jarandhel

First, obviously, this is not the second Thresholds post. This is something else I just wanted to write down real quick before I forget. Inspired by some stuff from Thresholds, however.

One of my favorite technopagans, tlttlotd was talking about his habit of collecting things charged with the energy of a place/event. I tend to do something very similar with the objects I consider my ritual tools... many of them represent particular places or events in my life. One of them, for example, is simply a stone from a driveway in west virginia that a friend happened to charge with a particular energy signature many years ago. Another is a tiny bone from a deer which was shot on my old property in New Jersey and left to rot by one of our neighbors... I did some metaphysical work to attempt to help the deer's spirit pass on peacefully, and I was invited to take the bone later when the bones were all that were left. Still another is a dogtag from my brief but eventful time in the US Army before receiving an entry level discharge.

I've thought of another way to do this. I just got a rather nice digital SLR. So far, I've just been using it for regular photographs, but I think it would work rather nicely to attempt to capture some of the energy of certain places in images that represent them. Putting those images on a usb key could create a virtual equivalent of the bag I use to hold my ritual tools. And it would be able to hold hundreds of images. This would even work nicely for capturing the energies of a given place at a particular time, as I've been noticing that some places seem more magical at particular times while others feel magical all the time. Urban magic seems particularly sensitive to timing if what I've been observing in the past week holds true; a lot of people milling around seem to disrupt the energies, but after the stores close and the people go home, when the streets are abandoned, some places feel significantly more powerful than they do during the day. Digital photographs would nicely capture the energies of such a place during that time of power.

I was up late last night... no reason, really, just couldn't fall asleep after the long weekend. Now I'm at work and kind of struggling to wake up. Sipping an energy drink and trying to focus enough to get started. I'm using this post to help wake up my brain before I get to work.

( Welcome to my mind... )