{"id":861,"date":"2012-09-04T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2012-09-04T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T12:30:00","slug":"failed-enchantment-no-scholarship-for-satyr-magos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/failed-enchantment-no-scholarship-for-satyr-magos\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed Enchantment: No Scholarship for Satyr Magos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t often enchant for concrete outcomes.  The fact is that I have most of what I want and need.  My web of influence (and social privilege) and mundane efforts keep things flowing pretty well.  Most of my enchantments are aimed at bolstering that web: my planetary talismans, my safe-travel spells, and my circles of protection.  Every once in a while, though, I do need something specific badly enough that I enchant for it: generally it works; this time it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

At the end of July I was invited to apply for a \u201cscholarship\u201d (actually a service-based work-study) program offered by my school.  I cut things pretty close last year, and part of the problem was that I couldn\u2019t get all my work-study hours, which the program would guarantee me.  In addition to about a thousand extra dollars to live on each semester, it also offered a stipend for summer work.  I wanted it badly.<\/p>\n

As one is supposed to, I did a Tarot spread about the application.  On the one hand the message was clear: yes, I should apply.  On the other hand, the actual outcome was more ambiguous.<\/p>\n

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I put in the work on both ends. I was given two weeks from the time I received the invitation to the due date. I busted ass on application, itself, and turned it in on time.   It was a damn good application essay, if I do say so myself.<\/p>\n

Aradia and I charged a sigil and fired it off with a seven-day candle.  I then sent that sigil to a few, select, close friends so that they could help charge it, too.<\/p>\n

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Then I waited.  I was supposed to hear back about my application by the 6th of August.  No word came.  I got caught up in the process of packing, and basically let it go.<\/p>\n

I got to Sunrise on the 14th of August.  Still no word had come.  So I walked up to the office and asked.  The email had been sent, they told me.  But, no: I had not been selected for the program.  The application and the spell had failed.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of variables here.  Perhaps my application was invalidated for some technical reason I can\u2019t know.  Perhaps the sigils I designed were flawed in some way.  Aradia and I raised energy for the sigils by laughter; perhaps that was not the way to go.  Perhaps passing them off for a boost was a bad idea.  Perhaps they somehow conflicted with other enchantments I have in place to assure my financial solvency.  Perhaps my mistake was as simple as failing to encode a time frame: perhaps I will be selected for the program next year, on the basis of the same application.<\/p>\n

A brief consultation with the Tarot\u2014\u201cWhy did my spell to receive the scholarship fail?\u201d\u2014produced what you see below\u2026.<\/p>\n

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\u2026. which basically comes across as pure static.  Obviously, one could interpret this as \u201cyou didn\u2019t put the work in\u201d, but \u2026. to the best of my ability to determine, I did.  And the optimist in me wants to try to spit in as, \u201cbecause something better is in the pipeline.\u201d  <\/p>\n

Thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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