No words are used in this spell. The magic use of
music, the set of Kim Novak in the assertive, yang direction of her charms, the setting of candle light in the background,
the presence of the lake, and the pause-- when they
do nothing-- as a moment allowing yin receival of the gift to occur...
Here, Gillian is fully capable of attracting Shep on her own (ahem) assets, as portrayed
by Kim Novak, but Shep is about to be married in the morning so she is forced to cast a spell on him. She moves James Stewart's
assemblage point.
Functioning as a sorceress, Gillian casts her own assemblage
point in Shep; if she had time to function as enchantress, he would then more-than-willingly receptively cast her assemblage
point on himself.
Sorcery is yang (assertive), as in the wiccan pagan version
of witchcraft; Enchantment is yin (receptive), as in The Craft itself-- a field of adventure without impositon
of established beliefs upon reality.
Here she is receding from us. Her charms
are set in yin receptivity-- very unlike the above assertive, yang seduction. Here we have to go into the past to retrieve
her.
In Bell, Book and Candle, actress Kim Novak is a modern witch casting a love spell that becomes a
natural love in reality --or is falling in love always both real and magical?
"You're
walkin' along the street, or you're at a party, Or else you're alone and then you suddenly dig, You're
looking' in someone's eyes, you suddenly realize that this could be the start of something big.
These are two very different ways of approaching this matter of falling in love, and the
contemplation of its diverse ways and methods is universally recognized as philosophy.
Click picture of Fiona Horne at right to learn more about magic for spells:
(He who knows, yet knows not that he knows;
he is only sleeping, awaken him)
Starwise Society Director
and Keeper of the Keys.
Petula Clark and Bobby Darin
Somehow, somewhere, some
way ... can it continue another time?
Alan Watts thought that the fact that he came
into being at all, is so extraordinary, so incredible, that if the universe could do it one time, it could do it again ...
