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Landcraft & Energies
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.
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.)
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.
(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.)
o~*~o
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.
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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.
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