The Magickal Act as a “Synchronistic Potential”

A magickal act from a mechanistic view is an action that has a direct, linear cause-and-effect outcome. In a magickal or synchronistic view, an action is a symbolically charged event that is planted into the fabric of reality at a moment of perfect alignment for the objective, Kairos¹. Because it’s planted in fertile ground, it doesn’t just produce one result; as it germinates, grows, and propagates, sometimes in unexpected ways.

How it works:

1. The Act Itself is a Concentrated Node of “Right Time”
   A magickal performance is not done randomly. It is meticulously timed to align with astrological cycles, lunar phases, seasons, or personal biorhythms. The magician identifies the “Kairos” for a specific intention (e.g., a time for new beginnings, for banishing, for love). The magickal machine is the event whose “qualities” are perfectly synced with that moment. This perfect alignment gives it immense potential energy.
2. The Ricochet Effect: Resonant Propagation
   Once a potential event is introduced into the timeline, it doesn’t just vanish. It acts like a stone dropped into a pond. This directly relates to the concept behind the Tarot Card Aces.

• Resonance: The machine’s symbolic energy vibrates at a specific frequency. It then begins to attract and resonate with events, people, and opportunities of a similar frequency over time. You performed a machine for “abundance”; a week later, you get an unexpected small check, then a friend offers you a valuable item they no longer need, then you stumble upon a perfect business opportunity. These aren’t the direct result of the machine in a linear sense, but are resonant echoes of the initial symbolic act.
• Unfolding in the Unconscious: The most powerful magick works through the psyche. The machine is a profound communication to your unconscious mind. Once the unconscious accepts this new “program,” it begins to work on your behalf, altering your perceptions, behaviours, and choices in subtle ways over days, months, or even years. You start to notice opportunities you would have missed, you carry yourself with more confidence, and you make different decisions. This is a long, slow ricochet that fundamentally alters the course of your life.
• Law of attraction: A magickal act creates a “meaningful acausal connection” between your inner world (the intention) and the outer world. After the machine, you experience seemingly chance events that are meaningfully related to your intent. These synchronicities are the “ricochets”—the universe’s way of echoing your symbolic action back to you in tangible forms.

3. The “Web of Time³” vs. the “Arrow of Time²”
   This view rejects a purely linear timeline, the Arrow of Time, in favour of a more interconnected, holistic one, the Web of Time. In a web, touching one strand causes vibrations across the entire structure.

The magickal performance is a deliberate, powerful pluck of a specific strand or creation of frequency. The “ricochets” are the vibrations travelling throughout the web, affecting distant and seemingly unrelated strands and future events. The effect isn’t a single bullet hitting a target; it’s a wave of influence propagating through the medium of time and consciousness.

Magickal Act. A Practical Example:

• The Event: A magickal machine performed on the Winter Solstice, a time symbolically aligned with the “return of the light” and new beginnings. The intention is to “bring a new, inspiring creative project into manifestation.”
• The Ricochet Over Time:
  • Week 1: You have a sudden, vivid dream with a powerful, creative image, unconscious activation.
  • First Month 2: You “randomly” meet someone who works in a field related to your project, synchronistic attraction.
  • Second Month 3: You find yourself with a burst of energy and clear out your old, cluttered workspace, making physical and mental space for the new, behavioural shift from the unconscious.
  • Third Month 4: An opportunity for a grant or residency that perfectly aligns with your nascent idea presents itself, a resonant event.

From the outside, these appear to be unrelated, spontaneous events. But from the magickal perspective, they are all part of the same “event-wave” initiated by the original magickal machine. The performance was the catalyst that set the entire sequence in motion, precisely because it was performed when the “times were right” for its qualities³.

In this view, the magician isn’t forcing events to happen. Instead, we are responding to the synchronistic rhythms of the world, skillfully striking a chord at just the right moment. Just as a musician, improvising within a jazz ensemble, we introduce their intention into the unfolding melody, then listen and respond as new harmonies and possibilities arise.

Magick becomes less about control, and more about artfully collaborating with the living symphony of existence.

Footnotes

¹ Kairos is qualitative. It’s the “right or opportune moment.” It’s not a measure of duration, but of a critical juncture when conditions are perfectly aligned for something to happen. This corresponds to the tarot card Aces.

² The phrase “Arrow of Time” was coined by Sir Arthur Eddington, a British astrophysicist, in his 1927 book, The Nature of the Physical World.

³ It is the universe’s way of enforcing its laws, much like gravity. It teaches respect, responsibility, and the critical importance of alignment between one’s desire, one’s action, and the greater good.