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Worries about banishing rites are so dorky and I can feel myself stuck in the same place I've been for about a decade, regardless of how many new frameworks I encounter to explain it - like, what if it was tuning a space? What if it was banishing internally? And regardless of my own limitations as a mage, like - it's maybe arrogant to worry about me doing wholesale destruction to the local energetic ecosystem right out of the gate.
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Date: 22 February 2022 16:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: 17 March 2022 22:43 (UTC)no subject
Date: 23 February 2022 04:41 (UTC)VERB
banishing (present participle)
* send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.
"they were banished to Siberia for political crimes"
synonyms:
exile · expel · deport · eject · expatriate · extradite · repatriate · transport · cast out · oust · drive away · evict · throw out · exclude · shut out · ban · excommunicate · ostracize
* forbid, abolish, or get rid of (something unwanted).
"all thoughts of romance were banished from her head" ·
synonyms:
dispel · dismiss · disperse · scatter · dissipate · drive away · drive off · chase away · rout · oust · cast out · shut out · get rid of · quell · allay · eliminate · dislodge
Which of these best describes your Magical Intent? When we do work for healing, or we not banishing the illness. or injury? When we are blessing a space, are we not also banishing the unblessedness as well?
In a more mundane and physical sense, we are performing a banishment when we void our bladders or bowels. Think about it.
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Date: 17 March 2022 22:42 (UTC)