How to Self-Defend with Magick

As magicians, it’s important to study the area of self-defense carefully since we have considerable power and force. The inappropriate use of that power and force can cause Universal backlash. We must be especially careful to control our tempers and not use our abilities reactively. According to Western magical practice, “You have a right to be here and follow your own path so long as you hinder no one else in doing likewise.” This foundational principle asserts our right to exist and follow our own path and by extension, our right to defend ourselves against those who might seek to prevent us from walking our path. As you grow in magical ability, you will inevitably attract beings on different levels that seek to interfere with your path in some way. 

Here’s a good rule of thumb to use when it comes to self-defense: “In cases of direct and violent personal harm you are entitled to defend yourself by any means available, provided you did nothing to encourage or provoke the attack.” Let’s break that rule down into its component parts to study it in greater detail.

1. Direct: Upon your body, mind or spirit. A direct threat in a spiritual, magical and shamanic context includes attempts by any outside force or influence to drain your energy or impose their will upon you.
2. Violent: Anything that’s damaging to your physical, mental, emotional or spiritual well being. It doesn’t matter what the attacker’s intentions are, or whether he or she “means” to harm you. Remember, Rules of the Road states that the Universe does not care what a person intends to do, only what a person actually does.
3. Encourage: Creating or permitting unnecessary opportunities for a known hostile being to attack you.
4. Provoke: Being excessively pushy when you know someone has a sore spot or is under a lot of internal or external stress.
5. By Any Means Available: Using any means you choose to defend yourself when attacked. As long as the other parts of the above self-defense rule are met, the Universe does not care whether your response is excessive. In many spiritual systems, it is actually considered a crime to not defend yourself appropriately. In doing so, you are enabling the perpetrator to NOT learn spiritually appropriate behavior; therefore, prolonging his or her lack of growth. In general, any infringement on your sacred psychic or emotional space gives you the right to defend yourself.

We hope this helps you guys understand a little bit better when and where it is appropriate to use Magick to defend yourself. Learn how to defend yourself magickally by taking our Magickal Self Defense Course!

Grind the Negative Energy Out of Your Life

If you ever wanted to undo a mistake that you made or get rid of bad energy in your life, we have a solution for you. There is a stone called the Hematite stone which is a type of grounding stone that can be used to pull and attract the bad energy away from your life. It deepens your connection with the Earth and dumps your negative energy into the stone. If you found this ritual enjoyable, check out more Undoing Magick recipes in our eBook!

Grounding Stone Recipe

Time Required: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

• A sample of hematite
• (Optional) paper and pencil or pen to write Directors, Limiters, and verses
• Material made of natural fiber or a small bag made of natural fiber

Recipe Directions

1. Hold the hematite stone in your dominant hand (the hand with which you naturally point).
2. Focus on the problem or issue that you want to undo in your life and flow those unwanted energies into the hematite stone. This is not a thinking exercise. Just will it, feel yourself pushing that energy out into the stone, and it will happen.
3. When the stone feels tingly or warm, you have grounded the unwanted energies into the stone.
4. Wrap the stone in a natural material, like cotton or wool, or place in a small bag made of natural material to store it safely.
5. Put it away in a safe place where no one will find it and open it or bury it in the ground deep enough that it will not be found.

Need Some Sacred Space? Wear This!

 The holiday season is quickly approaching and with it the usual crazed shoppers, family members (wanted or unwanted), work/life balance crises and more that can all interfere with your sacred space. But fear not! You, as a planetary citizen, are always entitled to your sacred space. To ward off those crazy holiday vibes, just key (personalize) and wear our specially designed seven-pointed faery star psychic shield. Watch those unwanted psychic energy bolts bounce off your now-shielded space. Moon shields for women, Sun shields for men. Both come with directions on how to key to your own energies. 

The Faery Star For Magical Protection
The Faery Star, also known as the Elven Star, is a seven point star made by combining a four point square with a three point triangle in a way that creates a constantly circulating shape or shield. This symbol is sacred to many Wiccan and tribal traditions because the number 7 is sacred as being related to the seven planets, seven notes of the diatonic scale, seven directions of North, South, East, West, above, below, and within, and the seven colors of the rainbow. This type of psychic shield once it is keyed becomes an eternally spinning shield. Whereas the pentagram which is a five point star always requires a "push" from outside to set in motion, once the Faery Star is keyed with electric blue energy it never stops rotating. 

A psychic shield is a great magical way to protect yourself from negative energies surrounding you. It will not only protect you from all the chaos and noise going on around you and create sacred space for yourself, but will also deflect the energy coming from another person thinking something negative about you. The energy from those types of thoughts from others can actually have a negative influence on you. When you key the shield, you are personalizing it to your own energies and programming it to defend against any kind or degree of psychic attack. An attack coming from behind you will cause the shield to channel the energy from it and pull it harmlessly through you. An attack coming from in front of you causes the shield to block the energy and scatter it. If you see your shield turning black or having burn or scorch marks on it, then you'll know it has been deflecting those negative energies for you. When this happens, just clean it up with silver polish and you may want to hold it over your firebowl with a mixture of pine resin and sage burning in it. Holding the shield over a column of smoke like this until the smoke begins to stick to it will help clear out negative energies too. 

Not only does the Faery Star shield protect you from unwanted energies, it also can help you control your magical gifts. Anytime you feel your energies spinning out of control, you can use the shield to ground your energies. 

Other Magical Protection
Besides using the shield, which is good because it is easy to take with you where ever you go, it is a good idea to cleanse your other spaces like home, office, and car. Use pine resin and sage or other cleansing herbs, burn a sun yellow candle or even better do a four element cleansing on these areas to clear out all the junky energy that may have accumulated. You can also use symbols or talismans of animal totems, deities or other higher spirit powers that are sacred to you to display in areas of your home for protection. You may also want to ward and bind the mirrors in your home. Silver and black mirrors can both be windows or doorways into other worlds. Silver mirrors access the level or plane that is reflected in them. Black mirrors, often called witch's mirrors, however can access any realm. Magicians and shamans create their own black mirrors for magical reasons such as traveling to other realms, but if you have any type of black reflective surface like on a microwave, dishwasher, computer screen, etc., other beings, magicians or shamans can penetrate your home shields and enter your sacred space. Spirits often use mirrors to take up residence too. Mirrors are also like psychic sponges that absorb all kinds of emotional energies so you never know what they may be accessing at various times. To prevent this, you can ward and bind your mirrors in this way:

• Perform a 4 element cleansing on the mirror
   
• Use your Athame in an edge on position to sweep the mirror from top to bottom with a sheet of electric blue which is one of the fire element colors
   
• Ward the mirror by putting the Left Eye of Horus symbol in the lower right hand corner of a square or rectangle shaped mirror. Use a permanent marker or a permanent sticker with the symbol on it. DO NOT use the Right Eye of Horus as that is used to enhance spirit vision, divination, opens things, seeks and pulls which is the opposite of protection. The Left Eye is a natural mirror and glass protector from Egyptian practice. If your mirror is round or oval shaped, put the symbol in the bottom center. 
   
• Bind the mirror by using your Athame with a beam of electric blue energy projected off the tip and draw an X with the first line drawn from top right to bottom left and the second line drawn from top left to lower right. Lock both beams into the frame or the back of the mirror at the corners.

Where ever you spend your holidays, whether staying at home or traveling, you can magically protect your sacred space and have a peaceful, joy filled time. Energetically and magically clear out your space if you are at home or use a psychic shield at home or away from home and keep the negative energies out of your space. Especially at this time of year, whatever traditions you observe, you have sacred spiritual ceremonies and rituals that you don't want negativity interfering with. Just a little magic can help!

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Under Attack? Magical Methods of Self Defense

When it comes to using magical self defense there are a multitude of ways to protect yourself. Whether the attack is physical, psychic, verbal or just an invasion of your sacred space, you have the right to use magical means for protection as long as you stay within the self defense rules . In our online Magical Self Defense course you'll learn all about these rules as well as magic techniques such as grounding out fire energy, flowing fire energy, rooting and grounding, hand lightning, fireballs, shields and sonics for self defense. Just to peak your interest, let's look at one of these protection magic techniques – Grounding.

Grounding for Self Defense
Grounding is an especially good technique to use when you are in a routy crowd, find yourself dealing with a chatty neighbor invading your sacred silence, surrounded by anxiety that is contagious, or facing any aggression or anger from another. All of these situations involve fire energy and by grounding you are pulling excess fire energy from another person or the environment, flowing it through your body and pushing it into an electrical ground. Next time you find yourself in this type of situation, try this.

1. Concentrate on the behavior being expressed to access the excess of fire energy, ie. – noise, anger...

2. Identify a safe ground in the area for fire energy such as an electrical outlet, light switch, power lines or you can use a sink since the water pipes run into the earth. Do not use delicate electronic equipment like a computer or TV since these may short out from added fire energy.

3. Prepare to pull the excess fire energy by either putting your output hand or foot on the ground you have located or by extending your output hand toward the ground. Make sure there are no living beings between you and the ground you will be using as you don't want to flow the excess fire energy into them. If you are dealing with a situation that you are uncomfortable being obvious about what you are doing, you can very subtly direct your hand in the direction of the ground.

4. Begin pulling the excess fire energy that you have identified in through your input hand. You can access it by looking at a color source that corresponds to the energy such as red-orange for anger or aggression or yellow-orange for anxiety or you can access it from the behavior such as noise.

5. Pull the energy in through your input hand, through your body and out of your output hand into the ground that you have selected. If there are a combination of fire energies, you may have to keep switching color bands to pull all the excess fire. If you do not have your output hand available in your situation, you can flow the energy down and out through your foot.

6. Continue pulling until the noise, anger or aggression has diminished. This should only take a couple of minutes at most as most people will find it difficult to keep up their high fire energy levels once you start pulling and grounding it.

7. Be sure that you continue flowing energy into the ground through your output hand after you stop pulling it through your input hand. You want to make sure you are not taking on that excess fire by not flowing it out of your body.

If you are in a crowd and find you are dealing with a lot of excess fire energy, you can use the rooting technique along with the grounding technique. This allows you to have two energy grounds, your roots for one and the electrical ground for the other and you'll find you can pull larger amounts of fire energy this way.

Ready to get started learning to protect yourself magically? Check out the Magical Self Defense Course and fill your magical toolbox with a variety of techniques to protect yourself.

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Under Attack? Magic's Got Your Back

Every single person has the right to sacred space, and fully safety and security within that sacred space. If you are under attack--physical or psychic--then magical self defense can help. You may use any and all magical means to defend your sacred space from attack (from verbal abuse to someone getting too personal at work to out-and-out physical attack) so long as you follow the primary rule of self defense. The rule says, "In cases of direct and violent personal harm you are entitled to defend yourself by any means available provided you did nothing to encourage or provoke the attack." Here's a more in-depth look at this rule and what it means when considering the use of magical self defense.

Direct – This includes a threat made upon body, mind or spirit. In a magical sense this would include attempts from any outside force or influence to cause a drain on your energy or impose their will upon you.

Violent – Anything that damages your physical, mental, emotional or spiritual well being is considered violent in a magical sense. Their intention to do violence or not is not part of the consideration, only what harm is actually done.

Encourage – This means that you have done nothing that would create or permit an unnecessary opportunity for a hostile being to attack you.

Provoke – If you know a sore spot someone has or know they are under a lot of internal or external stress and you become excessively pushy or confrontive, then these would be considered provoking on your part.

By Any Means Available – As long as all the other conditions of this rule are met, you can use whatever means you choose to defend yourself and the Universe will not consider any response you offer as excessive.

Sound good? Ready to explore more about the world of magical self defense? Learn more about the ins and outs of this rule, plus many magical techniques for self-defense in our Magical Self Defense online course.


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