Advanced Energy Work & Techniques
“A Witch who cannot manage energy is like a juggler who never learned to catch. Power without control is chaos.”
Why Shielding Is Life or Death
A Witch should be a master of shielding. This is not fluff, this is survival. From the moment you awaken psychically, you become a beacon. Thoughts, emotions, spirits, stray currents, they all notice you. And if you are unshielded, they will latch.
Every day, you move through storms of energy: the rage of customers, the grief of strangers, the hungers of spirits. Without shields, those forces seep into your mind, body, and spirit. They cling, they drain, they shape you into something that isn’t you.
Shielding isn’t hiding. Shielding is sovereignty. It filters out garbage while allowing connection. It keeps you whole, intact, untangled. Without it, you’re walking into the world half-cocked, hoping you won’t be pierced. And that hope will fail you.
A Night Out, A Lesson Learned
I learned this the hard way.
I was with two of my best friends, heading to the store for a little party after a long week. As always, I had my shields up, especially when alcohol is involved, whether I’m drinking or not.
We walked the (alcohol) aisle, and suddenly I felt it: a tug at my senses. Something was off. A girl walked past, grabbed a bottle of cheap Vodka, and kept moving. At first, nothing seemed unusual. But as she turned, I saw it, a black mass latched onto her, feeding.
And then it noticed me.
As if to acknowledge that I saw, she lifted her hand slightly with the bottle as she walked away. The thing attached to her radiated pride.
Had I not been shielded, that mass could easily have slipped onto me, dragged down my night, maybe even taken root in my field. But it didn’t. My shield held.
This is why shielding is not optional. It is not a beginner’s trick. It is a Witch’s daily armor.
The Violation of Psychic Space
Think about it: if someone walked into your house without permission, you’d feel violated. So why allow someone into your mind, your energy, your spirit without protection?
There are witches and psychics who will scan you without consent, spirits who will probe your boundaries, strangers whose moods and hungers will bleed into you. If you don’t shield, you are giving them the keys to your house.
Don’t let it happen.
Beyond the Bubble
Most books teach the “white light bubble” — a sphere of light surrounding your body. That works, and it’s a fine start. But shielding can be built from anything: fire, water, stone, thorn, mirror. The form doesn’t matter as much as the function.
What does matter is awareness. A shield too tight can cut you off from healthy connection. A shield too loose leaves you exposed. The art is in learning the balance — filtering out poison while still allowing humanity.
Once you’ve mastered the basics, you can begin to layer, refine, and command your shields with precision.
From Basics to Mastery
By now you’ve practiced grounding, centering, shielding, cleansing. These are the alphabet of energy work, the foundations every Witch must know.
But once you’ve learned the alphabet, you begin writing poetry. You combine, refine, and advance. This lesson introduces techniques that stretch your psychic muscles, deepen your resilience, and teach you how to balance multiple currents at once.
The Golden Sphere Technique
The Golden Sphere is one of the most elegant shields a Witch can weave. It combines grounding, centering, and shielding into a single radiant practice.
How to Build It:
Ground into the earth. Feel roots anchoring you deep into the soil.
Center into your core, the flame in your chest, the spark in your solar plexus.
Visualize golden light radiating outward until it forms a sphere around your body. This is not a thin bubble. It is thick, radiant, pulsing with power.
With breath, expand and contract it. Learn to modulate size and density.
Uses:
Psychic shielding in crowded spaces.
Holding energy for spellcasting.
Infusing your aura with vitality before ritual.
The Golden Sphere is both armor and lantern, it protects, and it shines.
Earth Energy vs. Cosmic Energy
Not all energy comes from the same source. Learning to draw from different currents keeps you balanced and prevents burnout.
Earth Energy: Heavy, steady, grounding. Imagine drawing up strength from soil, stone, and root. Best for endurance, stability, protection.
Ground and Center
Place your awareness deep into the center of the earth. Feel her heartbeat. Call upon her energy, call to the earths energy and ask for a solid foundation, ask for earths assistance in your psychic journey. Ask for the earth to keep you grounded while you fly.
Now see/feel/know earth energy start to stir and come out of its core, this energy may look a deep brown, black or even a fiery red… This energy travels up like a serpent up from the earth and into the bottoms of your feet, allow this energy to travel up and connect to your root chakra. Allow this energy to circle the root chakra and fill it; allow yourself to feel Gaia’s beauty and strength, anchor you in this world but not hold you back from the others. This energy flows up from the Earth , into the soles of your feet and up into the root chakra and back down to the earth creating a rhythmic motion of energy.
What does it feel like when you run earth energy? Do it throughout the day and see how it differs or remains the same.
Cosmic Energy: Light, expansive, electric. Imagine drawing down light from stars, sun, or cosmos. Best for vision, trance, and high-voltage workings.
Ground and center
Place your awareness high up into the heavens. Call upon cosmic energy. Feel the divine within you pulsate. Ask for cosmic energy to assist you in traveling the psychic pathway, in making the connection and amplifying your ability to psychically see, hear, feel, and know. Help me to be of service to Spirit and express myself with clarity.
See cosmic energy (which can look like an intense blue/white combination, a white with a golden glow or however it appears to you) trickle down from the heavens and enter your crown chakra, awakening it and making it alert. Allow this energy to travel down to your third eye, to your throat, down your shoulders and through your arms and into your palms of your hands, down your chest and into your heart chakra and down your solar plexus, sacral and into your root chakra.
What does cosmic energy feel like going through your system? How does it make you feel? What emotions come up? Make note of all of these things and run this energy by itself at different points of the day and compare how it differs and is the same.
Combining Earth and Cosmic Forces!
When doing psychic work you want to combine both earth and cosmic energies so that you can give the best reading or be far more aware and alert of the psychic world.
Ground and Center
Run Earth energy.
Run cosmic energy.
When you have both Earth and cosmic energies running, you will now want to merge them so what you do is take the cosmic energy and allow it to intermix and swirl with the Earth energy. Allow some of this energy to go down into the center of Earth and allow some of this energy to come up and travel up throughout your body making sure it flows evenly throughout, allowing your body to be a mixture of Earth and cosmic energies.
This allows you to be in tune with the psychic world but also grounded enough where you can deliver a proper message and not get lost. A lot of people when starting out have a tendency to fly off and get so lost in the experience; that they forget to bring the information back. Also, we have come in contact with many who are actually scared of not being able to get back so the combination of Earth and cosmic energies allows them this peace of mind.
Exercise:
Spend one week practicing only Earth energy. Journal how it feels in your body.
Spend the next week practicing Cosmic energy. Journal again.
Then practice weaving both: roots below, light above, you as conduit.
The Witch is bridge: sky and soil meeting in your bones.
The Nesting Doll Technique
Some situations demand more than one shield. The Nesting Doll method layers protection like stacked dolls.
How to Build:
Create a basic shield (light sphere).
Layer a second shield outside it — perhaps a mirror shield reflecting malice.
Add a third — flame that burns through intrusion.
Add a fourth — earth that anchors.
Each shield has a distinct quality. Each serves a role. Together, they create a fortress.
This is especially useful for baneful work, spirit summoning, or hostile environments.
Witches Be a Jugglin’
It’s hard for anything to pierce you when your energy is in motion, when you are actively filtering, juggling, and commanding the currents around you. This technique teaches you how to keep the air moving, so that stray influences don’t have a chance to stick.
The Technique:
Ground and center. Stand tall. Feel your spine steady, your breath even.
Create the first sphere. In your palm, gather energy until you feel it buzzing. Give it color. Program it: “You filter out the malice of others, the anger, jealousy, and projections sent my way.” Toss it into the air before you.
Create the second sphere. Build it the same way, another color. Program it: “You filter out environmental harm, the heaviness of crowds, toxic spaces, chaotic noise. You allow only what uplifts and inspires.” Toss it beside the first.
Create the third sphere. Another color, another pulse. Program it: “You filter magical debris, stray curses, psychic fragments, lingering energy I encounter.” Toss it into the air with the others.
Now the spheres float before you, spinning in rhythm. Begin juggling. Move them with your will, a dance of colors and currents, weaving through your hands, growing larger, brighter, sharper.
When the time feels right, toss them outward, one at a time, until they orbit you. See them circling, filtering, spinning like guardians at play. They move constantly, catching and transmuting what would otherwise weigh you down.
Customization:
Program spheres for mind, body, and spirit.
Assign colors and qualities: blue for clarity, red for protection, green for renewal.
Add as many spheres as you like — so long as you can juggle them.
This is dynamic shielding, alive, mobile, responsive. Not a static bubble, but a living filter that adapts and moves as you move.
🌹Roses
After grounding and centering, envision roses sprouting from the earth, climbing up and surrounding you in a living circle. Take note of their color, their scent, their thorns. Color matters: black for protection, white for cleansing, blue for communication, red for vitality, yellow for clarity.
If you’re working protection, give your roses wicked thorns, sharp enough to tear through malice. If you’re working cleansing or communication, call forth an abundance of blossoms, and let the air filter through their petals before it ever reaches you.
The rose is beauty and danger entwined. That duality makes it a powerful ally for shielding.
The Rose Hedge
Roses can be sweet, but they can also be merciless. This is why the rose hedge has teeth.
Ground and center yourself. Call up a hedge of roses around you, as tall, wide, and thick as you need. Program it. Talk to it. Tell the hedge what you need: to filter malice, to block attack, to allow in only that which serves your good.
At the point in front of you where you began weaving, create one larger rose, the guardian bloom. Root it deep into the earth like you would yourself. This anchor rose links to the hedge and ensures that all energy flowing toward you is filtered before it ever touches you.
If the hedge grows thin or tattered, dismiss it and grow a new one. I prefer to weave three concentric hedges, working with the power of three. Experiment and see what serves you best.
Not in My House
This one is direct and fierce, and perfect for psychic intrusion.
Ground and center. Now, visualize your mind as a house. Step through the front door. Walk room to room. Shut every window, every back door, every forgotten entry point. Seal them all.
When the house is secure, move to its center. Stand tall. Speak aloud (or silently): “This is my house. Nothing enters without my consent. All that is not mine is cast out.”
See anything left being cast out through the front door. Walk to the front door and slam it shut, lock it.
The mind is your temple. Lock the doors.
Marshmallow Shield
Not every shield has to be grim and barbed. Some can be soft, playful, even sweet.
Ground and center. Imagine a wall of marshmallows surrounding you. On the inside, it’s squishy, soft, and comforting. On the outside, you choose: sticky or stale.
Sticky marshmallows trap negativity, holding it in their gooey net.
Stale marshmallows deflect, sliding malice off like rain on glass.
This shield is not for psychic war, it’s for awkward family dinners, nosy coworkers, noisy neighbors. It gives you comfort while keeping the nonsense out.
Cool Down / Heat Up
Your shields can also adapt to the environment.
Too hot? Weave a shield of cool water around your body, lowering your psychic “temperature.” Too cold? Build a shield of warmth, like fire licking close to your skin.
⚠️ Caution: These shields are temporary. They don’t change the weather, they change your perception. Don’t overheat yourself with a fire shield in summer, or numb yourself with an ice shield in winter storms. Use with care, and release once balance is restored.
Energy Capacity: Testing Your Limits
Every Witch has an energetic “capacity.” Push beyond it, and you risk collapse. Stay below it, and you stagnate.
How to Test:
Perform an energy-raising exercise daily (chant, dance, breathwork).
Note when you feel strong, and when you begin to shake, grow dizzy, or scatter.
That is your current capacity.
Over time, increase in small increments.
Think of this like lifting weights. You don’t bench-press the world on day one. You build strength gradually.
Reclaiming Lost Energy
Pieces of your power can scatter, left in old relationships, lost in trauma, stuck in unfinished workings. To advance, you must call them back.
Exercise:
In meditation, visualize cords or sparks where your energy has been left.
With breath and will, call them back: “I call my power home.”
See them reabsorbed into your core flame.
This is reclamation. You are not whole until you gather yourself back.
Dynamic Energy: Responsive Shields
As you advance, your shields don’t need to be static. They can adapt.
Tighten in crowds, relax at home.
Reflect hostility, absorb kindness.
Shift from opaque to transparent depending on need.
Responsive shields act like skin: protective but alive, sensing and adjusting moment to moment.
These techniques are not beginner fluff. They require focus, practice, and persistence.
But once mastered, you will not just survive psychic currents, you will command them. You will juggle roses without bleeding. You will shine with a golden sphere. You will weave shields like fortresses. You will draw down stars and raise up roots in the same breath.
So, Witch — are you ready to stop dabbling and start juggling?
