It takes a while for rituals to take effect. If this is the first ritual or magick you’ve ever done it is likely to take longer. You are strengthening the connection between your “magical mind” and your conscious mind, and there may be many layers in between that have to be removed. We have all been trained that the Magical Mind is something we’re supposed to grow out of, and there is very little training in how to live magically in everyday life. It gets locked away in a box sometime in our childhood because it doesn’t work in a linear, logical fashion. Freya’s magic is designed to free your Magical Mind AND let it mature.
The rule in a lot of magickal practices is to do the ritual once and forget about it. Freya’s way is a bit different. The more you incorporate rituals (and active meditations, guided visualizations, art, singing, etc.) into your daily life, the faster they will work. As your conscious mind sees that it’s okay to be magical, that nothing bad is going to happen, that it’s just another way of thinking about your life, the more it will ease up and let the universal flow happen. That, in turn, makes the end result of the ritual happen faster.
Some of the high magick ceremonies take you far out of your everyday life, and it is a good idea to shut the gates back up again when you’re done. Freya’s magick, however, is about being who you are right now AND being a goddess or god in your own life. Instead of waiting for once a week or once a month to have a peak mystical experience and then have to readjust to reality, she would like to see people attune to this higher level of energy in smaller increments and in a way that can be integrated into their reality as soon as possible.
So…your ritual is working. Don’t give up. It’s exactly like when you go to a play and they pull the curtain down to change scenes. Depending on how complicated of a scene change you’re trying to do, it may take longer.
