Help! My Manifestations Don’t Work!
5 ways to boost your intentions and enhance your magickal practice.
A few weeks ago, during the Constellation Club Coven Meeting for the Full Moon in Aquarius, we made spiritual remote controls for the third year in a row. I’ve performed a lot of manifestation rituals over the years, cookin’ up more spells than I could ever even attempt to count, but—for whatever reason—the spiritual remote controls are extra potent.
They really work.
Here’s my case study: In 2021, my first spiritual remote was directed towards opportunities within the entertainment sphere. From a glossy magazine, I randomly cut out a picture of Vin Diesel making a hand-heart (because I thought it was lol) and a dog wearing a little babushka (because I thought it was cute) and pasted both to the front of my remote, along with words and expressions like “visibility,” “on TV,” and “spotlight”. Little did I know that, a few months later, I would book the most on-camera work of my career, Vin Diesel himself would receive a copy of This Is Your Destiny, and I would actually meet that exact dog (who turned out to be a famous dog… who knew?!) backstage at the Drew Barrymore Show. TANC? TANC. (Pssst, TANC means There Are No Coincidences).
But that wasn’t a fluke—the next spiritual remote control turned out to be just as fruitful. In 2022, my remote focused on fertility. I incorporated phrases such as “this is incredible” and “unexpected” onto the remote and, if you haven’t yet read my pregnancy story, let’s just say it hit the nail on the head. Needless to say, when Leo Season rolled around this year, I was thrilled to guide our community through another round of spiritual remote controls, the 2023 edition.
So, you could only imagine my shock (and horror!) when a close friend dropped this major bomb: “My remote control doesn’t work.”
What?! How could that be!? These remote controls are everything! My Capricorn Rising immediately started trouble-shooting: Was she keeping it in her wallet or an easily accessible location? Was she turning up the volume? Were her collaged images specific enough? But, as I went through my makeshift magickal rubric, I realized that my friend was plagued by manifestations that always seemed to fall flat.
This got me thinking—could it be her? Might there be certain people who generate magick easily, while others struggle to bring their manifestations to fruition? And what about inconsistency? Even if we don’t chronically struggle with manifestation, we’ve all set intentions that simply don’t actualize. So why do manifestations feel like magick roulette? Why don’t they always work?
All of us, at some point or another, will question our magickal gifts. Honestly, that’s part of the process. And it’s a good thing! It keeps us humble, and it’s important to remember that—when it comes to actualizing our destinies—there are a lot of variables at play. Everything is nuanced and multifaceted and layered. But I genuinely believe that we’re all equally capable of generating extraordinary, powerful, life-changing magick. We all have free-will. We all have agency. We all are—whether consciously or subconsciously—shaping our realities each and every day. But there are absolutely certain things you can do, techniques you can try, and perspectives you can adopt that will strengthen your magickal skills. And that’s exactly what we’re going to explore today.
But, first, a quick refresher on how manifestation works. Manifestation is the process of moving your intentions from the astral (psychic) plane to the physical plane. The astral and physical planes are connected via infinite feedback loop, so what you do in one dimensions informs the other. It’s true that most of us are constantly setting intentions (i.e. making casual wishes, blowing out birthday candles, crossing fingers for good luck), but carving out containers specifically for manifestation—like working with the Venus cazimi or New Moon—amplifies the power of your intentions tremendously, as it emboldens them with clear directionality.
Here are 5 ways to improve your manifestation practice. Whether you feel like you’re always striking out, or struggling with erratic results, or simply want to explore some different approaches, the below guide will help you harness your power. Let’s do it.