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- Date: 12-01-88 23:42
- From: Sourdough Jackson
- To: Paul Seymour
- Subj: Re: gays in traditional craft
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- ***** Quoting message from Paul Seymour to Michael Harismides *****
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- In my experience of observing may circles, the ones that included "gay"
- people without careful attention to the balancing of energies between them
- had some serious problems. While my somewhat limited experience may have
- little bearing on the subject, it has suggested something that has not been
- discussed thoroughly: The necessity of a balancing of male vs. female
- energies in a circle, regardless of sexual preferences. Any body want to get
- into this one?
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- ***** End Quote *****
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- In my experience, a 'balancing of energies' can take a number of forms.
- One of them that seems to work no matter how the circle is composed is a
- matching of resonances. Everyone grounds & centers first, and then either
- the circle is cast and everyone matches resonances or you do it the other way
- around. To match resonances: stand or sit in a ring with hands nearly
- touching, with each person's right hand directly above the left hand of the
- person's neighbor to the right, to the point where each person can feel
- his/her neighbor's energy field. Let a GENTLE current flow (sorry, this is
- the only way I know how to describe this) deosil until everyone feels in
- balance. You are just trying to balance the energy of the circle, not raise
- any power just yet. We don't always do this in Birdsnest; last time, a
- simple kiss on the cheek passed deosil with the words "Perfect love and
- perfect trust. Blessed be." was sufficient. However, Birdsnest is the
- barest minimum size for a coven (3), and we are a well-matched psychic
- circle. Non-psychic circles may have more difficulty matching resonances,
- and may have to resort to other more symbolic ways of balancing the energies.
- Try various methods and see what works. My guess is that any method that
- will balance the energies of a circle for Dianics ought to work for anyone,
- as we are supposed ;-) to be inherently unbalanced. Incidentally, I learned
- how to match resonances from a Christian psychic, and she learned it from a
- touch therapy course. Talk about non-sectarianism!
- BB, Sourdough
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- PS--The original message had to do with balancing of male & female energies.
- I might add that we have REAL case of potential unbalance in Birdsnest, as
- all three of us are lovers of women--and when I am in circle, my anima is
- doing most of the work for me. This seems to create no problems whatever for
- us. The one time we did have problems, we broke every rule in the book
- because we were doing an emergency working when we were all physically and
- emotionally messed up with initial grief shock.
-
- --- Gnome v1.20
- * Origin: The Lizard King-"I am the Lizard King; I can do
- anything."(1:104/45.5)
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