The Magical Circle

The circle has a two-fold purpose first as a protection from external energies and to help the practitioner concentrate

  
     
 

There are various ways to make a magical circle. Some people draw one in chalk on the floor. Others take a length of silken cord and lay it in a circle around their working area. Or you can create a magical circle by using visualization. The purpose is to form a closed energy field around you as you are working.

     
  1. Inscribe a mystic pentagram. This will clear the air and help you adopt a relaxed, carefree state of mind. When you’ve done this, stay in the same position and begin to project a magical beam of energy in the usual way.

  2. Now trace the energy in a full circle around your body. Line your arm up with something that will act as a marker so that you’ll know when you’ve traced a complete circle. Point your beam of energy in the direction of the marker.

  3. Slowly move around in a clockwise direction. As your feet move, keep your arm still and imagine the beam of energy flowing out from your outstretched fingers. Carry on turning slowly, until your arm has described a complete circle in the air.

  4. Slowly lower your arm until it hangs by your side. As you do this, imagine that the beam of energy has stopped
  
     
Producing a circle is a way of confirming the link between your inner self and the rest of creation. It’s a very natural prelude to any actions designed to harness or draw on the elements of Nature. These elements are within you and yet they are also the fundamental building blocks of the physical universe. That’s why this energy that you have imagined flooding out of your body is so symbolic and so relevant. By drawing it around you in a circle you have created an extension to the limits of your being. The energy that you send streaking out into infinity takes a part of you with it. It illuminates the connection between you and the rest of the creation.

Undoing a Magical Circle

It is important to remember to undo your circle

  1. Line yourself up with the same marker you used when you began to create the magical circle. Extend the same arm you used to draw it don’t extend your fingers. Instead, raise your whole hand as if you were signalling halt to an approaching car.

  2. Keeping this position, begin to imagine that the same beam of energy you sent streaking out into the air is flooding back to you through the palm of your hand. Feel it coming in through your palm, up through your outstretched arm, across your shoulder, and down towards your solar plexus.

  3. Once you feel comfortable that this is happening, begin to move slowly round in an anticlockwise direction. Feel the energy flowing back into your body.

  4. When you return once more to your original marker position, pause for a second and then slowly lower your arm. Now that all that light energy has been gathered back to your solar plexus, it’s time to make a final symbolic gesture. Take a deep breath, hold it for a second and imagine it mingling with the light energy you have collected within you, and then exhale the whole lot with one, quite forceful, out-breath
  
     

 

 

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