Time for Everything?

[Ci Celli Ddu]

How much time do you set aside strictly for magick? Is this on a daily, weekly. monthly or seasonal basis? Apart from work (or study if you're at Uni) and family duties, do you find yourself doing a juggling act when it comes to finding time for all your interests?

[feranaja]

A juggling act would be one way of putting it! I live alone in a five bedroom house with 22 companion animals, so i spend a huge amount of time cleaning and doing animal related chores...I run my own business and am pursuing formal studies in canine nutrition, behaviour and herbalism... so thats about a ten hour day right there - plus I have to workout daily or I dont have the stamina for all this - where's the time for magic?

Well what Ive been doing is a simple discipline of morning prayer and walking meditation, then at night I do some reading before bed, could be half an hour, could be twice that if Im not sleepy. I have a room set aside now and painted/consecrated as a temenos, and I plan to spend more time there although I think of my house itself as a temple and tending it and my various gardens as acts of celebration and worship.

At this time in my life I see my studies, work with animals and householding as sacred paths so I dont do nearly as much "overt" spiritual work as I once did, but I do read nightly and I pray - briefly, but regularly - twice a day.

I'd like to have a social life someday but...not right now!
feranaja

[m1thr0s]

How much time do you set aside strictly for magick?It probably depends on what you call magick. If you mean how much time do I set aside for traditional practices the answer is none. If you mean how much time do I set aside to advance my own studies the answer is as much time as I can squeeze in. I would be doing this stuff all the time if I could swing it financially, something I am still trying to work out how to do...

m1thr0s

[Talkingfox]

It probably depends on what you call magick. If you mean how much time do I set aside for traditional practices the answer is none. If you mean how much time do I set aside to advance my own studies the answer is as much time as I can squeeze in. I would be doing this stuff all the time if I could swing it financially, something I am still trying to work out how to do...

m1thr0s

Uh yeah...what he said. Who is this ART guy anyways and why won't he pay his own damned rent?????? :p

[Naomi]

I've always got things running in the background, so... I'm always doing magic. It's just automatic now.

I think that you can always do some kind of magic work no matter what you are doing. The practice of being a real hue man is a never ending battle.

I create chaos wherever I go.

I don't know where the magic ends. I tried to think about it but I do magic even when I am cooking or doing laundry. It doesn't get much more basic than that. Sometimes I am just talking with a disembodied somebody while I am doing something tedious.

When I am watching a movie I guess that is not really magic int he same sense as what everyone else thinks. But you are visiting another world and another person's viewpoint. It's like a little glamour and meditation work.

I am not bothered very much about how much time I have for magic. But I do remember a time when I was. I just changed my point of view.

[Kain]

On my busiest days I'll give hardcore practice at least an hour, even if putting other things behind schedule. Usually it's about 2-3 hours per day. When having nothing else to impede me I may even take hands-on practice to 6 hours daily. Passive contemplation is constant however, whatever my schedule is. However, seconding m1thr0s's point, if other things didn't *require* to get done for urban (and general) survival, I'd probably be doing my personal work and practice all the time.

Kain

[Radiant Star]

Most of my life is centred around magick in some form or other and even the things I do outside of that are done so that I get the the most from my magick on my return; I need to go do something different for a while to come back to it refreshed and maybe with a new perspective. I suppose looking at it this way, it encompasses my entire life in some form or other.

If I study, the subject has to be in some way related to my goals in magick.

Hard practice is done more when I am away and I plan for that. Even so, I am finding more times at home when I can lock the door and get on with things - my family are kinding of getting the idea that this little hobby of mine has been around for a few years and is not going away. Though one of them groans when she sees me setting things up; she has never let me forget my failed banishing and the entity she saw walk past her; so whilst they try to put a dampener on my efforts, I still find it is possible to dedicate my life to magick even if it is limited by the 'opposition'.