Blessed Be,

Ash

2. Honor the Gods, for They are the channels and the manifestations of the Source. Honor yourself, for this divine Force also lies within you. Love the Gods as They love you; for as you love yourself and your brothers and sisters, so the Gods shall honor you. As the love of a man and a woman flowers and grows when nurtured with respect and cultivated with understanding and honor, so should you love the Gods.

Daya: The second law reminds us that the gods are a link to the source that we can understand. That learning to truly love yourself and others without discrimination or malice of any kind in one’s heart is how you earn favor from the gods. As the like between a man or a woman grows into unconditional love that is a reflection of our love for the GODS! In other words follow the example of the gods and love one another they love us and the divine enlightenment will unfold before your eyes for is no longer clouded by malice in your heart

Benratu: Always honor the Gods, because through Them we find The Source.  Honor yourself foe the The Source exists within all of us.  Love them because we need each other.  The Gods need us to exist and we need them in return.  As we love our spouses we should remember to love the Gods.

Luminias: This law really puts the responsibility in our hands. The responsibility of taking care of ourselves and the planet, and it also tells us how we are all connected.

Ash: This reminds me of the saying ” Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” This part of the law reminds us that we are all divine manifestations of the ALL, and we should remember this all. Act with love in all you do and you will be honoring each other, the Gods and Goddesses, and the Source. In this day and age though love between any two beings qualifies under this law.

Willow Blue: We as Pagans sometimes have a tendency to have the equivalent to a “Sunday Christian”. These Pagans only have their faith in the Gods at Ritual or when they are in need of something. The Gods and the Source are ever present in our lives, in who we are and all of what we do, no matter how insignificant or monumental it is. We in turn need to reciprocate that love in devotion that the Gods have in us. We as the Pagan community need to build upon that love. Then take that love share it with the Gods, ourselves and others in the world around us.

• Air Bison Compassion,  Loyalty, companionship, Freedom, flexibility , gentleness, trust, strength
• Alligator Maternal, revenge oriented, quickness, aggression, and basic survival instincts.
• Ant Group minded, determination, patient, active, and industrious
• Anteater Lethargy, curiosity, nosiness.
• Antelope Active, agile, jumpiness, and willing to sacrifice
• Armadillo Safety oriented, grounded, and has boundaries
• Badger Courage, aggressive, healer, having problems relating to others, and energy conduit
• Bat Rebirth, longevity, secrecy, initiation, good listener, and long life
• Bear Industrious, instinctive, healing, power, sovereignty, guardian of the world, watcher, courage, will power, self-preservation, introspection, and great strength.
• Beaver Determined, strong-willed, builder, overseer, and protector
• Bee Organized, industrial, productive, wise, community, celebration, fertility, defensiveness, obsessive nature, and enjoys life
• Boar/Pig A very powerful totem – prosperity, spiritual strength, organized, self-reliant, fearless.
• Buffalo Sacredness, life, great strength, abundance, gratitude.
• Bull Insight into the past, fertility, rushing into things without proper preparation.
• Butterfly Metamorphosis, transformation, balnace, grace, ability to accept change
• Camel Survival, positive, accomplishments
• Caribou Traveler, mobility, preference to be nomadic, adaptability to adversity
• Cat Guardianship, detachment, sensuality, mystery, magic, and independence
• Cheetah Swiftness, insight, focus
• Cougar Leadership, loyalty, courage, taking responsibility, foresight
• Cow Swift, insightful, and focused
• Coyote Trickster, intelligence, stealth, wisdom and folley, guile and innocence
• Cheetah Nourishment and mother figure
• Cobra Swift and decisive
• Coyote Stealth, mischief, trickster, intelligent, clowning around, ability to recognize mistakes.
• Crab Good luck, protection and success
• Crane Solitude, justice, longevity, independent, intelligent, and vigilant
• Crocodile Ensuring your emotions are displayed accurately/appropriately
• Crow Justice, shape shifting, change, creativity, spiritual strength, energy, community sharing, and balance
• Deer Compassion, peace, intellectual, gentle, caring, kind, subtlety, gracefulness, femininity, gentleness, innocence, and seller of adventure
• Dog Noble, faithful, loyal, teaching, protection, and guidance
• Dolphin Kind, salvation, wisdom, happiness, playfulness, prudent, capable of deep emotion, and happy. Dove Cross-world communication, spirit messenger, peace, gentleness, love
• Dragon Longevity, richness, prosperity, infinity, wisdom, power, and fiery
• Dragonfly Flighty and carefree, strong imagination, higher aspirations.
• Duck Water energy, helper of seers, can clearly see/deal with emotions
• Eagle Divine spirit, sacrifice, connection to creator, intelligence, renewal, courage, illumination of spirit, healing, creation, freedom, and risk-taker
• Elephant Strength, power, affection, loyalty, royalty, and wisdom
• Elk Strength and agility, pride, majestic, independence, purification, strength, and nobility
• Falcon New beginnings, adventure, passionate, and leadership. Fish Graceful, slyness, open-minded, quick to change one’s mind.
• Flamingo Heart healing, psychic, people person, flirtatious.
• Fox Cunning, agility, quick-witted, diplomacy, wildness, feminine magic of camouflage, shapeshifting and invisibility
• Frog Water energy, cleansing, rebirth, sensitivity, medicine, hidden beauty, peace, adaptability, poor character judgment and power.
• Gazelle Aggressive
• Gargoyle Protection from Evil beings, able to see past illusion  or the True Self. Sound. Water  and Earth
• Giraffe Communication, intuition, attaining the unreachable, seeing the future
• Goat Surefootedness, stubbornness, independence, diligence, lack of foresight.
• Goose Self-demanding, reliable, prudent, rigid, vigilance, parenthood, and productive.
• Gorilla Family-oriented, intelligence, strength, environmental protector, keeps peace through aggression.
• Grasshopper Good luck, abundance, forward, progressive.
• Griffin Leaps of Faith, soul searching, empathy, protection, vengeful, rise above the situation
• Grouse Personal power, enlightenment.
• Hawk Messenger, intuition, victory, healing, nobility, recollection, cleansing, visionary power, and guardianship.
• Heron/Egret Aggressive, self-determined, self-reliant, multi-tasking, balanced.
• Hippopotamus Power, creation, imagination, healing.
• Horse Freedom, stamina, mobility, the land, travel, power, and freedom.
• Hummingbird Messenger, timelessness, healing, and warrior.
• Jaguar Chaos, shape-shifter, aggressiveness, power.
• Kangaroo Forward, balance, creative, stamina.
• Lion Family, strength, energy, courage, guardian and protector.
• Lizard Conservation, vision, self-protection, hidden defenses.
• Llama Comforting to others, secure.
• Lynx Keeper of secrets, guardian, listener, and guide.
• Mole Sensitivity, guidance, searching.
• Monkey Ability to change the environment, health, success.
• Moose Headstrong, longevity, steadfastness, and wisdom.
• Mouse Scrutiny, order, organizer, and an eye for details.
• Octopus Intelligence, camouflage, nocturnal.
• Opossum Diversion, strategist, and deceiver.
• Ostrich Grounded, practical.
• Otter Playful, friendly, dynamic, joy, helpfulness, and sharing
• Owl Deception, clairvoyance, insight, messenger.
• Ox Sacrifice, chastity and self-denial
• Panther Protection, hidden emotions, introspection, caution, careful decisions
• Parrot Communication, beauty, guide for wisdom, mockery, thinking before speaking
• Peacock Immortality, dignity, and self-confidence
• Pegasus Protector, Inspiration, Astral Travel,  Crossing Boundaries, humility
• Pelican Resilient, unselfish, rising above.
• Penguin Self-discipline, grace, self-confidence, spiritual
• Phoenix Keeper of Fires of Creation, Protector of Fire, Life Death and Rebirth, Resuurection, Connection to Raven, Regeneration, Hidden Strength
• Porcupine Innocence, companionship, and trust
• Prairie Dog Swiftness, industrious, constructive, preparedness
• Puma Companion on journeys to other worlds, grace, silent power
• Quail Group-work, team play, creator of harmony and group tolerance, protectiveness (especially toward children)
• Rabbit Fear, timidity, nervousness, humility, rebirth,
• Raccoon Curiosity and cleanliness
• Ram Stoic, sensitive, persevering, curious, imaginative.
• Rat Fertility, stealth, scavenging, intelligence, enjoys luxury
• Raven Introspection, courage, self-knowledge, magic
• Rhinoceros Wisdom, solitary, insightful, solid.
• Roadrunner Mental agility, speed, opportunistic.
• Rooster Vanity, likes to be showered with gifts and attention, early riser, settling for nothing less than the best
• Salmon Proud, intense, confident, wisdom, inspiration
• Scorpion Transforming, strong, inspiring, chaotic,  passionate
• Seagull Versatility, loud, easy-going nature, creativity, laziness
  Seahorse Confidence and grace
• Seal Love, longing, dilemma, active imagination, creativity
• Shark Hunter, survival, and adaptability
• Skunk Reputation, presence, and strength
• Snail Protective, aware, solitary.
• Snake Impulsive, shrewdness, rebirth, transformation, initiation, and wisdom
• Spider Balance, wisdom, creativity, communication
• Squirrel Planner and gatherer
• Stag Lord of the forest, masculine power of regeneration, signs.
• Swan Grace, balance and innocence, soul, love, beauty, of the self
• Tiger Strength, valor, power, and energy
• Toad inner strength, luck, self-examination
• Turkey Generosity, life-giver, and sharer
• Turtle Nurturer, shy, and protecting Unicorn Purity, innocence, dreamer, personal power, gentle
• Weasel Strength, energy, ingenuity and stealth
• Whale Wisdom, provider, intelligence, and kindness.
• Wolf Loyalty, perseverance, success, intuition, and spirit
• Woodpecker Sensitive, protective, and devotion
• Zebra Agility and individuality

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Blessed Be

Ash.

In love and Light,

Blessed Be,

Ash

So here is the first law:

1. The Laws were created to give our lives form and order, that all might be balanced throughout all of the planes. In truth there are two sets of laws which govern us — one setting forth the ways of the Wiccan, and the other the ways of the Universe. Both are important; each should be observed with respect and treated with honor. The Laws were shaped and molded to govern us, to teach us, to advise us, and to counsel us during our time of mortal life on earth.

Daya: The laws were made so that they might give us guidance in our mundane lives so we can make decisions that correlate with the lessons we are here to learn.

Lord Luminias:  I do not have much to say about this first law. It seems relatively explainable and comprehensive. The only thing I find funny is the “were created to give our lives form and order, that all might be balanced throughout all of the planes.” What does that mean? Order and Form is relative for each individual, that it implies if one is out of order another is in order to create balance. This may seem ‘right’ to some, but if we look at those ‘Witches’ who we all know soooooo well that life out of order so regularly (to them they may be in order knowing that this law will help order their life. A prime example of this is a(or two) ex-grove member(s) that would hold and suck the ever living energy passed around in circle and keep it for themselves because they so choose to live a life that was out of balance ((literally.LOL)) so others are forced to live in order (that may not be a good thing-balance) So the laws are and always will be up for interpretation and missuses by some slovenly Witches!

Just a thought! -so it begins.

Benratu: This one is self-explanatory for me.  We must live in balance in everything we do.  To do this we must keep in mind we walk in between the worlds of spiritual and mundane and that the laws were made to guide us on this quest.

ONix: This one isn’t really a law. It is more of a synopsis of the laws that follow. It gives reason for the Laws and what the purpose of having them are.

Ash: This one seems to say to me that their is a rhyme and reason for the way that things are, and we should work within that framework to achieve a better understanding of Wicca and the Universe (sometimes). This means that this should be a basis for our lives, but not a dogmatic confinement. Someone we are presented with things that seem out of the ordinary. As far as the rules of the Universe goes, I am believe that we use science to help us understand and refine what those rules really are.

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Exercise One:

This exercise takes about 15 seconds but it can be a real life changer. It quickly rejuvenates and also helps in cleaning the meridian channels in the hands.

• Stand straight. Remove wrist watch so that it won’t interfere.
• Hold your right hand straight but relaxed, pointing down and a little forward with the palm facing inwards (down).
• Press firmly with your left palm on the back of your right palm and move it fast up until the shoulder while keeping the pressure. Roll your right hand to the right 180 degrees to make your palm face outwards (forward up) and return your left palm all the way down to the fingers with the same pressure as before.
• This all should take about 1 second. Roll your right hand back and repeat the previous step 6 more times for a total of 7 times.
• Now perform the same exercises after you switched hands, rubbing the left with the right.

Exercise Two:

Stand straight. Spread your feet a little. Face the palms of your hands towards each other on shoulder level with your elbows pointing downwards and near or on the body. The palms should be relaxed, slightly cupped.

Now start shaking the hands fast by bringing the palms closer together and farther apart. The movements should be fast and short. Don’t bring the palms together; make short movements of the arm, like flapping little wings. Make about 150-200 such movement. The tempo can be about 8 repetitions per second, so the whole exercise will take a little more than half a minute.

These two exercises performed together one after another will quickly restore your low energy levels and wake you up, if you feel tired. They also have profound positive effect on the mental state.

Exercise Three:

This third exercise should be performed just following the previous two. It’s also extremely short and simple:

• Stand straight, feet a little apart, with your palms touching near your breast, like a Japanese bow or a traditional prayer position.
• Take a breath and hold it.
• While holding your breath, press your palms strongly into each other, to the degree that you arms start to shake because of the tense muscles of your hands. Hold this pressure for several seconds (3 or 4).
• Exhale and release the pressure, returning to the initial position.
• Perform 2-4 about 5 times.

In my opinion this third exercise helps to balance the energy from the hands into the body. At least that’s the way I feel after performing it.

Exercise Four: Sensitizing Your Hands

Once you become comfortable feeling subtle energy in your hands, you can next practice activating your hands on a daily basis. There are several ways to get your hands sensitized:

• Push the palms of your hands together as firmly as possible for 60 seconds; when you pull them apart, you will feel heightened sensitivity for subtle energy fields and a tingling, energized sensation
• Ball your hands up tightly into fists for ten seconds and then stretch your hands wide open so the fingers curl up and back and you feel an energized,tingling sensation;
• Blow softly on the palms of your hands with your palms facing one another about an inch apart, slowly bringing the palms closer together until you feel a tingling sensation.

All of these techniques should result in your feeling a tingling sensation in the palms of your hands, which are now sensitized for using energy from your hands directly. These are excellent exercises for getting yourself familiarized with energy fields in your hands, and with the concept that you can influence your own energy field and benefit from the energy fields around you. Stronger energy fields will increase your ability to shift reality in your life.

Exercise Five: Opening the Hand Chakras

• Sit comfortably and relax. Take time to go into a deep meditative state or trance. The deeper the trance and level of concentration, the better the results, especially when beginning this exercise. After an energy current within the hand chakras is open and flowing, this can be done anywhere at will.
• Put your hands facing each other, fingertips almost touching and relaxed.
• With the pad of your thumb, press into the palm of each of your hands, right in the hollow part.
• Now, focus intensely upon your hands, especially your palms. Feel the area you pressed in with your thumb.
• Keep focusing all of your concentration and begin to feel a warm glow and energy between your palms.
• Begin to move your hands an inch or two apart slowly and back again to where your fingertips are almost touching. Try to feel the energy between the palms of your hands. The more you practice and the stronger your energy becomes, keep moving your hands in and out, further and further apart until you can feel your energy as far apart as two or more feet.
• Now, visualize a ball of white hot fire like the sun. Later on, you can use colors. Feel the heat and energy from this ball of fire between your hands. This may feel as a tingling or throbbing. For some people, it may even feel cold. The important thing is to get this energy flowing and to feel it.
• Now let your arms hang down and relax. Focus on energy flowing down your arms into your hands. This may feel tingly and your lower arms and hands may feel pumped. This is a sign the energy is flowing. Now repeat steps 5-7 above.

This exercise should be done every day for as long as it takes to really open your hand chakras and establish a permanent flow of energy. With the proper practice, you should be able to feel powerful energy between your hands when your hands are more than a foot apart.

Exercise Six: Using the Energy Ball for Healing

Move your hands back and forth as though clapping in slow motion until you have a sense of your aura. Then feel or envision or imagine the energy forming a ball of healing light. Pumping or scooping motions help draw in more energy.

When you feel or imagine a nice big ball of energy between your hands take the energy ball to your recipient and lower, push, or put it into their body. You can either put it in and smooth it down or make another ball and keep smoothing it until you feel done. Take the ball and envision it as a collector to gather and sweep the illness or imbalance away and disperse it to the Earth to be transformed.

When you are finished, envision the one being treated bathed in healing light. White is the most common but I like rainbow and golden light myself. Envision healing energy flowing from your hands and going to where it is needed. You can imagine and visualize your energy fingers growing longer so that you can reach into a body to remove energetic gunk stuck within the energy body. (Before you pull out the gunk, ask permission from the patient)

Chakra Balancing Meditation

The purpose of the chakra balancing meditation is to open and clear the chakras. It will align higher frequency energies and also purify/release any stored negative energy from your body/aura.

The Chakra Balancing Meditation:

• Sit comfortably on a chair with your hands on your legs (I have found with the palms facing upwards more beneficial)

• Whilst sitting close your eyes and concentrate on your breath, nice deep slow breathing

• Put you attention on the base Root chakra – visualize the chakra as a bright RED ball spinning clockwise – as you focus on the base chakra – breathe in red – breathe out red. Repeat for 2 – 3 minutes.

NOTE: Ensure you see the red ball’s energy is spinning at the Root chakra and also flowing down through your legs into Mother Earth like a tree spouting its roots and connecting with the center of the earth (This is grounding you.)

• Put you attention on the next Sacral chakra – visualize the chakra as a bright ORANGE ball spinning clockwise – as you focus on the Sacral chakra – breathe in yellow – breathe out orange. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.

• Put you attention on the next Solar Plexus chakra – visualize the chakra as a bright YELLOW ball spinning clockwise – as you focus on the Solar plexis chakra – breathe in yellow – breathe out yellow. Repeat for 2- 3 minutes

• Put you attention on the next Heart chakra – visualize the chakra as a bright GREEN ball spinning clockwise – as you focus on the Heart chakra – breathe in green – breathe out green. Repeat for 2-3 minutes

• Put you attention on the next Throat chakra – visualize the chakra as a bright BLUE ball spinning clockwise – as you focus on the Throat chakra – breathe in blue – breathe out blue. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.

NOTE: Ensure you see the blue ball’s energy is spinning at the Throat charka and also flowing down through your each of your arms and out though your hands meeting five feet in front connecting both blue energies together; flowing. Remember “what you ask for you will get” well this is turning what you say more easily into physical manifestation.

• Put you attention on the next Brow chakra – visualize the chakra as a bright INDIGO ball spinning clockwise – as you focus on the Brow chakra – breathe in indigo – breathe out indigo. Repeat for 2- 3 minutes.

NOTE: Ensure you see the Indigo ball’s energy is spinning at the Brow chakra and also envisage you sitting in a chair in an Indigo room in your minds eye, looking out of a Window to the stars (i.e. looking out of your Third eye)

• Put you attention on the next Crown chakra – visualize the chakra as a bright VIOLET ball spinning clockwise – as you focus on the Crown chakra – breathe in violet – breathe out violet. Repeat for 2-3 minutes.

NOTE: Ensure you see the violet ball’s energy is spinning at the Crown chakra and also envisage the opening of a Violet lotus flower on the top of your Crown — make this as large and as magnificent as you can.

• Finally See White light flowing down from the All through your Crown chakra all the way through the other chakras and finally into Mother earth. You should envisage yourself as a glowing white being with all the Chakras spinning brightly (for their chosen color). Hold this for about for 2-3 minutes.

You should feel exhilarated!

Physics and Metaphysics are intertwined – as are all things in our reality. The more I study metaphysics – the more I am drawn in the nature of energy, motion, time, space, etc. They are fascinating!

For all of us whether we are scientists, healers or ordinary human beings, life is essentially an energy experience. None of us are focused in purely material reality. Although we must all eat food, drink water and breathe air to survive we actually spend most of our time in the non-physical worlds of feelings and thoughts, with occasional glimpses of a deeper world within and beyond. We are continually moved, swayed and transformed by energies which though physically immaterial, mold our actions and determine our behavior and experience.

All forms of consciousness appear to have a center from which energy radiates, creating an energy field which surrounds them. This energy field is characterized by the quality of energy of the witch and it is within this energy field that a physical form manifests itself and appears for us all to see.

As human beings we are soul sparks of creational energy expressing ourselves in a form of consciousness which is variously described in religious literature as the Soul, Psyche, or Being.

We as witches use this soul spark energy to manifest and create our dreams, wishes, hopes and desires. Our very nature, energy, fuels and sends forth all that we do desire. How does this happen? There are several ways we may accomplish this as witches, singing, chanting, holding hands and passing energy thus creating a vortex and cone of power to emanate and join with the ever present energy all around us on a basic mundane level. Part of our responsibility as witches is to acknowledge and try to understand this ever present energy and then to use it respectfully and responsibly to aid in the needs and wishes of friends, family and loved ones, for the improvement of all.

Energy Bodies

The five-layer Energy Body system is a way of describing the human energy field.  The physical body is counted as an energy body since all matter is ultimately made up of energy.  Also of importance is the fact that the higher subtle energy bodies overlap and interpenetrate the complete physical body.  In much the same way as many different TV signals exist around us in the same space simultaneously and can be individually identified by a specific frequency, the overlapping subtle energy bodies (which are also defined by different frequencies) also penetrate into the same space as our physical body.  So when a witch using energy, places his or her hand on someone, the energies are sent not only to the physical body, but also to each higher energetic body.  Thus, with the proper frequencies channeled through a witch, energy transfer or movement will occur on not only the physical level, but also on the Etheric, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of the witch and all touching within the circle.

The Physical Energy Body

At first, it may seem unusual to consider that the physical body is an energy body, but that is exactly what it appears to be.  And as we explore and become more accustomed to this new paradigm, we are able not only to see the physical body in a greater, more meaningful context, but also we begin to understand the role of disease and the nature of healing.  The physical body is the densest form of energy that our consciousness uses to explore its environment and interact with others.  By the densest form, it is meant that the vibrational patterns of the physical body are of a frequency low enough to be seen by our eyes (they are within the spectrum of visible light), heard by our ears (about 30 to 15,000 Hertz), and experienced with the senses of touch, taste and smell which are within the “frequency capability” of our physical body.
But there are many octaves, frequencies, and vibrations beyond the capability of our physical senses. Beyond what we can see as visible light are the higher frequencies of ultraviolet, x-ray, and cosmic radiation.  We are beginning to understand that what we can physically sense is only a small portion of the vibrational energies around us.  And if we look within our physical bodies at our atoms, molecules and cells, again we find patterns of vibrating energy that we have traditionally called “matter”.

We need to become aware that our physical body is really a field of vibrating energy that has coalesced from higher less dense octaves.  But we also need to remember that as vibrating fields interact with each other, one field can affect another field through the phenomenon of sympathetic vibration.  If a violin player produces a note an octave above Middle C, and a second violin lying nearby on a table has a string which is tuned to Middle C, the second violin string tuned to Middle C will sympathetically begin to vibrate as well.  So as we also begin to understand that there are several vibrational fields of energy around our physical body, it becomes easier to understand how one field affects another through this principle.  And this is the key to understanding how energy-based healing techniques can achieve such visible and profound results in the physical body.

The Etheric Energy Body

The etheric body is the first energy body in frequency above the physical body.  It exists within the physical body, and extends outward about an inch outside the skin of the physical body.  Its purpose is to form an energy template or matrix for the development, maintenance and repair of the physical body.  The etheric body contains a vibrational energy counterpart for each organ, blood vessel and bone found in the physical body.  Indeed, the etheric body contains the energetic blueprint for the pathways that guide the location and development of every cell of the physical body.  Our physical bodies exist only because of the vital (etheric) field behind them.  This etheric field exists prior to, not a result of, the physical body.

Since the etheric body is the physical body’s blueprint, the two are very closely related.  The energetic vibrations of the etheric body determine the pattern for not only the physical tissues and organs, but also the state of health of those tissues and organs.  If the vibrations are not clear and pure, this disharmony will be reflected in the physical body as disharmonious function — what we call “disease”.

Conversely, traumas to the physical body (e.g., broken bones, burns, incisions and scars) will in time be reflected into the etheric body unless there is some interceding process that either prevents this reflection into the etheric body or which restores the original vibrational pattern which existed prior to the trauma. The ability to work with a client’s vibrating energy fields is precisely what forms the basis for rapid and effective energy-based physical healings.

An illness can appear in the energy field weeks and even months before it appears in the physical body.  In his book, Vibrational Medicine, Dr. Richard Gerber, a Detroit physician, notes that “The etheric body is a holographic energy template that guides the growth and development of the physical body.”

The following description of the etheric and higher subtle energy bodies surrounding the physical body are taken from Barbara Brennan’s book, Hands of Light.  To her, the etheric body appears as a grid of tiny energy lines which has the overall structure and shape of the physical body.  This matrix extends from 1/4″ to 2 inches beyond the physical body.  It is upon this etheric grid or matrix that the cells and tissues of the body develop and are anchored.  The etheric body appears as a light blue or gray matrix of lines of light that constantly pulsate or scintillate at a rate of from 15-20 cycles per minute.

The Emotional Energy Body

The emotional body contains the emotional patterns, feelings, and vibrations that determine our personality, and also how we feel about ourselves and interact with others.  If we are constantly angry, always feel helpless, or are consistently fearful, these patterns or vibrations get locked in our emotional energy field and become a part of our personality. This determines to a very large degree how we interact with others on personal, social, and cultural levels.

The emotional body generally follows the shape of the physical and etheric bodies, but is somewhat more amorphous and fluid, and extends from one to three inches outside the physical body.  It contains energy “blobs” of all colors of the rainbow, depending on the specific feeling or emotion.  Highly charged feelings such as love, hate, joy, and anger are associated with energy blobs that are bright and clear, while confused feelings are darker and muddier.

The Mental Energy Body

The mental body contains the structure and patterns of all the thoughts and belief systems that we consider as true.  And there is a very strong connection between the mental and emotional bodies.  Although a thought or idea can in itself be very powerful, our reactions to those thoughts carry even more energy, and different people will react differently to the same thought.

For example, consider the thought form “If you are not a Catholic (or Protestant, or Muslim, or Jew, or whatever), you can not go to Heaven.”  One person might hear that thought or idea, think it was silly, and give it absolutely no energy.  But another person might become very passionate, depending on his or her belief systems, and argue strongly either for or against that statement.  His emotional body would then record the reaction to the thought stored in the mental body. However, the person who thought the statement was silly in the first place would not have any resonance with it, and no energetic pattern would be stored in either the mental or emotional bodies.

The mental body usually appears as yellow light radiating around the entire body from head to toe, and extends from three to eight inches beyond the physical body. Within this area, individual thought forms appear as small blobs of light of varying form and intensity.

The Spiritual Energy Body

The spiritual body (i.e., all vibrational patterns in octaves higher than the mental body) contains all the information related to our experiences, and reflects our gestalt consciousness of all that has been learned and experienced. It contains our higher intentions, our sense of what is right and wrong, and our desires to increase our awareness of our purpose, place and mission for this lifetime.

These five energy bodies make up one’s Human Energy Field, or aura. Its outer shape appears roughly egg-shaped and extends out to perhaps 1½ to two feet beyond the physical body; however, this shape can be extended even further out or contracted closer to the physical body depending on the situation the person is experiencing. For example, when a person is feeling emotions of unconditional love, the aura may expand to several feet and radiate bright hues of gold or white.  But if the same person is feeling threatened physically or emotionally, the entire aura may collapse to a much denser pattern within only a few inches of the body.

Opening Yourself To Energy While Holding Hands

When holding hands, some people might feel their fingers tingle, pulsate or grow warmer or colder. Some will feel strong emotions or suppressed memories might come to the surface. Some feel incredibly happy, relaxed or elated. Everyone is unique and everyone will feel the energy differently. The more you practice moving energy while holding hands, the more you will recognize how to interpret the energy as it flows through you.

For those of us hearing about the energy transfer and wondering what that energy is, there’s a simple exercise that can give a feeling. Many witches use their hands as energy channels to pass it to their fellow grove members and thus help their mind and body to “charge up” and fuel a working. This is a very simplistic description.

While holding your palms facing each other, take a slow deep breath (abdominal breathing) and imagine energy beams entering your body and filling you, gathering inside your abdomen. Exhale slowly, and while doing this imagine the energy flowing from the abdomen through your chest, through your shoulders, arms and radiating from both palms into the space between them. Increase the energy flow with each breath.

This visualization can greatly increase the flow of energy between your palms and you’ll feel it stronger. Usually, my palms start to “repel” each other, pushing farther apart with each exhalation, like the magnets in my palms become stronger. Don’t give up if you don’t experience this from the first attempt. Just perform it another time, when you’re less tired and more relaxed.

In the past 30 years the Foundation of science, The Foundation of Life and H. Coetzee, Ph.D. along with Dr. Ingo Swann presented a thesis to the United Nations proving the validity of bio-electromagnetism and has given a scientific basis to spiritual energy transfer as a form of bio-energy manifestation or usage. It really can work! Each of us has the innate capacity, through the use of simple ancient breathing techniques, to generate a powerful healing resonance, or energy vibration, from the hands. When applied magically this resonance catalyzes the magickal process in workings and in circle. It also brings about high energy, then inevitably deep relaxation and a feeling of well being.

An Ancient Breathing Meditation

Energy from the hand has an ancient history on this planet. It is part of the ancient belief system associated with yoga. These traditions were handed down orally for thousands of years before being codified by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras, several centuries before Christ. It has been used for thousands of years by tribal people on every continent, and has been a part of every religious tradition. In main-stream western society, hand energy has been treated either as a myth or as a mysterious talent given only to a special few. However, there is a simple method which turns on hand energy in nearly everyone who tries it — the Chakra Balancing Meditation*.

The earliest known mention of the meditation is found in the Upanishads, including specifically the Brahma Upanishad and the Yogatattva Upanishad. These vedic models were adapted in Tibetan Buddhism and eventually found their way to the Western World.

The Chakra Balancing Meditation* is a breathing rhythm which influences the body’s electromagnetic field in measurable ways using Kirlian Photography and computerized spectrum-analysis of brain waves  EEG, electroencephalography. While breathing in this rhythm, the energy flowing through the hands has greatly amplified its qualities. Passing the chakra energy, it is possible to stimulate, focus and exchange a powerful flow of magickal energy.

*Note: The meditation is in another  lesson.

Determining Your Dominant (Power) Hand

What is a dominate hand? Do you have one? What good is it? These are valid questions you may have. The dominate hand is defined as: the hand you use to send out and direct energy. In witchcraft, we consider the concept of two hands, the receiving hand which will sense energy, sometimes referenced as the hand that can receive, and then we have our hand that projects energy, called the projecting, sending or dominate hand. Our hands are like the poles of a battery. For example: we use the dominate hand when we are creating a circle. We hold the athame or wand, in our dominate hand, sending energy through the athame as we cast the circle. Like wise our receiving hand is held straight behind us to absorb and receive Earth energy.

When we are holding hands, or working magic in a circle, the thought of projecting with the dominate hand becomes slightly anomalous. We actually are receiving energy with our dominate hand, using the force of the dominate hand and its energy to push the energy through us, absorbing what we need, adding to it and out through our other hand giving it to the next person to accomplish the task we have set. So, which hand is your dominate hand?

To determine your dominant or power hand, hold your hands at a comfortable distance away from you with the palms facing you. Look at your left hand and concentrate on the palm. Imagine energy flowing from the universe down into your crown chakra and flowing into your left hand. Feel the energy in your left palm. Now turn to your right palm and do the same thing. Whichever hand feels stronger, it might tingle, be hotter or colder than the other, this is your power hand. If you don’t feel anything when you first attempt this exercise keep trying and you will eventually start feeling the energy.

Some methods to feel energy in your hands

• Place your hands together and visualize energy entering your crown chakra.
• Feel the energy radiate through your whole being.
• Rub your hands together until your palms feel warm then relax your wrists and shake your hands.
• Put your hands together, then open them about six inches apart. Feel the energy emanating from your palms.
• As you feel the energy, explore it. Feel the different sensations as you move your hands up and down, side to side and around in circles. Can you feel the lines of energy connected to each palm?
• Separate your hands further and again move them up and down, side to side still feeling the energy between them.
• Now cup your hands together and create a circle of energy within them. Place this energy into your heart and imagine it expanding and filling your entire body.

Grounding and Centering

To be effective at energy work it is of great value to know how to ground and center yourself connecting with the spiritual heart of the earth or the All and calling yourself together, aligning your thoughts and personal entirety in a solid focused state. This is a frequent basic practice in virtually all forms of spiritual work, healing, meditation, manifestation, protection, or releasing and is of itself often profoundly healing. Everyone must learn to ground in the way they feel most comfortable with.

Using Hand Energy to Heal the Body

The body has the capacity to heal itself. On the first day of medical school, this fact is taught. Whether you give medicines, perform surgery, or use any kind of medical therapy, you only support the body to heal itself. The same is true with bio-energy therapy, acupuncture, homeopathy, herbs, or any other holistic modality.

The ability for self-healing is an inherent part of all life. The body is constantly renewing itself, getting rid of old and diseased tissues. We are not aware that this is always happening, because the body rids itself of disease so fast it appears we are remaining healthy. On the occasions when the ongoing self-healing process doesn’t work, then it becomes necessary to get help from the outside. Traditionally, throughout the past five thousand years, our species has used foods and herbs for healing. We have also used the healing powers of touch. If you practice what is taught here, your touch will be a transmission of bio-energy, a form of bio-energy therapy. The bio-energy which flows from your hands will melt pain, evaporate stress, and catalyze the healing process. You and many people will be simply amazed!

Our cultural collective conscious mind set has believed for almost two hundred years that such energy has been scientifically proven not to exist. This idea is practically institutionalized! Our collective unconsciousness (the deep knowing) believes and knows that hands-on healing / bio-energy therapy works. This cultural belief operates from the same brain centers as religious beliefs (and scientific “heretics” are sometimes subjected to the same treatment as religious heretics have been).

However, new evidence shows that the body is indeed highly electromagnetic, full of all kinds of energy patterns and configurations of great significance (even though they may be small in size). This evidence has not yet become sufficiently well known to break the cultural taboo against healing. But, you’re becoming aware of this revolution in the new bio-electromagnetic paradigm in biology, and your practicing chakra balancing, will hasten the breaking of this mind set.

Another reason some are afraid to pass energy is this: When you release energy through your hands, touching another person, it is a form of intimacy. We are often afraid of showing this kind of intimacy, either for fear of stimulating repressed sexual feelings or for fear of rejection (or from whatever form the fear conjures). Indeed, our failure to be intimate may feed the roots of many of our physical and emotional problems. So, my advice is: don’t be afraid to share what are beautiful moments of innocent closeness, of psychic intimacy. It will be healing for you, for the other, and for the Grove’s health.

Breaking taboos, by the way, isn’t easy. If the witch believes in the taboo too strongly, even successful energy transfer outcomes can be ignored or dismissed by the person who has just received it. A strong belief in the negative mind set can even block the transfer. This is why we send energy healing to the person’s Higher Self to bypass any resistance/taboos the conscious mind may have as to its effectiveness.

Energy Balls

The energy ball is a very common and basic core technique for becoming aware of and directing energy. Personal energy can be felt and universal energy can be used as a way of delivering other frequencies of energy. Begin by holding your hands a foot or so apart, bringing them slowly toward each other, until you feel a slight resistance between them. It will feel as though a mass of energy has built up between your hands. Feel all around this energy with your hands, feeling the shape of the packet of energy you have gathered. Fashion it into a ball shape. For some this ball will begin by being cup-sized, for others it will be a big beach ball. This may take some practice to feel. Some people do not sense energy this way at all. Sometimes people don’t feel their own energy ball, but they would feel other people’s because the frequency is slightly different.

A technique for rapid healing from injuries, called reframing, that often is effective is to go back in your mind to the moment of the accident and visualize as clearly and nearly as possible the exact event except change a detail /details so that the accident, injury, or trauma, does not happen. You are not in any way hurt, repeat the visualization over and over make it as real as possible, if it is practical to act out the event as closely as possible in the physical world – as almost slamming the door on your hand that can make this even more effective. If you are in pain and the pain is reduced then it’s ok to drop the visualization but keep reinforcing this vision. I have used this on cut fingers and on my chronic knee pain with good results for speeding healing. Theoretically this is more effective if done soon after an injury but I have used it on injuries and traumatic experiences from years back with good results.

Experiment:

Take an energy ball that you have made, and press the ball into your heart chakra. Press it into your third eye. Press it against your skin, and see what you feel.

Some energy balls are first visualized outside the body then filled with energy.  They can be observed to “see” events or information or be used to send an affirmation or to fill with manifestation visualization, such as charging candles. They can be sent out to retrieve lost or needed energy, such as tapping into the Grove Crystal or they can be filled with your anger fears or with pain etc. Then charged with light /energy to dissolve and transform that “negative” energy.

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