#magic brainstorming

[hexenwildling]

6.What colors, scents, sounds, objects, etc. remind you of healthy relationships (of any kind)? How could you use these associations to attract, strengthen, or destroy a relationship?

6.What colors, scents, sounds, objects, etc. remind you of healthy relationships (of any kind)? How could you use these associations to attract, strengthen, or destroy a relationship? I skipped doing these this weekend because I had a lot going on, now I am back on the 30 days traaaaain. Ok now I haven't had a lot of healthy relationships with people because i tend to mov eon pretty swiftly in my life. Meaning meaningful potential relationships are already razed before the sprouts get some sun. I have only a few people in my life i consider to have healthy realtionships. To save time I have chosen two. My husband and my bff. Ron: Colors: Burnt Sienna, Green, brown, and true blue. Sounds: The deep breath of uninterrupted sleep, laughter, bird whistles, reading aloud. Scents: tea, eucalyptus, orange, pine, mountain spring water Objects: snowboard, harmonica, comb, frying pan, climbing harness, bicycle Arianna: Colors: Purple, Yellow, Black Sounds: Singing, Italian accents, massive attack Scents: Polenta, Quiche, Diesel Objects: Yoga mat, face paint, contact juggling ball, waves It would be difficult to use any of these association to attract a new relationship since they are strongly linked to my memories with that particular person. But it an interesting exercise to think of what reminds me of a person. I guess to attract some new relationship I would pick things that represent the activities I would like to do with a new one. To strengthen the relationship or perhaps even psychic connection with the other person, these associations coul dbe used to make a poppet or to summon their "shade". Perhaps if we are far away we can both arrange the corresponding items and do the same ritual at the same time to build something of a silver cord to send energy along. To destroy a relationship or cut the ties, it would do nicely to round up said objects, place them on a raft and burn them out on water, so not only are the associations gone, but the ashes sink into the blackness of the deep subconcious.

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5.How do you (or would you) feel about doing magic with other people? What kinds of magic would you feel comfortable doing in groups, and what kinds would make you uncomfortable?

Group magic is odd for me. The only times I have successfully engaged in ritual with other people is 1. sex magic with the manbeast. and 2. Spontaneous rites with my mountain-witch sisters (Ari and Gail).

The worst experience I had was last year. I had joined up with a local pagan group who met to discuss things. Sometimes we did a guided meditation but the one time a group member wanted to do a wiccan ritual it just felt so ... odd. It was kind of fun but we had to recite all this stuff from a piece of paper and move very spcifically in certain directions and give our magical name etc. Overall it just felt forced and I didn't feel much power in it since the majority of the group were non-wiccan and all kind of just confused the whole time.

I think having a loose idea of what should happen during the ritual but then allowing people to bring their own creativity to it is very effective.

Namely what I did with my mountain-witch girls was very spontaneous. We weren't planning rituals it just sometimes happened. Chanting, making little towers of mud and offering stones to the spring where we got our water. Walking down a mountain path in the dark of night using the energies of the land to guide us without stumbling. Staying up for 24 hours to watch the turning of the earth. etc.

Group sex rites would be pretty rad but I imagine it could easily have it's goals confused in the mayhem.

The ones that would be most comfortable in groups would be sauna rituals, ancestor veneration where no one has to be uncomfortable with unfamiliar gods being invoked, offering things up to the fae and alfar or elements.

The most uncomfortable group rites would be very strictly ordered that calls upon angels or demons, or even gods that I have no relationship with. Sex rites where only two people have sex and everyone else watches. Rites involving entheogens or blood magic with people I don't know/love. Rites where you have to give your magic name and a kiss.

[hexenwildling]

30 days of Magic Brainstorming. Day 3.Find a spell online or in a book that you don’t like, and modify it until you could see yourself doing it — even if that means completely rewriting it.

My edit of a SaltYourBones spell, the Hearthstone. http://saltyourbones.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/h-is-for-the-hearthstone/ Materials: ■The firepit in the garden. ■Soapstone burner (looks like a thick rectangular stone with a gut in the top for wax + coal) ■ Garden Stone ■Candles ■Paper and Pen ■Jute Twine/Hair ■Small offering Choose a fireproof stone from your garden, or a craft store. Burn 1candle every night for the duration of 1 moon cycle on the soapstone burner. As the wax pools in the gut, sprinkle in herbs that align with the goals for your home. Right now my goals would be: ■Warding negative energy from work from entering the house, thus depositing the energy in the garden where the microbes and worms can purify it and give it back to the earth: Cypress, or Thyme - Saturn current ■Fostering comfort through household routines and necessities: Saffron, Sage - Jupiter current ■Inspiring sensuality, sex, and affection: Myrtle, and Rose- Venus current Each week get the wax hot enough to melt, it should be more and more infused with the herbs in it's liquid form. Use a thick paintbrush to brush the melted herb wax onto the garden stone. At the end of the month, your stone will be very waxy For each candle when you light it, it may help to recite something like a poem or a little song. "Warm warm the candle that trickles power down steep the golden flame into the stone where power's bound" On the night of the ritual, you can use the waxy stone or just hunks of the hardened candle wax to draw sigils around the firepit. Prepare an offering of comfort food. Bread, Honey, Hot Chocolate or Tea, Eggs, Cheese Clear your mind and get into ritual mode hwoever you choose. (meditation, casting a circle, masturbation etc) Arrange the wood in an overlapping circle areound the center of the firepit. Place the soapstone burner in the very center with the food offering around it. Write what you want from your home, the address and contact information of the house, and anything else you can think of on a sheet of paper. Next, take the paper and wrap it around the rock. Use multiple sheets if necessary. Secure the paper around the rock with the twine/hair place the rock on the soapstone burner in the center of the pit. Light the paper around the stone and start to fill the space with tinder like a nest, then small logs like a roof. Let the fire burn itself out and wait 24 hours for everything to cool down, save the ashes for other ritual work, like blessing the corners of the home. Remove the soapstone burner and place the hearthstone in the center of the firepit. Do not remove until you move to a new place. For moving, remove the hearth stone from the center of the old fireplace, and place it in the center of the fireplace in your new home (or in the kitchen somewhere if your new house does not have a fireplace). Burn a fire of Cedar logs the first time you light the new fire. Again once the Hearthstone is in the new house/ fireplace, do not remove the Hearthstone from the fireplace and fires should be built with the Hearthstone in the center. Feel free to make some more comfort food offerings when you move in to please the household spirits of your new place.

[hexenwildling]

What colors, scents, sounds, objects, etc. make you feel safe, protected, secure, and comfortable, and why? How would you use these things in protective magic?

Tea, i find tea very comforting. the amount of rituals to make and that already exist for tea is an exhaustive list. 

Ron. His arms and skin and smell make me feel like i'm not alone in the world, that things matter. sex magic. cuddle magic >.<

Sitting underwater. Like in a deep pool how you can chill at the bottom and look around. or being in the ocean feeling the waves overhead. This is a great place to build a ritual to gather power. Powerful lungs, powerful legs. When you push your feet off the bottom hard, You rocket to the surface and inhale deeply. Doing this mindfully could present some interesting ways to play with your personal power or feeling sof strength.

Forests with mossy floors. There's something so peaceful there. It smells like moisture and makes me think of death. Not death as in final and violent. More like death as in, even after all the fight and fear and pain involved in the act of death itself, the decaying being becomes a part of the enivronment. Insects scuttle and slide to clean the carcass, mushrooms spring up to purify the soil, all aspects of the former life ar enot removed or destroyed a smuch as they are absorbed. The mossy carpet slowly consumes the remainder and yet remains springy and fresh with the morning dew. Moss usually has it's own salinity that is very good for cleaning your hands off if they get dirty. This kind of place is great for when you are sad about the passing of temporary things. Your ritual could be to visit the place and cry, grieving your losses as your tears mingle with the salinity of the moss, then laying down on the soft earth bed and spending some time to meditate.

Big boulders. Camping your tent next to a big huge rock makes one feel so much less vulnerable. There's a lond tradition of Uitsetta, sitting outside, often on large rocks to commune with spirits, gods, ,or for divination. the rock can be felt as a stable foundation to give you strength when up against something you may fear. 

Cheese, Eggs and Bacon. breakfast foods, very comforting to me. Also, Calcifer. They remind me of my human body and how it's comforts deserve attending to. Protection from the inside out. The egg as a symbol of potential, the bacon symbolic of the flesh, and the cheese symbolic of patience, cuz it takes time to age good cheese damnit.

Steam from a hot shower- Use for a ritual involved in sheilding yourself from the bitter cold hearts of your enemies. It also reminds me of a mist to walk in on the other side of the veil. It can protect you from being seen by unfriendly spirits.