Mat Auryn Quotes

Sacred space is not just an external place. It is an internal place as well.

It's OK to have boundaries. You can tell someone "no" without having bad feelings toward them. You also never need to explain your boundaries once laid. A wise friend often states that "no" is a complete sentence.

Think of speech as a magickal tool, because it is.

What we do internally affects the world around us and the world around us affects our inner world. With this notion, nothing is separate, and our inner and outer worlds are intricately tied to one another.

The psychic witch lives in a state of enchantment, seeing all things as magickal and understanding that the universe is composed of endless possibilities and potential. The psychic witch sees a door where others see a wall.

Questions have the power to inspire, illuminate, stimulate, create, or destroy. If we want to take on the great mysteries and grow as individuals, witches, and psychics—we must ask questions.

Opening up to perceive and interact with subtle energies can drastically change your life; it can help you find clarity, bring peace into your life, empower yourself and others, and create effective change within our world.

Witchcraft is never cookie-cutter. Like recipes from a book, the recipes are often tailored to individual tastes as long as the general formula and steps are understood.

Witchcraft is not inherently a religion, thought it can be for some. Witchcraft is more of a spirituality, or rather how one relates to the world of spirit, and that’s going to be unique and individual for each witch.

Both psychics and witches know that the Universe is not random but instead has patterns, cycles, structure, and most of all, meaning.

When every part of ourselves is in alignment with our magick, we become our magick and it is almost impossible for that magick to not become a reality.

Psychic ability relies on a mentally relaxed state of detachment. A flower doesn’t bloom through being pried open by force; likewise, psychic receptivity cannot be achieved through strain. Psychic receptivity comes with a state of mental passivity while simultaneously staying focused and open. We open ourselves up through relaxation. We want a focused flow, not force.

If we think of our body as a building, we can choose to treat it like a haunted house with unknown aspects of ourselves roaming around freely and creating chaos, or we can treat it as a divine temple, honoring and having a personal relationship with the aspects of ourselves that dwell there.

It is my firm belief that magick can be utilized at almost any time if performed through one’s psychic faculties and willpower, as long as one has a firm understanding of the elements necessary.

The most common form of sacred space to the witch is the magick circle. The circle is a symbol of the infinite and finite. It is everything and nothing. It is the Ouroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, symbolic of the never-ending cycle of creation and destruction, birth and death, and a symbol of the cosmos without beginning or end.

Paradox is at the heart of the mysteries of witchcraft. I believe that paradox is what allows the conditions for the witch to create magick. By creating a paradox, we essentially overload the processing of reality by breaking the rules. In a way, we’re jamming the system like throwing a wrench into the cogs, where we can then enter in our own codes for when we’re done and the system and its processes of reality resume.

With any spiritual or metaphysical practice, you reap what you sow. In other words, the more time, energy, and dedication that you invest in developing and maintaining these practices, the greater your results will be.

Many philosophers and theologians have grappled with the question of whether reality is a dream, or whether we are the dreamer or the dreamed. In Hermetic philosophy, the answer is both. We are but the dreams and thoughts of the Infinite Mind, but as microcosms of the Infinite Mind, we are also the dreamers.

As all things come from and are imbued with the quintessence of Spirit, all things are holy and alive in their own right—and anything that has a physical existence contains within it a unique personality, energy, and expression of Spirit.

The witch steps into their divinity and sovereignty, and weaves their will and energy with any deity or spirit they call upon during spellcasting.

Sovereignty is also about rising in your personal power and using it to help others come into their power as well.

True personal power doesn't seek to dominate others because the empowerment of others is not viewed as a threat to one's own.

Two of the essential keys to magick that I don't see discussed nearly enough are enthusiasm and sincerity.

I have come to know witchcraft as the art of connection and relationship, and working with that connection and relationship through cause and effect to create inner and outer changes.

I have come to believe that our psychic senses are our primary senses, the senses we have as spirit beings, and our physical senses are extensions of those primary psychic senses. We come into this world and into the womb with our psychic senses fully developed; it’s only after birth, as a child develops and ages, that these psychic senses recede while our physical senses take over.

Whatever you touch will touch you back. The simplest way that I can try to explain it is that when you spend time touching the core of the earth, soaking in the stars, communing with the moon, aligning with the elements, working with the gods and spirits—it changes a person.

Magick ability and psychic perception may seem like two completely different things at first. Just as the Roman god Janus is depicted with two faces on a singular being, the psychic and magickal are two sides of one coin. At the core, they’re aspects of how we are engaging and interacting with subtle energies.

Just because something is basic or simple does not mean that it isn’t immensely powerful.

It’s important to understand that all initiations are beginnings and not endings.

The most potent, most effective magick you can indeed cast is upon yourself to awaken yourself, heal, and grow in wisdom.

Your life is your own magnum opus in the crafting. It will not be perfected overnight.

To be a quality psychic you need to be able to reach a clear state somewhere between alpha and theta without falling asleep.

Spells are from the vantage point of acting from your own place of divinity, of seeing you and the divine macrocosm as united.

The witch seeks to balance thought and action, study and practice, research and experience, understanding and application.

Centering is focusing your awareness and energy on your spiritual center at the present moment.

Magick is within and around us at all times; all it takes is the ability to acknowledge and connect with it.

When this occurs, we acknowledge that this has happened, release the thought we were caught up in, and return our minds to the point of focus.

Eventually, there comes a time when the simple accumulation of knowledge and training isn't sufficient on its own. You must begin applying all that knowledge you've gained into practice.

As we zoom out to the macrocosm, everything unifies. As we zoom in to the microcosm, everything differentiates and separates. However, on the most fundamental level of reality, we are all One; Everything.

Witchcraft can empower you to change your situation for the better. More importantly, it can change you for the better, and that transformation assists in changing the world at large through a ripple effect of influence.

Magick is the manipulation of subtle energies in a specific manner to influence a desired result. It is through altering consciousness and harnessing one’s willpower that the psychic witch can cast magick purposefully and with precision.

Intuition is the unconscious processing of sensory information in one’s environment to come to a particular conclusion. Psychic ability, on the other hand, is the processing of extrasensory perception that doesn’t rely on primary sensory information about one’s environment.

In other words, intuition is based on perceivable external environmental information, whereas psychic ability is not. The two often work synchronistically together, and by becoming more in tune with your intuition, you will become a stronger psychic as you learn to listen to yourself and notice how you perceive information. I view intuition as the Middle Self processing information from the Lower Self, and psychic ability as the Middle Self processing information from the Higher Self.

By self-transformation, I don't mean spiritually bypassing yourself or others. I mean actual, genuine growth and transformation, which is often ugly, messy, uncomfortable, and at times painful.

As a community of witches we should be mindful of those who are neurodivergent, and be aware that not all the same techniques and tactics are going to work for everyone in the same manner.

Occultists throughout time have emphasized the inner plane, the place where our inner faculties touch the astral realm. It is here that we can meet and work with spirits on a sort of middle ground and perform magick purely with our psyche.

In witchcraft, we have a term called "the Mysteries." The Mysteries are great truths that you come to actualize through experience. You can sort of intellectually understand the Mysteries to some degree but can't fully come to know them as truths until you experience them directly.

Our task as readers in the modern age is to pan through these older texts, sifting through the rubbish of problematic personal and cultural biases and ideologies of their time period and find the golden nuggets within them and what applies to us now.

With extrasensory perception, sight becomes clairvoyance, touch becomes clairtangency, taste becomes clairgustance, hearing becomes clairaudience, and smell becomes clairalience. Among the clairs, one may also have clairempathy (psychic emotional experiences), clairsentience (psychic physical sensations within the body), and claircognizance (psychic knowing).

I sincerely believe that an earnest beginner witch lighting a candle for the first time and making a simple wish with a focused will can be infinitely more powerful than a seasoned witch who is performing a complicated rite from an archaic book of magick for the same goal, if that seasoned witch is just going through the motions without sincerity.

Folk etymologies have their place in our collective psyche and are often used among magickal teachers. The word witch is often connected to the word Wicca, which is popularly passed on by elders of the Craft as meaning “to bend,” “shape,” or “wield.” While there’s not really a lot of strong evidence of this being a historical etymological definition, it’s an effective idea that gets to the heart of what witchcraft is when you strip all the different trappings and traditions away. In other words, the Craft of witchery revolves around “the ability to manipulate energy and shape it for desired outcomes.

Magick changes everyone that it touches and everyone who touches magick changes.

I have found continual unfolding of attunement and depth in the basic practices that many others may set aside as being part of their past practice as beginners.

Meditation is the foundation of all psychic ability and, in my personal opinion, all acts of magick. By investing in the practice of meditation, you are investing in your psychic and magickal ability.

One of the biggest pitfalls I find when someone begins pursuing psychic development is that they try entirely too hard. I don’t mean that they’re putting too much effort into the development itself. What I mean is they tend to try to force the unfolding of psychic ability by pushing themselves too hard with the exercises, techniques, and meditations. Psychic ability replies on a mentally relaxed state of detachment.

A flower doesn’t boom through being pried open through force, likewise, psychic receptivity cannot be achieved through strain. Psychic receptivity comes with a state of mental passivity while simultaneously staying focused and open. We open ourselves up through relaxation. We want a focused flow, not force.

The path of the witch has always been one of sovereignty. By sovereignty, I mean taking personal responsibility for yourself, your life, and your impact on the world.

I have come to believe that extrasensory perception isn’t necessarily our senses extended beyond our physical or ordinary senses—though that’s how it’s defined and an easy way to explain it. Rather, I have come to believe that our psychic senses are our primary senses, the senses we have as spirit beings, and our physical senses are extensions of those primary psychic senses. We come into this world and into the womb with our psychic senses fully developed; it’s only after birth, as a child develops and ages, that these psychic senses recede while our physical senses take over.