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Ethics in Magick 101
Making Time

One of the most asked questions by those in the beginning of their practices, is “how” to practice more consistently, or even daily. For the more versed a Practitioner is in Medicine and Magick, this becomes “what can I do to make my Work stronger”. When we see or hear that question, a Practitioner simply wants suggestions for bringing in energy into their day to day routine for the activities of daily life. However, if we look closer, or listen more intently to what is being said, we will see and hear that they are not allotting enough Time for their personal practices and their mundane lives.

They lack balance.

We say the best way to add more Medicine or Magick into your daily life is to change your perspective.

Start viewing each of your actions as that which you desire.

This means that when you wish someone a good day, you have cast a spell of Blessing on their day.

When you cook food for yourself or for someone else, you have cast a spell for Health, Wellness and/or Nourishment.

When you take your kids to school, you are casting a spell of Protection over the Journey.

When you care for a sick pet, you are casting a spell for Healing.

For the more versed in this concept, everything you do can add Focus to your Intent for your Workings.

EVERYTHING YOU DO CAN BE MAGICK!
EVERYTHING YOU DO CAN BE MEDICINE!

In order to Experience THIS CHANGE in your daily life you need to be consciously aware of it and make room for it. Every day can be as Magickal as you make that choice to embrace it.  The same goes for Medicine. SEE IT.

TREAT YOUR PRACTICE
AS SACRED!

Think about this, some of you, as you were growing up, may have gone to church every single Sunday (or another day). It was about 2 hours of your day almost every week for however many years you attended this practice with family or friends. Maybe you still do.

Some may have been, or are, grateful for this Experience to see the inner machinations of another Path and loved going to church for the fellowship with other humans. Or, maybe it was having the time to zone out analyzing and getting to know one’s mind or Self. Your friends were sometimes there, you got to sing (an ecstatic practice), and hopefully your Celebrant always had something interesting and thought provoking to share. It was not always “wasted time”.

What does this mean? Many of you may have had this same Experience, just maybe not with a Christian church but perhaps another religion such as Buddhism. The is not relevant, the commitment of TIME is.

MAKE IT A STANDING APPOINTMENT
This is often a difficult task with many factors that have to be addressed. This is especially difficult for those who lack Self-Discipline.

However, many people make this commitment to their religious or spiritual practices as a STANDING APPOINTMENT and nobody thinks it “rude” if they say “sorry, I can’t do that, I have church that day.” (or temple, or mass, or moot, or synagogue, etc)

So, why do you think differently?

Treat your spiritual practices as importantly as others do a commitment such as church, synagogue, mosque, OR temple. THIS IS THE CORE OF THE ETHICS OF MAKING TIME FOR YOUR PERSONAL PRACTICES. It is valuable TO YOU. You deserve it for Self.

You have a standing appointment to meet your practices with that of the Universe and you cannot reschedule it for anything else. This is the Stream of Consciousness you are attempting to swim in with learning Knowledge of both Medicine and Magick.

“Sorry, I can’t do that, I have a ritual that day.”

That is the first thing you begin to do, For some, this is where the Universe begins changing your life as you transmute the energy of it and learn to tell others, “no”. But if you want what it can offer, to Know They Self, if you want to practice daily and you have a busy life, YOU must put it on your on your calendar as NON-NEGOTIABLE. (Yes. We know there are exceptions that can be made.)

Some of us have learned the hard way what happens if Divinity calls to us, via a God, Goddess, Element, etc, and we ignore it. We “don’t answer the call.” For some, strife fills our life because we are ignoring our Self. Is that turmoil already happening? The flow of Energy becomes negative or stagnant, further loses its balance and is no longer a benefit to our life. We, or those around us, stay ill. Strange things begin to happen until we LOOK and LISTEN to what the Universe is telling us.

 WAYS TO ADD TO YOUR DAY

MAGICKAL/MIRACLE MORNINGS

When you commit to doing something every morning, your day becomes a miracle. It is called the Magickal, or Miracle, Morning for a reason. Generally, the Miracle Morning for many Practitioners is a six-step routine that is based on the concept of habit stacking. Habit stacking is when you pick several habits that you want to practice and make a sequence out of them. Eventually the sequence itself becomes its own new habit… a new “subroutine” that you run daily.

An example of the six habits involved in The Miracle Morning are:

Scribing (writing/journaling)

Affirmations

Visualization

Exercise (like Yoga, or walking)

Reading

Silence (Meditation)

When you read only the first letter of each word, it spells out SAVERS, which is an easy acronym to help you remember. You can change the order of the sequence and adjust the times you want to spend on each item according to what is most important to you. If you do not have a full hour, you can even shorten the sequence to as little as one minute for each step (but try to get the full hour as often as possible).
#LifeSavers

SILENCE (MEDITATION)
As soon as you wake up, your brain starts thinking Consciously. The point of this step is to start your day with a fresh relaxed mind. Meditation is a great way to accomplish this. Some Practitioners like to start their morning with 13 minutes of meditation at sunrise. Others simply wake up, exhale, sip Water and thank the Universe for another day of learning and adventure, thereby FRAMING THEIR DAY.

AFFIRMATIONS
If you do not know what affirmation are, they are basically self-fulfilling prophesies. They help you to build your self-confidence. An affirmation should be about something that you already believe or want to believe about yourself. They help you to visualize your future. They also help you to take action today to develop the skills you need to achieve your long-term goals.

VISUALIZATION
Visualization is similar to affirmation. Here is how they differ: Your affirmations usually make sure you keep your long-term vision in mind and have an idea of what the end goal always looks like . Your visualizations help you take the baby steps you need to get there. In visualizations, you picture yourself doing the work that you choose to do today, to make progress.

Visualization is use of the five senses to “paint” that picture in your psyche. What doe sit smell like? What does it feel like? Being able to do this cures you of being unmotivated. You will do the tasks because you already saw/felt yourself do the activity. Now, it is okay to visualize yourself completing big goals, especially the feelings associated with completion, even completion of magickal workings.

It is most important to visualize the day ahead. EVERYONE, even someone with aphantasia, can paint in their Mind’s Eye with their other senses. They do not “see” a rose, they can “smell” a rose in their mind. Or, they can feel the rose.

There are a very few human beings who have this diagnosed ‘inability’ to visualize due to an unresolved issue of the mind, be it Shadow or Ego work, or other. Those Practitioners will fill that spot with writing out what they are attempting to visualize with their other senses to start. In time, they gain superb power in areas of sense to make up for the absence of “sight”.

EXERCISE
The previous five steps are designed to awaken your mind and your Spirit, exercise will activate your body. It is not enough time to do a full workout. You are just trying to get some blood flowing and raise your heart rate a little for just a few minutes. Some find this a golden opportunity to begin short workouts of Yoga, or stretches of various muscle groups, at home. This increased blood flow sharpens the mind, strengthens the breath/Energy and teaches your muscles activities that traditional workouts of the West do not.

READING
Reading allows your mind to move in new directions. Whether you read a book, read new tarot meanings from the book of your new tarot deck (because someone did create the card and their definitions are imbued into the cards when they are created), it is the fact you are reading that moves that energy. It also has the potential to teach you something new or help you to connect with different feelings, emotions and magick you would not normally feel throughout the day.

SCRIBING (JOURNALING)
Journaling and writing are good for you, a dream journal, a Book of Shadows, etc. All those thoughts floating around in your head are cluttering up your ability to focus properly each new day. Journaling first thing in the morning gives space to allow these thoughts to exit and make space for new ideas. It is called “brain dumping” by many and helps you to connect your thoughts and emotions on paper to things you wish to learn. (You can also use a “note” app on your phone to journal, or send yourself an email.)

RECAP IDEA

Step 1. Meditate at sunrise to focus your mind on one thought or idea.

Step 2. Recite your affirmations to yourself in front of a mirror.

Step 3. Visualize (write about) your day and imagine yourself working on and completing tasks.

Step 4. Read for ten minutes to activate and inspire your mind.

Step 5. Transfer your thoughts into a journal that you can reference and analyze later.

Step 6. Exercise using only your body weight to get the blood flowing.

By doing and evolving to all of the steps involved in Magickal/Miracle Morning you are putting yourself in the right mindset to fully engage in your magickal life as it was intended and live it to the fullest. This is the most common Practice amongst ALL Practitioners of every Path.

Beginning Energy Work
Signs of Shadow

WHAT IS THE SHADOW?

Your Shadow is the not-you that sometimes controls your life. On several Paths, Shadow is where energy that has been called “Demons” come from for those who believe in them. For others, it may be known as your inner child, your inner artist, or your “little you”. No matter what name it goes by for you, the Shadow is considered to be in the 4th dimension as it does not occupy Three Dimensional space. It is energy FROM YOU that lives inside of your subconscious mind and can project, or be projected out, onto everything around you, even the family dog. It can even be the trauma that your body secretly holds for you.

READ THAT AGAIN.

Shadow is composed of everything about yourself that you have rejected over time or have refused to acknowledge, Spirit and Matter. Thoughts and deeds. We begin our Awakening with healing the Shadow of Matter. Later, in Yona Circle, we are introduced to healing the Shadow of Spirit.

Shadow and Golden Shadow both can MUCK YOUR LIFE UP. It can destroy friendships, end relationships and make you a hateful Practitioner. For those that are blinded by their Shadow, they Experience unfounded racism, prejudice, arrogance, bigotry, and various other energetically less productive or completely non-beneficial emotion. Shadow can cause you to cry needlessly or act in a manipulative ways to get what it wants … no matter the cost to anyone or anything around, including you.

Whatever you call it, the Shadow is a part of you. When it is not acknowledged or looked after, when it is not an integrated part of you or unevolved perception, the Shadow can cause all kinds of problems, big and small, if left unchecked. (Same with Unhealthy Ego.)

It can be difficult to know what is stopping you from moving forward and reaching your goals. If you are wondering if your Shadow might be at the root of what is going wrong, or non-productive in your life, here are a few tell-tale signs that your Shadow may be running the show.

THINGS ARE NOT GOING YOUR WAY

Things just do not go your way. You have a lot in your life that you dislike or find difficult. You are dissatisfied. Life is either a disaster waiting for Death, or it is empty and unfulfilling. You do not enjoying life and you may feel a little ashamed of what your life might look like to other people. You compare yourself to other people, or to an imaginary life that you thought you would have by now. You often receive in life what you fear, or the exact opposite of what you want. It is like your life is a restaurant, and the only items on the menu are things you really hate.

 

YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR VALUE TO THE WORLD

Your value might be a lot of things. It could be your love and passion, a creative skill, or an idea or practice that has changed your life. Even fulfilling hobbies can show your value to the world around you. Your value could also be that you are good at listening and holding that “verbal bucket” (as ITB says), or making people feel warm or welcome. If YOU do not personally feel YOUR VALUE, no matter what it is - or - you simply do not want to share your Self. This could be from past trauma/Trauma. Either way, this is a sign that you have some unacknowledged or unevolved Shadow to deal with.

You might feel that you do not have any value, or you are worried about your value being stolen or misused in some way. Example: Giving with conditions. Why do that? Or, maybe your thoughts about your value are based on other people’s opinions, or on things like net worth or professional achievements. (Money does not transfer Spiritually. A prime example are those on a Path that follows the often unfulfilling “Prosperity Principles.)

Or perhaps you want to keep your value to yourself, because you think that the world has not given you enough value in return. (First two things many pick up from their Elders in Western Culture: “the World owes you NOTHING” and “NO ONE CARES”. Once Practitioners start operating at their heart’s personal contentment, they start feeling much lighter.)

Denying that you have intrinsic value FOR YOUR SELF as a person is incredibly soul-destroying.

READ. THAT. AGAIN.

It is often a vicious circle – if you do not think that you have value, how will anyone else know that you have value? (Hence, if you do not LOVE YOUR SELF, how can anyone else truly do so? Those who try find an endless depth in a cup they can NEVER fill because it is your PERSONAL cup.) If you find yourself giving and doing too much for other people, it is likely that you have not taken the time to really value YOU. Stop doing it and see what happens.

Holding back your value because you have blame or judgements about the world is also a bad idea.

That blame and judgement is turned towards your Self, because you have been a part of what has happened to you. You are not your father. You are not your mother. You are not that person who hurt you. Not now. NOT EVER. You CANNOT own that – and THAT, my Friend, feeds Shadow in a DARK, non-beneficial way.

Maybe you have regrets about how you have behaved, or maybe you don’t have regrets, because you have never examined your Self that closely. Evolve. Look. Learn. #KnowThySelf

Another reason “blame of other’ becomes judgement towards Self is that other people are us, pushed out. We all carry the entire Universe inside of us. That latent potential to do or say anything, a behavior that you find unreasonably annoying or hurtful can be found inside of you as well.

Example: If you find you overreact to a certain type of behavior from another that is considered mildly  inappropriate, unwanted or unwarranted behavior, like lateness or monopolizing a conversation. It is often times like this that you exhibit the behavior too, in a different context. Blame of others is sometimes easier to bear than judgement of Self.

YOU ARE STUCK IN A CYCLICAL PATTERN

If there is a repeating pattern in your life, there is a chance that it is reflecting a twisted version of an unmet need. A Shadow need or desire can sometimes go both ways, good and bad. An intentional “peaceful” existence is not always good. Practitioners who live this way do not engage in the world around them fully. They are essential - where they are and have very little personal growth over Time.

The transfiguration of ‘wanting to feel needed’ to ‘wanting to feel used’ is a common one to perpetuate cycles, especially in domestic violence, as well. It is a difference of helping others versus hurting Self when you are unable to fulfill that need.

Examine common themes in your life closely. Do you have to hurt, or take from, Self to help that other individual? Do you have to always give something up to make others happy? Why do you do that?

What do these situations say about your subconscious or Shadow needs or desires?

Were relationship boundaries crossed in childhood? Were you expected to act or be a certain way as a child that was beyond your stage in development?
Example: did Mom project onto you when Dad was under the influence… and you inadvertently “always act silly” to make Mom smile as you saw her unhappiness?

Did your caregivers give you their time fully as you were growing through your Ages and Stages? This is where the unchecked psyche develops unhealthy and unsafe relationships, too.

YOU HAVE A LOT OF NEGATIVE SELF-TALK

If you talk down to, reprimand or otherwise bully yourself OR OTHERS, that is not only a sign of needing Shadow integration, but one of the causes of the Shadow separation in the first place. The rejection of the Shadow is not some hard-to-understand esoteric process, but a result of a lifetime of rejecting parts of yourself… stuffing them away … drinking or drugging them away … etc.

Read that again.

…and again.

Sometimes this process is as literal as putting yourself down constantly in your head, all the way to doing it out loud in conversation with others. By doing this, you make it okay for others to insult you or devalue you in that moment.

Again, were you abused as a child verbally? Were you abandoned? Were you belittled or told you were incompetent at a task? On average, it takes FORTY “well dones” to negate ONE “idiot” comment.

In another way, it is asking for ‘advice’ when what you really want is validation in your course of action or work, not because you genuinely think there is an issue with it, but because you don’t trust yourself to make good decisions. (What did you Banish with Spell One? Is this related to that in any way?)

Again, who invalidated you? Very rarely do children mock themselves or hurt themselves emotionally without an underlying reason. A worse case scenario example, regardless of intelligence, a child will hit themselves in the head if they do not know the words to convey the emotion of their hurt that originated from OUTSIDE OF THEM.

FALSE FACE
Sometimes it is pretending that you are not something you inwardly perceive as negative, even if outwardly you approve of it. These could be your sexuality, your creativity, your likes, and dislikes —especially when it comes to things as simple as food or colors. Our friends and families have bias and prejudices, and when those things are displayed in our perception, sometimes we will reject parts of ourselves to fit in with our family’s or societies’ idea of ‘good’, or we stop the simple “liking of that color” because someone else said we “are not supposed too”. (Weren’t all colors created equally? Why are we drawing lines with colors?)

RESULTS
This is often thought of as where “fetishes” develop. If Self as a child is shamed or blamed or not allowed to explore the world around itself safely and without prejudice, those things that were frowned upon by the caregiver can become internalized by the child as they grow. (We are NOT speaking of “kink” between two consenting adults.)

YOU HAVE WEIRD FLASHES OF DIFFICULT EMOTIONS AT INAPPROPRIATE TIMES

As we mentioned above, the Shadow is formed by us rejecting parts of ourselves. A great deal of the Shadow is formed from many emotions like rejected lust, anger, empathy and love. At times in our lives we have either bottled up our emotions and tried to ‘move on’ or we have ‘lost control’ of these emotions and performed a behavior which we now regret. Instead of working out a system to both deal with new instances of human emotion as well as deal with the old emotions that are trapped in our mind, we often orphan those emotions and push them into the Shadow. Detoxing of the Ego is imperative to evolve through these emotions AND heal Shadow as well.

UNCONSCIOUS PARTS
The Shadow is a part of the unconscious mind and wants to talk to the conscious mind. If you try to ignore it, it will force its way up out of you at ‘inappropriate’ times when you are not ready for it. In Chaos Magick, these are sometimes called “demons”. In Christianity, “demons”. Repressed emotions can get stuck and turn into energetic blocks within the body. Sometimes, this releases telekinetic energy around you and “things happen” such as poltergeist activity.

If you are working on a block in some way, intentionally or otherwise, that emotion will start to release with the more you address it. Since the transfiguration of stuck emotions into blocks does not always go the way we think it will (stuck anger turns into depression, for example) the sudden reappearance of emotion can be quite shocking and difficult to deal with, so we shove it back down into the Shadow again. If you KNOW this is happening, seek professional help to walk through this with you. This can become very heavy and clinical depression can set in, worsening the situation.

YOU FORGIVE TOO EASILY

How quickly do you brush over your emotions to please someone else? Or, put on a brave face at work? Or, do you perform ‘spiritual bypassing’? This is where you suffer a wound from somebody else, and rush straight to forgiveness and ‘healing’ without letting yourself feel the pain, usually fear and anger, associated with that wounding you just endured. This is an important emotionally evolutionary step.

If ‘It doesn’t matter,’ or, “it’s okay”, is a common phrase in your life, you might be rushing to some stage of forgiveness or acceptance far too quickly. Analyze that response if you give it.

This does not mean that you must change your behavior when it comes to other people. There is a line between allowing yourself to feel angry and upset when someone has done you wrong and holding a toxic grudge or a pissing contest for the rest of your life.

Instead, try saying ‘Thank you for apologizing.’ or ‘Apology accepted.’ instead of ‘It’s okay’.

It is two fold here to do this. One, it let’s them be accountable for their misstep or wrong doing without YOU taking that ability away from them, and two, it allows you the ability to acknowledge your Self and what may be at play. Do not brush of slights so easily. Hold fast behind your boundaries. Write an angry letter that you do not send — if you need to, or indeed, work through you initial feelings of anger until you can have a civil discussion with the object of your ire about how to move forward, if you desire to do so.

But do not dismiss something as ‘not important’ even if your reaction to someone else’s behavior is not their fault. You can not perform anger ‘at’ someone you are merely jealous of, but to dismiss your anger as being ‘silly’ or ‘useless’ is to reject it. Sit with that feeling and figure out how to use your anger to push you forward into getting whatever it is that you are jealous of. Anger can motivate change for good.

YOU DENY YOUR REALITY

There is putting a brave face on, and then there is pretending your life is fine — when in fact it is not and it bothers the Hel out of you. Even if your life is ‘average’, whatever average means, if there is something in there that you do not like, accept that you do not like it.

If you do not like your life, that is a good enough reason to change it. If you are not honest with your Self about how you consciously feel about something, how will you cope with how you unconsciously feel about it?

AVERAGE TRAPS
Get out of the Average Trap. As asked, do you like your life? What about your goals – do you like what they will bring you, or are you just trying to fit into the ‘average’? Average does not have to literally mean the average person on Earth. Every class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and geographic location has their own intersecting Average Traps.

Sometimes leaving the Average Trap can feel like a betrayal. Sometimes people whose identities are so wrapped up in being certain things that they will actively try to stop people from leaving their Average Trap. Do you know someone like this? Is it you?

Terry Pratchett once described it as a ‘crab bucket’. These buckets don’t have any lids, because if one crab tries to escape, the others will pull it back down to ‘safety’. Well, I have news for you. Everyone Vibrates at a different frequency. No two humans are alike hence, NO TWO LIVES ARE THE SAME. And YOU, Crab, can climb out of that bucket.

You can love and appreciate your roots while growing beyond them, into a trunk and branches and leaves and fruit. AND THAT IS OKAY.

YOU DENY YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS

Rejected desire is the main body of the Shadow. We reject desires constantly, whether by pretending we do not want something, or by prioritizing other activities over acting upon that desire so consistently that we begin to forget we even have that desire.

By accepting that you want something, you start to integrate those orphaned desires and you can begin to act on them in a kind, conscious and deliberate manner.

YOU’VE CHANGED YOURSELF TO SUIT SOMEONE ELSE

We all have masks and personas. Small created selves that we use in different situations. A more professional you for work. The parent that you become around your children. But when you confuse the mask for the reality, when you strip your identity back towards being ‘just’ a mother, or a writer, or whatever it is that you allow yourself to be, you repress all that you could be. Stop it!

These changes can seem small at first and are often in service of someone else. Perhaps your emotionality is inconvenient for a logical family member, or your critical attitude is misjudged by your more sensitive friends.

You can manage and work on your behaviors, tones, “resting bitch face” (Which NO ONE has. That is NEGATIVE SELF TALK. Or, it is an insult to another human whose shoes you have never walked in.) How you express key personality traits can and are often misinterpreted, but you will never outrun who you really are.

As children, our personalities are less well-rounded, and our basic traits are more obvious. We are essentially born ‘who we are’. We are still learning how to be in this perception, or world, and too harsh a judgement can have us focusing on the trait as the problem, not the behavior. Sometimes in trying to reintegrate our Shadow, we can transmute that self-judgement back into blame of other – ‘I’m not too critical, it’s other people who are too sensitive.’

By acknowledging all our traits as neither positive nor negative, but as gifts we can bring to ourselves and the world, we can view ourselves through a non-judgmental lens. As stated above. Furthermore, THIS is why you LIVE IN YOUR TRUTH. Being non-judgmental to Self is showing Self UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. That’s divine!

YOU USE YOUR WEIRDNESS AS A DEFENSE MECHANISM

There is a difference between being proud of all you are in your whole and holy uniqueness and using the weird parts of yourself as a defense mechanism.

The amount of times we have seen someone else introduce themselves as ‘weird’ is staggering. We each are in fact, NOT WEIRD. It is a way to self-reject, built to push people away from you so you don’t show your heart and then get rejected when you weren’t ready for it. Or, it’s a way to make excuses for your unwanted behavior – you don’t have to do the hard thing of trying to connect with other humans, because you have the Weird Card. Weird People only get to talk to other Weird People. The thing is, you’re not that weird. And by announcing it, you draw attention to it. By describing things about you as weird, you make other people uncomfortable.

One, because they have that weird thing about them too, somewhere deep down. Remember what is said about each of us carrying the whole Universe inside of us? A lifetime of studying fiction in all its forms has told us that there is no such thing as an original idea. You are the same multitudes of ideas as everybody else, just stacked up differently. Instead of trying to find people who have the same pattern of weird as you do, you will fare better trying to stack a few ideas together and seeing if those are compatible with various other people. You’ll have book club friends, and foodie friends, and people you tolerate at work, and so on. You don’t have to agree on everything – you just have to find them interesting. (And preferably kind).

The second reason why announcing your weirdness is used as a self-defense mechanism, is that an unconscious warning light will flicker on inside of the other person, wondering what else you are going to call as weird. They will begin to hide the things about themselves that they think are weird, or boring. It is almost completely unconscious that this is done.

If everyone is hiding from each other, no one can connect.

And genuine connection with another human being is often scary as hell, even without the ever-present risk of rejection.

Also, perhaps when you describe yourself as weird, you are sometimes looking for validation – and that’s not a particularly attractive prospect, especially when you’ve first met someone, which is normally when this announcement happens.

It’s a horrible thing to do to yourself, to bring up everything that makes you “YOU” and label it as weird, as something the other person needs to be aware of before you’ve even had a conversation.

There is a vast difference between being proud of all your weird bits, and being, as they say, all edge and no point. When you apologize or justify your weirdness, you are actually NOT accepting Self. Read that AGAIN, when you apologize or justify your weirdness, you are NOT actually accepting Self. When you use your weirdness as a battering ram or a wall to keep people away from you, you’re not accepting it. You’re not loving it. If you did, it wouldn’t be weird to you. You don’t have to have a reason to like something or to be something or to crave certain experiences. Being subversive or going against the grain is often a sensible way to live your life – do what you’ve always done, get what you’ve always got, etc. But being subversive is often a lot more shocking if you don’t announce it first. People are going to react to you however they want to – you don’t get to control that. But loving yourself, rather than apologizing for it, will make it easier for that genuine connection to happen.

YOU WORK HARD AT SOMETHING AND DON’T GET RESULTS

Lastly, If you’re genuinely pushing at something, you’re not under crossed conditions or cursed or not performing at your best due to circumstances or bodily illness, and nothing’s changing, that’s a huge sign that your Shadow needs integrating.

No long explanation here – if you consciously want something and consistently work towards it and nothing’s budging, that’s a huge sign that your Shadow needs to be integrated. You may be trying something for the wrong reason.

Correspondences 101
Waning Crescent

The Knowledge expressed in here is not presented as a signal for you to question your Path. It is presented as the viewpoint of one on another Path, as “no two Paths are the same.” …and only that, no matter what that Path is. Trust your Self and what calls to you.

The waning crescent is the last phase of the moon we will look at for the essential phases for this walk. During this particular phase, the illuminated part of the moon gets smaller and smaller, until the cycle meets its end, and starts again with a “new moon”. The waning crescent is meant to restore your thoughts and your intentions. During the Waning Crescent Moon phase, the lit-up part of the Moon decreases from 49.9% to 0.1%.

A recent study found that ovulation occurs in most human mammals, on average, 12.4 days before menses. If menstruation starts near the full moon, a female’s most fertile phase would occur near the new moon. Do you know when your cycle is? If you do not have a Moon Cycle, do you know what your biorhythm cycle is?

All species have a cycle. Even if you do not have the “physical” components of a biological “female”, you can have them Energetically in Spirit. They can remain in your Spiritual body. Whether you are a female who has had a full or partial hysterectomy, a male who identifies as female, or a fresh Spring Maiden, …even a biological male who identifies as a man has a biorhythm. ALL OF US cycle with the moon.

WATER RHYTHM
It is imperative to understand when this is occurring, amongst many other changes related to biorhythm, as it can be Additive or Subtractive to the energies of your Works. Two parameters are required to calculate the the cycles: your birth date and the date to start calculations (today). Each cycle is calculated as a sine wave using the following equations: Physical = sin (2Πt / 23) Emotional = sin (2Πt / 28)

Generally, the formula to calculate biorhythm is y = sin(2Πt / B), where t is how many days you've been alive and B is the number of days in the cycle being calculated. Every day in your cycle, calculate the new t value for each biorhythm, then plug them into the general equation.

Know that there are 3 biorhythms: the physical, emotional, and intellectual. The physical biorhythm has a 23-day cycle (Planetary), the emotional biorhythm has a 28-day cycle (Lunar), and the intellectual biorhythm has a 33-day cycle (Solar). They all require BALANCE.

Even the strongest and most important biorhythm is the daily circadian rhythm (from the Latin circa, meaning “about” or “approximately,” and dian, meaning “daily”) that guides the daily waking and sleeping cycle in many animals. This rhythm requires balance as this is where melatonin comes into play.

”Too much” melatonin and you can get drowsiness, dizziness, fatigue, headache, confusion, nightmares, hypotension (low blood pressure), tachycardia (high heart rate) and hypothermia. “Too little” and you can get the most common symptoms of melatonin deficiency include: Insomnia. Those struggling with insomnia, whether it's stress induced insomnia or acute insomnia, often have a difficult time falling asleep during bedtime and staying asleep. Many insomniacs will fall asleep eventually, only to wake up during the night.

But, not all of us know our natural rhythms, nor are we efficient at the higher maths. We simply watch for the effects of each portion of the cycle. We see it can cause a healthy human body to pull Element Water away from its Spirit as evidenced when your sputum thickens, or when your vaginal secretions thicken and become “stringy” to “sticky”, or your ejaculate becomes thick. (A dehydrated person is imbalanced and cannot easily see the effects of the Elements around them while they are in Matter.) Humans have forgotten how in tune their bodies can be, or are, with the Universe around them and with all the energies they connect.

When your body, made of Matter, pulls Element Water out of balance - because you are ON EARTH (Element) and you are “of Earth/Terran”, Element Water is pulled FROM YOU back to its Source, Mother Earth. For you, as in the above passage, movement of Water is effected most easily in the body. “Water is life.” THAT is an understatement!

Thereby, you have to ADD ELEMENT WATER to your Working if it serves as a Correspondence for you and the Moon is in a phase that allows Mother Earth to pull Her Element Water back. - OR - You can work with a an Earth Deity, rather than a Celestial (Deity) if you need every drop of energy you can muster from Element Water.

An example of this would be a deep trauma/Trauma, or Shadow Work. (You will soon learn the difference — if you do not already know.)

The Dark Moon utilizes Element Water, especially when passing through a “Water sign” Zodiac, more than any other phase of Luna. By that, we mean that Luna loosens grip as Earth tightens grip. It is a beautiful ebb and flow of “as above, so below.”

The Moon effects the ebb and flow of the tides in Water, because we contain a high percentage of Water, the Moon effects us too.

Understanding biorhythms with the moon is a new concept for most humans. However, everyone having the “same cycle” is NOT what we speak of. You have to find your cycle. (No two cycles are exactly the same.) It may not occur as suggested. The other factor to consider is who you are around. There are studies that suggest groups of females will often begin to cycle together, office groups, nursing groups, coworkers, fellow students, etc. Females that live in the same house will often cycle with the stronger emotional Moon Woman or the Alpha Female. We believe this is a holdover from our days deeper in the animal Kingdom. The same can be said for the male of the species. They cycle together. If seeing human animals in the male form is difficult for you to view at this time cycling together, look at the male deer rutting, runion or salmon running, any mammal and its mating dances and courtships. WE ARE ALL EFFECTED BY THE MOON.

ESOTERIC MEANING OF MOON
This time of the moon represents the Goddess in Her Crone aspect when many Practitioners give praise to Hekate, Morrigan, or one of the other Crone Goddesses. This is also known to many Paths as the "Moon of Harvest".

LOCATION
It is located 270 - 315 degrees ahead of the Sun and lasts seven to ten and a half days after the Full Moon. Use this time wisely.

Practitioners draw upon the release of any negativity, not just banishing it but consciously letting go of it. (Remember your Banishing Spell?) They also continue any banishing done during the last phase —a previous Work, in order to “recharge” their jar or sigil, or whatever magick they used for that Work.

As stated before, this is a good time to concentrate on removal of Self from situations, relationships, and habits that no longer serve you or in fact may be harming you. It relates to the storing of the Harvested Plant, your Self Worth, your benefit. A time to rid oneself of everything that is causing obstruction, to rid your Self of anything or anyone that no longer serves you to your “best benefit”. Some Practitioners say it is a good time for hair cuts to slow growth, dye hair, pluck eyebrows (wax ...) It is also a terrific time for Self-analysis, rest and recuperation, meditation, GROUNDING, and readying oneself for the energies of the coming New Moon if working before its arrival.

DEVICE APPS

App: Sky Map (Android)

App: Sky View (Apple)

Moon Phases (Trusted source)

Surrounding Energies

It is a very interesting perception that we take on as Practitioners when we begin looking at the Energy of everything, including ourselves.

Think About It
Think about what you have had going on for the last month. Think about your First Spell. Have you noticed any changes so far in yourself, or your surroundings? Have you noticed others treating you, or viewing you differently?

Moon Day WM2

General - Journal - Book of Shadows

SUBMISSION:
WM2 MON CONTEMPLATIONS 101 - Surrounding Energies
(Due by Sunday)

Please answer questions found in Contemplations 101 in ONE PARAGRAPH or more.

EMAIL
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IF NO BUTTON IS PRESENT
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Moon Check II

General - Journal - Book of Shadows

SUBMISSION:
WM2 MON MOON CHECK II
(Due by Sunday)

Please submit the following for your final Moon Check of the 28 Day Watch.

ONE PICTURE of the moon in its current phase - or - where in the sky the moon would be located for you —SHOWING THE CLOUD COVER, with the following items written or typed on a piece of paper IN THE PICTURE:
(Moon apps may be used.)

1 Moon Phase
2 Zodiac Sign that Luna is in

EMAIL
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Please utilize the above email link
IF NO BUTTON IS PRESENT
to receive full Submission credit.