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There is no greater defence against the grim, uncompromising wasteland of the late capitalist world than the unshakeable awareness that it will end and you will not.
Becoming invincible is the process of immunising yourself against the monoculture.
A skilled magician can ride a trickster to his or her life goals without having to spell out the hundreds of dreary steps in between (which will be wrong anyway). Pete Carroll puts this obliquity quite succinctly in The Octavo. Conjure then, for needs if must, but preferably for opportunity and quality of experience, but never merely for more of the same. Conjure not for wealth, but for the experiences that you would spend the wealth on if you had it. Any necessary wealth will then materialise as a side effect.53
What is important to remember is that these entities are not really your friends. Jesus may be your homeboy and mommy Gaia may love you no matter what, but the beings of the crossroads are ambivalent; they are capricious. The combination of modern service culture and the Judaeo-Christian idea of a personal creator have given rise to some fairly alarming errors in magical thinking.
divine for the pitfalls and shoal sigils to nudge for beneficial probabilistic outcomes that avoid or skirt around them.
