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Thursday Thoughts

World Studies 101
Globalization of Magick

Western conceptions of Magick, Medicine, religion, and science were exported to other parts of the globe in the modern period by traders, colonists, conquerors, missionaries, anthropologists, historians and many more. European colonists in the 16th–19th centuries functioned as primitive ethnographers, and that is stating it nicely.

These are also those written observations that are found to be invaluable historical resources. However, their accounts are frequently seen through the eyes of Ego, dominant religions such as Judeo-Christian and filled with assumptions and insertions about the practices they were and are viewing. The biased writing illuminates early writers arrogant view of the Indigenous as “less human” people to be enslaved or they were often seen as “children” to be educated.  This was far from the truth as you have seen on your First Degree walk with Wahya Circle.

During the latter part of the 19th century, anthropologists began to analyze Magick and Medicine and its part in the evolution of the human species. Scientist from all fields began seeing the timeless finds for what they were, an Ancestor Veneration, a Goddess offering, or even an honorable and voluntary self sacrifice for one’s beliefs. Scientists also saw both Plant and Animal Allies being consulted or involved in all approaches to the Spirit of the people. Free Will at its best and deepest. This has existed amongst our people, our human Kindred, for tens of thousands of years.

As time is progressing, more and more of the blinders are being lifted from the eyes of those who both want to see the Truth and who have followed their written dogmas, faithfully and without question. They are beginning to see that the world was once more at peace. Seeing this, many understand that we can settle down as a species instead of trying to “take” and simply “be”. Accepting certain circumstances that go beyond the individual involved, hence Family or Community Shadow has become front an center that want to begin healing our people and the only planet we know, Mother Earth.

NOT EVERYONE “WARRED”
There are many Indigenous who have no record of ever having gone to war, such as the Sami, nor have they seen the need for such endeavors. When we speak of modern war we are instantly triggered by Global Shadow. We see guns, explosions, radiation, death, destruction. But that is not the war many know. That is what has been created, not what we have always known to be.

Many tribes of the globe enacted war, or bloodshed, as an extreme last resort. “Most observers reported that Aboriginal people did 'not know how to fight.” (Canada.ca) The Elders of villages knew it would cost them. They understood it as a people. Some would even go to their neighbors, as they did in the Meso Americas, asking for anyone who wished to volunteer to join them in “stopping the colonizers”. War has always been costly.

THE LAST RESORT
As a last resort, many tribes around the world would visit their Seers, or Oracles, or Wise People, to determine if there was another way. They would do this much in a way that we still do when we draw a tarot card before we do a heavy Magickal or Medicinal Work to determine its “correctness” for us in our Time and Space. Life was and is felt to be Sacred, the last things anyone desired to do was to come between the Creatrix and Her Creation… or Creation and Him, whatever the perception may be. Governments have consulted with spiritual advisors for as long as there has been “government”.

Our thinking communities are finding that those things such as “religion” which they define as "a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, i.e., things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them" (Durkheim) —is only half true.

Well, welcome to Earth. Earth is the “church” of all people on all Paths. All are welcome here.

Magick and Medicine are still alive and well the world over, despite what the Book Religions want one to believe. We have to ask ourselves, what purpose do those beliefs serve? Do they benefit me and my growth as a whole being in any way? Are there Pearls of Wisdom inside amongst the clutter?

Many dogmas have spread lies amongst those they have proselytized to and hate amongst all of the world, poisoning the Well of Life.

We are Wise to heal it. We must stand in our power and practice our Hearts’ Truth, our personal Divine Truth.

The Medicine and Magick of the Earth, the Anima Mundi, is growing… and Awake.

Beginning Practicum
Ritual Bath

Since the beginning of time, the Consciousness Stream, or Water of Life, has been sacred to all Beings. Many animals will submerge themselves in Water for both Healing and Protecting, not simply a cleansing, moment. As time has passed, many Paths have continued to value the sanctity of Water, or Element Water.

Take for example the Hindu. They will still pilgrimage to the River Ganges to submerge themselves for a “soul cleansing”. Soul cleansing is the purpose of this spell.


RITUAL BATH ITEMS
You may add or subtract the following to a bath or shower, for Ritual, not cleansing. It is recommended that your regular cleanse before hand if you feel the need so that you may spend time and absorb the essences of the Plant Allies, oils, Stone Allies, or crystals that you may use. (Make sure the Mohs scale is safe for the stone’s use in water, a 5 or greater will be fine for this Ritual.)


Clean Bathtub (or shower with sachet hanging on shower head)

1 Pinch to Handful of salt, preferably sea salt that is consecrated per the chosen method. (As you would any Magick tool.)

1 Pinch to Handful of dried rosemary

1 Pinch to Handful of dried sage

White candle, as many as you feel you need

Mirror (bathroom mirror is fine)

Oil* (Not needed but add if preferred. Utilize correspondences for your added Intent or Petition. #SlipHazard)

*Please note, if you are allergic to any or all of the above, you may imbue ANY Plant Ally with the Intent of above herb it will be standing in for. Sage is preferable but not required as a Universal substitute.

TO BEGIN
Pick a time when you will not be disturbed. Choose the day, time and moon phase if you wish to add energy to your Intent. Gather your supplies.

BATH
As the water is running, add the salt, rosemary, and sage. Only add a few drops of the essence you choose if using oil as to keep yourself SAFE.***

Light your chosen candles in their fire proof containers and turn off all other sources of light, including your cell phone. If you can, do not even bring it into the room with you.

After undressing and before entering the Water, speak your Intent to the Bath/Shower.

Begin to ground yourself and release the energies held onto from your day per your Path.

Speak an Invocation to your chosen feminine energy or deity, preferably a Goddess, at this time. (Water is feminine energy and that energy works better here.)

Ask for Her guidance, help, healing, or whatever it is that you need Her assistance with. If you can stay grounded, and shift your consciousness before entering the bath, do.

Once shifted, enter the Water slowly and deliberately. Feel the Water on each body part as you submerge it. Allow the Element Water and the Goddess to begin cleansing your psyche, your soul.

In your mind’s eye, see the energy pull away from you and fall into the water. The rosemary, sage and salt protecting you from its re-entry.

After you feel the energy has been cleansed from you, spend a moment contemplating. Speaking with your Higher Self. Determine if there is something specific impeding your Intent. Look at your life, your surroundings, people and place. Ask your Self what will help you advance your Intent.

“Mother Goddess, help me to be cleansed of all that holds me back or blocks my growth and progress.”

Take a moment and make sure ever surface of your body is rinsed with the Ritual Bath, even your hair, an extension of Self.

Sit for a moment and see in your mind’s eye. What is there? What do you hear in your mind? Do not doubt yourself in what you hear.

“I release all that blocks my progress. I release this. It leaves me now.”

Speak in a commanding way. Will it. Mean it.

LET. IT. GO.

Release each and every issue by name if you feel compelled to do so.

Now, clear your mind as best you can. When thoughts come to you, let them pass – like clouds. One by one, let them pass. See them as clouds in your mind’s eye… passing.

Pull the plug, see them go down the drain.

Carefully step out of the bath. You are now going to anoint your Self anew.


ANOINTING
Touching each of these places with your essenced oil or energized hands:

Begin with your feet,

“Bless my feet, may they carry me across the Earth toward my soul’s work.” (Insert whatever word you Intented this Ritual for.)

Just above your knees:

“Bless my legs, may they carry my body toward my soul’s work.”

Just  below your navel:

“Bless my core, may it bring forth all the creativity needed for the progress of my soul’s work.”

Touching your heart:

“Blessed be my heart, may it love and revive love, encompassing my soul’s work.”

Your lips:

“Blessed by my lips, may they speak truth and words of power when is needed to bring progress of my soul’s work.”

Between your brow at your mind’s eye:

“Blessed be my mind’s eye that I may see the unseen and receive the message of Spirit to aid me toward the progress of my soul’s work.”

MIRROR INVOCATION
Now, look into your eyes in the mirror, see yourself and say:

“In the name of the Goddess, I am blessed. Like a flower, I will bloom and grow toward my future, my life, my soul’s work.” (Insert the words for your Intent in all places as you feel.)

“AS I WILL IT, SO WILL IT BE!”

You have completed your Ritual. Clear the space and release all excess energies. Write about your experiences.

SHOWER
This process is the same as BATH, except you will hang your sachet from the shower head.

Instead of seeing the energy float out and away in the Water, you will see the energy go down the drain. Remember, the ocean accepts all rivers. This is where all of it will go, see it in your mind’s eye, washing away.

Happy Crafting!

Think About It
Half Way Point

Simply put, use this time to consider the previous passages and Lessons. What has been a real a-ha moment for you? As you carry on approaching your midpoint, what have you built onto your Path (or discarded) thus far with 3CMM? Now that you are nearing “half-way’ through your First Degree, Year and a Day, are you giving as much of your Self as you deem necessary to benefit your personal practices to the highest? Are you finding more balance in your Space and Time?

Think about it.

In all of Life, you get out what you put in.

Thursday WS4

General - Journal - Book of Shadows

SUBMISSION:
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WS4 THU CONTEMPLATIONS 101
(Due by Sunday)
Spend some times with the Contemplations passage above. Respond in
THREE PARAGRAPHS or more.

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WS4 THU RITUAL BATH
(Due by Sunday)
Make time to perform teh Ritual bath.
Write about your Experience in
TWO PARAGRAPHS or more.
(Please note any Correspondence changes you had to make.)

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