Magical Beingness: Thoughts for a New Year
Author’s Note: Yesterday, I caught a podcast exploring magical energy—less as abstraction, more as something we feel and act on. Around the same time, my friend Randy mentioned the December energy report from Lee Harris and his Lee Harris Energy Update for December, which spoke to how forward-focused intention now—especially when begun early, even before the turn of the year—can carry an energetic ripple into 2028, giving early imagination and aligned action extra impact. Those two moments combined to spark this writing: a belief not in shortcuts, not in magic already completed, but in the convergence of intuition, listening, creative attention, and real-world steps, carried forward by a self willing to participate honestly and share outward for the highest good.
From spark to steps, from steps to self, from self to service
Magical Thinking is most often described as believing thoughts can influence or shape our world. That instinct is not the error — it is human imagination reaching toward participation with the universe. Change in the world has never begun without a mind bold enough to picture something not yet visible, or a heart willing to feel its pull before logic knew how to describe the route.
Magic is generative.
Creation is collaborative.
Reality is participatory.
But generative imagination doesn’t complete the structure by itself. The tension isn’t about right or wrong — it is about when imagining gets mistaken for arrival instead of recognized as invitation. The real world bends not to belief alone, but to a self willing to carry belief forward through sequence, craft, and action.
The brain offers strategy.
The heart senses direction.
The self carries the crossing.
The Sequence I Finally Understood in Reverse, Then Forward
Aging lets you see your life in chapters you couldn’t read when you were writing them. When I look back now, I see something clear:
2024 and turning 60 was my year of Magical Thinking — the year I finally identified the inner needs I could no longer ignore, sensing the direction my spirit was calling me toward.
2025 became my year of Magical Doingness — not grand declarations, but dissolving old containers and rebuilding routines, workload, relationships, and daily life so the intuition of 2024 could eventually have a practical home to live through.
2026 and beyond is Magical Beingness — the intentional era where magic is no longer assumed as complete, but embodied, practiced, witnessed, and given back outward for others, for community, for connection, for the highest good.
This wasn’t a regret of imagining.
This was imagination becoming actionable long enough to become inhabitable.
The Four Practices Where I Feel Magic Most Reliably
These are not aspirations — they are the coordinates of self I keep returning to, where intuition, logic, expression, and divinity meet without canceling each other.
1. Deep Listening followed by Service
I feel Magical Beingness when I am fully listening to someone and able to see more than they are saying — hearing emotional subtext, unspoken longing, and the structure of their becoming — then reflecting it back to them with recognition, care, and clarity.
When my right brain sparks insight and my left brain organizes steps that can actually be taken to honor it, someone’s imagined world becomes a world they can start to enter. That is the part of love about my work and bringing myself to it. Magic.
2. Holding the Camera
I feel the same aliveness when I’m holding my camera and the eye and hand converge before thought fully narrates the moment. My eye finds unseen relationships, perspectives, adjacency, and spatial conversation. My hand frames it, the shutter captures it, the world reveals it back clearly. Not chasing signs from reality — greeting them inside it. Magic.
3. Writing at 5AM
Magic finds me again at dawn’s quietest hour. At 5AM, when the world is still dark and silent, I feel that generative energy at this keyboard — thoughts, intuition, and being threading together into language without trying to make it sound bigger than it is. Words arrive because silence invited them, not because thought demanded them. Magic.
4. Floating
Whether I’m actually floating in water, or suspended between trees, there is a moment where the body remembers itself before definition, surrendering into a world without edges. A devotional reset point where presence takes over from decoding and simply becomes… magic without argument, magic without proof, magic without performance. Magic.
Thought, Structure, Self, and Service — a Non-Competitive Trinity
Science touches part of what we actually mean here when it studies the brain's ability to rewire through experience, expectation, and repeated seeing:
Generative imagination influencing behavior → Self-fulfilling prophecy
Patterns and relationships perceived through intuition → Right-brain cognition
The sequencing and strategy that build bridges → Left-brain cognition
But the most important distinction is this:
Creation isn’t finished by thinking.
It is carried forward by the being.
The brain maps structure.
The heart maps meaning.
The self performs transformation using both, then serves it forward as a creative witness, a listener beneath words, a builder of bridges, a magical being giving fire back outward, not hoarding it inward.
Where I’m Walking Toward into 2028
I want to live my truest self, not as theory, but convergence:
a life aligning spirit and structure without apology
a self listening more than proving
a witness capturing, not bargaining
a creator building bridges instead of shortcuts
a magical being whose inner light is generative, practical, devotional, and shared outward for the highest and best good of the community, the cosmos, and the human intersection between them
not because magic guaranteed the arrival, but because magic invited the becoming
Imagination ignited the spark.
Action built the steps.
Beingness carries it forward.
And service becomes the final proof.
If I can live this, I can live without regrets. Happy New Year.
