Sufficiently Advanced Witchcraft is Indistinguishable from Chores Part 3:
Tonight has ended up being energy management night, I don’t strictly schedule this particular chore, but is something that needs to be done at least once or twice a week. Like taking out the trash, it doesn't necessarily need to be done on a specific day, but you know when it needs to be done. I’ve been doing this particular exercise to manage my energy since I was child. My entire practice begins with keeping my energy organized and tidy.
Get comfortable, whether that's sitting, lying down, or pacing around the room.
Start taking slow, deep, and even breaths. 4 counts in. 4 counts out.
Feel your energy/power/magic/Whatever you call it as it naturally sits at the given moment: Where is it in your body? In streams throughout your body like veins? In pools along the path of your spine per at your major joints? Hovering just outside your body like an aura? Feel it where it is and as it is, unmanipulated.
Begin to draw all of your energy into a singular core. Gather it from everywhere it sits in and around your body one handful at a time. Pact it tightly and compactly, don’t let any spill or drift.
This is where you manipulate your energy to make it easier to measure out with your need. I spin mine into thread, but you could shape yours into a flower and pluck different numbers of petals depending on how much you need, a well that you draw different amounts of water from. The metaphor doesn’t matter, only that you can easily and comfortably adjust how much energy you take and you can keep it small enough to fit within you.
Shape your energy into its new form.
When you are done there should be no loose energy, no stray threads, nothing outside of that one core, everything should be wrapped up neatly and easy to conceal within any personal wards and glamours, of which I have many, and are my next maintenance task.
My next maintenance step is up keeping my personal wards and glamours. I’m not going to share my process for this, that’s a step too far, I can’t give away all of my secrets. Suffice it to say that my personal wards and glamours - which focus on obfuscation, misdirection, and appearing to be less than I am - rely on my energy being this carefully maintained. I am very deliberately “hiding my light under a bushel basket,” I don’t want anyone - spirits, other practitioners, surprisingly intuitive strangers on the subway, etc. to know what exactly I’m working with in the power, presence, and energy department.
*Note: recording of this energy exercise to come.
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