Always read the spell's fine print...
Hey guys! It's been a while, I'll explain.
I watched Hocus Pocus 2 today, and what I'm about to go into has spoilers for the ending, so, only read ahead if you've seen it, or if you're like me and spoilers don't bother you.
Something in this film reminded me of something spell related that happened to me in real life.
So, toward the end of the film, Winnie starts a spell for ultimate power that requires the head of her lover, and for the caster to give up that which they love most in exchange.
She assumed that the head of a man she kissed once would be enough, but was wrong. She completed the spell, but her sisters were taken as the toll, and here is where my point starts.
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I love it when films actually say or do something that's accurate to Witchcraft because they likely don't even know they did it, and I love this ending in particular because it reminded me of a 'magickal moment,' that happened not long ago in my own life.
I'm not well.
I haven't been for a long time. I won't go into details since someone reading this might be squeamish, but long story short, I have a genetic condition that's caused me pain for years, and last year, it became too much.
I contacted doctors in order to start a series of surgeries that would hopefully take that pain away, if not, just alleviate it.
The list for surgery was chockablock though. It would be sometime next year that I would be called for the first surgery.
Naturally, I was devastated, but they told me that I would be put on an emergency contact list. If someone else cancelled their booked surgery, I'd be contacted and booked instead.
So all I could do at this point was wait, and it was horrific. I was on constant alert, knowing the call could come anytime, but probably wouldn't for the five or six months-
So I considered using magick to speed it along.
I could do it. I knew how to, and I was in so much pain that I wanted to do it, but here is the problem.
When you cast, you have to think of all of the potential affects of your spell, not just your favoured outcome.
If I had gone along with the spell, I'd have pushed the appointment forward, but it also meant that someone who's surgery is already booked would need to have their appointment cancelled, and as they were on the list for the same thing as me, the only reason they'd cancel is if they or a relative became massively unwell, to the point that they couldn't attend.
If I hadn't thought about it, I could have accidentally cursed someone to illness, and held their necessary surgery back in favour of my own.
I couldn't do it. I don't curse. That's not me. I couldn't take another person's appointment by force, and I was upset of course. This could have been the way to make my pain stop, faster.
Most think that magick is the answer to all problems, and if I hadn't thought about it, it might have been the answer to mine, but as witches, as people who alter reality, we have a duty to consider all the potential effects of a spell, and whether we feel okay with accepting the burden of those effects.
I was not okay with it, so I didn't cast, and I'll probably never forget it.
Now, most stories from real life don't have happy endings. That's just the way it is, however... I'm currently writing this from my recovery bed, post surgery.
I wanted the surgery so badly to make myself feel better, but I wasn't willing to hurt or make another ill to do it, so, I guess, I unconsciously manifested the appointment. I got the call 3 weeks later, and now I'm in recovery.
Only time will tell if I need another to fix the problem, but we're there. It's started.
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Together Forever
So it turns out that Danny is functionally immortal, his living and ghostly forms stabilizing each other every time he transforms. What this means for his human body is that he keeps reverting back to the age of his death- if he wants to grow up, to grow old, he will have to give up the other half of himself.
Danny could also stay a ghost instead, but it doesn’t feel right. It would be too much somehow in a way he can’t explain. (To be a ghost is to be tethered to your pain. He doesn’t notice it while he’s dead but the relief is real each time he comes back to life.)
Tucker reincarnates, like he has been for the past millennia. Each time he forgets his friends, and each time he’ll look into an ancient mirror and slowly start to remember.
It’s not just Tucker who comes back. His parents also return, again and again to each other. They never remember but it’s comforting nonetheless. On his third life after being Tucker Foley, it occurs to him that they might be soulmates; his continued existence not an unnatural blackmailing of the universe (like magic so often is) but just… skitching a ride.
Sam lives. She’s idealistic, a fighter, and ambitious. She dabbles in the dark arts just enough to help further her bright-eyed goals. Then, for a while she disappears. When her friends finally find her again, she has demons- both literal and metaphorical. She stops dabbling, and lets herself age. (She won’t stop fighting though, she never will.)
Sam dies. Danny protects her soul, and Tucker helps preserve her heart and mind. Her ghost is a fearsome and terrible thing, nearly a goddess in her own right. Death frees her from her living burdens, and for the first time in centuries she feels as light as she was in her youth.
Dani and Vlad are similar to Danny, but they are not perfect. They have to eat.
Vlad’s death was gradual. There is no single moment his biology returns to when he transforms, so he ages. He sustains his living body with his ghostly form, so like Spectra and Desiree he learns to draw energy from human emotions.
Dani was born half-dead. The condition Vlad discovered in himself as he begun to live longer and longer than any human has natural access to, she had from the very beginning. Dani doesn’t bother with vampirism though. She’s a Frankenstein and she’s ok with it; she gets her ecto-vitamins in the form an injection by Danny.
One day Dani will find out why she wanders, and why she traces the same paths over and over again. (Sam will tell her about ley lines, liminal spaces, and tears in the veil between worlds.) She’ll find places and events where the air itself sustains and strengthens her. Sun on a flower.
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