#energyalignments

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Energy Types & Elemental Alignments:

Fire energy

Amber energy

Forest energy

Nature energy

Daytime/solar alignment

Potential Magical Strengths:

Fire magic and divination

Herbalism and nature-based magic

Prosperity and manifestation magic

Joy and happiness spells

Working with fae and nature spirits

Protective magic and wards

Crystal, rock, and stone magic

Charging (energy work)

Daytime and solar magic

Overall Recommendations:

You’re faetouched, which means that you’ve been given a gift of some fae energy that will remain with you the rest of your life and give you a slightly stronger connection to pure magic energy and to nature energy. Fae will also be more willing to work with you even though you’re human. It’s not at all like being fae incarnate, but it’s certainly a step closer to that. I can’t be certain how much of your energy signature was changed by this since I hadn’t read it before this happened to you, but now I can tell that you certainly have many characteristics of your energy that are complementary to or similar to fae energies. 

Two things that all fae have in common are their connection to nature and their connection to magic. Nature and magic are at the very essence of all the faefolk, and this is also true for you to a smaller extent because now you have more of a relationship with nature that goes a bit beyond what most human beings can cultivate on their own. If you ever have an opportunity to perform spells or rituals in the middle of a forest, I would highly recommend for you. Talking to and meditating with the spirits of forest trees (as opposed to trees in other places) would be another great exercise for you. It’s still important to learn to be respectful and friendly towards fae, plant, tree, and other kinds of nature spirits, but generally it should be much easier for you to approach and work with them. 

You will also find great advantages when working with herbs or other natural ingredients in spells. So herbalism and folk magic could be great potential paths for you. As you may already know, folk magic is an approach that generally taps into forging deep connections with nature and intuitive improvisation with ingredients and techniques. While there are at least as many types of folk magic as there are cultures in the world, these are common aspects to all such traditions. I suggest looking into European forms of folk magic such as German and Irish as they not only would relate to your specific ancestry, but also to working with the faefolk.

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Absolutely! Maybe you already are familiar with energy vampires, but there’s a lot of misinformation about them floating around, so I’ll just start there. So energy vampires can differ in many ways from person to person, but generally what they all have in common is a slight to very significant energy deficit. They need to receive energy from an outside source on a regular basis (most do via voluntary energy donations) in order to maintain the normal energy levels that people with regular energy systems ordinarily have. There’s a lot of stigma about them, but I’ve met lots of lovely energy vampires and even been an energy donor on numerous occasions.

Now, imagine the opposite. Someone whose energy system naturally produces more energy than the person needs or even can comfortably contain within themselves. Energy suns are named for constantly radiating energy like a sun (but doesn’t necessarily have any solar energy alignments). I came up with the term a while back when I finally figured out that’s what I am but then realized that there wasn’t really a good term for it. Some people call us “generators” or “power towers,” but I really don’t like being compared to machines - especially because energy suns are sometimes sought after for producing energy but we’re human beings… not convenient tools.

Anyways, just as energy vampires need some way to get energy on a regular basis, energy suns need outlets to use up all our excess energy. This can happen as just constant small amounts of energy radiation (basically low key grounding 24/7), by doing a big energy dump (like letting out a whole bunch at once), or by performing magic to burn it up (part of why I love doing energy work and magic in general). Personally, if I don’t find ways to use up my energy excess, it can get really uncomfortable or I can end up sort of fizzling and burning out temporarily from an internal overload, which really sucks. I call it “sun burning” when I spend time around someone and end up radiating too much energy at them. It’s so nice to know what that is now because my family members have complained about it for years. It tends to scare our skittish cats away because even if I try to walk over to them being super calm and slow, they just feel all my energy unintentionally blasting at them.

Nice question! It’s a tricky one to answer because it depends on so many things that it’s hard to recommend something super generic. You got me thinking on it though and here’s what I came up with, I hope it’s helpful! (:

> Simple cleansing methods

My own favorite cleansing methods have a lot to do with the various closed or semi-closed traditions I practice so they aren’t generic techniques that I could share for anyone’s use. But I thought of some non-culturally specific variations of what I do, plus some elemental ideas:

Air cleansing:

Clearing out unwanted energies with sounds like ringing a bell

Smoke cleansing (I like to use candle smoke or incense smoke from something with a cleansing correspondence)

Water cleansing:

Physically cleaning yourself or your space and mixing the water/cleaning agents with cleansing ingredients like a herbal blend or making a crystal infusion (bonus: work with the spirits of whatever was added)

Putting an object under flowing water and focusing on pulling out the unwanted energies from it with the force of the water

Earth cleansing:

Some people use salt to cleanse, but make sure you throw the salt away once it’s done the work! Salt absorbs the unwanted junk, and you don’t want it anymore once it’s done that

Energy grounding out outdoors or in nature and asking the earth to absorb your unwanted energies (I also do positive things for the local land though to balance this out over time or it’ll begin to corrode the relationship there)

> Some cleansing factors & variables

I would honestly recommend different cleansing methods for different people depending on what their personal energies are like. For instance, you can cleanse with water energy in a myriad of different ways, but if your own energy system has a strong fire alignment there’s a possibility that might really clash with you and dampen your energies for a while instead of cleansing you. And I definitely don’t mean by your astrological sign necessarily, I mean by examining your own energies or getting an energy reading. I’ve seen so many different types of energies and energy alignments way beyond the stereotypical four elements!

Other factors to consider of course are the magic traditions or styles of witchcraft that you practice and what cleansing methods you personally connect with the most. Like a particular method could work with your energies, but you personally don’t relate to it well and that could hinder the effectiveness too. If you’ve had a good energy cleansing, typically you’ll genuinely feel a real difference and know that it’s actually helped.

> Finding your own best ways to cleanse…