In our third Essence of Magic Class we focused on Energy Raising, trying out different methods and finding what suited us… We experimented with rattling, chanting, dancing and raising a cone of power.
Different things suit different people but I think it’s an essential part of magic and ritual. It’s kind of putting yourself on the line - more than just bringing focus or intent, it is throwing one’s whole being into it. And hopefully, at some moment, one slips over the line of self-consciousness into oneness with the chant, the dance… the intent, the magic itself and it starts to happen.
It’s as if each step - Casting a Circle, calling an intent, invocations, raising energy allows us to take one further step into the magical realms - and hopefully we are ambushed by it, a state of immenence, of co-creation, of magical flow… and for a few seconds we hold the threads of the webs of our own lives in our hands and can turn them, one way or another… or just observe them.