First off, I want to say hello and thank you to all the new people stopping by the blog lately.\u00a0 The blog\u2019s public followers have almost doubled in the last week, and a crazy number of people have added me on Google+.\u00a0 Thank you all for reading.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 It fills me with a decidedly un-satyr-like sort of joy to have you here.<\/p>\n
Second, a ritual<\/a> shared with me by Aradia and being passed on to another friend who is likewise in need of some magical self-care.\u00a0 I\u2019m putting together a packet of such self-care rituals and meditations for that friend, and I\u2019ll be posting some of the other exercises here over the next several days\u2014many oldies but goodies that have been in my Book of Shadows for years, others contributions from various friends, and some inevitable overlap between the two categories.\u00a0 Nothing too heavy-duty\u2014that would defeat the purpose\u2014but hopefully helpful.<\/p>\n Finally, a post by one Soror A.I.D.<\/a>, detailing some energy work she\u2019s been experimenting with.\u00a0 The post is from April, so I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s made any further progress with this experiment, but it reminds me a lot of the magic-games I used to play back in the day.<\/p>\n I remember learning how to shield in highschool by visualizing myself in heavy anime-style plate armor.\u00a0 I remember trying to meditate one day, and being unable to reach a real trance until I\u2019d peeled off some seven layers of accumulated shielding.\u00a0 I remember learning how to move and generate magical energy, after many fits and starts by holding a magnet toy in my hands and feeling the changes it made in my aura.<\/p>\n I remember learning how to shield effectively, without cutting off the world around me, by figuring out how to deflect the probes my coffee-house friends would push at each-other\u2014worm-like tendrils and bright orbs and sharp splinters of will\u2014and learning how to pierce shields in the same fashion.\u00a0 I remember learning to play \u201ccatch\u201d with those same bright orbs, to decode and reproduce energy signatures as part of complex but meaningless games.\u00a0 I remember the blades of power I made, and all the good they never did me except to scare a few people who knew even less than I did.<\/p>\n I remember shaping and transforming energy\u2014earth to air, light to dark, hot to cold\u2014all day and every day, just because I could.\u00a0 I remember weaving it into complex shapes for no other reason than that I could, and maybe to see what would happen.<\/p>\n Is it any wonder I blew a gasket<\/a>?<\/p>\n In the years since, I\u2019ve done relatively little of that sort of things.\u00a0 Some games of \u201ctag\u201d with the proto-coven and Aradia.\u00a0 Innovations in circle-casting and house-wards.\u00a0 Some experiments in magical healing.\u00a0 Oh, and that whole weird thing with Tsu<\/a>.<\/p>\n I need to get back to it.\u00a0 I need to find my old journals and re-read them for inspiration.\u00a0 I need to re-read Maya Heath\u2019s Energies<\/em> which is the only book I\u2019ve read that talked about that sort of thing even a little bit.\u00a0 And I need to find more bloggers who aren\u2019t afraid to talk about the kinds of magic that sound like a fucking fantasy novel.\u00a0 What could I do with those old 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