Traditional folklore sometimes gives witches and magical practitioners deliberately impossible tasks.
Tie the wind.
Catch the sound of a cat’s footsteps.
Braid the hair of a toad.
Carry water in a sieve.
Bring life to a dead tree.
On the surface these instructions are nonsense.
And perhaps that is precisely the point.
The ordinary mind immediately objects:
“You can’t do that.”
The magical mind asks:
“What would it mean if I could?”
The purpose is not necessarily to discover a secret method of physically tying knots into the wind.
It is to break our dependence upon ordinary ways of thinking.
Paradox becomes a tool.
Instead of immediately rejecting the impossible, we explore it.
The Solitary Pagan Witch and the Unpredictable Nature of Magick 10 The Impossible Task
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