From: pali151@netcom.com (Sri Palindrome.151)
Subject: Kids 'n Magick
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 15:29:41 GMT

: oracle@cml.com (MajorBBS: Nightfall) writes:
: -> I do a demonstration, where I go into an audience with a Tarot deck, and
: -> show the card to the youngest child I can find (With permission from the
: -> parent), and ask "What do you see in this picture, and what do you think
: -> it says for the lady who drew it?"  .. You'd be shocked how quickly it
: -> brings tears to the eyes of the person for whom we are doing the reading
: -> .. to the child, it's a game, and s/he has no inhibitions about playing
: -> it through.  Adults will freeze, and they cannot even describe the card
: -> at times ... if you can be like a little child, then you can read Tarot.

Elspeth Sapphire (elspeth@xocolatl.com) wrote:
: My ten year son is a much better reader than I for much the same
: reasons. 

I've seen several events that lead me to believe that magickal ability is 
something everyone is born with, and isthen "taught" out of them.  Young 
children seem to have a natural inclination toward it.

We formerly had in our working group a 3-year-old child, who was the son 
of two of the older members.  When we were setting up the space we use 
for our working, we performed a rather free-form consecration on our 
altar.  Without being coached in any way, this small boy performed a 
rather ornate ceremony before our surprised eyes, including a very 
definite incantation and a charging-breath upon the altar itself.  We 
were all pretty stunned by this behavior, and his parents gave their word 
that they hadn't coached him beforehand in what to do.  I doubt one 
*could* get a 3-year-old to memorize this sort of thing, in any case.

Christ said something about becoming as a child before one can enter the 
Kingdom.  Hmmm...

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