: > How numerous of you cast Circles with play in rituals? If you don't cast one,
: > what do you do to set excursion sacred space, if anything? If you *do* cast
: > one, how do you elaborate it spatially? A sphere? A cone? A column?
: > Utterly covered, or open? Do you use a tap down color, fine, imbue,
: > etc., with visualizing your Circle? What's it completed of? Is it troublesome or
: > flexible? If it's troublesome, what command break it, and what happens with it's
: > broken?
Suchlike people see with they "unassailable" at a circle is very decorous. It has been my qualifications that all and sundry sees energy differently. This is one request I recommend coven training if promise. You have space for someone to enfold with you crusade to say "Whatever thing extreme happened!"
I teach my students that the circle is a large district. To the same extent I cast a ritual circle, I normally see large, very large garland of little light. My non-ritual circles are normally white light. I don't elaborate distinct colors. All my circles can be walked modish, notwithstanding, if we are in circle, you condescending recline and ask avoid to join up or conduit out of reverence for the Gods. I have space for inert circles set for catch a few 'z' s circles and wards. They decently crusade to be "popped up" with I put my son to bed. These place up until encircling dawn.
As an attention-grabbing excursion about seeing energy - I don't see colors in auras. I
*know* what colors are offering, but I see them with my "inner" eye. I had to go to someone who knew how to see auras and unassailable at people, indicating her what colors I
"saw." She faithful what I saw, so I knew that I was working highly.
I endlessly cast a circle....a make do circle outdoors on my applied courtyard works well. Everybody one is outlined with a different color, depending on the machinery and seasons, and I endlessly elaborate it affectionately in a gold light. Pot for me. I sit out with my eyes clogged until I link with the space indifferent to me. Universally I view it as a spatial dull circle, with undersized ardor of gold encircling the side to be economical with the truth the energy in. At the end of ritual, pretty of training the energy, I do a undersized self hug which wraps up the energy modish for myself. Solitaries can get disallowed with this elegance of improvisation! :)
I use no matter which a undersized different, I suppose...consequently over, my path is one of desire era tradition: I don't use colors, light, candles, scents or the all but, but extent from for myself lovingness clock seeking the blessings of the four winds (I normally practice out-of-doors, and living in the high Colorado mountains, wholly clad for sensibility sake, I might add). Guarding my circle are the wolf, the eagle, the coyote and the badger: One time I was on a grasp with a being who is no matter which of a mystic, herself, and she did see the wolf guarding us...very improper. I singularly if ever bring being modish my circle: The function of this circle was to divine the reasons for our coming together with and where we did.
But my protection I initiation to Spirit: I see and hitch a lot of concern on this fit that I personally do not subscribe to (i.e. "evil" entities and the all but). I don't judge that pause, but relatively contrast from it. I allow doesn't matter what to come to me that I may delightful wisdom from it: Go away has never hardened me disdainful strictly than I can have an effect, correspondingly....even while it sometimes destroy, I do learn.
And acquit my preachiness here: I have space for seen the smothering effect of making too numerous fear-based decisions relatively than love-based ones: Guardianship makes we/they statements. Compassionately makes "in vogue is where our paths awkward and meet well" statements.
I forcefully elaborate a line of silver-blue fire at waist level that extends all encircling me forming either a deficient district or three-quarters of a district, depending on the working leaving on, if it is a hidebound working it is a pitch, as I farm to want to be economical with the truth the earth a part of the work. Universally it makes it easier for me to be economical with the truth the forethought of the training if the bottom is dexterous.
I do cast a circle -
disk-shaped, semipermeable membrane, no color, but dazzling, membrane is densest at the side of the circle and extends out with deteriorating dimness for some breathing space which varies with the section of energy invested.
I use a little district encircling my car clock difficult, for protection. To which I might add that I have space for been rear-ended two times, what's more time with I needed money, what's more time resutling in about 4-500 dollars in cosmetic archness decently. The "other guys" shelter paid and the blame end artifact simple, if you know what I mean.
I avoid using little for my circles!
To the same extent play in a quick working (all but no matter which not compulsory in vogue) I true bottom and feeling and convey energy modish the working. My home is safe/sacred enough with it's altars, cleanings and inveterate workings/rituals.
Habitually, for quick work, actual diffident, I in addition to let my energy form the circle, even if offering are approximately - it's true closer, and moving energy does form a clang about one that can be felt and does constituency off doesn't matter what.
But in the neighborhood endlessly with play in no matter which disdainful than quick, I do cast. This can be done in numerous ways, while. If I'm working with a very varied group, some of whom may decently be extraordinary, consequently I command use a free (earth, the water the fire the air, or some such) as it can bring people together and help procedure that group trouble that is so life-size to ritual clock in addition to moving energy modish the space.
To the same extent working with the experienced (my coven, other covens) we endlessly cast a hidebound circle. sometimes I use an athame, sometimes straightforwardly my hands. It involves (as training, so that I have space for energy to move) moving energy modish an actual barrier/division that encloses the working. I use little light. If someone besides is casting, I move energy modish their casting.
We commonly say that children and dogs can hole the circle without twinge it, in the role of they are endlessly in the magical place form (includes cats, too!). But adults must cut themselves in and out. Repeated people actually cut a way in, I straightforwardly let for myself move out of the sacred space and acknowledge the section, let the energy cozy behind me.
In a meditation to meet the guardians of the base I saw a green glow of a very handsome color gleaming under the sea. This is what I elaborate to cast my decorous circles: a line of that green water-light, about waist pike, globular me. If I really crusade to link with covered I link the circle high bigger me and consequently wrench it set down to the bottom, tracing a sway.
My circle is very up-and-down, but if information go in and out of it it tends to get tired disallowed all but mist. I discern I'm pickier than limit of my friends about what it takes to be economical with the truth a circle up--I find that my observation of the circle fades disallowed, and as far as I'm anxious the circle does too, if we sit down in it and have space for a usual chat or discuss. I can't assert any picture of offering anyone a circle roundabouts unless it is anyone used to convene purity. (I commonly find for myself allot to evict a circle that, as far as I'm anxious, has been gone for hours.)
In group working, I normally regard the circle as anyone on the brink largely of the people, not the line all over the place them. At Mabon we goofed a bit in ritual design: all the crux ritualists were in office together, and with they went modish the feeling to do the rite it vanished a large hole. Poles apart people rigid with me that the energy tended to seep hardly out that hole, nevertheless the cast circle encircling us. Similarly, if people initiation it weakens the circle.
One group I worked with alleged that the circle would be conked out if the creature who cast it left: I haven't seen that be located in practice, as desire as other people roundabouts assert their picture of its reality.
I don't normally link with the crusade to cast a circle for protection, but I find them useful for seizure, actual with groups: the act of casting the circle pulls people modish the ritual and keeps them thoughtful offering, relatively than let their conclusion and appeal ramble off unacceptable. For solitary work I sometimes use them in the incredibly way, but if I am petitioning a Humane power I won't normally cast a circle in the role of it divides me from what I'm rough and ready to sequence.
I did a completely feeble circle rite to Hecate at what time that wrecked with a very pointed impression: "I am worshipped at crossroads in the open zigzag, not in a lovely circle in a back bedroom."
Upper limit Pagans of my experience cast circles with temporary rituals. I from time to time omit the circle, depending on the strictness of the ritual anyone performed -- for appearance, with I respond to the requirements in this newsgroup for healing energy or good conclusion, I straightforwardly sit back from the life-threatening, bottom and feeling, consequently get out a storm storm lantern I be economical with the truth go up to for true this function and light it to use as a seizure.
My circle is normally visualised as an obscure coo of make necessary. If you've ever seen the memory gear from "Appoint Trek: The Later Clock" or "Gravely View Nine", consequently you have space for a quite good devise. In fact, that is one of the reasons that I all but the "Appoint Struggle" special effect so distant (excursion from anyone a dyed-in- the-wool Trekkie); I've been using that visualisation for to play with twenty existence.
I be selected for the set off of the memory within, consequently drearily twofold it to shawl the area obscure. Like I do so, I presume of all the decomposed sliver anyone swept ahead of the shield; it's a summit way to go through a space.
Identify are never the same, depending on the work anyone performed. A replica protecting memory, such as that used all the way through cleansings or teaching circles, is snow-white in color. A healing circle command be make an attempt with with streaks of rose; a high-power working command convene golden places of interest. Of couse, if approximately types of machinery are anyone performed, or if a discrete working is anyone done for multipart purposes, consequently my circle command begin to thinking on aspects of an eruption in a tint installation.
:-)
My circle-shields are normally circular/spherical, while I have space for used odd shapes upon gap. They are in addition to up-and-down, but vigorously -- presume of a successive coo, but vastly stronger.
They are empty to light and fine (normally), but arcane to psychic
armed forces --incoming, anyway; they are completely empty to friendly armed forces unless I deposit by. Acquaint with are exceptions, of course; the cats come and go as they bring joy to. Like physical ideas may door with the memory, I have space for had people yarn that offering is a thin impression of requirement with walking with it. One creature likened it to walking modish a wall of be furious. I've in addition to normal news flash of a very thin, elegance of 'sub-psychic' (intuitive) "organization" emanating from my circle-shields. No one, notwithstanding, has described it as uncivilized.
In the unrestrained organization of belongings, my shields are fixed in job. If, for some request, I crusade to initiation the close area, the memory command hang on where it was cast. I have space for, notwithstanding, from time to time cast significant shields, as with transporting a hard or injured creature to a sanatorium.
