Grounding Versus Adjustment

Grounding versus Adjustment

Puella Magi Madoka Magia Side Story: Magia Record introduces the idea of Adjustment: a procedure performed by a Coordinator or Adjuster that can be done to ‘enhance’ a magical girl’s Soul Gem. This enhancement can come in the form of removing impurities or unlocking further magical potential. Adjustment is also necessary when a magical hero uses their Doppel to avoid succumbing to despair.

Adjustment, as it is portrayed in Puella Magi Madoka Magia Side Story: Magia Record, is not a replacement for professional and personal therapeutic practices or experienced Shadow Work. I would strongly advise any magical hero to have a strong foundation in grounding and shielding practices before engaging in any serious work. If you’d like, imagine that your therapist, social worker, or other professional therapeutic practitioner is your Coordinator—they are there to provide you as a magical hero an essential service.

Grounding, on the other hand, is something any magical hero can do and is a foundational technique for any practicing magician. To put it simply, grounding is a way of eliminating excess energy and tempering high emotions that you may have stored up during a ritual or a working. If you have practiced centering as an energy technique, the fundamentals of grounding are simple: remember how you learned to manipulate energy when you learned to center? That's what you'll do to ground, only instead of drawing that energy inside you, you'll push it out—whether that is into the void, into an object, or to be carried off by the elements. Strong visualizations certainly help with grounding but also try something physical or tangible to strengthen its effects; try using your hands or your feet to push out that extra energy and feel it drain into the earth. You can also engage other senses in your grounding like by using cleansing herbs as an incense or spray, or by eating a comforting and antioxidant rich food like dark chocolate.

I often shield as well as part of my grounding practice. This helps protect my magical and physical body that may have become raw from high energy and emotions. Shielding is a way of protecting yourself from psychic, mental, or magical attack by creating an energy barrier around yourself that others cannot penetrate. When shielding, I do not completely close myself out from the world and others around me—I’m simply fortifying my defenses while I am recuperating.

This is my first post in a series of Magi Praxis writings I have planned. If you have any suggestions for future topics, please send me a message! I am always happy to go back and provide further explanation as well. ☆

10-Card Clow Spread

Not only are the Clow Cards used for summoning magic, they are also used for telling fortunes! In Volume 3 of the Cardcaptor Sakura manga, Kero shows Sakura how to do some simple fortune telling using only 10 cards. This specific spread is designed to allow you to become aware of the forces that will be opposing you in the near future. This reading was critical for Sakura because it enabled her to identify and capture the Mirror card.

Note: When Sakura read her cards, she only had the Watery, Windy, Wood, Jump, Fly, Flower, Shadow, Sword, Illusion, and Thunder in her possession but certainly use all 52 Clow Cards or a different deck entirely if you'd like!

Directions: 1.) Shuffle the cards well. 2.) Cut the deck into four piles using your left hand. 3.) Return all of the cards to one pile still using your left hand. 4.) Lay the cards out in number order by following the diagram. 5.) Flip the cards over in letter order.

Meanings: A.) Represents news or transmission. B.) Refers to a challenge or test. C-E.) Relate to the opposing force. F.) Tells of approaching danger.

Source: Little Miss Kinomoto

Time Magic and Enchantment

Many people wish that they can turn back time, whether that is to change the past or to relive a certain event. While time travel is not possible in the mundane world, I find time magic to be a potent ingredient in enchantment and manifestation.

Time magic is just as it sounds: the power to manipulate and control time. When done successfully, you can enchant situations retroactively or usher in a desired outcome. I often add an element of time in my spellwork, even when I am working on influencing the present.

When wanting to perform a retroactive action or enchantment, I refer to powers of Yuna D. Kaito and Sakura Kinomoto in Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card. I personally prefer these approaches and techniques over those of Homura Akemi of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, for example, mainly because Homura’s time manipulation lacks substance when trying to glean anything usable for spellcraft; in Cardcaptor Sakura, however, we have several magical tools (namely Sakura’s cards and Kaito’s pocket watch), incantations, and even a depiction of an alternate dimension the magic user can work in where they remain unaffected by the passage and rewinding of time.

When working to manifest something yet to pass, I find Sakura’s approach most fruitful. In 2022, I created a personal divination deck inspired by Sakura’s cards throughout her journey using a meta-paradigm my partner has been developing. While each Clow, Sakura, and Clear Card is not fully represented in my deck, many of the cards contain multitudes. Besides divination, I often utilize the cards individually as entities, involving them in my spellcraft and summoning them for particular actions. My ‘Time’ card also contains elements of ‘Rewind’. I often pair this card with another to emphasize and further enchant what I want to manifest. (For example, I have paired ‘Flower’ with ‘Time’ for opportunity to blossom.) To drive the magic home, I operate as if my desired outcome is already done—that my present is the future I have successfully influenced.

This post is part of my Magi Praxis series. If you have any suggestions for future topics, please send me a message! I am always happy to go back and provide further explanation as well. ☆

Thank you! ☆ This is a helpful start. Do you think there is need/interest for adult community? I would be happy to help facilitate, if so.

I just started this blog after a very long Tumblr hiatus and have stumbled into a community of folks claiming membership in a ‘real life magical girl’ movement? As someone who has been working with these ideas on my own for around two decades, this is extremely exciting!

Can anyone involved point me towards forums, servers, or any other references I can look into? I’m particularly interested in community that consists of serious practitioners that are adults. Looking forward to meeting and working with others that resonate with this work! ☆

The Legendary Ore Escudo is a mineral created by pure Volition. It is the only ore that can be made into an evolving item or magical weapon.

Weapons created from Escudo evolve according to the strength and mental power of their owner. Of course, if the Weapon's user doesn't evolve, neither does their Weapon. Escudo weapons can only be used by the warrior who wields them. 

I assert that all magical items created by a Contract of Volition contain Escudo. This includes Sakura Kinomoto’s various keys and staves, Puella Magi Soul Stones, Magic Spheres, as well as weapons wielded by Puella Magi and Magic Knights.

I just started this blog after a very long Tumblr hiatus and have stumbled into a community of folks claiming membership in a ‘real life magical girl’ movement? As someone who has been working with these ideas on my own for around two decades, this is extremely exciting!

Can anyone involved point me towards forums, servers, or any other references I can look into? I’m particularly interested in community that consists of serious practitioners that are adults. Looking forward to meeting and working with others that resonate with this work! ☆