Many Mistakes Mages Make: About "Secret" Arts

Here we've got the usual Juju disclaimer: we don't really know if this is real or not. It's just kind of how we see the world around us, how we process information, and how we deal with life.

When starting to share a secret mystical art, we need to make sure we know exactly who our students are, what they like, and what makes them tick. This will help us know what sorts of things are going to be effective for training, and will help us know what sort of people need to be around them to help them grow. It also helps us establish what they need for a foundation, such as trust and interdependence.

When we're messing with Juju, though, the whole system has a way to balance itself. When we take on a student, it creates a link between us and them. They're going to remember us as a role model and a font of information, maybe even more. What that means for the teacher, is that the student is going to show up in their lives again and again, until they learn everything they can from them. When fate pairs a teacher and student together, even if it's an apparent accident, it means something. There's a respect and love in that, when it happens. Treasure it.

The consequence of this is that when a student happens, they're just a part of the teacher's life. Magical people are more tightly bound by Fate, because there just aren't a lot of them anymore. When there's more, we get more freedom. That works out when we're thinking for ourself and "free"; people see that and they just want to learn from us. When there's more people to learn from, the students simply have more to choose from, and so on.

Tying this into practical application, this is important because we want to talk about the metaphysics class we learned from, and our experiences with them may or may not be accurate. It simply feels like they are driving us away, and we simply do not understand why. We have Daydreams and evidence, but we have to wonder if they are seeing the same things that we are. We have learned a few Arts they called "Secret" from them, and we're starting to see that the only way to learn more is to start teaching. That's where this blog is coming from.

Here's the thing though. Not one person we've met, who claimed the title of "teacher", knows any better than we do. The teachers always used to say, "We'll learn more from you than you'll ever learn from us," to our class pod. They also used to say, "Never suffer a student to teach another student".

These mean something else, put together.

"We are each other's teachers."

Thank you for letting us learn from you.