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- Date: Thu 20 Aug 87 14:50:30
- From: Judy Harrow
- To: Hugh Read
- Subj: grounding shields
-
- When I wrote you yesterday about grounding shields, I left out a very
- important new application that we just recently thought up.
-
- Y'know as long as this imperfect world contains in it pain that is
- truly caused to us by other people - like rape, child abuse, nasty
- bosses, and other things not as drastic but similarly caused by
- particular other humans - it is therapeutically good for people to have
- some way to "harmlessly" release their anger. Rage bottled up may turn
- inward and become ulcers, heart disease and other stress-related
- illness. Or it may turn outward as sudden, irrational bursts of
- violence. This, for example, is what the posters that say "child abuse
- is a family tradition" mean. So shrinks ask their clients to define a
- cushion as their father and kick it around the room. One person dear to
- me broke a bone in his foot doing just that - but before the session he
- had no memory earlier than his 16th year, and after the catharsis he did.
-
- But I'm a trained Witch, and for me to call a pillow my father and
- kick it would be baneful magic. So what do I do, engage in magical
- practices I believe to be wrong, or eat out my gut? Neither.
-
- This is the procedure:
- 1) Cast your Circle as usual
- 2) Then place a grounding shield WITHIN your Circle, like the membrane
- just inside the eggshell. You can use the visualization I shared
- yesterday for the shield or anything at all else that works for you.
- 3) Invoke Grandmother Earth into the Circle, and ask Her to take the
- energy to be released there, cleanse it, and recycle it to wherever it
- is most needed. Do not tell Her where.
- 4) Let the healee do whatever cathartic procedure seems appropriate.
- Sometimes simply yelling and screaming will do it. But, in this context,
- even destroying a recognizable image of the person who has done the harm
- is safe and OK. When the healee has finished releasing the poison s/he
- will feel drained and empty.
- 5) Then invoke the Maiden Earth, to fill the newly created space with
- fragrant, green energy that will welcome and nurture new and beautiful
- growth in the healee.
- 6) Thank everybody.
- 7) Specifically let the grounding shield itself melt into the ground.
- 8) Close the Circle as usual.
-
- On further reflection, maybe #7 should be moved to between #4 and #5,
- y'know like fully dispose of the yuckies before bringing in the yummies.
- Anyhow, this solves a problem that's been worrying me for a long time
- about finding release for feelings it's not right to release into magic.
- Whaddya think? warmly / Judy
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