The most important parts to understand are the basics. From this, you can create your own defensive techniques without using other people's ideas (though I still look at other people's ideas for inspiration). Oftentimes there will be entities or energies that don't respond well to normal techniques so you'll have to use different ones that no one's thought of before but they'll still rely on the basics.
So why do you need to use defensive magick?
Well, for those of you who are not that worried about entities or "curses" (negative energy), you will still need to insulate your spells and yourself from other energies. This is basically the same as keeping the smell of a rotten egg away from your amazing chicken alfredo while you're eating it. The rotten egg may not be actively touching the alfredo but the smell is ruining the experience and the taste. Magick is easily influenced and so you have to make sure that there aren't any external forces playing with your intentions.
That's not even taking into consideration the simple fact that there is negativity influencing us all over. We're a relatively negative culture and we're constantly bombarded by anger, grief, and envy. By keeping that negativity away from us we can keep our own energy clean.
There are also the entities that we all occasionally cross paths with (some more than others). Entities are just like people, some will have bad intentions, others are just passing by, and others will try to help you. The ones that have bad intentions are probably going to have to be forced from your space and a lot of these techniques will be of use.
The basic idea of all defensive magick is to put a shield around yourself and/or your space and to cleanse the area inside of that shield forcing everything else out. The most commonly talked about defensive magick technique is that of a magickal or witch's circle if you're looking for an example.
The technique you use will depend on your purpose. The three major purposes would be:
Daily Protection deals with keeping yourself cleansed of all the negativity in the world. So you don't want to spend a lot of time each day on this, but it should be a part of your wake up routine every morning even if you aren't leaving the house. Part of it should be a purifying and immediately afterwards a shielding . There probably isn't much in the way of tools when doing this.
Ritual/Spell Protection is the use of defensive magick to keep outside influences from interfering with spellwork and rituals. This will be a much more intricate purifying process as well as a more ritualistic shielding process. This is because energy and entities are drawn to energy sources, which you'll be a very significant one. You have to keep everything else out while still being able to put energy into your spell purpose. Oftentimes there will be a single person in charge of maintaining the circle during group rituals. There will probably be a lot of tools used to help in creating and maintaining a space.
Emergency Protection is generally used when dealing with an entity that is not wanted. This will be the sole purpose of your magickal work and therefore will use most of your energetic strength. The key to emergency protection is deciding whether you want/can deal with the entity adequately at the moment. If you decide that you can't, the purpose of the emergency protection is to get it away from you until you can deal with it. If you can, then the purpose is to keep it there until you can make sure that it won't come back. Entities tend to know when to run away, so sometimes it is necessary to make that shield backwards keeping everything inside of it.
The next part will be over daily defensive magick. Check back regularly or subscribe to find out more about how you can keep yourself from soaking up all the negativity in the world!
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