Financial Sorcery: Magical Strategies to Create Real and Lasting Wealth

by Jason Miller

Yet another popular spell (one that is at the center of my own financial altar) is the petition and lodestone spell. I actually like to do this petition on New Year’s Day, but any day will do. To perform this spell, write out your financial wishes in a letter to the gods. Be specific about things that you would like to work on throughout the next year, and opportunities that you would like to open up. Write it all down and then fold it up and place it on a metal plate—preferably tin, the metal of Jupiter. If you want to decorate the petition with sigils and oils, feel free to do so.

The effectiveness of simple prayer on a daily basis must also not be overlooked.

Your checking account is your mercurial extension of financial magic—it’s where the action happens. Whether or not you literally invoke Mercury or another power to help oversee the account is up to you.

Remember, this is Mercury—movement is key!

Your savings account is first and foremost where you need to park about three months of living expenses in case of emergency. It is also where you want to put money you are saving for special purposes such as vacations, down payments, and large-ticket items that you are going to purchase within a few months to a few years from now.

Whereas your checking account is Mercurial, your savings account is Jupiterian, and can be enchanted as such. Remember, this is not a single spell. It is a long-term working.

But you are a sorcerer. A sorcerer can make opportunities out of lack of opportunity.

Step 1: Macro-Enchantment Macro-enchantment, as I have previously explained, is the large, overseeing operation you do to guide the overall project. So start out by doing a ritual aimed simply at finding work that is appropriate for you, brings in the money you need, and does not conflict with your spiritual/magical efforts.

According to CollegeRecruiter.com, 80 percent of job openings are not listed anywhere at all and are instead filled by personal referral.

today’s job seekers need to re-edit or even rewrite their resumes to reflect exactly what the ad or contact says the company is looking for. The resume should literally be a mirror of what the company is asking for in the advert.

They don’t know that a/r means accounts receivable. All they know is that your resume doesn’t say what the ad does, and that the others do.

Think of your resume as your Mercurial talisman—it transmits information and tells them that you are qualified for the job.

Your cover letter, then, is your Venus talisman—it tells them why they will fall in love with you when they meet you.

First and foremost is a ritual reading of your resume and cover letter to charge the words themselves. You can call forth a spirit or even group of spirits and read it to them, asking them to empower your words and affect the minds of those that read them. Angels, incidentally, are ideal for this—they are messengers, after all.

charge a master copy on your altar that you dress with all the incense, oils, and crazy sparkly sigils that you want, the idea being that what you do to that master copy affects all other copies, electronic and otherwise. If you can get links to the person you know will be reading the resume, you can create a honey jar or do some other type of working on your altar using the sweetening glyph.

Remember when I said only 40 percent of applicants send a cover letter? Well, according to the York Technical Institute only 4 percent of applicants send thank-you letters after interviews! If your interview was over the phone, an e-mail thank you is acceptable, but if they took the time to meet with you in person, you should drag your butt to the post office and mail the interviewer a proper thank-you card.

In the first case I would recommend a simple honey jar. Take an extra business card from your interviewer and place it in a jar with your own card or a piece of paper with your name on it. Fill the jar with honey, molasses, sugar, and some licorice root and cinnamon sticks. Invoke whatever powers you like of a benevolent Venusian nature to sweeten the relations between you and the people hiring so that they look kindly on your suggestions and don’t hold any missteps against you.

Everything from your weight, style of dress, gender, and race to personal connections and other factors that have no direct bearing on performance can carry just as much weight as your work performance itself.

Networking and selling yourself can go a long way, and as I already mentioned, the world is not fair. Many people would like to unfairly give the promotion to the guy they like and feel a connection with rather than the guy that has the master’s degree who acts like jerk.

You make it known that you want to get promoted and what position you are seeking. It helps sometimes to make a statement not just detailing that you want the position, but also what you plan to do in said position and how you intend to use your newfound power and wealth.

If you look at the powers of Mercury in Chapter 4, or at some of the Lightning Glyphs, you should have no problem thinking of spells and techniques that will spread your good name like wildfire.

People wrote comments insisting that only their work should matter, not their appearance. Unfortunately, because the volume of the inner life of magically oriented people is as loud as or louder than our outer lives, we sometimes get lost in ideas of how things should be rather than dealing with how they actually are. I don’t care if there is no dress code at your job at all; you may think you are not being judged by how you dress, but you are.

Senior-level people think in terms of what is best for the department and the company and the customers. Start thinking like a shareholder. It’s not about you vs. them. You are them. Use the skills you developed in meditation to cut through distraction, and cut through the “disgruntled wage slave” mindset.

The goal here is to see if you can get people to think that you have already made the step you are looking to make.

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Timing is everything when it comes to promotion. I am not talking about planetary days and hours here, though that can be a factor. I am talking about the timing within the corporation. I am talking about it being the right time to make a pitch for your promotion.

when the danger is not a magical one. They confuse and befuddle your opponents to a degree that they either forget about you or their work backfires. I must stress that you should always do a divination to get an idea of what your results will be.

When people start their own business they are motivated by two things: passion and money. Although both of these are important, I think it is key to know which of these two is your primary motivator.

The biggest danger you face is taking something you love as a hobby and ruining it by turning it into a career.

The next biggest danger, and the reason that many passion-based businesses fail, is letting passion blind you to the flaws of your business model.

You may want to open an occult store with all your heart and soul, but unless you have one hell of an angle, it will fail. It’s almost a guarantee.

The last really big danger is confusing love of product with love of the business of that product.

The biggest problem people have getting a business started is generating an idea in the first place. This is a huge advantage of being a sorcerer. When searching for an idea for a product, I first make sure that I am meditating regularly. Then I very simply perform an invocation to draw an idea to me.

It is hard to distinguish yourself as an astrologer; there are just too many of them marketing to the New Age crowd for someone to be noticed without an angle. But an ad by an astrologer in a horticulture magazine would garner more attention. Astrology can be applied to almost any pursuit, but specializing helps you stand out. Spells for Investors. Yoga for Surfers. Reiki for Runners. You get the idea.

Astrology can be applied to almost any pursuit, but specializing helps you stand out. Spells for Investors. Yoga for Surfers. Reiki for Runners. You get the idea.

It just has to be marketable and profitable. You need to know specifically who you will be marketing it to.4 This group should have four factors: 1. It should be narrowly focused so that you can market to them. 2. It should have the desire for the service or product you provide. 3. Its members should have an ability to pay. 4. Ideally, you should be a member of the target group yourself. If any two of these four factors are missing, it’s probably not a good idea.

Apart from the money and time suck, have you ever had a friend try to sell you on one of these? It’s creepy. Their eyes glass over and they start repeating the script they were taught verbatim. They always refuse to mention the name of the company up front, and their pitch sounds defensive before you even get to ask them about it. Is that how you want to be? Besides, turning all your friendships and personal relationships into customer service relationships is a good way to lose all your friends.

When I get involved in a venture I look for three factors: 1. Can I test it cheaply? 2. Does it have low overhead? 3. Will it generate enough profit to be worth my time?

Don’t think of yourself as an alternative to the Internet. Even if you set up shop in a physical store, you need Internet marketing and presence.

One of the qualities of the spirit of money is that money is linked to time. If you run your own business, especially one that’s in addition to a day job, you will learn how vital it is to be aware of this relationship between time and money. When you are the business, it can occupy your thoughts every second of every day.

Emergency magic is the type of money magic most people are used to. In fact, it is the only type of practical magic most people do at all; all one’s energy gets devoted to everyday pursuits until something goes wrong—at which point the wands come out. In fact, there are a lot of people who claim that practical magic should only ever be used when all mundane methods fail. As you know by now, I completely and utterly disagree with that position. Strategic sorcery is best performed ahead of time and according to a plan, so that problems don’t occur or at least get fixed before they get out of hand.

Sometimes what seems like an emergency is actually the universe opening up an opportunity that you might close with your magic. By being proactive with magic, the sorceress knows whether these little glitches might support her overall life plan.

Lightning Glyphs You will remember that the first of Jupiter’s Lightning Glyphs is a simple money-drawing sigil that can be used in a multitude of spells. I like to draw it out in money-drawing powder and write the figure representing the amount of cash I need in the circle on the sigil. I make sure that as I draw the sigil, I draw all lines from the outside in toward the circle. I usually pray to Jupiter for seven nights and then take the powder and the written amount and carry it in a bag until I receive it.

There are a lot of ways to work with a petition, but the simplest is to place them on an altar and set a symbolic object on them. For short-term petitions, this is often a seven-day candle dressed with the appropriate oil. For longer-term petitions you can set a large lodestone or statue of a deity on top of it.

There are times when the emergency is not just about needing a sum of money; it’s having no idea what to do next. At times like these I use a key spell to unlock a new opportunity. I take a skeleton key and touch it to seven doors: a bank, a courthouse, a church, a store, a hospital, a business, and my home. I will also sometimes wrap cord that has been soaking in a specific condition oil such as Road Opener or Wealthy Way oil around the key.

Money-Drawing, Money-Holding: Put it in your wallet. Promotion, Sweetening, Dominating: Pin it inside your tie or under your shirt behind your tie. Protection from Law, Reversing Bad Luck, Legal Matters: Pin it on the inside of your jacket. Wear it like a shield. Intelligence-Gathering, Pure Luck: Place it on the inside of your hat so that it is on your head. If you don’t wear a hat, place it inside your collar.

Speech Cord. This is a very simple piece of magic that requires nothing but a string. First cleanse the string with saltwater or whiskey to remove any previous patterning. Then take the string somewhere that you will be in earshot of the target, but not seen, such as in another cubicle at work or in another room at home. Tie a knot loosely in the string, but do not pull it tight yet. Call the target’s name, and the exact moment he or she answers, pull the knot tight! Do this until there are 10 knots in the string, and then once more to seal the loop with the 11th and final knot. You will be a bit conspicuous, not to mention annoying, if you try to get all 11 knots in one day, so break it up over several days. Once you have your ladder of 11 knots you can use it as a rosary to control the person’s speech. You can count the knots like beads as you chant a desire such as “Speak no ill of me.” You can also take the cord and place it in jar of honey and sugar to sweeten the person’s speech about you, or place it in a freezer to freeze his or her speech entirely. 2. Tongue Spells. If you want to kick it up a notch you can purchase a beef tongue from a butcher, cut it open, and place links to your target inside. Sew it up with black cord and wrap it up in dark cloth with Saturn symbols on it. Freeze it, sweeten it, or burn it for the desired effect upon the speech of the target. I have one student who ate the tongue after the spell and claimed to be able to get the target to agre...

Turking: Some companies are so automated that they pay people online to perform the few tasks that cannot be turned over to a machine. The name Turking comes from the 18th-century chess-playing automaton that was later revealed not to be a machine at all, but a chess master hidden inside a contraption that made it look like a machine. It does not pay much, but you can go to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Website, https://www.mturk.com/mturk/we/rome, and see the thousands of Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) that are available and what they pay.

Compound interest is magic. It’s beautiful magic. If you are in your early 20s I urge you strongly to scrape a few bucks together to invest.

Let’s take the example of $2,000 invested in an index fund when you are 20 years old, which is then left on its own in a fund that compounds once per year. You do not contribute anything else but that original $2,000. Let’s take a look. 1st year—age 21: As I said, at 8 percent interest, you wind up with $2,160. 2nd year—age 22: Your $2,160 earns interest and becomes $2,332. 5th year—age 25: In five years you have $2,938.66; you made $938.66 for doing nothing but leaving $2,000 to sit for five years. That is almost half of your principal. But wait, it gets better! 10th year—age 30: In 10 years at age 30 you will have $4,317.85. You made $2,317.85 by letting $2,000 sit untouched. Talk about easy money. 20th year—age 40: In another 10 years at age 40 you will have $9,321.31. You made more than seven grand for not doing a damn thing but leaving money to sit in an account! But wait, what if you wait the full 45 years until you retire at 65? 45th year—age 65: You now have $63,840.90!