Yona Circle
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Advanced Craft
Shapeshifting
“Shapeshifting” is the Arcane Art of changing the appearance, energy, or energetic appearance of your Astral Self. It takes some Practitioners many years to accomplish the ability well and with the Animal Ally blessing, and help, it can become a beautiful “run with Wolf, fly with Raven and hunt with Bear.”.
Animals on the astral plane will help master this Craft if approached with reverence and humbleness. Humans, as an animal, are not less. They are merely viewed as “the one’s who forgot”.
One of the many speculations about the shapeshifting of the astral self is that most Practitioners find the traditional “wolf” easiest to attempt first. This is especially true if you connected with the Pack Magick of Wahya Circle. It is felt that “wolf” is always the Intented Magick for the shapeshift but many Practitioners do not always grasp or adhere to the various absences of the laws of this planes’ physics. Hence, you have a Practitioner that has shapeshifted into a wolf but remains upright, or bipedal, because that is how they know to move. Hence, a “werewolf”. While that is acceptable, it is off-putting to others who can see on the astral plane. You can learn to run as a quadruped in time.
ILL INTENT & ULTERIOR MOTIVES
The Intent of some who travel this plane is not always for the “highest good” or the “benefit of others” but only of Ego and Self and they are predatory – even on other planes. Regardless, PROTECT YOURSELF BEFORE YOU TRAVEL. (Cleanse and ground when you return.)
Because the astral plane is often filled with amorphous creatures not sure of how to BE on that plane, it is all simply energy effected by thought and our personal perceptions of that reality, or plane. Many are able to see their astral self as their Earthen self, a mirrored reflection. Others are able to shapeshift into whatever animal they are working with as companions, learning, growing, in the magick of that animal. Depending on what your purpose will be determines how you appear.
You have to ask yourself, “what is my Intent for astral travel while shapeshifting?” Are you learning? Exploring? Are nefarious means at play? Does the place you wish to travel accept the form of an animal better? (Take for example, traveling in the woods at night. An Owl may be more suitable. The Ocean? A fish.) Do you need to remain covert to protect yourself? Much thought goes in to shapeshifting before you actually do it.
BEING SEEN
Those that exist on that plane, in the Veil, the Gray, etc, may perceive you only as the shapeshifted being you first appeared as. Some may only see you as a ghastly appearance. As time goes on and you perfect your travel, you may begin to appear more and more solid on other planes. More energies may begin interacting with you, and more often. Presenting as an “anonymous person” or a bird may benefit you at various points, both protecting you and allowing you to learn in the company of other entities.
In time, you the Practitioner can determine more and more of how you are perceived. Translucent. Solid. A different being. It simply takes practice!
HOW TO
Throughout all of Golanv Circle we worked with external energy and its manipulation through Magick and Medicine. This often coincided with meditation. Some of us have gone on to work with internal energy and meditation. It is a balance of both internal and external energies that are utilized to become adept at shapeshifting. That practice itself is one of the Key components of Shamanic practice from around the globe. This type of Medicine and Magick is called on by the Shaman for healing mostly, say someone needs Fox Medicine and an increase in Self Love. They can go to other planes, shapeshifting as the Fox, learning that magick to share with the one who seeks it, OR with Self.
To achieve shapeshifting, one often requires the Magick of others to assist in evolving one’s personal energy at first. In time with regular practice, often through meditation, astral travel and lucid dreaming, you can travel on your own in the shape of the being you desire. Do you recall your Shamanic Journey for your Power Animal in Golanv Circle? That animal can show you how to shape shift further and learn in its form. The wisdom our Animal Allies share is priceless.
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