Everyday magic gone wrong?

[Miwu]

There I was, sitting and blessing/cleansing my stones through candlelight/heat. I came to my raw green tourmaline piece, which has lots of little etches/lines on the outside where...things could get stuck.

What went wrong? Yup, you guessed it. I accidently dropped the stone in, effectively ending the cleansing session (I could have relit it, but that's not how I do these things) and splashing wax all over, including in the tiny crevices of the stone.

Let me tell you, wax is HARD to get out of there!!

How has your everyday/simple magic gone wrong?

[sarabethv]

Warm it up again, that will help. Perhaps the session was over and you just didn't know it? :)

[HetHert]

I've stopped letting stumbles "ruin" my adventures in magic and life. If something happens during the course of magics I start over or pickup where I left off. I feel like allowing the stumbles to stop what I'm endeavoring to accomplish tells the Universe that I'm not really willing to work past the obstacles or hurdles and I don't want to send that kind of message at all. I'm more than willing to persevere.

So to answer the question my simple/everyday magics don't go wrong... they may encounter an obstacle but I'll adapt and we'll meet at the other side.

[Miwu]

I've stopped letting stumbles "ruin" my adventures in magic and life. If something happens during the course of magics I start over or pickup where I left off. I feel like allowing the stumbles to stop what I'm endeavoring to accomplish tells the Universe that I'm not really willing to work past the obstacles or hurdles and I don't want to send that kind of message at all. I'm more than willing to persevere.

So to answer the question my simple/everyday magics don't go wrong... they may encounter an obstacle but I'll adapt and we'll meet at the other side.

That was my last stone for the night, I decided...right before I dropped it in. I had other stuff to do with the candle, but that's okay for me. I only get to light candles every so often, so I guess I should have used it more. (I live in parents house, they don't like me lighting things on fire, even if it's just a candle. :cutie:)

[Godgifu]

I usually just pour boiling water over anything that gets wax on it -- melts it right off (just don't do this in the sink too often or it can clog up the drain when the wax cools off again -- do it out in the yard or something.)

I've had magic go wrong, but little stumbles and human error don't usually get me to consider things going bad. I think my worst two accidents were both things that damaged the rug: Once, I was burning incense on a charcoal and was supposed to carry the burner around to smoke various items. At one point I tipped the burner too much and the coal fell out, right in between two pieces of furniture where I couldn't reach it, and proceeded to burn a hole in the carpet. I had to race from the room and grab some water to pour into the slot between the bed and the cabinet to extinguish it, then get around to moving the furniture to fish the coal out. (In this case I do think someone was working against me -- I had other weird things go on during that spell.) The other time I was trying to burn something in a metal bowl, and the bowl didn't seem to be getting very hot because I had my hands on it, but I guess the heat was all at the bottom. It was sitting on the carpet and ultimately melted it. I ended up having to slice out the melted piece of carpet and cut another piece from underneath the heater where no one would see, and switch the fragments out.
Another good one was this time I was doing a spell in a new candle holder I bought. The holder appeared to be made of plastic but I figured "No one would just make a candle holder out of plastic -- it's probably bakelite or silicon or something." Nope, it was plastic! -- and once the candle burned down it set the plastic holder on fire, and created a very bizarre result that filled by whole room with smoke and ash like something out of Pompeii. All of my walls turned black from the soot -- even I was blackened from the soot from just being near it. I still find messes left from that incident, more than a year ago now.

[Nightmare Wolf]

Hmmm... I had a jar break that I had a candle in once. I didn't know the candle was still lit. I was younger and less experienced, so to speak. I'm far more careful with candles, now.

I know one guy who was doing a money spell and the whole candle suddenly burst into flame. He'd anointed it with something highly inflammable without thinking about it.