The Magical Battle for America 7.1.18

Now’s probably a good time to remind everyone to check/refresh the wards on your home or wherever you do this work.  Be sure that you’re rested, grounded, and in a comfortable position.  Maybe wrap up in a blanket or cloak and grasp a stone or talisman that matters to you.  Grow your roots, send them deep into the soil, let them intertwine and grow small hairs to attach to the mycelia in your own landbase.

Breathe.

Anchor yourself firmly to your landbase.  Notice a small detail that will call you back when this working is finished.

Ground and center.  Cast a circle.

Breathe.

As you move to our American plain on the astral plane, you can see again the safe hillock where you do your work.  You can see the five giant banners, shining in the sky: Walden Pond, the Underground Railroad, the Cowboy, the Salmon, and Lady Liberty.  Do they seem more defined since we began our work? Do they have anything special to tell you this week?

For a few moments, just sit on your hillock and allow yourself to become comfortable.  This place should be feeling very real to you by now; we’ve been working together to create it for months and months.  What’s become familiar to you?  A tuft of prairie grass?  Buffalo off in the distance?  The scent of sand carried on the wind?  You’ve been involved in a months-long magical working here, joined with magic workers from across the globe.  Feel your connection to this place on the astral plane. It is always here for you, always a source of strength.

As you look across the country, you begin to slip back in time, here on the astral plane where all times are one time.  You can see tribes of First Peoples moving across the plains.  Many First Peoples carried their babies wrapped and secured into a cradleboard that could be worn on the parent’s back.  These cradleboards were often made of basket material, hide, wood, and blankets.  Thus, parents were able to keep their babies securely swaddled, warm, and safe, and gave them the soothing sense that babies get from being “walked” and carried.  Often ornately-decorated, cradleboards also ensured that the parents always knew where their babies were.

You watch as grandfathers sit beside the evening fire and carve cradleboards for their grandchildren.  You can see fathers hunting across the plain for rabbits so that their babies will have warm, soft cradleboards.  Underneath a shading boulder, you see a mother wrapping her baby in its cradleboard where it will be safe and secure.  All children deserve to be safe, secure, and with their parents.  All parents deserve to have their children close by.

Stand on your hillock and call to the First People parents and grandparents and ask them to keep all children, including the children of immigrants, safely with their parents.  You may want to raise energy by singing, chanting, drumming, or dancing.  If you have a rattle, you may want to shake it.  When the energy is at its peak, send it forward in time to reunite children and parents who have been wrenched apart.  When you feel that your work is done,  you return to the present time.

Breathe.

As you sit on your hillock and rest, know that you are not working alone. The resistance — both magical and in all of its mundane (phone banking, check writing, representative calling, letter-writing, canvassing, voting, volunteering, tutoring, restoring wetlands, growing plants for bees) manifestations — is huge. Know that you are a powerful worker of magic, rooted in your very own landbase, working with the strong archetypes of this land, assisted by countless unseen others who labor in league with you. You are brave and growing braver. Your magic and your practical workings can make the difference. The First Peoples are always available to you when you want to do magic to strengthen America.

Breathe.

Return to your own body, your own landbase. Open your eyes. Rub your face, move your arms and legs. Notice the detail you selected to call you back from the astral. Open your circle. Drink something, maybe cool water or mint tea. If you like, have something to eat, maybe a bowl of oatmeal or a plum.

During the course of this week, you may want to visit the bannered prairie several times in order to strengthen its presence on the astral. You may want to repeat this working. You may want to place a picture of a cradleboard or some other symbol of family reunification on your altar.  What other actions are you inspired to take for the resistance? If you’re willing, please share in comments what happened and how this working went.

Picture found here.