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A student of mine decorates her home for abundance with every Wiccan high holy day. “To receive abundance,” she says, “I need to welcome it, so I clear out all old decorations and either pack them away or throw them out, clean the house from top to bottom, and then spend a few days before the holiday decorating my home. I especially don't like the dark days of winter, so I take extra care to brighten up the place any way I can think of. This allows me to be creative, busy, and think about new, fresh, exciting events and people surrounded by positive energy entering my life.”

Does this work? She says, “I've been happily married for over twenty-five years, and all my grown children are doing well. I have a job I love, and I haven't had any serious medical problems. Yeah, it works for me. It always works.”

When my friend Jane wants money, she buys makeup. “It all started when I was super desperate for money,” she says. “I was doing the grocery shopping on a shoestring and decided to go next door to the pharmacy. As I walked through the pharmacy, I thought that even though I felt bad that I was in a poor financial state, I wanted to look good (if that makes any sense). I'd seen an advertisement on television for a new lipstick, and I really wanted to try it, but hadn't found it at the grocers or anywhere else. I looked up and there were the lipstick and companion products right in front of my nose. I bought the lipstick and one or two other items. I tried the new products that night, and I liked them, so I threw away my old, yucky makeup. The very next day, I received a large check in the mail I hadn't been expecting. From that day on, I associated drawing money to me with buying new makeup. I know that sounds silly, but it works for me. I don't go overboard. I only buy what I need. I even understand that it works because I made the initial association. If things get tight for me at the end of the month, I look through my bathroom cabinet and determine what beauty products I'm low on or have run out of. That's how I keep the spending under control. Then, when I go shopping, I try something new in that line. I've been doing this for about nine months, and I've yet to run out of money. It always works. The mind is an incredible thing!”

In some of my other books, I've written about the road fairy and the parking lot fairy—here, I take a mythical creature (or, if you believe in the Sidhe, a real one) and petition for what I need. I always merge safely on a major highway, and I always find the parking spot I want. I simply say aloud, “Okay, road fairy, give me a nice, long, clear space of road so that I can merge onto this highway safely,” or, “Hey, parking lot fairy, I want a good space by the cart return.” In this book, we'll be using many aspects of nature as triggers for your future success.

Conversely, triggers can also spell failure. If you say, “I know that mint is a magickal correspondence for money, but when I use the plant as a trigger, it never works for me,” of course it won't—because you believe, right at the onset, that it doesn't.

For you to do:
You already have loads of successful triggers stored in your mind—actions, thoughts, affirmations, sounds, colors, habits, etc. Think about actions, thoughts, or symbols you've used lately when experiencing success. Write them down on a piece of paper. Try using these triggers again on future endeavors! In the future, when you experience great joy or super success, think about the triggers you naturally used to obtain what you desired.

Shifting with Nature

Nature isn't the only shift mechanism every human being has in his or her attraction arsenal—there are others, such as music, memory recall of happy events or feelings, art, dance, even race car driving (no kidding, my son-in-law does it)—anything that mentally and emotionally makes you feel super good! When I first learned how to do magic, I used music as my primary shifter in ritual and spellwork. As I grew to understand the vast scope of Witchcraft, revisiting its building blocks time and again, studying Hoodoo, herbal magick, and spiritism under Houngan Ray Malbrough, learning hypnosis and Reiki, delving into classical astrology, learning tai chi, etc., I realized that Mother Nature has an incredible power that moves through all my (and your) interests—and She is more than willing to share! Her power can change your life in a heartbeat, and it's right here, under your nose, all the time, day or night, rain or shine, no batteries necessary, wand included. All you have to do is state what you want and follow through. Mother Nature
is
the universe. She
is
quantum physics!

Primal Language (The Dialect of Mother Nature) Requires Changing the Way You Think

So far, I've explained that the basic idea of manifesting anything you want is to say exactly what you want, visualize it, feel good about it, and as soon as you open your eyes, think of something (anything) that makes you very happy. Then let the thought go and make the effort to release ideas, thoughts, and physical objects that may be blocking your desire. If you have been working magick for a long time, you'll be sitting there saying, “This is spellcasting 101.So what?”

In spellcasting, the primary focus is on the preparation, the focus of the spell itself, and the closure, often done in sacred space or a magick circle (which defines the field for your focus). The HedgeWitch material you will be working with uses both sacred space and the magick circle, and this is explained as you work through Sections 2 and 3 of this book. I mention this here because we tend to forget that those thoughts and conversations we have with ourselves and with others before and after any working also communicate to the universe, which can result in a mixed message as to what we really desire.

My son's situation with his car in the earlier example shows us that what you think, say, and do affects your life
all the time
. It shows us that we waste an inordinate amount of energy sending mixed messages to the universe. By complaining and being angry, he was transmitting a load of garbage that finally manifested into a broken car. To really make primal language work for you (remember, primal language is a succinct formulation of words that mirror a thought—that thought being your desire), you have to pay attention to what you are saying and doing
outside
that sacred space or magick circle.

Therefore, we must
stop
saying what we don't want. We must stop complaining. We must stop transmitting garbled information, which means we have to make a concerted effort to change the way we think, the way we speak to ourselves, and the way we converse with others if we truly wish to manifest what we desire on a continual basis. Magick doesn't just occur in circle. Magick and manifestation occur each day, every day, 24/7.

The old teachers asked us: where is the center of any circle? And our answer was to be: where the Witch is. That is the center of manifestation, inside or outside of the circle: where you are. Manifestation naturally happens all the time. How does it happen? That is entirely up to you. In the magick circle, we know to be observant and how to direct the energy with honor. But what about outside the magick circle? When you are outside of the sacred area, are you directing your thoughts in the same way as you do within sacred space? What is within is without. What is inside is outside. As above, so below.

Why use a magick circle at all? Because it succinctly defines a specific field wherein we can work in harmony with the universe. (Note: As you work through the HedgeWitch material, if you have more questions about how a magick circle works and why we use it, please refer to my book
Solitary Witch,
which provides a broad compendium of information about basic Witchcraft techniques.)

Those of us who have been working magick for a long time have learned that what we say or do within a magick circle is important, because we have defined a field of manifestation by using the circle as a boundary. When we speak to ourselves or others, this translates into symbols (or an energy stream) that the universe tries to interpret and, in turn, responds in kind to our desires. If our thoughts or conversations are muddy and unclear, how the heck is the universe supposed to know what we are saying?

We tend to believe that outside of the circle, or when we have taken the circle down, the power we wield becomes limited. This is not the case. The universe hears what we say inside or outside that circle. It is how we think that is different. The universe is as it is. It is what we believe that makes the difference to us.

The universe, remember, does not understand disclaimers, codicils, or addendums—the universe only understands nouns and verbs; that's it. If you say, “I don't want to be responsible for handling this project at work,” you are most likely going to get the darned project. The universe drops the word
don't
in the translation. Why? Because we tend to think in pictures and symbols, even though we don't realize we do. In this primal language, there isn't a symbol for the word
don't
. If I say, “I don't want to be responsible for this project at work,” what symbols am I transmitting to the universe? That's right. I have formulated the project and my work environment in my mind. The
want
word generates strong emotional content (good or bad), which magnifies the thought and often works as an attraction device, not a repelling device. So, in all your thoughts, you need to train yourself to say what you
do
want—nothing more. All of us who have worked through this material have agreed that training your mind to
not
say “I don't want” was the biggest challenge. Why is the concept of primal language confusing to some? Because we are trying to translate the spoken word (no matter our language—English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Russian, Japanese) into the universal one—that of feelings and thought symbols and energy streams. And as we all know with translation devices, miscommunication often occurs!

The universe does not speak English or French or Chinese. It speaks “universe.” The universe does not hear your words—the universe vibrates to your thoughts and feelings. That's how it communicates.

Your thoughts (not words) are vibrational symbols translated into a stream of energy. Your emotions dictate the strength of that transmission (for good or ill). Your belief determines the clarity of your transmission.

By using the primal language I recommend (nouns and verbs), you are training your mind to speak to the universe in a way it understands. When you speak a word out loud, your mind has already formulated a vibrational symbol, or stream of energy. It is that symbol or energy stream, not the word itself, that communicates to the universe. It is your emotion when saying the word, not the word itself, that quantifies the intensity of that communication to the universe. It is your clarity of belief, not the words themselves, that speaks to the universe. Words aren't for the universe, they are for us. The fewer words spoken, the stronger the message.

Which is why you can be deaf, dumb, and blind and
still
be able to communicate with the universe. There are no handicaps in the world that prevent you from this communication. You are never alone. And you have always known how to manifest anything you desire, you just didn't realize it. The reason why we often don't get what we want is because we don't really know what we want—we are confused, ourselves, as to what we really desire. By using primal language, factoring down the number of words we use and how we use them, we are helping ourselves determine precisely what it is we truly desire. Once we have honed our words to a precision thought, the world is ours!

Prove It to Yourself

Just because I wrote the above doesn't mean you have to believe it—right? So I'd like you to do an experiment for yourself. I'd like you to take one thing you complain about all the time, and I'd like you to totally rearrange your thinking on the subject. Remove words like
don't
,
not
,
hate
,
dislike
,
bugs me
,
crappy
,
irritate
, etc. Change your thinking to what you
do
want that involves this subject. Translate this into as few words as possible that still gets your point across. Every day, communicate that positive statement to the universe. And every time you think about the subject or talk about it with others, do it in a positive way—no more complaining. If you open your mouth to complain, snap it shut and say to yourself, “Always a blessing,” and change the subject. Keep doing this until the change occurs, no matter how long it takes. Don't give up, and don't give in! You'll be amazed at the consequences.

Putting It All Together

The HedgeWitch material combines the natural magick you already have within yourself (your ability to communicate your desires to the universe) and the techniques of Witchcraft (a natural platform on which to focus the mind) to create a super life-changing experience. Below, I've listed the basics of HedgeWitchery.