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It’s important, as with all things, that awareness is not something you get quickly.

So long ago, yet so influential to my career in what I’d call “magic” at first.

Go back to your stuff from time to time. Your oldest notes. Review your preconceptions. Examine them. Check them for flaws, see which have remained strong and deserve polishing.

It’s me, back again, back again! I’m here just for a moment, my friends, to relay a lesson.

Take it from me, dear reader. this lesson was hard learned.

Say you’re out walking, and you’re in a new sort of park, or area. If you get a funny feeling from an archway or other easily defined gateway that you can walk around.... walk around it.

I recently visited a lovely set of gardens, that tore the absolute shit out of my shielding and armor when I walked through a doorway that had turned out to be warded. How did it get there? Who knows? Maybe someone on staff? Maybe the original builder of the gardens brought Something more than just a love of landscaping with them from their distant country? In any case, I’ll be extra careful from now on.

No more walking through 90 year old wards for this girl.

Hello. It’s been a while since I’ve posted! Welcome back, have a cup of tea.

All right, let’s begin.

Negatively charged areas can deal a severe amount of damage to your psyche, attunement, and general well-being over time, making them important to clear out, not just in a quick manner, but in one that will hopefully last, and be executed safely.

Every practitioner clears areas differently, and as I am, I do it by force and fire and energy channeling. So let’s talk about some common themes that everyone can work with.

Identification. It’s important to survey the area, and see how far the negative zone extends. You need to know how far and how severe it is, in as much of an area as possible. If it gets a lot worse around a certain place or object, it’s going to need special attention.

Positioning. Plan and execute your cleansing spells, rituals, or discipline uses from outside of the negative zone. This will help you maintain a clear head, and, more importantly, stop the negative zone from either forming a hypercompressed ring because you pushed out from the center, or from rebounding back in and smushing you in a plie of blergh (those are technical terms, I swear I am a professional). Don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking you can obviously overpower anything that might smoosh you.

Execution. Depending on if you neutralize the negativity or just push it away, start from an edge, preferably a high-traffic one, and work your way inward. If you’re doing a mass spell, try to make sure the cleaning starts from the tips and moves towards the center. If you’re the type to just blow it away and let someone else deal with it, well, try bisecting it and blowing it in different directions, so someone downwind doesn’t get the whole thing right in the kisser.

Followup. This is what I hear being most neglected. You can’t just leave a low-pressure zone and expect nothing weird to happen. You should attempt to fill the zone back to neutral with stored energy, or ward or consecrate it further so it doesn’t just fill back up like a drained pond. However you wind up doing it, check back in on the zone several times over the next week or so to make sure things are still cool.

Special Circumstances. Sometimes it’s not just a lot of bad days building up a charge in an area, but something or somebody spewing out the charge deliberately, or close enough. In this case, you’ll have to make your own decisions, but however you proceed, remember to cast straight, stay calm and never make a deal with an Outsider.