Alignment Magick

Some nights I wake to find the walls breathing.

The floor whispering subbasslines, reverberating in my bones.

Tendrils of frosty night air grasping at me through the window.

Plumes of smoke twisting into sigils above my head.

The golden eyes under the bed daring me to drop the weave.

This is the terrain of inevitability. Which is neither fate or destiny, but the hum beneath everything, the song that only reveals itself when your lock matches its key. 

So pour yourself a glass of mead and lock the fuck in for forest magick time.

I. Inevitability as harmonic path (not predestination)

Think about the last time something “just worked.” A conversation that fell into place, an opportunity that showed up right when you needed it, a project that felt effortless, joyous, natural. That perfect timing of perfect circumstances.

That wasn’t good fortune. 

That was alignment. 

When your desire, readiness, and circumstance line up, the world doesn’t resist you. 

Things click because they have to. That’s what inevitability feels like in real life. Not like a script, but a door opening because you were already standing in front of it.

II. Be a willing participant (not a follower)

Every choice you make tilts your path. Not in some cosmic, abstract way. In the real, lived sense of saying yes or no, resting or pushing, speaking or staying quiet. 

Every choice is a thread into the tapestry of your life. Choose wisely.

Those choices are how you tell inevitability what shape to take. 

If you’ve ever realized, “If I hadn’t said yes to that coffee, my entire year would look different,” you’ve felt this, you’ve lived through inevitability before. Now you can’t control everything, but you can steer which expression of inevitability arrives.

III. Become steady (not scattered)

You can’t dodge the big arcs of life. You’re going to create, or love, or break, or heal, or whatever. Plenty will happen to you that’s not in your control, or your responsibility. 

But the texture of how those things arrive depends on your state. If you’re calm, steady, open, life tends to meet you that way. This path offers peace.

If you’re frantic or clutching, life tends to scrape and bruise.

The same event can have a totally different feel. You don’t change whether something happens or not. You change how the experience lands in your body.

IV. Consent (not control)

Most of us try muscling outcomes into existence with plans, deadlines, accountability. 

Which works sometimes and backfires often. You get the thing, but the thing feels wrong or slips away. Or you lose, break, or hurt yourself in the process of getting.

Some reward.

The alternative is consent: loosening your grip enough to let what fits come to you.

Like relationships, if you’ve ever forced something, you know how brittle that feels. 

When you let things unfold, the connection breathes. That’s consenting to your path.

V. You are the weave (not an island)

The biggest shift is realizing you’re not separate from what you want. 

The job, the partner… the stage… they don’t come because you chase them. 

They come when you’ve tuned yourself enough that they recognize you. If your signal is scattered, they can’t find you. If your signal is clear, they have no choice. 

The beacons of Minas Tirith are lit.

That’s coherence, which isn’t mystical. Coherence is as simple as noticing how people trust you more when you’re steady, how doors open faster when you’re grounded.

Now be warned:

This isn’t safe magic. 

Alignment Magick makes you vulnerable to the outcomes you secretly fear as much as the ones you crave. The acceptance you seek comes with equal opportunity for rejection to crash the party. 

But if you hug your fears and laugh into your tears, when what you align yourself with finally appears, what comes won’t arrive softly, gently, casually...

Expect to be tackled by a panther with a golden smile and velvet paws.

With love from the forest,

~ Alexander