Craft and Magick

There are tons of parallels between making art and making magick. Both require receptivity, process, practice, trust in one's intuition. Another similarity between the two for me has been that I had figure out both my creative process and my Craft alone. I didn't go to art school so I never learned the discipline or peaks and valleys involved in making art. Consequently for a long time, I simply gave up when a piece failed, or I felt stumped. It's taken me years to get to a point where I am making consistently and I am still a beginner in many ways. 

The same goes for my Pagan practice. I have been fortunate enough to have become part of some incredible Pagan organizations and groups, but recently, my path has become fainter and fainter. So despite all this I feel like I am just starting my journey over. 
In Paganism, the spiral is one of our sacred symbols and I sort of took it for granted. Yes, yes, life's a spiral.  Perhaps the symbol has several meanings. For me, at this moment it reminds me that we can always begin again. That starting from point A is not one time thing and linearity is over rated.

And so I have found myself thinking back to what drove me when I was younger when the Craft was new and I was an avid maker. Going to the root is not going backwards, it is a returning home.