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Finding Time

Busy work schedules, family commitments, and social activities can make it challenging to find the time to prepare for and perform spells. Sometimes a short amount of time to be alone is the most difficult. If you are single and have a living area to yourself, you should have no problem. However, for the mothers and fathers who have a house full of children and animals, it is quite a different story.

Nighttime is an excellent choice. Perhaps when family members have gone to sleep, you can make the extra effort to awake at a certain hour, such as two o’clock in the morning, to conduct your spell. In the very early morning hours, the energy of the planet is lower as most people are sleeping and chaos is minimal. In fact, studies have shown that we are most psychic at approximately 4:00 A.M. for this very reason. If you tend to awaken from sleep with premonitions or intuitive thoughts in the middle of the night . . . check your clock. There is a good chance it will be around 4:00 A.M.

If arising at an early hour of the morning is not a possibility, then you may have to sacrifice some appointment during the day or evening to perform your spell. For example, if every week you get together with a special friend for lunch or go to your pottery class, you may have to sacrifice the meeting and use the time to spin your magick.

Instead of the half an hour it would take to prepare the family meal, order out or put a frozen dinner into the microwave. Your average spell takes thirty minutes to an hour, depending how elaborate you want to make it and the time you like to just sit and meditate or reflect after the spell is complete. Do not rush anything. Spinning a spell is not like rushing into a grocery store, buying groceries, and preparing the quickest meal possible just to put food in your stomach. It is a mystical, magickal, spiritual ceremony in which you may well receive a result far beyond what you ever thought possible. A blessing like this is nothing to rush.

I recently made arrangements to cast a spell with a friend of mine for the following week. Unexpectedly, he came over to my house to drop something off and asked, “While I’m here, can’t we just take ten minutes and do that spell?” He did not understand the process at all. You must slowly build up to the day of the spell. The anticipation and the preparation are all part of the process of creating what you want and bringing it to fruition.

Part of the power is the development of energy raising, which starts with the first decision about what type of spell you are going to work.

If you must, hire a baby-sitter or ask a friend to watch your pet or children for a period of time—it is worth the effort. People have taken time off from work to cast a spell.

I am not promising if you miss work, the money lost will come back through the use of a spell; but if you are serious, you will find the time. I have seen people rent motel rooms just to get away by themselves and not be disturbed. Ask a friend if you could use his or her home for an hour or so while they are shopping if you have no other choice.

You will find a way to make the time.

You may not be in a position to shut off telephones and have total silence. If this is the case, you must use the right side of the brain a bit more and utilize your creativity. As mentioned earlier in the chapter “Where to Conduct Your Spells,” if the bathroom of your house is the only place in which to be alone, that is what you must do. It is not an insult to the Universe if this is all you have to work with. Sometimes a garage, basement, or attic may be used, unless someone attempts to start looking for you, wondering what you are doing.