So what is a Banishing Ritual? Essentially, Banishing has three aims. The first is that it 'warms you up' as a preparation for doing further ritual, meditation, or whatever, enabling you to put aside 'everyday thoughts' - "what's on TV later", etc. It allows you to take on the role of 'magician' (I'll go into this later on), and to place yourself in the 'centre' of your magical universe - the axis mundi. Secondly, Banishing sets up the space you are working in as 'sacred', so that the loft, bedroom, basement or wherever you are becomes, temporarily, a 'temple' space. Thirdly, a Banishing 'clears' the atmosphere of the area that you're working in of 'psychic debris'Most Banishing rituals have three basic components:
1.A section to focus awareness on the BodyMind
2.A section which demarcates the main zones, gates, quarters or dimensions of the chosen magical universe - at which you are the centre.
3.An identification with a chosen source of inspiration - merging the macrocosm (total psychocosm) with the microcosm (self)...read more...
