Wards

Curse Removal

Hex Removal

Curse Protection

Hex Protection

Occasionally, I get people telling me that they have a problem: entities keep eating their energy! This generally happens to high-energy individuals, especially energy suns. Those who have trouble containing their energy and those who seem to be a 'beacon' to entities may also find themselves benefiting from this ward.

Lots of things out there will try to snack on your energy. Most of the time, it's harmless(ish) and you'll regain the energy lost in less than a day. For example, if you encounter an unawakened energy vamp and they take a little energy from you, or you encounter a nightmare in your dreams. Occasionally, though, you might attract a bit of unwanted attention if you leave yourself open all the time. Parasites like to attach to you and leech off of you indefinitely--if you don't take care of them, they can cause significant damage to your energy. Or maybe you frequently encounter a particular energy vamp who doesn't know how to reign in their feeding. Or a nightmare entity finds your fear and uncomfort particularly tasty and keeps coming back... you get the idea. Point is, I don't see many witches actually dealing with this problem. Many just let it happen, and keep having to get parasites removed or some such thing.

Wards are a preventive measure you can use to keep this from happening!

It is important that I restate this: wards are a preventive measure, they are not meant to fix an already existing problem.

Specifically, I want to discuss a ward I use to keep things from snacking on me without my consent. I am an energy sun, as well as someone with high energy levels, so I have plenty to give when I donate to my vampiric community... but I don't want things eating my energy all the time. That would be draining. I also use this ward to lay over my other wards so that they don't get eaten either! (An energy vamp i'm psychically bound to has, in fact, just straight up consumed my shields accidentally before. She also had trouble setting her own bc she kept eating them by accident.)

Essentially, it works the same way that bright colors do in nature: it screams, "I am not food, do not eat me, you will regret it!" To anything that tries to do so. I've also had people describe it as seeing plastic/toy food. It looks like it's edible, but you know that it is not and it doesn't have the same texture or taste. You can also set the ward to make your energy undetectable, like an invisibility glamour, if being a beacon to other entities is something you struggle with. Like any ward, you can also add other neat functions to it if you've got the skill level... but for today i'll only be focusing on the "don't eat me" aspect to keep things simple.

Required Skills

This is a bit of advanced/intermediate energy work, so you need to be able to do a few things in order to effectively cast and maintain this ward. They are:

Ability to manipulate and sense external energy

Ability to cast a stable ward with more than one function programmed into it

Ability to summon a specific type of energy, given its energy signature OR Ability to read and re-create an energy signature via energy conversion (or some other means)

How to Cast

This spell uses a type of energy called transparent void. If you are unfamiliar with this energy, my definition is "Void energy that does not seek to consume other types of energy." It has very little to no energetic presence and tends to blend in with the atmosphere, much like an energy chameleon would. This makes it perfect for our purpose. If you are not sure where to find transparent void, this is the part where that last 'required skill' is going to help you.

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The above is a sigil i've filled with the signature of transparent void. You will need to be able to sense that energy and either summon it or somehow replicate it if you want to have the most effect out of this spell.

WARNING: If you know you do not work well with this energy, please do not try to work with it. Theoretically, you can preform this spell with any type of energy... I just find that transparent void works the best for this particular function.

Now to get to the actual casting:

Gather a good amount of transparent void energy and fashion it into a large net, big enough to completely cover your energy feild on all sides.

Infuse a bit of your energy into the net. This will key it to you, making it work for you and only you. It will also allow for anything you program into this net to work on you.

Now you want to program this thing. This is the tricky part, in my opinion. Everyone programs differently, and some aren't quite sure exactly how. Here's how I do it: My craft is very vocal, so I speak what I want to program aloud, imagining my words take form and soak into whatever I'm working on. In the case of this ward, you want to program it to make you not tasty. I'd say things like, "This net shall make my energy undesired by all who would try to eat it without my consent. I can give my consent by saying, 'I give my consent to [name].' My energy will not register as energy. My energy will not register as something edible. This net will not register as energy. I allow the following entities to permanently bypass this ward: [names of entities]." The reason this works is because words/languages are used to give shape to our intentions. The same can be done in magic; i'm simply putting the my intentions behind the ward into it. If you use my method, be aware that, along with wards, I also infuse direct instructions on what doing the things i'm telling to do actually mean via Thinking Really Hard At It(tm). Basically, as i'm saying "I don't register as energy" i'm simultaneously thinking of the bright colors in nature and the plastic food thing, and letting that travel with my words as unspoken intent. It's kind of like... let's say you don't know a language, but because it uses the latin alphabet, you can technically 'read' it. Just because you can read the words doesn't mean you understand what they mean. So what i'm doing to this thing is giving it the language and the meaning behind the language. That's what programing is. One other thing i should mention is that when you want to key entities other than yourself into your ward permanently, you need to infuse a bit of their energy signature into the ward as well so that it'll recognize them. You can typically do this just by using their name, since names carry the energy signature of a person. Energy signatures are basically like fingerprints. Feel free to add other functions to this ward if you'd like!

When you are done adding all of your functions, it's time to set the ward! Throw the net over your energy field and allow it to seal itself flush to you. You want to guide the ends of the net to find eachother and bind together, so that the net won't simply fall off. You may be wondering why i chose net and not a typical impenetrable sphere. Well, like I said before, I DO want people to be able to reach through to my energy and feed off of me with consent. I also want my energy to be able to flow out of me. To me, a net design just makes more sense. The net itself is transparent, so it can't actually be seen once it's active, and it's also MUCH less likely to break since you cant really... punch through a net. I'm minimizing the risk of this ward being detected and broken by making it a net. It's not like this ward is meant to be a sheild, so this is fine. Anyway, you want to test your ward after you've allowed it to set, so ask someone you haven't keyed the ward to to see if they can/want to eat your energy. If they say it tastes bad, or feels bad, congrats! You've done it.

If you want to make changes to your ward, you can easily do so. Since the ward is keyed to you, you command it. Ask it to come off of you, and it will! From there, you can add (or remove) certain functions to it. Just remember that it is not designed to be a sheild, so functions like "such and such energy can't penetrate this ward" won't work. Things *will* still be able to eat your energy, they just... will find it very undesirable.

Important notes

Keep a list of all your ward's functions somewhere safe so you don't forget them!

Be sure to check and repair the ward regularly. All wards take damage over time for various reaons. You may have to have someone else help you check its functionality again.

As always, if it starts to feel icky, *take it off*. You can try cleansing it and re-setting it, but if that doesn't work, you may consider remaking it with a different type of energy.

Sometimes I draw these...wards? Sigils? Unsure what they would fall under to be honest.

Sometimes I will share them here.

This one felt was drawn after coming home from a recent journey. I have felt nothing but warmth, safety, and love since returning so that is what this embodies.

Hi guys! I rarely make original posts, but I've been working super hard on this new ward for my bedroom. You can use it for protecting anything, though! I recommend using it with a drawn representation of the space or thing it will be used on with the corners, floor, and ceiling reinforced.

So what this does is protect you from what you deem malicious in several ways: first, it makes your space undetectable to undesired entities. Second, if one manages to find your space, it will take drowning damage, its energy will be cleansed and become fuel for the ward, and a cloud of protection will surround you. It also has an anti-teleport feature for nonhuman entities so the things you don't want in there won't be able to get in.

What you'll need:

This sigil

A sigil to represent yourself

Sea water, preferably caught from a crashing wave

Salt

Selenite crystal, preferably with a flat bottom

A dedicated space near a window that experiences some amount of sun and moonlight

What to do:

Copy the sigil on a piece of paper and put your personal sigil where mine is marked out.

Put a drop of sea water in the center of the sigil and imagine those that would do you harm drowning.

Sprinkle salt onto the sigil and imagine that your attacker's energy circles back to power the sigil. Remove the salt.

Charge the sigil with a little of your own energy and place it beneath the selenite crystal near a sun and moonlit window. The sigil is set to recharge with sunlight and moonlight.

Congrats, your space is now protected!

I used to think warding was simple. Put up a shield of light, call upon your guardians and badda bing badda boom you’re completely safe.

Uh, no. Not the case.

Sure, that type of ward can do some good but don't get mad when that ward is easily bypassed by a malevolent spirit (@ myself).

I’ve learned that good wards have to have layers and be tough as nails. My wards weren’t cutting it so I did some research to find what wards will (try saying that three times fast. I can't even say it once). Anyway, here is what I found.

-The more work you put into a ward, the stronger it will be

-Grounding is a must before creating a ward!

-Centering yourself is optional, but I recommend it

-Picking an element to be the center of the ward (aka a fire ward) may be helpful for some

-I recommend using a crystal or a few to aid in creating the ward. Brand new, freshly cleansed stones work best

-If you aren’t skilled at visualization, a physical representation of the ward ca be very helpful (I.e a sachet, sigil, symbol or something along those lines)

-Wards (especially those around yourself) made out of solely your own energy can weaken when you are having a bad health day, inebriated, or exhausted. I would combat this by storing the ward into something physical so that even if you aren’t 100% that object with still give off the energy

-Recharge your wards often! You can’t just create it and then forget about it for months at a time (@ myself, again). They more it will be used the more it has to be recharged. I would say an average ward should be recharged every other week at least!

-Be specific! “To keep out negative beings” What? WHAT? That is so broad, Deborah, what are you doing? “To repel and protect against those who I believe to be negative and malicious entities wishing to cause harm…” Better. Be annoyingly specific. It's like that trope where a genie grants you a wish but will always find a loophole and screw you over. Make sure there are no loopholes!

-Energy wards should be fluid, not stiff. Think an impenetrable bubble, not a wall of ice. Ice shatters.

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