Magical Energy, the Force & Where Your Attention Goes

Today is May Fourth, which means… yes. The puns are out. Since “Yoda best,” here’s my take on the Force:

It’s not something you’re born into. It’s something you practice into. …And not everyone chooses to do that.

I’ve seen this kind of energy do things that don’t quite make sense on paper.

A quick example:

The matriarch of our tradition was once diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer.

The next day, the coven gathered. We worked a focused healing—seeing her whole, restored.

Two days later, in surgery… No cancer.

What they did find was serious—but treatable. She recovered fully.

Misdiagnosis? Magical transformation? You decide.

Here’s how I think about it:

There’s physical energy.

There’s emotional energy.

And then there’s something more subtle – magical energy (aka, “the Force”)

This is the kind that doesn’t push, It influences. It shifts how things unfold.

This is where it comes back to you. Not in theory. In practice.

Energy flows where attention goes.

If your focus is on what you don’t have, you deepen that pattern.

If your attention is on what’s present, growing, possible – you strengthen that.

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So today, in honor of May the Fourth—

Notice where your attention is going. Because that’s where your energy is flowing.

And that’s what you’re strengthening.

“The Fourth is strong with this one.” The question is:

What are you going to do with it?

James Divine