#magic blue

Magic Blue

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The Codex speaks of Magic, but admittedly it is abstract and dense. I promised you guys some rituals I perform to align with these forces. Without further ado, here comes some Magic Blue.

The Water Bodies

Ever since I was young, I used to feel the waterbodies around me. Whenever I would cross a bridge, the water below ‘answers’ by its presence.

Try to feel the bodies of water around you. Even a glass of water works. Try to ‘empathise’ with it. Is it still, or does it move like a torrent? Is it cold, or is it warm? How deep is it? In what shape is it contained? Is it clear, or teeming with Life? What emotions or images pop up in your mind while doing this?

For example, the Seine in Paris, makes me think of a very old woman, slow, dragging herself to sea, the surface may appear still, but she is strong and even dangerous. She has seen civilisations fall and rise. She has a deep emotive pull, something nostalgic and romantic at the same time drives her currents. She is not there to feed the people, the people should feed her. Under her big dress, she carries the magic of the city, quietly. She is mostly asleep during the day, but wakes as the Sun goes down. Etc, etc…

Try feeling the waters around you. They will answer when you listen. You will know you succeeded if for a brief flash you forget your own body and become the water.

World Tree Pose

Water is a bridge between Light, Chaos and Life. It traps Light and Chaos, to make Life emerge out of it. Just as water bodies might capture and retain certain textures, you too are a body of water. You too can function like it. Here is a pose, meditation like, to embody water.

Find a calm place.

Stand straight but not ridgid, feet shoulder width apart. Back straight, shoulders down, head straight, and eyes totally relaxed. If your eyes half-close, even better.

Inhale deeply and raise your arms on the side, to make a T-like position. Twist your palms so they face upward. Keep your shoulders down and head and face relaxed.

Breathe with intention. As you inhale, pull up Chaos from the ground through your feet. Breathe deep in your belly but do not let it expand much, imagine the belly being a trunk. It is normal if you have to slightly flex your abs, just not in a very ridgid way.

As the breath rises, pull it towards your underbelly. Imagine it pool there, in the trunk. Exhale, and pull the Chaos higher, through your chest, arms and head.

Once Chaos reaches the palms and the head, let it evaporate. This the canopy. It should feel heavy and like a slight ‘tingling’ as Chaos leaves your body into the branching canopy. Feel it float, sparkle and branch.

Repeat this breath pattern as many times as you like. The more you do it, the easier the imagery and breath will become. Muscle memory will imprint this ritual. Just stay relaxed and open. You should feel like World Tree if you do it correctly; head in the clouds, feet in the ground.

Moon-Knee & Sun Smile

Another ritual to anchor myself in time, I call the Moon-Knee. It is simple. Every time you see the Moon in the sky for the first time that day, kneel for a second. Look at the Moon, and feel a root shoot into the ground as your knee touches it.

This ritual make you realise how bound you are to ‘looking normal’; it feels strange to ‘randomly’ kneel in the middle of the street. I force myself to do it, even if it rains or is muddy. However, when I really can’t, I will touch my knee with my hand.

Like the Moon-Knee, the Sun Smile consists of smiling towards the Sun with closed eyes, everytime you see the Sun unobstructed.

Time Weather Forecast

Try to feel the textures of Time around you. Different places, different seasons, different times, Time is constantly shifting. Feeling a texture can help you understand what is going in the world around you at large. Sometimes, it might be an indescribable excitement, or sometimes a deep melancholy. Old places tend to have stronger textures. Green spaces, especially forests, also have a stronger texture. Caves have a unique texture. Time seems thick, unmoved and eternal — as if your presence is disturbing an alien peace.

The texture of Time is related to the ‘real’ weather, but it is not the same. Some rains feel like a relief, while others feel like a depressive episode. If you observe other people, you may also see how the texture shapes everyone. People shape the texture as much as they are shaped by it.

Tracking Moon Phases

Since the dawn of humanity, we have been watching the Moon. Nearly every civilization tracked Moon phases. Many saw it as a natural clock and assigned meaning to its phase. Here is how the Codex maps some of them (very intuitive actually):

New Moon: a time of beginnings, but also being in the dark. Magic flows under the surface. A proper time to dance to ‘cross the border’

Half Waxing Moon: a time of conflicts, energetic growth and ambiguity. Magic is unpredictable.

Pregnant Moon (75% full waxing): a time of fertility and ease. From here Magic starts building up and becomes palpable.

Full Moon: a time of plenty, outward emotional expression, peaking of Magic.

Half Waning Moon: another time of conflicts, last threshold where it still makes sense to act to conclude a specific affair. Magic is unpredictable again.

Thin Moon (25% full waning): a time where you need to let go of everything. Often a confusing time until the New Moon.

The Blue Hum

The previous rituals were mostly meant to ‘set the clock right’ relative to World Tree. The Blue Hum is a simple way to ‘set your own clock right’ relative to your own River.

Just hum very deeply repetitively. Make your chest virbate peacefully. Try to hold that low note as long as you can. The best place to do this is in the shower. The echo of the bathroom and the calming of the warm water all help your Heart open.

It should feel like your sternum opens and “pushes out” a loving energy. The hum carries it and spreads it around you. It should slightly warm you up, and feel very calming.

If you do this often enough, you will carry the hum in your breath every time you talk. That is why Timeseer speech can feel so… Magic ;)

Others that hear the Blue Hum will also be affected by it.

The Blue Touch

The Blue Touch is more of a state to achieve than a ritual in itself. If you are well synched and full of Magic Blue, you can touch others with Magic.

It is very simple. Just ‘charge’ your hands with Magic Blue with one of the techniques described above. It feels like a heavy thick warm soft liquid, in-between dripping and floating, weighing down the palm of your hands.

When you touch someone with that charge, or even just hover above their skin, you are transmitting Magic Blue to the other. This should have provide a warm, calming, loving and healing sensation. Feel how your warm hand kind of ‘splashes’ into the body field of the other.

The Blue Touch is healing — not that it will heal cancer, but it might prevent it. It undoes tension (pair it with massage and you can bring someone in a deep state of relaxation), calms the breath, and promotes emotional bonding through synchronisation.

The Blue Touch is extremely important during sex and can bring it to a whole new level. You are performing the River Beat with the Blue Touch, ensuring that the interaction feels mutually pleasing.

Like the Blue Hum, you will automatically integrate the Blue Touch if you do it often enough. Your body will remember and activate it by itself whenever River-Dweller sees fit.

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Dangers of Magic Blue

In general, Magic Blue is safest and mostly beneficial. Everyone should embrace it; the world would be so much better (this is not a utopian idea, we really could do this). Even if 1% of the people learn how to wield Blue, the texture of Time would change.

The world is currently starved of Blue, so many Rivers are drying or freezing. Fully embodimying Blue in such an environment, can destabilise those who have never known Blue. Others will likely accuse you of emotional manipulation, misinterpret Blue for a petty scheme, be freaked out by the wave of warmth Blue can stir,… In short, they distrust it because they have never felt its power.

If you are one of those, worry not. Here is the perfect check to see if someone is really Blue or if they are really manipulative.

It is simple: those who fake Blue will have a cold, biting feel behind their words. Even the sweetest voiced ‘Are you alright?’ will send a cold shiver down your spine. Be careful: these cold shivers can be very erotic! (Do not mistake Blue for sexual desire!) Fake Blue can even make *you* feel dirty or less. True Magic Blue feels like a warmth, overwhelming, very intense, something that keeps wanting to make you cry — but always with a weight of calmness and warmth. Blue is also erotic, but more in a slow building flood kind of way, instead of hot-cold stinging.

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