Do you think you chose magic or did magic choose you? Well, it depends, I suppose, on where you start the story.

So similarly, what makes an object magical? Is it whispered grimoric incantations at the correct planetary hour? I mean, yes. Yes,

obviously it is. But what is the backstory of that knife that meant that it got into your hands

to become enchanted in the first place? Or what special

destiny did that particular hawthorn branch have to grow just at the right time for you to find it

on first light of St. John's Day. What about the tree to be exactly there?

And what about the tree that made the seed that became the tree you cut your wand from?

Who chose whom when it comes to magical objects?

And so this episode is a companion of sorts, a medium salsa

companion to one of my latest YouTube videos about self-initiation, also mostly about self-initiation,

actually. So a little reminder of the salsaalsa scale, if you're not listening to

every episode, this is how I'm bucketing my content now via a salsa metaphor. So YouTube is mild

salsa. It's like, it's quote unquote beginner content, but whenever I think about this,

I think about what Alex Homozy says, which is that advanced people never don't do the basics.

So if I call it basic, one, that's a sick burn, but two, that's more what I mean by beginner.

So it's essentials that even advanced people can look at. But nevertheless, it is a different platform to podcasts.

Podcasts, more sophisticated, more leaning in that makes you guys medium salsa.

Okay, so this is like a medium salsa companion to a mild salsa exploration of self-initiation.

And of course, the membership is spicy, is Caliente. So that's the salsa scale. It's, I think, a more fun way of like talking about content buckets. But that's

where this idea came from. And I'm really enjoying sitting with beginner thought.

Like I said, like the advanced people never don't do the basics.

It's been fun to drop down to a level of, and even saying that's not right, is it?

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