Time work from Claudia Manifest
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chelidonMy partner Claudia Manifest, a Priestess dedicated to Time, sent this out earlier today, and gave me permission to repost it here, for anyone who does Time-related work and might be interested. If anyone has any questions about this work, let me know and I can put you in touch with her.
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Hello all, I was recently asked by Sage Goode from Vancouver to write out some of my thoughts on Time for her, and after doing so, it occurred to me that others might also be interested. I first encountered the Time Allies and dedicated to Them as a priestess 5 years ago in the middle of a Spiralheart Ritual. They literally came to me at an important point in the trance / energy working and said they would help me do the priestessing work for the ritual if I would dedicate to them and spread the word about them. I took a deep breath and agreed, and have been working with / for them ever since. From that night on we began calling Time into our circles as an ally in Spiralheart, and the teaching team brought that magic back to each of their home communities and other communities they were teaching at the following years. Time magic has been resonating through Reclaiming ever since. I am considering doing a one day workshop on this in the Fall if there is sufficient interest. **BB** Claudia
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Hi Sage, sure I am happy to have you use my name and to talk with anyone who wants to about Time Magic. It has become some of the most important personal and group work that I do now and I've been really gratified to find more and more people calling Time into their circles. It feels vital to me for strong manifestation and spell workings to have Them on board.
Time as Ally rather than adversary or commodity allows us and requires us to do the most incredible practical magic work. When we no longer engage in the practice of blaming Time ( Lack of Time, Running out of Time, Time running short, wasting Time), for our being unable to complete projects or fit everything in, we are able to look to ourselves as the cause and solution to our hectic lives. That in turn allows us to reclaim both responsibility and power in our lives. I have become so weary of sitting in "check in" with groups of people who engage in the competitive sport of "who's the most busy and over-committed". Wouldn't it be more healthy and powerful to be able to say, "I have created the lifestyle and have prioritized my goals so I can complete them and be healthy and play too. All my needs are easily met." Instead of saying "I don't have time to do X" I try very hard to say, "I didn't make X a priority this week." Or "Something came up and I made the conscious choice that Y was more important for me to do." or even "I find when I honestly look at X it no longer calls to me, so I have let it go. and now have space in my life for what is most important to me".
I have also been working deeply with Synchronicity and Her sister Chance in the past several years. They allow me to be in the right place and the right time, to say or do the right thing at the right time, and have greatly improved my ability to Manifest Change (whose magical equation I see as: Work / Time). I've also been working with the Infinite Mysterious Ones, the ones outside of human concepts of Time (although some of the theoretical physicists can talk to /about them pretty well, I haven't yet made the commitment to learn to do the math involved but I'm thinking hard about it). These Infinite Mysterious One are who I work with to reach other realms and worlds, to travel back and forth through Time to visit ancestors and send messages to descendents, and to touch Mystery. Finally, I've been working with the Fates, the Norns and Chronos; on being Present, on trusting that the Past is held safely in their arms and being able to let go of it, and on walking into the Future with trust and connection. This work has helped me greatly in my work at the hospital with the acutely ill and dying. I've been getting more involved with Hospice over the last few years, and learning to accept what is past, be in the present , and face the future with courage and dignity is a huge part of that work and a great comfort for those going through it.
I've been asked what I mean when I say Allies, and have even been asked on 3 occasions to referee the argument as to whether they are Elements or Deities (smile, we humans are so concrete!). From a purely personal point of view, when I call on the Time Allies, I envision a rather large (endless really) room filled with many figures, some I can see fairly clearly and humanoid and some are merely shadow and shapeless. Whatever they are, I have found this group of beings /elements / deities (they seem to me to be all of these and none of these) to be almost uniquely willing, able, and eager to work as allies with us humans. How people call them, when and where in a ritual people call them, truly doesn't seem to matter one bit, just as long as it is from a place of honor and respect.
The image that I use to work with Time magically starts with a magical circle which is also a clock face, with the following points: 12/ North / Winter / Midnight - Dark of Night/ Death; 3 / East / Spring / Dawn-Morning / Childhood; 6 / South / Summer / Noon-Afternoon / Adulthood; 9 / West / Fall/ Evening -Twilight / Old Age. When I cast circles now, I include this imagery (at least internally) and it really helps me and others in the circle to "Be Here Now" The circle is "clock time" Human Time, Earth Time, cycle time, the time measured in hours / solar; days and months /lunar, years and generations / astral -zodiac. In the center is Infinite Time, traveling up to the Above and down to the Below, always Mysterious. There is an Infinity symbol that bisects through the center of the circle, always pulsing and moving. It is from the Center, traveling up and down this Infinity point that I move to other Times and other Realms most easily, it is there that I speed up or slow down enough to communicate with other Entities and can step out of human concepts of Time and Place. It is Here that I can sometimes touch GodHead and the Sacred.
**Hope this helps some Sage, I had fun writing it out. I'm being asked to tell you that when I dedicated to Time as one of Their Priestesses, I was given the charge to pass on this knowledge and practice as widely as possible. If there is ever a Time or opportunity that you think this would be of value to be included in your teaching, or with me at a workshop etc... please let me know, I'd be happy to speak with you, or anyone further about this topic. Please feel free to pass this text on to anyone you think might be interested. **BB** Claudia
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Hello all, I was recently asked by Sage Goode from Vancouver to write out some of my thoughts on Time for her, and after doing so, it occurred to me that others might also be interested. I first encountered the Time Allies and dedicated to Them as a priestess 5 years ago in the middle of a Spiralheart Ritual. They literally came to me at an important point in the trance / energy working and said they would help me do the priestessing work for the ritual if I would dedicate to them and spread the word about them. I took a deep breath and agreed, and have been working with / for them ever since. From that night on we began calling Time into our circles as an ally in Spiralheart, and the teaching team brought that magic back to each of their home communities and other communities they were teaching at the following years. Time magic has been resonating through Reclaiming ever since. I am considering doing a one day workshop on this in the Fall if there is sufficient interest. **BB** Claudia
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Hi Sage, sure I am happy to have you use my name and to talk with anyone who wants to about Time Magic. It has become some of the most important personal and group work that I do now and I've been really gratified to find more and more people calling Time into their circles. It feels vital to me for strong manifestation and spell workings to have Them on board.
Time as Ally rather than adversary or commodity allows us and requires us to do the most incredible practical magic work. When we no longer engage in the practice of blaming Time ( Lack of Time, Running out of Time, Time running short, wasting Time), for our being unable to complete projects or fit everything in, we are able to look to ourselves as the cause and solution to our hectic lives. That in turn allows us to reclaim both responsibility and power in our lives. I have become so weary of sitting in "check in" with groups of people who engage in the competitive sport of "who's the most busy and over-committed". Wouldn't it be more healthy and powerful to be able to say, "I have created the lifestyle and have prioritized my goals so I can complete them and be healthy and play too. All my needs are easily met." Instead of saying "I don't have time to do X" I try very hard to say, "I didn't make X a priority this week." Or "Something came up and I made the conscious choice that Y was more important for me to do." or even "I find when I honestly look at X it no longer calls to me, so I have let it go. and now have space in my life for what is most important to me".
I have also been working deeply with Synchronicity and Her sister Chance in the past several years. They allow me to be in the right place and the right time, to say or do the right thing at the right time, and have greatly improved my ability to Manifest Change (whose magical equation I see as: Work / Time). I've also been working with the Infinite Mysterious Ones, the ones outside of human concepts of Time (although some of the theoretical physicists can talk to /about them pretty well, I haven't yet made the commitment to learn to do the math involved but I'm thinking hard about it). These Infinite Mysterious One are who I work with to reach other realms and worlds, to travel back and forth through Time to visit ancestors and send messages to descendents, and to touch Mystery. Finally, I've been working with the Fates, the Norns and Chronos; on being Present, on trusting that the Past is held safely in their arms and being able to let go of it, and on walking into the Future with trust and connection. This work has helped me greatly in my work at the hospital with the acutely ill and dying. I've been getting more involved with Hospice over the last few years, and learning to accept what is past, be in the present , and face the future with courage and dignity is a huge part of that work and a great comfort for those going through it.
I've been asked what I mean when I say Allies, and have even been asked on 3 occasions to referee the argument as to whether they are Elements or Deities (smile, we humans are so concrete!). From a purely personal point of view, when I call on the Time Allies, I envision a rather large (endless really) room filled with many figures, some I can see fairly clearly and humanoid and some are merely shadow and shapeless. Whatever they are, I have found this group of beings /elements / deities (they seem to me to be all of these and none of these) to be almost uniquely willing, able, and eager to work as allies with us humans. How people call them, when and where in a ritual people call them, truly doesn't seem to matter one bit, just as long as it is from a place of honor and respect.
The image that I use to work with Time magically starts with a magical circle which is also a clock face, with the following points: 12/ North / Winter / Midnight - Dark of Night/ Death; 3 / East / Spring / Dawn-Morning / Childhood; 6 / South / Summer / Noon-Afternoon / Adulthood; 9 / West / Fall/ Evening -Twilight / Old Age. When I cast circles now, I include this imagery (at least internally) and it really helps me and others in the circle to "Be Here Now" The circle is "clock time" Human Time, Earth Time, cycle time, the time measured in hours / solar; days and months /lunar, years and generations / astral -zodiac. In the center is Infinite Time, traveling up to the Above and down to the Below, always Mysterious. There is an Infinity symbol that bisects through the center of the circle, always pulsing and moving. It is from the Center, traveling up and down this Infinity point that I move to other Times and other Realms most easily, it is there that I speed up or slow down enough to communicate with other Entities and can step out of human concepts of Time and Place. It is Here that I can sometimes touch GodHead and the Sacred.
**Hope this helps some Sage, I had fun writing it out. I'm being asked to tell you that when I dedicated to Time as one of Their Priestesses, I was given the charge to pass on this knowledge and practice as widely as possible. If there is ever a Time or opportunity that you think this would be of value to be included in your teaching, or with me at a workshop etc... please let me know, I'd be happy to speak with you, or anyone further about this topic. Please feel free to pass this text on to anyone you think might be interested. **BB** Claudia
