Personal

shielding:
This is most commonly used to reflect or neutralize any perceived negative energy that attempts to intrude into our auric field. It starts with the image of a bubble that surrounds you in a silver or whatever colour you feel is cancelling of negative energy. Some shape it like a force field that repels the incoming energy, like the shields on Star Trek. While others see it as a curved or parabolic mirror that reflects the energy back to its source. Some, like me, see it as a highly polished suit of armour or like the armour Don West wore in the movie, Lost in Space when he fought the space spiders. The form of the shield can be as varied as your imagination. But they all have one thing in common, an on/off switch. This is made by touching an object you wear, like a ring, or bracelet, or even a button on your shirt, or some part of your body, like your nose, or ear or simply snapping your fingers. What you touch is not as important as the association in your subconscious mind to shape and send out that energy through your auric field. My first instructor referred to this method as Sylvan Mind Control. The more you practice with this Wax on, Wax off process, the more automatic the form becomes when you need it. Note: When something impacts the shield, you may notice a kind of rubbery give to the field, like poking your finger at a balloon or Jell-O. This is common and normal , and you should feel it bounce back as it reflects the energy.

Note: Once the circle is cast, one must open and close a portal or doorway if you wish to leave the area before you finish what you set out to do. You can trace a door with your wand or atheme, starting at the base and tracing widdershins to open and deosil to close. I think of the doors on the Enterprise and wave my hand as if opening and closing the doorway, (I watch a lot of movies!!!). Now animals and small children can cross the boundary without disturbing the energy field. Also, since this field is mainly bioelectric, or thought energy, anything that causes an electro-magnetic field can cause weak spots, so its advisable not to wear quartz watches, cell phones, or anything magnetic (bracelets) while in the circle space. In addition, if you must move within the circle, always turn deosil to face where you want to be and widdershins when you are ending things. If you need to move around the inside of the circle, in order to keep the field at strength, One can move deosil and widdershins within a quadrant, but if you must cross a quadrant line, you must travel the entire circle, deosil, until you get where you need to be. (if you are standing in one spot or sitting in a chair at a table, this is not as big of a problem with smaller circles). Think of your circle like a pie cut in quarters. With your Watchtowers making the lines across the circle:

Shielding 101
(A quick Star t Guide to working with the most common and practical of Relevancies

Casting a Circle:
This is most commonly done in simple to formal rituals and spell working. Again, it is a bubble that reflects and repels stray energies and focused ones that could interfere with the energy work you are shaping and trying to send out to the Universe for manifesting. It also creates a contained area that shifts temporally (time), and dimensionally( space) into the realms of the sacred and elemental. Traditionally, a circle is 9 feet in radius, 18 feet in diameter. This distance was set by the singulum or rope belt that was worn around the waist of ones cloak or tunic when in ritual. This cord was 9 feet in length and would be tied to a stake and placed in the centre of the circle and scribed out to draw the actual boundary. Circles can be just about any size you need depending on the area you want to shield. Its best if it is some multiple of three, however. Start in one cardinal point, (North, South, East, or West) and cast or trace your circle Deosil (Jess-il) or clockwise focusing on a colour of light creating the edge. Remember, deosil to increase or create an energy field, widdershins, or counterclockwise to decrease or disassemble the same field. One can use a sword, or staff (my favourite), to scribe the circle, while others might use a wand, an atheme (blessed dagger), or just their extended finger on their power hand (the dominant hand, or the one you usually write with). Note: some folks, according to their tradition may cast up to 3 or more rings, one on top of the other, to make the circle. Its mostly whatever feels right to you. In our system of Quantum Wicca, we cast the first circle as the boundary, the second circle to consecrate (or adjust the frequency to be compatible with Divine and elemental energy, more on this in another guide), And the Third one is cast by all the participants of the ritual holding hands and chanting.

Fig. 1 To take down the circle, when finished with the work, simply start at the point your began with to

make the circle and move widdershins, focusing on the energy dissipating as you go.

Bindings:
This is one of the more common forms of shielding and you must be brutally honest with why you are doing this!!! The best bindings are the ones you do on yourself to change bad habits or thoughts that block your successes in life. Usually it is a piece of cord, thread, or string wrapped around a representation of the problem, thinking of an energy field wrapping around that problem and containing it, so it has little effect on anything related to you. A very effective form of binding is using elemental energy in the following way. Bury the binding in the earth, where it wont be dug up and say, Earth bind it, let no one find it. Release it in a natural body of water and say, Water sweep it, let no one keep it. Burn it in a fire, saying, Fire burn it, let no one learn it. Finally, release it into the air (like a powder or perhaps tie it to a helium balloon), saying, Air blow it, let no one know it. Once released, walk away and give it no more thought.

By Sacramentos Candle Connection

WizardCraft
Technologies, Inc.
www.wizardcandles.com Sept. 2009

Recap...
As I have said in previous Quick Start Guides and the training program I teach, everything boils down to just two things; Energy and

Relevancy is a relationship betwixt your spirit and what your mind perceives and processes. So in other words, you relate to the form. How does this work with creating a shield?

The Triangle:

connection.

Shields:

An energy shield is just that, a protective field of energy that is usually of an opposite frequency of the energy that is attempting to intrude in your auric field ( the bioelectrical field around your body that your body generates.) There are two kinds of effects that occurs when waveforms of energy come in contact with another waveform of energy. They look like the figure below:

Energy:
Basically put, energy is the vibrational frequency of the form (object or event) that is in your perceptional time/space environment.

Connection:
This is also simple, to connect with any energy pattern, one must first, be aware of it, and then assign relevancy to the pattern, or take it personally. It would be more accurate to say that as a choice, one assigns a personal value to the pattern, thus making it mean something specific to that person. Once these two concepts are put into play, Awareness and consciousness shifts to a higher state and working with the energy becomes less problematic. Relevancy is the main focus for any kind of shielding method.

From an energy standpoint, everybody has 3 basic components of internal connection, mind, body, and spirit. Spirit is your true essence, Its the sentient energy pattern that makes up who your really are. Mind is the processor that interprets the information that the senses send to the brain and that Spirit sends as well. And last, but not least in the process, Body is the physical manifestation of this process. So Spirit conceives it, Mind shapes it, and Body brings it into perceptional being. So now you have the foundational aspects to effectively create shields!!!! This guide will explore the three most basic and common forms of shields you can do immediately. They are:

Relevancy:

We assign relevancy to everything we perceive, consciously, or not. Things we read, things said to us or others in earshot, books, stories, movies, even music. If you watch a movie, or hear a song that evokes an emotional response inside you, you have assigned relevancy to that form.

The top diagram shows how energy is amplified, or made stronger, especially when you unconditionally allow a form to be, while the lower diagram shows how the same energy is weakened. This is most evident when a form is denied or resisted in the mind. It would be like turning the volume knob up or down on your Psychic Stereo. This is basically the essence of shielding. Fortunately there is an internal mechanism that is built-in to every human being that allow this process to work without a lot of heavy thinking about it. Once understood and practiced, it becomes practically automatic.

Personal shields Casting a circle

Bindings

The first one is important, especially for those new on the path and very practical for anyone who wants to get through their day with a minimum of fuss and bother.