I'm moving out - should I banish?
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This feels like a really amateur type of question, but I'd rather bounce the idea off some people anyways.
I'm moving soon, and I've used my apartment for plenty rituals in which I choose not to close with an LBRP or Star Ruby. As such, my place is kind of a melting pot of invoked energies.
I feel that it would be the polite thing to do.
What do most of you do in a situation like this?
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This feels like a really amateur type of question, but I'd rather bounce the idea off some people anyways.
I'm moving soon, and I've used my apartment for plenty rituals in which I choose not to close with an LBRP or Star Ruby. As such, my place is kind of a melting pot of invoked energies.
I feel that it would be the polite thing to do.
What do most of you do in a situation like this?
Yes.
Right after you sweep for the last time, or shortly before you close the door and walk away.
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This feels like a really amateur type of question, but I'd rather bounce the idea off some people anyways.
I'm moving soon, and I've used my apartment for plenty rituals in which I choose not to close with an LBRP or Star Ruby. As such, my place is kind of a melting pot of invoked energies.
I feel that it would be the polite thing to do.
What do most of you do in a situation like this?
Jim's suggestion sounds a lot better than say,
Constant, astrologically and goetically timed, hardcore invoking of goetic demons a whole week before you move.
Unless the people moving in enjoy things like hauntings.
Would anyone say that using a banishing hexagram ritual after a pentagram ritual would fit different kinds of banishings for the different invoked energies there?
It's just that when I banish with hexagrams, it feels more macrocosmic, more of a large-scale thing, that connects in different ways, and perfectly with pentagram rituals.
93
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This feels like a really amateur type of question, but I'd rather bounce the idea off some people anyways.
I'm moving soon, and I've used my apartment for plenty rituals in which I choose not to close with an LBRP or Star Ruby. As such, my place is kind of a melting pot of invoked energies.
I feel that it would be the polite thing to do.
What do most of you do in a situation like this?
@ThelemicMage said
"Jim's suggestion sounds a lot better than say,
Constant, astrologically and goetically timed, hardcore invoking of goetic demons a whole week before you move.
Unless the people moving in enjoy things like hauntings.
Would anyone say that using a banishing hexagram ritual after a pentagram ritual would fit different kinds of banishings for the different invoked energies there?
It's just that when I banish with hexagrams, it feels more macrocosmic, more of a large-scale thing, that connects in different ways, and perfectly with pentagram rituals.
93"
Well, to be fair, I should probably banish using hexagrams. I've done quite a number of Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus variations on the Greater Invoking Ritual of the Hexagram in the past year.
Would as a simple LBRP suffice, or am I gonna have to do a GBRH?
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This feels like a really amateur type of question, but I'd rather bounce the idea off some people anyways.
I'm moving soon, and I've used my apartment for plenty rituals in which I choose not to close with an LBRP or Star Ruby. As such, my place is kind of a melting pot of invoked energies.
I feel that it would be the polite thing to do.
What do most of you do in a situation like this?
I've found that when working in a place for a long time--especially if you have a dedicated temple--a very personal kind of energy/aura/whatever you want to call it gets built up. I'd say do whatever you need to do to get rid of that feeling. In other words, make it not your space anymore, but just some empty apartment.
Taking some time before the banishing ritual to visualize re-absorbing that energy or perhaps just scattering into the universe might be a nice way to do it (you could even work out a ritual to do this). I tend to experience moving as a sad and slightly traumatic event, so that type of thing has the added benefit of helping me feel a sense of closure in leaving an apartment. Now that I think about it, this feeling may having something to do with a sense that a place you live in becomes part of you, and to leave that place behind is to leave part of yourself behind. Now add magick into the mix and it's pretty clear, I think, why that feeling should be mitigated as much as possible.
I'd probably use a Star Ruby as my final banishing. I find it the most effective in completely clearing out a space (which is why I rarely use it, actually, since almost all of my work is done in a dedicated temple). Your mileage may vary.