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Light, i had been doing mirror work by quite dim light and getting some very good results with complete facial change and what appear to be spirits.
I decided to try a lot of candle light over the last few days to see the difference, what i have found is that colour has become easier to manipulate in the image, which is useful as i can then engage that with the candle magic i have been using at the same time.
Also by a decent amount of candle light well positioned i am still getting spirit faces, but i think the psychological association of more light is making them more expressive and in some sense more healing.
I am starting to look at this as a way to engage with conscious manipulation of self image, to create a more positive reflection of self, so i am including a psychological aspect to my workings as well as working with planetary angels and spirits.
I use a conventional silver mirror for my work, which i am beginning to feel neeeds to be larger and perhaps encompass my whole image, so i can engage with more colour visualisations around my entire body.
I would also like to see if this throws up more memory connotations and associations related to how i relate to different areas of my body and also note difference in being clothed and non clothed and what differences colours of clothing make to my perception.
Colour seems really important as my whole facial mood and mode changes as i cycle through planetary colours within the mirror, the black of Saturn totally changes my self perception to the point of some images that play on old age, yet with mars i get a sense of vigour and youth as i am infused with red. The planetary correspondence seems to me to be the most simple empathic relationship i have had with a magickal system thus far and the mirror work seems really beneficial.
Its actually very difficult to divide the psychological benefit of the work from the spiritual dimension, i thought about seperating it, but at the moment the combination seem to be revealing the processes of each other as they take place inside of me.
Its weird but i can hold some colours in my self image alot longer than others, green and purple tend to be harder than any of the others, which suggests to me that i am less comfortable with love and social status associations which i have attached to these colours. The blue i associate with the moon is easiest of them all, dreaming and imagination.
I was thinking that this kind of work would only suit alot of unconscious work, but i think it is also suitable for conscious work creating an altered state through reflection of alot of candle light and self image. |
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