Do you want to get consistent results with your magical practice?Of course you do…But you can’t get consistent results when you don’t understand how magic works. And there’s nothing more frustrating then doing a magical working and not getting the result you worked for…You’re left wondering what you did wrong, or trying to figure out why the magic didn’t work, even though you did everything … though you did everything in the magick spell book.
In How to Troubleshoot Your Magic, I share my method for troubleshooting magical workings that aren’t getting the right results.
And I show you how to fix your magical workings and get the results you deserve.
This is a practical magic book that helps you understand why your magic isn’t getting you the results you want…
and shows you how to fix your magic workings so you get the results you want.
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How to Troubleshoot Your Magic: This is one Taylor Ellwood’s most powerful books on the evolution of his magickal practice and expressing it in terms of one’s real life personal desires. It covers the nature of Egregoric Magickal workings and Spellcraft that is often overlooked by other magickal books that focus primarily on abstract High Ceremonial Magick for inner transformation or Low Sympathetic Magick using material correspondences for realizing singular desires with single goals. Egregoric Magick looks at the whole systems in our daily lives from work environments to our interpersonal situations to our social and cultural systems we are born into and working magickal influence into and these systems and upon members of these systems as we become part of them or move between them. Most impressive in this book is his real life experiences and the realistic level of expectations that moves away from Hollywood preconceived Harry Potter Supernatural Magick to an achieve by one’s own will and magickal intent to flex the organizations and systems in life to favor us and allow magick to process over time. I highly recommend reading for any level magician:-another winner by the Guru of Pop Culture Magick – Taylor Ellwood. I was presented with a free copy of his manuscript to review and I’m most happy to have read it and done so and I will recommend this book to my social media followers and fellow magickal kin.
This book highlights something I love about a Taylor Ellwood’s books. It teaches a person how to coach their own magic. The questions in this book helps a magician gain self sufficiency.
This book is simple, brief and thoughtful. It is an easy read that goes deep. It’s approach is practical and it is helpful.
This book is also courageous since so many magicians don’t admit to mistakes. If they did their magic would improve. Read this book to gain self knowledge.
This book was given to me as a review copy. I was very thankful to have read it
The Anti-Llewellyn Strikes Again!
As someone who’s grown a bit tired of the Llewellyn style recipe book of spellcraft (and the inconsistent results therefrom) Taylor Ellwood’s conversational style writing is like a breath of fresh air. Nowhere in sight are the rhyming couplets that are so easy on the eye and ear, yet mostly an ineffective waste of time. No lists of ingredients to wonder over, no fancy timing with moon phases or planetary hours. Just a lot of common sense as applied to the genre of magical practice. Which, unfortunately, left me a bit in a quandry about exactly how to accomplish all the great ideas in the book.
The author assumes his readers are not only versed in magical practice; we also know what we are good at and what we’re not good at. Hinting at a technique in which tarot cards may be manipulated to achieve a different result, I’m left wondering what exactly he’s talking about and whether such a technique could work for me? I have, indeed, seen at least one tarot/psychic reader turn a reversed card upright and do the reading on a positive note … which, indeed, was ineffective.
So, what does Taylor do well, aside from taking a complete opposite stance to the copy-and-paste spell-working technique of writing? Answer: he gives a mighty pep talk. A pep talk that sounds quite a bit like a businessman or a father, of which he is both. Taylor’s concepts are that 1. if magic is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing to actually get the result you seek. 2. If you don’t get the result you sought, figure out what was not well designed into the magical working and change it, or redo the working with the new design. 3. Admit when things don’t work, but don’t just give up. Try, try, again.
Not spectacular advice; yet Taylor’s voice (as a writer) is well needed in an era of magical practice. After reading this book, I felt compelled to acquire his first book in the series, The process of Magic: How Magic Works (https://www.amazon.com/Process-Magic-Guide-How-Works/dp/1720827303). When a writer compels a reader to purchase another book, he has achieved a goal. That, if it’s magic, is the magic of business.
I received an advance review copy of this book. This review is my honest opinion regarding the material I read.
Another imminently useful foundational book from Taylor Elwood. This and Process of Magic are the top two I would recommend for a newcomer to magic. Just as valuable for those who have been practicing for years as a quick reference.
There are some real gems in this short book. I learned a few ways to troubleshoot my personal workings, particularly things related to personal development, and a different way to think about Crowley’s lust for results. The latter gave me a bit of a pause as it made me realize a few places I hold inner resistance to my goals. It pairs very nicely with Process of Magic. So, definitely read with or after that book. And I learned a new meditation, which is always nice when you know as many as I do.
This is a short bit powerful read from Taylor this time around. The idea of troubleshooting in magic is not something I am unfamiliar with, but it’s always been something I was unsure where to start with.
This book seems to be the answer to that problem. With simple steps and a wonderful set of case studies, I am very excited to put my own practice through the lense of the exercise within.
If you feel like you have read all of the information out there on a given magical subject, then you may want to consider pausing and reviewing your work. And, if you find yourself in that position, this is the book for you. I found it useful because so few books exist regarding the critical thinking aspect of the Western Esoteric Tradition, so this fills a particular niche. With his easy reading style, Taylor gives us insights and tools we can apply no matter our station on the path.