#unbinding

[urlovelover]

[thegodwhocums]

What's an unbinding?

lovely ask!

in many traditions of witchcraft, there's the concept of binding - symbolically tying up an adversary and preventing them from carrying out certain actions. "i bind these eyes, that they do not perceive me" - etc. in this sense, a binding is a deliberate and directed action.

one can perform an unbinding ritual or spell to remove this sort of binding working and cast off externally imposed limitations.

in the work @flamingkorybante and I do with Agdistis, there are stories and rituals to go along with their mysteries. one of those rituals is the unbinding. it demarcates the second stage of work with them, if you want to call it that, and it integrates their relationship with Dionysos.

bindings in this sense are more like triggers, pain points in the body that put limits on its actions. usually they are not deliberately set.

i think it's fine to outline the ritual, despite the mystery element, because it simply won't sound like anything much out of context. at any rate: let's say it's my unbinding ritual. I would use a combination of meditation and divination to identify where my bindings are, internally. we would mark them on my body using knotted cord, and paint my body with symbols. my collaborator, playing hierophant, would call in Dionysos as the Breaker of Chains to guide their hands, and physically cut through the cord while I, entranced, work internally to release them. the hierophant would release D and call Agdistis into their body to devour the pain and trauma and stagnation that is released, or to help pull the pain into a focal point (usually brick) that can be buried in the tree-mouth for them to absorb later. then, essentially the aftercare phase.

there is a little more to it than that but essentially: mark where you're tied, Dionysos breaks the chains, Agdistis takes what's released. that's an unbinding in the sense that I'm using it.

thanks for asking! 👹

[larksecho]

[theweightofdivinity]

The mind is a restless oracle, conjuring you again and again. But tell me, what incantation frees the heart?

[messiah10chi]

Unbinding. 🕯️🕯️

[ellectrickcolors]

🕯Unbinding spell🕯

A really simple unbinding spell I used after someone told me that they had secretly tried to bind me to them. You can also use this to severe any unwanted emotional ties.

Ingredients

2 black candles

2 candleholder

Red string

Matches

Needle/knife

To start, you carve your name and the name of the person you wish to unbind onto each candle. Then use the red string to tie the candles together. Light the candles then say " these two Flames burn brightly together, but one consumes the other with this link between them. No more shall I suffer from the sadness brought by (person's name), no more shall I be burnt by (person's name). (Person's name), I sever my ties with thee."

Using the scissors, cut the string that binds the candles, envisioning the Bond severing between you and whoever you are stuck to. Let the candles burn safely down and once they are completely out dispose of them each in two different places.

[uristmcdorf]

So last weekend the ex and I met up to perform a little ad-hoc unbinding ceremony.  We didn’t need one, per se.  We were never legally wed, and I have zero doubt the gods have any issues with the break-up given how things turned out.  But it was a way to give both of us a bit of closure and security, and to enable him to move on.

So we cut the handfasting cord in half, since it seemed the most sensible thing to do, and each took half to do with as we please.

I’ve... no idea what I want to do with mine.  Should I keep it as a memento?  If so, where?  Should I burn it, cast it into the sea, or otherwise ritually discard of it to mark a moving-on?  I’ve been pondering on it for a week, and was going to ask my local moot for advice at our monthly gathering, but that’s been cancelled this month.

[katiegoodrumillustration]

Unbinding the book - final out come