SYMPATHETIC MAGIC

The girl and I always have long discussions about our future. In particular, we talk about where we want to live, our dream home and what it might look and feel like. We had a general idea of the aesthetics such as a modern-contemporary vibe with a huge front door and a vast airy space that ties in an indoor-outdoor living atmosphere. An aspirational calming space that we can work and grow in but we’ve never had a truly definitive clear vision of what our dream home would actually look like. Then, as a the gal was on a walk last week, she found it. She came home excited and said “you have to come look at this house that’s being built, I think it resembles exactly what we’ve been talking about”. We went to the lot and to my astonishment it embodied everything that I’ve had in my head but couldn’t quite mentally draw out into a full blown visual blueprint of our dream home. 

What is sympathetic magic and how might one use it with photography? The definition is this - primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought.

To some, I’m sure this sounds like a bunch of “hoopla” and “woo woo” type of imaginary nonsense; sometimes I even ask myself if it will work. But then I remember just how powerful the universe is when I call upon it. The fact that I’m sober, I no longer suffer depression, I’m extremely happy and have financially stayed stable through a worldwide pandemic is proof enough. Add that with a powerful reinforcement that I’ve finally found the person that I was always meant to find (in the midst of a nationwide lockdown) is sheer proof that the universe does in fact listen if you believe. 

Think it, envision it, stand in it, experience the sensation of having it, capture it – then let the universe take over.

-Danny