Cleansing with the 4 elements is one of the first things I learned in Witchcraft and a really simple way to cleans tools, ritual items and even yourself. The process is really simple and involves passing each item through an elemental representation. The best part is that you can find things outside or use items you already have to represent each element in your cleansing. I still use this cleanse on the reg, especially with new items, tarot and just really anything that I feel like needs a good energy clearing.
The first thing you need to do is find or acquire an item that represents each of the 4 elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Use 4 separate items. I’ve listed below my suggestions but feel free to use whatever representation makes sense and speaks to you.
Element Representation
For Earth you can use small potted plants, dried herbs, leaves, small sticks, crystals or even smooth rocks.
Air representations can include bird feathers (that have fallen off naturally), incense or dandelions.
For fire you can use candles of any kind, incense or metal objects that have been welded like old keys and small trinkets like rings or pendants.
Water is the easiest, use a small glass or bowl of water. (Bonus if it’s moon water.) You can also use sea shells, tea cups, or even brewed hot tea.
Don’t feel stuck to these items only. If something speaks to you and you feel like it represents an element for you, use that item instead. The best representations to elements are ones that have a personal connection to you.
Cleansing
After collecting your items, place them on your alter or on a flat surface where you will be doing your cleanse. Space out each elemental representation in a square starting with Earth. Light any incense or candles if you have them for your element representations.
Now, take the object you are going to cleanse and ‘pass them through’ each element starting with Earth. For instance if you are cleansing a new ritual tool and are using crystals for your Earth representation simply pass the item over AND under the crystal to cleanse of the energy. When you’re done move onto the next element. Repeat until all 4 elements are used and your items is cleansed.
Safe Keeping
Keep your element ritual items in a small box or drawstring bag until next time and leave them in a space where they won’t be disturbed. If you have items you can’t keep such as leaves from outside or water in a cup, you can bury the contents outside or use the water to water plants.
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I’ve been on a reading binge so I’m thinking of doing a witchy book recommendations. I’m hoping to put some on there besides the basics. Let me know if this is what y’all want! Also comment book you want me to read !
There is something about being in the elements with the ones you care about. Lived in South Minneapolis all my life but this was the first time I ventured out to see the frozen waterfall at the Minnehaha Creek. :) Happy Valentines Day 2016!
Fire:Carnation, Marigold, Snapdragon, and Sunflower. Earth: Ferns, Honeysuckle, Oleander, Primrose, and Tulip. Air:Dandelion, Goldenrod, Lavender, and Lily of the Valley. Water: Chamomile, Daffodil, Daisy, Jasmine, and Lotus.
Foods:
Fire: Carrot, Celery, Fig, Leek, Lime, and Radish. Earth:Corn, Oats, Pea, Potato, Turnip, and Wheat. Air:Beans, Chicory, Mulberry, Pistachio, and Rice. Water:Apricot, Avocado, Banana, Coconut, and Plum.
Herbs:
Fire:Basil, Bay Laurel, Dill, Mullein, Peppermint, and Rosemary. Earth:Barley, Buckwheat, Honeysuckle, Mugwort, and Vervain. Air:Bergamot, Clover, Eucalyptus, Lemongrass, and Meadowsweet. Water:Catnip, Comfrey, Lemon Balm, Scullcap, Thyme, and Vanilla.
Spices and Resins:
Fire:Dragons-blood, Ginger, Mustard, Nutmeg, and Pepper. Earth:Chile Powder, Fennel, Garlic Powder, and Patchouli. Air:Allspice, Anise, Cinnamon, Citron, Clove, and Star Anise. Water:Mimosa, Myrrh, Papaya, Sandalwood, and Sugar Cane.
Woods:
Fire:Alder, Ash, Cedar, Hawthorn, Juniper, and Mahogany. Earth: Cypress, Mandrake, Hawthorn, Oak, Rye, and Walnut. Air:Acacia, Aspen, Hazel, Maple, Palm, Pine, and Slippery Elm. Water:Birch, Cherry, Maidenhair, Myrtle, Willow, Yarrow, and Yew.
When reading a Birth Chart, its important to consider that the most occurring element is their dominant element, not the element of their Solar Placement. Each sign has their associated element that can delve into ones demeanor.
Elementals:
Fire:
Placements:Fire signs are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. Dominants:Fire dominants are generally ravishingly enthusiastic, resourceful, and brightly burning in their mannerisms.
Earth:
Placements:Earth Signs are Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. Dominants: Earth dominants are often dreamers, yet maintain a sensible, conscientious, and determined aptitude.
Air:
Placements:Air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. Dominants: Air dominant people are coordinated, practical, ingenious, captivating, and luminous with their demeanor.
Water:
Placements:Water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. Dominants: Water dominants are very impassioned, innovative, creative, ambitious, and romantic souls at heart.
Represents the home, and most materialistic things
Magick that corresponds with working with Earth is including, but not limited to: Kitchen Witchery, Garden Magick, Herbal Magick, Working with Essential Oils & personal aromatherapy, Crafting Potions
Air
Rules the East
Symbolic color is Yellow
Symbolic Item is the Wand
Incense or feathers can be used to represent Air on the Altar
Represents the voice, communication, intellect, creativity, communication and eloquence
Magick that corresponds with working with Air is including, but not limited to: incense magick (creating or burning incense with an intended purpose), sigil crafting, as well as creative aspects such as singing, dancing, or playing an instrument
Fire
Rules the South
Symbolic Color is Red
Symbolic Item is the Athame
The Candle can be used to represent Fire on the Altar
Represents our passion, the drive to create and inspiration as well as justice
Magick that corresponds with working with Fire is including, but not limited to: candle magic, sigil burning, circle casting
Water
Rules the West
Symbolic Color is Blue
Symbolic Item is the Chalice
A bowl of consecrated water or symbols that represent water (such as seashells) can be used to represent Water on the Altar
Represents our emotions, maturity, and patience. Sometimes Water can represent death & rebirth.
Magick that corresponds with working with Water is including, but not limited to: bath magick, brewing potions & magical teas, crafting magickal water (Sun/Moon Water) as well as ventures such as collecting rain water.
Spirit
Rules around us; a universal element (the “Middle” of the compass) [Spirit reminds us that we “are the center of our universe” and the Elements are around us to guide us where is necessary for the time being]
Symbolic Color is White
Represented by the Cauldron
An element that is all around us and not fixed like the main four
Represents wisdom and the universe; transcendence
About “knowing one’s self”
Magick that corresponds with working with Spirit is including, but not limited to: Cosmic Magick, meditation, Ritual Work
When people think of “the elements,” they’re probably thinking of the typical earth, air, water, and fire, but they don’t think of the fifth element, nor do they think about the stats of the elements or even the power behind them. This post is meant to go into detail about the five elements, and I hope that I (and my excessive reasearch, lol) are of use to you!
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Earth
The Earth element is the one most closely linked with our physical world, and the densest of all the elements. It is the foundation on which the other elements, and is a receptive energy, helping us to accept responsibility and bringing to our attention limitations in our makeup. It is represented in the forms of burying objects in the earth, herbalism, and making images out of wood or stone. Spells that benefit from the element are business-related spells, fertility-related spells, prosperity-related spells, and stability-related spells.
Represents: strength, abundance, stability, prosperity, wealth and femininity
Trees: Cypress, Honeysuckle, Jasmin, Lilac (some say Lilac is Water)
Animals: cow, bull, dog, horse, ant, bear, wolf
Instruments: drums and percussion
Type Of Magick: Gardening, magnet images, stone (jewel divination, work with crystals), knot, Binding, money spells, grounding, finding treasures, runes
Ritual Action: Burying, making clay effigies, planting trees or herbs
Chant to Invoke:
“Here and now
I invoke the elemental force of earth
I call to the swirling dust
And dawn lit mountains,
To the farmer’s field
and all the swaying trees
You that remains solid
You that teaches of quiet stability
You that holds us firm against your skin.
I call your body here to infuse my intention
With your boundless gifts.
I call you here to fashion the spirit cavern,
Root my will in your soil,
and ground my purpose in the stones
Boulder and gravel
Redwood and rose
Earth, I call to thee.“
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Air
Air governs the realm of the mind and all mental activity, it is the most ethereal of the elements. As it is the element of the wind, it governs all movement. Air is represented in the forms of tossing objects into the wind, aromatherapy, songs, and hiding things in high places. It rules spells involving travels, instruction, freedom, knowledge, discovering lost items, and can also be used to develop psychic faculties. Air also rules the visualization.
Represents: the mind and intelligence, communication, telepathy, psychic powers, inspiration, imagination, ideas, knowledge, dreams and wishes
Trees: Acacia, Almond, Aspen, Hazel, Linden, Maple, Pine
Animals: Eagle, raven, spider
Instruments: flute, wind instruments
Type Of Magick: Divination, concentration, wind magick, prophecy, Karma work
Ritual Actions: Playing a flute, tossing objects in the air (over the shoulder), burning incense, hanging objects in trees
Chant To Invoke:
“Here and now
I evoke the elemental force of air.
The winds of intellect and imagination,
Satisfying source of flight, breath, and life.
I seek the open sky within myself
That I might breathe deep of freedom, ideas, sounds, and space.
I call you forth to sweep away
All that accumulates in the unseen places and to sing beauty into the world.
Wing and Feather,
Storm and Leaf,
Air, I call thee hence”
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Fire
Fire cleanses and purifies, but it is also creative and destructive. It can consume everything in it’s path and it is the only one of the elements that cannot exist without feeding on something else. It offers warmth and cooks food, but can get out of control. It has the power to transform everything it touches. It is positive and lifting, but can be frightening if not controlled. It is the most physical and spiritual of the elements and represents magick itself. Fire is represented in the forms of burning objects, love spells (always preferably self-love spells), baking, and lighting candles and fires.
It is the element of love and emotions, constantly active beneath the surface, influencing our moods and emotional responses. It purifies, heals, offers emotional release, and removes all that is stagnant. It is represented in the forms of pouring water over objects, brew making, healing spells, ritual bathing, and tossing objects into of water. Spells that benefit from this element are friendship spells, fertility spells, happiness spells, and relationship spells.
Represents: emotions, absorption, subconscious, purification, eternal movement, wisdom, the soul, emotional aspects of love and femininity
Gender: Feminine
Direction: West
Energy: Receptive
Symbols: Ocean, river, shell, spring, lake, well, rain, fog, cup
Spirit (also known as Ether/Aether) is, by far, the most complex and complicated element to explain. It is what unites all things, anywhere and everywhere, and is our connection to the otherworld in rituals. The spirit element transports us beyond any narrow confines and allows us to open up to something much bigger, it is present in all aspects of life, and goes beyond thought and emotion. Unlike the other four elements it has no defined place or location, even though we cannot specifically place it, we know it is there. It provides the space, connection, and balance for the other elements to exist. All spells benefit from this element.
✨Represents: the sense of joy and union
Gender: none
✨Direction: everywhere
Energy: universal
✨Symbols: cord, rope
Pentagram Placement: upper
✨Goddesses: The Lady
Gods: The Horner God
✨Spirits: —
Time: always
✨Cycle Of Life: eternity
Season: year cycle (all seasons)
✨Zodiac: —
Colors: white
✨Sense: higher receptions
Stones and Jewels: —
✨Magick Tools: —
Metals: —
✨Herbal: —
Trees: —
✨Animals: dove
Instruments: —
✨Type Of Magick: —
Ritual Action: —
✨Chant To Invoke:
“Here and now,
I reach deep within myself.
Here and now,
I invoke spirit.
I call on the force connecting me
To the whole of existence
The thread running back through my blood,
And the ripples spreading over from my actions
I call on the visions that have inspired me, the kindness that has lifted me,
First of the Fire Signs, Aries’ temperamental and dynamic nature is heightened. This Zodiac Sign is one of activity, adventure, and interest in just about everything. Much like a flame freshly ignited in a fireplace full of kindling, Aries has plenty of room for growth and expansion. For the same reason, Aries also is associated with a rather innocent and childlike quality.
First of the Earth Signs, Taurusis the most strong and stable. They seek a life full of harmony and happiness. Like the crust of the Earth, Taurus provides a solid foundation. Taurus is warm and nurturing, loving to care for anyone and everyone. They thoroughly enjoy material comforts, especially those with high aesthetic quality.
First of the Air Signs, Geminiis the most flighty. Much like a “dust devil,” this Zodiac Sign spins erratically through life without slowing down, meanwhile, they pick up carry with them anything lucky enough to fall in their path. This Sign also indicates a feeling of incompletion; as Gemini drifts along the wind searching for someone to make them feel complete.
First of the Water Signs, Cancer caring and empathetic nature is heightened. This Zodiac Sign is known for being genuine, compassionate, nurturing, and helpful, along with being reserved and secretive, wary to open up to anyone but those closest to them. Though this Sign is known for being gentle, Cancer can become quite aggressive when they need to defend themselves or those they care about – like a river that spills it’s banks.
As the middle Fire Sign, Leo enjoys being in the center - center of attention and center stage, to be specific. This Zodiac Sign is like fire at its peak; strong and steadily sharing its warmth and light. Leo is dependable, and grandiose, with a knack for making their presence known. With such a regal nature, Leo can comfortably command a crowd.
As the middle Earth Sign, Virgo is like the Middle of the Earth – not on one side, or the other; not too soft or too rigid, too hot or too cold. This Zodiac Sign is stable, observing, analytical, and helpful – Virgo carefully observes those around them, stepping in precisely when help is needed. Virgo isn’t as materialistic than the other Earth Signs; instead, this Sign often becomes rather fixated on taking comfort in order and organization.
As the middle Air Sign, Libra’s air is steady and reliable – much like the vital air we breathe. Libra seeks harmony, balance, and peace. They thrive on relationships – romance is as vital to Libra as oxygen is. Libra provides for loved ones like air provides for humanity.
As the middle Water Sign, Scorpio enjoys observing those around them. Like a raging river, Scorpio is both intense and powerful. Rivers shape and control the environment in which they exist. Similarly, Scorpio’s tend to control both themselves and their environment. Fully equipped with an equally intuitive and cunning nature, Scorpio has a knack for revealing secrets.
As the last of the Fire Signs, Sagittarius is the bottom of the fire – the unknown part, the mysterious part. Sagittarius is philosophical. Fire’s creative and idealistic nature is especially strong in this Zodiac Sign. Sagittarius is the most gentle of the Fire Signs, symbolic of fire slowly nearing its end.
As the last of the Earth Signs, Capricorn is much like the lowest part of the Earth – the part that is shrouded in mystery, mostly unable to be studied, and composed by various minerals and elements. Capricorn enjoys materialistic possessions and public status. This Zodiac Sign is logical, realistic, stable, and steady. Capricorn values their social standing and will often fight to preserve it.
As the last of the Air Signs, Aquarius symbolizes the jet steam that flows high above our humanly forms. This distance allows them to observe those around them in their mission to achieve originality and progress. Aquarius can be unpredictable and erratic, but also are known for their advanced thinking.
As the last of the Water Signs, Pisces is highly philosophical and spiritual. Much like a small creek that changes directions by even the most gentle of environmental factors. This Zodiac Sign is mystical, calm, and have lovely charm – like the creek that artists venture to for inspiration to paint their canvas. Pisces value beauty in their lives, both physical art and beautiful personalities.
In the Old Woods, smaller than the human eye could ever see, there is a world of elemental harmony to be discovered. Play Into The Mist now on our sister app, Fictif.
TheElements are the forces of Nature and life, and are incorporated into ritual and magick. Every aspect of existence is bound up in Earth, Air, Fire, andWater. And the fifth element which is Spirit (or also deemed Aether), which is present in each of the other four. Each of the four classical Elements is associated with one of the four cardinal directions; North, East, South, andWest.
There are also energetic associations, that add great depth to interpretations of how people with different zodiac signs interact with each other, for each sign is associated with an Element, and each Element is different.
Creating a set of effective personal shields is possibly one of the most important things a witch can do – but don’t just settle for a simple bubble or mirror shield! These are easily broken with enough force, and if that’s your only line of defense, you’re in trouble!
The most effective way to protect oneself is to have an array of layers to one’s wards – each with a different purpose. The ones I will be covering are listed below, in the order of outermost to innermost:
Cloaking shield – Made of a bubble of water, it reflects and refracts light, keeping me from detection.
Clam shell shield – Barrier against harmful forces
Decoy clam shells – I created several identical clam shells within the cloaking shield to distract from the main shield
Warning (“stop poking around, or you’ll get hurt”)
Pearl shield – Barrier against harmful forces
Epidermis of Jellyfish – Thin layer of fleshy material to keep the inner shields separated and to help with noise reduction of Siren’s Song
Mesoglea of Jellyfish – Thick, goopy, gelatinous layer. Sticky, hard to get through, slows intruder down, acts as noise dampener for Siren’s Song (Lined with Gastrodermis to keep the mesoglea where it belongs)
Siren’s Song – Charged with actual singing. Linked to a queen conch. Conch acts as a storage facility for the energy used to charge all the shields. Siren’s Song draws the intruder further in and traps them, draining them and sending their energy to the conch. Linked by blood to me and also linked to a small conch pendant. The pendant acts as a conduit for directing the energy to myself.
I’ve assembled the shields in a few different segments, as the outer oceanic layer took much more energy than I anticipated. I tested the segments in phases, as they were assembled. Phase 2 was during my recharge at the ocean. I required a significant amount of energy for building the siren’s song spell layer, and reinforced the ocean layer during this time.
“Siren’s Song” by Sara Singer or “Siren” by Red Delicious are both great tunes to sing for this shield’s charge up. Imagine a harmful entity breaching the walls, breaking past the barriers that were set up, then hearing your soothing voice singing. It becomes enthralled and wants to come closer, drawn in further. Finally making it to the center of the chamber, the conch shell sits on a dais, emanating the haunting song you’re singing. The entity picks the shell up, lovingly, and is sucked inside. The shell drops back to the dais, and the entity is trapped.
“Seven Seas there were once, and the eighth was born.” ~Khnum
Ward Testing
Phase 1:
Ocean, decoys, shell, warning, and pearl.
Testers: Unutha, Eilena, and Khnum
Khnum was first. Khnum astral projected into the wards and gave this as a result:
“They look good, the liquidity makes it difficult to get a grasp on them to see if there’s a way of getting through, and they’re kind of scary in a suck-away-at-you way once you touch them. The complication of the parts in them make it hard to see you clearly, too. It’s really weird, like a river rolled into a ball.”
I didn’t sense Khnum any time he projected to me. He’s got a very subtle energy signature.
Eilena went next, shooting me with an energy blast.
She followed the energy to the destination. The blast didn’t penetrate the shell. She described the ocean layer as being thick, and giving a sense of drowning.
Eilena came to me as a vision of a storm over the ocean.
Unutha was last, in this set. He tried to probe the wards with a weapon, and poke holes. He hit a decoy.
“Okay so I felt like I was in the water of an aquarium, I pushed through and hit what i thought was you, smashed through you and got to this darker section like the deep ocean and then tried to push through a black orb/egg. To be fair I was improvising with what I had.”
I asked if he hit any warnings, and he said an octopus grabbed him, but he slashed at it with the same thing he was using to stab my wards.
Unutha felt like a cool breeze on my face.
Khnum went again after this, wanting to try an ice attack with gypsum.
He wanted to try to freeze a section. He got a piece about the size of his palm and then it receded back. He saw things moving around, but nothing noticed him.
I felt something akin to being annoyed by a bug but unable to kill it.
I liked to use Khnum as a method to describe the ocean shield layer.
Phase 2:
How does being at the ocean affect the shields?
Testers: Khnum was the only one available to test this round. I had him test twice.
When I went to the beach, I absorbed the energy pretty quickly. As a sea witch, the ocean recharges me. By the end of the beach trip, I had absorbed so much energy that I was filled with a sense of love and belonging, and my entire body was vibrating.
First test was being within a mile from the ocean but not actually on the beach. Khnum’s description is as follows:
“More. The bubble sort of exploded. You’re a tiny space inside a really thick sphere.”
Second test was being at the actual beach, in the water:
“That’s odd. It’s thickened again and this time you’re not in the center. There’s one huge sphere of water and one inner sphere, which you’re in, but the inner sphere is near the bottom of the bigger one which is almost entirely above ground. There’s a big empty space above you and I saw things swimming in it that reminded me a little of sea turtles.
I think you’ve gone and created a spell ecosystem out of this. xD ”
Phase 3:
Jellyfish layers, and siren’s song.
Testers: Khnum, Eilena, Kiley, and Jelly
Khnum was apprehensive, but went in.
“Apprehensive but comfortable! Here goes nothing.
Hmph. Whirlpool trap?
I got into the pearl and then started spinning around and couldn’t get out again.
It was pretty scary. xD I’m neither claustrophobic nor thassalophobic, but the combination of the two was new and unnerving. It was definitely a good deterrent from getting to you, so I have no doubt it’ll work on spirits!”
Once he was trapped, I blew on the shell and released him. I asked if he was able to see a way out. He said no, but after a minute he just sort of phased out of it.
“I did find the shield to be alarmingly beautiful and got drawn in -maybe I did hear the song but didn’t register it?”
He was drawn down there by a light from the outer layer, which indicated that the jellyfish wasn’t enough to dampen the attraction of the song. I thickened the jellyfish walls, but a light was still mildly visible. I used a combination of sea life and squid ink to obscure the light.
“The ink makes it black. It’s scary and not as pretty but more effective. xD”
Eilena came through and described the event:
“That’s… very pink.” She describes being very close to being pulled into the trap. “pink, sticky and pulling, felt it siphoning off some energy but not at a fast rate. Getting back out was harder than getting in. Sort of a ‘just give up and relax, settle down, it’s cozy here’ feeling. There was some vague sound but I couldn’t really make it out, almost just like a white noise kind of background thing.”
I asked about any sealife, since Una got attacked by an octopus. Eilena mentioned zapping an eel after it zapped her. This explains the tightness I felt in my chest during the testing. I felt a heaviness when she got there, which she explained as her going for a stone’s weight to sink through the vast ocean layer as fast as possible. She didn’t feel or sense the Siren’s Song from outside the shell, but once she made it inside the shell, she felt the “relax” sensation.
I asked if there were any other things that she wants to mention that I didn’t ask about. “mm, I think there were sort of like jellyfish tentacles? Contributing to the ‘pulling in’. They didn’t sting but they seemed to be where the energy drain was coming from. My impressions are usually pretty vague, sorry.”
She added that “it seemed like I went through a lot of pink, with the pull getting stronger as I went in. I’m not sure if not getting caught was just because I didn’t go far enough in, or if I was just able to fight the pull enough to get out again.”
I suggested the pink she saw was the inside of the conch, and she agreed, stating that the color was “queen conch pink.”
She describes the “just relax” feeling as being very hard to shake, and the conch being much harder to get out of than it was to get in.
I explained that Khnum had the sensation of being sucked in violently. She had a much more delicate experience? She described it as fighting the current on the way out. Some of her energy was sucked into the conch and is currently stored there.
She also described feeling tentacles helping pull her in, and a pulsing sensation like that of a heartbeat.
Jelly came into the ward system to poke around. He came with no intent for harm, and nothing attacked him while he was there. He had trouble finding me in the ocean ward and asked for help from a giant octopus. The octopus grabbed him and flung him toward a giant clam shell. I instructed him to knock and describe what he saw:
“Some sort of shell with a glowing spherical thing inside. The shell looks like a conch shell. I can’t tell the details of the area but it’s manifesting in my mind as a theatre and the shell is on the stage playing the song?? But that seems to be a glamour/illusion. Outside of the glamour, it seems to be on a regular table that is…brown in color?” (When I cast this part of the spell, I indeed set up a glamour for that very image and the physical shell was on my brown kitchen table at the time I cast). “On the surface of my thoughts I feel calm, but my gut feeling knows it’s a trap. I feel like I’m slowly being coaxed into the shell.” I instructed Jelly to try and touch the shell. “I poked it and the suck intensified like 3000x. But I still resisted it and didn’t get sucked in, though you probably got a bit of my energy.” I confirm that I did get a small amount of energy. He said he jumped back as soon as the sucking got stronger.
We did some additional testing, like throwing in negative feelings. The conch seems to eject anything that might harm me.
Kiley asked to test something with my wards. She wanted to see how her wards (which are nearly identical to mine) interact with my wards. When she came in, she described a feeling like two oceans meeting. I felt as though I were suddenly covered in water, with it filling my lungs. I felt a warm calm. Like family was with me.
I asked if she felt a warning layer at all, and to describe what she saw and felt.
“That was when I got the tenseness on my back and neck. After the warning layer. I heard the song and I found it nice and delightful. But I didn’t feel a need to follow it, per say. Part of that may have been because I know exactly what that is lol. And maybe because I didn’t come with the intent of malice or to attack at all. So it didn’t draw me in like I think it is meant to for others who are aiming to cause you harm.”
Final Results
The amount of energy you need to put into this is taxing, to be sure, but well worth the effort. The more you concentrate and reinforce the layers, the stronger they get.
The siren’s song is charged by singing. I’m compelled to sing constantly while wearing the pendant. The compulsion and love energy that’s required for the spell is… lovely. But it lasts a while. Possibly have an outlet for it when the spell is done. Blood and seawater anchor the shell battery and the shell conduit to each other and to myself.
Jellyfish not initially thick enough to reduce draw from outside layers. Thickened walls, but a “light” was perceived still (though dampened). I used squid ink and sea life to obscure the light, which seemed to work.
The description of a current which can be fought against is concerning, as I would prefer it to be impossible to escape, but it may not be a bad thing for escape to be possible. Eilena’s escape causes me to wonder what the effects would be on someone who got away? I have a bit of her energy in the shell. Is there a link? Will it continue to siphon slowly?
Note: Hubby came home and saw the altar with the conch on it. He touched the conch and some of his energy drained into it and filtered into my necklace. Kiley has the same ward, and at my request, had her significant other touch it. Same results. Energy drain, mild, no immediate reaction from either person, but definite feel in the necklace.
Addendum: Unwitting friend touched the pendant. It did not take energy from her.
Second Addendum: I work with someone who can see auras. She came up to me to tell me the shell was white when it just blended in with my orange the last time she saw me and asked what was different. I let her touch it and she described feeling electricity. Eilena’s energy has been feeding into me all day and I had described it to Eilena as feeling like electricity flowing through my veins, along with a vague feeling of being untouchable.
Third Addendum: Eilena cleansed herself right after coming out of the wards, so if a link was established, it was broken when she cleansed it. Results of this are unknown until further testing is done.
The ecosystem I created requires a lot of energy to sustain, but I charge it during my showers and it feels great. I worry that the salinity will eventually be low enough to mess with the life that is in the sphere, if a regular beach visit isn’t done. That’s a test for another day.
The shell layer seems very strong, as does the pearl. The octopus was a bit out of nowhere, as I didn’t intend for the life in my ecosystem to attack intruders but rather just be there for fun. I’m glad they double as protectors. The decoys work fairly well, though Eilena and Khnum were able to find me by using my image as a taglock. I think Jelly went for the idea of me rather than focusing on a taglock, to keep things fair.
Conclusion
There are a lot of factors that I didn’t anticipate. For example, I drew an octopus for a focus while creating the ocean layer, but I didn’t anticipate it becoming a guardian. I also didn’t anticipate the queen conch absorbing energy from humans who touch the physical shell. This can, of course, be tweaked if it doesn’t suit the needs of the person utilizing this shield. I, personally, am a fan of this unexpected twist.
The wards are strong and malleable. They are intricate, and versatile. They should stand up to just about anything that is thrown at them.
Thank you to the testers for putting themselves in harm’s way to help with this experiment.
