Shifting magical energies...

[ecosophia]

A question for those of my readers who practice magic, divination, or any other form of occult practice:  in the last few days, have you noticed any significant changes in the results of your workings?

I have, as it happens. I'm not going to talk about my experiences right now as I don't want to bias the discussion. Instead, I'd like to check in with others, to see whether it's just me or whether something has changed on a broader scale.  If you've noticed a change, please let me know; if you haven't, ditto.  Then, once I have a clearer sense of what's going on, we can take the discussion in the direction that seems appropriate. Thank you for your help!

Comments

[adara9]

Yes, for a few days, insights during discursive meditation were coming thick and fast, way more than usual. Then a couple of days ago they slowed way down, even from usual.

And the ease of flow in ritual has matched that, such that for a bit it flowed wonderfully, but lately I feel like I'm moving through treacle.

But I have a number of confounding factors, like returning from a beach vacation, returning to the spiritual alchemy work, working on the CGD bardic grade, and some other life events lately, so not sure how useful my data point is.

[(Anonymous)]

I've noticed my synchronicities have ramped up. More than usual where a dream image turns into a waking image.

Ritual and meditation wise I've been more fidgety which isn't usually a problem for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I forgot to my original postadd that I had some brain fog a week or 2 ago where I would forget what I was talking about mid sentence or I couldn't recall the name of something that I knew well.

I'm in my early 40s and this was very atypical

Regards from Abe

[(Anonymous)]

These changes have been building for more like the last few weeks, but I am an American of European descent with a devotional practice to various members of the Egyptian pantheon and a small eclectic shrine for Inari. The last few weeks have connected me with several books of traditional (Jinja Honchou) Shinto practice for non-Japanese, and I've gotten a strong contact from Amaterasu who has invited me to do a simple Harae (purification) and Youhai (remote reverence) for the Ise Grand Shrine.

Geomancy Shield chart result:
RW: Bendith Fawr
LW: Elw
J: Cyswllt

So long story short I started this morning, though I don't see my other devotions going away, and I'm told my Inari practices should continue unchanged.

In general, I'm noticing a tendency towards shaking things up, questioning old assumptions about where I'm going, discerning sleep-walking from destiny, and discarding what isn't working to make room for something better.

Re: Regards from Abe

[(Anonymous)]

This is very similar to my experience lately. I have been exploring Shinto practice (also in America) slowly for months, but in the last weeks there has been a strong shift to set up the shrine in the traditional way and perform the standard prayers directed at a shrine. It has a strong feeling of being pulled toward a destiny and divinations have been strongly favorable towards it.

[slclaire]

I have noticed a difference, but not in my workings. Rather, I've noticed a significant deepening in the more philosophical aspects of my occult and religious practices. It's welcome, and I've been wondering, why now?

[jprussell]

Hmmm, I haven't noticed a particular change in the last few days, but then I've only done routine daily work over that period (SOP with Awakening the Dragons, MOE Healing Hands, discursive meditation, and divination with the Ogham or Runes).

I'll be interested to see what other folks say!

Jeff

[degringolade]

That which is above is from that which is below, and that which is below is from that which is above, working the miracles of one.
From Jabir ibn Hayyan: The Emerald Tablet of Hermes

Things are a little weird right now. The tarot reads and the occasional I Ching casts have been odd and discordant and it just recently began. Truthfully, it has been getting weirder over the last couple of weeks and I can’t make any sense of what I am being pointed at by the elsewhere.

Granted, the lessons have never been that easy to understand, but lately it seems to be getting worse.

The reason that I quoted the emerald tablet reflects my lack of sophistication at parsing the direction of the flow. Are the contradictions of the tarot and I Ching me sending bad vibes to the above (Personally, I refer to it as the “elsewhere”) or is the above (elsewhere) sending me information that I just don’t grasp.

Truth be told, it has been a while building, I would say around a month but it did kick into overdrive on Saturday.

Are my concerns and low to mid-level paranoia affecting my ability to understand the information coming in from the elsewhere. Or is my mental state effecting the elsewhere?

Anyway John Michael, the short answer to your question is that yes, things are decidedly off/odd in my “practice”.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes I perceive a definite change. I have been completely stopped from working at all for a few months. Now I am able to proceed.

[earthworm_uk]

It feels like things are somehow amping up and we both felt that something significant happened Tuesday night; we had seen people we last saw 3 yrs and 30 yrs previously - after we got home we both suddenly felt that something significant had happened but we'd just been for a pub dinner and we couldn't think of anything of note as to why we both felt a shift of something.

Yes, but not sure if it is the nature of things more broadly or the nature of what I have been working on. Primarily it has been marked with the 'mechanics' of practice working well and even develop in unexpected ways. However, it doesn't apply to just the last few days but kicked in around the time of the solstice/full moon in late June.

On the other hand, I have noticed unexpected emotional states popping up, specifically an unexpected sadness for no apparent reason that is not tied to anything specific. But again, this has been going on for more than the last few days - me and the missus talked about it after it picked-up last week on Wednesday/Thursday) and we wondered if it was just a general miasma of astral gunk.
Interestingly, the methods I use for emotional balance work have called for a more 'focused' effort but with a definite application of Will/intent the results have been very good - faster than usual but requiring a focused intent to action.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, this started Saturday evening. I did not find out about the attempt on Trump's life until the next day; but I did my evening spiritual work after the assassination attempt.

I've noticed that when I do rituals, I seem to find it easier to tap into the meaning of the rituals. The Analysis of INRI, for instance, has deepened a great deal in terms of meanings. I've also noticed that my meditations are far easier and far more insightful.

Although it's not related to the effects of my own practices, I live in a household with a TV, and have noticed that the entire house seems far less interested in it. The thing is being turned on much less often, and for shorter periods of time when it is turned on.

Finally, I feel a lot cleaner in general, on the inner planes, as if a lot of the miasma of the last few years has been removed. Banishing also feels easier and more effective, which is a very nice change from the last few years.

[guillem66]

In a general sense, i feel much more able to remain centered on Spiritual realities, as oposed to being dragged to mundane matters by the pressures of everyday. This is bringing me many insights during the last days, both during meditation and through the day.


So for me whatever is shifting is quite welcome, although i starkly realize that we are entering uncharted waters in a grand way.

[hedgerow]

I’m the Dolmen Arch student who had the sometimes uncomfortably intense brow centre experience at the end of last year. That seemed to wake up again strongly yesterday for no obvious reason. My daily practice has been consistent and unchanging for months.

[brenainn]

Two things come to mind. For a while, I couldn't recall my dreams. I did a lot of Jungian shadow work, and I eventually noticed that I could no longer remember having any dreams at night. I assume that I continued to dream during that time, but since I had effectively dealt with a lot of what was lying just beneath the surface of my subconscious those dreams were of a more basic and forgettable nature. The last few days, I'm back to having dreams that seem to have a meaning and which I can recall upon waking. Not sure what they're telling me, though. I'm back to some serious dream interpretation.

The second thing is related to a growing ability to sense energies around me. I've been spending a lot of time on a nature trail not too far from my house. I've been communing with the spirits of nature. They seem to be conveying a strong, almost overwhelming sense of, well, peace to me. Like, something is shifting and a new birth is coming. Birth is painful, but afterward, something new has entered the world. That new thing has promise, as well as peril. But a greater degree of hope than peril for whatever is now emerging.

Does any of that make sense? My forays into discursive meditation and just some deep concentration caused me to slip into a sort of mystical state a little while back, and I've not yet returned to normal. I sense things, intuitively understand them, but then can't adequately describe in words what that understanding actually is. So it is with these new dreams and my local nature spirits.

[(Anonymous)]

Same about the dreams - for months I didn’t dream, couldn’t recall any dreams and now recently I dream again, since 10 days or maybe two weeks. My child also didn’t dream for months, he says his dreams are back since about the same time as mine.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no practical workings or results to report on at the moment.

But in terms of daily practice:
a. I've been feeling a strong desire to change up my patterns, including to offer more prayers, engage with different entities, and try out new practices.
b. Energy feels more charged and tense than usual.
c. My divinations have been puzzling for a few days - I recall several of us reporting something like that earlier this year as well.
d. A couple of lightbulb moments and odd synchronicities.

Noodles

[lp9]

Similar to what Noodles reports, especially b, c, and d. This weekend the vibes were so on edge that I felt completed unsettled in my daily routine - even before Saturday evening.

During yoga this week--which is a basic hatha practice, nothing too out there--I've been unintentionally slipping into a relatively deep meditative state. I also have recurring dream motifs that happen whenever there's some sort of personal spiritual movement or synchronicities about to happen. Those motifs have started popping up in my dreams again.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't done any results based magic in the last few days but the difference in the daily practices are as follows:

Then:

It feels like I had been wading, against the flow, through a river of mud, on a dark moonless night

Now:

I am running on even terrain on a clear spring morning, with the wind at my back, and my destination clearly in sight.

[guillem66]

Yes, i also feel like this. During the last months i struggledto keep myself in a centered state, now something has cleared and a lot is in sight.

[orathbone]

Strangely (to me) I’ve had the most surprising precognition experiences

[methylethyl]

Not a practitioner, but synchronicities are off the charts. Almost cannot look at the time, or the oven timer, or the page of the book I'm reading, or any other number readout, without it being 11:11, 4:44, 33:33, 222, 17:17...

[methylethyl]

...and names are repeating in unrelated contexts. Like, I'll see an unusual name in a book, and then almost immediately read a news article, or meet someone, or get an email about someone, with the same name.

[denebalgedi777]

For me, recent divinations, that is in the last few days, were a bit "cryptic". For example, totally reversed cards yesterday for my daily reading in a way that didn't make sense relative to what actually happened.

Also, dreams last night were extremely vivid and lifelike, including some people I didn't really know but seemed like they must be real people out in the waking world. That's not uncommon but usually I don't remember them so clearly.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't been at this very long, so I didn't think much of it, but I've had the same issue with my daily divination the last few days where they don't seem to match up with the actual events that occur.

On Tuesday (in the very early AM) during SoP, I noted that I felt a "good deal of energy flowing through me," and that I could "feel" the gates themselves, almost like a physical presence. I had never experienced such a strong sensation before.

Tarot and Cybernetics

[(Anonymous)]

As you know, my readings have become far more coherent and apropos over the last month than any other period when I practiced (especially between 2021 - 2023).

[charlieobert]

I don't know if this fits here or not, but it just might so I'm throwing it in. If this is too far off-base please just delete this.

Yesterday I wrote an essay out on my astrology blog I called, The Bloodied Head.

https://studentofastrology.com/2024/07/the-bloodied-head/

I'm looking at the Algol - Medusa - Bloody Head symbolism of the recent assassination attempt, and I wonder if there is some sort of symbolic shift with a change from the bloody head of Medusa-Trump Derangement Syndrome, to the very different symbolism of the bloody triumphant head in the pics of Trump from that day. A shift in symbolism like that could be a very big deal.

In my ritual and meditation work - Yes, I notice a very significant shift - I notice a new clarity, all sorts of ideas arising with things coming together in a new way, and also a new shift of emphasis to geometric shapes and symbolism that show up in my ritual and prayer.

[(Anonymous)]

I second a new clarity. My carnal appetites have waned, still strong with summer but I can truly focus on more spiritual things. In meditation, one word has been constant, success. It's the first and last word of each meditative exercise this whole week. Still not sure why but finding out has been very beneficial.

Increase in strength

[(Anonymous)]

Hello: A few days ago when I began the SOP it felt much more intense than usual. After completing the opening I decided to go right into the close. I thought the other parts of the ritual would be too much for me.

After that experience I decided to limit myself for a bit to more gentle practices. I've done the heart SOP and blessings from the Essene healing practice and the St. Patrick prayer of protection. That all felt much stronger.

I am currently visiting a different US state than the one I live in, so the change in strength could be the change in physical location. Will compare again when I am home in a few days.

I did not bring divination tools on the trip.

Heloise

So

[(Anonymous)]

So the night before/morning of Trump's event on Saturday, I had a very vivid dream of a new political-economic system in America.

Re: So

[mr_nobody1967]

Was this new system more positive or negative, I feel compelled to ask?

[(Anonymous)]

My spiritual practice fell off around 2020 (when I needed it the most unfortunately) but lately I'm called back to prayer, meditation, tarot, and I have a strong urge to connect with one deity in particular and a few other deities to a lesser extent. I feel like when I ask for a sign, I receive one. It's almost as if the veil is thinning.Feeling like the energy is high but strung tight like a bow.

Cheers

Ash

[(Anonymous)]

I do a daily SOP, meditation and divination, no magical practices. My SOP has felt more charged since Saturday, particularly with stronger visualization of the elements--this was particularly true on Sunday or Monday (can't remember which day now, but very vivid and it felt very much like an outflow from the assassination attempt, or at least my reaction to it). I have lately (starting before Saturday, for at least several weeks now) been cycling between different visualizations for water. Traditionally I have visualized a pond among trees; toward the beginning of this year I started to make it more regularly a visualization of standing at the edge of the ocean with crashing waves, and only occasionally was going back to the pond; in the past few weeks I started using a rushing river regularly, though not all the time. The day of the particularly strong SOP it was the ocean, but the last few days I've just been cycling through the three options based on whatever comes to me when I call on water.

My meditations have been more focused and effective than normal for several weeks now, but I've attributed that more to the fact that I'm currently working through the seven spiritual laws chapters in The Occult Philosophy Workbook and they have been really resonating with me. It may not have anything to do with a broader change in energy.

I don't think anything particularly noticeable with my divination.

FWIW, I have definitely been caught up in the energy from Saturday and the feeling that things have shifted. Just a general vibe, but I'm not sure to what degree that's me picking up on broader energies and how much of it is just me getting caught up in the moment and the feedback of all that has been happening. It's been an eventful week in this country!

[(Anonymous)]

It mightn't be exactly relevant to your question, but after a number of interruptions, false starts and practice re-thinks, during which I only practiced 1 or 2 or often 0 of the "cauldron legs" throughout 2024, just this week I've found a resolve to do all 3 again every morning with a "this is non-negotiable" attitude. I can feel the results spilling into the rest of the day with my will and motivation to get stuff done greatly improved. Which is good as my main goal is to become one of those people described in your Will Power training series. Goal setting and proper use of my time and energy has been a major problem throughout my life and I want to sort it once and for all.

JH

Positive Changes

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve been concentrating recently on the “head” aspect, or intellectual aspect, of my development recently, using the elements and techniques of Gurdjieff’s philosophy, alongside my Buddhist faith. I’ve noticed some definite success and progress recently in the area of the mind or intellect.

Just today I woke up, feeling weighed down by an undefined responsibility. My intuition told me that I had perhaps been blessed with new spiritual links to some magicians, perhaps connected with this forum.

Blessings,

E.S.