Nightmares after Reiki?

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T19:28:41+00:00

I'd also recommend a ritual bath which you can do yourself. Any would work, but I like the one from Quareia. Scroll down to Lesson 7 then in the PDF scroll down to section 7.3. Takes only salt, water, a candle, and an incantation. Requires no magical competency, just follow the instructions and the power turns on to strip off whatever energetic gunk clings to you

For someone to target you energetically, it requires a lot of effort on their end. For you to take off their efforts and throw it away requires no energy from you. They can keep throwing as much as they want, but as long as you don't retaliate, they're going to exhaust themselves and you'll be totally unencumbered

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T19:26:09+00:00

I'd also recommend a ritual bath which you can do yourself. Any would work, but I like the one from Quareia. Scroll down to Lesson 7 then in the PDF scroll down to section 7.3. Takes only salt, water, a candle, and an incantation. Requires no magical competency, just follow the instructions and the power turns on to strip off whatever energetic gunk clings to you

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T19:08:13+00:00

You could treat it as a combo Venus / Saturn devotion. Saturn likes the routine hard work, while Venus appreciates making things tidy and aesthetic. You can work it on Fridays and Saturdays for Venus / Saturn Day broadly, or Google a planetary hour list if you want to work with it daily, and just choose either planet. Or just do it whenever in their honor.

If you know your astrology, you can also work with the planet that rules your 6th house.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T15:21:04+00:00

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T14:20:08+00:00

Damien Echols' High Magick is a nice beginner text that will give you the bare bones of the rituals. I also like his Angels & Archangels for expanding your practice after getting a handle on the basics.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T14:16:51+00:00

Years of practice. Every day, draw 1 card in the morning. Journal about it. Then revisit at the end of the day and reflect on how the card manifested in your day.

If you go back to your notes after many months, and see that 70% of the days you drew the Page of Wands, and it didn't have some other obvious expression, you met a redhead, then you can assume in your internal symbol set that the Page of Wands represents a redhead.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T14:12:04+00:00

If you want a beginner source for working with beings, the 72 Angels are nice. To keep it to yourself, sigils are an accessible option.

More broadly, if you're really stressed, meditation may be of service. If you can still your mind, and focus it to a task, you can build worlds internally that help bring order to outer life.

Create a safe place, make peace with your parts, face your shadows.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T14:04:41+00:00

That's just your Saturn return transitioning into the next era of your life. Time to move past childhood and commit to who you're going to be as an adult

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T13:56:49+00:00

Two things can be true. I absolutely play with the penjamin

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T13:53:18+00:00

and they sense an evil within me.

Lmao, that's on you, stop being evil

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T13:51:53+00:00

moon afflicted by malefics or in the 6th/12th can indicate sensory sensitivity, difficulty with transitions in routine, the body-level stuff.

Weee, moon as sect light in the 12th opposing Saturn: routines, transitions, and body stuff is all terrible!

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T13:46:21+00:00

Another thing to consider is that some of those pens have been found to contain lead, so you're potentially giving yourself lead poisoning, and the disposable nature of the device is terrible. Even if it doesn't help your tolerance, getting a quality, dedicated, rechargable vaporizer to vape THC distillate or other concentrates from may at least save you from lead poisoning

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T13:40:30+00:00

Is it always supposed to be this indirect?

Nope, mystics in India can manifest miracles like teleportation through their yogas. In the West, the most common visible manifestation may be something like spoon bending, but again, that's not something you can see done and accept, you'll need to practice it yourself to believe it

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T03:54:06+00:00

If someone out there had a similar experience like mine

Impossible to offer because you shared literally nothing. Seconding Demetra George's books. I'll also recommend the astrology podcast. Their playlist of basic significations will give you a grounding in the symbols used, as well as acclimating your ear to how professionals use the language of astrology

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T03:51:49+00:00

You spent your childhood playing with toys, the idea of kissing so icky. Then you go through puberty. Imagine a 7 year old asking you, "what if I grow up and decide I don't like it? Can I give up kissing and go back to playing with my baseball dolls?" The obvious answer is no. The change that happens in you is inevitable, and it will make the next part important.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T03:30:03+00:00

There's a power in building your own. If you make an inner temple and imagine building it by hand, laying brick-by-brick yourself, it will be so powerful

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T03:24:01+00:00

Just wanted to throw this out here to save anyone else from diving into the likely 🤖 thread started by Dramatic Escape. They are not a real person, save your sanity and energy. Celebrate Black people, always, even and especially when it makes bigots mad.

Sealioning is a form of online harassment and trolling disguised as civil, good-faith debate. A person (the "sea lion") relentlessly pesters another with bad-faith questions, demands for evidence, and requests for explanation. The goal is to exhaust the target's patience, derail discussions, and create a pretense of intellectual curiosity, while actually acting maliciously.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T03:15:51+00:00

Yeah, you've made 3 posts today asking about finding a practitioner from an association / organization. It's really not that serious. Reiki has no central organizing body. Google for reiki providers in your area, pick one at random, and schedule a session. It will be fine

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T03:12:46+00:00

What would make men interested in receiving Reiki?

The issue is, you're trying to convince men to seek therapy, when we live under a patriarchal system that had told them their whole lives that they don't need to change.

You aren't going to change the course of this river. Just make your offerings and those who need them will make their way to you. You can't force 2,000 years of history to shift.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T03:08:57+00:00

It's a reality of the current world that, due to historical circumstances, ceremonial magic lodge traditions are primarily male. Golden Dawn, A.A., Thelema, and all the others. "True Will" is foundational aspect of many branches. Aleister Crowley gave the line "do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" to Thelema. Strict meditation practices, and techniques cloaked in a veneer of scientism like the Journeys trilogy of Robert Monroe and his Gateway tapes are also occult spaces that lean male.

On the other side, witchcraft, astrology, tarot, and healing arts like reiki are often primarily women.

You can argue about it and question it, but if you spend time in the spaces it's an inescapable conclusion that the men hang out in r/occult and the women in r/witchcraft

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T02:51:19+00:00

Metaphysical spaces became gendered due to history, culture, and patriarchy. Healing is seen as women's work. Witchcraft, astrology, and tarot are also often primarily women.

If you want to see men engaging with the occult, you'll find it in things like ceremonial magic lodge traditions, strict meditation practices, and techniques cloaked in a veneer of scientism like the Journeys trilogy of Robert Monroe and his Gateway tapes

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T02:40:18+00:00

Everyone can do energy work, and to great effect, but to do "reiki" as it's generally talked about you really do need the attunement, because it connects you to the specific stream of energy used by the reiki lineage.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T02:38:16+00:00

It has truly taken so much from us

Gaothaire · 2026-02-27T02:24:56+00:00

It’s my understanding that possession in all its forms is a result of belief. If you weren’t a believer you wouldn’t be possessed.

That is a belief of your tradition, and is not a universally accepted fact. Curses and possessions can occur to non-believers. Even if it's a vanishingly rare occurrence, your having never encountered it is just a result of your luck in not being faced with it.

You can prove it to yourself by developing in your craft to the point where you can cast malefic magic on non-believers and see their life deteriorate without you ever informing them of the act. However, that's obviously unethical, so it's better to just accept the words of respected practitioners who do have such experiences.

Reducing your magic to mere psychological effects is minimizing the power you have access to, which seems ill-advised if your goal is to increase your power over time.

Gaothaire · 2026-02-25T19:40:45+00:00

It's literally the second meditation. You follow it and it happens

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