Structure of a Magical Operation Using Crystals

 

Template for Magical Operation

Every magical working begins with a desire, which becomes a decision to apply magic. From there a practicing magician must either locate an appropriate operation for fulfilling his or her desire or create one to get the job done.

Magical operations come in all shapes and sizes and can be very simple or extremely complicated. There are numerous formula and structures for building them, and they can involve all manner of tools, props, and ingredients.

Structuring a Working or Operation

All magical operations need a definite goal. This object of desire must be clearly understood by the operator and an imagined scene of success should accompany the understanding.

For purposes of this template we can say you need to know exactly what it is you desire to have, do, be, or have happen as the result of your magic. You should furthermore be able to imagine a moment when your success is realized, create a scene that captures or embodies that moment, and then put yourself in that scene.

Eight Step Template to Magical Work

Follow the formula in this section as a regular exercise to build magical muscle and develop your operational intuition. It is not intended as a play-by-play way to enact all your magical work. It is a concept-model to train your directional focus, coordinate your energy bodies and other subtle components (chakras, meridian, auric layers, etc.) and build magical muscle by sharpening your mind and toning your subtle anatomy.

At the end of the walkthrough are some notes on implementing these steps in magical work.

Here is an easy-to-follow template that walks you through structuring an operation. This is but one of many approaches but it’s a good starting point that combines speed and simplicity with focused power to bring results.

The eight steps involved are:

1. Enter an altered, magical state.
2. Clear your aura and the work area of unwanted and unhelpful energy.
3. Affirm your intention.
4. Connect to your power source.
5. Raise energy to peak level.
6. Objectify and form your desire in the Great Magical Agent.
7. Release your creation to the etheric currents.
8. Ground remaining or excess energy, then forget.

Here is the detailed unpacking of these steps.

Defining a Magical Operation

In the larger curriculum a magical operation is the main workhorse of a magical methodology, which in turn is part of a system. Discussed formally, the operation is made from individual magical acts, which are the result of magical techniques, themselves the result of combining fundamental movements and intentions.

However, in this imperfect hierarchy of methods or progression of working parts, it is also true that a single act, simple technique, or even a fundamental intention or movement can also be a complete operation if it fulfills the magician’s desire or achieves a full magical goal.

The magician’s desire is the end result magic is being enacted to attain. This is the reason for the magical work in the first place.

A magical goal is the endpoint of magic within a larger magical working; a finished step in a process. For example a thorough clearing of unwanted energy and banishing of any spirits in an area before a ritual could be a complete operation within the overall work being performed.

A magical operation is well-defined as a full method for producing a final result or a procedure enacted from start to finish aimed at getting the magician what he or she wants. Be solution-oriented as you build an operation and make certain all work moves towards that end, either directly or by setting up the next step in that direction.

Begin with the Ending in Mind

Use this list to orient your work from the start. Before  you pick up a crystal or say a single magic word, check off every item on this list.

1.     Decide exactly what you wish to accomplish.

2.     Refine this desire so it can be stated clearly and deliberately in a single sentence. English and other languages give you the tools to pack a lot into one sentence; use commas, “and”, plus the semicolon character as needed. If you still end up with more than one sentence, then what you want requires multiple operations; in this case construct one operation at a time to perform individually.

3.     When you have your single statement of desire convert it into a statement of affirmation or fact. Refine it until it can be read or spoken aloud with confidence.

4.     Imagine a moment when your statement is made true and you realize your goal has been achieved. See yourself in the world where your desire has manifested and immerse yourself in that moment; be there with the sights, sounds, and feelings of success and victory.

a.      If you can become a master at crafting believable, vivid victory scenes and then fully inhabiting those scenes whenever you like, you will produce epic magic with your operations. This is truly the foundation for your work.

Once you have your statement of desire and your victory scene you can begin constructing your magical operation. Use the statement as your guide and the scene as the target you aim for.

1: Enter an Altered, Magical State

Normal, everyday consciousness and physiology are suitable for your job, traffic, watching television, playing with your dog, eating out with friends, chatting with tech support, complaining about your congressperson who is likely a con-artist, and many other wonderful activities. It is not, however, appropriate for magical endeavors, which require a magical condition of the mind and body.

You should attain a magical state prior to any magical working. This may seem inconvenient at first, until you realize good results depend upon this convention. Over time entering this state becomes easier, and in fact can become an automatic response to prepping for magical work.

If you don’t already have a method or two for easily achieving the proper, altered state click here for a simple exercise to get this done in five or fewer minutes.

2: Clear Your Aura and the Work Area of Unwanted and Unhelpful Energy

Before engaging serious magical work it is important to clear the mind and aura of psychic debris, ill thought forms, lingering doubt, and other counterproductive energies. The same should be done for the immediate work area, to include the removal of uninvited or accidentally invited spirits or subtle entities.

Such undesirable currents and beings can befuddle you or disrupt your magic, perhaps even to a harmful extent. Their removal is critical to best results.

The old grimoires even instruct a bodily purification with holy water and three days without meat, alcohol, or sex. You are encouraged to take cleansing and removal of detrimental influences as far as you see fit.

A thorough clearing and banishing will ensure that you commence magical operation with a clean slate, no hindrances nor interference patterns riding along. This can be achieved in several different ways.

You can burn sage and/or juniper. Burn lots and stand in the smoke as it fills the space. Walk around the area clapping your hands three times sharply and saying “Go!”

Some folks use a dowsing pendulum to clear energy and remove spirits.

To do this hold the pendulum and ask your spirit guide, zodiac or other angel, ancestor, higher self, or any other spiritual helper you may have access to and relations with to clear bad thought forms and harmful spirits from your being. The pendulum should swing or spin in the direction of “no/negative”, whatever that looks like in your dowsing method.

As the pendulum begins to lose momentum, ask your helper to clear away the negative energy patterns that supported the cleared entities. When the pendulum is finished moving direct your attention to the work environment and repeat the process; first remove spirits and entities (which include ill wishes from others) and then take away the energetic fields or patterns the entities fed upon.

In this use of a pendulum, as mentioned your spiritual helpers are enacting the labor and using some part of your personal energy in the process. The moving pendulum provides some momentum for the work but mostly acts as your indicator that work is being performed.

Note that everyone has spirit helpers of some kind, whether guides, angels, ancestors, household spirits, or even familiars and created servitors. You could also ask the spirit of the crystal pendulum to enact this work if you like. It id obviously possible to have better or worse relationships with any spirits in your life and results of this task may be affected by such factors.

Take three full, “cleansing breaths” if you know this technique.

Pentagram banishing rituals are also highly effective.

3: Affirm Your Intentions

In a proper magical state and having cleared your person and surroundings of ill influence and energetic interferences you are now ready to re-focus on your desired outcome or magical goal. Bring to mind your victory scene just as previously described; see, feel, know, and experience the detail and vividness of your ideal, successful outcome.

It is important to spend time regularly practicing visualization, affirmation, immersion, selective emotional initiation, and other success-replication techniques. Become very proficient in touching the essence, energy, or spirit (whichever term you prefer) of success so that at this stage in an operation you can simply “flip the switch” and turn on the frequency of your desired outcome.

4: Connect to Your Power Source

The term power source here refers to the domain from which you will draw support and impetus for magical work. Example “domains” include planetary magic, elemental magic, ancestral magic, and of course mineral magic.

It follows that a power source for a spell or ritual could be the planet Venus, the element air, your great grandfather on the other side, or a nice amethyst point. Presumably nobody will protest if we go with a crystal as the example.

Whether holding or forming a mental link with the stone or crystal, step 4 is about making that solid connection and unleashing the charge or power within your mineral. More acutely, you will “open up” the mineral’s desired traits as you hold your affirmed intention from step 3.

The idea here, so far, is that you – the operating magician – are in a magical state with no interference present (since your mind, aura, body, and work area have just been cleansed of psychic debris and problematic entities) and with your affirmed intention or goal present as a precursor energy field.

This can be handled in one of two ways:

1.    1.  Bring into yourself the desired trait of the crystal so this “power” unites with the energy of your felt-success; it could be in your receptive hand for this.

Or…

2.     2. Activate the “power” or desired trait of the stone, held perhaps in your projective hand, and push the energy of your felt-success into and through the mineral.

In either case you have the fuel for your magic laid upon your desire in order to impregnate that intentional energy with power, or you have the charged field that will carry your magic infused with the current of your intention.

This is a classic, magical case of “tomayto” and “tomahto”. Either perspective is aimed at the right target so it’s just a matter of how you feel about the magical action you are taking.

Choose and move forward.

5: Raise Energy to Peak Level

With your felt-success and the energy of the crystal united, your next step is to raise your magical charge either to the greatest possible extent or to the level you intend to use for the operation. Both of these could be called the peak of your operational energy.

At this point we are breaking process down to the micro level to clarify the rhythmic shifting of the magician’s focused mind. The focus will move, in either a balanced or harmonious manner, between intense focus upon success and potent attention given to the charge or movement of the energy to enact or create that success.

6: Objectify and Form Your Desire in the Great Magical Agent.

The trait/influence/power of the mineral has been applied, energy – or ability to cause effect – has been elevated, and now that energy becomes a “force”, or an agent moving the ability to perform work into a position where work can be performed.

Shift your attention, by way of intention, onto the astral plane or the Great Arcanum, magical continuum, Astral Light, or Great Magical Agent. By many names we call the same; it is the energetic substance on a higher plane outside the physical where the blueprints of manifest reality are made.

Conceptualize a place of moving potential from whence everything is formed and then sent here to our world to be born or manifest. On the surface of that imagined place take hold of the light-energy or fluidic-essence and cause it to form into the idea or image of your success.

Have fun with this process. Act like a sculptor who works not clay but non-physical light that can only be seen by a psychic or touched by a magician. Engage your felt-success or felt-sense of belief as you re-form your desired outcome.

It is reformation because you have already constructed the scene and then recalled it to mind before this step. Again, these last four steps are simply guiding the concept of keeping two intentions at nearly the same time or doing two things almost at once.

When you can feel the form you are causing like it’s almost solid, dump or drive your energized intention into it with a finality. Think of that indescribable movement, internal and external, when you connect a bat to a baseball or softball.

Or when you shoot for the trash can with a paper wad.

When you zap a friend with a water gun; think about pulling the plastic trigger and willing the beam of water to nail him or her right in the nose.

You can even find the tiny moment of actualization in a video game as you hit that important sequence on the controller while simultaneously giving that silent grunt or “get in there” from between your eyes.

Very difficult to articulate yet extremely important and too often omitted from magical instruction, this point of actualization at the end of your final push of magical force into the deed is an art unto itself.  I can point to the way, but only you can seal this little powerhouse of magical action as a coherent effort or deed.

7: Release your Creation to the Etheric Currents

Another shift, this one a little bigger than previous micro-phases. At the end of the final connection, trigger pull, or shot for the goal, step 7 is where you actively let go. This is the second after the ball leaves your hand towards the hoop or the paper wad sails out of your fingers over to the trash can.

Push what you formed in the astral substance down into the ether and release it on its way. The great lore tells us from here the elemental energies usher your desire through the ether into the manifest world along the path of least resistance and in the proper time.

Because the next step is grounding and since you now know about what I call the “elemental ladder” or the Creative Cycle as the Pagans call it, you can use a quick elemental sequence to end this step.

Into the Ether

Release your astral form into the ether, trusting the magical process to finish what you intentionally began.

Air

For a moment let yourself feel and think about the infinite possibility inherent within magical work. Know there are many potential outcomes for your efforts, some of which are even better than what you visualized. The outcome could be a little different than what you have in mind, which is an interesting thought. Things could also turn out radically different, creating totally new opportunities to consider.

Be open. Expand your willingness. Experience this in your heart chakra.

Fire

Bring the expanded energy in from all directions to become a ball of fiery excitement and confidence surrounding you. Focus on your excitement and creativity. See your magical outcome and have the courage to see it a little better than your initial desire. People often hold back and don’t dare to really want what they want; they try to be “realistic” about expectations.

Focus intensely on the ultimate best version of your success. If you visualized finding a nice apartment this month as your magical goal, take this moment to see a luxury condo or a house in a great neighborhood. See it like it’s real and pour energy into it.

What’s the harm? It’s only a moment of indulgence. Focus this through your solar plexus.

Water

The roaring energy around you and the giddiness within become slow and soothing motion that moves you downward in a spiral pattern. The spiral becomes a massive, calming wave.

Let everything specific melt away and focus on the rhythm and order of the process. Feel in your body things shifting and organizing to form the right end result at the right time.

Feel in your sacral chakra a sense of joyful anticipation. Whatever comes next is what you need and you will flow with it and use it in the best way to benefit yourself and others.

Earth

The wave densifies and stops shifting. You move straight downward in slow, dense motion.

Become heavy like a mountain touching ground as it floats down from heaven. Tense your muscles and feel slopes and cliffs above and around you quake to solidify your work.

See the flowing and spiraling magical currents become solid and squared. Perfect and immovable has your work become.

Feel the heavy, grinding focus in your base chakra.

This extends into the next step.

8: Ground Remaining or Excess Energy, then Forget

Pull all the energy left in and around you into your body and hold it for a moment. Feel strong, inevitable, undeniable, invincible. Then push this heavy, solid presence down your legs and through your feet into the ground below. What you put in the ground becomes a massive, heavy form with roots that grab hold of the deep earth far below and anchor in place.

This represents the completion of your magic and the coming of your end result. Let any remaining energy settle into the form and know anything you miss will settle there in the near future.

Leave it all, including your memory of the work, behind in the earth. Call it finished and instantly feel lighter; still part of the earth but unrestricted in your movements and able to shift to whatever mode you like.

Forget about the magic. From here your unconscious mind and energy bodies, along with magical currents and any spirits involved in the work will finish what you began.

Putting the Template to Work

The first three steps can easily be prefaced to any magic you perform as they are simply preliminary best practices. Enter your magical state, clear and banish, then generate your victory scene at the onset of any operation.

Build out the next steps with techniques that fit into raising energy and focusing your will on the desired outcome. Directing energy with a wand and burning candles to represent energy and motion can be integrated easily, and so can handling crystals as you’ve learned from this book.

Any incantation or spoken words should be used to focus on your felt-success or victory scene and to gather power and send it to that scene through your words.

When performing an operation you find online or in a book, look for points where you would naturally raise energy levels or focus on your desired outcome. You can usually fit these steps in the right place even if you need to adjust a little for shorter operations.

Look at the pre-written operations in the chapter “A Few Magical Operations” to think of how this template might apply. They weren’t all designed with the eight-step template but you will still see a resemblance of functions. Do the same with any spellbooks you have now or buy in the future.

Remember, the goal is creating your own operations in your own style so if you need to alter my template do it.

 

 

 

Clearing and Banishing with Obsidian and Selenite

 

Here is a simple operation with obsidian and selenite you can use to clear your own energy field and remove unwanted influence and frequencies from a work area. There are actually two operations here combined, meaning you could use either the obsidian or the selenite or both together as shown below.

Clearing and Banishing with Obsidian and Selenite

If you have a wand, blade, or point of each mineral, use the obsidian first, then the selenite. Hold the wand in your projective hand.

Clear you own energy with the wand by making three slow cutting strokes down your centerline from head to toe when casting the spell to clear your energy.

1.     Begin with the wand or sharp tip pointed to a spot a few inches above the top and center of your head.

2.     “Cut” down in a straight line, passing the point between your eyes, down along your nose, through the center of your mouth and chin, down your windpipe and through the place where your collar bones meet. Keep the point exactly in the center of your torso and cut all the way down your upper body to make a line between your legs and into the floor or ground.

3.     When you reach the floor, you should be pointing at a spot centered between your feet. Hold the wand pointed at that spot for a couple of seconds and push your intention out through the mineral and through the spot on the floor.

4.     Intend to push the unwanted energy back into the earth to be recycled. “Push” intention and energy out the bottom of both feet at the same time.

5.     Raise your hand in a wide arc to the outside and return the point to the spot a few inches above your head. This is one full repetition or cut.

Repeat steps 1 through 5 thrice to make exactly three “cuts”.

Banish unwanted energy from the space by walking about the area while making “waving away” gestures with the wand as you recite the clearing incantation. You can also face each corner of the area and make an equal-armed cross gesture for banishment.

1.     Stroke the vertical bar first, top-to-bottom.

2.     Stroke the horizontal bar from left-to-right.

3.     Press your point through the center of the crossing bars, projecting your intention and life force out through the obsidian or selenite as if you are pushing unwanted energy back out onto the etheric plane. Breathe out as you press and project.

If you don’t have wands hold the obsidian in your left hand and the selenite in your right hand, regardless of your projective or receptive handedness. Focus on and connect with each mineral in turn as you speak the incantations.

Before using either mineral, recite with authority and power: “RA MA RA MA RA MA RA MA!”

This is the invocation of the divine father and mother to equilibrate the magician and the environment and prepare the magical agent or astral light for obedient service.

Clear with Obsidian

Direct the heavy, dense, black force to purge your chakras and aura, body and mind. Say “Hekas Ekas Este Bebeloi!”. Let the power of the dark mistress cast unwanted energy from your being.

Clear with Selenite

Direct the sparkling, vibrant white light to cleanse and neutralize any psychic debris, ill frequencies or harmful thought forms and doubts remaining within you. Say “"APO PANTOS KAKODAIMONOS!" Allow the authority of the shining father to cast out unwanted frequencies.

Banish with Obsidian

Direct the field of black to overwhelm, crush, and drag away any unwanted energies or intelligences in your work area. Say “Heavy, dense, blackness permeate and sink, drag down to the crushing depths of the underworld unhelpful currents and minds.”

Banish with Selenite

Direct the brilliant white light to burn and scour away negative influences and detrimental energy patterns in your environment. Say, “White light undeniable outshine ill energy and bad influences and scrub them away.”

The Object of Magical Desire

 

Understanding the Object of Desire

This object of desire could be the statement of desire, your victory scene, or a target you have associated with your fulfilled desire.

It is important to understand the term “object of desire” is no mere figure of language. To the magician, his or her fulfilled desire is an object capable of receiving energy, being protected from other energy, moving, growing, and becoming a lived part of experience from future to present and past.

You can infuse a keyword ahead of time or sanctify an object in advance to represent your objectified desire. You only need a statement of affirmation or desire and your willpower to do this.

A statement of desire is one sentence to encapsulate what you wish to achieve with your magical work. IT should be stated in the affirmative, as if the thing is done already.

Repeat a keyword at the end of your statement of desire seven times; see the energy of the statement filling the keyword with each repetition. After that whenever you say the keyword, it means the same as your full statement;. Write the keyword down or recite it as you work and direct raised energy into the written or spoken word during magical work.

Visualize the scene of your success, or victory for a moment. Put yourself in the scene as if it were the present moment and experience it vividly. 

When you are finished, before the scene can fade, project it with your hands and will into a quartz crystal held between both hands. Repeat your statement of desire into the crystal seven times, and by the last repetition push the last of the scene’s energy into the quartz. Use this quartz during your magical operation as the object of your desire, sending your intention and the energy you channel into it.

Fully impregnate the object of your desire with the energy you raise during magical work. When finished, release the energy to causation by destroying or being rid of the physical object. 

For a symbol on paper, burn it. For a spoken word, unravel it by saying it backwards once then forget it.

For your impregnated quartz throw it into a stream or field and never touch it again. This releases the magic to do its work.

How to Actually Use a Crystal for Magic

 

Crystal Magic

Anyone Can Carry Ten Pounds of Crystals and Stones Around, but How to Use Crystals for Real Magic?

Short and sweet, to the point.

Passive crystal mysticism has been a major spiritualist trend for 40 or more years now. The craze around crystals just kept peaking every decade until very recently, when it might have declined slightly.

This according to someone I know who is in the metaphysical stone and crystal business.

There are hundreds or thousands of people in every town in America walking around with "rocks", meaning stones and crystals, in their pockets, purse, or little drawstring bags they tote about. Many people also wear jewelry made with metaphysical stones. 

The idea of course, is that by carrying minerals that emanate this or that property, a person can absorb the trait to their benefit. At the very least the energy field of the crystal is supposed to generate the benefits of the desired trait while carried or worn.

All good. I am one of those people.

However I do not settle for the passive mystical method of carrying stones and hoping for the best. This is a thing I do, but more often than not I am actively using my minerals for magical work.

How Do You Put Crystals to Work?

It's actually very simple. And crazy.

I'm not going to tell you the crystals and stones in your pocket are alive, and that they have spirits. That would be ridiculous.

I'm just going to tell you to act as if they are alive. You see? You don't even need to believe it, just conduct business as if it were the case.

As you are a body, mind, and energetic matrix, so too a crystal or gemstone has a physical, mental, and energetic makeup . The crystal is a tripart entity with agency, even if this is only a construct you project.

The Interface

You can connect with a crystal physically by touching, holding, wearing, or gazing.

You can make a mental connection through intention.

Your energetic matrix or subtle anatomy interacts with the crystals subtle energy when you are in proximity with it, touching it, or thinking about it (even at distance).

Your Will is the Driver and Director

Once you are connected to the crystal you have access to its properties, which you can direct with your will. Do this by verbal commands, silent or otherwise, or by imagining and visualizing the desired effects on your person, on another, or on the condition of reality you wish to affect.

If you want black tourmaline to clear and ground your seven chakras, tell it to do so. Walk through the process in your mind as you wear the stone on a pendant.

If you wish to manifest with blue apatite, hold a piece and visualize the reality you want forming from the light of the astral plane and becoming true.

If you seek the balancing of the brain's hemispheres offered by Sodalite, gaze upon a sodalite sphere and feel the crown chakra; imagine the hemispheres of your brain harmonizing, and dwell in the crown chakra to experience this.

None of this is difficult. If you are in an altered, magical state of consciousness as discussed here you will find it straightforward. 

Is what I am saying crazy? It's batshit nuts.

It's also real, or the strata of reality in which we live behaves as if it is true.

Results matter. The how of it all may remain elusive.

Elemental Water Spell for Dealing with a Job You Hate

 Many people can relate to the idea of working at a job they do not like, or even despise. While this setting is the example for this spell, elemental water can obviously help you adapt to a range of situations.

NOTE: Always read through a magical operation multiple times to commit the procedure to memory before enacting the magic. It is also a good idea to enter a magical state of consciousness before working any magic.

The Adaptability of the Water Element

The elemental quality of water corresponds to physical water. By this token just as the fluid we call water can take on the form of its container and roll with ease over a hard surface, the water element possesses the property of flexibility or adaptability. It is receptive and not resistant; strike at it and it will invite your force in and spread unharmed about the intrusion.

In martial arts, a watery defense involves sliding back and just out of reach and then, when the opponent reaches the end of their momentum, crashing back with your own strike. If entangled with an opponent, water is letting the momentum of their push carry you back, then as the push settles, you push off at an angle to their trajectory and sweep them away.

Focus on the middle of the above examples. The act of sliding safely out of harm's way or letting yourself be pushed back yet remaining calm and comfortable in that moment.

Return to the idea of taking the form of your container, or environment. You can be at a job you hate, doing things you prefer to not be doing with a calm, neutral attitude because you know it won't last forever and there is a payday on the other side of it.

Water Magic for Dealing with the Job or other Scene You Hate

This magic will do the following work:

1. Bring the influence of elemental water into your energy field and body and your surrounding area.
2. Charge a stone or crystal that corresponds to water to be especially potent in its calming, watery emanations. This can be used ongoing as a water amulet.
3. Create an affirmation or brief incantation you can use in the future to quickly bring the water quality into yourself and your surroundings. 

Enact this magic before you leave for work. Be sure to give yourself plenty of time, at least 20 minutes for this. It is imperative that you are able to relax and not be rushed during this work.

Get a piece of chrysocolla or amazonite, a piece of paper or cardstock, and a blue marker. Set those aside a moment.

Attune to the Water Element

Burn some watery incense like mint or geranium or chew some mint leaves. Take some water on your fingers and in your hands and splash it gently onto your face, allowing it to roll off. 

As you light the incense or retrieve your stone do so with a carefree attitude. You have plenty of time and there is no point stressing over anything. You are alive and going through the motions and routines of your life; all is as it should be and you will be able to find peace regardless of what happens.

1. Take a deep breath, slowly and evenly filling your lungs. 
2. When you reach the end of the in-breath pause for a few seconds, however long feels right.
3. Then slowly exhale until the out breath feels finished. 
4. At the end of the outbreath just hand a few seconds until your body naturally wants to breathe in again.

That is one cycle. Breathe like this for seven cycles. At no point should you be forcing or chasing the breath; let it come and flow easily. As you breathe in imagine a wave pushing you back; when you breathe out imagine wave bringing you forward.

Take up your page, marker, and stone. Hold the stone in your receptive hand -- opposite the hand you write with -- and feel its calming, cooling energy. Amazonite and Chrysocolla are excellent for this as most people can readily feel their calm aura.

Visualize the symbol for elemental water; a blue circle with a horizontal line through the middle. 

Recite the following incantation:

"Like water I flow wherever I go relaxed and controlled, on purpose and slow. Whatever comes up I already know accustom to the situation I will grow.  

See the image of the circle with the line through it shift into a blue wave in your mind.

Repeat the incantation a second time.

"Like water I flow wherever I go relaxed and controlled, on purpose and slow. Whatever comes up I already know accustom to the situation I will grow.  

Add the following: "Water flow flow flow through me. In rhythm I adapt." Repeat this statement often hereafter to immediately conjure the frequency of elemental water.

By hereafter I not only mean the days ahead, but from here on. A year from now the statement above will still be an incantation to bring water energy into your persona and presence; the more you use it the stronger it becomes.

Now lay your stone in the center of the page and draw the elemental triangle of water around it from the top left corner moving to the right as you say "Into form I bring my intention. To life this magic comes. Adaptability flows through me." Feel your watery intentions manifest within you as you become more fluid and adaptable.

Visualize currents of the waster quality pouring into the stone and remaining there. Amazonite and Chrysocolla naturally channel and emanate elemental water so you are merely activating the trait in the mineral and intending to connect with it.

Carry the water-charged stone with you as a physical amulet to keep the water quality flowing within and around you. All amulets and charged items fade with time but you should have at least several months before having to charge the stone, which is naturally water-corresponding, again.

Discard the image with the triangle drawn on it by tearing it up and tossing it, burning it, or letting it dissolve in water then dumping the water later. Leave the work area and relax, forgetting about the magic and letting it run its course. 

Easy Astral Projection Exercise

Astral Projection is a Mystical Practice of Value to Magical Work

Before Learning Anything About Astral Projection

Before I even talk about the different kinds of astral movements and different modes of soul travel I want you to try this exercise. It'd a good insight into the out-of-body perspective.

Relax

Begin by relaxing. You should be in a place where you won't be disturbed. Sit or stand or kneel as you wish, just relax as deeply as you can for a moment or two.

Count or breathe or whatever you usually do to just relax. Once you have reached a relaxed state, go ahead and relax again because most people will rush this part; you can be one of the few who don't rush and who actually gets into a good relaxed state.

You don't want to fall asleep but this is a good exercise if you've recently woke up or if you are a little tired. Being near a dream state helps with out-of-body work.

Sit Comfortably

Once you are very relaxed but still wakeful, sit on the floor with your legs crossed. You don't have to sit in any lotus position or lock your foot under your leg or anything like that. No Yoga pose required here, just cross your ankles.

If you cannot sit on the ground or cross your legs sit in a rocking chair. If you can't sit on the ground and don't have a rocking chair -- geez trouble maker -- you can try this sitting one the edge of a hard or sturdy chair.

Be comfortable. 

Stay Relaxed. Find the Center.

Once you are seated, either with crossed legs, in a rocking chair, or on the edge of a hard chair, relax one more time and settle your weight underneath you. Focus on your solar plexus a moment; this is the third chakra of your seven main chakras but it is also a commonly referenced place on the body.

The solar plexus is along your centerline in the middle of your torso. Between where the ribs meet and below the sternum. If you seek it, normally it will let you know where it is.

Find the solar plexus

Keep Relaxing and Enter the Center

Relax one more time. Take your time and do it right.

Focus on your solar plexus. Just sit and let your awareness rest there.

After a moment fully enter your solar plexus with your awareness. Close your eyes and go into the solar plexus and seat your consciousness in the center of it.

Really inhabit the solar plexus chakra. Be inside of it; the space around you is the solar plexus in the center of your torso.

Shift your awareness into your third eye for a moment. Inhabit the sphere between and just above your physical eyes. Draw focus and mystical energy from here, then return to the solar plexus.

Rocking Back and Forth

Rock backwards slowly a far as you can. Then rock forward and continue the back and forth motion.

If you're in a rocking chair you have this  covered. Keep rocking.

If seated on the ground shift back and rock, letting your crossed legs raise off the ground a little. Shift forward and lean onto your legs. Rock back. Rock forward. 

All the while remain centered in your solar plexus. To be clear I mean keep your awareness in the middle of the solar plexus as you rock.

Keep rocking for a few minutes. At least keep the motion up for three minutes.

Stop but Keep Going

Stop your body's rocking and sit still with your back straight. However in your mind continue rocking back and forth.

Don't think about yourself rocking like you are watching a move. When your body stops  your awareness in the solar plexus will keep the experience going through vivid imagination from the inside.

Experience the back and forward rocking just as you have experienced for the last few minutes. Back. Forward. Repeat.

I feel like this is horribly worded but I hope you understand what I am telling you to do.

Keep rocking back and forth as your body sits still and straight for another minute.

When you are ready, time your forward motion, and when you reach the end of your forward rock stop the rocking and use the momentum built up to step forward out of your physical body.

Read that as many times as needed to get what I am saying. Then try it. Journal about the experience.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

                  

Elemental Energy Exercises: Earth Statue

Boy in the Earth Statue posture.

The Earth Statue Exercise

This, like many of the exercises posted on this blog, is not actually a magical operation. It is a mystical practice. Mysticism is awesome for developing sensitivity to subtle energies, and there are some excellent elemental exercises from the mystical traditions of the east and the west.

This is an easy exercise for channeling, experiencing, and attuning to the essence of elemental earth. Use it before or during magic of earth, sure, but above all practice this a couple of times per week to enhance your sensitivity to, and ultimately your command over elemental earth. 

Standing or Sitting

Experienced practitioners who just want the brief instructions click here.

If you are fairly new to magic and mysticism I urge you to read the article. It takes less than five minutes.

Set your intention to become a channel for earth energy. You wish to be one with elemental earth and understand it better.

This exercise was originally created for a standing posture but can be done seated as well. Here is the positioning for each; before enacting you should execute cleansing breaths or your choice of progressive relaxation.

Standing Posture Back is straight Feet slightly wider than shoulders Shoulders and hips aligned. kness slightly bent. Hands hang comfortably at side. Relaxed, weight settles into hips, then thighs.

Sitting Posture Sit on front/end of chair, not leaned back or deep back onto the cushion or pad. Rest your butt just on the edge if possible. Back is straight Feet directly below knees Shoulders and hips lined up. Hands palms down on top of thighs. Relaxed, weight falls to butt and hips.

Take on this posture exactly as described above. When you relax and your weight settles into your hips, be present with that a moment.

Stable Breathing

Breathe evenly; in through your nose and out through your mouth. Don't force it, but try to let your breathing settle into a stable pattern.

Ideally, see your breath moving in a circle, into your nose and down the back of your windpipe, into the bottom of your lungs, up the front of your lungs, and back out your mouth.

Perfect form is the in and out breath merging into one another so you don't have sharp inhale, take air in then exhale, send air out. Instead, try to make a long, steady inhale that just turns into a long, steady exhale then repeat.

Take care to breathe slowly and make sure you are getting plenty of oxygen. If  you feel light headed stop the circle breathing and just breath slowly and deeply in and out.

Notice how your body feels. Do you feel secure? Do you feel you have what you need in life?

The Base Chakra

After assessing your body and mental state, tune into the earth element by focusing briefly on your base chakra. This energy center is at the bottom of your spine and can often be sensed through your perineum. With eyes closed try to sense the base chakra in that area and it will likely respond to your probe with a subtle sensation.

The base chakra at the bottom of the spine. Try to feel it and it will respond like a beacon.

Tell the base chakra to bring more stable, earth energy into your aura and body. You can visualize the center as a glowing red sphere. This is the traditional color given to the charka by tantric and Yogic sources.

Keep breathing slow and steady, in a circle as described previously if you can.

In the western traditions we see earth energy as green, brown, olive, tan, and similar. The distinction to understand here is that western magic isn't talking about the chakra, it refers to elemental energy in shades of green and brown. 

So there is no contradiction if you visualize the chakra as red. Having said that if you prefer a brown or brick-red go for it. Hell you can see it as green if you like but I don't know if that will help you activate the chakra because I have never tried this.

(Guess I should look into that and report back.)

The point is contact the base chakra, the root, as it is known and bring elemental earth energy into your energy field and body. 

Make Yourself Heavy and Solid

Then, make yourself solid and heavy like a stone statue of yourself.

How? Imagine. Decide you are a stout, heavy stone statue and feel your weight sink down through your calves and to the bottom of your feet.

Feel yourself sinking an inch into the ground or floor. Be with this heaviness a few moments.

Just stand there, nice and straight, arms limp, feeling solid and heavy as stone.

After a time, produce the feelings of confidence, safety, and having plenty. Your are immovable, perfectly safe, and you have everything you need in life.

Remain like this for several minutes or as long as you can. 

When ready to end the exercise, roll out your shoulders and neck, shake out your wrists, then release the heavy energy through your feet, out and into the ground. Lift each foot and shake it out thereafter.

Be sure to visualize the heavy stuff leaving your body before you walk away from this exercise.

Here are the Condensed Instructions for this Exercise.

Stand or sit up straight. Shoulders and hips even, feet slightly wider than shoulder width, relax.

Align your breath with a stable, steady rhythm. Count four on inhale, then four on exhale, without pausing between - if this makes you light headed just breathe at a steady rhythm and imagine the air making you heavier.

Imagine you are a stone statue, heavy, still, and immovable.

Notice your body. Do you feel safe? Do you feel you have all you need in life?

Focus on your base chakra. Be with it a moment.

Tell the chakra to bring powerful earth energy into your aura and body.

Sink your weight to your feet. Feel yourself sinking into the ground.

Feel safe. Feel strong. Feel that you have all you need in life.

(If none of this is true use your imagination and will to feel as if it is true!)

Sustain these feelings, safe, heavy, unmovable, for as long as you can up to ten minutes.

Release earth energy out your feet and into the ground, Let it all go.

Roll your neck, shoulders, shake out hands and arms and both feet.