Controling and
Working with Elemental Energy
I wanted to write a bit on utilizing magickal and natural
forces around us. How to control these elements and process
them with and without ritual. To a many witches/magick users,
ritual and spells which are long and drawn out are not nessecary,
you can cause magickal influences by force of will and knowlegde
of the energies around you. All energies are different and
thus you must learn about these energies separately.
We must become one with our
environment and our body to fully utilize elemental energy
within and around us. there are many types of energies in
all environament, elemental energies, human energies, spiritual
energies and the straight magickal energy. Now to use these
energies you must recognize that they are a part of you and
you are a part of them. You can look within and feel them,
hear them, and see them. They all flow on a stream and you
can control where in that stream you want to be. To visualize
the energies which are around you there are several simple
thing you can do.
1) Close your eyes. Take
several deep breaths trying to inhale that which is around.
See what colors and images you see as you do this.
2) Hold your hands about 5 inches apart from each other. Force
energy through your body, down your arms and into a ball between
your hands. Feel what kind of energy it is and how it reacts
with what is around you.
3) Hold your arms in front of you, palms facing up. Spread
your fingers out and stand with you feet about a foot apart.
Face the sky and draw energies into you third eye. Feel the
divine voice and understand through that voice what energies
are around you.
4) Ground yourself (if you dont know how to do this I'll explain
it later if you want). Sit on the ground in the mountain position
(on your knees with your fett under you bottom). Place your
hands on your thighs and allow energies to enter your heart.
Push these energies back out and try to see how your body
has effected them. Balance yourself out with the energies
around you and the energies within you.
5) Meditate on the energy stream which is around you and your
place in it.
Now we must also understand
what kinds of energy there are and how to identify them. Probably
the easiest type of energy to identify (and thus the most
often called upon) is elemental energy. I believe that every
element has an opposite and a consort. (One it clashes with
and can control it, and one it works well with and amplifies
it) I also believe that the traditional five elements of the
pentagram is out of balance and thus I have added a sixth
one to the group to balance it out.
Air
This elemental energy is associated
with the East. It is considered to have the power of movement,intelligence,and
purification. It is said to represent the power of mind over
matter. This element helps focus thought, clarify the mind,
and divination. The element of air is the force which is felt,
yet not seen. It is silent and also a fuel for speed and power.
Earth
This elemental energy is associated
with the North. It is said to have the ability to help with
fertility, motherhood, stabilization, and life. Everything
is dependant upon this element. It is said that this element
helps bring us back to our roots, our primal form. This element
is said to bring prosperity and wealth to an area. It also
is used in binding and knot spells.
Fire
This elemental energy is associated
with the South. This element can be both good and bad, symbolizingcreation
and distruction. It creates heat, but while it does it must
destoy something. It is often used as a symbol of rebirth,
focusing, cleansing, and transformation. It also helps to
create self control.It is most commonly used in Candle magick.
Water
Water is associated with the
West. It is the elemental energy of cleansing, love, and healing.
All life is dependant upon water and thus it is a symbol of
life. People who are dominated by water energies tend to be
dreamers, poets, and abstract or whimsical thinkers. It is
used as a tool for healing, purification, new beginnings,and
peace. It is said to develope psychic awareness, bless unions,
and create peaceful dreams.
Spirit
Spirit is related to all directions.
It is the element of the divine and the purity of the soul.
This element brings us closer to the divine voice which resides
within us all. It is said to open us up to the hidden potentials
of all humanity and magick energy which flows around us. This
is the energy which guides our destiny and makes us individuals
as well.
Chaos
Chaos is related to no direction.
It is the movement which bring everything together into the
center of being and beyond. This element bring us closer to
the chance of life and inner emotion and raw power. It is
said to open up your mind, heart, soul, and body to all the
energy which surround it. It is related to all the knowledge
of the past, future and present and brings us into harmony
with them all.
The Elemental Opposites
Fire<--->Water
Earth<---->Air
Spirit<--->Chaos
The Elemental Consorts
Fire<--->Air
Earth<--->Spirit
Chaos<--->Water
Now, to control these energies,
you must be able to control their consort and their opposite
as well. Their consort to fuel them and their opposite to
control them. You can control elemental energies many ways,
some are easier than others and some are more useful than
others. You can control them through spells, rituals and other
assorted types of magick (stone magick, rune magick, herbal
magick, candle magick etc) but I am not going to focus on
those methods.
The easiest way to use elemental
energies (outside of tools and ritual) is to use your body
as a channel for the energies around you. This can be difficult
for some people, as some people are very closed off to outside
energies and have a hard time letting other things flow through
them. There are several ways to practice allowing elemental
energies to flow through you. The best way to practice allowing
other energies in it to connect yourself with one element
at a time.
To connect with Earth practice
grounding. Also sit in mountain position and place on hand
on top of the other (face up) and press the tip of your thumbs
together. Place your hand close to your torso on your thighs.
Close your eyes and relax. The earth energies should easily
flow around you.
To connect with the Air elemental
energies you should (sitting in the same position) make the
'OK' gesture with your hand and then place the tips of your
middle finger together. Your palms should be facing up. Now
breath in and bring your hand level with your chest as you
do so. Breath out and turn your hands over and bring tham
above your head. Breath in again and pull your hands back
down to your chest. Turn your hands over and breath out as
you pull your hands down to your thighs. Repeat this as nessecary.
To connect with the elemental
energy of Fire you should (sitting in the same position) bend
your arms to about a 90 degree angle. Make the "OK" gesture
with your hands. Put your arms in front of you like you are
trying to make a basket, do not let your finger touch. Breath
in and push energy from your right side, around your right
arm, to your left arm and back to your heart. Repeat this.
To connect with the water
elements make your hands into a 'W' shape with your thumbs
touching each other. Sitting in the same position as before,
place your hands in the 'W' position on your knees. As your
breath in move your hands fluidly upward to about the level
of your chest. As you breath out fluidly move your hands back
down to your knees. Repeat.
Now, connecting with the Spirit
elements is much much easier. Place your elbows by you side,
bend your arms to a 90 degree angle with your palms facing
up. Tilt your head toword the sky. Close your eyes and slowly
lift your hands above your head. Slowly bring your hand back
down being careful to keep your palm facing upward.
To connect with the elementals
of chaos is probably the hardest to do.Most people do not
accept chaos as something useful or powerful, so they deny
it into their body and lives. Now to connect with the elements
of chaos you should sit with the bottoms of your feet touching
each other and your arms in the same position as that for
fire. Slowly straighten your arms out in front of you as you
breath out and bring them into your chest as you breath in.
Return to the original position holding your breath.
Now, once you are familiar
with these elemental energies, how they feel, what they do,
how they react with your personal energies; you can try summoning
them to you without using these exercises.
To do this, begin by trying
to make 'balls' of elemental energy. The easiest way to accomplish
this is to place your hands infront of you, palms facing each
other and about four inches apart. Focus the energy between
your hands. You should feel the same type of energy you were
feeling when you did the excercises depending on what type
you are calling. If you want to control the specific element
more, call up the elements opposite as well. If you want to
expand the energy, call it's consort.
OK. Now that you can channel
these energies how can you use them? This is simple. Once
you have learned to channel the energies easily, you can simple
call upon them at any time and use their properties to aid
you. You use the force of your will to make things happen.
For example, instead of casting a long intricate rain spell,
you simply channel the elemental energy of water and will
it to rain. It is the same as casting a spell, but simpler
and less time consuming. You can do this on the fly as well.
You can call upon these energies to protect you, harm others,
change weather, summon spirits etc.
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