Energy Magick & Protection Spells
This is a technique I learned from a well-known energy healer & teacher named Michael Allen - it comes from his "Duality" method. I took his course in 2020, during the first months of the pandemic and I use his technique to clear energy on my land on every New Moon and Full Moon - or whenever I feel I need it.
Do this first part in yourself to clear your own energy field and then you can expand the technique to include the space, whether it be a room, a house, a yard or any other space. Practice the technique regularly so you can develop it in your nervous system and be familiar with how it feels to channel energy in this manner.
* Grounding: Focus your mind's eye to a space in the center of your brain, as if you are tuning into the grey matter situated above and behind your ears by about 1 in - this is a "sweet spot" for intuitive awareness.
In your minds eye, centered in the "sweet spot", visualize energy in your aura moving downward, from your head, through your torso and hips, down your legs and through your feet into the Earth below you.
See if you can feel it happening.
When working with a physical space such as a room or a whole building, first visualize the complete perimeter of the space you wish to ground. Then, from the "sweet spot" in your brain, visualize all the energy of that space grounding down into the Earth.
* Then, in your mind's eye, visualize a stream of molten lava in the center of the Earth coming up through your feet, and bringing warmth and renewed vitality all the way through your body up to your crown chakra at the top of your head. I like to think about the lava fields of the La Palma volcano when I do this.
In the space you are wishing to clear, visualize the molten lava coming up through the ground and blasting through the space up to the sky, bringing the vitality of the core of the Earth.
* Next, in your mind's eye, visualize the expansive starry night sky above, bright and clear. I like to visualize constellations I recognize easily and the bright, clear sky from my days in Northern New Mexico. Visualize expansive starlight from distant galaxies coming down through your crown and all the way through your feet.
Visualize the expansive night sky over the space you are clearing, from the heights down to the Earth.
* For the final step, in my body I visualize a rose. (The color varies depending on how the frequency of my intention translates into color, but my default is pictured here. See also my section on “Using Color for Magickal intent).
I visualize the rose in my solar plexus, linking sky above and Earth below.
For your space, you can picture a rose on each side, or one in the center, or all around - whichever feels best to you. I usually picture a rose in each corner and also in the center of each side of the perimeter. This way I know I am really covered.
This is a simple spell for clearing and reactivating energy and I use it a lot. Try it on & see how it feels for you. There are plenty more ways you could approach this, but this one is easy and fast to do once you get the hang of how the energy feels.
The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
The LBRP is an ancient occult high magickal protection spell that references the Kabbalistic Cross. It is known for its power, especially when done daily as a centering and energy clearing practice. The Kabbalistic Cross (sometimes spelled “Quabalistic”) has its roots in the Kabbalah, a mystical branch of Judaism exploring a direct and personal relationship with the Divine, such as in Hindu Tantra and Vajrayana Buddhism.
Famed sorcerer & occultist Damien Echols - one of the three wrongly accused “West Memphis Three” - used the LBRP daily while serving out his prison sentence to protect himself from abuses and harm and claims it as one of the “high magick” practices that saved his life.
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To begin, face East and stand in Tadasana (Mountain pose), which means to stand upright, shoulders relaxed, arms by your side with palms facing frontward.
In your mind’s eye, visualize yourself floating in space. Feel your body’s energy aura expand in all directions with infinite potential, as if you are as big as the entire galaxy and beyond.
Imagine white light coming down through crown chakra.
Raise your right hand above your head, stretched out, as if you are touching into infinity. I keep my palm & fingers out-stretched, however, traditionally it’s been done with the palm & fingers closed into a fist or holding a wand or athame.
Bring your palm down to your forehead gracefully and say,
“Ateh”
(which means: air, thou art I am)
Visualizing the light coming down through you, bring your arm down through the center of your body towards your “root chakra” - base of spine.
In your mind’s eye, the light comes all the way through you, infinitely descending downward. For me, my hand is open, traditionally it is closed. Say the word,
“Malkuth”
(Which means “kingdom”).
Bring your hand to touch your right shoulder. Say,
“Vegaburah”
(Which means “the power, the fire, pillar of severity”).
Bring your hand across to touch your left shoulder. Say,
“Vegadulah”
(Which means “chesed, the glory, the element of water” note: “chesed” is a sphere on the Kabalistic Tree of Life).
Palms then come together laying on top of heart chakra. Say,
“Lay–o-Lam, A-men”
(Which means “spirit, kingdom, power and glory”).
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Still facing East, bring your palms together like a prayer yet with fingers pointing out in front of you, thumbs pointing upwards. This hand position I call “pistol-hands”.
With your outstretched “pistol-hands”, draw a large pentagram in the air in the East.
Visualize the pentagram as being yellow. You can also use the colors blue, sliver or gold. I visualize all four colors braided together because I am fancy like that.
(To draw a pentagram: * start with pistol-hands at your left hip, * bring them up to above your head, * then down the other side to your right hip. * From your right hip, bring your pistol-hands to your left shoulder * and then across your body to your right shoulder. * Then diagonally down again to finish at your left hip).
Bring your pistol-hands to your lips and kiss them. Then, pierce the center of the pentagram you just drew and say,
Yod*He*Vah*He
(This is the tetragrammaton, the four-letter name, the highest divine Hebrew name of god).
Kiss your pistol-hands again, extend your arms outward and turn ÂĽ to right to face South.
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With your outstretched “pistol-hands”, draw a large pentagram in the air in the South.
Visualize the pentagram as being red. You can also use the colors blue, sliver or gold. I visualize all four colors braided together because I am fancy like that.
Bring your pistol-hands to your lips and kiss them. Then, pierce the center of the pentagram you just drew and say,
Adonai
(pronounced: Ah-doh-nai ~ a name for the Divine, loosely translating as “My Lord”).
Kiss your pistol-hands again, extend your arms outward and turn ÂĽ to right to face West.
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With your outstretched “pistol-hands”, draw a large pentagram in the air in the West.
Visualize the pentagram as being blue. You can also use the colors blue, sliver or gold. I visualize all three colors braided together because I am fancy like that.
Bring your pistol-hands to your lips and kiss them. Then, pierce the center of the pentagram you just drew and say,
Eheieh
(pronounced: “Eh-heh-yeh” ~ translates as “I am that I am” and is a historic name for the Divine).
Kiss your pistol-hands again, extend your arms outward and turn ÂĽ to right to face North.
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With your outstretched “pistol-hands”, draw a large pentagram in the air in the North.
Visualize the pentagram as being green. You can also use the colors blue, sliver or gold. I visualize all four colors braided together because I am fancy like that.
Bring your pistol-hands to your lips and kiss them. Then, pierce the center of the pentagram you just drew and say,
Agla or Agala
(pronounced: “Ah-gah-lah” ~ this is a magickal word used traditionally as a talisman).
Kiss your pistol-hands again, extend your arms outward and turn ÂĽ to right to face East again
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Facing East, standing in Tadasana (mountain pose) again:
Say: “Before me, Raphael”.
Visualize a giant androgynous being of light holding a Sword.
(This is a symbol of the element of Air).
Say: “Behind me, Gabriel”.
Visualize a giant androgynous being of light holding a Chalice of Sacred Water.
(This is a symbol of the element of Water).
Say: “On my right, Mikail”.
Visualize a giant androgynous being of light holding a Flaming Wand.
(This is a symbol of the element of Fire).
Say: “On my left, Auriel”.
Visualize a giant androgynous being of light holding a bundle of wheat or a potted plant.
(This is a symbol of the element of Earth).
Say: “For about me flame the pentagrams, and within me shines the six-pointed star”.
(Click here for images of a Pentagram to visualize this while saying)
(Click here for images of a Hexagram to visualize this while saying)
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To finish, repeat the begining steps:
In your mind’s eye, visualize yourself floating in space. Feel your body’s energy aura expand in all directions with infinite potential, as if you are as big as the entire galaxy and beyond.
Imagine white light coming down through crown chakra.
Raise your right hand above your head, stretched out, as if you are touching into infinity. I keep my palm & fingers out-stretched, however, traditionally it’s been done with the palm & fingers closed into a fist or holding a wand or athame.
Bring your palm down to your forehead gracefully and say,
“Ateh”
(which means: air, thou art I am)
Visualizing the light coming down through you, bring your arm down through the center of your body towards your “root chakra” - base of spine.
In your mind’s eye, the light comes all the way through you, infinitely descending downward. For me, my hand is open, traditionally it is closed. Say the word,
“Malkuth”
(Which means “kingdom”).
Bring your hand to touch your right shoulder. Say,
“Vegaburah”
(Which means “the power, the fire, pillar of severity”).
Bring your hand across to touch your left shoulder. Say,
“Vegadulah”
(Which means “chesed, the glory, the element of water” note: “chesed” is a sphere on the Kabalistic Tree of Life).
Palms then come together laying on top of heart chakra. Say,
“Lay–o-Lam, A-men”
(Which means “spirit, kingdom, power and glory”).
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Using Color with Magickal Intent:
All colors have both symbolic meanings and vibrational frequency patterns that have an effect. When you choose color with intention, you are choosing the meaning assigned to the color.
Sometimes we provide the meaning, through memory or experience -> for example, white & yellow together may remind you of daisies on your Grandmother’s garden and so you may choose white & yellow to evoke a feeling or experience of safety, connection and being nurtured.
Sometimes the name of the color has a meaning for us that resonates with our intention - this is often the case with makeup, clothes in a catalog, and paint. For example, in my house, the wall colors are named “Demeter” (a yellow), “Minerva” (a light blue), “Rites of Spring” (a yellow) and “Eros Pink” - all referencing pagan Gods, Goddesses and rituals.
There are spiritual meanings associated with colors are well, and different traditions and authors have held different insights about color-meanings, though overall I have found meanings to be similar across different paradigms of thought.
To put it most simply, warm colors, such a red, yellow and pink warm the energy and inspire action, while cool colors like green, blue and purple are calming and soothing.
Below is English mystic, Edgar Cayce’s treatise on the color meanings when seen in a person’s aura.
Edgar Cayce's essay on the meaning of colors written in 1945
Meanings of colors perceived in the Aura.
Color Meanings for Using in Magick
My Sure-Fire Method of Choosing Color to paint a room:
This is what I call my “sure-fire method” of choosing the wall color for rooms I am going to paint and it has never failed me.
I usually have a sense of inspiration around the general color and shade I want, but sometimes it’s between two or three different color directions.
I go to the paint store and choose every color swatch that is in the ballpark of my vision for the room, then I tape all the swatches up on the wall of the room to be painted.
Over time, my eye is naturally drawn to the color that is the right choice for me. Though often first my eye selects the color swatches that are definitely wrong. When I know a color is wrong I remove it.
The reason this method is effective is because , for one, you see the color in the natural light of the room and how that light changes throughout the day and also, your subconscious mind will hone in on the color most pleasing to you.