We guide our thoughts to visualize the best-case scenario or use our imagination to have a full five-sensory experience of how the situation would ideally play out. Just as Olympic athletes use visualization before competitions to improve their outcomes, see a winning success even before you make that first stitch. It helps to be in a quiet place with no outside distractions. Lie back, close your eyes, and try to picture vividly the scene you want to make happen.
Releasing Energy Now that we have collected the needed energy, set an intention for its purpose, and visualized the desired outcome, we must release all this into our work. We do this as we make the item by directing the energy out through our hands. It may take some practice to give up all that beautiful light we have collected, but we know there is always more where that came from. Trust in the abundance of the Goddess and keep only what you need. Send the rest out to where it is needed. Send it to your project according to your intention. Some of the projects in this book will have a string left hanging from the finished project. It is left for the recipient to cut it off or weave it in in order to accept the energy of the piece. Releasing the energy from ourselves will be vital to the success of this type of magick. We want to “move on” from these pieces to allow the magick to manifest. Doing so acknowledges that the desired results have been already achieved, no question.
Shielding Shielding in magick is putting an invisible wall between your energy and any entity that may be harmful or draining. Visualizing an actual wall is usually sufficient. This comes in handy when you are practicing Fiber Magick where other people or distractions are around. Even if you have cast a circle of light around yourself, you may want a more substantial barrier at times. This shield can also be visualized as a door you can close when you have gathered enough love and light necessary for the work. Use what you need and then ground.
Choosing the Proper Time So much has been written about the phases of the moon and how they affect the outcome when casting spells or performing rituals. There is absolutely no
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