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Forty Day Magic Challenge — The Dark Night of Midway Points

Day 20: Make chaos your ally and transform doubt to faith. There are no coincidences, as you’ve learned, because everything is interconnected by hidden threads of meaning. Your task as a Mage-in-training is to make these invisible connections visible so that you can begin to operate at a level of the knowing heart instead of […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Paint a Blank Canvas

Day 19: What if your life is a canvas and you are the artist? The next 24 hours is an empty canvas called “my life” and you get to paint it with whatever magical brush strokes feel the most playful. Think of your day like this—you’ve learned a lot of tools—dream wisdom, stock-taking as spell-making, synchronicity, […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Celebrate the Near Future

Does your mind tell you celebrations are only for events that have passed? And what happens if you celebrate what has yet to happen? — We celebrate the day we were born with birthday parties, the day we got married with a same day feast and later with anniversary dinners and gifts. We celebrate the […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Enter the Synchronicity Portal

Day 17. There is a threshold between the ordinary and the non-ordinary. Let’s cross it together. You first played with synchronicity in assignment five, Harness Synchronicity, which asked you to simply set an intention in the morning for a powerful synchronicity to show up during your day—an ask and you shall receive process. Today and […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Choose Your Weapon

When adversity strikes in the guise of life’s villains you come through that soul fire tempered. You are stronger for it and you now possess powerful gifts earned in the crucible of your harrowing heroic journey. Mythologist Joseph Campbell says it simply: Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Yesterday […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Honor Your Villains

Are the bad guys in a story optional or essential? Can you imagine some of the most powerful stories without a foe? No big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. No evil Darth Vader in Star Wars or dark wizard Voldemort to oppose Harry Potter? Or even, a Jesus without a Judas? The villain […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Fairytale Your Life Story

Day 16: Story is a powerful perceptual filter. It is so potent a filter that the stories we tell ourselves about who we are become the four walls of identity. Or stories can become a way through to our own greatness. For example. I can tell the story of my life as if I am […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Question What You See

Day 12: Do you believe what you see? If you do, you are most likely in the habit of trusting your eyes to relay reliable data. But the truth is your eyes are transmitters to your brain of signals about light and color that mean little without the brain’s interpretation. (You can only imagine what […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge — Shift Your Perspective

Day 11: Perception shapes your reality. Today you are beginning what will be a repeating theme for much of the rest of this challenge — you are going to play with perception because perception shapes your reality. If a magical life of ease, flow and grace is your aim, then you will need to begin to […]

by Lori Ann Lothian

Forty Day Magic Challenge: Love Your Life Now

Day 9: The Gratitude Practice So far you have learned a few basic magic tricks (harnessing synchronicity, paying sacred attention, accessing dream wisdom, stocktaking as spell-making) and yesterday you set an inspired intention (or a soul-centric wish) for what you want to this 40 Day Challenge to support in your life. Now comes the key piece for […]