My first ritual blade was a butterfly knife I purchased at the Douglas County Gun & Knife Show, back in my junior year of high school.\u00a0 Being the particular brand of young fool that I was, I carried it everywhere, despite its tendency to slip out of my pocket at inopportune moments.\u00a0 Inevitably, I lost it: it slipped out of my pocket one day on the bus ride home.\u00a0 Some weeks later, it reappeared: tumbling out of a stack of papers that I hadn\u2019t touched in months, falling open and sticking into the ground at at my feet.<\/p>\n
A few years later, I lost another knife in similar circumstances: it fell out of my pocket as I was walking home from the coffee shop.\u00a0 Somehow, while cutting through a wide park I on the way home from work the next day, I managed to trip over the lost knife.\u00a0 Yes, I walked that route a lot \u2026 but the odds of that are still pretty slim.<\/p>\n
Monday, I lost my wallet in my night class.\u00a0 I pulled it out of my skirt pocket when I went through the drive-through for dinner and I stuffed it in the inside breast pocket of my coat.\u00a0 When I got home from class, the zipper was undone and the wallet was gone.\u00a0 I searched the apartment, called the school, emailed the professor, and ultimately cancelled my debit cards.\u00a0 This morning I found my wallet back \u2026 in the belt pouch I hadn\u2019t worn since the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you conjure it back?\u201d Aradia asked me.<\/p>\n
Not on purpose.\u00a0 I\u2019m embarrassed to admit that it never even occurred to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My first ritual blade was a butterfly knife I purchased at the Douglas County Gun & Knife Show, back in my junior year of high school.\u00a0 Being the particular brand of young fool that I was, I carried it everywhere, despite its tendency to slip out of my pocket at inopportune moments.\u00a0 Inevitably, I lost … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[149,214],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-magic","tag-pushing-the-boundaries-of-coincidence-and-chance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-26","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}