How to be a Wizard
Early this year, a little being called Wizard Frankie started to appear all over the pages of my journal.
Wizard Frankie would wander onto the page in moments of frustration and stuckness. Whenever I’d been shoving at a problem over and over without feeling it move, whenever my forehead was knitted into a focused knot of anger, whenever the situation was feeling devoid of humor or hope, all the sudden, Wizard Frankie would be there.
Wizard Frankie is me, Frankie, but a version of me that’s always connected to her creative power. She feels every moment, every feeling alongside me. She just feels them while firmly rooted in the knowledge of her toolkit, her agency, and the ongoing story of her life, the moments she has yet to live, the possibilities that are still unfolding.
Wizard Frankie teaches me that the things I experience as problems are truly just precious components in the spell that is being cast through each moment. She knows that everything is workable, every feeling is a portal, and every circumstance is an energy source that can be tapped into.
From my work with Wizard Frankie, I’ve learned that the wizard is:
Unafraid of the present
Because she knows she has tools and skills to work with anything, there is no need to resist whatever might be happening. It is safe to be accepting of and fully experiencing it all, because wherever she is, she’s never stuck.
Curious, not serious
Mistakes, experimentation, and giggling are always welcome. The greatest wizard is still a human. None of this needs to be such a big deal.
Wizard Frankie giggling mischeivously, while standing next to blue text that reads “A CORE PART OF THE WIZARD PRACTICE IS NOT TAKING EVERYTHING SO SERIOUSLY. EVEN A WIZARD IS STILL ONLY HUMAN.”
Connected to possibility
While rooted in the present, she never loses sight of the present’s potential. She loves to ask “what if”, to dream, to storytell. No matter what is happening now, it is only a small part of what could be.
Actively involved
The wizard is observant, witnessing, inquisitive, but she is not a philosopher up on the mountain, hypothesizing endlessly while remaining apart from it all. She loves to get her hands dirty, influence outcomes, work with what she notices in real time. It’s all her business.
Enamored with process
The victory of a successful spell is just a natural result of the wizard losing herself in the work of that spell. The process is a joyful, all-consuming thing. It is an end in and of itself. It doesn’t need success to be fulfilling, and because of that, it is never a failure.
My work every day is to connect to the wizard and stay molding, questioning, laughing. Wizard Frankie gives me a framework to understand and enjoy more of my current moment, without losing sight of where I’m going.
I call my practice of journaling The Wizard Method, and it truly is the brain stem and lifeblood of my whole creative world. It makes everything else work!
In just a couple of days, I will be teaching the Wizard Method to a group of over 160 curious journallers. And then, we’ll spend three weeks practicing it together, becoming enamored with process, losing ourselves in the joy of hands-on discovery.
Habitual Magic is my virtual workshop on journaling, it kicks off this Friday (August 22nd), and you’re invited to join!
The final thing Wizard Frankie has taught me is that my creativity is excited to go with me into every moment of my life. In the depths of my doubt, in the overwhelm of my anger, in the haze of my dissociation, my creative power never abandons me, never stops viewing me with gratitude and belief, never lessens her adoration for me.
And I believe fully the same is true for you. If you’d like to experience that, maybe Habitual Magic is a good place to start.
I love wizard Frankie!