Magic 401: Warnings and Silence
I have notebooks of things the lwa have told me. Advice for me, recipes, clarifications of spiritual concepts, warnings. On occasion, the warning or advice is generic. Something is going to happen. We’re going to do something. Someone needs to hear this phrase. You will know who when the time comes.
The lack of clarity is deliberate. Ignorance is always protective in vodou. It always protects you from having to take care of something you cannot take care of. It also serves another purpose: it prevents you from fucking something up.
We tend, as people, to underestimate how fluid our consciousness is, and how much it changes over time. Because we underestimate that fluidity, we tend to think that whatever is going to happen, whatever we’re warned about, we will be facing it with whatever we have right now in terms of understanding. Who we think we are now is who we think will face the thing we are being warned about.
We also, because of our limitations, want that information so that we can control our response and possibly the thing we’re being warned about. We want to know, now, so we can ‘prepare’ ourselves—so that we can guide what happens with the consciousness and knowledge we have now.
The problem is, of course, trying to guide that event or yourself when whatever you’re being warned about happens will often make that event less likely to happen, or cause problems with what needs to happen, or can cause you to hurt yourself or others trying to fuck about in something you are not capable of responding as you need to.
If you have a warning from the lwa that seems generic, or no warning at all, consider that it protects you from harm. Consider that it protects others from harm. Consider that the consciousness which meets that event is not the consciousness you currently possess. Consider that the knowledge which meets that event is not the knowledge you currently possess.
And, gently, consider that you are not a dominion of the divine. They know things you cannot.
The lwa intervene in time as necessary but are not bound by it. They know what changes in your knowledge and consciousness will be necessary for you, when those changes will be made, and what conditions lead to those changes. They are active in their intervention, and active with their children. They actively notice changes to situations, as well, and are able to fluidly intervene.
Their silence is often a kindness, as is their more generic warnings.
