TROLLS AND GNOMES! – A Field Report

One of the key elements of the Strategic Sorcery approach is not to rely solely on the famous spirits in grimoires and mythic traditions, but to build relationships and establish protocols with the local beings inhabiting the area that you live. They often are exceedingly fast and effective.

Below is a field report from a student of mine who used this approach to fund a move to South America.

Notice how it was not just plopping down offerings at the edge of the wood and hoping for the best. There was communication with the spirits right from the start that effected how and where the offering would take place.

Note also, that while I normally talk about using magic to insure the effectiveness of mundane plans, sometimes the miracle result from left field does happen. In this case money appearing in the bank account. I have had this happen three times. Over the course of my life, so these things do happen, I just recommend not pinning your strategy on them.

FIELD REPORT!
Me and my friend / mentor want to travel to South America and start a new life there. She is from there and since I’m half Caribbean, I always had a strong pull towards the culture. The problem is that we don’t have enough money to start or even fly there. Also, there aren’t a lot of opportunities here at the moment for me to earn extra money.

I decided to write a petition to the Gnomes and Trolls according to Jason Miller‘s book. I asked for them to help us with a pretty big sum of money so we could start our journey without too much worries. I didn’t ask for too much but enough for tickets and in country travel and accommodation needs.

We went into the forrest at night. As soon as we walked in I had an “inside” voice asking me what we where doing there. I answered with “we are friends and we came to make a request.” Then it told me it was fine and we should not stop at the first crossroads but the second. We would know when we had arrived.

We walked and past the first crossroad. Then my friend wanted to walk straight on but I had a very strong feeling that we should go into the dark path to the left. After some hesitation on my friends part, we walked up the dark path. After a few minutes we stumbled upon another crossroad and felt that was where the offering should take place. Around us where many small shades moving and we heard some strange sounds. it all felt very friendly and we knew we found the right place.

We buried the petition and left a plate of pasta with cookies and some candy. I also poured rum around it and left the rest with the little rum bottle next to the plate. We then thanked them and went on our way back without looking back.

Today, two and a half weeks later, my friend said she had something to show me. In the past week she went to her bank to check on some things and she did some small business like selling old stuff etc.

She said some gnomes where around her the whole time and said they fulfilled our request. My friend arrived home and found a letter from the bank, stating there was a large sum of money added to her account!  Exactly the amount we asked for plus a little bit extra. The extra money was for the things she had sold. The rest had no reason to be there. My friend called the bank to check if they maybe made a mistake. They said that it all checked out and it was really her money.

So there you go. This was my first time ever to work with gnomes or trolls and I had a mixed feeling if it would work. We are perplexed this has happened so fast and we’ve decided to return tonight and leave them a little thank you. It only feels right to do so!

– Rasada Li Veiu