I’m sitting at Leona’s waiting for @Si_Storm to get here. We’re having an impromptu dinner. It’s about 6:30. I’d much rather be here than at home doing laundry, which is what I should be doing. There are other things I want to get done tonight as well. The number one priority is washing my gi. I’m sure I’ll manage that. I was also planning on doing some magical work tonight. The moon is beginning to wax again, and it’s a good time to create a magical workspace in our temple room. A ceremonial magic workspace that is. The temple room houses a lot of different type of work, but I haven’t practiced any ceremonial magic since the move, and I’ve been feeling the bug the last couple weeks. I don’t mind occasionally doing ceremonial magic in the main temple room, but some of the spirits don’t like it, and ceremonial magic tends to enforce a really specific structure upon the energy of a space, and that’s not really suitable for the type of energy we want to cultivate for the temple room. Thus, I’m going to create a sort of sub-space beneath/above our temple room in which to work ceremonial magic. I’ve done it before, but never on this scale. I’m looking forward to the effort, which I will probably make tonight.

Laying the framework isn’t really that hard, although it can take a lot out of you, and it requires a good amount of focus and discernment. I’m essentially separating the energies of the space into two distinct spaces that occupy the same physical dimensions. The number one skill in this is the ability to define those spaces and discern them from one another. It needs to be cemented with consistent use though, which means doing some ceremonial magic pretty regularly for at least a few weeks. This will give me a very good reason to practice some more ceremonial stuff, and the drive to do so.

The easy way of doing this is more commonly called dressing the temple. When a space has an altar set up, with specific hangings and items placed upon it, it is the temple space. When those accoutremonts are stripped from it, it becomes mundane space. While there is nothing wrong with this, there is a challenge and enjoyment in using a smaller key. I have not decided exactly what the key will be, but it won’t be as large as setting up a full temple space. Largely because I don’t want to go to the work of setting up that temple space every time I want to work ceremonially, but also because the challenge and effort discerning and holding the spaces seperate based on a smaller change or key is a very useful tool in awareness and separating magical consciousnesses.

(Break for Dinner)

I’ve started the work tonight. I created the physical representation of the key, and began to do some ceremonial magic in the space. I found after showering and washing my gi that I wasn’t feeling up to doing a large working tonight, so I’ve started the framework via effort, and I’ll continue to build it over the next few nights. Sometime in the coming days I’ll do a larger working to construct and officially dilineate the space, but the framework is built and ready to go on the Mental and Astral planes.