wealth magic as a gateway to the mysteries

In my time as a magician I've done a lot of what's known as "success" or "results" magic - a lot of it involving money and wealth.

(Some magicians prefer cursing people; me, I've always agreed with Beyoncé that "the best revenge is your paper." Some prefer adventuring in astral realms; me, I figure there's a reason I incarnated into this one.)

And: the kicker - it's worked.

Last year I brought in over a million dollars in sales in my business after just about 4 years of building it -- not too shabby for a lady from the wrong side of the tracks in Pittsburgh.

Now some people like to knock success magic as if it's shallow, or blindly materialistic.

This isn't true, in my experience.

I've found that there's a wonderful unexpected power in setting concrete, quantitative goals for specific amounts of income and going after them with full gusto.

The power is this:

1) You can't lie to yourself about whether or not you've achieved the result

In the immortal words of Jay-Z (yes, I do have great special affection in my heart for the Carters) -- "Numbers don't lie; check the score board."

Or, Rihanna: "I get it how I live it; I live it how I get it; count the motherfuckin' digits."

If you set vague magical goals like "more self love" or "healing" you can always finangle yourself into believing that you "got the thing" through your efforts. Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. Who knows?

If you set a quantitative goal, as it's easy to do with wealth magic, you get your feedback in black and white, with no room for self-dishonesty.

2) Wealth magic compels you to confront allllllll your social conditioning head on

As the pioneer psychotherapist Carl Jung well-knew, growth in humans entails a process of individuation...

.... i.e., a coming to rely less and less on conditioned social taboos and more and more on one's own inner relationship with the divine as experienced via dreams, imagination, and intuition.

How many conditioned social taboos do you think there are around earning, spending, and accumulating money?

How many do you think you have?

I'll take a rough estimate and say we each have at least a dozen intensely conditioned social attitudes about wealth, most of which don't truly serve us or anyone else.

These taboos surround everything to do with incarnate life: consuming and being consumed, ruling and being ruled, influencing and being influenced.

These social taboos have a wide range -- from the fear of having and being "too much" to the gripping worry that there's "never enough."

Your unconscious mind is very protective. It won't let you receive a larger income, get out of debt, or leave a career that you hate if it believes doing so will threaten your social standing with your peers and thus your survival.

...So in order to grow how much income you can receive, you have to learn how to untangle your unconscious prejudices, which is no small feat, and which can take you quite a long way on the path of individuation.

3) It teaches you, at a visceral level, about the immortality of your soul and the transience of your ego

So this last one is my very favorite thing about wealth magic. It took me by surprise, as I imagine it does many people who think they're just getting into magic for a little boost with their luck.

Of course I had always heard about the immortality of the soul from everyone from my Catholic Sunday School teacher to Plato to Rumi, etc. But it wasn't until I began regularly practicing wealth magic that I began to get a visceral, concrete glimpse of this immortality for myself.

Basically, what I realized is that like all alchemy...

... deep, sustained wealth magic involves undergoing phases of death and resurrection through the inner reconciliations of opposites (pain and pleasure, good and evil, feminine and masculine, something Existential Kink meditation accomplishes quite nicely - etc.)...

... this reconciliation of opposites makes the Philosopher's Stone (the crystallized, immortal soul)...

... which then can be used to transmute nasty situations and experiences (lead, poison) into gold (value, beauty, bounty).

Now if all of what I just said there makes barely a scratch of sense, don't worry. It's a mystery.

I'm just sayin' ... wealth magic is a gateway to that mystery.

Don't knock it til you tried it.

love and villainy,
Carolyn Elliott

author of Existential Kink: unmask your shadow and embrace your power

P.S. I'm in a musical mood. Here's my two favorite Kanye songs right now Monster and Follow God - Kanye knows a thing or two about wealth magic and the unexpected spiritual results it can reap.