Sulum Factum Magus

I have previously given out a practice called Dragon Walking, which finishes with a version of the caduceus meditation, and energises the energy centres of the body. When working with either of these practices, I have found that sometimes the energies can become a little too heated. In order to counteract this tendency, the following procedure may be used following the energisation of dragon walking or the Caduceus meditation.

Place your attention at the crown chakra, which should be activated by the previous practice, with a feeling of buzzing, a vibration, or a sensation of inflowing energy. Visualise a cup of clear fresh water, pouring a stream of clear fresh cold water from above your head, into the crown chakra. When the crown chakra fills up (visualise it as a bowl), the water overflows, and drips and runs down the cup to a bowl at the brow centre. This cup also fills up, and overflows, dripping and running down to a bowl at the throat centre, which fills up and overflows, dripping down to the heart centre, and so on, through all the remaining   chakras – solar, belly, and root. Finally, the bowl at the root chakra fills up and overflows, and the water soaks down into the earth, or runs away over the earth in a little rivulet. As this flow of water continues, feel it picking up and carrying away any excess heat and energy that is too much for your current requirements, bringing a beautiful coolness wherever it flows. Hold the intention that at the end of the practice, you will be in the perfect balance of energies for optimum health and well-being for the rest of the day.

After a few minutes, end the visulaisation, and go through each chakra, from top to bottom, mentally intending the chakra to contract and close as required for your daily activities – especially if heading out into the public.

Blessed Be

Robyn

My first wife’s ex was Vietnamese. They were involved in a bitter custody dispute, which involved a bit of sorcery of the oriental type, some of which came my way. No lasting damage, but scary at the time. One time I was pinned to the ground in a dream, and my nose pinched closed so that I couldn’t breathe. I woke up very distressed – fairly leapt out of bed, waiving my etheric sword about and jumping around the room! Took me a good half an hour to settle down. Anyway, folks might be interested in the following thoughts that have come out of that and other experiences over the years.

Many people who involve themselves in witchcraft, sorcery, or psychic pursuits seem to, at one stage or another of their journey, believe themselves to be the victims of some kind of psychic attack, particularly if something freaks them out. Most of the time, I believe that it is just not the case. If you belong to a coven, group or brotherhood, and have a more experienced magical mentor, talk to them without delay! Here is a checklist for working through if you believe yourself to be under some kind of psychic attack.

(1)Are you drinking alcohol regularly or excessively, or smoking pot, or taking other psychoactive recreational drugs?
If yes, there is a good chance that substances are affecting your judgement and awareness. Desist for a period of one month and review situation. Most times a straighter frame of mind will reveal that there was no psychic attack at all. Even if the attack is real, avoiding all substance use will make you less vulnerable.
(2)Are you receiving prescribed medication for depression, anxiety, or other mental or emotional condition?
If yes, note that some medications may have a side effect of paranoia or delusions in some people. Discuss with your prescriber about changing your medication, reducing your medication, or weaning off your medication.
(3)Are you under stress, or feeling anxiety about work, a relationship, or other life situations?
If yes, you may be feeling hyper-sensitive. It may be attractive to blame someone else for your troubles. Take steps to squarely deal with the situations that face you. Talk to friends. Get professional counselling to support your efforts to take the bull by the horns.
(4)Do you feel that you are constantly under psychic attack from various different people and/or groups?
If yes, you are either a royal arsehole, have a penchant for pissing people off, or (most likely) you need to get some professional help to deal with your delusional thinking.

If you have answered no to the above four questions, and are otherwise healthy, sane and balanced, you may well be the victim of a psychic attack. If so continue the checklist by asking
(5)Who/or what is trying to attack me psychicly?
Is there someone you have really pissed off? Perhaps by ripping off a large amount of money, but most likely by sleeping with their partner or ex-partner, or by leaving a relationship, or through a custody dispute, business dispute, etc. If so, it is possible they are angry and vengeful enough to be bothered attacking you psychicly. If so, do they have the skills? If yes on both counts, maybe you are indeed being psychicly attacked, and need to do something about it.

Most people, unless they are practiced witches/sorcerers, do not have the skills to mount an effective psychic attack. God botherers may on occasion subject you to prayer sessions. And ordinary people can project a lot of negativity, usually without realising it, but neither of these are bothersome unless you make yourself vulnerable by believing they can affect you. A shield of energy/white light/etc is more than adequate – this is the mantle of the Lady for those who cultivate Her presence.

When dealing with focussed attacks by magical practitioners, the simple truth is that any attack on you requires the attacker to make themselves vulnerable. This is because any attack requires their attention to be placed on you. Anyone with a modicum of training and awareness can sense the attention, and follow it back to its source. So any attack provides an opening in the attackers defences.

The best defence against any psychic attack is to withdraw all attention from the supposed attacker, as your attention provides a psychic link which the attacker can use. If there are photos of the “attacker” in your house, take them off display. Remove any objects which remind you of the supposed attacker, etc, as these will pull your attention towards the attacker, and so open a connection. If you find yourself thinking about them, immediately start thinking about something else, for example a protective deity.

What can a psychic attack actually do? Mostly, it can just influence your state of mind. It succeeds if you become fearful, or believe that you are being harmed, or may be harmed. It is really no different to bullying, by any other method, wearing you down into a state of no confidence and a loss of faith in your own abilities.

Most psychic attacks are only as effective as one allows them to be – as it is one’s own vulnerabilities that first surface in a psychic attack. So if you have an episode of being psychicly attacked, the first thing to do is to give thanks for the opportunity to deal with your vulnerabilities. Without such a vulnerability, there is little that can be done against you. Also it is a great learning opportunity to deal with a psychic attack. Mostly you learn what your insecurities are, and how to overcome them! There are some paths that believe in pitting trainees against an adversary in order to test them out and toughen them up. However I find this a bit on the uncivilised side, and think that there are better uses of people’s time and energy.

So if you are being psychicly attacked, there will be a reason – you’ve upset someone with the ability to do such a thing. The best course of action is to withdraw all attention from said attacker, and make your aura impervious to their attention, by whatever visualisations/energy work is your predilection. Refrain from drugs and alcohol. Get plenty of good sleep. Close up your aura on going to bed. Remain alert and aware for any foreign energy impinging on your auric field. Most importantly, place your attention on a higher plane of vibration by whatever means you are accustomed to. Some believe in hitting back. However in hitting back, you also make yourself vulnerable, as you must place your attention on your attacker to do it! Make a considered judgement about whether you can get away with it first!

The rule of three fold return is an interesting one. I believe there is a return of energy – whether tit for tat, or threefold it doesn’t matter. Since I believe in a threefold return for misuse of power, I do aim to see that it happens when misuse is directed towards me. However I believe we are all connected within the body of Herself, so that being hurtful to someone else is damaging to Herself – not withstanding the need to defend oneself (psychicly or physically) from others who hold to a more individualistic viewpoint. So I often allow people’s negativity to dissipate harmlessly, rather than bouncing it back, especially if they are unaware that they are projecting it, as people often are these days.

While not doubting there are some individuals around who like the excitement of psychic duelling, the old saying applies – those who live by the sword, die by the sword. Better, in my view, to spend one’s energies creating a world in which all people can realise their full potential without the need for dealing with pointless conflict.

Blessed Be,
Rob

One approach to working with magick is to always consider the energy of whatever it is that you are doing. For instance if one desires to work with one’s dreams, building awareness of dreaming, and the development of choice in one’s dreams, then the first thing to do is work out what energy would be helpful to you in achieving this goal. The way I go about it is as follows. First of all, I work out the elemental energy required. That’s easy. Water is associated with all things of the psyche and the unconscious including dreaming. If my intention is to bring about self awareness within the dreaming state, then I would further differentiate to Air of Water, air of course, being associated with the mental realm. Having identified the energy required, I would then seek natural objects which embody this energy. My speciality is Australian trees, so I would select a tree which has an Air of Water quality – in my experience one of the smooth barked Grey Gums would suit, or a Casuarina or Kurrajong. Having selected a tree, I would then work a piece of the wood into a convenient size and shape that I can wear around my neck, under my cloths. It doesn’t have to be very big, but must be made in the full awareness of the energy connection required, with the intention to seek the assistance of the spirit of the tree. It must be made in a state of connection, as best as you are able to do. Since I prefer to sand wood through a series of grades to a high polish, to bring out the natural beauty, this may take some time. However, this time is time when you are doing the real work of building, strengthening and consolidating the energetic connection between yourself and the tree spirit, via the object you are working on.

I like to cut across a small branch, if available, to give a circular disk, and polish starting with 80 grade garnet paper, then 120, 180, 240, 400, 800, and 1200. Such a disk, once polished up, and finished with some natural cold pressed oil, such as linseed oil 2:1 with pure tea tree oil, feels beautiful against the skin, as well as beautiful against the eye. A hole can be drilled through for a leather thong, or if you prefer, the wooden disk can be mounted by binding a soft leather thong around the perimeter.

The object can be used as is, after being blessed and consecrated and charged with its magical purpose. However I find it useful to add additional energetic correspondences to fine tune the energy, in the way of engravings and markings. For example, a rune, or combination of runes can be selected, and engraved or burnt into the piece. In order to activate the dreaming state, for example, the rune Laguz refers to dreams, fantasies, mysteries, the unknown, the hidden, the deep, and the underworld, along with water and the sea, fertility and renewal. However it may also stir up any fears, obsessions or un-dealt with psychological issues that are currently lying dormant, so of course caution is required. Are you really in a healthy and positive space where you can safely and constructively deal with what may emerge from the deeps? Perhaps it is worthwhile stating this intention in your consecration!

Planetary energies may also be helpful. The moon is the obvious ruler of the realm of dreams, and so the astrological moon symbol may be engraved or burnt into the object to provide assistance in the endeavour. In addition, one may care to select a zodiacal sign to further focus the intent of the talisman. For example, the sign of Gemini (An Air sign) may be helpful in opening up communication between the conscious and unconscious selves, and bringing alertness and clarity to the mind.

Further energetic signatures are possible, using for example Ogham script, Hebrew letters, or numbers, however if you aren’t practiced in each system, there is a danger of confusing and muting the energy, rather than honing it to a strong and clear intention. My advice is to select from those symbol systems with which you are comfortable, or if you are exploring a new system, have at most one new symbolic character at a time. If you are of a particularly investigative bent, you can start off with no symbols, and work with your object as is for a week or two, then add a symbol at a time, and re-consecrate, then in the following days observing how the energy has developed.

Wear the object around your neck, against your skin at all times during the day. When you go to bed, have the object under your pillow. Notice the difference in energy in your dreams, and make notes in your journal each morning on waking.

The same principle can be applied to herbs, to make sachets, with appropriate symbols embroidered, sewn, or otherwise marked onto them. In all cases, the work of making the piece is not only in the physical construction, but in the holding of the intent and the energetic connection whilst in the making. 

Blessed Be,

Robyn