I asked the question last week that got that answer, to the effect that you need to do a lot more than the basics to get power. The thing is, I’m doing the course in Paths of Wisdom verbatim. I’m not very far into it at all though I’m putting a lot of effort into being precise with the practices. It’s that plus a daily planetary ritual, with the beginning BOTA material thrown in. It ends up being probably a little less than two hours a day, not counting affirmations. I also might add that I bought a Jupiter talisman from Chris Warnock; I haven’t even consecrated it yet though I do have a relationship with Jupiter through a particular love of his energy, natal chart factors, and my weekly invocation of, and offerings to, him, which are very similar to the consecration ritual outlined in the pamphlet that came with the talisman.
Where the incongruence lies is, in a matter of weeks, ever since getting the upper hand of that older bartender, I have found myself utterly slammed with expansive, nearly LSD-like states of consciousness—except there’s no sensory distortion and I feel *more* functional, rather than zonked. I feel unusually strong, healthy and bursting with confidence in a way that I could not have imagined mere weeks ago. There is a feeling of control over situations, paired with said confidence—which is of a solidity and intensity I haven’t experienced since early adolescence.
For instance, I did nothing but walk into my work the other day and got an unprompted remark, “you’re giving off some crazy energy, I think it’s going to make be a really good day.” (I do try and set the atmosphere for the rest of the day when I go in, as I get there first, and had been thinking about this.) And the other day, from a manager: “why is there so much masculine energy in here right now?” People who intimidated me not long ago feel easily dealt with now, and the change has felt unnaturally fast.
There are too many factors at play for me to really tease out what is causing what, but can you comment on why I might be experiencing these phenomena in conjunction with “basic” practices, when I have less than a year of Western occultism under my belt, and little magic as-such?
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Date: 2022-11-22 12:08 am (UTC)Where the incongruence lies is, in a matter of weeks, ever since getting the upper hand of that older bartender, I have found myself utterly slammed with expansive, nearly LSD-like states of consciousness—except there’s no sensory distortion and I feel *more* functional, rather than zonked. I feel unusually strong, healthy and bursting with confidence in a way that I could not have imagined mere weeks ago. There is a feeling of control over situations, paired with said confidence—which is of a solidity and intensity I haven’t experienced since early adolescence.
For instance, I did nothing but walk into my work the other day and got an unprompted remark, “you’re giving off some crazy energy, I think it’s going to make be a really good day.” (I do try and set the atmosphere for the rest of the day when I go in, as I get there first, and had been thinking about this.) And the other day, from a manager: “why is there so much masculine energy in here right now?” People who intimidated me not long ago feel easily dealt with now, and the change has felt unnaturally fast.
There are too many factors at play for me to really tease out what is causing what, but can you comment on why I might be experiencing these phenomena in conjunction with “basic” practices, when I have less than a year of Western occultism under my belt, and little magic as-such?