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Date: Thu 20 Aug 87 14:50:30
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From: Judy Harrow
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To: Hugh Read
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Subj: grounding shields
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When I wrote you yesterday about grounding shields, I left out a very
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important new application that we just recently thought up.
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Y'know as long as this imperfect world contains in it pain that is
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truly caused to us by other people - like rape, child abuse, nasty
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bosses, and other things not as drastic but similarly caused by
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particular other humans - it is therapeutically good for people to have
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some way to "harmlessly" release their anger. Rage bottled up may turn
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inward and become ulcers, heart disease and other stress-related
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illness. Or it may turn outward as sudden, irrational bursts of
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violence. This, for example, is what the posters that say "child abuse
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is a family tradition" mean. So shrinks ask their clients to define a
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cushion as their father and kick it around the room. One person dear to
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me broke a bone in his foot doing just that - but before the session he
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had no memory earlier than his 16th year, and after the catharsis he did.
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But I'm a trained Witch, and for me to call a pillow my father and
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kick it would be baneful magic. So what do I do, engage in magical
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practices I believe to be wrong, or eat out my gut? Neither.
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This is the procedure:
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1) Cast your Circle as usual
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2) Then place a grounding shield WITHIN your Circle, like the membrane
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just inside the eggshell. You can use the visualization I shared
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yesterday for the shield or anything at all else that works for you.
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3) Invoke Grandmother Earth into the Circle, and ask Her to take the
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energy to be released there, cleanse it, and recycle it to wherever it
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is most needed. Do not tell Her where.
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4) Let the healee do whatever cathartic procedure seems appropriate.
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Sometimes simply yelling and screaming will do it. But, in this context,
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even destroying a recognizable image of the person who has done the harm
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is safe and OK. When the healee has finished releasing the poison s/he
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will feel drained and empty.
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5) Then invoke the Maiden Earth, to fill the newly created space with
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fragrant, green energy that will welcome and nurture new and beautiful
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growth in the healee.
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6) Thank everybody.
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7) Specifically let the grounding shield itself melt into the ground.
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8) Close the Circle as usual.
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On further reflection, maybe #7 should be moved to between #4 and #5,
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y'know like fully dispose of the yuckies before bringing in the yummies.
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Anyhow, this solves a problem that's been worrying me for a long time
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about finding release for feelings it's not right to release into magic.
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Whaddya think? warmly / Judy
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