aka “I have barriers that I can’t keep down so better work with what I’ve got”. For anyone new reading, I’ve mentioned somewhere on here that I have, essentially, natural barriers that I subconsciously built up over a lifetime. They work pretty well as natural, constant wards, but recent events at @witchdraft ‘s housewarming party revealed that they also mean that I’m invisible to spirits (at least all current data indicates that, so while that may not be completely true it’s close enough)
so after another conversation witchdraft in which we determined that I’d be pretty good with essentially being a spirit spotter, essentially, since they can’t see me and I can (sometimes) see them I decided to go ahead an reprogram my barriers. There was a lot of silliness and memeing, but basically I settled on giving myself goggles of sorts, to allow me to see out of my barriers, and headphones, to allow different sensory inputs when I’m keeping watch.
I’m still working out what works for me re: ritual, but generally my needs are simple; some candles, incense, and some kind of music to help my brain keep on track. So I got my setup going, and once I’d relaxed somewhat, I started my visualizing. The goggles ended up being essentially goggle-shaped shutters in my barriers, with a switch to open up the shutters. The intent is that when the shutters are open, I’ll be able to See out, but things won’t be able to See in. We’ll see. I also ended up basically giving myself earhorns that lead to the edge of my barriers on either side, with similar switches, one for each ear. It may have been partly attention problems that prevented me from setting those up at the same time with one switch, but I can try to reprogram that later if need be. It felt successful, at least. When doing my physical write-up after finishing, I got the idea to also program in energy channels, with a similar switch-able setup, to allow myself to project and receive energy when those are open. I’m gonna experiment some with more external energy work with my boyfriend, so I’ll get an idea of whether or not I Really need that or Just Think I do. If I do end up programming the channels in, I may use a... knob sort of switch, with settings for “closed,” “projective only” “receptive only” and “both”. That may be excessive, though... Ah well, needs experimentation.
