This is an essential magical technique that ties especially well into self-care. It’s a practice that can calm agitated personal energy, replenish low personal energy, and create a sense of belonging, connection, and reassurance.
Center and Ground
This is the first thing you should do before engaging in any kind of magical work, to ensure that you don’t drain your personal energy during the working.
What to Do:
1. Close your eyes and take three slow breaths,
2. Visualize a light in the core of your body. What you consider your body’s core is up to you; some peopl locate it around the heart, others, the solar plexus or lower in the abdomen. What’s important is that it makes sense to you as the location of your core.
3. Visualize a tendril of light growing down from your core toward the ground. See it reach down through the surface, deep into the earth’s core. Visualize your tendril of energy meeting the energy of the earth. Draw some of the earth’s energy up that tendril as if it were a straw, bringing it up into your body. Let the energy of the earth fill you.
4. If you are tired or low on energy, you can use this earth energy to replenish or rebalance yourself.
5. If you are jumpy or buzzing with extra energy that’s making you jittery or flighty, then once you have connected your energy to that of the earth, visualize some of your personal energy bleeding off to be absorbed by the earth.
This process can be easier to visualize if you imagine the energy of the earth to be a different color from your personal energy.
Circles
A magic circle is an energy barrier created to delineate a sacred space in which to worship, a container created to protect what is inside or to keep unwanted energy out, and provides a way to collect
focused energy while it is raised before that energy is released toward a goal. You might not always need a circle, but how to cast one is a good technique to know because the circle can also function as a personal shield to ward off negative energy.
