Description
Our Magic Moon egg borders on the enchanting; its beautiful opalescence/iridescence most resembles opaline or opalite, yet it is neither, nor has anything to do with it. Looking at the stone, you experience a spiritual glow, reminiscent of a rising moon in a cloudscape full of sparkle and color spectacles. Magic or sorcery is the supposed art of manipulating reality based on the idea that one can connect with the supernatural through rituals and incantations. One of the functions of magic was and still is to provide unusual meaning or to offer stability in an uncertain world. Practices considered magical include divination, astrology, exorcism, witchcraft, sorcery, spiritualism, and sometimes alchemy. Modern anthropological and sociological studies of magic now view these and other practices as aspects and expressions of a total worldview of a specific culture at a particular time, just as religion and science are part of a people's culture. In other words, magic is not merely a "technique": it inevitably presupposes an underlying worldview, a way of understanding and explaining everything that happens. Magic also describes a mode of rationality, a cosmology, which assumes that invisible forces can bring about changes in material reality. This article focuses primarily on Western traditions and perceptions of magic.
