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If you look at almost every ritual, you will at some point find an instruction that tells you to "ground and center." For instance, you may be told to drum and raise energy, send that energy into your spell, then ground and center. No problem, right? Except for one thing: hardly anybody actually tells you how to do it. Maybe Witches are supposed to be born knowing how to ground and center? But just in case you don't, here are some simple suggestions. There are really two different kinds of grounding and centering, and we do them for two completely different reasons. (Yeah, I know, many of the books don't mention that either. So pay attention.) The first is when we start a ritual, and ...
Wouldn't you agree that not a day goes by that each and every one of us isn't forced to rely on that one thing everyone says we were born with-good old common sense? Well, I believe that we were all born with something even more important, something each and every one of us should be relying on a lot more than we do-our twice as good, and even older, cosmic sense. It's true. While common sense is the good judgment we've learned to develop by living in this practical world, cosmic sense is the incredible insight our soul couldn't help but develop while struggling to evolve in the spiritual one. Think of it as that remarkable sense of deeper understanding that only comes to us through our ...
People who are drawn to magickal spirituality are talented at turning the ordinary into the extraordinary. Things that can seem mundane to others can, in fact, be powerfully transformative for the magickally inclined. Even the simplest of acts can be turned into magickal acts. For example, why simply eat food when it can be blessed and enchanted before being consumed? Why overlook an eye-catching rock on the ground when it can be put on the Northern quadrant of an altar and be used to align with the earth elementals? Why discard the end of a sliced onion when it can be hung on string to absorb adverse energy? The list goes on! Our immediate reality can present us with countless ...
Tarot communicates through symbols and through images. By doing so, it creates a bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind. In this way, by manifesting this world between worlds, tarot allows a unique divinatory experience. Even though tarot is meant to stimulate the subconscious, the conscious is still a big player in the equation and its filters, strengths and weaknesses, should be recognized. One filter that must be recognized is on that is fairly common. In fact, the wonderful Kate Hepburn (playing Bunny Watson) recognized it in The Desk Set. Spencer Tracy (playing Richard Sumner): What is the first thing you notice in a person?Kate/Bunny: Whether the person is male or ...
