Basic Warding
Author: Kerr Cuhulain
Ward: To avert, repel, or turn aside danger, harm, an attack or an
assailant. From the Middle English "warden", Old English "weardian",
German "warden".
A ward is an active psychokinetic shield. When energy is thrown at
you, a ward will divert this energy, making it veer away from you. The
magick Circle used by Wiccans is a type of ward: A unidirectional
defensive "bubble" that we can use to protect a location or ourselves.
Yet a magick Circle is not a solid wall. Those who have cast magick
Circles know that you can walk through them. They will also probably
realize that by doing so they will disrupt the energy of the Circle.
If you can walk through it, how does a Circle stop the in coming
energy? Many of the old texts talk of surrounding yourself with the
correct vibrations or light of a certain color, and this is a clue to
the process.
Wards like this protective energy sphere, which is the Wiccan Circle,
have a particular resonance. When the negative energy with a different
vibration comes at you, it can't get in because when it contacts this
sphere it is disrupted. The interference caused as the negative energy
reaches the protective sphere causes it to change frequency as it
entrains with the frequency of the sphere.
I talk about this principle of entrainment in detail in my new book,
Magickal Self Defense. In effect, your protective sphere filters out
all frequencies other than its resonance.
Schrödinger's Wave Equation tells us that reality is the result of
interactions of waves of probabilities of different outcomes. Think of
your protective sphere as a wave surface that you create to intersect
with the waves of probability that your assailant sends at you. Thus
the surface of this sphere is a place were these waves interacting to
create a reality that you control.
In Magickal Self Defense, I describe several techniques that you can
use to create wards. One of my favorites is what I call Pushing the
Sky: If you are a novice, it may assist you at first to trace out the
perimeter of the ward on the ground around you. This will help you
visualize how far to let the energy ball expand.
Stand relaxed, feet shoulder width apart with your arms hanging
relaxed at your sides. Turn your hands so that the palms face down and
the fingers of each hand are turned inwards. Your hands will now be at
right angles to your arms. Keeping the arms straight and hanging
downwards, swing the hands inward so that the tips of the fingers are
almost but not quite touching. Pause and sense the currents in the
earth beneath you. Imagine yourself putting down roots and connect
with these currents.
Now, with your hands still at right angles and your arms straight,
swing your arms in a continuous arc upwards. As you do so, breathe in
and imagine the energy flowing up into you. Pause with your hands over
your head, fingers almost touching, hands still at right angles at the
end of your straight arms, your head tilted slightly back. Hold your
breath for a second. Then push upwards, as if pushing the sky. Feel
the energy release and flow out of your hands, as if you are pushing
it out. Imagine it cascading down around you like a fountain, forming
an energy sphere that envelops you.
Once you have released the energy, let your arms fall in an arc to
your sides, hands now relaxed and hanging normally. As you are doing
this, you are focusing your will on this ward, causing the quantum
potentiality to manifest this energetic sphere. Thus you are using
your imagination to define the ward and your will to create it. If you
have set a spherical ward like this up properly, you will notice that
the temperature inside the ward seems to increase slightly.
To close the ward down, stand in the middle with your arms spread
wide. Release the focus of your will, causing the energy to return to
the unified field of quantum potentiality. Imagine the energy sphere
collapsing in on itself. Gather the energy in, encircling it with your
arms as if bringing it in to the position in front of your chest.
Absorb it into the dantian energy center in your abdomen (behind and
below the navel), pressing your hands over this area for a moment. Let
the surplus energy run out into the earth beneath you. Then take a
moment to breathe deeply a few times, letting the chi within you come
back into balance. When you take your shield down for any reason,
prepare yourself for a sudden inrushing of energy. Be prepared to
ground out the surplus so that it doesn't build up inside of you and
make you ill.
There is any number of ways to imagine this spherical ward when you
are creating it. When creating your ward it may help if you imagine
the surface of your shield as being a sort of grid or cage that
captures the incoming negative energy and grounds it into the earth
where it touches the earth under your feet. Alternatively you can
visualize being surrounded by a "net" or a sphere of energy.
Another way of thinking of this form of defense is as a filter that
protects you from unwanted energy. Your will selects what passes
through the shield, because your will is setting the resonance of the
sphere that surrounds you.
When you create this ward, imagine it to be capable of diverting
incoming energy from all directions at once. Some authors recommend
creating two layers: A tight core around your body and a secondary
level about ten feet from your body. This secondary shield is intended
to redirect objects before they can reach the inner core shield. I
don't find this necessary myself, but if it makes you more comfortable
to do it this way, go right ahead. Actually, you needn't create a very
large personal ward. It can be just outside of the surface of your skin.
Once you get good at this, creating a ward like this becomes an
unconscious process: You can create and sustain the field without
consciously thinking about it. As your shield becomes self-sustaining
and self-propagating it will become much stronger.
These shielding techniques take advantage of the principles of karma.
You'll notice that they are designed to not reflect anything back to
the source. Your assailant will see nothing happening to you and will
get the impression that their efforts are having no effect, which will
hopefully be disheartening for them. At the same time they are setting
themselves to get back the karmic consequences of acting in this anti
social manner. Likewise, you will be doing nothing negative or
destructive, which leaves you with no karmic debt.
Various ritual methods have been devised over the years to allow
people to walk in and out of magickal Circles. The most common
technique for creating a portal in a Wiccan ritual Circle through
which you can pass without upsetting the balance of the rest of the
Circle is commonly called "cutting a doorway": Using your hand, or the
Magickal Weapon that you used to cast the Circle, you outline an
archway at the perimeter of the Circle. As you do so you imagine that
the energy draws back around it so that it creates a portal. If this
technique or something similar works for you, then go ahead and use
it. You'll find it easier working with the familiar in stressful
situations.
Remember that as you create this portal you should focus your will on
this portal to make the quantum potentiality coalesce into this
portal. If you used a Magickal Weapon assist you to do this, lay it on
the ground across the threshold and step out of the Circle. When you
re-enter, pick up the Magickal Weapon and retrace the archway in
reverse. Imagine the portal closing in on itself and sealing once
again. Let the portal collapse back into the unified field of infinite
probabilities once more.
The only problem with this "door cutting" technique is that while the
portal is open, anything and everything can pass through it. This
defeats the purpose of the ward. That is why I prefer to use a method
that I call "slipping through" to get in and out of Circles. Instead
of cutting a "doorway", you allow yourself to shift into resonance
with the energetic ward sphere briefly and slip through the matrix
without disturbing it. To re-enter the Circle you simply do this in
reverse.
Stand next to the part of the Circle that you want to leave or enter
through. Reach out with your mind and sense the energy of the Circle
that you've created. You may find this easier if you reach out with
your hands until you encounter the perimeter of the energy sphere that
is the Circle. Let the vibrations of the energy of the Circle entrain
with your own. As soon as you sense that entrainment, simply step
through to the outside of the Circle. You simply repeat this process
to get back in. This doesn't disrupt the energy of the Circle and it
doesn't create an opening to let negative energies get in.
Don't let fearful people, mentally or emotionally unbalanced people or
intensely negative people work with you in Circle. Their energy can
disrupt the defenses that you are trying so hard to erect. Here you
are trying to block out negative influences with your ward and the
interior is filled with negative influences from the people that you
brought in with you.
If you have to bring such people into the Circle, for example, to
protect them, then monitor the energy around you carefully. Have some
emotionally stable and energetically strong people in there with you
to help keep the energies in balance.
Basic warding
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