# When Did You First SEE Magick Really Work? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [June 12, 2026, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/t/when-did-you-first-see-magick-really-work/104 "2026-06-12T07:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AquariusAura](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/user_avatar/forum.witchesgrimoire.org/aquariusaura/32/150_2.png) [@AquariusAura](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/u/AquariusAura)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/t/when-did-you-first-see-magick-really-work/104/21 "2026-07-24T13:29:19Z")
You ever have reality just stop making sense? That happened when I started working with Antojai. The 8th chakra key involves time, space, infinity, so I was testing time manipulation with a stopwatch. Suddenly an 11-minute drive was taking 5 minutes while going the speed limit. Hard to write that off as coincidence. Then one day I came home to my empty apartment and found a wrapped French chocolate sitting in the middle of the floor. Never seen the brand before, and I’m in the US. I ate it. It was fine. But that was the moment “coincidence” stopped feeling like enough of an explanation. ---
**Author:** ![SilverBroomstick](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/user_avatar/forum.witchesgrimoire.org/silverbroomstick/32/229_2.png) [@SilverBroomstick](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/u/SilverBroomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2026, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/t/when-did-you-first-see-magick-really-work/104/22 "2026-08-10T09:20:09Z")
Just wanted to add that for me it was a banishing of an old flatmate situation. I wrote the petition, burned it, and within 48 hours she announced she was moving out for completely unrelated reasons. The speed of it is what got me. ---
**Author:** ![wandering\_mage](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/user_avatar/forum.witchesgrimoire.org/wandering_mage/32/233_2.png) [@wandering\_mage](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/u/wandering_mage)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/t/when-did-you-first-see-magick-really-work/104/23 "2026-08-15T05:29:25Z")
Tried a sigil for finding a new place to live. Sketched it quickly on paper, burned it while focusing hard. Three days later a friend called with a lead that fit perfect. Felt heat in my hands when the paper went up. Nothing flashy, but it lined up too clean to ignore. ---
**Author:** ![Brigid](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/user_avatar/forum.witchesgrimoire.org/brigid/32/145_2.png) [@Brigid](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/u/Brigid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/t/when-did-you-first-see-magick-really-work/104/24 "2026-08-17T03:34:28Z")
I’m the sort of person who joked that I’d accept lightning as proof. But my big magical ‘aha’ was more like… _a whisper_. I wrote down my wish on paper, tucked it under a bay leaf on the new moon, and pretty much forgot about it. A few weeks later, that exact thing quietly happened. It wasn’t flashy at all, but it was enough to make me smile and think, ‘Okay, something real just happened.’ ---
**Author:** ![SPELLBOUND](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/user_avatar/forum.witchesgrimoire.org/spellbound/32/232_2.png) [@SPELLBOUND](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/u/SPELLBOUND)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/t/when-did-you-first-see-magick-really-work/104/25 "2026-10-17T05:18:10Z")
I keep bees and my first real ‘oh’ moment was tied to that. I had done a [simple honey jar](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/t/spellwork-success-stories/19) for a job interview I was dreading, used honey from my own hives and not only did I get the offer but the negotiation went smoother than anything I’ve ever experienced. I think there was something about using a material I had tended to, watched grow, knew the bees that made it. The link between me and the working was already there before I lit the candle. [Previous page](https://forum.witchesgrimoire.org/t/when-did-you-first-see-magick-really-work/104.md?page=1)