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Shielding For
Beginners
From: MistyDawn
What is a shield?
A psychic shield is a non material substance/force/power with which
you surround yourself for protection. Many types of force can be
called into play in its construction, and many forms can be used,
all at your discretion. It's important that a friend, instructor or
adept NOT do this work for you; your shield will be with you
permanently, and you need to have the intimate connection that
creating your own provides.
Why make a shield?
The best reason is for protection against psychic flak of all
kinds, especially important when you are first starting down the
Path, and aren't yet well-versed in defensive measures. It's
protection from mind-games and psychic vampires (yes, they do
exist), and a good shield helps you to separate mundane flak from
psychic flak. It exercises the faculties of self-reliance and
visualization. All told, it's one of the most essential tools of
the working occultist.
what do I need to know about shields?
Your shield is your BASIC piece of protection/comfort/defense. It
is a permanent part of you, and something like wearing a Circle
like a second skin. It should be flexible and semipermeable, moving
and growing with you, and "breathing" with your energy usage. Be
aware that what you visualize when you start out is what will be
there, but that the shield will probably change of its own accord
to keep up with your changing capabilities and needs.
Building the
Shield
Preliminary Cleansing
When building your first shield, it seems rather ridiculous to lock
in any negative energies you may be carrying with you currently.
Therefore, a preliminary cleansing, as follows:
Stand in a quiet place and center your energies. Visualize a
gleaming sharp sword in your hand. Use it joyously, vigorously
slicing through the air close to your body on all sides, over your
head and under your feet. As you slash, visualize all unfriendly or
negative ties being severed and the ends shriveling away to
nothing. Do not be specific -- "this tie, that tie" -- ALL
unfriendly ties are being cut!! Note that friendly and unfriendly
ties exist on different planes, so you can't damage the friendly
ties -- although you may be surprised that ties you thought were
friendly, aren't -- and vice versa. It isn't necessary to do this
every time you work on your shields, although a once-a-year
cleansing and general housecleaning couldn't hurt.
Other helpful rituals include:
The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram; the Middle Pillar;
the Kabalistic Cross; any other cleansing/grounding rituals you may
be aware of.
Visualizations
You have to decide every detail of the visualization of your
shields. What shape will it take? What color (if any)? What
materials? What appearance? These are the basics; we'll touch on
the embellishments later.
Shapes
Round, spherical, cylindrical, square, cube, pentagon, pentagram,
ovoid, and any other shape you like. If you can form and hold a
dodecahedron in your mind's eye, go to it!!
Colors
Any color of the rainbow, and a few never seen on this plane are
all acceptable. White is one commonly used color, but if you want
chartreuse, by all means go ahead! Try to avoid black; not for its
effect on you, necessarily, but for not giving the wrong signals to
the folks you might want to be working with.
Textures
Vary widely; from brick walls to energy cocoons, to steel spheres
and laser force fields. Whatever your mind conceives of as
protecting is what you use.
Warning
Leaving this construct semipermeable is strongly advised. This
leaves you open to receiving positive energies while still giving
you protection, and allows the important vibrational interactions
that lead to growth.
The Process
Once you've decided what you shield will be, sit quietly and begin
to visualize it around you in the form you've chose. Take 10 or 15
minutes to get it solid and clear to your inner eyes, then quit for
the day. Once a day for a week, re-visualize your shield and
strengthen it. Then check your shield once a week for the next
month, re-visualizing and strengthening as needed. After that,
check on your shield as you feel it's needed, but at least once a
year. Keep in mind that once your shield is well-established, it's
basically self-sustaining and maintaining. Eventually, the only
times you'll need to be aware of your shield is at its yearly
housecleaning, when you think of an improvement, or when it's
reacting to a threat.
Embellishment And Nifty Extra's
(Thanks to Fiona MacGregor, the Dark Horde
H&CTC, & Caer Ironhold)
- Attach a vial of Essence of Poison Ivy, to react upon
attack.
- Silver-mirror the outer covering.
- Add glue or rubber bands to the outside of your shield. Don't
forget to clean more often if you use glue.
- An automatic maintenance system.
- A sorter. Friendly energy breezes in, unfriendly energy is
repelled.
- A detection device. Allows a thinner shield, which sounds an
alarm when confronted with negativity.
- A grounding device. This simply grounds negative energy it
encounters.
- A slingshot, to return negative energy to its source. Can be
amplified to use the law of threefold return.
- Any other embellishments you can justify in the name of
defense.
(c)1981, Dana MorganBlessings,
From: MistyDawn
