We might be on the verge of having no jobs because AI does them all.
There might be food shortages.
Fuel shortages.
Economic collapse.
Money itself might disappear and we’ll all be trading potatoes and compute tokens by 2028.
Or none of this might happen.
Who cares?
We’ll deal with it when it does.
Right now most of us still need money.
So let’s get some.
Preferably vast quantities of filthy lucre.
Failing that, enough to make life slightly more comfortable and pay your next Netflix subscription.
We’re going to use magick.
Obviously.
FIRST, BUILD SOMEWHERE FOR THE MONEY TO LAND
This is where money magick frequently becomes ridiculous.
You can’t sit in a darkened room, burn incense for three hours and then complain that the universe hasn’t deposited £50,000 in an Amazon parcel outside your back door.
Conveniently dispatched by Jeff Bezos.
Money needs channels.
If you have a job, you already have one.
More money could arrive through promotion, overtime, a bonus, a better position or a tax rebate.
Good luck with that last one.
If you have a side gig, that’s another channel.
If you run a business, even better. You already possess a functioning money-drawing machine.
More customers.
Larger orders.
Unexpected referrals.
A new product taking off.
An old customer returning.
Somebody proposing a deal you hadn’t considered.
These are all perfectly plausible routes through which additional money can enter your life.
If you currently have no channels, create some.
Sell something.
Freelance.
Offer a service.
Put something on eBay.
Write.
Make things.
Start a tiny business.
Or open an OnlyFans account.
Whatever works.
The point is simple:
Give probability somewhere to move.
Then we’ll apply magick to it.
Because frankly you’re missing a trick if you don’t.
And even if the magick does absolutely nothing supernatural, it makes the tedious grind of the money hunt considerably more entertaining.
WE’RE GOING TO JUPITER
Our destination is Jupiter.
Unfortunately, even the best spacecraft we’ve currently got are basically Model T Fords when you’re talking about planetary travel.
So we’re not going there.
We’re bringing Jupiter here.
More precisely, we’re going to invoke the Jupitarian godform.
This is an old idea in ceremonial magick.
Rather than asking a god, spirit or archetype to do something for you, you temporarily identify yourself with it.
You let it overshadow you.
You adopt its characteristics.
For our purposes, Jupiter is ideal.
Expansion.
Authority.
Opportunity.
Prosperity.
Confidence.
Generosity.
Success.
The Roman Jupiter is the kingly sky god — associated with sovereignty, thunder and the ordering power of the heavens.
Astrologically, Jupiter became associated with expansion, abundance, good fortune and opportunity.
And psychologically?
We can call it an archetype.
Jung would at least give us permission to play in that territory.
But let’s not become too respectable.
We’re invoking a god.
BUILD YOUR JUPITER
Do some research first.
Not three months.
Half an hour will do.
Read about the Roman Jupiter.
Look at images.
Read a little about the astrological associations of the planet.
Find out what colours, metals, scents, symbols and other correspondences have traditionally become associated with Jupiter.
Then assemble some props.
Cheap ones.
We’re doing magick, not redecorating Buckingham Palace.
A candle.
Some incense.
A picture.
Perhaps the planetary symbol of Jupiter drawn onto a piece of card.
Maybe something that you associate with prosperity and expansion.
Don’t become obsessed with whether you’ve purchased the historically correct incense from a man called Merlin on Etsy.
The purpose of all this stuff is to load the imagination.
You’re constructing Jupiter in your mind.
That’s the technology.
BOOT.VOID
Now sit down.
Switch the phone off.
Get comfortable.
Close your eyes.
Enter boot.void.
If cybernetic metaphors aren’t your thing, call it still-mind meditation.
Reduce the internal commentary.
Let the body become quiet.
Don’t worry if thoughts continue appearing.
You’re not trying to become an enlightened Himalayan master.
You’re simply creating enough internal silence to run the experiment.
Sit there for a few minutes.
Then look upward.
In imagination.
We’re going into space.
BRING DOWN JUPITER
See darkness.
Stars.
Then the enormous planet Jupiter appears.
Don’t worry about astronomical accuracy.
This is imaginal space.
See its bands.
Its storms.
The Great Red Spot.
Its extraordinary scale.
Let Jupiter occupy your entire internal field of vision.
Now something changes.
The planet begins to transform.
It becomes Jupiter the god.
You don’t need a perfectly rendered Hollywood deity.
Let your imagination provide whatever it provides.
A gigantic figure.
A face.
Lightning.
A presence.
Perhaps nothing visual happens and you simply feel something enormous looming in imaginal space.
Good enough.
Now bring Jupiter towards Earth.
Closer.
Closer.
Through the darkness.
Towards the atmosphere.
Down through the clouds.
Across your country.
Towards your town.
Towards your street.
You’ve effectively given a Roman god your GPS coordinates.
Probably against several clauses in Google’s terms of service.
Now bring Jupiter directly towards you.
And then:
Into you.
BECOME JUPITER
This is the important part.
Don’t imagine Jupiter standing beside you.
Don’t ask him for money.
For a few minutes:
YOU ARE JUPITER.
Feel your body expanding.
Not physically.
Subjectively.
Fill the room.
Fill the building.
Feel immense confidence.
Authority.
Generosity.
Opportunity.
Expansion.
Imagine Jupitarian energy surging through your body.
If you work with breath, breathe it through yourself.
If physical tension helps you build charge, use it.
Arms.
Abdomen.
Chest.
Hands.
Let the sensation increase.
Then bring your money channels into awareness.
Your job.
Your business.
Your side gig.
The thing you’re selling.
The project you’re launching.
Don’t plead.
Don’t think:
“Please, Jupiter, could I possibly have £300 because the electricity bill is rather worrying?”
Wrong state.
Jupiter doesn’t beg.
Instead embody:
EXPANSION.
More opportunity.
More reach.
More business.
More money.
More useful connections.
More openings.
Let the feeling reach a crescendo.
Then release it.
Sit quietly.
Operation complete.
NOW DO SOMETHING
This bit is important.
Within the next 24 hours, take one concrete action involving money.
Send the email.
Make the call.
Publish the offer.
Apply for the position.
Follow up the old customer.
List the thing for sale.
Ask about the opportunity.
Finish the proposal.
You have just spent twenty minutes becoming the supreme god of the Roman heavens.
Don’t immediately celebrate by lying on the sofa watching Netflix.
Move.
Magick works particularly well as a way of disrupting inertia.
Use it.
WATCH THE CHANNELS
Over the following days, observe.
Don’t obsess.
You’re looking for movement.
Someone contacts you unexpectedly.
A previous customer returns.
An opportunity appears.
A conversation produces an idea.
Somebody recommends you.
A payment you weren’t expecting arrives.
You suddenly notice an obvious way of making money that somehow hadn’t occurred to you before.
Write these things down.
Don’t immediately announce:
JUPITER HAS SPOKEN.
Something happened.
That’s all we know.
Record it.
TAKE OFF THE GOD
There’s one more thing.
We need to close the operation.
You’ve spent twenty minutes imagining yourself as Jupiter.
You don’t want to spend Tuesday afternoon behaving like the supreme ruler of heaven in Tesco.
So remove the godform.
Here’s my favourite quick method.
Stand up.
Imagine yourself putting on a white scientist’s coat.
Really feel yourself putting your arms through the sleeves.
Button it.
You are now the sceptic.
The laboratory technician.
Completely ordinary.
Look back at what you’ve just done as though somebody else told you about it.
“You imagined the planet Jupiter turning into a Roman god, flying down from space and entering your body?”
Yes.
“Right.”
Perfect.
You’re back.
The experiment is over.
If you’re a ceremonial magician and enjoy making everything take three times longer, perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Knock yourself out.
Personally, I’ll take the white coat.
SAME REALITY. DIFFERENT RESULTS.
Now return to ordinary life.
Work.
Sell.
Build.
Talk to people.
Create opportunities.
Keep your money channels open.
And watch what happens.
Maybe Jupiter is an objective metaphysical intelligence.
Maybe you’ve activated an archetypal structure in the psyche.
Maybe the ritual changes your posture, confidence and willingness to notice opportunities.
Maybe it’s elaborate play-acting.
Maybe nothing happens whatsoever.
Fine.
Run the experiment anyway.
Because there’s another possibility.
Perhaps spending twenty minutes becoming Jupiter changes the way you approach the world for the next twenty-four hours.
And the world responds differently.
That’s enough.
You don’t need to solve metaphysics before paying the electricity bill.
Build the channel.
Invoke expansion.
Take action.
Observe the results.
Then put the scientist’s coat back on.
And remember:
DON’T BECOME AN IDIOT.
Especially when you’re Jupiter.
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