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Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies
Weaving Fate presents tools to help restore our connection to the Field, the Others, and our own intrinsic natures. These practices can help us to re-imagine the possibilities available to us and to shift our lives into more beneficial forms.
The Black Book is a journaled form of hypersigil, a long-form written approach to magic that allows us to write the life we desire into being.
The Corridor is an imaginal tool used to visit other times and places. Through it we can shift unhelpful influences from past events in positive directions and connect with our future selves to help manifest the lives we desire.
The Fever Stone is a magical process for releasing energy trapped in traumatic events and ancestral pain-states. We can then transmute this energy into raw power for use in creating the internal and external changes we seek.
Weaving Fate is for those willing get their hands dirty in the guts of the thoughts, memories, internal, and external forces that shape our lives. It is for those who understand that our fates are mutable and that we have great power to influence them.
The Black Book is a journaled form of hypersigil, a long-form written approach to magic that allows us to write the life we desire into being.
The Corridor is an imaginal tool used to visit other times and places. Through it we can shift unhelpful influences from past events in positive directions and connect with our future selves to help manifest the lives we desire.
The Fever Stone is a magical process for releasing energy trapped in traumatic events and ancestral pain-states. We can then transmute this energy into raw power for use in creating the internal and external changes we seek.
Weaving Fate is for those willing get their hands dirty in the guts of the thoughts, memories, internal, and external forces that shape our lives. It is for those who understand that our fates are mutable and that we have great power to influence them.
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Published August 31, 2020
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January 7, 2021
Weaving Fate is a woo book. The author believes in magic and assumes you do, too. I found this strangely refreshing, to be honest, and it made it easy to separate out the useful stuff, for my intents and purposes.
What I took from it, when you remove the fluff, were two meditation exercises (one of which won't work for me), a journaling practice, and a bunch of new entries on my to-read list. That's more than decent for a 170 page book that I expected to feel at best ambiguous about.
Even apart from the useful ideas, I liked several things about this book. For one, it emphasises that there are no one-size-fits-all solutions, and that the proposed protocols and techniques will probably be modified by the reader – a strict improvement over most of self-help literature. He also explains all the words and concepts: "Liminal means …", and so on. He also cites his sources, and notes where he has a deep or shallow understanding of them, or where he changes his use of their terms. Oh, and he gave me the idea of recording my own guided meditation, which I should've thought of on my own.
These are the four techniques that he introduces, summed up very roughly:
## Black Book
This is a journaling exercise to support change in your life. You write journal entries from the POV of your future self, with lots of details – so you never express *intent*, you always write about factual experience.
Notes: Don't worry about continuity, instead use it to explore what you really want. Tone matters more than specifics, but be specific nonetheless. Focus on emotions and sensory details. Follow your dreams/vibes/themes/intentions to their conclusions and write about that. Focus on what outcomes look like and feel like. What are the fruits of your labour, what do they taste like? Move the markers of what is possible for you. If you are working on hitting beginner level, talk about going semi-professional.
The book surrounds the journal with a lot of *magic*, consecrating it, having you alway use the same pen etc etc, but the practice in itself sounds intriguing enough that I'm going to try it.
## Corridor
This is a visualisation exercise: You visualise some sort of corridor / some place with a lot of doors (settings will vary). Stepping through doors gives you access to a situation in your past, which you can then re-interpret or re-shape. This will in turn change how you experience present and future events, since your perception is rooted in your past. It is not exactly used to create new memories – more to introduce a dissonance in a comfortable story you've told yourself, and that is keeping you back.
So you will (after entering a meditative state and walking through one of the doors) encounter your younger self, probably in a less-than-positive situation, and interact to give advice and hugs, recontextualise, tell yourself what you needed to hear back then. Since you're in control, you can (and should) decide in advance that your younger self will be receptive and open, which situation you will visit, and that the whole thing will be beneficial.
## Fever Stone
This is a trauma visualisation exercise, best I can tell, accompanied by some symbolism (he wants you to keep and use a stone. I'm ignoring that part). It's not my kinda thing, so this is just the very abridged version:
You practice visualising a temple/church, seeing yourself laid out in there (alive, tho). Practice visualising a stone in your body (frozen trauma), that you remove and burn up. Also practice visualising feeding warmth/energy to yourself/your stomach, where it is stored to be released when needed. Combine the two, plus the earlier corridor exercise, by stepping into the aftermath of a traumatic event (or for complex trauma, a memory of it activating), and visualise removing the trauma stone, burning it and feeding the energy to yourself.
## Desire inventory
This technique isn't even listed with a name, and just added in the very end. I'm calling it "Desire Inventory", after the Deepest Fear Inventory mentioned in [Existential Kink](https://books.rixx.de/carolyn-elliott...).
Write a list of everything you want. Big desires, small "a bagle would be nice", anything goes. Update constantly. Once you have at least 50 (and whenever you have collected a new batch), transfer them to an index card per desire – but in the form of affirmations (so "I'd like a bagle" turns into "I'm ecstatic that I have a bagle"). Read them out loud, in the most enthusiastic over-the-top way you can (practice for some days before proceeding), and pay attention to your felt sense. Sort into legitimate/not legitimate/maybe legitimate. Discard the ones you don't really feel like (maybe repeat for a few days, if you're not sure), then look at what remains. Maybe re-write as desires. Group in ways that feel right – look at the clusters, interrogate them, etc.
## Bibliography
- Carroll: Liber null, Liber kaos, Psychonaut [chaos] - Thomas Hanna: Somatics - Aidan Wachter: Six Ways - Ray Sherwin: Theatre of Magic - Gordon White: The Chaos Protocols
What I took from it, when you remove the fluff, were two meditation exercises (one of which won't work for me), a journaling practice, and a bunch of new entries on my to-read list. That's more than decent for a 170 page book that I expected to feel at best ambiguous about.
Even apart from the useful ideas, I liked several things about this book. For one, it emphasises that there are no one-size-fits-all solutions, and that the proposed protocols and techniques will probably be modified by the reader – a strict improvement over most of self-help literature. He also explains all the words and concepts: "Liminal means …", and so on. He also cites his sources, and notes where he has a deep or shallow understanding of them, or where he changes his use of their terms. Oh, and he gave me the idea of recording my own guided meditation, which I should've thought of on my own.
These are the four techniques that he introduces, summed up very roughly:
## Black Book
This is a journaling exercise to support change in your life. You write journal entries from the POV of your future self, with lots of details – so you never express *intent*, you always write about factual experience.
Notes: Don't worry about continuity, instead use it to explore what you really want. Tone matters more than specifics, but be specific nonetheless. Focus on emotions and sensory details. Follow your dreams/vibes/themes/intentions to their conclusions and write about that. Focus on what outcomes look like and feel like. What are the fruits of your labour, what do they taste like? Move the markers of what is possible for you. If you are working on hitting beginner level, talk about going semi-professional.
The book surrounds the journal with a lot of *magic*, consecrating it, having you alway use the same pen etc etc, but the practice in itself sounds intriguing enough that I'm going to try it.
## Corridor
This is a visualisation exercise: You visualise some sort of corridor / some place with a lot of doors (settings will vary). Stepping through doors gives you access to a situation in your past, which you can then re-interpret or re-shape. This will in turn change how you experience present and future events, since your perception is rooted in your past. It is not exactly used to create new memories – more to introduce a dissonance in a comfortable story you've told yourself, and that is keeping you back.
So you will (after entering a meditative state and walking through one of the doors) encounter your younger self, probably in a less-than-positive situation, and interact to give advice and hugs, recontextualise, tell yourself what you needed to hear back then. Since you're in control, you can (and should) decide in advance that your younger self will be receptive and open, which situation you will visit, and that the whole thing will be beneficial.
## Fever Stone
This is a trauma visualisation exercise, best I can tell, accompanied by some symbolism (he wants you to keep and use a stone. I'm ignoring that part). It's not my kinda thing, so this is just the very abridged version:
You practice visualising a temple/church, seeing yourself laid out in there (alive, tho). Practice visualising a stone in your body (frozen trauma), that you remove and burn up. Also practice visualising feeding warmth/energy to yourself/your stomach, where it is stored to be released when needed. Combine the two, plus the earlier corridor exercise, by stepping into the aftermath of a traumatic event (or for complex trauma, a memory of it activating), and visualise removing the trauma stone, burning it and feeding the energy to yourself.
## Desire inventory
This technique isn't even listed with a name, and just added in the very end. I'm calling it "Desire Inventory", after the Deepest Fear Inventory mentioned in [Existential Kink](https://books.rixx.de/carolyn-elliott...).
Write a list of everything you want. Big desires, small "a bagle would be nice", anything goes. Update constantly. Once you have at least 50 (and whenever you have collected a new batch), transfer them to an index card per desire – but in the form of affirmations (so "I'd like a bagle" turns into "I'm ecstatic that I have a bagle"). Read them out loud, in the most enthusiastic over-the-top way you can (practice for some days before proceeding), and pay attention to your felt sense. Sort into legitimate/not legitimate/maybe legitimate. Discard the ones you don't really feel like (maybe repeat for a few days, if you're not sure), then look at what remains. Maybe re-write as desires. Group in ways that feel right – look at the clusters, interrogate them, etc.
## Bibliography
- Carroll: Liber null, Liber kaos, Psychonaut [chaos] - Thomas Hanna: Somatics - Aidan Wachter: Six Ways - Ray Sherwin: Theatre of Magic - Gordon White: The Chaos Protocols
December 7, 2021
'Magic and sorcery are arts of doing, and also the art of being the kind of creature that does such things.'
This is definitely not the proverbial Wicca 101. This is a very open account of the author's very idiosyncratic and original practice based on his convictions. By this I mean, he is not guided by folklore or tradition, but by his own system of beliefs, or rather, dis-beliefs. So you won't find these methods or this approach to magic anywhere else; although I think these were strongly influenced by, or might be called a form of, chaos magic.
'What is my favorite vision of the changes I desire and how do I enchant towards that?'
Since this is a book of practical magic, the most pertinent question, I believe, should be, 'Does it work?'. It's not a question that can be answered easily and definitively, because, well, magic is like baking bread: the recipe is important, but so are the ingredients, the equipment, and the skill of the practitioner. I'll try to be as helpful as I can, though.
So there are just three tools, and they're listed on the back cover, but using them takes time. I've been using all of them to get desirable results. What happened?
In one instance, it seems like I failed spectacularly (and we'll never know if the recipe just doesn't work for such situations, or if I did something wrong, or...). In one instance, it's too early to say; maybe it will work, maybe not.
There were two instances, though, when the shift towards the desired outcome was very perceptible, very quick, but the process for me was very painful. (I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but this is personal and it also concerns other people.) So, I kind of arrived more or less where I wanted, but got bumped along the way. I can hear you thinking, 'Careful what you wish for', but no, I don't believe it's that. What I think is that the author is tough, and I'm not. That he wouldn't mind these bumps at all, but I did. So if you're not sure you're tough, I think maybe you should go about using these tools slowly, carefully (and not likeI did, 'Oh, new tools! Why don't I fix all those difficult problems at once?').
Will I continue using these tools? But of course!
And I'm thankful to the author for sharing them.
These tools are the most important thing in the book, but there's also the author's attitude towards life and magic, and living a magical life, which I've found most inspiring. He is radically against accepting anything that might even look like a limiting thought or belief, but at the same time he's very practical and down-to-earth about it, so although the concepts are extreme, the ways to approach them are not.
'Experience tells me that right now is the perfect time to stand up and rock-and-roll.'
I read Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic before this, and this might be a good way to approach Wachter's work.
This is definitely not the proverbial Wicca 101. This is a very open account of the author's very idiosyncratic and original practice based on his convictions. By this I mean, he is not guided by folklore or tradition, but by his own system of beliefs, or rather, dis-beliefs. So you won't find these methods or this approach to magic anywhere else; although I think these were strongly influenced by, or might be called a form of, chaos magic.
'What is my favorite vision of the changes I desire and how do I enchant towards that?'
Since this is a book of practical magic, the most pertinent question, I believe, should be, 'Does it work?'. It's not a question that can be answered easily and definitively, because, well, magic is like baking bread: the recipe is important, but so are the ingredients, the equipment, and the skill of the practitioner. I'll try to be as helpful as I can, though.
So there are just three tools, and they're listed on the back cover, but using them takes time. I've been using all of them to get desirable results. What happened?
In one instance, it seems like I failed spectacularly (and we'll never know if the recipe just doesn't work for such situations, or if I did something wrong, or...). In one instance, it's too early to say; maybe it will work, maybe not.
There were two instances, though, when the shift towards the desired outcome was very perceptible, very quick, but the process for me was very painful. (I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but this is personal and it also concerns other people.) So, I kind of arrived more or less where I wanted, but got bumped along the way. I can hear you thinking, 'Careful what you wish for', but no, I don't believe it's that. What I think is that the author is tough, and I'm not. That he wouldn't mind these bumps at all, but I did. So if you're not sure you're tough, I think maybe you should go about using these tools slowly, carefully (and not like
Will I continue using these tools? But of course!
And I'm thankful to the author for sharing them.
These tools are the most important thing in the book, but there's also the author's attitude towards life and magic, and living a magical life, which I've found most inspiring. He is radically against accepting anything that might even look like a limiting thought or belief, but at the same time he's very practical and down-to-earth about it, so although the concepts are extreme, the ways to approach them are not.
'Experience tells me that right now is the perfect time to stand up and rock-and-roll.'
I read Six Ways: Approaches & Entries for Practical Magic before this, and this might be a good way to approach Wachter's work.
August 16, 2020
Stellar work!
In one view, magic is about altering probabilities, making desired events more likely to occur through ritual and manipulation of the mind and the world. Kind of a generic and overbroad statement, but it can be a useful way to think about the deeper purpose of what we do as practitioners.
What Aidan gives us here is a system of altering probabilities by explicitly exploring alternate probabilities with the Corridor, manipulating those probabilities with the Black Book, and consuming and digesting negative probabilities with the Fever Stone. It’s a simple enough practice, but it’s a solid approach, and the pieces all work together to give practitioners a system for rewriting their own lives.
If life is a story, we can learn to write a better one. And this gives us a good toolkit for doing so.
In one view, magic is about altering probabilities, making desired events more likely to occur through ritual and manipulation of the mind and the world. Kind of a generic and overbroad statement, but it can be a useful way to think about the deeper purpose of what we do as practitioners.
What Aidan gives us here is a system of altering probabilities by explicitly exploring alternate probabilities with the Corridor, manipulating those probabilities with the Black Book, and consuming and digesting negative probabilities with the Fever Stone. It’s a simple enough practice, but it’s a solid approach, and the pieces all work together to give practitioners a system for rewriting their own lives.
If life is a story, we can learn to write a better one. And this gives us a good toolkit for doing so.
December 15, 2020
This is amazing. Just having finished, I'm thinking myself that this blows all other magick spells out of the water. Why do anything else when you can weave together your wants, needs, and desires in a hypersigil? Each entry reinforces the others, and it leads to the life we're trying to shift toward.
October 5, 2020
Another essential book from Aidan Wachter. Both of his books are true contributions. If he did nothing else with his life than write these two books, he would have contributed more than most. Very grateful to work with these texts
February 19, 2021
Excellent
Nice weaving (pardon) of narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and magic. I am looking forward to trying this out!
Nice weaving (pardon) of narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and magic. I am looking forward to trying this out!
September 27, 2024
There are books on magic that aim to change your circumstances, and then there are books like Weaving Fate that dare to change your very understanding of reality itself. Aidan Wachter doesn’t just present techniques—he offers a radical approach to working with time, memory, and possibility. Instead of focusing on the familiar terrain of ritual and spellcraft, this work dives into the deeper layers of consciousness, where the threads of fate are spun and rewoven through intention, imagination, and raw will.
The book’s title is no metaphor. Wachter guides the reader into the craft of weaving fate, teaching a series of practices that can fundamentally alter how we perceive and interact with our personal timelines. At the heart of the book is the concept of the hypersigil—a powerful tool for rewriting one’s own narrative through the deliberate use of long-form journaling, which he refers to as The Black Book. Unlike standard manifestation techniques, The Black Book works through narrative immersion, allowing the practitioner to “write” desired outcomes into existence by embedding them into the story of their life. It’s storytelling as sorcery, and Wachter’s method is both sophisticated and remarkably simple to implement.
From there, Wachter introduces The Corridor, an imaginal tool that allows for shifting influences from the past and tapping into the wisdom of future selves. The practice isn’t about passive visualization—it’s about entering a state where you can actually reach back, twist a few threads, and see the effects ripple forward. Wachter’s approach to time is fluid and malleable, and his method for using The Corridor feels more akin to quantum magic than traditional witchcraft. This isn’t wishful thinking; it’s active engagement with the deep architecture of one’s own fate.
The third major tool, The Fever Stone, is a practice for transforming the emotional and energetic remnants of past traumas. By working with this technique, readers can release old pain and turn it into fuel for transformation. What sets Wachter apart is his nuanced understanding of how these energies work—he treats trauma not as something to be eliminated but as a source of raw power that, when liberated, can become a force for personal change. This willingness to delve into the messy, chaotic aspects of the psyche is what makes Weaving Fate feel so authentic and compelling.
Wachter’s writing style is direct, conversational, and refreshingly devoid of pretension. He doesn’t overcomplicate, nor does he dilute. Each practice is explained with the clarity of someone who has lived these processes, tested them, and refined them through experience. The book reads more like a series of conversations with a trusted mentor than a rigid instructional manual, and it invites a sense of playful experimentation alongside the serious work of rewriting fate.
Ultimately, Weaving Fate is for those who are willing to get their hands dirty—those who aren’t satisfied with surface-level change but want to work deep in the guts of their own mind, memory, and soul. It’s not for the faint of heart or those looking for quick fixes. This is a book for witches, magicians, and sorcerers who recognize that reality is more malleable than it seems and that our true power lies in daring to alter the stories we tell ourselves. It’s a call to create, destroy, and rebuild—to weave our own fate, one true lie at a time.
The book’s title is no metaphor. Wachter guides the reader into the craft of weaving fate, teaching a series of practices that can fundamentally alter how we perceive and interact with our personal timelines. At the heart of the book is the concept of the hypersigil—a powerful tool for rewriting one’s own narrative through the deliberate use of long-form journaling, which he refers to as The Black Book. Unlike standard manifestation techniques, The Black Book works through narrative immersion, allowing the practitioner to “write” desired outcomes into existence by embedding them into the story of their life. It’s storytelling as sorcery, and Wachter’s method is both sophisticated and remarkably simple to implement.
From there, Wachter introduces The Corridor, an imaginal tool that allows for shifting influences from the past and tapping into the wisdom of future selves. The practice isn’t about passive visualization—it’s about entering a state where you can actually reach back, twist a few threads, and see the effects ripple forward. Wachter’s approach to time is fluid and malleable, and his method for using The Corridor feels more akin to quantum magic than traditional witchcraft. This isn’t wishful thinking; it’s active engagement with the deep architecture of one’s own fate.
The third major tool, The Fever Stone, is a practice for transforming the emotional and energetic remnants of past traumas. By working with this technique, readers can release old pain and turn it into fuel for transformation. What sets Wachter apart is his nuanced understanding of how these energies work—he treats trauma not as something to be eliminated but as a source of raw power that, when liberated, can become a force for personal change. This willingness to delve into the messy, chaotic aspects of the psyche is what makes Weaving Fate feel so authentic and compelling.
Wachter’s writing style is direct, conversational, and refreshingly devoid of pretension. He doesn’t overcomplicate, nor does he dilute. Each practice is explained with the clarity of someone who has lived these processes, tested them, and refined them through experience. The book reads more like a series of conversations with a trusted mentor than a rigid instructional manual, and it invites a sense of playful experimentation alongside the serious work of rewriting fate.
Ultimately, Weaving Fate is for those who are willing to get their hands dirty—those who aren’t satisfied with surface-level change but want to work deep in the guts of their own mind, memory, and soul. It’s not for the faint of heart or those looking for quick fixes. This is a book for witches, magicians, and sorcerers who recognize that reality is more malleable than it seems and that our true power lies in daring to alter the stories we tell ourselves. It’s a call to create, destroy, and rebuild—to weave our own fate, one true lie at a time.
June 1, 2022
A very practical book of potentially life-changing magic. In common with succesful psychological techniques, the central practice involves imagining yourself into a better future life, by writing a diary that is set in the future. This is embedded in a level of ritual, as well as practices to banish unhelful experiences from your past.
April 26, 2022
Review to come. Wachter's style is distinctive, straightforward, practical and real.
October 2, 2021
Blown Away
This book took me a while to get through and I am going to go back to the beginning to reread. The best part is like it says in the epilogue, that there are few material tools that are required for the work. I was always frustrated by long material lists for magical or ritual working. This is totally unnecessary with these practices and I will be using them for years to come.
This book took me a while to get through and I am going to go back to the beginning to reread. The best part is like it says in the epilogue, that there are few material tools that are required for the work. I was always frustrated by long material lists for magical or ritual working. This is totally unnecessary with these practices and I will be using them for years to come.
July 14, 2025
Uniek dat er maar een oefening behandeld wordt in heel dit boek, maar het ging daardoor zo diep dat ik met alles wat ik eruit haalde mijn leven veranderde op de beste manier mogelijk. Omdat ik geen magische mentor heb, had ik zoveel aan al deze begeleiding maar ook aan het plots op eigen benen moeten staan en zelf maar wat moeten handelen.
March 11, 2024
The three proposed exercises are well explained, with examples and threaded with a logic that makes a lot of sense. This part is what it should be, given the title of the book. Good and useful.
Then there is the personal stuff that I guess every book nowadays has to have. You know, storytelling, connecting on a personal level, making you care... all that. It is OK, you kind of expect it by now.
But lastly, you get the pseudo-philosophical part. That, I could have lived without.
Overall a good book and an interesting set of practices.
Then there is the personal stuff that I guess every book nowadays has to have. You know, storytelling, connecting on a personal level, making you care... all that. It is OK, you kind of expect it by now.
But lastly, you get the pseudo-philosophical part. That, I could have lived without.
Overall a good book and an interesting set of practices.
November 25, 2020
Weaving Fate shares some practical magic techniques that you can use to improve your life. The author uses a combination of techniques that allow you to do internal work as well as practical magic. The techniques are solid and easy to implement and modify. If you’re looking for a manual to help you do some magic, this is a good book to read that will help you do the work.
November 19, 2021
In overall I really enjoyed this book, only the section about Black Book included too many examples which became boring. Anyway this book includes many great examples about the change and mind exercises like Corridor which is my favourite.
It isn't only about theory but practical advices can bring impact to our lives and loved ones.
Surely I'm looking forward to read more books by this author.
It isn't only about theory but practical advices can bring impact to our lives and loved ones.
Surely I'm looking forward to read more books by this author.
December 28, 2020
The best Magic book in 2020
I really enjoyed reading this book, it changed my entire view of how time and experience flow in our lives, the Aidan really now what is talking about, I really appreciate this work. Please read and make everything.Thank you Aidan
I really enjoyed reading this book, it changed my entire view of how time and experience flow in our lives, the Aidan really now what is talking about, I really appreciate this work. Please read and make everything.Thank you Aidan
April 20, 2021
A really fantastic exploration of deep, meaningful imaginative practices to improve your life, which I think would be helpful whether you practice magic or not. The author was conversational, incredibly informative, down to earth, and non-prescriptive. Highly recommend.
August 15, 2021
I’ve been looking for a book like this for years.
Aidan, through his experiential and clearly stated practices, provides a doable path to changing one’s self-image and, by so doing enriching and altering the trajectory of one’s life.
Aidan, through his experiential and clearly stated practices, provides a doable path to changing one’s self-image and, by so doing enriching and altering the trajectory of one’s life.
December 22, 2023
Magic works in practice, but not in theory.
This is the freshest, most liberating take on it I have ever encountered.
Out with the old, dusty, hierarchical takes on the topic, and just... Get awesome by doing that shit.
This is the freshest, most liberating take on it I have ever encountered.
Out with the old, dusty, hierarchical takes on the topic, and just... Get awesome by doing that shit.
Want to read
September 10, 2020I pre-ordered this book and it arrived today!! I greatly enjoyed his first book so I'm sure this will be a 5 star also. Yaaahhhhh!!!!
January 21, 2021
Read this book
Easily the best book I’ve read on ACTUAL magic in the last 20 years. This book made me glad that I’m a witch.
Easily the best book I’ve read on ACTUAL magic in the last 20 years. This book made me glad that I’m a witch.
February 14, 2021
This book outlines magical workings that are straightforward as they are compelling. It is a definitely useful resource.
April 20, 2021
A treasure trove of information and an engaging, knowledgeable author.
Highly recommend.
Highly recommend.
July 24, 2023
super interesting perspective and methods!
September 6, 2024
Excellent, I've read this twice now and will likely revisit. One of the few 'how to' magical texts that's both informed and fostered real innovation and growth in my practice. Wachter is a gift!
December 7, 2024
Seriously, good stuff.
April 15, 2025
First, let me say that I loved Six Ways and Aidan Wachter's no-nonsense writing style. He explains things plainly and encourages practioners to take what works for them and leave what doesn't. He writes like he's writing to you and you are his good friend. I like that.
And while I do like the exercises/methods he offers in Weaving Fate, I began to lose interest when he allows X to take over. I personally feel a few examples would have been plenty, but it just kind of takes over the book. Again, this is not awful, it's just a "your milage may vary" sort of thing. I'll definitely be picking up his next book and I look forward to seeing what he does next.
And while I do like the exercises/methods he offers in Weaving Fate, I began to lose interest when he allows X to take over. I personally feel a few examples would have been plenty, but it just kind of takes over the book. Again, this is not awful, it's just a "your milage may vary" sort of thing. I'll definitely be picking up his next book and I look forward to seeing what he does next.
August 4, 2023
One of those books that came to me as a culmination of multiple threads of synchronicities, one of those I knew even before I have read it, one of those that talked to me directly and contained concise tips & tricks for the ideas that already gestated in my mind.
Just perfect - for me. Your results may vary. But I still highly recommend it. And don't just read it - practice it.
Just perfect - for me. Your results may vary. But I still highly recommend it. And don't just read it - practice it.
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