Magic circle
Greetings my Tribe and hugs of light to all.
Today's Post is made with the purpose of specifying my point of view and constant insistence on an important theme in magic and sorcery, in this case, is the due use of the Magic Circle, or ritual Circle.
Well, this is not a popular practice, nor is it mandatory, it is still advisable, especially for beginners and not initiated in practice, those who lack some experience with the subject.
It is normal when you have read one or two esoteric books, believe yourself an expert who knows everything and is prepared for everything, because many times the true practitioners of magical art do not place enough warnings in their books, as many of these explanations may seem At first sight, properly extracted from a science fiction book, and because many inexperienced readers can believe it to be an exaggeration, it is normal that many authors do not place enough warnings, because if you want your books to be taken seriously, we must, unfortunately, limit even the same reality to a certain point.
In each and every one of my books I have always recommended with remarkable insistence the use and creation of the magic circle, usually with a long and detailed explanation, and even in one of my most recent books "The Magical Art Of Crafting Charm Bags", as in the books before this one, I decided to include for the comfort of the practitioners, different forms and uses of the enchantment circle, including a short method and a complete method.
On one occasion someone answered me in a social network "not always have the time to make a magic circle, many times we attend magic by emergency", because my point of view, trying to be respectful about it, always available the time, make a circle with salt or some enchanted grass will not take more than two minutes, we are clear on something, it is two minutes, it literally finds the salt, some protection grass, flowers, or even a previously consecrated rope that you keep on your altar and you can use it on certain occasions, for all the Gods, it's two minutes! I do not think there are any excuses to say "I did not have two minutes to mark a small circle on the floor".
But as my mother would say "when out of laziness or arrogance you do not want to do things, any excuse sounds valid".
Second, when it says "we do emergency magic", that "pocket magic" or "instant magic" of which many are very followers now, I understand that the world, and especially for the fans of science fiction television series, It is great to imagine that everything around us must happen extremely fast and that we must perform "instant magic" for almost anything.
But unless you're being chased by a vampire in the middle of the night, I do not think any emergency deserves a counterproductive magic effect. A counterproductive magic effect is that result that occurs when you perform some spell or enchantment without thinking properly about the consequences of it (a love spell for example), and then it turns out to take an effect that is not properly what we were expecting, the magic it always works, but it works in two ways, or it works well, or it works badly, but the energy that we send around us will always end up producing some effect, positive or negative, but it will always result in something.
A magic circle works primarily as a practical form of protection, it will keep the energy inside the circle and reuse your own energy contained in the circle to protect it properly from external energies, besides, it is a way to quickly focus the energy without external distractions, because your mind and your limbic system enter the mode "I am performing a spell and I must focus", and after some practice time, this ends up being very positive, because it helps us to focus the energy quickly in the purpose we are seeking to achieve.
Renowned authors such as Mauricio Puerta, Brandy Williams, Gerina Dunwich and Vladimir Burdman, among many others, associate the realization of the circle of enchantment with a form of "psychic magic" that synchronizes our abilities for the realization of magical works, with our psychic energy, puts both forms of energy to work in concrete, and after some time in practice, thanks to the "neurolinguistic programming" helps us to focus more quickly our consciousness in the magical work we do, being increasingly difficult for us to grasp distractions in the process.
While Brandy Williams, the author of multiple books of magic and magical realization, affirms that neuro-linguistic programming is a vital part of our day-to-day life, and it is especially important for those of us dedicated to the practice of magical or spiritualistic arts, other authors an little more focused on esoteric art like Gerina Dunwich and Vladimir Burdman (just to name a few and not to bore the reader with a huge list), they affirm that the magic circle is a way to mark and delimit the space between the area of magical work, where the energy we use for the ritual is concentrated, and the outer space, that which we cohabit every day, be it a garden, an office, a living room of the house or a small corner of our department.
Focusing the energy in a single point is extremely important because we get to place all our magic power in a safe place (the spell, the ritual, the amulet, etc ...), but we also avoid disturbing the energy and many times in addition, the emotions of those around us.
It is understandable that many practitioners, especially those with more experience, decide not to use a magic circle, not because of arrogance, but rather because their energy and experience is so high that in many cases, no spirit or larva from another plane I would even dare to approach to disturb his temper, but when it is starting in practice, at least during the first years, I always recommend making use of the circle of protection and keep the magic within it.
Moment of boring my dear readers with a bit of family history about it.
My grandmother, Maria Begena Eugenia de Castillas and Urbaneja, a common healer of an indigenous tribe, raised within a family of healers on the banks of the Arenas River in Venezuela, even in her more than 90 years, maintains an enormous ritual circle made with stones painted red, green and white inside a room of his farm, just in the only living room of the house that has two windows, one facing east and one to the west, and it is inside this circle, where perfectly fit two people, where she performs her most impressive spiritual healing and works.
Being my grandmother one of my teachers to follow from an early age, even when I asked her because with so many years of experience she kept this huge circle that I thought was a bad use of space, even more, taking into account that many times I myself had the good fortune to witness the use of many of its powers outside the circle, like that time when a pregnant woman, a victim of a spell performed by her own sister, fell over my grandmother and tried to bite her, acting like a real animal wild at full time of the day and in the central living room of the house, and my grandmother only uttered a kind of spell in her native tongue, placed her hands on the woman's forehead, and I saw personally how the woman in question fell immediately fainted next to my grandmother and began to vomit a black and slimy liquid, with foam and very smelly.
This time my grandmother had no need (or time) to perform a magic circle, this is true magic in emergencies, but a different kind of magic that many (for different reasons) are not able to perform, either by inexperience or because they simply have not needed it.
On several occasions I saw my grandmother consecrate objects by just touching them, inside and outside the house, and that time we spent the entire night awake because we did not stop listening to footsteps on the roof, she said "they are the witches who are jumping up to the monte ", the truth I never knew if he said it in a joke or serious way, or maybe it's just part of the folklore of his people, of which I do not know much, because I grew up in the city far from her, and I only visited him Holidays about twice a year.
On that occasion my grandmother appeared at the back door of the house, hit the ground with her cane three times, and with the third blow, I could swear that a group was heard, maybe three or four people falling on the roof immediately Grandmother just said a few words and pointed to the mountain, a mountain beyond the river, visible from the windows of the house, followed by this, a few light steps were heard on the roof and seconds later all the sounds of footsteps They disappeared, she went to sleep, assuming that nothing important happened, and the next morning she sent my cousins and me to repair the loose roof tiles, which we got completely folded.
After this, and many other similar experiences at each visit, my mother was teaching me one day to do a spell to help my psychology teacher at school, and she told me in detail how to do the circle, I performed it but arrogantly I replied, "my grandmother does not need these things, because we still do it", I suppose it is the typical attitude that practitioners have at 13, I suppose, because I have seen this same attitude in many other practitioners at that age.
And my mother on that occasion answered very seriously, without stopping making her typical smile "no matter how much you learn and what you do, there is always going to be someone stronger than you from the other side, and many times that someone may be tempted to bother, so it's better to prevent. "
My mother on the other hand, who usually spends her entire nights lighting up her altar with candles and smoke (tobacco smoke, not incense), to always get the favor of the spirits, every evening before sitting down to make her session every night, he extracts a piece of white or red chalk from that old wooden box on his altar, and proceeds to draw a circle on the floor, around his chair, returns the rest of the chalk to his box, and sits to light candles, pray, burn sage, smoke cigarettes all night long, until very early in the morning, and always at the end, he threw some salt water with the tips of his fingers around the circle, and then proceeded to erase it from in.
Maybe I'm so cautious, because after spending a lifetime, seeing a real expert like her, always taking care of the spiritual plane, and taking into account that many times she has had all kinds of encounters with entities and creatures that do not dare to describe, it is hard not to want to take precautions and warn others about it.
Similar case occurs with the use of the Ouija, perhaps for seers and spiritualists it is much easier to contact the spiritual plane, but many require for different reasons to use an Ouija, and remember that the Ouija, as well as most of the divination tools, they work as doors between our worlds, and when we do not have the proper experience, it is common for us to unconsciously let some entity from the other side, because the veil between the spiritual plane and the astral plane, as well as our plane, is full of entities and creatures beyond our knowledge, ready to jump between planes to create from a simple headache to terrible chaos, discord, ailments, losses, deaths, and many other negative things that can be added to the list.
In my first books, as well as in the books of many authors, you will find different ways and also warnings, about the realization of the magic circle, usually to balance and concentrate our own energy, and simultaneously guarding our physical body that is in those moments more into the magical plane than usual. In my most recent book of practical magic, which deals with the bags of amulets and their realization, the magic circle fulfills an important function as an energy protector, because, while you are performing and consecrating an amulet to perform certain magical effects in your environment, or in the environment of someone else, it would be very easy for some elusive spirit of this or another plane, or even for some larvae of the world beyond the veil, to cross through your own energy and to enter the amulet, to feed on your energy and encourage (just what larvae do) through the amulet in question, and end up causing entirely the opposite effect to the desired.
Although it sounds fictitious to many, larvae exist.
For many authors and sorcerers, the larvae, better known by many as astral larvae or worms of the veil, according to the magical culture to which you belong, are the forms that low-level creatures that inhabit the doors between flat, they feed negative energy (as well as the worms that grow and feed on garbage), in this case, the larvae feed on bad thoughts, grudges, fears, regrets, nightmares, worries, do nothing but feed, and look for food
The larvae do not live in the astral plane, but in the open portals between the veil and our plane, and according to the metaphysical books, and practically any book of spiritism that you can find in a library, the larvae usually pursue from their plane to the individuals who flood their aura or their energy shield with negative worries and feelings like those previously mentioned.
The larvae adhere to you and make you feel exhausted, irritable, tired, moody or depressed, a frequently depressed person can attract many larvae and take them with you like parasites, either by infecting them to other people, or simply by letting them feed more frequently.
These creatures are so low level that you can simply eradicate them with some incense, sage and a bath of water with salts, but otherwise, it is like walking with a huge filthy worm that is attached to your neck feeding on you throughout the day, that does not allow you to feel rested, and that keeps you cranky, sad or tired all day and at all times.
The astral larvae are not exactly intelligent beings, they act by instinct, essentially by hunger, and it is very common for inexperienced wizards and magicians to attract them whenever they perform a spell or spell because, for them, it is an open door to a restaurant that will serve your favorite dish.
These unpleasant creatures adhere to the energetic shield of the individual (the aura), and once there they begin to feed, individuals with great skills for the realization of some form of magic, or the most expert, can easily get rid of them, thanks to who gain over time the ability to purify and drive away or call different kinds of energies and spirits in their environment.
But unless you are a true expert on the subject, with enough experience to be able to use this magic without taking the proper precautions, it is advisable to always make use of the magic circle, or at least, some amulet of protection practical enough to take care of you
From experts and experts.
Many magicians and more experienced wizards will recommend you to use a circle, many others will tell you that it is not necessary, in my case, I will always recommend it, respecting, of course, the words of others that in many cases can be more experienced than me, and that's respectable, but always remember that being a healthy person and taking nutritious smoothies all day, does not make you immune to the flu of some stranger who can get close, and in the case of practical magic, It happens exactly the same.
Certain magicians have a strong form of visualization and focus, but as in mathematics, it is understandable that not all advance at the same level, which for some can be extremely easy, as the astral projection, the unfolding, the levitation, or the consecration of talismans, for many others is really difficult, and that's normal, you should not risk our energy and have a hard time trying to accommodate a bad effect made by a spell that was accelerated "because you did not have the time to do it right", only to feed your own ego and assume that we are already capable of doing it in one way or another.
For me personally, it is to be admired that certain forms of magic are extremely easy for some of my readers, and even for some of my very few students, on the other hand, I also see that certain practices that for me turn out to be really easy, for others it takes a high level of difficulty, this is what I mean when I say that we are not all on the same level, none is above or below someone else, we all meet at different levels according to our study and practice, but it is never too much to take two minutes, ONLY TWO MINUTES, to do things and prevent a greater concern.
The esoteric shops are full of people looking for books to "exorcise" or "reverse a curse", because they believe that it is about that, and many times out of sorrow or distrust towards the most expert salesmen, they do not realize that they are really under the influence of a simple larva or some naughty spirit that is placed in its portal while playing with an Ouija or they walked calmly through the doors of some cemetery. Something that would have been easy enough to prevent and that would not have taken more than two minutes to complete.
To close
Being aware, nobody is forcing you, I do not expect (much less believe) to be offending anyone, but it is never too much to prevent, and I am simply offering advice, advice that seems very useful to me, and also, to me I would have served much that this advice would have repeated more often while growing, because stubborn, I often ignored and paid a real headache for it, especially my mother, who was the person who always came behind me , usually clearing the roots of the disasters that I did, often passing until midnight in front of his altar, trying to fix the constant problems that I caused, for which my friends and I, we spent whole nights without being able to sleep, as well as days whole of bad mood, with terrible migraines or constant physical discomforts.
If you have the option of doing something right, or do it fast, focus on doing it well, at least until you consider, and according to your own opinion, that you are prepared to do it your way, we all learn at our own pace, so do not be guided by the pace at which someone else advances, take your time to learn and do things well.
It is not an order, it is a piece of useful advice that will serve many in the future.
Blessings to all and lots of light.
