What is Planning Magic?
Yes, you need to know this, trust me!
Next week we have a couple of potent days on the magical calendar, but the one I want to talk about is Thursday the 14th. This is a potent day for a particular kind of magic… magic for strategy, planning, and getting things done.
I compose a monthly rite for my membership and this is the day I selected for this month. Last month we did this massive Aries New Moon, PGM-based manifestation working and the results are in! I’ve been hearing over and over that people are overwhelmed with opportunities landing left and right. It’s great, but it’s also A LOT! So for this rite, I wanted to do something more centered in order to help people with that very good, but very intense problem.
From the introduction to the rite:
Thursday May 14 is the 28th lunar day (for love) and the day is particularly auspiciously positioned for magic around strategy, planning, and action. Now, one way to interpret this is that you can do the kind of magic I call out in my Circle Method courses: Vision Enchantment, Goal Launch, Cycle Kickoff, etc. But that’s only really useful if you have already done the work to coalesce your vision, define a SMART, MAGIC goal, and are practicing cycle mapping (which, if that’s of interest, you can go through my courses).
But what if you haven’t done that prework? Or what if you’ve been working on those things but are feeling stuck or overwhelmed by too many options (Aries manifestation incoming!)?
This is the kind of enchantment I call meta magic, which is magic to make your magic better. In this case, magic to make your strategic visions sharper, your intuition stronger, your desires clearer, and your focus tighter. It’s magic to help you be better at strategy, planning, and action rather than just blessing / empowering / launching what you’ve already figured out.
That said, and this is critical, if you don’t follow up this working with some practical efforts (figuring out what you want, what your future can be, how you get there, what goals to set…) this ritual isn’t going to do much for you. So, keep that in mind.
And that’s the key. Sometimes we focus so much on what we think we want in the moment. We do work to get the things we need right now through magic, bit we don’t do the higher level work of magic to foster the skills we need to do that effectively. And that’s something you can do on your own. Enchant to get better at knowing what you want organizing yourself to get it!
I was inspired by one of the members of my current Venture Incubation Arc - Certified Somatic Sex Educator and Bodyworker Marissa Gamberutti, who you should follow because she’s lovely and amazing and a perfect example of living your values - to make this rite more embodied and somatic. You are literally working to feel where your blocks are around vision, wayfinding, desire, courage, and tactical flexibility.
I’m excited to work this rite myself (yes, I do every single one of my monthly rites right along with my membership).