Local Deer Does Magic

I’m a pretty new practitioner and I find myself being absolutely drained by energy work, divination, and spells. How do I build up my spiritual endurance? Is it just practice or are there specific exercises I can do to make my spiritual battery larger?

There are a lot of people out there doing constant readings, spells, and energy techniques for the sole purpose of getting better at them.

Like, they're not working magic when they need it or to make their lives better. They just perform all these exercises because doing the exercise is itself the goal.

And that's very valid.

But there is a difference between doing divination, spells, and energy work for their own sake, and performing these actions only when wanted or needed in order to make your life better.

If your goal is to just perform as many of these activities as you can, rest assured that your practice will increase your battery capacity over time.

However, if your goal is primarily pragmatic - there are things you need to get done, and you're just too drained to get to all of them - there are many things you can do:

Learn how to gather external energy so you don't have to use your own.

Find times or places filled with power and collect it for later use.

Learn whether or not doing magic at certain times is more/less draining for you.

Replace draining divination techniques with low-energy alternatives.

Use divination to look ahead so you can resolve problems before they become energy-draining emergencies.

Replace daily energy work for things like glamours or protection with amulets, which take far less energy to maintain.

If possible, build a physical spellcasting altar, which will begin to gather energy and do things like automatically charge objects, and supplement your energy during spellcasting.

Replace spells that require fervent willpower and focus (draining) with other types of magic.

Replace spells that are lengthy and ritualistic with quick, casual acts of magic.

Make friends with the spirit world in order to ease your workings of magic, which means it takes less energy to manifest.