As I mentioned in my last post, I don't believe it's generally a good idea to lift spells wholesale, even from great sources. Magic is highly personal, and spells should be, too. If it doesn't resonate, don't include it. If it does, but only a little, see if you can enhance the resonance or drop it. Only when everything in a spell resonates intensely do you really stand a chance of its working. Magic is very much a guessing game, after all!
Most spells start with a goal in mind. Now, there are exceptions, of course; my own pumpkin ritual started with a magically charged object that I kept waiting around until inspiration struck. But, generally, one starts with a goal. It's important to think about what you are aiming for and hone it down to something very specific. The more clear you can be about what you are asking for, the more concentrated your spell will be. You don't just want money, you want a hundred dollars within two months. How would you like this money to come? Do you want to sell something? What do you want to sell? Don't forget that you still have to do the advertising! You want to win it in a drawing? Well, you have to enter the drawing, then, of course! You want your rich uncle to die and leave it to you. That one's a tad ethically awkward, don't you think?! In each of these cases, the specificity shapes the spell you will ultimately use; you'll want to use correspondences and symbols for selling, good business, profit, etc, for the first, for luck, winning, controlling the random, even, for the second, and, well, you'll be wanting to do a lot of covering your karmic ass for the third! (Don't really ever do that. Even if your uncle is a rat bastard, he probably doesn't actually deserve to die, and while I don't go on about the "three-fold law", yeah, there's a certain "what goes around, comes around" that generally applies to life.
So now you've honed your goal down; you want to sell your bike for $200 in the next month. (Your bike, by the way, is actually worth that much, or at least in the ballpark! If not, you are once again risking bad karma!) The next step is research; you'll be looking up spells and correspondences and symbols that relate to money, selling, bikes, 200, dollars, the time span of a month, and anything else that seems relevant (your location, for example, or successful advertising); this can take some time, but is much faster with the handy-dandy internet and a solid magical library on hand! As you research, make note of things that occur over and over again; these are probably more powerful associations than those you only see in one or two places, although sometimes a more obscure item might simply be overlooked because it's obscure; make sure to look at everything and pay attention to whatever resonates, no matter how often you come across it.
Now, as you go about daily life with this research bubbling in your brain, keep an eye out for magically charged items that might work for this task, both ones deliberately charged and items that just (yes, I'm using this word a lot) resonate for no apparent reason. While you continue to keep an eye out, begin to build a ritual. Everyone is different; I typically find that an overall sketch of what I want to do comes to me first and then I begin filling in the specific wording. Someone else might start with the wording and build from there. Wording, of course, requires as much care as every other step; be specific, and cover yourself on as many negative contingencies as you can. Don't demand, as a general rule, but request.
This is important! Magic is like herding cats through force of will alone, or trying to control water with nothing but your hands. It's tricky business, and involves a lot of careful coaxing and very little rough handling. We are playing around with the equivalent of electricity here, more or less randomly exposing various objects to it to discover what conducts it and what doesn't. This would be why magic is so unreliable and hard to test, at least at this point in our understanding of it. If we are calm and patient, if we are thoughtful and complex, opening as many avenues as possible for the magic to flow, this is when it happens.
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