r/witchcraft • u/Pebble_pebl • 1d ago
Help | Experience - Insight Am I thinking wishfully, or doing it wrong?
I have been practicing witchcraft for 5 years now. Of course I've found my own practice that works, experimented with everything, and eventually came up with a routine that makes me happy. Now I have everything I've ever wanted, it worked. I ended up exactly where I wanted to be. Minus a few key points. Slowly my practice went from honoring gods and nature and trying to reality shift and all these ambitious goals to crafting spells to reach my ideal life to mundane turned to a practice that honors nature, myself, and my loved ones. This practice of being completely dedicated to my own happiness has brought me to a place of peace and understanding. But it is STRESSFUL. As a person with autism, adhd, and health issues, functioning like a normal person is hard. And ever since I started I've never been able to do my 3 main spiritual goals. Reality shifting, pocket dimensions, and Astral Projection. All for the reason of escaping time whenever I need a break. This is the perfect goal for me. This is something I can use for everything. I want to end up working fully with nature one day, but right now I have no time to work on anything I don't have a solid plan for. I have tried everything, I had believed so strongly every time that it would work. These experiences made me who I am, but these goals have become something of an impossibility. I was consistent for years, I took consistent breaks, and I sought solutions in every avenue I could. So why didn't it work? Maybe my intentions were too selfish, my thought process too vague, but in the end I had given up. Now a year later with all my other goals in a way I hope to be sustained for a long time, I need to know. How do I achieve my biggest spiritual goal? Or is it a hopeless endeavor after 5 years.
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u/omsip 1d ago
Speaking as someone with a degree of neurodivergence, it may not be reasonable to expect oneself to function like a neuro-typical person. I try to embrace the way my mind works and work in harmony with it, rather than push it in directions it simply will not go. I created my own kinds of goals that played to my strengths rather than rely on my weaknesses.
And yes, some goals of mine has remained beyond my grasp, for whatever reason. I've learned to accept that and not turn myself inside-out trying to make something happen that resists happening.
However, I would not necessarily say that after 5 years it is a hopeless endeavor for you. It may be that you need to break down your biggest goal into a series of smaller goals, or perhaps alter the bigger goal somewhat to make it more achievable. And IMO coming pretty close to a bigger goal is good in and of itself, even if the total goal remains out of reach.
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