#resetting

I started my practice right about a year and a month ago from this post (April/May 2025). I'd been thinking about it since roughly March of that year, and being in the home I am, practicing wouldn't exactly be safe. So I chose to do a simple ward and a resetting/cleansing to practice. Did it again the next month, and the month after that to practice and stay under the radar.

School let out that third month and I was suddenly routineless and without supervision, resulting in what I thought to be a change-induced emotional and energetic slump. Also, being new to magic made it so that I didn't automatically check both sources of energy. This combination came with me doing another reset, my fifth in two or three months, and wiped me out even further. I was not okay, and as a result of this I forgot to do wards and cleanse the following month. That month was a lot better than the previous ones, but I panicked and redid my wards. Notably, not recleansing or resetting.

I later figured out what happened: I reset so much I'd accidentally stagnated my own energy and made it impossible to progress. There were other factors and I was brand-spanking-new to magic without a reliable guide, but there was no energy for me to draw from because I'd removed it all from my room (where I practice).