are also harder during this time, and show them that
You appreciate everything they are doing to help you in the pursuit of your dreams.
will help everyone get along better as you discover your Great Work.

As we have discussed in detail before, glamour is subtle and deceptive and works
on many different levels. It is entirely possible (and likely) that your loved ones
they feel proud of their achievements and at the same time feel terribly resentful for
what they have sacrificed for you to obtain them. Your loved ones may also feel
jealous of the attention they are receiving from others, may feel insecure that
they could fall behind, they may feel that they are working as hard as you, but they have
less to show for it, they may feel less accomplished than you when they used to feel that
You are less accomplished than they are, and they may envy the opportunities that are now presented to you.

The evil eye is for everyone

The evil eye does not need to be handled by someone with magical experience; nor
it doesn’t even need to be handled intentionally at all. It’s possible that your beings
dear ones, do not consciously realize that you are having all these feelings
about their recent successes. Love has always been a complicated emotion and rarely is
affected by darker emotions. Modern teenage girls are excellent examples
Jacob Clifton wrote fantastically about Gossip Girl and summarizes the complexity like this
the relationship between Blair and Serena: "It's about two girls who love each other so much that they have to
hugging each other, no matter how many times they screw up and the other is rewarded for no reason. And this is
fascinating, because you are always one or the other.

The same often happens in real life, and if ever the people closest to you...
they perceived him as the one who was generally screwed over, but now he is rewarded (in his
mind) without any reason, that will cause friction. Change causes friction in general, but the
The more they love you, the worse they will receive you when you rise above your perceived position because
they are now forced to consciously or unconsciously question their choices and the
decisions they have made about their lives.

This can result in less sympathy when life is hard for you (or an amount
of vampiric interest), more chatter behind him than usual (probably about
how now he believes he is better than others) and conscious or unconscious machinations to
put it back in its place, or better, lower than it was when it started.

As much as humans love a success story, they love a story of

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possibility of getting back up. Now you are gentler, less beautiful, less desirable,
less successful and more aware of your place and your best.

It is enough for any sensible person not to want to get out of bed again.
never again if this is what the people you love are going to do to you, and even less what they will try to do
your despots and undesirables. For most cordial, rational, and loving people
In your life, they won't want to do it (your enemy friends will be a different story).

It won't make it hurt less nor will it lessen the damage, but remember that you are not immune either.
the chilling thrill of schadenfreude. You are not Saint Teresa of the Flowers; you
also occasionally this guilty pleasure will be indulged.

Try to be kind to the people who truly love you (and whom you also love).
Remember that, for most people, change is one of the most frightening things.
that can happen in life. It makes people's lizard brains become
ballistic. While our intellectual brains will understand that there is an implicit negative in
the phrase, if you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten, your brain of
Lizard sees this as something positive. If you get what you always got, then you know what
Wait! There's less danger and fewer failures! You're probably not going to die that way! The no
Death is the goal! Except that, if you are safe and comfortable at all times, it is very difficult.
achieve a lift.

Most people in their lives want the comfort of routine and the pleasant.
predictability of Facebook, Candy Crush, having a nine to five job, having a
long-term relationship, watching television, and a bit of comfort while eating / drinking / smoking has
what to offer. It is important to remember that choosing that is an option, just like choosing to incite to
mini insurrections are also.

When someone casts the evil eye on you, it is likely that you will feel it or notice it in some way.
When you do it, take it out as quickly as possible. Whether you want to push it back in them or not,
it depends on you. Generally, in my personal experience, I feel it like a dart between my
shoulder blades, where the support band is located, at the back of my chakra
heart.

When I take it out, I literally make a pulling motion to get it out. It hurts me.
physically when I do this, but I can't go on with my affairs with a dart coming out of
my back. Then I use Reiki on the spot. Using a hamsa over this part of your body as well
it can help prevent taking too much of the evil eye.
While it is likely that he should not have to work much with the people he loves because with the
time tends to twist and tangle (and it's exhausting for you, as mentioned
previously), there is no reason why you should be afraid to sweeten your disposition
to you with a bit of baked goods infused with honey and cinnamon ... and clove of
smell also if you suspect gossip. When you are mixing your baked goods,
focus on all the positive feelings you have towards the people you love and all
the positive feelings you want them to have towards you.

This is where it is very exciting to imagine oneself as enough

important enough for someone else to work actively on you. Alleviates the need for
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personal responsibility when everything doesn't go as planned means you are so

it is important that the other person has built a sanctuary of resentment in their mind.

Unfortunately, it is very unlikely that any of us is as important as

to spend so much time and energy enchanting.

However, if enough people are throwing small Evil Eyelets at you, eventually
they will make you feel like trash. You will feel tired, exhausted, lethargic, uninterested in things
that generally interest them. Obviously, this is a good place to check and make sure
that he is not suffering from depression or contracting the flu. If he is not protecting himself with
more strength and no one is specifically working against him, how can he solve it?
You need to look at your internal energy fish tank. Do you have a pigfish or a snail?
cleaning the dirt that it is acquiring by dealing with the outside world? If you don't like the
Fish, how about some mice, spiders, goats, or crows? Choose a creature of your choice.
that is good at chewing things, cleaning things, and digesting the indigestible.

Esoteric experiment no. 14

Objective: To regularly cleanse oneself of the bad wishes of others.

Find a representation of your creature. Skin mice for mice, for example. The
Living creatures are not the best idea because they have a naturally short lifespan.
Create a very small scale version of its habitat: a small aquarium for your pig fish.
with black gravel and a small cheerful treasure chest, a shoebox diorama that
you create. Learn what your creature would like as a gift and get it. Your kitchen is a
good place for this rite, as you are creating spirits. Hold the representation of your
creature in your hands, draw your glamour and breathe in the representation until you feel that
the symbolic creature is revitalized. Be patient, as this may take some time. A
Once you do it, offer your new spiritual companion the treatment you selected.
Ask your spirit if it would be willing to cleanse your negative energy in exchange for
altars like these weekly. If your spirit does not agree, thank them for their
time and test with a different kind of creature. Remember, you are making a pact with a
spirit. If you do not fulfill your part, it is likely that they will act against you. If for some reason
Do you think you no longer need this arrangement, thank your spirits for their hard work and free them.
of the pact while you free yourself.

Failure is not always a great advancement.

We always like to note the failure. We are failing better, we haven't failed per se yet,
we simply haven't been able to do it, we use our failure as an aha! moment and now
We are all media magnates. The desire to hide failure is understandable.

Who wants to sound like a sad and whining Coldplay song? For most
people, failure feels bad, especially if there are critics eager to
to tell us that if we had simply done xoy, we would never have failed in the first place.
It is expected that we have learned from our mistakes with such clarity and simplicity as we...
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Sometimes you are the frog and you don't always know which group you are in? Returning to our turmoil.
historical, let's look at a truly terrible example of failure. The kind that is so bad that it doesn't
you can come back and you have lost everything you had on the wheel of fortune.

More of a Wolverine than a She-wolf The queen Margaret of Anjou was not born and raised to be
a she-wolf as many historians (Dudebro Blanco) like to portray her. She probably
it was not actually a fierce war beast at all. It is important to point this out because
History has no issues with Queen Margaret. While factors are often presented, ...
mitigating circumstances about Richard III (who likely played a role in the murder of the two)
princes boys, if you remember) and Edward IV (who could have been the husband of Queen Isabel
Woodville, but he still dragged the men out of the church sanctuary and killed them in
the church grounds), Queen Margaret still presents herself as an even less
understanding of Lady Macbeth. In many current historical versions, she still, hundreds and
hundreds of years later, it does not become a person. There are no mitigating factors, there are no
They tell heartbreaking stories about how she had a hard time too. She was just a dog.
who overstepped, until today. If the royal blood could not protect her from being called a
exaggerated bitch, you can be sure that it is very likely that while working to achieve
his Great Work, is called the same way, if not worse.

In reality, the English were likely to receive it in a reasonably neutral manner,

but she was going to have difficulties starting out as a French woman whose only friend was the duke
of Suffolk, which had just been crushed by Joan of Arc and the French, which made him
voted as less popular by the other gentlemen.

Queen Margarita was unable to win over the generous population in her early days. While she was
smart, clever and very beautiful, she was also very aware of her position and almost of
immediately made her new husband, Henry VI, hand over parts of France that were in
hands of the English returning to France, which was never going to disappear. be something that he
it would please the English population in general.

In her early days, she was more worried about how her home worked and how
the pairing functioned within it due to causing a sensation in the political arena.

Despite being in her adolescence, she kept her attention on everything and wrote letters with
very specific instructions about your wishes for the many homes and properties that
administered. It is likely that she had a much larger allocation than other royal ladies of
her age group. Queen Margrethe was not playing with her assignment like the others
real ladies who spent theirs on clothing, jewelry, and lap dogs. Instead, she used it to
buy gifts and influence potential allies, even in their early days of government, it
What is a rather harsh use of assignment at nineteen years old.

His lack of popularity was also due to the king himself. He had a mental illness.
(probably schizophrenia) and made many unpopular decisions on his own, including
the friendship of France (whom we have established that we hate).
I couldn't prevent his nobles from constantly fighting among themselves, and it was known that he was
capricious in his punishments. The king was a royal anointed member of England and, therefore, the
the majority of the population was not willing to criticise him because that would be like criticising the
God's wishes, what he left to Queen Margarita, as a Frenchwoman, as a representative
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As Enrique was prone to catatonic states, that left Queen Margarita to take
the decisions, something for which the women in her family were known: her grandmother, Yolande of
Aragon, and his mother, Isabelle of Lorraine, ruled in the absence of husbands or children. This was
so popular among the dudebro gentlemen as one might expect, which started the War of the
Roses.

He directed several battles, sometimes from Scotland and eventually also from France. Still
is responsible for the brutal dismissal of Ludlow, which included arson, rape and
Robo. This conveniently ignores the looting of other cities from the battlefield that
the other kings committed in potential. She is a unrepentant wolf but the children will be
kids, right?

In her own work of medieval glamour, Queen Margaret was not above engaging
friendship with former bitter rivals who had turned against King Edward, like his
his own brother, George, and the Earl of Warwick. He immediately promised his son to the
daughter of the Earl of Warwick, Anne. At this point, Queen Margaret is in France,
discovering a way to land in England and claim the throne for her husband and then
for her son. She organizes an army made up of mercenaries and Lancastrians and plans to
carefully with the Earl of Warwick how to end the civil wars and regain the
throne that belongs to him.

The wars end here not only due to the alliance forged between Lady Margaret Beaufort and the
Queen Isabel Woodville (who founded the Tudor dynasty), but because the son of Queen Margaret
dies in battle. Her husband, the other king, dies in captivity a few weeks later in the
Tower of London (probably murdered).

Queen Margarita, once so unstoppable, once so fierce, so determined to maintain the

The legacy of his family, no matter what it costs, is completely broken. His legacy is gone;
she has failed. She spends the rest of her life in a petty kindness in France. Once, she was
the French terror that constantly threatened England, but now is simply ...
forgotten.

Lessons from Marge A.

While Queen Margaret should probably be remembered as much as Lady is remembered.

Margaret Beaufort, as a patron of education, is remembered not for founding the Queen's
College in Cambridge, but for its bitter defeat and ruin. She is a warning about what
It happens when a bad girl oversteps her limits. Sometimes, we are the favorites of the Moirai only.
for a short time and then they move under our feet without a way to recover. Some failures
they cannot be recovered.

Do you dare to risk ruining your Great Work? There are many reasons for failure.
Article by Amy C. Edmonson titled Strategies for Learning from Failure at Harvard
Business Review analyzes failure as a spectrum of personal responsibility, which is
fundamental because guilt plays a very important role in failure.

Once blame can be assigned, it is also usually assigned blame, anger, and
sadness to accompany her. Everyone wants to point the finger at someone else, since
it absolves them of responsibility. But in exempting itself from responsibility, it also absolves itself from
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phrases of inspiration adapted like 'failure is not an option', this actually denies us
the opportunity to move forward. In some fields of scientific exploration, the
experiments fail at a rate of 70 percent. With that level of failure, I would have to
learning to reframe failure just to go to work every day. Being able to determine
What type of failure occurred helps you reevaluate how to move forward with your Great Work.

The first type of failure is deviation. They chose not to follow the process they selected. You were not.
at the gym, you didn't use glamour as a weapon, you didn't do the ritual work, you didn't send your
curriculum, you didn't exchange social media with a new contact, you didn't do it. You were wrong.
in the word count, or it was not presented. The only way to resolve this type of failure is
to do the work that was proposed.

The lack of attention is the next cause of failure. You forgot to water the plants, you didn't do
follow-up on your university application, you started with the magic that requires attention
regular, but you got distracted and let it die like a bowl full of sea monkeys, you left
to care for your glamour and you let it wither. The solution to this type of failure is obvious: pay attention
attention to the details of her glamour and her Great Work.

The lack of skill can sometimes cause failures because it does not have the skill set.
to complete the tasks she set out to do. She has never been on a date, she has never had a
career, has never had a child, has never spoken French, has never performed the rite in which
She is working, she has never tried to use glamor to get what you want. Here it is
a steep learning curve involved and the best solution for this type of failure is to follow
practicing until there is an improvement and working to acquire the skill sets
what is needed through higher education.

Next, we have what is known as process insufficiency. You followed the plan of
You studied, you attended class, you read the book, but you still couldn't understand cell division.
you followed the IKEA instructions to perfection, but your bed is more of a pile of wood; it has
worked with her glamour as suggested and still doesn't know if it's working. In this case, it is
reasonably competent, but something about the explanation is not clicking. It could be due to
that the instructions were not correct at the beginning, but it could also be due to the fact that one does not
they are explaining it in a way that connects with you. In these cases, see if someone
but they can understand the instructions. If they can, ask them to explain it in another way.

Step away from the problem for a moment, breathe, and try to see it in a different way to
see if you can solve it. If the instructions were never correct, do your best to
find an alternative explanation, like watching someone make your bed on YouTube or using
different tools.

The complexity of the process explains when the task you are trying to complete is
too complicated to complete reliably at all times. Think about
triple axels in figure skating, baking a soufflé, and glamour. There are so many factors
involved with many outside of their control. In this case, they must accept the failure as a
critical component to execute more complicated tasks in your Great Work. Consider whether there is
something that can improve or strengthen (here's a hint, in most cases the
the answer is yes) and I accept falling every now and then as an integral part of these difficulties
companies.

His inability to take into account all the events that have happened in the past,
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A contact that would be fundamental for his current Great Work did not notice that today's weather would be
unfavorable for an outdoor event and did not know that within ten years its industry would
it would crash. In this particular type of failure, all you can do is stay informed of
all the potential events of which he may be aware while looking at his network of
constellations and accepting that he is not omnipotent (yet) but that no one else is.

Sometimes, you may be testing a theory to see if it works. Will drinking more water make your
Skin shines? Will you be able to flirt at a friend's party? Go to the gym three times a week
Will it give you more energy? Presenting yourself at an important event as your most glamorous self will
Will it grant the deepest desire of your heart? You are testing these theories, which means
that, given that they are not tested, there is always the possibility that they may fail, as it is possible
that need a finer adjustment to succeed. Maybe you can just talk to your friend in
the party, so before your next party you will ask your friend to take you to a discussion
because you are shy. You should modify your hypothesis before simply giving up and
take into account the variables that could have led to failed tests. The deployment to
point requires critical thinking skills both for its glamour and for its work
practical.

Finally, there are exploratory tests, which is where you are experimenting to expand.
its knowledge base when looking for previously unexplored opportunities that lead to
undesired results. You did everything you had to do for the new job. You used your
glamour skills, you did all the practical work and ... you hate it there. There are some ways in
those you can deal with this: structure your glamour and practical work freely as you
previously discussed to be willing to take risks to get off the beaten path and see
where your goddesses and spirits take you while you accept what other people / the deities /
The spirits think that what is good for you may not be what you believe is good for you.
You are not a slave; we invite you to have a different opinion. We all want a great journey.
in which we can clearly outline our path to success through our
failures, but the truth is that sometimes mistakes are simply that, mistakes. You wanted to go to
an address, you entered it and it didn't work. It doesn't always lead to an epic victory, sometimes
It was just a detour. The more you can accept that, the more you can think on your feet. Do you want
give work some time to see if you can learn to enjoy while you work for
change the aspects you hate through glamour and practical work? Do you want to start a
side business to have a place to be creative and at the same time earn a salary
Solid? Do you want to start looking for a job immediately? All of these options are valid,
so you must discover which will be the best for you.

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You are the common denominator

The more responsibility he can take on for a failed aspect of his Great
Work, you will be able to think creatively and find a new strategy. Think of it this way.
way, which scenario has problems that it can address more immediately:

1.

You have a ramen shop in Tokyo, and out of nowhere, Godzilla arrives and crushes it.

2.

You have a ramen stand in Tokyo and hired your sister to manage the cash register.
cashier and she has a record of irregular work performance, your noodles are a little
Cooked and you have not been using social media to promote your ramen stand.

Obviously, scenario one is a natural disaster in this world. Everything that really
What you can do is wait for your ramen shop's insurance policy to cover the acts of
Godzilla. But, how often in life are destruction and ruin completely
out of their hands and are solely due to external forces? Almost never. In the scenario
you can blame your sister for appearing sporadically, you can blame your stove for
his inability to cook his noodles to the required standard, and he can blame his Internet for
its WiFi is irregular, or you can accept responsibility on your part. in this. You hired your
sister. It is her job to make sure she shows up when she is supposed to, and if
he doesn't do it, he should fire her and hire someone more reliable. You chose the stove. It can
figure out how to compensate your noodles by using it or buying a new one. You know it
It is important how social media is for your small business, that is your job.
find a better supplier and reserve time every day to provide updates
about your business that will help make your brand more visible.

It is incredibly unlikely in any failure that you do not bear responsibility for it.

Divorce, breakups (with family, friends, relationships), finances, problems

professionals, creative activities, all of that has something in common: you. That does not mean
that there were no mitigating factors of external influences and it doesn't mean that there were no forces
external factors at work. But the sooner I can find out what I am really responsible for,
first you can take steps to make the necessary changes.

Let's be personal. In my first marriage, my husband left me and told me that he never
we would never be together again because he had personality issues. He had failed in
my marriage. We were together for seven years before getting married, but there not even
it was a year later, an abandoned bride with a piece of frozen wedding cake without
to eat what would never be shared.

He had ended things with me and our marriage, and no amount of tears or
begging and pleading was about to change that.

I was so stunned and shocked that all I could eat was blue cheese and Triscuits.
with the flavor of sun-dried tomatoes for weeks. It was completely ruined.
emotionally and I didn't know if it was also going to ruin me financially, just for giving it a
a little salt and lemon juice. However, here is the thing: I couldn't control him or his
actions. I couldn't make him be kind or cruel to me; I couldn't make him give me a
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(although he would eventually reach an agreement with me); I couldn't prevent him from signing documents
legal during a specific period of time. All I could do was find out what I could
to make and try to focus on that instead of what he would or would not do.

I could (and I did) consolidate my debt into an exhausting payment that I could make monthly.
for six years, I could find out what I did wrong in that marriage so I could grow from it
Not about what he said I did wrong, but about what I told myself I did wrong. Did I communicate in a
excellent way about relationship issues? No. Was I fiscally responsible? No. Did I
Was he jealous and passive-aggressive? Yes. Did I enjoy stringing him along? Yes. Did I prefer to be right in
place to be happy? Always.

I can work on all of that. Am I perfect now? Of course not, but I can accept.
these flaws and try to discover how to be a better person (and partner) while accepting them.
Reflecting on my flaws was a relief for me. It meant I was not seeking a
external force that entered and destroyed everything. I helped ruin things. That means that also
I can fix them. Being the owner of my flaws means just that: I own them. I do not
they belong. I decide how to fix things. I decide how to work with them. I decide
taking responsibility for them. It is so liberating!

When can you take responsibility when parts of your battle plan fail for your
Grand Work, opens up to reevaluate its situation better. You can find out where you lost.
opportunities, which parts of the plan need to be reinvented, if it needs to start over by
complete, if what I thought I wanted is really what I desired, new paths
unexpected to explore and what it did not do. it does not work for you.

When (not if, if you are doing it right) you fail, it is obviously very discouraging.
nobody likes to make mistakes, nobody likes to be rejected, nobody likes that others
people do the dance "I told you". Clearly, it feels like crap. You were
wrong, the others were right, nobody wants your art, your magic doesn't work, nobody wants
to go out with you, nobody wants to have a baby with you, nobody wants your skill set,
nobody wants to help you. That is absolutely depressing. Take a day or two to
rolling in this mud. Really rolling. Teenager to the brim. Stares intently at the
roof, watch Melancholia over and over, cry, wear hoodies, text your
friends incessantly lamenting your fate and eating ice cream straight from the
container.

After that day, it is time to regroup and remember that you lost a battle, not the war.
You will know when you lost the war. Most of the time, when it happens, you feel relieved.
not fighting anymore and you can find a new life in exile.

But today is probably not that day. Remember the steel in your spine, clean yourself.
mud on your face, drink a smoothie, put on good clothes and style your hair nicely, and discover
how you will win the next one.

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Esoteric experiment No. 15

Objective: Because failure can be so brutal and exhausting, it is important that

recharge your glamour.

Choose a place that is sacred to you: a sanctuary of wildflowers, your favorite park,
his backyard, the field where his favorite Beltane celebration took place, his vanity, his
altar space, under the dining table. Make sure it is a place where you can
work. Use your glamorous object and build a nest for yourself for your work with
wool blankets, lace shawls, soft pillows, and her favorite books. Enter in
trance and go to your inner sanctuary. You are going to regain your glamour. Think of each little piece
like a bright fairy light that you recover within yourself in any method that works
better for you: to swallow, absorb through your skin, merge with your spirit. What has it
removed some pieces of your glamour? Your latest creative effort? All the work and the
work that you included in your recent rejected proposal? Make your house glamorous
for a date at home with your spouse? Do you actively connect with your loved ones?
Finding the right things to say, the right clothes to wear? Changing habits
previous ones? That beautiful girl who slipped extra flowers with your order? Call it all to you
same. Your glamour is yours. You can choose to share it, they may take parts of it from you.
those who want a (literal) piece of your shine, you can choose to spend it in the name of your
Great Work, but it always belongs to you. Come home with your glamour. When I feel the return
Completely from its glamour, lick its finger and seal its object of glamour with its saliva. Center.
Soham. I am that. I am the swan

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IN THE VALLEY OF YOUR

HUNGER

Think of a moment when you were sick with love and lust for someone. I didn't know that
you existed, but all you could think about all the time was him. You tried to make him
she will simply love you or at least kiss you until your heel bursts like a star in
an old movie, but he didn't even talk to you directly and probably didn't even know
your name.
Remember when you were in love with your best friend and she would sometimes hold your hand or you
I would move the hair from your eyes and smile at you as if I wanted to kiss you forever and your heart...
it would feel like it was peeling away from your ribcage. They stayed awake all night
they were talking and preparing for the party together, and they knew everything about each other, except that
they were desperately in love with her. You had moments here and there when
you thought maybe she knew, maybe she would do something about it, but you were too
paralyzed to ruin everything. She never said a word about knowing how you felt until
that you broke up, and now you're not even friends on social media.
It evokes the memory of when you were in love with your sister's boyfriend and how he smelled when.
they hug each other, both hold on for a few more moments and as always they fight each other
for the silliest things so that neither of you would have to face how you felt
one for the other, without their sister knowing that when she fell asleep on the couch,
both almost caught fire on the head with the intensity of their gaze without blinking
the eyes of the other until she woke up. The only time she invited you because your sister
I was at a band's rehearsal and I wanted to show you a meteor shower with its
telescope in your backyard and when you felt its breath in your ear, your knees became
They weakened, but you said you had to do it. Go home. They separated for a couple of months.
Later, he started dating someone else and you never talked about it.

Whatever iteration this forbidden attraction has manifested in your life, think
in how it made you feel. The way your pupils dilated, your breath stopped, the
acceleration of the beats of your heart, the excitement that pulsated through your veins from the forbidden
and not consummated and how it felt.

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Austerity is for everyone

Austerity can do that for you. Austerity can take that anguish, that burning and
longing and turn it into a glow of your Great Work. It can make room for you, beautiful and
glorious. On its surface, austerity may seem like something that has a purpose opposite to the
glamour, but that is a very superficial reading of both austerity and glamour. The
glamour is the tool you are using in your Great Work, and austerity is the stone of
sharpen against that which you are sharpening your weapon. The suffering for one's art has been considered
for a long time erotic, and even more distressing for the lover, the spirit or the goddess of
There is something in that combination of pain and ecstasy that has fascinated the average human being.
long before Secretary.

The anchorites were the epitome of austerity in the early Middle Ages, and almost everyone
villages in England had one. As a hermit, his only concerns would be to pray with
regularity, fasting and other devotions, offering improvised confessions, eating the food
that was given to him and read a lot.

An anchorite would be given their last rites before entering their anchor, as it was expected
that, being sealed in its anchor, would first die spiritually and then be reborn spiritually
like a living saint in her cellar and then, finally, she would die bodily at her anchor.

Her grip would seal, and she would be buried in it. Most of the time, it was attached to a
anchorage to a church. It had to have three small windows: one that faced the street where the
people would come and visit the anchor and receive wisdom and guidance from it, an internal window that
he gave to the church altar and a window so that the caretakers of the hermit could attend to her
physically. needs. His cellar would be about fifteen square feet unless it was
part of a private property. If it came to dictating the terms of the construction of your
fortress, the law of the church allowed it to accommodate up to two servants. Life
anacoreta was typically reserved for educated women (and men), since it
I assumed they should spend more time reading than praying.

It was an intoxicating combination of being completely tangled up in secular life and

completely set apart by her. For a woman, this was a particularly special opportunity.
excellent, since it meant that she would not be subjected to the whims of her husband, or death
in childbirth (although the plague was still possible), and that she would be allowed to read and be alone
most of their time. without stopping to interact with the outside world. They were told to the
anchores who took care not to show off, since they would have access to all the juicy
local gossip, as well as a special position in the church, especially if they were women
anacorets.

There was a fairly liberal policy regarding male visitors and hands were slipping.
through the window from the street so that you would decide to dismiss her immediately or hold on.
you were at least a nun, necessarily, and the only person you had to take orders from
it was your bishop who buried you. His confessor would oversee his decision-making process as
the anchorite and would keep it in its path of various devotions and services, when not
he was literally digging his own grave with his hands as a sport in his free time.
Depending on who you were engaged with, this would often be a life more
pleasant for many.

Despite (or perhaps because of) being walled, it was a very liberating life for many.
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through the window, and you would have plenty of time to write and mend clothes, as well as to
organize the appearances of important people in your community when you were not there.
busy fasting, practicing austerities, and receiving holy visions. This was a
exciting amount of power for women, especially to access. If you did not lead.
revolutions as abbess or you plotted a civil war as a lady or courtly queen, this was
a good path towards power and influence as a woman in the Middle Ages. However, it was
a rather limited path; Even for the powerful girls of the Middle Ages with
upward mobility, there were only a limited number of anchor points to accommodate
budding hermits.
The reluctant wife and the prioress

While it is not known if Heloïse wanted to be a hermit, it is certainly within the realm of the
possibilities, given his desire to avoid marriage and family, stopping only for his
passion for her lover. Heloïse knew what it was to burn for her lover and lead an austere life.
She fell in love with her tutor, Peter Abelard, when he moved to her uncle's house, where she resided.
in France.

Heloïse, who was already the most famous scholar in France, was probably not much younger.
that Peter and his mutual intellect inspired a flurry of passionate love letters between the two
while they carried out a passionate story of illicit love right under the nose of the uncle of
Heloïse.

Birth control was not really on the table in the 12th century, so all that
the sexual act eventually resulted in Heloïse becoming pregnant. Peter sends Heloïse
to her sister's house in Brittany, where Heloïse gives birth and then probably throws him out
son not favorable, son negativos acerca de los niños.
especially enthusiastic when he wrote: What man, inclined to sacred thoughts
philosophical? Could she bear the crying of children...? And what woman could bear the
filth and the misery of babies?
When her uncle finds out about her actions, he becomes furious. Getting pregnant as a young woman.
single has started many reality TV shows in the 21st century, can you imagine it
although it was received in the 12th century, especially because both parties were nobility and
single.

Heloïse's uncle demands that they get married, and Peter, feeling bad about the situation, agrees.

In fact, it is our burgeoning radical of the 12th century (even by current standards) the
feminist Heloïse who is completely disgusted at the prospect of marriage.
Later he writes to Peter: I never sought anything in you except yourself ... I did not seek any
marital bond ... if Augustus, emperor of the whole world, deemed it appropriate to honor me
with marriage and entrusted me with all the land to possess it forever. It would be more
Dear and more honorable to me that they do not call me your empress, but your whore. Peter is
very persuasive, however, and she is in love with him, so she reluctantly agrees.

This is where things start to get interesting. Once everyone is on board,

Peter basically says, 'Oh, hey, this is a secret marriage. That's cool, right?'
As we have learned from Elizabeth Woodville earlier, that's nothing great, Peter.
In the Middle Ages, it meant that you were in a shady business. Heloïse responds with something
as, "... It's okay. I think. As mentioned before, I, to begin with, not even

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I want to marry you, so whatever. Peter responds with, 'Great! So, um, I'm just going to'
hide in an abbey until things calm down with your uncle." Heloïse is not
particularly interested in this idea, but wants them to eventually live like people
normal and reluctantly consents. No one knows what Peter's intention was: it could have been
He had to protect Heloïse, it could have been to ensure that her reputation was not harmed.
something that will personally set itself on fire a little later), or it could have
he was. feeling made with Heloïse and her uncle, trying to slip out the back door
to unknown places to continue being a philosopher.

We have already established that Heloïse's uncle has trouble controlling his anger.

When he sees that Peter is potentially trying to evade his marital duties, he gathers a
a group of his brothers decides to attack Peter in his studio apartment. The uncle of
Heloïse chastises Peter, as one does in this situation, I suppose. Peter is now overwhelmed.
for the shame and remorse for his illicit affair, her miserable husband, her daughter
beloved, and now she has a physical reminder of why she was a bad pony.

Decides to take the sacred orders and decides that Heloïse should do the same. Once again,
Heloïse is not very interested in this, but Peter has escaped to a monastery by all means.
ways, so what the hell, she might as well become the prior because she is still super
brilliant.
She probably imagines that they will see each other from time to time, will kiss with tongues and
they will continue their letters, a reasonable commitment for their situation.

For his part, Peter decides not to speak with her for twelve long years while he is busy.
almost being excommunicated for heresy (probably only saved from that due to the
importance of his family) and distancing himself from all the other monks he lives with until he is
convinced that they are trying to poison him. It is a pain to live with him and very moralistic,
so maybe. Having said that, it is still completely brilliant, and finally Heloïse finds
a document he wrote called Historia Calamitatum, in which he decided that he was forced
himself with Heloïse and now he feels very sorry for it. Heloïse writes to him to
remind him how passionate and wonderful his love is, but Peter does not accept any of that,
even when Heloïse (really!) writes to him in detail about how to think about his sex life
during the mass.

Completely annoyed, as she neither wanted to marry nor be a nun, but has done both.
things for Peter due to how madly in love she is with him, Heloïse thinks to herself
Something like: “He doesn’t want to keep everything. Thornbirds with me, that’s fine. But I will be
condemned if you think you can ignore me. I have not put up with all this nonsense in the abbey
for twelve years doing everything that is boring and terrible for Peter, simply
to self-flagellate for the rest of our lives and be completely unbearable like
correspondent to add insult to my wound. I will politely tell him that he is an idiot and that I do not
It has caused me nothing but sadness for the last twelve years while I do nothing.
more than thinking about him while living in this dump with these psychotic women, and I will tell you
that I will no longer talk about this to him. Instead, I will change the rules of engagement and I
I will remember that I am also capable of talking about all these tedious things about God. I will ask Him.
your opinion on every difficult detail of the Bible that you can think of so that it
recompose and have a more impressive writing to show, at least.

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Meanwhile, I think I'm stuck dealing with this nightmare, so I guess that I
I will do well.

They exchange long and reflective letters about the mysteries of Christianity, and Peter writes
really cool things inspired by Heloïse. As they were both aging, he
he wrote to ask to be buried beside him, which made enduring all this garbage
at least something nice for Heloïse, who now feels happy to have been her
she was sure that her life was completely meaningless without her and they died, happy
forever.

Lessons from Hell

You may still despise austerity as a witch; understandably. Surely to

Heloïse did not like it by choice, although she learned to lean on it. If you had decided
to rid yourself of the shackles of sin and run towards debauchery while embracing the
Witchcraft, it sounds terrible. If you felt oppressed by others in power who told you
what to do as often as they also told you what not to do, nothing about
austerity sounds appealing when you could dedicate yourself to more mundane activities.
pleasurable, like dancing naked around a bonfire; participating in sexual relations
hot with whom you have chosen; and consume a decadent amount of red meat, cheese and
chocolate while drinking and smoking everything that is not nailed down. It is understandable that he is not
willing to voluntarily give up these things. Most of us do not like it
let them tell us what to do.

Austerity in free form

However, this is where real austerity (as opposed to the routine austerity that is
doing to please others) becomes sexy. No one tells you what to do. You are getting
saying what you should do. You are deciding what to set aside, for how long, and with what
purpose. This is an excellent use of your time for many reasons: if you are constantly
involved in blood orgies or laziness or whatever their worldly quest may be
election, starts to become weary of it. The more cynical you become about your
excesses, make you less interesting as a person. Hopefully, you will have a very long life,
so having periods of voluntary abstention will help you not to get tired of everything that
once enjoyed. Too much in the world will also leave you satisfied, slow, and lazy. The
austerity will end that slowness, especially if you are willing to delve into the
vices that cause you more problems.

In Hinduism, a religion that predates Christianity by about fifteen hundred years, the
Austerity is called tapas. When you are practicing tapas in Hinduism, whether by choosing
abstaining from specific vices or performing difficult specific tasks, such as sitting in front of
a bonfire at noon in summer, sitting naked in the snow at night in winter,
standing on one foot for a while. prolonged time, meditating for periods
prolonged periods of time, doing japa (mantra with prayer beads) for long
time periods and other difficult tasks, you are increasing the tension to burn the bad ones
previous actions or possibly to end the universe if you are so inclined. This is
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materials, so that you cannot ask for favors that cause nothing but problems, but
that honor will give it to you. Hindu tradition is full of examples where people and the
demons made large quantities of caps and almost broke the universe. It's also
full of stories of devotion and how tapas can bring you your passion, even if you want
to marry a god.

Parvati likes a boy (God)

In her first incarnation, she was Sati. Sati was to marry Shiva, but Shiva runs with a
really rough multitude of types of cremation that seem to be part of a movie of
Guillermo del Toro. As you can imagine, this works as well as one might expect with a
very traditional father. Sati's father is horrified and immediately begins to speak.
with anyone who wanted to hear about how horribly behaved Shiva and their
crew. Sati is so ridiculously in love with Shiva and is so embarrassed about her
father who decides to set himself on fire.

Shiva goes completely mad because he was desperately in love with Sati. He
he goes crazy, refusing to voluntarily separate from his body and destroying everything in his way
step. Finally, Vishnu is able to take Sati's body for burial and talks with
Shiva. Shiva no longer wants to have anything to do with the world, so he enters a state
catatonic meditative.

Enter Parvati.

Parvati's parents wanted her to marry someone who was not in a coma and had
found well cared for. Like ... any other person. But Parvati was determined to get married.
with Shiva and did not want to know anything else. She begins to play lids to catch his attention. Her
Parents believe she will overcome it with age. But Parvati is so determined to marry Shiva.
that nothing can stop her. She launches into a complete training montage / caps,
determined to attract his attention through the warmth of her intention. She stops eating meat, rice and
even leaves until everything it eats is air.

She sits naked in the snow and wears her winter clothes in the summer in front of a bonfire.
lit. Look at me. To look. At. I.

Years go by and their austerities become increasingly intense until the heat that is
generating, the strength of her devotion and her beauty awaken him, and he realizes that she was
Sati has now returned as Parvati. She immediately reincorporates into the world and falls in love.
about her. They get married and spend an eternity together laughing, fighting, reconciling, making the
love and keeping the world in motion.

Lessons from Parvati

Austerity shows your goddesses, spirits, and the people around you that you take it seriously.
your intention with your Great Work; this is how Parvati managed to capture Shiva. It demands attention as
shows its dedication. That is why it is part of almost all religions in the world: the
Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Just like our other
weapons that we have discussed that are less pleasant than simply buying a new one
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you must throw yourself to the ground, discard from your hands. Give up vices for periods of
specific times create a space within you so that you can become it
sufficiently empty to allow space for new concepts, dreams, and ideas to
they root inside their indoor terrarium.

Austerity is revealing and tedious

With enough devotion, ideas will become flora and fauna that you never knew existed.
they existed within you. You will find the strength and energy you never knew you had. First
he will feel the intoxicating rush of the little child saying no to something he wanted to say yes to
Yes. You will feel the longing and the burning for what you have chosen to abandon. You will be able to savor it,
to see it, touch it, and smell it without really absorbing it. It will be a mystical time of great
revelations and endorphins when everything feels possible and nothing frightens you anymore. But then
you will be tired, angry, sad and you will feel that your austerity makes no sense because the effect
the contact has disappeared. No one around him seems to understand what he is doing and why.
what is making you, and you yourself have begun to lose sight of it. Your austerity has
started to feel like a job and endless fatigue. You begin to look for ways to
to deceive your intention. It is not really a second helping if it is a different food that
It doesn't fit on the plate. Drinking vodka is fine because you left the wine. It's not sex if you are
setting a scene in an S & M club. What does it matter if you only cheat once? You know
what you know better; you know that your goddesses and spirits will know it better too. So you burn in the
misery, without haste, sometimes haggling over the details to obtain relief. But you continue
working on it.

Sound familiar? Like your Masterwork, perhaps? Austerity is one of the types of glamour.
more difficult than you can perform: a part of opera, a part of performing arts, and a part
of interpretative dance. It shows how much you are Another, how much you have chosen to differentiate yourself, it shows
that you are in a staring contest with the universe and you are starting to feel lucky.
It's tedious and difficult, but when it is not making traction in your Great Work, you can open
doors that were previously closed to you and help you find secret passages that do not
I knew they existed. It requires you to be brave, motivated, and sincere. It also requires a
serious thought because you should never, ever make a vow to your goddesses and spirits and then
break it. Why? If you think you had problems before, well, a vote is something serious and it
take very seriously. Not fulfilling your part of the deal will likely result in
crossed conditions and even less progress in your Great Work. Don't promise too much, just
delivered.

Esoteric Experiment No. 16

Objective: Undertake austerity.

Get ready for the covert operations mission you are about to undertake. Write your
austerity planned in exact detail, including exceptions and the time period during
the one who is carrying it out. Your letter must be sealed with red wax with something of your person
what matters to you: a braid or a strand of hair, blood drawn from your finger or a piercing
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your glamour to invoke the universe, your goddesses and the spirits about what you will be
renouncing so that they realize who you are. Give a passionate shout for everything that
You wish. Leave your offerings and your desires at the crossroads and do not look back. Embark on your
austerity while letting the world burn inside you.

Final record of glamour and great work

1.
How will you work with others to achieve your Great Work?

2.

How will you use your glamour to influence others?

3.
How will you overcome the obstacles to achieve your Great Work?

4.

How will you use glamour to keep yourself inspired?

5.

How will you use your glamour and your practical work when you find yourself in situations
uncomfortable?

6.

How will you handle failure in your Great Work?

7.

How will you turn austerity into part of your glamour?

8.
If you have not yet achieved your Great Work, what do you need to work on to get there?

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LEVEL UP

I was doing what I vowed I would never do. I was already covered in someone else's blood,
there was cemetery dirt on my ballet shoes, the taste of tears was in me
mouth and was cautiously feeling around a dead goat, filling myself with hair from
goat

Hecate. You and your damn search for the ring.

And I, the owner of your charms,

The author of all damages,

I was never called to fulfill my part

Or show the glory of our art?

—Hecate, Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 5—

Sometimes, the initiation experience occurs in a warehouse.

The closest to that Greek theatrical/initiation experience I have had in life is watching Sleep.
No More in the city of New York. First, you are wearing masks and you should not speak.
second place, each room is incredibly detailed, as it took more than
four hundred volunteers to set up the rooms. Thirdly, they separate you from the
a person you came with so you can have a solitary experience.

Mix a silent and super sexy version of modern dance of Macbeth with Rebecca,
place it in a huge warehouse that you have turned into a world of the 1930s that
it contains a hotel, nursing, asylum, cemeteries, and forests, and you already got the
performance, more or less. Each show lasts about an hour and then (in its
majority) repeats three times to provide you with a dreamy experience. There are smells everywhere
parts along with music and spectacular lighting. You are allowed to follow the characters that
wanting to loot the rooms as they please (there are administrators/guides watching them,
masked and silent). If it becomes too much, he can hang out at the bar that seems
and it sounds like a club in an old movie where they have actors and musicians singing and
You can take off the mask.

Sometimes, a celebrity of the day sneaks in and sings 'Summertime' in the club while
the performance is developed.

Throughout the entire production process, the rooms open and close (and are locked and
they unlock), so he is never sure of where he has been or what he has seen. Just in case that's not
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An actor has to take you to them. It is estimated that anyone who goes alone sees a sixteenth.
of the show in one night.

That particular night, I saw Hecate and followed her back to her lair. She ate raw meat.
from a locked container and coughed a ring with as much delicacy as a cat coughing
a ball of fur and gave it to his chosen ghost girl (the ghosts refer to the
audience). Zhauna Franks was playing with her that night. She seemed to imagine Hecate
like Marilyn Monroe when she was off the set of a movie. She flirted, played, but
she had the edge of a knife underneath and an obvious intelligence about her, and she was one of the most
glamorous ones I had ever seen. When she was playful, she was so genuine and sincere that
made her performance much more nuanced because it also made her sharpness
much sharper.

Then he went up on stage at the abandoned club and proceeded to give his performance of 'Is That
"All There Is?" As I watched Hecate transform from all those moments of change
life, sometimes laughing, sometimes smiling ironically, sometimes full of joy, sometimes crying with
the heart just to laugh again, something inside me simply broke. Was this all
What was there? Would it ever feel enough, no matter how much I achieved? I started
As I sobbed behind my mask, my hand unconsciously grasped my skull necklace.
crow and the other one spun around my stomach. It was too strong for anyone to stop me.
I would listen. I was masked and it was too dark for anyone to see me. I stepped aside
her face and I wiped the tears from beneath my mask so covertly
As I could. I felt squeezed and wanted to be a ghost in the sea of ghosts, following me.
silently behind to be able to process everything.

Hecate immediately focused on me as she moved to the other side of her lair. She set her
hand on my shoulder, as if to comfort me for a moment, and I relaxed under his hand. So
as soon as he felt that I was relaxing, he got very close to my face and laughed mockingly. My
Shoulders sank. If I am completely honest, although I cannot say what it was...
exactly Zhauna's personal intention, my exact thought was, 'the goddesses can
being so foolish sometimes". She also knew that she was watching to see what I would do. I straightened up.
I resolutely straightened my shoulders and looked her in the face, my gaze firm and determined. She grabbed me by the
dude, he took me to the secret door of his living room and told me to wait outside, he had something for
me.

I waited. Just a moment later, he came to get me.

He took me to his private rooms and immediately took off my mask. I was scared.
to the toes because unmasking myself at the McKittrick (where everything happens) is
feels like taking off clothes in the middle of a church, but also smiled like a madman. Me
I asked if my makeup was smudged from sweat and tears. He/She came very close to me and me
touched the face where the tears had been. Then, gently, but with hope, pulled
under my eyes, possibly in the hope of accumulating more tears. When not
There was none, he opened my mouth and poured a jar of tears on my tongue. I swallowed.
obediently.

He started to tell me a fairy tale about a ship at sea, an arrogant boy and a
lost ring. She spun me around and dragged me into a dark room while I was
out of place. She told the story while my breathing turned into gasps and my
my heart raced with terror and excitement, sometimes whispering in my ear, sometimes howling at
a few meters away. Although she had the build of a dancer (small,

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thin, delicate) and I am not, he threw me into this dark room like a rag doll,
letting my body hit against the walls. He placed my hand on one of the walls, which
it looked like grass, and he explained to me how this foolish and vain boy had lost his ring. I tried to
they were going to find it in the grass even though, logically, they knew from the fandomverse that
I wasn't there. She made me turn again and whispered in my ear: 'Find my ring for me.' She turned me back.
put on the mask and pushed me out of her room. I stood there gasping for a
moment while a butler (the masked black attendants who are there to
make sure we don't stray too far from the line) was looking covertly.

My shoulders slumped again. My exact thought was: "The search for the ring?!"
Are you serious?! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME, GODDESSES?

The mission of the ring, in case you are not familiar, is the Holy Grail of missions in
McKittrick, and not in a good way. Is it possible to complete? Yes. Does it have as many chances to
Complete it like winning the lottery or being struck by lightning? Yes. The ring is hidden.
somewhere in the McKittrick. They move it every night. The McKittrick has
approximately the size of almost an entire apple. The ring is the size of a ring
real for your hand. Go with God, sport!

Previously, I vowed never to seek the ring. It seemed like an enormous waste of time.
when one could be eating stolen candies and frolicking with witches. Besides, for the
that I had gathered from the verse of the fandom, if you found the ring, you would be offered another mission
even more impossible, what would make me turn the table. Thank you, but no thank you!

I held my breath. I clumsily tried to consider what it could mean for me on a level
of Witchcraft (the game within the game for me in Sleep No More), that would send me to a
a mission like this. Even if I could complete it, I knew they would only send me on a quest.
much more difficult.

Later, when he told Jow my story about Indian food, he commented: "So, his
Is the reward for completing a really difficult job receiving an even more difficult job?
I closed my eyes and briefly considered smashing my brain against the glass that contained the box.
about the sweets from the restaurant, since that has been my life experience, and it's as frustrating as
It sounds. But it's true. It will only get harder. It's what generates success. The better it is
the harder you work in artistic activities, there will be very few real successes of
overnight, if there is any.
And if you succeed, it is generally expected that your future work will be even more successful. No pressure.

However, it's hard to ignore a direct order that barks at you from a symbolic goddess. While my
the brain was spinning too much to process all this at the moment, I knew I was destined
to go on the expedition as it was presented to me. I began searching for the ring. I went to floors that
I would normally avoid: the hospital with its broken padded cell, wet clothes and the smell of iodine in the
air; the cemetery filled with earth with its chilling empty baby carriage; the labyrinth in
the forest with the stuffed goat. I forced myself to look for places I would never look.

Putting my hands in dark sources feeling their bottoms of seaweed, sinking my hands
in the salt shakers, not knowing what was underneath the salt.

(Side note: I hate putting my hands on things. For example, I never liked painting with
the fingers when I was a child, making meat pie is disgusting, and so on. I will do those
things when the occasion requires it, but I hate it and I will do everything possible to avoid it.

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He collected everything he found and shook bottles and boxes, listening to a faint jingling.
to see if I needed to investigate further, opening drawers and teapots. The butlers helped me
they looked at me with suspicion, but I was always very careful and very gentle, in addition to being attentive to
leave everything exactly as I found it. After a while, they seemed to know what I was
doing.

Sometimes, I caught them talking on their walkie-talkies when I entered a room, although they
they quickly fell silent. I didn't know if they were talking about me (probably not)
but I wanted to scream: "Hotter or colder? I just need a hint!" I started to get to
that trance / dreamlike place where I could no longer say where I was going or what floor I was on or
where I had been. I was more than exhausted. I barely sat during the hours until then.
moment, but by then I was out of myself, searching and searching.

I didn't find the ring that night, as expected. I drove back to New Jersey.
exhausted and worn out.

Your ring cycle

Don't be mistaken about this: your Great Work is your search for the ring. Hopefully,
eventually you will find your ring. But it will not indicate that your Great Work has ended; it is
much more likely to mean that your Great Work is evolving along with your
glamour towards a more difficult journey with greater rewards and greater risks. In the musical
In the Woods, Cinderella begins her story wishing to go to the festival; in the second act,
wants to sponsor a festival. The song 'Ever After' only lasts two minutes and twenty seconds.
Two minutes and twenty seconds of joy, satisfaction, and happiness out of the seventy-six minutes.
of the whole musical.

Wishes grow bigger, bets increase, and every time the characters
they think they have finished, they need to return to the forest. Always, always, always you return to the
forest. There will be moments of realization and joy, but it is only that: moments. Savor them,
to be present for them, but to accept that it is not over.

You never finish working / Working in this life until you drop dead, and then you
you find yourself with something new. It's okay to feel frustrated or even angry for feeling that way.
in the next search instead of having the satisfaction of having completed your search
forever and ever, amen. Once you achieve your current Great Work, take a turn of the
Victoria. Celebrate as you see fit and be as present as you can and participate with
All. Organize a party, have some drinks at an elegant place with your partner and your best friend.
friend, eat a whole pizza, travel around your city having brunch until there is none
more brunch, buy fancy shoes, go dancing, go to a festival and make new friends at the
camping, go hiking, do whatever they feel like and not introduce new things
problems in their life.

After their return from victory (which should last a maximum of one week) and when
I began to feel adrift, seal the end of this Great Work.

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Esoteric experiment No. 17

Objective: Put an end to your current Great Work and begin to glimpse your next Great Work.

Choose your favorite natural place: where the ocean is glorious, a small stream that runs through your
garden. a swamp with cypress trees covered in moss, a historic monument to a battle of
A long time ago, a forest carpeted with wildflowers. Bring offerings that are
earth-friendly: freshly ground cherries, spring water, oat cakes, flowers.
Bring a project that will free you from the mind, along with the provisions you want or need.
to be comfortable: a delicate shawl that you are knitting, a jacket that you are embroidering, a
a letter in your handwriting addressed to a friend, a good pen, and a pile of letters that you
enjoy.

Organize your offerings in a way that is pleasing to you. Offer it to the goddesses or
spirits that have helped you and thank them. Write notes to any human being that you
Have helped and send them by email or deliver them to your humans. Take a deep breath and get ready.
comfortable.

Formally seal the end of this Great Work using any method that seems natural to you:
write the intention and then seal it and bury it or throw it into the sea, extract blood and use it to
seal your Work, inscribe a beeswax candle with your Work and let it burn. Leave
may your goddesses and spirits know that you are sealing this closed Work by making a
invocation spoken aloud that flows from you naturally. What place appears next in
on the internal palimpsest?

You started with a little question with your glamour. Something that you have not earned, but that
it has been given for free. Now his request is much greater: he achieved his Great Work and
needs to move to the next Grand Work in its ring cycle. You can do this by working on
through the Esoteric Experiments again in this book, as they are intended to
function cyclically. Working everything again will give you the opportunity to maintain your
glamour like a finely sharpened blade. To ensure that your glamour continues to shine and
growing, it should continue to be used.

How does your glamour now differ from what it was when you started? What have you learned?
About the use of your glamour? What mistakes have you made?

What offenses have you committed against your moral compass? Where has it been more difficult than what
Did you expect to use your glamour? Where has it flowed more easily than I had anticipated? Has it
you could integrate your practical work with your glamour work so that they flow together without
Problems? What has become easier for you and what is now more difficult? You can ask yourself these.
questions at the end of each cycle and keep a journal of their answers so they can see where
It has changed. Something that could have been easier in a previous cycle may be more difficult.
now and vice versa.

But now, oh now. Now, you have erased from your mouth the bitterness of being overlooked and
overwhelmed. You have removed the cloak that was suffocating you with rejection and expectations of the
society. You set aside the shoes that marked your feet with failure, idleness and the
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Throne because you are Another. You have toppled your opposition until they were forced to yield to you.
on your land. You have gotten drunk with the traitors and convinced them to turn back to
turn around, purely by the force of your glamour. You are bruised, bloodied, exhausted. You are
here. Finally, you are here. You own the space you are in, filled with your
glamour and the power of your witchcraft. The Moon card. The Star card. The World card.
What are you going to do?

Lift that crown off the ground and never look back.

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