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.

Elemental Earth: Staying Power for Long-Term Objectives

People often want to know where to start with the four elements and magic. I say start paying attention to the elemental energies in your daily life and go from there.

Problems or opportunities will arise. If you have studied the elemental codex you will be able to classify these issues by their elemental nature and respond accordingly. In the beginning the simplest way to respond to life, to use the magic of the elements, is to find where you are lacking the strengths of an element and apply more of the lacking energy.  

Earth Energy is Stability and Endurance

For example, let's say you have trouble sticking with long-running projects or struggle to stay on task when trying to get something done. It's a common ailment. People get bored, they get tired from concentration, they think they would rather be doing something other than what's in front of them.  

We might call such an issue an imbalance of water energy, causing one to drift and be unstable. Or perhaps an excess of elemental air, if a person is spaced out, flighty, and cannot make themself be still and focus for any amount of time.

I see a lot of people approach magic with an interest but never get started. I also see many people who do get started becoming distracted by all the information on the topic; they are unable to stick with one thing at a time and want to jump around from topic to topic. 

This is the path to failure and heartache. If you are unable to stay on a topic until you learn it before moving on to find something new, you will not succeed with magical practice.

Let's run with this example for now, even if it doesn't apply to you. 

The Magical Path is Long and Winding

Magical practice is either a long game or a waste of time. You simply have to be prepared to spend significant time learning, coming to understand, and getting hands-on experience with the Art.

That's if your intention is to effectively use magic within your life.

Not everyone has this goal but I will assume you do because you've read this far into the article. The drifters and flighty types have moved on to another article if not returned to Google to query "black magic" or "demon magic" or some other topic they think will be exciting. 

The Power of Elemental Earth Could be a Good Anchor for Beginner Magicians

I'll be honest. When I got started looking into magic I had the attention span of a gnat and the discipline of a toddler who was raised by wolves. My future as a magician was anything but bright.

Then I realized the anchor I needed was right in front of me. Actually it was within me as well, and the same is true for you.

Use this simple magical operation to anchor yourself into the subject of magic, give yourself the staying power to settle into the long haul, and generate the patient resolve needed for successful magic studies.

As you'll see below and with ongoing exercises and operations I post, magical work begins with an intention, frame of mind, and attitude of action towards your objective. Before you utter the first word of an incantation or light a candle you must set your mind to the task of becoming what you desire or put plans in motion to get what you want.

There is almost always a mundane component of intention, planning, and action towards your goal, which is then bolstered and empowered through the magical work.

Earth Anchor for the Long Haul Project

This magic can either be enacted in a quiet room or an outdoor setting where you can sit on the ground or stand with bare feet on a grass or stone surface. What matters is that you are undisturbed, comfortable, feeling totally safe and have as much time as you want available for the work.

It's a simple process that will focus your mind and energy matrix, ground an intention, then anchor that intent into your core and your future with magical forces. Read through the working a few times and memorize the steps, then set and take the time do enact the work.

Do not browse the operation as you read this post and imagine that is enough. Get real with me here and now:

1. Learn the operation; will take 20 or 30 minutes.
2. Choose a time.
3. Execute the work.

About the Timing

You could do this operation as soon as you memorize the steps and are ready if you like. Other good times are sunrise (fresh start) midnight (serious, transitional) and when elemental earth is in its course any time during the day. 

1. Setting Intention 

Your goal is to settle into your magic studies with patience, determination to succeed, stability and the ability to work at this long-term to get it right. Or something like this, right? State this very clearly to yourself.

1b. Relax Into the Moment

Let the tension go, relax completely for a moment.

Then take a deep breath; let it out. 

Relax one more time to make sure you nailed it down.

1c. Settle Your Intent Onto the Target

Think about your magic studies and what you wish to accomplish as a student of the Art. Don't fuss over details just shift your thoughts there and allow your natural resonance to emerge. Put another way, settle your mind on the feelings or images that to you mean studying and learning and practicing magic.

For me this was a particular old book with brown, yellowed pages and the smell of those pages. This thought or image brought further impressions like certain incense smells, candlelight, symbols like the spiral and tree of life, and others.

Think of whatever it is you think about to generate that ringing, mysterious, exciting sensation you associate with practicing magic. Dwell in this thought space and feeling zone a moment.

Get yourself in a positive state and be truly happy that you are going to anchor into your magical path and achieve all that you want to achieve as a student of magic. Pre-emptively celebrate your success because you are going to be successful.

1d. Conjure Elemental Earth and Direct it Towards Your Task

We'll keep it simple and use a two-step process. Step one, draw the symbol to raise earth energy and step two use the same symbol to direct the energy.

ONE: Draw the alchemical triangle for elemental earth (below). This is usually green, but there are other colors corresponding to earth. Mae your triangle a deep brown to signify heavy energy for anchoring.

Draw from the bottom point up to the left, across and back down from right to left. Make the line left to right. As you draw focus on raising the earth element into your space through the symbol.

TWO: Focus on the lower point of the triangle and mentally direct the elemental currents through that point downward into the foundation of your intention where they will support your magical effort and anchor your person and your future into the long-term commitment of magical studies.

Example mental command: I draw the earth quality through the downward point and into my magical outcome. Make my will heavy and undeniable, and anchor me into the long haul of my magical study and practice. I will be unshakeable with your support.

2. Aligning Your Energetic Matrix

This means to align your subtle energies, like your aura and the energies the chakras generate and regulate -- the mojo you focus int magical work -- towards the objective at hand. 

Close your eyes and relax. 

2b. Ignite the Charge

Say Cha-NG. (Chah sound, deep and forceful, then NGNGNG, extending the "ng" sound a few seconds.)

This sound ignites your focused intent and/or vital force and elevates your energy. It is a fiery toneme and potent vocable. You only need one of these but are free to intone more if you like.

2c. Embody the Power of the Earth Element

Settle your shoulders and hips; let the tension go and sink your weight down your straight spine into your base chakra. This is at the bottom of your spine below the bottom of your lowest vertabrae.

Your perinium which is essentially the space under your pelvis between your genitals and your anus is the resting point of your base chakra. Some people find it in their lower genitalia and others sense it in the middle of their pelvis but those spots do not anchor right for me. 

Find your base chakra, which resonates with and channels elemental earth energy and say "Uhhhh."

That's the schwa sound or the short "u" in "mud" or "stub", as deep as you can go and extended.  Repeat the sound and use it to settle into your base chakra.

Don't merely find and give attention to your base chakra. That would work if you only wanted to increase the circulation of earth energy. Here you conjure and command the earth element, but only after you embody it. You should feel as though your frame is resting atop the base chakra, like the energy center is what holds your frame up.

Again: "Uhhhh." This time follow with "DO", so "Uhhhh-DO" (as in "go" and "below" and extended for four or more counts).

Repeat "Uhhhh-DO" four times, sinking into your base more deeply with each repetition.

By the third repetition you should inhabit your base chakra; that is, you should feel as though you are inside of that energy center. At the end of four cycles of Uhhhh-DO you should feel encased in your base chakra to the extent that you really feel if you opened your eyes you would see the world from within your base chakra.

3. Use Elemental Earth to Anchor You Into the Long-Term Process

Keep your eyes closed.

3b. Drive the Magical Anchoring Stakes into Your Objective

Chant four times: "Uhd-G-RU".

This is the same uh sound, shorter with a hard "d" like "da" at the end, then a heavy "guh" followed by a heavily pronounced "r" and extended, long "u" (as in "you" and "true").

So these four vocables are each: Uhh-da-(half second space)-Guh-ru (extended like holding the end of "you" a few seconds. As you sound these four return your thoughts to your magical practice for the long term.

As you sound each repetition imagine driving a massive, heavy, tall iron stake into the ground of your magic studies and anchoring your being securely and immovably into your study of magic ongoing. See the stakes go deep not only into the scenario of your involvement with your studies but also deep into the future and holding you steadily for years to come.

3c. Seal the Magical Effect into Reality

Finish the operation with this incantation:

"Stable and steadfast, solidly set into my studies.

Sturdy and substantial are the stakes I have secured.

Unmoving I stay. For the long haul I remain. 

Anchored as a fixture until my fulfillment is ordained.

Spirits and forces of elemental earth construct this reality and cement my will to be!"

After all the set up and energy channeling and visualization leading up to the incantation, if you project your will through these words and sing them with a victorious heart your goal will be as good as met unless you simply decide you wish to fail at some point down the road.

Initiation into the Four Elements

Initiation into the Four Elements

Which really means initiation into the five elements. Recall the fifth is always implied if not stated.

What is a Magical Initiation

A magical initiation has various purposes. This specific initiation:

1. Marks the start of your journey on this section of the magical path.

2. Authorizes your unconscious mind and soul to officially proceed with elemental magic study and practice.

3. Passes a magical token to you (via your energetic matrix or spirit guides) carrying my understanding, capability, and my intention for you to surpass me.

4. Serves as both the initiating act and the ongoing training exercise to build your connection to the elemental codex.

Act of Elemental Initiation

(Also Ongoing Exercise to Build Proficiency in Elemental Magic)

Find a private space with room to move. Allocate a minimum of fifteen minutes, ideally thirty minutes, to relax into the process.

Materials for this Work

You have three material options:

Option 1	Option 2	Option 3
Incense, lavendar	Yellow Circle	Nothing
Candle, red	Red Triangle	Nothing
Glass of water or wine	Blue Wave or Crescent	Nothing
Half oz. salt or a stone	Green Square	Nothing

Note on Materials: Don't delay the procedure if you lack ideal materials. Use what you have (any incense/candle color is fine). Colored shapes can be cut or drawn. If materials are impossible to obtain, proceed with your imagination and visualize an object in each position during the placement steps.

IMPORTANT!

If you are unable to perform the physical movements (standing, walking, etc.), do not stop. Improvise by leaning, sitting, or whatever you can do. If movement is impossible, close your eyes and vividly imagine performing the actions. Magic is still accessible to you; be creative.

Read through this exercise multiple times and memorize every action and word so you can focus on feeling and intention during the work. Pay attention to all detail notes.

Relax First

Sit or stand with a straight back and take a minute or two to release all body tension. Focus on and release tightness, especially in your neck, shoulders, and hips. Appreciate the relaxed state.

Initializing Breaths to Prepare the Operator (That'd be you.)

These cleansing breaths release stagnant energy, recharge your being, and level your awareness.

1. Exhale: Push out all old air, feeling heavy, old energy pass out.

2. Inhale: Breathe in deeply, filling your lungs from bottom to top, knowing you are drawing in renewed, vibrant energy.

3. Hold a few seconds, then repeat. (Steps 1-3 are one breath.)

Take 3, 6, or 9 breaths, whichever feels best.

Preparing the Space

Chant the following slowly four (or eight) times: RA MA

• "RA": Think up, forward, project, outward, masculine.

• "MA": Think down, back, receive, inward, feminine.

The full chant is: RA MA RA MA RA MA RA MA!

This balances the active-passive (male-female) energy of the space and reinforces the harmonization of your own energetic poles from the cleansing breaths.

Call the Attention of Spirit

Look up and say: "Crown of the Father, the Sky, Air and Fire above me!"

Look down and say: "Throne of the Mother, the Ground, Earth and Water below me!"

Point your right index finger up (curling the others back) and your left index finger down (thumb pressed forward).

With hands pointing up and down:

Look up, say: "Ahhh! EEEEE! Heavens know me!"

Look down, say: "ZZZZ! Uhhhh! Underworld know me!"

Keep your fingers pointed and look ahead. Visualize a bright yellow sun ahead, hold the image, and then let it fade. This direction is now Magical East.

If Performing this in Daylight Hours

Bring hands to sides and face Magical East. Imagine a silvery moon appearing behind you, illuminating your back, then fade it out.

Say: "Send round about me agents of the four qualities."

Raise your dominant hand and, as you turn a complete circle back to Magical East, use your pointing finger to trace a white or blue-white circle of light in the air all the way around you.

If Performing this at Night

Bring hands to sides and turn to Magical West (opposite East). Visualize the moon appear and light up the space, then fade it out.

Say: "Send round about me agents of the four qualities."

With your dominant hand, trace a white or blue-white circle of light in the air all the way around yourself, returning to West.

After tracing the circle, acknowledge this circle is your magical work space for initiation into elemental magic.

Creating Vessels for the Four Pillars

Start facing Magical East and make the following callings in order:

1. Magical East (Air): Raise your arms to the sides, turn a complete circle, imagining spiraling wind. Face East and say "Elemental air come to the first pillar." Visualize a creature of air appear.

2. Magical South (Fire): Turn right to face South. Place palms together in front of your solar plexus, fingers pointing like a spear. Take three straight steps forward, imagining your spirit rushing into the distance. Return to your body and say "Elemental fire come to the second pillar." Visualize a creature of fire appear.

3. Magical West (Water): Turn right to face West. Make flowing waves with your arms. Step backwards at a 45-degree angle (lifting foot to knee height, imagining a water wave pushing it back). Say "Elemental water come to the third pillar." Visualize a creature of water appear.

4. Magical North (Earth): Turn right to face North. Bend your knees as if to sit, then straighten, sinking your weight into your legs, imagining a stone statue. Say "Elemental earth come to the fourth and final pillar." Visualize a creature of earth appear.

Turn back to the East and say with intention:

Filling the Vessels and Setting Agents at Each Pillar

"Before the sky and the ground, in view of the sun and moon, from the essence within me and the virtues of spirit in nature I have laid the vessels out! Now fill them with life and they in turn fortify and attune me, then endorse and protect me henceforth in magical work!"

Next, walk the circle to place your items of correspondence and call on the authority of each element to seal your initiation.

Important: Place the item outside the circle at the compass point where you visualized a spirit. The physical item serves as a focal/anchor point. The subsequent calling appeals to the elemental hierarchy; say the words with feeling and intention.

Magical East

Light your incense or place your yellow circle just outside the magic circle.

Call to the ruling spirits of elemental air: "Ariel, Chasan, Pawrola send a fourth agent of the air to fill the vessel I have placed!"

Expect the request to be granted and welcome an elemental spirit to the pillar (charged field). You are calling for a "fourth agent" after the three ruling names.

Magical South

Light your candle or place the red triangle centered at magical south just outside the magic circle.

Call to the ruling spirits of elemental fire: "Seraph, Arel, Djinn send a fourth agent of fire to fill the vessel I have placed!"

Magical West

Place your cup of liquid or your blue wave at magical west just outside the magic circle, lined up perfectly with the item at magical east across from it.

Call to the rulers of water: "Tharsis, Taliahad, Nixus send a fourth agent of water to fill the vessel I have placed!"

Magical North

Place your salt, stone, or green square at magical north just outside the magic circle, across from the item at Magical South.

Call on the rulers of earth: "Kerub, Phorlock, Ghob send a fourth agent of earth to fill the vessel I have placed!"

The four items should be neatly placed at the compass points. North-South and East-West items must be perfectly aligned, creating an equal-armed cross centered in the circle. Visualize a perfect, equal-armed cross connecting the four points with a north-south beam and an east-west beam.

Final Charging of the Quarters

Return to face Magical East.

The four pillars, now marked by your items outside the circle, are attended by four elemental agents to witness your initiation.

Facing forward, touch each pillar in turn with your mind:

1. North (Earth): Focus your awareness here. Think of Earth qualities: security, safety, abundance, good health, and confidence. Feel strong, heavy, and durable. Welcome the agent of earth.

2. West (Water): Settle your awareness here (behind you). Think of Water qualities: relaxation and adaptability ("go with the flow"). Imagine troubles rolling off you. Feel intuitive and creative, relaxed and flexible. Think of good friendship. Welcome the agent of water.

3. South (Fire): Focus your awareness here. Think of Fire qualities: intensity and ambition (what a great sorcerer you shall become!). Feel your mind be quick and assertive, excited to enact magic. Feel speed and explosiveness; think about transforming into your ideal self. Welcome the agent of fire.

4. East (Air): Bring your attention here (in front of you). Think of Air qualities: personal growth and expansion. Anticipate filling your mind with knowledge and future explorations. Visualize your mind as a clear crystal, allowing perfect communication with your soul and guides. Welcome the agent of air.

5. Center/Axis: Place your awareness deep within yourself, be still. Send your awareness up into the far heavens, be still. Bring it back, then send it through the ground into the underworld's depths, be still. Know that spirit, from the crown, the throne, the sun, and the moon, has moved through every part of this working.

Seal Your Initiation Into the Magic of the Five Elements

Here is the final incantation:

"Movements of spirit from the four directions, on your pillars hear and behold me.

I honor your virtues and qualities.

Witness my commitment to understand all four.

I am known by the fifth and stand at the door.

Mind, body, and essences I enter!

Now attune well and fortify me.

Endorse my work and protect my energy.

Henceforth in stillness and rhythm, quickness and authority,

I will watch your course and cycle, when I call you return to me."

Stand in the raised energy for a moment.

Then say "With my thanks and in peace depart. Come again when I call."

Walk the circle from East to South, West, and finally North, picking up the items or extinguishing the flame/incense. Pour the salt and liquid out onto the earth afterward or leave the stone on the ground.

The work is finished, and you are initiated.

Explanation of The Work

This section explains what the operation accomplished.

Entered Altered State

By relaxing and focusing your intention during the initializing breaths, you achieved an altered state of consciousness. This state is essential for enacting magic, as it allows you to connect with subtle energies and magical currents.

Connected with Active and Passive Spirit

Since spirit regulates the four elements, calling on the divine masculine and feminine engaged both poles of spirit as a working medium. This connection was anchored and further coordinated by harnessing the intelligences of the sun and moon.

Raised a Sacred Space

The RA MA chant harmonized the area, allowing you to raise a magic circle. This circle clears psychic debris, elevates and harnesses your power, separates you from mundane time/space, and prevents negative energy from interfering.

Created Charged Fields as Receptacles

Your words, intentions, movements, and visualization created four initial charged fields of elemental energy. These focal points, set at the compass points around the circle, resonate with elemental energy.

Called Elemental Agents or Spirits to the Quarters

The compass points (quarters) channel elemental forces. The magical energy you raised, combined with the resonant items of correspondence, tapped into the elemental hierarchy to call elementals into your charged fields.

The three names called for each element were: the archangel, a service angel, and the sublunary elemental ruler (spirit in the earthly realm). This is a top-down engagement of spirit: calling the "general" to authorize the "major" who then deploys the "captain" to send the correct "unit" or "operator."

This ensured your quarters, or pillars, received an appropriate elemental presence (sentient spirits or semi-intelligent forces) for the work.

Entered into Contract and Sealed the Work

You contracted the elemental presences to attune your energy bodies to elemental frequencies and bear witness to your entry into elemental magic. You are now prepared for future learning and development.

This ritual is only needed once. Going forward, a simple "Come to the pillar in the north elemental earth" will suffice.