{"id":1318,"date":"2014-09-20T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T04:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2014-09-20T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T04:17:50","slug":"gandalf-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/20\/gandalf-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandalf Style?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dramatic lighting is my friend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last\u00a0week’s\u00a0Sexy Pagan Friday offering is as good a place as ever to start off a little rambling about what has probably been my most significant magical practice since returning to KCMO.<\/p>\n

Most of my effort, magical and otherwise, has been devoted toward settling in: to establishing my space, and to being in the right place at the right time. \u00a0Notice all the green in that photo: my\u00a0hat, my\u00a0scarf, my pocket handkerchief, the shirt you really can’t see because I got super dramatic with the lighting, and even my fucking socks are green. \u00a0Zip back through my last few spf posts<\/a>, and you’ll find a shit ton of green in them, too.<\/p>\n

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Saturdays I dress in black. The purple tie is usually for Mondays, but I was just feeling extra fabulous last week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Taking a cue from Aradia, who did this diligently before she quit her office job back in June, I’ve been incorporating planetary colors into my clothing as much as possible. \u00a0(Wednesday is a fucking challenge: I look absurd in orange, which basically leaves me shit out of luck.) \u00a0It’s a simple, mindful thing, rather than an act of overt magic, but it’s something. \u00a0(Mondays are my favorite because purple.)<\/p>\n

This also goes back to something I’ve touched on before<\/a>: crafting a new image for\u00a0myself\u00a0as I become too old–and too committed to “professional” life–to let my freak flag fly full time. \u00a0Since then I’ve learned that I receive very different from both the mallgoers who patronize my jewelry store and the coworkers who’ve known me for six fucking years now when I wear a tie and nice shoes. \u00a0Simply put, they take me more seriously. \u00a0 (This, of course, should come as a surprise to no one.)<\/p>\n

And, I will say, it sure helps that men’s fashion has gone in some pretty awesome directions since I made this decision. \u00a0Vests are seriously back in style. \u00a0Colors and patterns are vibrant and fun. \u00a0And pocket squares!<\/p>\n

It’s difficult to gauge the efficacy\u00a0of general prosperity magic–yeah, I’m doing pretty alright, but I’m also busting my ass–but judging by the ways in which I do seem, increasingly, to be in the right place at the right time, I believe that I can call the experiment, at worst, a moderate success. \u00a0The things I want to buy are on sale and in my size, I sit down at the right table to meet close friends of the hosts of open events, people respond to my messages on OKC, the art store has a shipment of the strange craft supplies I’m after in the deep discount corner of the basement.<\/p>\n

I want to escalate this shit. \u00a0I bet I can make a talisman out of a tie or a pocket square. \u00a0Can you enchant a suit? \u00a0I’ll fucking find out! \u00a0(And you can’t tell me no one\u00a0has never tried. \u00a0The question is, did they blog about it?)<\/p>\n

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Solid character. Not a role model.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But it kinda fucks with my head. \u00a0I mean, yes, these are magical successes, in a sense, and I am having a good time with it. \u00a0But it’s all so fucking butch<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0I no longer fit my own image of a witch, or even a wizard or a sorcerer. \u00a0I mean, there’s some precedent for a magician playing the straight man… but being a magician<\/em> did some fucked up shit to my head: Aradia was preparing to stage an intervention.<\/p>\n

The realistic solution is probably to get better at code switching: taking off the work costumes as soon as I get home and putting on clothes that are more in line with my self-image; finding times and places where those clothes are more appropriate.<\/p>\n

And keep doing magic.<\/p>\n

Always do more magic.<\/p>\n

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