I love how people talk about some kinds of magic as if they’re totally real, and other kinds as if they’re completely delusional.
Take the economy.
Apparently, we’re entering a bear market. That phrase alone sounds like it belongs in a Tarot deck or a chapter of a fantasy novel. The bear market cometh!
What it really means, according to the experts, is that things are going to shit. Prices are rising. A recession might be looming. Panic sets in.
But here’s what’s wild: the “market”—this thing we’re all told to track, worry about, and shape our lives around—isn’t even real in the way people pretend it is. It’s not a tangible object. It’s not a tree you can touch or a river you can drink from. It’s not the weather. It’s not the law of gravity.
It’s an agreement. A story. A collective spell.
The price of a stock isn’t rooted in some eternal truth—it’s a number we agree to believe in. A reflection of what a bunch of people decide it’s worth.
The market is a hallucination we’ve chosen to share. Wall Street may be a real location, but what happens there is little more than humans gathering to reinforce a collective dream—a dream that, right now, is spiraling into a nightmare for many.
And still, we treat the economy like it’s a volcano or an earthquake—something natural and inevitable—instead of what it actually is: a product of human thought, belief, and action.
That’s magic.
It’s the same process I use when I cast spells.
It’s the same process you use when you envision a new life, speak your intention, and begin to move energy in alignment with that vision.
It's the same process your ancestors used to call in rain, protection, or liberation.
Magic isn’t a fantasy. It’s not an escape from reality. It is reality—shaped and reshaped by our attention, our language, our choices, and our will.
So when people throw around the phrase magical thinking like it's an insult, as if believing in the power of energy or intention is childish or naive, I can’t help but laugh.
Because that’s literally what they’re doing every day—participating in a massive spell of collective belief and calling it “the economy.”
We speak these systems into existence. We believe them into power.
And right now, we’re watching what happens when that power is concentrated in the hands of people who have no business wielding it. I’m not here to name names (you already know), but let’s be honest: some of these folks are out here doing full-blown black magic. They’re manipulating energy, money, and fear not for the highest good of all, but for their own greedy, ego-driven ends.
And sure, that might work for a while. But it’s unsustainable. That kind of magic has consequences. That kind of spell always backfires.
The good news? We don’t have to be passive participants in their delusion. We don’t have to swallow their story. We don’t have to let them be the only ones casting spells.
We can dream up a different consensus reality. One rooted in care, reciprocity, liberation, and joy. One where people matter more than markets. Where policies are made not to protect the wealthy but to nourish the many. Where the wellbeing of the planet, the community, and your own soul is the true bottom line.
And we start building that reality the same way they built theirs: by speaking it, believing it, living it, again and again and again until it becomes real.
Here’s what that might look like in your actual life:
- When you say no to playing small—even when “times are hard,” even when the world is swirling in uncertainty, even when fear tells you to dim your light—and instead choose to speak up, take up space, or pursue the path that actually calls to your soul? You are refusing the spell of scarcity. You are practicing magic.
- When you choose generosity—whether it’s giving money, time, care, or simply attention—even when your nervous system is clenching in fear, even when the world is shouting “protect yourself first!”—you are disrupting the hoarding spell that keeps abundance out of reach. That choice is magic.
- When you catch yourself mid-scroll—heart racing, dread rising, stories of collapse swirling—and you stop, place your hand on your body, breathe, and reconnect to your own inner rhythm before the fear eats you alive? That is spell-breaking. That is sovereignty. That is magic.
- When you gather with others—not just to vent, but to vision. When you light a candle, speak a prayer, map out a plan, or offer your gifts toward something better—even something small—you are casting a collective spell of liberation. That is how worlds shift. That is how magic becomes real.
Reality is not fixed. It never was. It’s a fluid dance between belief and behavior And every day, we have the power to shape it.
So let’s stop pretending that the only real forces are the ones white men in suits point to with graphs and acronyms.
Let’s remember that magic is everywhere—especially in the moments when we choose truth over illusion, purpose over panic, and love over fear.
Our liberation starts with what we decide to believe. And I believe in you.
Courage, truth, and infinite love,
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I don’t believe in magic, but I know that it works!
Magic is not a belief system, it’s a practice that works. Don’t believe me? Come try it out. If it doesn’t work, you lose nothing. But if it does… your dream life is about to begin!
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“El poder está en la acción.”
— Maritza Schafer