![]() Setting up spiritual shields is just one part of the protection process, but one that is often forgotten. This means we may unknowingly absorb these energies – both good and bad. We tend to pick up energies from all around us easily including other people’s energy as well as energy from animals, events, weather patterns, seasons and moon phases. This is especially true for people who engage in spiritual and magical practices like shamans, healers, witches, empaths, psychics, mediums, and magical practitioners of all kinds. ![]() Just as we need a home in which to live and be shielded from the elements, we also need spiritual protection in a world with chaotic energies lurking behind every corner. ![]() First, Why Do We Need Spiritual Protection? Here we show you how to design your own protection sigil for spiritual shielding, warding and banishing purposes. So how can magick support one of our basic human requirements like protection? In many ways, and especially when we put our energetic intentions into it. It’s also crucial for us to feel whole as individuals – feeling protected allows us to focus on other needs like love and self esteem. Therefore, safety is key to our survival as human beings. Only second to physiological needs like water, clothing and food. Wish me luck, I'm about to knock on the door again.Safety is the 2nd base on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid model. I've also got an idea for a big honking fantasy trilogy using the concept, but that'll have to wait until I've got time to do it justice. Alonside them, there are two new novellas on Amazon, GREEN DOOR and SEVENTH SIGIL, and a growing number of short stories, including the title story in my latest CARNACKI collection, THE EDINBURGH TOWNHOUSE. Johns, Newfoundland after a brutal ritual murder, and THE BOATHOUSE, where the rooms are on an old whaling boat in a derelict shed and seem connected to an old chess set, and the arrival of a hurricane. There are two novels that expand the idea further, SONGS OF DREAMING GODS, where a house is lying empty in the town center of St. The novellas that used the concept, BROKEN SIGIL, THE JOB and PENTACLE were well received and are in standalone ebooks, and also collected in a single omnibus edition. I think I've stumbled into something that could keep me busy for a few years. Augustus Seton will be getting involved in 16th C Scotland soon too. I've also started linking it through to some of my other characters and ongoing work, so there's sigils and totems stories featuring members of the Seton family, Derek Adams, the Midnight Eye, and Carnacki. They're like lots of boxy, multi-faceted Tardis, spread across space time, places and situations into which I can hook in characters and stories. So I've got all that to play with, plus the fact that the houses can exist anywhere, at any time. ![]() Then there's the fact that your loved one might be a parallel universe version rather than the one you actually know.Īnd where do these houses come from? What's behind the walls? How do they work? Why do they work? And who chooses the concierges who run them? Or fixes them when they don't work? To even get inside a room, you need a sigil a tattoo or carving on your skin, and a totem, a memento of your loved one. There are houses where people can go to get in touch with their dead loved ones.īut this gives me lots of things to play with. If you have the will, the fortitude, you can peer into another life, where the dead are not gone, where you can see that they thrive and go on, in the dreams that stuff is made of. They are drawn to the places where what ails them can be eased. But some, those who suffer, some know better. Most people only know of them from whispered stories over campfires tall tales told to scare the unwary. There are houses like this all over the world.
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