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Jason Miller
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February 9 - April 15, 2020
Personal relationship trumps association. If you have a long and ongoing relationship with a spirit, saint, or deity, but it is not necessarily a “wealth” being, you may be better off asking it for help than starting a new relationship with a wealth being. Many entities have more facets than we know, and can turn their special talents toward your goal.
Vodou Money Magic: The Way to Prosperity Through the Blessings of the Lwa, by Kenaz Filan (Destiny Books, February 16, 2010).
Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, & Sages: A Guide to Asking for Protection, Wealth, Happiness, and Everything Else, by Judika Illes (HarperOne, October 11, 2011).
Jupiter is not only the planet of wealth, accretion, prosperity, and wellness, but it is also the planet associated with sovereignty and the arts of kingship. When you boil it down, the goal of the financial sorcerer is to become the king of his domain, the sovereign ruler of his own financial fate.
Every time you increase your business, someone else likely suffers.
No matter what we may want, somewhere deep in the mind is a nagging thought of what we are “supposed to have” or what we “deserve.”
This is why some parents will sacrifice and save and go to extreme measures just to move out of a bad neighborhood. Even if they never got an education or a high-paying job, they know that just being raised among others who have that as an expectation will be good for their kids and will move their set point beyond what it otherwise would be.
For most of us, if we are in debt or lose a job, we work night and day to better our situation and get back to where our set point says we should be. If, however, we are making the average wage for someone in our peer group, but would like to be earning 6 or 7 figures, we tend not to work all that hard at it and leave our dreams as dreams. That is the power of the set point.
This may seem obvious to some of you, but you should spend some time mapping your set points so that you can eventually move past them.
I would like to be back to my ideal weight, but my set point is comfortable being overweight, so weight loss doesn’t get prioritized. Sad but true. At the beginning of the year I started a project to lose the weight, and I lost 25 pounds pretty quickly. That put me right at the outer rim of my set point’s field of gravity, at which point I became complacent and yielded to temptation more often, prioritized other workings, and so on, and so on.
Ever hear someone say, “She’s out of my league”? She wasn’t. He just thought she was because his set point was dictating what he thought he could and couldn’t attain.
Milarepa’s students had a set point that told them that only very special people marked at birth could attain high spiritual states. Some of us have the same attitude. It is true that we are all gifted differently and that some people have natural advantages, maybe from past lives, family lineage or a special environment, but these only get you so far.
Begin by looking back at the past—not for what you think may be the causes of your set point, but for examples of you giving in to your set point. The time you were going to buy that rental property but chickened out. The time when you were considering getting an advanced degree but backed out because it seemed like too much work. The time when you were going to go for a promotion at work but did it halfheartedly, thinking that it really did not matter all that much. Think of any situation in which you chose comfort over progress.
Role model study: When Neil Strauss wanted to become the world’s best pickup artist, he shut himself up in his house so that he could read the biographies of famous ladies’ men, watch movies of the all-time greatest leading men, listen to tapes of people who had gone where he was headed, and generally immerse himself in models from which he could draw. In our case there are numerous biographies and collections of wisdom from the financially skilled. Read a book by Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. You can and should read a few books about personal finance, but the goal here is to immerse yourself
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If you tell your poor friends that you are buying a rental property near the beach, they will tell you all the reasons that you will lose your shirt and how people never get rich from “schemes.” If you tell your rich friends that you are buying a rental property, they will ask you about whether you are using the right tax loophole, what property manager you are using, and other things to make sure that you do not lose your shirt.
When I tell friends who are overweight that I want to lose weight, they share all the times they tried and failed, and then make sure to ask me out for a burger. My changing is actually a threat to their comfort with being overweight. When I tell the same thing to healthy friends, they ask questions about my diet and make sure that I am getting good advice about nutrition and overall well-being.
Thought management: Spend time every morning projecting your success, every afternoon killing excuses, and every evening replaying the day in a better light.
Magical workings can be part of this process, but always remember: “First comes the working, then comes the work.”
You must go out and apply it…and fail. Then you must go out again and again until you succeed.
You will not have to believe you can—you will know.
A macro-enchantment is an overall spell or ritual that is done simply to get what you want—in this case, to be debt free. This is in contrast to micro-enchantment, which we will talk about shortly. Macro-enchantment is the only type of magic that most people do: one spell to achieve an end. It can take many forms; appeals to saints, gods, and other figures are popular. Invocations of the Holy Guardian Angel (HGA) or personal Genius are particularly effective in this type of work. Candle magic spells, evocations, and even mojo bags and talismans can help anchor a ritual.
lacking. You will need to constantly remind yourself to act according to your will and not your whim.
Food is another matter. If you have been eating out a lot, it’s time to eat in. If you have been eating in, but spending as much as you would eating out (or more), it’s time to learn to spend frugally. This might be a great thing for your body: an opportunity to cut out fatty foods and greasy snacks and such. Sadly, some people do the opposite to save money: Substances that pass for food on value menus at fast-food chains can seem like the most economic option, but they’re not. If you are going to solve your problems you will need to be healthy.
Do not just make the mistake of cutting everything you possibly can, though, because you will not be able to sustain it. Instead, look for the things that give significant enjoyment for relatively small amounts of money. Strangely, some books identify computers and Internet access as expenses to cut, but that just shows the age of the person writing.
DO invite people over and entertain with pot lucks and parties. DO NOT go out to dinners with friends more than once a month.
DO purchase yourself something new that you really want once a month as a treat. DO NOT buy many small things that are on sale because you are “saving money by buying it on sale.”
As for magical support for your discipline, make yourself a mojo bag for debt killing: High John for self-mastery, cinnamon for drawing money, and sassafras root or leaves for holding on to that money.
Don’t forget the Lightning Glyphs. Using the glyphs for financial discipline, reversing bad luck, and holding money can do wonders.
Most important of all, meditate. You will constantly need to force your mind to recognize the whims of the moment as distractions from your true will. Sorcery will help in your efforts, but ultimately the efforts must be your own.
Micro-enchantments can be very important at this stage, and any type of influencing magic you know can be applied against your creditors. I recommend bringing their corporate logos to your money altar and placing them under the state or picture of a great power.
You’re Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead, by Larry Winget (Gotham, December 27, 2007). Solid and simple book on digging your way out of debt.
The Simple Dollar: http://thesimpledollar.com. Blog dedicated to simple financial wisdom that most people can follow. The blog specializes in ways to save money. Some are a little extreme, but all are worth a look.
The best place is inside the front door of your home or the door to your office, facing inward. It should neither be on the ground nor too high; waist-level is perfect, as this is where most wallets are kept. Money frogs should not be kept in the kitchen or bathroom. Some people remove the coin from the frog’s mouth at night and face him outward, but I do not. Instead, I leave the coin in, and if it falls out, I treat it like an early warning of things going wrong financially. This system has proven eerily accurate throughout the years.
One of my rituals with which a lot of people have had success is the cashbox.
