Deborah Castellano - Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want

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Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want 2017 by Deborah Castellano.

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Names: Castellano, Deborah, author.

Title: Glamour magic: the witchcraft revolution to get what you want /

Deborah Castellano.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications,

[2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017026783 (print) | LCCN 2017012906 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738752679 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738750385 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Witchcraft. | Magic. | Glamour.

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Contents

For Uncle Sock (Always)

A ll is
F air in
G lam o ur
W arfare

A re you ready to revolutionize your magical practice by learning to use
your glamour? Glamour is the perfect tool for a revolution bec-ause a revolution is started by a whisper, not a gunshot. Your glamour. Your whisper. Not into the deepest well in the forest, but into the right ear. You must tug on the heartstrings of modern-day queens and warlords who have power over you so that you can obtain whatever you desire most. This whisper could unlock windows, open doors, and slide through secret passages for your Great Work. You must be brave because you may only have one chance to ask for your most sacred wish from this powerful person. Your words will act as a straight shot of potent elixir that has been torn from your still-beating heart. It will hurt as it is ripped out of you. It will be terrifying once the whisper leaves your mouth. It risks everything. You risk everything.

Do you dare?

Your hearts desire always comes at a cost. If it were easily obtained, you would not want it so badly. There is always the dark of the dreamlike woods y ou must force yourself to walk. Here the wicked things hide and your great and small battles reside. Bits of you must be taken by your goddesses and spirits; friends will become enemies and then friends again; youll see unexpected mercy shown from harsh rivals; hollow victories and cordial defeats; lost causes will be won; sure bets will be lost; high roads and low roads must be walked. You must be willing to have your face down in the mud with everything that ever mattered to you snatched up by the impassive Moirai and then equally ready to seize opportunity when they have inexplicably begun to favor you again. You must be cunning, you must be sly, you must be willing to employ tactics that arent considered fair.

Like glamour.

What Is Glamour, Anyway?

The word glamour has two definitions:

1. What makes you exciting and interesting to others.
2. An illusionary spell.

The second definition is useless to us. It encourages dismissal from the actual community of Witches because its easy to get swept up in the Hollywood special effects aspect of it. Magic doesnt work like that , our elders scold us. And thats a wasteful use of it anyway, even if it could work like that. It is quickly dismissed as a bad sleight-of-hand trick. You could change the color of your eyes a lot faster with contacts than concentrating large swaths of your magical practice dedicated to it. And so, glamour is dismissed as a not-terribly-realistic party trick instead of an earthshaking subtle magic that utilizes what makes you exciting and interesting to others.

Its no coincidence that glamour is also associated with female beauty, especially if this beauty dares to be tarted up by cosmetics or clothing. We have been taught that women who try too hard were never actually pretty, it was just their deceptive lipstick, their Spanx full of lies, their deceitfully glittering Manolo Blahniks. The lesson has been that if anyone dares to attempt to own their power, not with sheer dominance but by embracing all that is in them that is fascinating and charming to othersif they dared to try to make themselves into something that they wanted or actually reach for their hearts desire especially by using magic, their appearance, cunning, or braverythey must be smacked down and shamed. Society relentlessly tells us that a real person of substance would never become involved in actually using glamour (definition one or two) of any kind to improve their lot in life. That sort of behavior is reserved for strippers, social climbers, those without means, drag kings and queens, people of dubious gender and sexual identity, drifters, griftersand you. Yes, you.

Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?

Witch. Occultist. Mage. Whatever word you have pressed into your own forehead and sealed in with blood, spit, or myrrh oil, we are Other. We have more in common with spies, assassins, pirates, and highwaymen than with the general modern populace. We may not live at the edge of the thick forest glen where we are given sacred offerings for our services anymore, but times change and so do we. Glamour isnt a magic of landscapes that never really existedits everything interesting and exciting about you that you already have residing inside you. If its already there, lying dormant and sleeping in the bottom of your brainpan, in the slope of your stomach, in the crook of your nethers, what cant you accomplish once you know how to use it? We are used to being denied as Other. We have become accustomed to accepting less and apologizing for everything we are that is not easily accepted (yes, even now). We apologetically ask our goddesses, spirits, and ancestors for only what we feel like we actually deserve, and then just a little less to be sure. We must never be seen by anyone ever as someone who overreached, as someone who grasped, as someone who is acquisitive. Not by our families, not by our friends, not by our communities, not even by the universe herself.