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How to do Elemental Magick 🔥💨💧🌱

I’ve written about how and why Magick is a cheat code to our reality.

Now I’d like to share with you a powerful technique that you can use to “push” your code, your intent, into your everyday life by conducting a magickal ritual using the Elementals.

This technique can be used for casting spells, creating power objects, alchemy, and a variety of other uses.  

First, you need a clear intent about WHY you want to use magick for something. It’s a good idea to only cast magick on yourself so you don’t infringe upon the free will of others. Write down your intent on a piece of paper or type it out so you’re super clear about your intent.  Here are some common intents that we can use in magick: 

  • Attracting something into our life (money, love, work, new house, etc.)
  • Repelling something from our life (negativity, low-frequency engagements, physical or emotional toxicity, etc.)
  • Protection (establishing healthy boundaries in our life, putting barriers around our homes, etc.) 
  • Increasing something (communication, abundance, psychic awareness, etc.)
  • Decreasing something (psychic noise, addictions, physical pain, limitations we no longer want, etc.)

Now that you have your intent, you need to gather your magickal ingredients.

You will need a physical representative of the four elements: fire 🔥 air 💨water💧 and earth 🌱. You can use a candle for fire, incense or a feather for air, a glass or bowl filled with water, and a rock or plant for earth. The fifth element, spirit, is you 🙂 you are the one that connects all the elements together.

You will also need a fifth object to represent your intent. This could be your house, a $100 bill, a piece of artwork, your house, a crystal, etc. It’s best to find an object that matches your intent symbolically.  

Next, place your elements on a table or altar surrounding your object. If you’ve chosen a larger object, like your house or car, then place the table inside of it. The elements will help “charge” the object with your intent. 

Now, you will go into an altered state or expansion of awareness. This helps us get out of our small egoic self and into our more natural state. Take a few deep breaths or do a short meditation before you start. 

You will now request the power and call in the Elementals to support you. The Elementals are the sentient spirits that animate fire, air, water, and earth elements.

While holding one of the objects that represent fire, air, water, or earth, call in that Elemental to come and assist you. To do this, simply say, “I call the Element of Water to assist me in this ritual.” Do this for all of the elements. 

Next, while holding your fifth object of intent (or touching your house or car), visualize your intent or say out loud a clear statement about what its “job” is. The job is your intent.  While holding your object, meditate, chant, pray, or do whatever to help you keep your vibrational frequency high and in an altered state. While doing this, feel the object accepting the intent that you gave it.  

When the object feels “done,” you will return the Elementals to where they came from. To do this, thank each element and tell it to leave. You can say, “Thank you Element of Air for assisting me in this ritual, now return to where you came from.” Do this for all four elements. To help symbolize this, allow the candle and incense to burn out, pour the water outside or on a plant, return the rock or feather to its normal location.  

Don’t skip this last step 🙂 keeping the Elementals around longer than intended can cause chaos in your life. 

Now your object of intent is ready for use! Put it in a location that feels the most resonant. If it’s for protection or repelling, you can leave it behind a bookshelf or in the corner of a room. If it’s something to attract or increase something, try putting it somewhere where you can see it every day. There’s no wrong or right way to go about this; it will work it’s Magick! 

Why Magick is a “cheat code” to the Matrix

Our Reality Matrix is a set of agreements. We as a collective species created these agreements, or a set of “rules,” in order to have a particular type of game on Earth.

Most games wouldn’t be any fun without rules.

I was a game designer for many years and published papers about how games are used as social and learning mechanisms. I’ve also been a huge gamer my whole life, so I know firsthand just how powerful games can be for us and our lives.

Just like in the movie The Matrix, once we see that reality is just code, programs, and rules, it really isn’t much different than a game. And like Neo in the movie, we can learn how to bend or even break these rules. These are called cheat codes in gaming terms.

Every gamer knows about cheat codes and hacks, which can be fun ways to tweak the gaming experience. During the 1990s, it was so common for video games to have cheat codes that gamers would buy magazines (this was before the Internet took off) or special game extensions (Game Genie, anyone?). Why so much fuss for something that seems so trivial and meaningless?

First, games are meaningful and powerful. And second, a lot of people go out of their way to “cheat” so they can can gain an advantage to make the game easier or simply to experience the game in a whole new way. They’re motivated to do so because of the love (or hate) of the game.

Cheat codes in themselves wouldn’t be any fun if there were no rules to a game. In fact, a game wouldn’t even be a game without rules. Imagine what the World Cup would look like if you could play with your hands, or playing Chess with only Queens. Totally changes the dynamic of the game, right?

If you’ve ever heard of card counting in Las Vegas, or inside trading in Wall Street, these are “advantage” cheats. Most of them are illegal in order to keep a fair playing ground for everyone.

Similarly, turning on god mode in Doom or jumping 0.5 times higher in Super Mario are examples of how cheats can completely change the dynamic of the game.

So the energy lines here that we should look at from a Mystical perspective are advantage, god mode, and changing the experience of the game.

Typically we play out the Game of Life through certain rules. Manifestation is one of the core rules that structure our Matrix. According to Inelia Benz, “Manifestation is an agreed co-creation.” In order to manifest something, we have to create very compelling stories that both ourselves and other people will believe and carry it out. This is because about 99% of everything we experience is brought about by other people. This also involves other Matrix rules like free will, disallowing instant manifestation, etc.

But magick is entirely different.

Magick is the cheat code to the Matrix.


Magick is cheat code because:

  1. It can break free will.
  2. It can break the rules of the Matrix.
  3. It can be used for any purpose or intent.


We can use Magick for almost any intent or purpose — for an “advantage,” “god mode,” or even “changing the experience” depending on the intent or how you look at it.

If you’ve ever studied Magick, you may have heard of the “Rule of Threes.” Basically this means that, anything you put out there from a magickal perspective, will come back at you by the power of 3 (not “times” three but “exponent” three). This is a caution to anyone doing Magick. If you’re doing dark works, it’s 100% guaranteed that doing so will open up doors to allow darkness into your life.

But the same is also true for the light and joylightlove. If you cast a spell or do Magick for high-frequency purposes, then high-frequency experiences will come back at you.

Why does this happen? Because Magick “pushes” something into reality. And when something pushes into reality, Reality pushes back.

So why is Magick allowed to happen if it’s possible to infringe upon the free will of others? Generally, free will is built into the rules of engagement of our Matrix. So what’s the deal?

Basically, we also agreed at a collective level to allow these “pushes” in reality to happen. Just like a game designer chose to put in a cheat code, we chose to put in the cheat code of Magick into the Matrix. And just like the game designer, we don’t expect everyone to use or even know about the cheat code. But those who are aware or are guided to find it, will find it.

Just like how Magick finds a way to us if we’re open to it. You wouldn’t be reading these words otherwise 🙂

So these are some of the mechanics about how Magick relates to the Matrix, and also why it’s a bit different to something like manifestation.

I would have never known about this subtle difference if it wasn’t for Inelia Benz, so I am immensely grateful for her work. Check out her book Are You A Witch? to learn more!

As always, a good rule of thumb is to only do Magick as it relates to YOU and your life. Best not to go messing with other people’s free will. That may open a door for someone or something else to mess with your free will. So don’t worry about it by simply keeping your magick to yourself 😉

The Power of Ritual

Rituals are ingrained in Human culture. If we carefully look around, we can see that magickal rituals are just about everywhere in society.

Wall Street rings the opening bell at 9:00 EST every Monday through Friday. National anthems are played prior to the start of every major sporting event (when they still happened pre-COVID!). American children “pledge allegiance” to the flag every day before school (or used to pre-COVID!). Major social events like weddings and funerals have dozens of rituals that take place within a single ceremonial event.

At a Mystical level, rituals have been used to create good luck, bring the rain, send off the dead, and signal the start of a new cosmological cycle, for tens of thousands of years.

There’s a reason why we see rituals in almost every aspect of our lives.

Rituals are everywhere because they work. They are one of the earliest and most effective forms of Magick.


Inelia Benz in her Are You A Witch? book describes a ritual as, “A series of movements, chants, invocations, thoughts and feelings, usually pre-designed to either call forth entities, a particular effect in the future, or in the mind, physical and subtle bodies. It is one of the easiest ways to bring forth Magick, both material and mental.”

If rituals didn’t work, we wouldn’t see them all over society. Even the most “logical” or “materialistic” driven endeavors are riddled with rituals. If you’ve ever talked to a successful stock broker or serious athlete about their craft, more often than not, they have a very precise and definitive ritual that they believe leads to their success. Is it logical when they describe it? Probably not. Do they believe it works? Absolutely.

And that’s the secret of the success — believing the rituals work is what makes them work. This is how magick works. We use the power of our mind and emotions to move, transmute, or influence energies.

Even science has copped on. Recent studies have also shown that “…performing rituals with the intention of producing a certain result appears to be sufficient for that result to come true.”

Rituals work because we KNOW it to be True.

Rituals have been shown to help people quit smoking, start a new workout routine, learn how to master a skill or become a world-renowned artist. Rituals can also be used to call in spirits, cast spells, and consciously manifest things into your life.

So why do they work? Well, the physical and mental movements of a ritual have an uncanny way to set our intent, focus our efforts, and help us imagine new possibilities for our reality. Basically, it helps program our bodies into bringing in certain energies through conscious intent.

As Mystics, ritual is one of our most important and effective Magickal tools.

Rituals don’t always have to be about spells or witchcraft, although they’re especially effective for that. Rituals can help us create a safe space for some of our most complicated feelings. Even the act of journaling or showing gratitude every day can become a sacred act and dramatically change our physiology and psychological well-being.

We all need sacred space or place of ritual safekeeping. A sacred space can be our kitchen table, magick altar, oratory, garden, favorite nature spot, bed, or the morning routine walking the dog.

We all have the innate right to create space of our own devising that satisfies us, supports us, and inspires us. But remember that if a ritual doesn’t resonate, then don’t do it. Simple! Always follow your inner knowing, especially if the ritual is being conducted by someone else.

 Here’s how to add a Mystic Twistsymbol of Mystic Twist to your life by creating a Magickal ritual:

  1. Consciously set your intention — what do you want to create? You need to know where you want go before you can get there, so set a personal goal or magickal spell before you do the ritual. It’s super important only to put yourself as the focus on the ritual; focusing intent (even good intentions!) onto others could infringe upon their Free Will, which doesn’t end well for you or them. Trust me on this.
  2. Plan the ritual ahead of time — don’t just “wing it” or make it up as you go along; rituals are serious business, and you don’t want to accidentally create something you don’t actually want. So set your intent, pick the objects you will use to symbolize that intent, think about what invocations or actions you’ll do as part of the ritual, consider how you’ll end the ritual, and process any fears or resistances before you start. It’s a good idea to write this out ahead of time so you can reference it along the way. Think of it as following a recipe in a cookbook or writing an algorithm!
  3. Use objects for the ritual that symbolize your intent — if you want to remove a negative energy from your life, write that thought or feeling on a piece of paper. If you want to grow or enhance something in your life, use an object that you can see every day so you’ll be reminded of that intent daily. It could be a crystal, sticky note, necklace, wall painting, anything.
  4. Plan your ritual actions to fuel your intent — use movements, words, chants, music, or other physical actions that helps you to allow Superconsciousness (your Higher Self) to flow through you. For example, if you wrote a negative word on a piece of paper, consider burning it (following fire safety procedures!) to symbolize that issue is being removed from your life and being released. If you want to use a crystal to help remind you to stay in high-frequency, consider putting the crystal near your heart and visualizing Source light going through you and into the crystal. Ritual actions that symbolize your chosen intent work best.
  5. Daydream and feel the experience of your intent as being real — During the ritual, KNOW that the outcome of the ritual will become true. Our consciousness affects reality at a quantum level, so “make-believe” and daydreaming is the beginning to believing it. The more “real” it feels, the more powerful the invocation.
  6. End the ritual — create a signal of “closure” that the ritual is complete. This could be done by a simple gesture, removing your objects from the space, or even saying “thank you.” It doesn’t have to be long or dramatic, just acknowledge somehow that you know the work is done.

Remember that rituals are just a tool. You are the one who makes the change and magick happen. It’s not the ritual itself that is powerful, it is you as Spirit that makes the ritual power-ful.

It’s also important to realize that rituals gain power when more people join in the intent. Think of the “Hail Mary” or “Glory Be” prayers; billions of Catholics over millennia have spoken and felt into these words, fueling the power and influence of the ritual over themselves and the planet. It’s much more difficult to dismantle a ritual when large groups are engaged in the opposite intent.

Yet rituals can still be powerful if we do it alone or by ourselves, so don’t let that stop you if you don’t have a ritual buddy. But if we really want to create some powerful change in our personal lives or on our collective reality on the planet, the rituals become much more effective if many peoples join the same intent. This is why global meditations at the same time are so powerful and measurable. Even just adding one more person to your ritual enhances the effect big time, assuming they believe and feel the intent behind the ritual, of course 😉 But remember to respect the Free Will of others, so if they don’t want to do it, don’t force it.

Rituals are an innate part of what it means to be Human. So let’s use the power of rituals and “make-believe” to help us believe that our dreams can become reality.