The Magical Battle for America 8.5.18

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 relax into your power, turn and look at the Cowboy banner in the Southwest. As you watch, it grows larger and larger until it takes up the entire sky.  It becomes three-dimensional and you can step into the small Western town depicted on the banner.  Central to the story of the American cowboy is the town sheriff.  Even in what was known as the “wild” West, there were laws and the sheriff represented the rule of law.  The sheriff is often depicted as deceptively mild-mannered, and, in this respect, he is a bit of a trickster.  Cattle thieves are fooled into believing that he will be afraid of them, but, as he continues to quietly and calmly do his job, he catches them.  When the moment of the show-down comes, the sheriff is a quicker and better shot.

As you look around you in this town, you see Robert Muller, the sheriff tasked with bringing in the bad guys.  You see that he is calm, quiet, in control of his emotions.  But, just over his shoulder, you can see a threat coming.  Muller may be unaware of the threat, but it is there and it is growing.  Maybe it is an accident, maybe it is an attack from far-right radicals  Maybe it is a legal threat or maybe it is physical.  What is your sense?  As you draw power from the prairie, begin to spin a web of protection around Muller.  It doesn’t get in his way, but it keeps him safe from all threats.  Safe inside, he is able to do his job, unworried by the threats that are increasingly surrounding him.

Call to your ancestors and to the Spirits of the West and ask them to put energy behind the protective web.  If you feel called to dance, drum, chant, clap, rattle, or sing this protection into being, please do so.

I am asking each of you to make a small altar or space on your altar devoted to protecting Robert Muller for the next few months.  You may want to put his picture on a candle, to put pictures of your ancestors around him, to make a circle of graveyard dirt or thorny branches around him.  Each day, please spend some time focusing on protecting him.  We need him to be able to finish his job, to bring law and order to the town.

For now, breathe.

Slowly, come down from the hillock on the plains and begin to walk back to your own landbase.

Open your eyes.  Rub your arms and face.  Notice the detail that you selected to call yourself back.  Drink something, maybe hot tea or strong coffee.  Have something to eat if you like, maybe corn pudding or an icy scoop of peach ice cream.

You may want to repeat this working several times this week.  You may want to journal about it.  Are you inspired to make any art?  Perhaps you can place on your altar an image of Robert Muller and the Cowboy.  If you’re willing, please share in comments what happened and how this working went.

Picture found here.