I don't what to call this? I and "Lucy" were returning from her small acreage in the country when she got a call from a business associate who wanted to talk about a situation at the property management company where she works. The conversation centered around an employee of the operation that was a headache to both the broker and Lucy. I had heard plenty about this nit-wit and his antics in the past and I was starting to feel that the business would be happier, and certainly SHE would be, without this bone-head who was her immediate superior.
A dad can't help but want to protect his daughter. Her happiness means a lot to me. I fought temptation for a day or so having promised myself that I would never mess with the magic arts again (it can backfire), but I couldn't take it any longer - that Lucy was not being treated well by this fellow, making her life uncertain. I decided he had to go.
Not more than 10 days had transpired since our road trip, when Lucy came home with good news. The trouble-maker had been demoted and a new property manager had been installed, who made it her first order of business to inform the offending person how the operation was going to work henceforth.
Lucy says she doesn't think this person, unwilling or unable to 'take it on the chin' like that, will last through the end of the week. Hopefully he'll find satisfactory employment elsewhere!
I was dumbstruck. I told her what I had done. Bad mistake. Don't talk about your work, young magicians, it's not wise. Knowing I'd slipped, I immediately recanted what I had said, offering instead that I had merely sensed what was coming down the pike in the natural course of life.
Which brings me to my question, and I'm not the first to wonder: How often is the so-called work of the magician merely a foresight of what is inevitable, anyway? I cannot answer this. Does the magician ever really change the course when he undertakes a specific task, or is he merely sensing the future, acting on that information and then confusing a non-cause and effect, a coincidence, with his efforts?
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