Shadow Energy

What Shadow Energy Is.

In order to work with shadow energy, you must first know what shadow energy is. I have posted elsewhere how light and darkness are results or subtypes of chaos, so some of you may be slightly confused when I explain that shadows are not. Shadows actually have nothing to do with chaos.

A shadow is the result of light and dark combining. When light hits an object on one side and darkness forms it's outline on the other, that is a shadow. Shadow is the result of balance between light and darkness. If you have no light then there is no shadow, everything is engulfed within darkness. If you have no darkness then there is no shadow, the object would be hit by impenetrable light from every possible angle. Shadow = Balance/order within chaos.

The comparison of shadows representing evil is entirely off. If anything, as you should have gathered from the last paragraph, shadows would represent neutrality. It is the balance between light(good) and dark(evil), thus it is neutral. Neither good nor evil. In actuality, neither light nor darkness should represent good nor evil and shadows, likewise, should not be involved with such metaphors. Why? Because everything good/evil related is based entirely on perspective, unlike light or darkness where you can not deny being unable to see either from extreme light or pure darkness.

Now that you know what it is, let's go into what it can do.

Shadows are hardly limited by anything. They exist because of light and darkness, so long as both of them are present so are shadows. Shadows, regardless of where they are, can be used for healing, attacking, defending, creating, meditating, and divining. As you can see, shadows give potential for a variety of abilities.

In healing the shadows offer balance and strength, an endurance perhaps beyond that of any other element(including earth). In attacking, shadows can be used to attack the sanity and through doing so the spirit of an individual. In defense, shadows can be used to prevent such attacks as mentioned in previous sentence and can be used to prevent any other attack that would effect your balance or integrity. In creating, shadows are often used for servitors. Shadow servitors are very useful and very good at providing their own energy source. In meditation, shadows offer the same balance they represent and of course that is often accompanied by peace of mind. In divination, shadows are often used through a pendulum or through tarot cards.

Finally, the practice .
This is a simple practice to help get you familiar with shadow energy. It is not a spell, ritual, nor a definite form of energy manipulation(although it can be), it is a visualization technique. It is also a from of meditation.

1) Sit comfortably in a shadowed area, anywhere you like.
2) Close your eyes and relax, let all your worries and fears go.
3) Visualize(sense/see) the shadows wrapping around you, forming something like a blanket.
4) Visualize(feel) the shadows softly forming a cocoon around you.
5) Visualize(sense/feel) the shadows entering you and filling you with their energy.

And that's it. Simple as that.
Good luck and have fun.

I'm going to try this.
I have missed doing shadow energy. Ive been so wrapped up in light I forgot about shadow.

Also care to post a lesson on attacking with it.
I sense i'm going to use it. And for self defense purposes of course.
Could you post some bit and bobs on attacks with shadow energy?


All my love florence xxx

shadow: It is the balance between light(good) and dark(evil), thus it is neutral.

light is not good or evil it is light
darkness is not good or evil it is darkness
over time i seen being of light be evil and i see all the time being of darkness doing good u can not but good or evil with light or dark i woood say good and ever are humanoid elements the ill with in us all

Of course, Florrie, more lessons will be posted. I just have to write them out. Rather then flood the coven with a swarm of lessons, I'll be posting one lesson every two or three days. So far every time I have flooded the coven with lessons most of them go unread because it's to much to read at one time. By the time the reader has time to read all the lessons most of them are pushed to the back. I can post an outline though, something of a guide for the lessons I'll be posting. It's just a rough outline, but I'll have it up within a few hours.

Horus, did you read the rest of that paragraph?

"In actuality, neither light nor darkness should represent good nor evil and shadows, likewise, should not be involved with such metaphors. Why? Because everything good/evil related is based entirely on perspective, unlike light or darkness where you can not deny being unable to see either from extreme light or pure darkness."

i read the whole thing when i read that i thought u ment the where

I'm not sure I understand what you think I meant.

i thought u ment that light was good and dark was evil

Oh, no, that is the common metaphoric stereotype, but I disagree with it entirely. The darkness is much more comforting to me, but I strive to do what I believe is good and right. If the metaphor were correct then I probably would not prefer the darkness and the light wouldn't hurt my eyes so much. Unless I am truly evil at heart, but I seriously doubt that.

Balancing Shadow Energy

Posted by ShadowKilo (Dec 21, 2009) :

There are multiple ways to do this, and perhaps doing all of them would be the best way. One is the meditation mentioned in the previous lesson. Another is to turn a room into a shadow room. If you are extremely dedicated, turning your house into a shadow house would also be very beneficial, but remember not to lose balance with the elements. Another, more difficult method is to use a crystal. Balance with shadow energy requires balance between light and darkness. Spend your days in the light and spends your nights in darkness, or if you are nocturnal like I am then spend your nights in light and your days in darkness. In this way you are like a shadow, relying and dwelling in light and in darkness.

Shadow Meditation
The shadow meditation was mentioned in the previous lesson. In case that lesson for any reason can not be found, here it is again.

1) Sit comfortably in a shadowed area, anywhere you like.
2) Close your eyes and relax, let all your worries and fears go.
3) Visualize(sense/see) the shadows wrapping around you, forming something like a blanket.
4) Visualize(feel) the shadows softly forming a cocoon around you.
5) Visualize(sense/feel) the shadows entering you and filling you with their energy.

Shadow Room/House

A shadow room can be made two ways that I know of. A shadow house is just a house in which every room, or practically every room, is a shadow room. One way is to set it up so that there are a lot of shadows; set a bunch of items in window seals, both resting on the bottom and hanging from the top as well as attached to the sides if you can. The other way is to drape a thin black(or gray, if you find one that looks nice) curtain over the window so that the entire room is shaded.

Using a Crystal

The method that involves a crystal is difficult because crystals normally do not naturally use shadow energy. So this method requires you know how to communicate with at least one crystal that you have bonded with and that the crystal you have bonded with accepts your request. With those two requirements met, all you have to do is ask the crystal to attract shadow energy to you and balance shadow energies within you. If the crystal agrees to do that, you just have to keep the crystal with you and be very grateful.

Keep in mind that crystals are alive and are not toys nor tools. They deserve respect, kindness, and consideration. Being what they are, they hold more age and more wisdom then humans do. As such they deserve respect all the more.

Shadow Manipulation

Posted by ShadowKilo (Dec 27, 2009) :

Shadows are very flexible. Visualizing how they shape themselves and shift to your will can be done a number of ways. You can visualize etheric hands stretching out to shape the shadows like clay, objects moving to create shadows as you want it to, or as I do simply visualize the shadows moving according to your command.

Some simple practices with this include visualizing shadows forming a shield around you or a loved one, forming various shapes just for fun, and/or disappearing completely. Like any other visualization exercise, what you do is up to you. The only important thing is that your focus be shadow energy.

Aside from shielding, shadows can be used for healing, divination, servitors, and even attacking. I'll explain the basic concept of each, but the actual lessons will be posted in other threads.

Shielding, which will be your next lesson, is simply visualizing the energy surrounding you like a bubble. There are other methods I will explain in the lesson. The affect of this shield is to dampen any attack that is chaos based or otherwise attempting to throw off any type of balance. If it doesn't dampen the attack, it will block it completely.

In healing the goal is to send shadow energy into a target while programmed to repair damage, relieve pain, but most of all to give balance back to your target when an imbalance has formed. This includes balancing the chakras.

In divination the main form I am aware of is tarot. All that is would be shadow energy placed within the tarot cards. Other forms do include scrying, but I am less familiar with them.

Servitors with shadow energy are generally not meant to be overly active, really. Their main purpose is often to ensure balance is kept in a certain place. They can be created for healing you or friends, keeping individual connected to universal energy, maintaining chakras and/or shields.

Attacking is quite the opposite of the previously mentioned positive affects. Rather then keep balance, shadow energy can be used to destroy it. A shadow attack's main goal would be to target the chakras and either clog them or close them off entirely.