Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

More SoP:

1. In the closing of the SoP it's clear the down and up beams of light meet in the sphere in the solar plexus. It's not clear how they meet in the opening. I've been avoiding focusing on that part of the visualisation. The one time I imagined them meeting at the sphere in the head, it felt like it short-circuited and the energy dispersed.

2. Thinking about the difference between Earth and Spirit Below, it seems like Earth is the biosphere and shallow lithosphere, and once it gets molten it's Spirit Below.

3. I'd been imagining the Fire landscape as a midday summer in a lush park and it wasn't particularly effective. Then I moved it to moorland, which is a notoriously flammable environment. The effect was much stronger and I could even hear the crackling of fire around me.

4. Do you ever enhance the imagery to make it stronger? For example imagining yourself in a whirlwhind or under a waterfall?

5. One sign of a good connection with each element I noticed is feeling what's under my feet. Grass or soil for Air, sand for Fire, smooth pebbles for Water, and snow for Earth.

[ecosophia]

1) Depends on which version of the opening you're using -- there are several. The solar plexus generally is a good place to bring the energies together.

2) That's certainly a workable symbolism.

3) Nice! I use imagery from the American Southwest -- red rock buttes, creosote bush, the sort of desert pines that go up like torches the moment a spark hits them, and the sun's heat crashing down with physical force -- but then I've been there. If moorland is what works for you, exccellent.

4) All the time. I don't do whirlwinds, but when I invoke air I feel the wind in my hair, and salt spray from the ocean flings itself against me when I invoke water.

5) Good. Yes, that sort of detail works very well.

[(Anonymous)]

1. I'm using this version - https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/57125.html. It says the upcoming beam fills the body with light without being specific how. Would the effect be much different if they met at the point below the navel - where you had your hands to say "By the earth beneath me" and send the beam of light downwards?

[ecosophia]

The way I do it is I send a narrow and intense shaft of light all the way down to the center of the earth, while the light that comes back up is a broader beam that literally fills my entire body. It doesn't blend with the descending shaft -- they remain distinct.

But by all means experiment -- this is a flexible ritual and can be worked in a variety of ways.