Author: A Solitary Pagan
Attuning Your Energies6 Visualization
Another tool in your toolbox is the art of creative visualization. Creative visualization will help you align the physical, mental, and spiritual minds to act together to achieve the desired result. It also allows for you to gain insight and information that was once hidden. The type of information that you may receive may come in the form of a scent, an image in the mind’s eye, a sense of coolnes...
Attuning Your Energies5 Sleep
Getting enough sleep is very important for health and energy. With only a few exceptions, the average adult needs between 7 and 8 hours of sleep within each 24- hour period to be adequately alert for 16 to 17 hours. Without the proper amount of sleep, the body cannot and will not function to its fullest potential. If you have trouble sleeping, try taking a hot bath before you go to bed. Lavender a...
Attuning Your Energies4 Diet
A good diet and perhaps even a good multivitamin can make a big difference in your energy as well. There is no one “true” diet that everyone should follow. However, try to eat balanced meals with moderate portions. More small meals a day are sometimes better than three large meals a day. Buy or grow organic whenever you can and try to eat food that is minimally processed. Raw fruits and vegetables...
Attuning Your Energies3 Exercise
Regular exercise is an important factor in overall health. Exercise not only will keep you in good physical shape, but also reduces stress, alleviates depression, and improves the quality of your sleep. You don’t have to run out and get a membership at a gym. Try spending an hour doing martial arts, yoga, or any other type of exercise such as walking, dancing, swimming, or even inline skating. Exe...
Attuning Your Energies2 Meditation
Meditation is a tool that will allow you to gain control of your thoughts and actions. With proper control, anything is possible, and accurate results can be achieved. It is important to be clear in your mind about what exactly it is that you want for your magickal work. Meditation will help you to define your goals and desires. It will also allow you to see the situation from different angles. Th...
Water Elemental Correspondence
Considered moist and cool and is associated with the phlegmatic temperament Considered feminine and nature Represents the liquid state of matter Corresponds to maturity, but also has some associations with death and rebirth Rules the heart and kidneys, blood and sense of taste Represented by the color blue Rules the autumn and sunset Rules our emotions and our subconscious In Tarot, it rep...
Fire Elemental Correspondence
Generally called from the south Considered warm and dry and is associated with the choleric temperament Active and penetrating and considered masculine in nature Represents energy Corresponds to our conception and birth and our very life force – the “spark” of life, also of inspiration Rules the liver and the sense of sight Corresponds with the color red Rules the summer and noon time Rules our pa...
Air Elemental Correspondence
Generally called from the East Considered warm and moist and is associated with the sanguine temperament Considered hermaphrodite or masculine in nature Represents the gaseous state of matter Corresponds to our spirit body and our breath and riles the infant state of life Rules the lungs and the sense of smell The color yellow can be used to represent air Rules the spring time and the dawn and the...
Earth Elemental Correspondence
Generally called from the North Considered cool and dry and is associated with the melancholic temperament Represents the solid state of matter Corresponds to the physical part of ourselves, our physical body, and rules the elder state of life. Rules the intestines Rules the winter and the night Represents the sense of touch and all physical, practical, material things including money, crops, li...
Invoking Spirit Element
When you feel you are sufficiently adept at using the other Elements, you may begin to use spirit – the fifth Element. This has no special space but is everywhere. It should never ever be used negatively because, particularly when you are weak and tired, it can rebound on you. You may well find that you instinctively link strongly with the life force as spirit, in which case you are probably succe...
The Sigillum Aemeth
The Sigillum Aemeth, or Seal of Truth, illustrated above, was inscribed by John Dee upon a disk of “perfect wax” that was nine inches in diameter (nine is the number of the moon) and one inch thick. It was placed directly beneath Dee’s crystal ball during scrying sessions with the Enochian angels. Similar designs were marked by Dee upon four smaller wax disks that he placed under the legs of the t...
An Explanation of Divination
Among other things, Divination can be termed as foretelling the future, finding objects and people, and determining guilt by means of information obtained from signs, omens, dreams, visions, and divinatory tools. Divination traditionally is an important skill of the folk witch. In some magickal societies, divination is performed only by special classes of trained priests or priestesses. However, D...