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For grounding after a Circle -

-- After your magickal work, pause for a few minutes. Gaze at your Goddess and God candles or at their images on your altar. See them as physical objects and focus on their physicality. Sometimes it works to focus on the smoke from your candles or incense, but see it as a physical presence, not a spiritual one. Put thoughts of your ritual out of your mind. -- This only worked for me when I was able to refocus my mind on the physical nature of my sacred objects. Helped pull me back to the mundane.

-- Tighten up your physical body starting with your toes and working to your scalp. Hold the tension for a few seconds. Then slowly, starting in reverse order, concentrate on relaxing each part of your body and feel the return to the physical world.

-- Cakes and Wine works for some. Since food is of the Earth it gently returns us back to the physical reality. For special celebrations I use the crescent shaped cookies (recipe, I think, from a Cunningham book).

-- Taste a bit of salt and scatter a bit around your Circle. -- This one works great for me. Smacks me right back into the physical.

-- A friend of mine does something very simple -- he claps his hands loudly one time.

-- Visualization sometimes works. If you imagine the power you have created as a mist or an aura, then it can be "earthed" by holding up one of your tools and visualizing it absorbing the energy (the tool should be in your receptive hand). Some people thing this helps keep the power in their tools to be released at a later time.

-- Keep an extra candle beneath your altar to use only at the end of your ritual. They light it with the Goddess candle (or their separate lighting candle if they have one) and then imagine all the energy being pulled into that candle. When they snuff it the energy is contained within. To be released upon a later lighting of the candle. I do this. The candle is used to light my Goddess candle at the start of my ritual. Then I snuff it. At the end of the ritual I re-light it with my Goddess candle and imagine the power flowing back into it.

-- Use your knife (or wand) to "cut" your Circle at the end and imagine the power surging into the tool.

-- At the end of your ritual, stand before your altar with your receptive hand outstretched. Visualize the energy coming in through your palm and sinking into your body. I prefer to earth the energy in another container, not myself. But this works for a lot of people who want the power to remain within.

-- If you use methods in your Circle whereby you create energy moving clockwise, then deliberately move counterclockwise to undo each energy, visualizing it's decrease as you move.

-- Lay down within your Circle with your body outstretched in the shape of the pentagram. Sense the elements running through you and becoming one with your physical being. Upon standing up imagine that you are the vessel which contains the power which has been harnessed until your next need.

-- I have a friend her uses her broom both to symbolically clean the area of her Circle before casting and afterwards to "clean up" and ground leftover energy. She says the physical effort of brooming brings her back to the physical world and helps her focus return to the mundane.

Personally, I use the Tree of Life vizualization described by Starhawk (I'm a child of the 60s -- Starhawk's forms of meditation usually work best for me). It is a beautiful ritual used for grounding and centering prior to visualization, and I have adopted it within my Circle. If anyone is interested, I'll be glad to send that out to either the list or individuals who request it. It's a page or two of typing, and this is already a long posting. I would love to share it, as it works so very well for me.

When meditating, I also hold in mind a physical scene that is my "return" cue. It's a moment I experienced on a cliff a the oceanside years and years ago. I use that to slowly bring me back to the physical. I also use it to snap myself back quickly if I sense a problem when I'm Between Worlds (a negative influence or disturbing presence). I have trained myself to react immediately and to view that image as a way of re-centering myself.

Sorry for the long posting -- Hope it helps some. Let me know if you want the Tree of Life posted.

Love to all

Ahneke

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