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The astrological weather is pretty calm this week, with only one significant change on the agenda. Monday's Libra Moon brings love and relationships to the forefront, so if you're in the middle of any conflicts in that arena, now is the time to get those straightened out. A Scorpio Moon prevails Tuesday and Wednesday, setting a rather intense tone. You could find yourself caught up in the details of a highly focused project, but take care not to miss the forest for the trees and stay alert to what's going on around you! The workweek ends under a Sagittarius Moon, and you may finally feel like you're all caught up! Maybe for the first time in two months! Enjoy the lull, as things will pick up again next week. Mercury will move into Aries on Saturday, and you could find yourself going down the internet rabbit hole with how-to videos on YouTube or researching your family tree. Either way, there's a pull to learn more with this Mercury placement, so enjoy surfing the intellectual highway! Saturday and Sunday unfold with a Capricorn Moon overhead, making this a most productive and satisfying weekend!

How to Work with the Magical Element of Air, by Astrea Taylor

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The element of air is all around us, but many people don't feel connected with it (as compared to the other elements). I believe this is because air is invisible, unlike earth, fire, and water. We simply can't see it most of the time. On top of that, many people only think about the physical and personal aspects of the element of air, such as the winds that blow and the breaths we take.

There's a whole other world hidden in the air around us, which is known as the magical element of air. You could think of it as its own energetic realm, with spirits, energies, psychic messages, and connections to everything else in the world. It has the same corresponding traits as the physical and personal aspects of air, such as communication, change, beginnings, spirit, travel, expansion, and so on, but it's one step beyond. It exists solely in the energetic realms, which are far more nebulous.

We live in the magical realm of air everyday, breathing it in and passing through it. It saturates our mindsets and spirits, but like fish in water, we aren't conscious of it. Without training, it's easy to ignore the subtle energies that tell us that it's there, that it's powerful, and that it wants to interact with us.

I've developed a few ways to work with the magical element of air to help other people get in touch with it. These techniques involve envisioning or imagining you can see it, but don't be fooled into thinking that envisioning is mere fantasy. It's a useful tool that helps us strengthen our minds and our magical work, especially when first dealing with things that are invisible to us. With time and practice envisioning the magical element of air, you may begin to see it for yourself.

Envisioning the Magical Element of Air
The simplest way to envision the magical element of air is as an energetic field. You could imagine that it's thicker than normal air, or you could pretend it's a vast ocean of air all around you. In your mind's eye, see this energetic field stretching up into the sky and outward, to all of the horizons. See it saturating the world around you as far as you can see. Now, envision the mass of air flowing over the earth, always moving, with little ripples here and there.

The magical realm of air interacts with you and everything else on earth and in the heavens. Everything is connected via thought and energy. You have several nodes that link you to the people with whom you're closest, your altars, your home, your pets, your neighborhood, your co-workers, and beyond. Many people perceive these connections as white or silver strands. Imagine you can see connections coming off you and traveling outward in a radial flow. The strongest connections may look thicker than the other threads.

Next, think of someone you're close to, but with whom you don't live. There's a thread linking the two of you, and there are threads that link you and this person to other people, things, and places. This person also has strands that connect with other people with whom you're not connected. Now, add a couple more people to the vision. See your connections with them and all the threads they have. If you keep doing this, you can start to see a picture of a web, in which we are all connected.

The magical realm of air is an active place. Messages and information are constantly being sent and received at lightning-fast speeds all across the world. In a way, it's like wifi. Every time a thought enters our minds, we have the potential to emit a message along this network, and people who are sensitive to the magical element of air may receive our signals. However, it's important to note that we do have some control over what's sent and what's received. Protective measures can be implemented to not broadcast your thoughts to everyone and to not receive thoughts from others.

Envisioning the Magical Element of Air in Witchcraft
The athame is a powerful tool that can cut through the air. If you cast a circle with one, envision your athame cutting through the fabric of the air to create a place between the worlds, perhaps in the magical realm of air. If you use an athame to draw pentacles in the air, as you do so, envision the athame cutting the air and leaving the marks there until you take them down. If possible, sustain the imagery of the athame cuts in your mind's eye for the duration of the working.

Athames can also be used to sever the threads that connect us with others. Although the strands may reform, they will not be as thick as they originally were.

Athames that are made of steel or another iron-rich metal also have the power to cut spirits, which is why they're used to banish them. If you use an athame to banish spirits, imagine your blade as a threatening weapon and in your mind's eye, see the offending spirit flee.

When you're raising energy for ritual or a spell, the air around you can often change. This is especially true if you're in a circle. The air can become thick, hot, dense, and even electric with magic. Try to see this change in the air—you may see wavy lines of heat or blurred, congealed shapes. You may even see a cone of power. If you use a wand to pick up the energy, envision the wand actually grasping onto the air for a moment before flicking it off at a higher energetic state. You may even be able to see the energy in the air around you as it rises higher and higher.

Wands also come in handy when you're releasing your magic into the world, as they can easily connect with the magical realm of air. When you're ready to project your magic outward, raise your wand. Allow your powerful will to shoot your intentions into the wand. In your mind's eye, see your wand either touch or zap one of the threads of the web of connections. See your intentions transfer to the air, travel along multiple strands at a lightning speed, and transmit your desires far and wide.

Envisioning Spirits
All kinds of spirits fly through the magical realm of air with ease—several ancient Pagan cultures believed that the air was full of spirits all the time. This mindset likely continued for several millennia before it was stamped out by the church and reductionist philosophies.

Try to envision the spirits in the air around you. Start by imagining your ancestors and beloved dead gazing lovingly at you. They may appear as congealed forms of air in human shapes. Next, imagine your guardian spirit as a peaceful, slightly larger entity nearby. After you've pictured that, look at the sky and try to see the spirits flying high in the air above you, perhaps on a mission somewhere.

The spirits in the magical realm of air have all kinds of forms, colors, shapes, and sizes. Some look almost human-like, and others look more like animals or a combination. Other spirits are nothing more than a shadow or a tiny point of light. When we astral project into the magical realm of air, we can see them and interact with them.

Spirits and thoughts can travel easily in the magical realm of air, and spirits are very sensitive to thoughts. They can hear the thoughts you transmit, and if their energy is similar, they may be attracted to you. Unless you have protective measures in place to keep away unwanted spirits, they can come to you as if called and mirror your energy back to you, sort of like an invisible correspondence or support system. You receive constant affirmation of whatever energy you project. This is one reason why it's important to keep your thoughts positive and supportive. It's also why it can be hard to break out of a rut or get into higher energetic modes.

If you haven't yet done so, learn how to protect yourself from spirits who may be malevolent or trickers. Learn how to banish spirits who aren't in your inner circle of ancestors, beloved dead, guardians, helpful spirits, and familiars. If you wish, you can also learn how to listen to those spirits and evaluate whether they're helpful or not before banishing them or allowing them to stay.

Negative spirits sometimes appear as shadowy figures that often prefer the corners of a room. These spirits should not be envisioned, as doing so can attract them. However, when negative thoughts and spirits arise, it's important to be conscious of them and face them, not ignore them. Often, these spirits act as sympathetic company to your shadow self, which ultimately wants you to face your issues and heal. The spirits that are attracted to negative thoughts can, in some ways, help you see the state you're in because they enhance that state. Negative thoughts happen to everyone from time to time, and they often contain valuable lessons about who you are, what you want, and what you need your boundaries to be. When you experience this, envision seeing your shadow self before you. Think of this part of your spirit as lovable, and perhaps as a protection mechanism you put in place to defer the conflict. I like to envision hugging my shadow self and merging with it. Once that happens, you'll start to heal and attract more beneficial spirits again.

Spirit work with the element of air includes automatic writing, divination, astral projection, communing with your beloved dead, receiving and relaying messages, protection, doing work for you in the world, creativity, and assisting you with your magic.

I hope these insights about the magical element of air have been helpful. Even though air is an elusive element for many people, it's definitely rewarding. My air magic practices have helped my practice evolve so much.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2021. All rights reserved.

I have a six-week old baby boy. His father deeply wanted me to have this baby, but when I actually got pregnant he got scared, and now he's not in the picture at all. Since the baby was born, I keep having dreams that he or someone in his family comes to me and is angry with me for some reason - why, I don't know. They are trying to get my baby one way or another, and when I get mad, they leave. I don't know what to make of this recurring dream, since I got on very well with them. Also, I don't think he told them that I was pregnant, or if he did, I think he told them that the baby is not his. What do you think these dreams mean?

- Dorene

Dreamchaser:

These dreams are nothing more than you working out your fears and anger at your son's father and his family. While you're awake, your logical mind tells you that the father could not have told his family about the baby, or that the father said your son is not his.

That's the only explanation your logical mind can accept for the way things are, because you can't understand how his family hasn't stepped up and helped in any way. When he was asking you to get pregnant and telling you how badly he wanted this baby, the vision you had in your mind was very different from your reality now.

You are alone with a small baby and have no one to really help you. When you imagined having this baby before you got pregnant, you believed you'd have a loving, supportive father for the child, and a family that helped you with your every need and was THRILLED to have a baby around again. Can you see how your dreams and your reality are banging into each other inside of your head?

Your subconscious takes over while you're sleeping, and it's trying very hard to help you sort through your feelings of anger, abandonment, and fear. While you are awake, you refuse to look at how you REALLY feel about this. You refuse to accept that your reality is the way it is.

From one single mother to another, please face the reality of your situation and make plans based on that reality. You are the one who is there. You are the one who is going to be providing for your baby. You need to realize that you are the only person he can count on right now. It's difficult and scary, but you have to step up to the plate because you have no other choice.

No one is going to take your baby from you. He is your son and he is going to stay your son. The father and his family obviously don't want him, so you don't really have to worry about that.

What you are grieving over in these dreams is the loss of this relationship. As you said, in these dreams when you get mad, they leave. You believe that when you start to show your anger, people will leave you, so instead of expressing your real feelings, you've repressed them.

You haven't consciously faced some of the darker emotions you have stored up inside. You shove them down during the day, and you not only hide them from others, you try not to feel them yourself. You keep thinking that maybe it will get better, that things will change.

It's time to accept the way things are. Begin by feeling your true emotions: Cry, scream, get mad - whatever allows all that repressed energy to flow through you and OUT.

Then it will be gone, and you will stop having these dreams. It's time to grieve the loss of your son's father and his family so you can truly move on.

I wish you and your son a very happy, healthy and wonder-full life!

*****

Astrea:

While there are many reasons for recurring dreams, in your particular case, I think you have some anxiety that your son's father or his family will come and try to take your baby away from you.

This could also be a warning from your Guides that you need to take the necessary legal steps to make sure that doesn't happen. Though grandparents have very few rights to their grandchildren, with a good lawyer, they can make tons of trouble for you and the baby.

Please note that this is not what I am seeing for you! It's just a good idea to make sure you have covered all your legal bases just in case something unpleasant happens, or someone gets a crazy idea that may involve something or someone who belongs with you.

It could also be that the baby's father's lack of involvement bothers you so much that your subconscious is taking over. When you're dreaming, he and his family are trying hard to get involved with the baby, though it's in a very negative way. In the dream you get mad at them and they leave you alone, but this is actually the opposite of what you'd like to see happen in your waking life, where you'd like them to show more interest and support.

Is there any way you could speak to them and ask them to be more attentive to you and the baby? That would certainly be better for all of you. I feel they are nice, accepting people, and would probably want to be present in the life of their new grandson if they knew about him. Perhaps a paternity test would set their minds at ease and convince them that the baby really is their son's.

Your boyfriend might not have told them about the baby at all, and in that case, these dreams may be a signal that YOU should! In dreams we tend to do exactly as we want or exactly the opposite of what we want. Our minds sometimes present the worst thing that could happen in our dreams, and most psychologists feel that's so we aren't surprised and frightened if the very worst happens.

Dreaming about the worst can help us get over our fears. That could be why you're having all these problems with these people in your dreams. Your mind is trying to sort things out for you before anything happens that you actually have to figure out in your waking life. It's like practice for handling the worst case scenario.

If you want to get rid of those dreams, one of the easiest remedies is to put your shoes facing opposite directions under the head of your bed. Another is to hang a green ribbon from one of your bed posts. Bad dreams are easily chased away by putting a whole clove of garlic wrapped in red string over the door to your bedroom so that the dreams don't enter the room.

I hope your son's father comes to his senses and gets over his fear of fatherhood soon, because he's missing out on a LOT with you and your wonderful baby!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.