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Seeking blog. An All Purpose Candle Spell. This is a quick, uncomplicated ritual designed to be used for all positive purposes. You'll need one candle of the appropriate color, one holder and matches. When you are ready to begin, hold the candle between the palms of your hands.Breathe deeply. Visualize your goal.Push personal, programmed power into the candle between your hands.Feel the energy streaming into it.Say appropriate words if you wish, simply stating what you need to occur.Place the candle in its holder.Strike a match above the candle and draw down the flame toward the candle.Light the wick,Put the still flaming match into a heat-proof container (or extinguish its flame with a quick flip of the wrist).Hold your hands around the candle's flame.Feel the energy.Visualize strongly.Leave the area, let the candle do its work.

(put the candle in a safe place before leaving it) Information and Energy. I stayed out of the first couple of rounds of the ongoing energy debate between Jason, Patrick, AIT, the Scribbler, and others but after reading over most of the discussion I think I finally have something worthwhile to add. This is in some ways an expansion of the comment I left on RO's blog the other day. So let's get to it. The root of the debate seems to be that the strict version of Patrick's information/semiotic model disappears the experiences of "energy work" practitioners.

Patrick has added comments suggesting that he believes anyone using "energy" in a magical context can only mean physical energy that would be measured in joules, but this strikes me as a bit of derail - I don't see anyone in the debate conceptualizing Chi or Prana that way, and the only example offered so far has been some ignorant New Age website talking about "crystal energy" and trying to relate it to the piezoelectric effect.

This diagram shows how a modulated signal is encoded into a carrier wave. MAGICAL THEORY. Peace of the Three Realms: A Daily Meditation | Voices of Pagan Pacifism. Current Moon Phase. Lunarium: Discover the Mysteries of the Moon. Pagan Calendar. Beth's Pagan Chant Page. Magical Technique. Pagan Prayer Beads. Pagan Prayer Beads Donald L. Engstrom-Reese Some of the earliest artifacts found and interpreted as holding sacred function are bead like objects . These objects include such styles as sculptural medallions, disks, lozenges and small rounds made of stone, bone, shell or clay. I first ran across the use of prayer beads in the contemporary American Pagan community quite by chance. ‘What a beautiful necklace!’ ‘This isn’t a necklace, Donald. Helen had made herself a set of prayer beads dedicated to the beloveds in her life.

This was an idea that held great potential. My first set of beads was dedicated to my daily practice, built around the idea of creating a basic Witchy circle: casting, calling, body of the working, devoking. Here are some of the basics as I now understand them. Basic Prayer Bead Construction The Beads 1. 2. 3. 4. The Prayer/Spell Poem Points to remember when writing your prayer/spell poem: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Prayer Bead Layout 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. AODA Study Program. AODA Study Program The following study program has been adopted by the Grand Grove of AODA for all members effective 21 December 2010. The window of time for members to complete studies under the old curriculum closed on 21 December 2012, with the sole exception of Third Degree projects approved by the Grand Grove prior to that date. Please note: the curriculum given in The Druidry Handbook is the old curriculum.

First Degree Curriculum The following requirements have been established by the Grand Grove for advancement to the First Degree of AODA, the Degree of Apprentice. The Earth Path 1. 2. 3. 4. The Sun Path During your Candidate year, celebrate a cycle of Druid holy days. The holy days may be celebrated alone or with others, using a ritual you create yourself or one drawn from other sources. The Moon Path Practice some form of meditation regularly during your Candidate year. Ovate, Bardic, or Druid Exploration Your Druid Notebook Second Degree Curriculum Core Curriculum in Druid Philosophy.

The Right Kind of Visualisation. Is what you see, really what you get? There are some wild claims out there for the power of visualisation. Things like: if you can imagine it, then it will come to you. Of course there’s always been a huge market for telling people things they want to hear, even if it’s complete rubbish. Still, visualisation can certainly be important in reaching goals. Much research has been conducted in athletics which shows the power of visualisation. Athletes are encouraged to experience their sporting behaviour in advance to enhance their performance. There is now hardly a sport left that doesn’t have psychologists telling players to visualise their performance.

Visualisation is also used in psychological therapies to help people change their behaviour. Effective visualisation So, we know that visualisations can be effective in helping us reach goals. Popular self-help books would have us believe that mentally simulating the outcome will help us achieve it. Process versus outcome The planning fallacy.