Landcraft & Energies

[haptalaon]

That satisfying feeling when something you're sensing and percieving is echoed by other writers and thinkers in the area.

(I'm trying to develop a new correspondence system, and I've hit upon some useful ways of thinking about energy, inspired by a friend who has a lot of experience in that area.

I think Stellar the nature of energy/presence is absorb.

The mountains around here are...dampening, in a weird way, which is not to say that they do not have energy - but that it is such a heavy shimmering, an absent-presence, negative-overload. A sensation I get off the Overlook Hotel in the Shining, and the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the Color out of Space - three Stellar reference points.

This ties in with a couple of things; like the Stellar colour is black, the colour which absorbs heat and light and all other colours. That it is related to the hunger of the wild, and black holes - endless, infinite hungers which take and take. My friend's book says "you can't vamp the sea", and she's right - the sea (a Stellar element), like mountains and depth of earth, have an infinite capacity to absorb, as if you go deep enough and it is no longer a place with form or extent, but unmappable and strange. And of course, this would explain why historically water and salt are used as a psychic scrub - they would have those Stellar characterstics.

It also reveals a kind of truth about being low-on-energy - which is that one becomes very heavy, very emotional, suggestable and disoriented. Sleep, the emotions, altered states, the otherworlds, mental disruption and time: all Stellar things.

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One of the satisfying things about building your own correspondence system is you go from a person who "doesn't sense energy" to realising you do, and overwhelmingly so. You just needed your own language and lens for doing so. As a neurodivergent person, who encounters this accessibility need in almost every walk of life, this should have occured to me earlier.
 

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The only problem I can see in this is that for the longest time, overcast days have been a Lunar property. It seems likely that they are, instead, a Stellar one - they have that same dampening quality.
 

 

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If this is how Stellar energy operates, what about the other two? I've less clear terminology for them yet, but I think Solar must be in some sense "alive". You'd find Solar energy in animals, plants, people, social gatherings and fires - things which can be born, live, flourish, diminish and die. It might be associated with fire or even blood. It's an energy you have to nourish and grow, and then protect or feed - but it is alive, and has its own sense of heart to it. Like a person. Or any good thing - Solar is community, and is the best of man, neither of which survive but without effort and great care.

As for Lunar, it's more of a sense of cold, water, ice, beams of light, crystals, and energy in its purest "Hollywood beam of magic energy" sense. Lunar is white - it contains all colours in it, the same way as the Stellar does. Neutral, mobile, easily moved and used, highly flexible - all those colours, each with their own purpose. Lunar energy is like, that abstract glowing stuff every energy user uses under normal circumstances to - say - draw a pentagram in the air, or channel into an amulet. Solar energy comes out of the land, the fire, the wood or the heart; and Stellar energy is like a land-miasma, tempting the unwary.

(And that's why in my friend's book when she says - and I've heard it before - that the "sphere of white light" is a useless shield that is merely attractive to feeders, makes a certain kind of sense. If white light contains all the colours, all the energies, it would indeed be a kind of feast; and you'd be better placed to use some kind of absorbent, dampening Stellar shield, or a specific colour with a specific property & purpose.)

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It's very much a work in progress. I'd particularly like more descriptive terms. But always satisfying to find things falling into place & making a certain kind of structured and functional sense.

Comments

[earthspirits]

This is a fascinating entry!

I also noticed the dampening non-energetic effect that overcast days have on folks. We sell every week at a local market, and on foggy / overcast or cold days, sales are slow and sluggish. When the sun's out, people seem to come alive with energy and are more interested in their surroundings, buying, etc. Of course, that said, if it's too hot, buyers just want to get out of the heat!

That's also very interesting about the sphere of white light being an attractant to psi vamps - and certainly, I wish to keep those far away from me.

[haptalaon]

Thank you :) Under my system, a too-hot day is also Stellar - it is inversion and overload, so that a drought or a famine or global warming or just that desert-like sense of our local friendly neighborhood nuclear reactor in the sky glaring down at us.

My friend is a vampire, so her book is written from an internal perspective - discussing energy, vampire ethics & so on. The idea is that if you're a creature that *feeds on energy*, then the standard technique of throwing up a sphere or barrier of energy is somewhat like throwing her a chocolate bar. Similarly, white glows like a beacon to the hungry, like an angler fish in the sea.

So - when dealing with a person, Power or entity whose specific power is "becomes stronger by taking in energy from others", the energy is what they want - you'd have to design a different strategy. And even "angry energy" or "repellent energy" is like, still an energy form, and perhaps a rich or tasty one. Blue, black or purple light for more of a subtle effect; or becoming like a rock or stone, something inert, something which has no energy; or something cunning like shifting energy frequencies, although that's too technical for me to understand just yet. Same with throwing an energetic curse or a bolt of energy at them - it's what they feed off, so it's just like providing lunch, and creating a connection they can travel back down.

Alternatively, you could use that sphere of white light the same way you'd use bait - to say distract while you make an escape, or draw them into a trap, or disguise what you're doing. But I think it helps to think of them not as "vampires" but as "energy specialists", and so anyone with that specialism is likely to be more sensitive and canny to a thing like that than me.

But for me, I think the trick would be to employ a Stellar reference point - becoming black, still, like a stone, like a mountain, like the sea, and generally cloaking with something which is either inert and will not react, dull and will not glow and has no life to it, or something which absorbs. If energy forms are to my friend like "yummy chocolate", then trying to be the equivalent of a frozen turkey - something they could defrost and cook, but there's also a packet of biscuits right there...Prey animals don't have to *beat* predators, the only have to make it inconvenient and not worth the predator's while to pursue them.

(On behalf of my friend, I'd like to speak up for the vampires :p It's just their nature - and one that can be balanced, controlled, and employed ethically. Of course, some people choose not to; and others aren't aware yet, so I guess its those who give the whole lot a bad name.)

[earthspirits]

Your friend has ethics, and that makes for an entirely different and more positive situation. I'm assuming she has partners who happily give / exchange energy with her? Again, a positive situation, especially when it's consensual. Her book sounds fascinating, as well as very helpful. It certainly does put a different spin on the best way one can protect oneself in a psi / energy sense.

As you say, the negative unethical ones give a bad rep to energy vampires, which is a shame. Your friend's book will certainly help with dispelling that.

There's a couple of psi vampires I'm acquainted with at the market that display zero ethics - They prefer to feed on negative energies they generate from others. I've observed them deliberately stir up trouble, upset, and anger in a very aggressive way so that they can feed on the resultant discharge. To someone like me, who's an empath, it's very obvious what they're doing, and that they're doing it deliberately and with purpose.

That said, I've also encountered those who are totally unaware that they're seeking and feeding on psychic energy. They don't have a clue what they're doing. They are probably folks with naturally low energies (or are just depleted energy wise for whatever health related reason) and so are attracted to positive energy sources. They don't stir up anger and negativity though, so are basically pretty harmless.

It's a mixed bag, that's for sure.

[haptalaon]

Can I ask what you sell?

I'm useless on overcast days. Absolutely hopeless.

[earthspirits]

We sell collectibles, everything from jewelry to spiritual art, vintage and mid century items + some antiques. It's a big local flea market and you can find all sorts of interesting things there!