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Não me enviem mensagens pedindo "dicas" e muito menos "receitas" de feitiços ou rituais.
Rapidamente as pessoas descobrem que não é tão fácil assim. E alguns até mesmo nos cobram pelos seus resultados (ou falta desses) o que é bem frustrante para nós.
Com frequência as pessoas me solicitam quanto a disponibilidade de cursos ou mentoria comigo.
Lamento, mas não ofereço cursos, não aceito alunos, aprendizes, etc. e nem faço mentoria.
Não insista por favor.
Eventualmente faço aulas individuais privadas mas é para quem já tenha razoável experiência prática de alguns anos e é Consulta Formal em video neste caso e exclusivamente para isso, portanto outros assuntos serão recusados.
Magia é um aprendizado gradual de muito anos e não se aprende com dicas fáceis.
Assim solicito que quaisquer assuntos gerais sejam postados nos grupos e participo como possível.
E para ser sincero, eu realmente tenho vários alunos desde os anos 90s em muitos países.
Mas sempre serão escolhidos por mim. Não adianta pedir.
Todos foram primeiro meus clientes ou até colegas avançados em grupos de magia e com o tempo fui ensinando de maneira discreta sem nem perceberem que se tornaram meus alunos.
Sou eu quem escolho quando vejo que estão prontos para isso.
Já disponibilizo muito material para estudo em artigos, livros, vídeos e participação em grupos na internet.
Se deseja começar seus estudos bons livros são obrigatórios.
Veja no link abaixo o texto "Lista de Sugestões de Leitura" que traz muito material e orientações iniciais necessárias ao estudo. Ali também tem materiais de magia angélica, etc.
Não me peça para sugerir qual livro seria melhor para você pois neste caso requer tempo e torna-se consulta formal para avaliar seus conhecimentos e o que busca. Muito menos vou responder a pedidos de PDFs que você mesmo deve procurar no Google.
Para materiais que já disponibilizo clique nos links abaixo:
Esses poderão ajudar no seu aprendizado e tantas necessidades pessoais.
Casos de dificuldade real
Para situações de dificuldade. Se você realmente não pode pagar, ofereço o material abaixo com orientações para você mesmo fazer, mesmo para quem não tenha experiência em magia e é o que posso oferecer.
Sobre pedidos de "dicas" ou "apenas uma perguntinha"
Nunca é só uma perguntinha e vou responder apenas informando o link para consultas formais.
Conversar comigo sobre magia, ocultismo, suas situações particulares trata-se de consulta formal, este é meu trabalho e não estou disponível para bate-papo.
Precisamos solicitar aos nossos leitores que não me enviem mensagens pedindo "dicas" e muito menos "receitas" de feitiços ou rituais.
E alguns até mesmo nos cobram pelos seus resultados (ou falta desses) o que é bem frustrante para nós.
Questões pessoais são consideradas de cunho particular e, portanto, trabalho profissional.
Caso você queira consultas para orientação ou até esteja interessado que eu faça rituais de magia para você visite a minha página de Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia.
Nem sempre o que espírito faz é por "maldade", Ok?
Art by: Begemott - United States
Velas: Cuidados Sempre Básicos
Velas são o básico da magia e da oração.
Acendemos velas o tempo todo para trazer a necessária luz, para trazer energia ao que fazemos.
É algo tão básico que na maioria dos textos sequer são citadas pois assume-se que o estudante da magia tenha entendido que toda operação requer uma luz ao menos.
Por causa de algumas perguntas sobre o trabalho com energias, vamos lembrar que isso vale para todo e qualquer ritual onde geralmente se usam velas.
Originalmente este artigo foi comentando sobre o trabalho com espíritos elementais, duendes, gnomos, fadas, etc, çorém aplica-se com certeza para todas áreas da magiaq.
Então é uma advertência importante de ser sempre lembrada:
Nunca deixem velas acesas sem assistência.
E se o fizerem, como no caso de velas de 7 dias, tenham certeza de usarem recipientes próprios, bem longe de qualquer outro material inflamável. Pessoalmente, eu uso formas de bolo, daquelas de metal, colocadas em cima de uma lâmina de pedra ou do piso e sempre bem longe de outros objetos. Não se preocupem, os espíritos sabem que a vela é para eles. E na dúvida, é melhor apagar a vela se precisarem sair, apenas avisem o espírito que estão fazendo isso por segurança. Sem problema, eles vão entender.
No caso de vela de 7 dias, as vezes ela apaga depois de já ter queimado uma boa parte e é difícil alcançar o pavio. Nesse caso, pegue uma faca para cortar mais próximo do nível do
pavio mas mantenha o plástico dali para baixo apenas. Se por acaso pegar fogo no plástico (já aconteceu comigo), apague no
mesmo momento pois se ficar aceso vai permitir que a parafina se
espalhe e há risco de incêndio. Não brinque com velas!.
Esses cuidados são isso principalmente quando trabalharem com espíritos elementais (gnomos, sílfides, salamandras, etc, etc). Eles são como crianças e facilmente podem sair fora de controle.
Certamente o mesmo vale para rituais com espíritos mais elevados como anjos e dæmons.
Um amigo veterano na magia teve o apartamento incendiado por causa de uma vela que estava bem colocada dentro de uma tigela grande e numa distância impossível de alcançar qualquer outra coisa. Apenas "esqueceu" de fazer o banimento dos espíritos quando terminou o ritual. Uhm?
É comum vermos casas de pessoas muito "místicas", cheias de imagens bonitinhas de fadinhas e duendes por todo lado, mas a casa parece um local de crianças peraltas, coisas quebram toda hora, algum tipo de bagunça acontece como se crianças estivessem correndo sem controle por toda parte.
Como eu sei? Eu também fiz isso! Numa certa época nos anos 80 achava muito bonitinho aquele monte de criaturinhas pulando por toda parte. Nada daquelas imagens de "fadinhas lindinhas" que se encontram em lojas de artigos místicos. Elementais são manifestações de energia e percebidos de muitas maneiras por cada um. Até que comecei a perceber que não conseguia manter a casa arrumada, prejuízos foram surgindo e eu morava sózinho! Daonde vinha tanta bagunça?
Então SEMPRE que evocar algum espírito elemental, faça a sua parte, diga o que quer que façam e depois SEMPRE comande eles para retornarem para seus locais. Isso mesmo: faça o banimento deles.
Isso também vale para quaisquer outros espíritos maiores com certeza, mas é uma fonte comum de problemas.
Here I will talk some about working with the power of the four elements.
To the ancient Greek and most western traditions, there are four elements and they are the prime force in the nature.
They are Fire, Air, Earth and Water.
I used the word “oracle” instead of “divination” to suggest the idea about an oracle to be the active part and do the work while the reader get the results from it. Here, the reader is an observer and able to interact and get the information the oracle present.
For sure reading capabilities and previous oracle works are very desired, like developing your 3rd eye and intuition. Advanced oracle skills are highly desired like other previous training, like meditation and some knowledge of the nature in a shamanic view.
Also, I will use the words “elements” and “elementals” for the same purpose. For example, the salamanders or just “fire”.
I won’t enter at the aspects of working with the elemental’s Kings level nor at other higher spirits who are related to the elements too. Such practices are most related with the practices to work with spirits, their correspondences and areas of acting.
For sure it’s great to use the elemental oracles together with the spirits working. They add a powerful tool and different ways to develop your perception.
So, to the extents I choose for now, I will cite spirits as a part of the work if you choose to add it. But the focus is going for a direct elementals work.
If you choose to call first spirits to rule the operation, that is interesting too.
To add some study suggestions, in the Tarot, the Ace cards means the pure aspects of each elemental energy. Something interesting to study and their following manifestations among the cards. The lower arcana cards (1 to 10) are just the manifesting power of the elements, but accordingly with their numerological aspects too.
So, this is something more for your study about Numerology and also for Qabalah (Gematry). That is very related to the elementals in the ways they manifest their power in the world.
Agrippa is always a good resource for study too.
But while theory is very good to add information and knowledge, this is not an armchair work to be done at your library room.
Using the elements as oracle is a nature work. Remember this. Even at your temple room, you must be able to connect with nature forces.
If you have not some forests to go, even so you may have some park around, gardens, etc. When you open your eyes, you will discover every tree at the street is looking for you and wishing to be seen. The moment you discover this, you never will be alone again. Nature is all around us.
As nature forces, the Elements are the main part of life and have their own spirits too.
At the elemental levels, we found many living beings, the popular names are gnomes, fairies, undines, sylphs, etc. Each country have traditional names for them.
This work is about them. Yes, the fairies, sylphs, gnomes, undines, salamanders. They are the ones working to show you what they have to say.
There are also what is named Genius Loci, the spirits of each place. Frater Rufus Opus wrote some very good material about working with them at the Ritual Offerings book.
See, each place have its own spirits. See the eastern traditions about the Devas, or discovering a mountain or a river are also living beings.
In the book “Toilers of the Sea” from Victor Hugo, at the beginning, Gilliatt the main character, who was someone strange to the village people, comments some like “if the air and water are transparent, why not to be such transparent living ones there?” With time science have discovered many of them too. A bit of fantasy plus a lot of reality to discover. Glad too often science have just confirmed what occultists know for ages.
The basic idea for Element’s Oracles is first observe they are “life too”, so it is just something like a talk with them.
In other words, it is part of a relationship with the elements you are working with.
This is the best suggestion I can present you about working with an oracle: talk with it, create a respectful relationship with it. With time, this become mutual and you will discover another level of communication with them.
And think what you do for a relationship or to have a date. Uhm? Something so. Prepare and be respectful.
One first practice is to observe how they are beautiful and powerful.
The moment you opens up for the beauty in the nature, nature himself will opens up for you.
It’s a shamanic idea, one of the oldest source of all magic in the world. An interesting work about the shamanic sources of grimoires magick is presented by Aaron Leitch at “Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires”.
Many native traditional cultures name the elementals as relatives. Mother earth, brother wind, sister water, etc.
This is to recognize they are part of the wide nature as all of us are part of that.
One more reason to repeat: be respectful. This is a main rule we have learned in traditional magic, sorcery, whatever area. Be angels, daemons, nature spirits, whatever.
They share the same living planet and astral dimensions all of us are living.
And many of them are ready to be your friends someway too.
Got this?
A respectful approach and the true desire to learn and to be opened to receive their energies will do wonders.
This is also related to opening your spiritual eye, the 3rd eye vision. There are many ways for that for sure. This is just one more. To be receptive.
And remember this: To say sincere “thanks” it’s a master key too.
General warnings about working with elementals
As cited before, people too often think fairies and others are nice, sweet, anything so fluffy to deal with. Just because fantasy tales.
And what happens?
They put many gnomes and fairies’s images at home, burn incense and invite them as guests. Like a party.
And their houses appears like a mystic store at first days. But wait.
Elementals spirits are bi-dimensional beings. There are just so closer of our tri-dimensional world.
And they are like children without rules too.
Such people invite them at home and forget about. Soon things are broken or disappears.
And most people does not realize what is the real source of the troubles! Elementals playing at their houses.
Just children foolish. Think about as many children running at your house like crazy doing all foolish things without any care.
As any other spirit, elementals may be called for work and then dismissed.
Yes, be explicit to tell them to let the place and go back to their own area.
Even if you are doing this with that nice fairies dolls you found at some mystic store.
This is one more reason we talk to never let an unattended candle.
Get this? The elementals like to walk around. Remember this.
Safety procedures are always needed. Be careful.
Think about this: even if you someday become a master, your workers and disciples still won’t be at same level and you must have an eye on them.
So, if you already learned to invoke the Angels, Kings or any Daemons related to that elemental areas, you always can invoke them to be over and command the operation you are doing and to watch over the elementals beings you are calling to work with.
As told above just for cite, this is possible too and very interesting.
The idea of calling the pure elementals is also because you will be calling forces who are like children to work. But as any children, they have a long tongue when doing oracles. LOL…
In modern times, we have seen many images or such works. I do it sometimes too and some are vey nice.
The most easy to get are photos of fire.
But this is ruled under the same as for any magic working: you must ask permission to register what you are doing.
This is very important to remember. Be respectful!
Never, but never try to register images of any ritual or an elements oracle working without asking explicit permission. So you must be very alert to what kind of reply, some signal about the permission for doing that.
You are working with elementals and spirits, so be sure you will not be hidden trying to do such register. Ok?
Without an explicit permission, be with the traditional film cameras or a digital camera the results may vary just from registering nothing or just confuse images, going to a broken equipment and at some worst cases, you may receive a direct punch from the spirits who may got furious due the lack of discretion.
And a direct punch from such spirits can be anything, like some bad times doing cleanings and banishments going to even something simple, like a small stone jumping against your car’s front glass in the middle of the way. I saw even that. So do not mess with them.
Simple but effective
To be short, such elementals oracles are simple but need practice while you develop your skills.
As cited before, an elemental oracle is something just like talking with it and to observe to the replies.
But as any spirits working, just to repeat, you must be respectful.
So prepare your oracle with the needed care, do the best you can for each case.
Do the best you can each time.
Temporary needs happens to anyone for sure, just be clear to say and explain this when you open the oracle and show you have a serious compromise to do better as you can.
To be sincere with them will help to make a solid relationship.
And again, a true relationship is what you need to work with the elements oracles.
The Oracles
Repeating once more. You will talk with the elementals and this is working as you open your spiritual vision.
I will comment some about each one, adding more at some due personal preferences.
But we have the same basic working ideas for each element for sure.
And very important: each oracle will present the information a very different point of view.
So think on this: each element have a different time and way in time. The visions you will get are related to that point of view.
A Cauldron Ritual of Fire of mine.
The Fire Oracle
Probably the most popular.
The fire is beautiful and anyone have seen images of witches dancing nude around a fire. A bit of fantasy people have for sure.
The most popular fire oracle I have seen is just to lit a candle and gaze at it.
And too often, I see a lot of newage style comments about guided visualizations and comments about how the flame may move this or that way. The problem is in practice, you won’t be reading many pages of a guided instructions for something that may be simple. No way! In my opinion many of such “instructions” are something near a fantasy mystic delusional delirium.
At maximum, my suggestion is to read that to get some idea, sometime one or other useful phrase may be found as many of such texts are just based or a copy from some source. With some luck, you will find something new to use.
About using candles for a fire oracle, uhm, Ok, that will work.
May the flame dance or not, do some movements to get your attention.
We have many signals during rituals just coming from the candles. For sure they have a proper use.
But to be sincere, I’m not in love about to use a candle as a fire oracle. It’s so shy…
See, fire is a strong example of free power. Fire need space to manifest.
Just release the fire and you will see the destruction it may does.
Fire is action.
Do not mess with the fire.
However, for a good fire oracle in my personal opinion is needed a decent size fire.
Please, do not put fire at the entire area.
Just have a decent size fire to last for some 30 minutes or more so the elementals can enjoy the place and do their work.
You may do a bonfire at your backyard or in a safe place in the woods or use a cauldron for it with a cup of alcohol at the cauldron.
If you do not have a witch's iron cauldron, you can use even a cuisine pot, but remember this is just something temporary only.
Be respectful in preparing your work materials, so a cuisine pot can only be used for the time it takes until you to get a better tool, a real iron cauldron or a yard to make a decent campfire.
Remember, use what you can, the best of it. But if you expect for real development you must work to have a proper tool.
Well, that is about having a decent size fire.
Yes, if you want to do a call for the fire elementals, the first is to do a decent size fire.
For sure, does not burn a forest nor your house. Does not be fanatic.
Be sure a very big fire, like a forest or a building burning does not will be good to try to use as an oracle. That is a time when fire get out of control, so do not mess with it!
As a personal choice, I love to do a bonfire at backyard or at some place in nature.
Just think about that as the same you would do while in a camp.
Campfires are great places where friends meet, even got drunk and talk a lot of bullshit.
If you read again the previous phrase, you get one aspect of the fire elementals working: passion. Make people be hot and friendly with others. Campfires are great times for people meeting. Companies would do a lot more if they turn their office meetings into doing campfires with their executives. Not just a barbeque. I say a decent size fire to people be around. But that works also often expose secrets because the fire light and sometimes a lot of alcohol drinking. LOL…
What ancient warriors did while planning or preparing for a fight next day? A campfire. Uhm?
Just to cite a scene at movies, just see Kirk, McCoy and my beloved uncle Spock at the movie “Star Trek V The Final Frontier”. They traveled everywhere into the Galaxy in a starship. But just a campfire did wonders. How far does you have gone when something so near can do wonders? I add that part just to note they are in a campfire.
That are epic scenes anyways if you like Sci-Fi. But if you don't like Star Trek, sorry.
So what the idea with the oracle of fire?
Action.
Fire is flow.
Fire is passion.
Fire burn something to turn it into something else (air). Better to remember, smoke is related to the air. And the final result is the earth (ashes).
The fire will show aspects under the vision of “action”, movement. Events happening related to something.
Consecrate your fireplace as you choose and greeting the energies and spirits you may be or not asked to be present too.
A fire oracle is like a happy hour with friends sometimes.
During a bonfire or at the cauldron, I will be drinking a good wine and sharing with the evoked energies.
Let’s the fire become present and flow as it become hotter and moving. Take your time.
If you want, you can invite the fire elementals to present themselves if they want. See this, invite but allow them to choose if they want to be present.
Sometimes the salamanders will appears dancing in the fire and they are very nice flashing there.
It’s interesting to observe as sometimes they will be really present and dance in the flames.
All that is moving. And that is a party.
As you get the fire to be really live, look to the fire and ask it to open for you the oracle of the flames.
Be explicit. Something like:
“I invoke the oracle of flames. May this flames open the gates so I can see all occult things and understand what I want about N.”
Where “N” is the area, person or topic you want to know.
Then just observe the fire and let your mind to be opened to any ideas you got. Sometimes the flames may do some move that catch your attention. Other times, that will flash like images into your head as you develop your intuition and 3rd eye vision.
Watch and allow that to flow.
And keep relaxed. This is not like scrying with fixed eyes, but more like just to pay attention to any scenes the fire will present you and the related ideas you got in your mind.
As I told, you may be even drinking in a feast with the fire.
The oracle images will flash when present something, with time you will learn to pay attention to some specific scene or idea and get the messages you want.
As the images flash, you will remember the fire is action and passion moving, so the replies are in the point of view of fast business, fast action. Too often very direct.
At the end, give thanks for their presence and dismiss them.
Another popular oracle as water can be used in many ways.
You may observe the water in a big bowl, a small calm part of a river or lake or a water spring in the middle of some land area. A timid waterfall in a stream can be fantastic if you found a place in nature where the elementals spirits live.
Small areas are better and the water must be calm, except in the case of the example of a very small and calm waterfall. I say, that really small ones, just few foot height and very calm places.
As the fire, water can also become out of control.
A flood for sure is not good to try an oracle reading. Same for the places where the rivers are breaking the earth fast.
And no, is not a good idea to try this practice while you are doing a rafting in the Colorado River.
To be clear, as I did rafting before, is possible to talk with the river and receive some replies during the action, but it’s not the same as an oracle. The river will be talking while a challenge for your senses, it is more a warrior practice to learn to use.
Water is beautiful, fluid.
Water is a direct connection with your emotions.
The water oracle will show you how things appears under the emotional aspects.
The images you will get are very emotional most of times.
While fire is related with action, passion, water is related with feelings.
The fire show just action. Water will show some ideas of the “why” and “for what” just because that is related with how you feel about.
Choose the place, seat to observe.
When you ask to open the oracle of the water, you are also inviting your own emotional areas to be receptive.
How a stream flow? The water flow to reach again a calm state. This is what of to expect of the oracle. A seeking calm point of view. Even more meditative.
When a river run fast or jump in a big fall, that are done to reach a calm point again. And someday, find the sea. So the replies have a different point of view, just from someone who is watching at some distance and present a wide scenario.
Think about this: you feel your head and your foot at same time Ok? The same way, a river at source also is connected with the point where he meet the sea. Uhm? It’s a wide sense.
So between the “why” and the “for what” points, remember the river may have calms and some fast places, waterfalls, etc. happening.
Think as the water from the ocean may take some few days and weeks from the sea to the clouds and rain again into earth. That will start the cycle again to run into the sea. A giant river like the Amazon means just many weeks from the highest mountain until reach the sea again.
And here is interesting to observe and remember. There are the fast times in the life cycle of the water. From the ocean to clouds and back to the earth again in the top of the mountains.
There are rapids, falls and even some swamps where the water get trapped.
This is very related to emotions as cited before.
So the “calm” replies may also add this aspect.
Emotions can vary from happiness, to calm flow, stagnation areas and even to fear.
So even fear is a “calm” aspect of feelings. The most fear, the most vulnerable.
Fear can make someone become rigid.
How is the water in the poles or in the most high mountains? It got frozen. Ice. But even that ice someday will become fluid again. That water just choose to stay for a while, or better, a long time at such places and receive more of the energy such places have. Just think why so many people fall in love to climb and stay there, the high mountains, or at the poles. Emotions got so calm and can be observed at same time others aspects can be worked. Like observe large horizons.
To learn what fear is can make a warrior to become a hero. To go over the fear and act.
But also, fear help to the warrior does not act like a stupid suicidal.
Such images can be very deep at your most ancient memories and show things in a way you will fear or even fall in love with.
At the end, give thanks for their presence and dismiss them.
The water you used you can just throw it at the earth, like a garden to release the energy.
This as the earth, can be a very rare oracle to work.
The Air will work at first on your mind. The ideas level.
What your mind is doing just now?
Stop for a moment and observe what’s really happening inside your head now.
How many different thoughts you can observe at once?
The mind area too often is very busy with a lot of events and ideas and remembering all that is happening at once.
At same time you are doing something, remembering others, plus a lot of images from current and even past events.
Just now your mind is working with this text, but also everything related with the room you are, feelings, body sensations, any sounds sources AND due this, presenting information from your memory related to all that.
Add to this, all subconscious level workings.
Your mind is like a crazy machine doing thousands of works at same time.
Every image, sound, body sensation is being compared to everything your memory have registered searching for some pattern or related topic.
You just look to something before and that brings into your current thoughts an older event?
But that also happens to something you saw times ago. Your mind took that and keep comparing, searching it at the memory files.
Is very common someone to “remember” an event due something that happened times before. In practice, your mind had been working all this time trying to do a match.
Have you think why that happened? Simple, just because the most simple thing you see, listen or think, even a smell, is compared to everything in you memory. That means, millions of events happening and you was not aware. And that can take a long time.
Got worried because all that? No worries, its just what a brain do. And this is a reason we suggest to learn some practice like meditation. To improve your brain and also your soul.
So how to get some oracle in the air?
The air is invisible!
Well, meditation practices works first to make you became just an observer. It’s not just to calm your mind, but to keep aware of that and let your soul fly free. Just to say so.
The replies the air oracle present can appears to be disconnected of other aspects, just appears something blowing in the wind.
The air elements at first are invisible. Or not. Just remember the sky appear to be blue because the sun light.
You can feel the air due the light or because the wind.
So as the other elements, strong air movements are not safe for trying a reading. Like a hurricane.
But the wind is fresh. Like a calm river or lake.
But when there’s no wind, how to get it?
The oracle of the air is something to be worked usually at open areas.
And better near the nature.
So if you are among oppressive buildings in the city, or a closed room there are few opportunity to the elemental forces be acting without restriction.
They will be there anyway, but that also means you must be really able to get that.
So open areas, even a calm street in town area will be better.
This oracle is a bit different to open.
You may be seat in a nice place in the woods, meditating, or in the beach, or seated in you house’s garden.
This is a best condition. A calm mind and a receptive state.
But due the initiations I had, I observed it will work also anywhere, I say even walking in the street and on need of some information. But see, this is due practical training and even so, not all times a so good work condition and hard to get what is just your mind or a proper reply from the air.
As any oracle, the best is to take a time to do the reading you need.
Have a proper place and time.
As before, use your voice and command to the oracle of the air be opened for you.
The images you will get are direct into your mind level. Like ideas coming from somewhere.
Remember as commented, our brain can even be a crazy machine. You need to learn to calm your mind and be able to separate what is coming outside from your own work.
But as the fire and the water have different ways to present to you, as light or the wet emotional images, the same way the air have some aspects to observe.
The first, is moving. The wind.
A good idea is to have near something to observe, like trees, plants or even the smoke from a source. Their movements may have a meaning during the oracle of the air.
Here you will not be talking with the trees not the fire. Just using part of that to observe what the air is doing.
And for sure, the best of all, is feeling the wind around you.
When you have the pleasure of the wind, you will note how the wind is touching you, gentle or not, trying to move your head to look to some point and get an image from that place.
When you have wind, this happens, he can be like a lover hand touching you and suggesting ideas and some will again, just be flashing into your head.
Sometimes you may even note the wind touching you, but everything around is quiet. No one leaf in the trees are moving. This happened using smoke in a bonfire. I was very closer feeling the wind, but the smoke was straight as if nothing was happening.
Another was a personal reading during a Sabbath, using the wind for this, the person just in front of me had her hair and clothes moving but I felt nothing touching me. The wind was showing what was behind her thoughts and she was forced to confirm everything I told.
Yes, the elements oracles can be used for live readings when you get it.
There are more working with the air oracles.
There are the wind. But if not, you may feel changes in temperature, heat or cold that do not match the place in anyway. Sometimes on sunny days the hot air moving up makes visible shadows on the ground, like cement, rock or sand, as if they were waves.Note this, too.
Also may happens oppressive conditions, like to be hard to breath.
I cited to dislike using candles for oracles, but once I asked the air oracle and a candle suddenly seemed to have been crushed, the flame almost erased as I asked for confirmation of the mental image I had, then suddenly the candle shone with the air as a confirm. This was a try working with this oracle inside my temple room. Another reason I talk about drastic changes in temperature. But such things happens at open places. Another was in a mountain, a very cold place and the air became hot in a way I had related messages. .
Such changes are physical to show the air is there, but such have to be related to some images or intuition you have at same time.
To say soo, such changes are just like air elementals spirits foolish. They are invisible, but they like to say they are near too.
Be sure to give thanks to the air elements. They are listening everywhere.
At the end, give thanks for their presence and dismiss them.
The earth is the most brute and the most unknown oracle.
It's the oracle of the big rocks.
It will put you on the ground. How things in the planet was created and where they go?
This oracle often works on large period’s points of view. Not just immediate needs, but the teachings about your path in life, getting wisdom, understand how things work in a wide time lapse.
While the other elements can have short life cycles, the earth may often means hundred thousand years or even millions of years for just something happens.
This is the oracle of the big rocks.
But few times to be practiced with the small ones.
For sure crystals, or just some mirrors done with a piece of stone are great. But that are used most as divination tool.
With a great luck, one may find a not so big one, uhm, 2-3 foot size to become an oracle. But such one are rare and must be very special, taken direct from the ground and be untouched before. Still, will be like a baby rock.
For a real oracle purpose, the best are the big ones at distant nature places and as possible, untouched or with rare contact with people so they keep their pure aspects.
Rocks need a long rest time when are disturbed. The good sculptors know they should let the stone rest in nature for a long time when they are moved or worked.
Do not mess with the old ones.
To find the ancient nobles, one must go into the mountains, deserts, cliffs or rocky coastlines.
Such ones are often the working place for initiation rites on ancient paths.
There are places with some sacred rocks who receive offerings due their power. People does not go there to do an offering for a spirit, but for the rock, or even a mountain.
As any other living being, some rocks have more power than others do.
Some ancient traditional groups had some simple practices, like to be closer a specific big rock for a long time. Like for mystic warrior challenges, standing under the sun, without water as long as possible. Or just to be under that big rock without any protection for rain, wind or cold. They are there to listen the rock and receive their ancient wisdom.
The rock is part of that and the seeker is going to get connected with its energy.
To be so closer such big elements is to face the planet most oldest beings.
Sometimes we have some big problem in life like bad memories and regrets. The type we talk about with other people sometimes. A hurt or sadness that needs to be forgotten and this can be very difficult.
If one goes to talk about that at the hair stylist, that's just gossip and receive more gossip in return. Not so much different with most people. They will reply just telling you about their problems and nothing got solved, but just the opposite, that feed the problem with more bad energy.
However, to talk to one of that older big ones rocks, for a last time is a final cut. They will hear what you have to say but contrary to people, they will return only the pure energy of nature, of growth. This same practice also work with big older trees. They are elder ones.
Telling your sorrows to these great natural beings is a way to end a cycle and leave behind something that bothers you greatly.
This is an aspect of the earth oracle. They listen too.
Get this? Any oracle in practice is a two way communication. They listen and reply.
The earth oracle is most suitable for a spiritual seeker. A warrior.
As the other oracles, it may be approached with great respect.
The rock may dislike you and fall over your head. Or make you have a bad step following, and you will jump in a cliff.
To found one, you need to walk in the woods, a coastline, a riverside or at the desert, wherever until meet a proper place. As told before, at distant places.
The work you have to be there is part of your prepare to ask for the oracle.
Seat or stand in front of the rock and stay quiet all the needed time to observe until the rock pay attention to you.
Remember, they have a long life, far away from your common idea about life, before any known modern civilization. Yes, there was many others before. So they don’t pay too much attention to fast events. That can need a long time until you have a message, a vision on the rock surface or even feeling to be moved to see another reality level.
May be you have the opportunity to found a smaller one, as cited before, 2-3 foot size, or even bigger, to adopt and let it rest undisturbed at your backyard for months and years so the stone relax and become an antenna for the inner planet energy. That’s will be priceless.
When you finish, thanks for their presence and dismiss them.
Cooling off at Lynn Headwaters in North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Photo: Ann Badjura
Some final notes
If you have the opportunity of proper nature places for such workings, sometimes you will observe more than one element to be very near.
For example, you may find a big rock just closer a river. This way, you can invoke the energy of the water to expand your inner vision, and then ask the rock to open the oracle for you. This way you may flow better into the visions of the rock.
Doing the opposite, first asking to the rock to support you and then invoking the oracle of the water will help you to have a ground and not be caught into some emotional aspects that sometimes happens.
Same when you have a place to work with a bonfire, be near the water of the rocks.
Or just the wind you will find moving more near big rock areas or near a river.
Always at finish give thanks and dismiss the energies you invoked.
Always remember for physical safety.
If you are aside a cliff, you may be sure you are grounded before working with the wind.
If you choose the water, also be sure you are fixed at place as even some strange or even stupid accidents may happens if you enter at the water. For example, is not good idea to enter in a lake during the oracle even if the elementals invite you.
Never let an unattended candle. If you finish the work, most of times is Ok to finish the fire.
In the case of a bonfire, you must be sure it is finished and is safe to leave the area. Be careful! Do not start a forest fire!
Do not let any human garbage at the place. That will be very disrespectful to the spirits you called before.
To improve your skills, walk at the nature always as you can.
You will discover nature grow anywhere even in a city.
Learn to be quiet and just observe this way learning about the energy at each place.
With time, you will expand your senses.
"Mulher ingeria até dez litros do refrigerante por dia e sofreu ataque cardíaco; ...até água, ingerida em excesso, pode ser 'dramaticamente sintomática', disse a marca."
Meu Comentário:
Certamente. Até água em excesso pode matar.
É o tipo de processo judiciário sem sentido que mais atrapalha do que ajuda.
Citando vivências pessoais, que costumo relatar aqui no blog, muitas vezes pratiquei uma técnica de purificação e energização pessoal em que se bebe muita água durante um certo período, geralmente duas a três semanas.
É uma técnica para desintoxicação, cura natural e para elevar a energia pessoal que aprendi durante os anos em que fui aos Andes, com Ramon, um shamã mexicano.
Pode-se chegar facilmente a dez litros ou mais. Já cheguei por vezes a 15 litros.
Mas é algo muito controlado, é necessário disciplina combinada com cuidado especiais na alimentação, aliado a pratica de yoga e meditação.
Deve-se observar os limites do corpo.
Muita água pode causar isquemia e até um derrame (AVC) pois mexe e muito com seu corpo, sua mente e seu espírito.
Veja bem, estou falando de água pura. Se fosse suco de frutas já poderia causar algum problema por intoxicação. É fácil entender o que ocorreu com esta pessoa que consumia até dez litros de refrigerante por dia.
Então, sempre é bom lembrar: tudo pode fazer bem. Mas usado de forma adequada.
Não invente coisas nem espere que os outros sejam culpados pelos seus excessos ou omissões.
Poderia ser uma grande empresa queimando o mercado. Sim, analogias cabem aqui também.
Uma das áreas mais lindas do planeta, o parque das Torres Del Paine, está tomada pelas chamas.
As imagens mal dão idéia do quão grande é o incêndio. Estive no Chile várias vezes e conheci algumas grandes áreas que foram queimadas. As gigantescas árvores dificultam o entendimento inicial pois perdemos a noção do tamanho e das distâncias. E quantas vezes avaliamos mal alguma coisa? Ao caminhar entre os restos do que foi uma gigantesca floresta, percebemos o tamanho do problema e o quanto somos parte disto.
Os ventos da região são muito fortes, chegam facilmente a 100km e tornam muito perigoso todo trabalho dos bombeiros. Muitas vezes são os outros que tem que resolver os problemas que criamos.
As Torres Del Paine são um ponto muito forte energeticamente na Cordilheira dos Andes e esta área é especial para caminhadas e para tomar contato íntimo com a natureza, tanto interior quanto exterior.
As características da região são muito boas para quem lida com planejamento e trato com o público, pois requerem atenção ao planejamento e observar o que está ocorrendo ao redor. Imagine lançar um produto no mercado e descuidar do ambiente em que isto é feito ou deixar de fazer todo trabalho preventivo.
E provavelmente tudo indica que foi o que aconteceu, alguém fez uma fogueira, sem cuidado, numa área de muita vegetação seca e fortes ventos.
Um pouco de cuidado em qualquer atividade pode ser toda diferença. Algo que parece pequeno, pode por todo um empreendimento a perder.
Esta é uma das coisas que se observa quando lidamos com os elementos da natureza. O fogo é belo, traz aprendizado e sabedoria, mas deve ser respeito.
Este tipo de aprendizado é que se obtém muito rapidamente em vivências nestes locais. E quando falo em vivências, não se trata de apenas fazer turismo, mas de aproveitar a oportunidade para crescimento pessoal e profissional.
É alimentar a mente, o espírito, a criatividade e a alma com as melhores das energias.
Uma das mais lindas paisagens nos ensina a administrar.
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Por um lado, a comunicação facilitada. Informações do mundo inteiro compartilhadas.
As pessoas tem mais contato, ou melhor podem enviar mensagens para as outras de qualquer lugar, pelo computador, celular, smartphones.
Mas que contato é este? Na verdade, o grande mural eletrônico de mensagens é alimentado por pessoas que cada vez mais estão passando boa parte do tempo olhando para seus aparelhos e cada vez menos para quem está do lado.
Relacionamentos acontecem a partir destes contatos. Diminuem os encontros por causa de um bate papo interessante, por um olhar ao nosso lado. Primeiro vem as palavras, sem entonação, ou enfeitadas com cores e desenhos que dificilmente expressam tudo que uma comunicação cara-a-cara permite.
É claro que é bom poder trocar mensagens, expandir horizontes. Mas o contato pessoal é fundamental.
Outra coisa que acontece é a "cerca eletrônica". Levantaram-se muros cada vez mais altos.
Tem gente que não vai além do alcance do sinal do celular. Ir acampar ou explorar a natureza só se for aquela do parque lotado, perto de casa. Mata selvagem, nem pensar.
O excesso de disponibilidade de comunicação faz com que as pessoas fiquem mais próximas, numa mesma região geográfica, distantes entre si, apenas conectadas.
Aos poucos, começa a parecer aquela situação de até pouco tempo em que raros eram os exploradores que iam para as montanhas e locais remotos. E é nestes locais que estão algumas das maiores experiências para o crescimento interior.
A magia da vida acontece ao ar livre, dentro de nós. Podemos compartilhar informações, mensagens pessoais.
Uma Fonte de Água do Whisky (Western Highlands)
Foto: cjh44
Meditação e whisky combinam SIM!
Uma dissertação sobre o caminho do meio.
Whisky também é ecológico. O bom whisky digo.
As melhores destilarias estão situadas nas highlands ou em lugares sabidamente consagrados pela tradição ocultista, aonde existam fontes naturais de águas subterrâneas.
Todos sabem que nascentes assim, são locais energéticos, onde a manifestação das forças elementais e telúricas é elevada.
Desde a antiguidade, os druidas, bem como seus equivalentes por todos os locais do planeta, buscam as nascentes naturais pela sua força mágica e por ser um local adequado para a elevação do espírito, a realização de rituais e pelas qualidades curativas.
Portanto, beber whisky, em quantidade moderada é claro, por exemplo, não mais que uma garrafa ao mesmo tempo (risos...), é ecológico e natural.
Só para lembrar, Gurdjeff era famoso por fazer suas palestras em bares, onde bebia garrafas e mais garrafas de vinho sem ser minimamente afetado pelo álcool, o que era uma demonstração da capacidade de sublimação.
Fonte de água usada no whisky vindo de uma caverna. Foto: The Yankee Guido
A energia da natureza, do vento, da água, do sol, está presente no que fazemos.
Oportunizar para uma relação mais harmônica, sem negar as boas coisas da civilização, é dar a chance a nós mesmos e aos demais, de uma vida mais plena.
Alegria faz parte da vida.
O ato de beber entre amigos, é um ato instintivo em todas as sociedades.
Propor um brinde, convidar para um café, até mesmo um copo d´água, são geralmente, a primeira manifestação de entendimento.
As pessoas quando estão em acordo, logo dizem: "Vamos beber a isto".
Então, vêm as diversas bebidas.
A primeira de todas é a água.
Depois vêm os chás e sucos de frutas.
Então chegam as bebidas festivas e as cerimoniais.
Houve tempo, em que as bebidas alcoólicas eram de uso exclusivamente espiritual/religioso.
Diversos povos ainda possuem algumas bebidas muito específicas, que se destinam ao trabalho espiritual.
Deve-se atentar que tais bebidas, são usadas dentro de um determinado contexto e jamais deveriam ser ingeridas sem o devido acompanhamento e orientação direta de um mestre realmente versado nas artes. E são muito poucos.
A bebida festiva, nas diversas nações, tem a finalidade de alegrar o espírito, deleitar o paladar.
E claro, como tudo, se o uso for incorreto, perde-se a oportunidade de um bom momento.
Conhecer como o bom whisky, um bom vinho ou uma bebida celebrativa é feito pode ser parte de uma viagem de características mágicas.
Tudo depende do observador e do sentido que se propôe. Existem diversas qualificações, dependendo do que estamos fazendo.
Você deve primeiro de tudo, perguntar-se o que pretende estudar. E se comprometer com isto. O compromisso é teu apenas, de ninguém mais.
Se quer aprender astrologia, estude esta atribuição. Conheça as relações entre os elementos e os ciclos dos planetas e de que forma, mutuamente estes se inter-relacionam. Por quê o fogo afeta a órbita de um planeta enquanto outro é mais afetado pela água?
Se quer estudar filosofia, estude os antigos mestres e os atuais.
Aprenda retórica e matemática. Mergulhe nos significados da palavra e dos predicados.
Se quer aprender sobre si mesmo, vá meditar.
Se quer aprender shamanismo, estude os livros que achar, mas jamais pense que isto substitui entrar na mata e aprender a conversar com os animais, plantas e rochas. Conhecer os elementais é fundamental. Então gradualmente irá iniciar a jornada rumos aos demais planos, a realidade que está além desta.
Cada uma das atribuições tem sua própria finalidade.
Que elemento corresponde a cada estação? Se você quer aprender sobre os elementos, deve aprender a buscar as relações existentes entre as coisas.
Inverno=Frio, úmido = Terra
Outono=Seco, vento = Ar
Primavera=quente, úmido, Água
Verão=Quente, seco = Fogo
Note que estas atribuições podem ser interpretadas de forma diferente por outros povos. Por exemplo, os chineses consideram cinco elementos.
Se pensar um pouco, perceberá que todos elementos formam um ciclo. E que estes ciclos estão representados no zodíaco. E nas cartas do Tarot, e na Cabala, e em todas ciências ocultas ou não.
Este esquema pode ser diferente, e realmente o é. E não é o único.
Veja, um observador que jamais tenha se afastado dos trópicos, terá uma percepção do ciclo de chuvas e secas. Já o astrólogo, atento a ciclos maiores, terá outra divisão.
Portanto, em que caso usar qual sistema? Isto vai depender do "caminho" que você decidir trilhar. Ele será a sua linha de trabalho e que deverá nortear sempre que possível e adequado, seus estudos e atividades.
Se você escolher um sistema num dado momento, e logo mais, optar por outro, não conseguirá nunca uma percepção real dos ciclos e das relações dos elementos.
Os mesmos caminhos tem muitas formas de serem seguidos. Mas o principal é o caminho escolhido seja feito com sincero agradecimento porque aqueles que sempre dizem que nunca precisaram de ninguém, apenas provam que são como parasitas e nada sabem fazer exceto mentir e roubar para viver as custas dos outros algo que nunca foi seu.
Jamais seja um charlatão de sua própria vida porque enganar os outros nada vai trazer para você além de um prato de comida.
Um mendigo será mais honesto e terá uma vida mais honrada que qualquer charlatão.
Já vimos pessoas que colocam o planeta de cabeça para baixo, invertendo os signos zodiacais por causa do hemisfério, esquecendo-se com isto, que estão olhando esta esfera "fora" do próprio zodíaco.
Voltando aos elementos, fiz questão de comentar sobre a diferença de ponto de vista entre diferentes pontos no planeta, pois você terá um mesmo conhecimento, porém sob "diferentes sistemas".
E o que é um sistema? Não vou lhe dar a explicação como analista de sistemas, o que estaria em desacordo com minha profissão, mas falemos do conjunto de elementos inter-relacionados.
Se você estiver no deserto, o fogo é o sol, o dia, o ar é o vento e a água, a chuva. A terra, aos céus pés, apenas recebe os demais. Isto é fácil.
Mas, se você estiver na selva tropical? A terra úmida e quente, o vento úmido lhe cozinha em pé. O sol, mal aparece entre as árvores a água, está tão presente em tudo que é difícil saber aonde é o rio e aonde é a chuva (risos).
Vamos então aos símbolos dados aos elementos, aqueles em forma de triângulos. São um bom caminho de estudo intelectual. Observe como se colocam. Suas poucas linhas representam todo o ciclo de manifestação.
Ao citar o Tarot, temos as atribuições zodiacais, porém, aí é importante lembrar que "o zodíaco não muda de lugar", mas as estações do ano sim, pois nos adequamos ao local em que estamos.
Quando é primavera no hemisfério sul, é outono no norte e assim por diante.
Algumas festividades pagãs, como as que se relacionam a colheita, são adaptadas por nós para refletir "a estação do ano". Outras, obedecem ao ciclo de início de ano que está sob uma égide superior e que, queira ou não, têm data certa.
Gilberto Prabuddha
03/Março/2006
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Ao pensar em TI Verde, é importante lembrar que não é só de custos que estamos falando. Mas de recursos que precisam ser cuidados. E são mais frágeis do que muitos pensam.
Este interessante trabalho, mostra graficamente toda água do planeta Terra, mares, rios, lagos, nuvens, etc, formando uma única esfera.
A segunda esfera, representa toda a atmosfera coletada para formar uma esfera.
