Lesson 8: Changing the Shield To Different Shapes

Changing the shield to different shapes can help to achieve different effects in how you want to direct the energy and deflect others from you. You can use the shapes in conjunction with the colors as well. You can use the different colors and shapes on any shield you design, but where we are starting with bubble shields, this is what you will practice with first.

The benefit of changing the shape of your shield is you can pull into effect the different aspects of the shield, and you can use the shapes to their fullest benefit. Such as making a circle spin, using the triangles sloping sides to be a slide, or using the octagram’s more pokey corners as spikes. Each of these effects, and more, deter entities and parasites from attaching to your shield.

To change the shape of your shield, hold the picture of the shape in your mind and see your shield shift to that shape. It is complete mind control. The shapes listed here have the pictures next to them of the specific shape, so you will have a visual guide for these. Until you become familiar with changing the shape of your shield, you may have to think of your shield consciously to make sure the shape is still there, but the more experience you have, the longer you use shapes in your shield, the easier it becomes and the less you will have to think of your shield.

There are seven examples of different shapes in this lesson and their effects, but these are not the only ones that you can use, all it takes is some imagination, some patience and trial and error to find how the different shapes work for you.

Some of you may find using shapes too restrictive or may give you a claustrophobic feeling, but for those of you who do like to incorporate shapes into your magickal workings may indeed like to use shapes in your shielding as well. When you combine the shapes with colors and the type of shield you use, you can create a powerful combination.

Variations to the shapes:

Like stated in the previous paragraph, different colors and shield types can be used with the shapes. You can also use the shapes with combinations of two or more shields at the same time. We will cover combining shields further in the lessons.

Some variations to the different shapes are:

• Circle: cylinder, sphere, oval, ellipse, squared circle
• Triangle: equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, scalene triangle, right triangle, tetrahedron, down-pointing triangle
• Square: cube
• Hexagram: pentagram
• Octagram: dodecagram
• Dodecahedron: icosahedron
• Star: star, 5-pointed star, 6-pointed star, 8-pointed star, the pole star,

You can also form the shield to the shape of animals to utilize they aspects, but be careful that the negative aspects of each animal doesn’t affect your shield. For more information on animals you can check out the Animal Magick Board and the Familiars board.

Again these are not the only variations that you can use for the shapes, and each variation brings into its own unique effects, so like stated previously, it takes is some imagination, some patience and trial and error to find how the different shapes work for you.

Homework:

After about a week of trying the different shapes, or a few of the different shapes, come back to this post and share your experiences. Post in this same topic thread so others can learn from your experiences. Try at least a few of the different shapes, or your own shapes. If you use your own shapes, tell us what the shape looks like and what effects it has. Try to create and remove the shapes at various times. This is so you get a good feeling of how the shape affects you and your shield.

**Some of the information in the effects of the shapes were garnered from the Sacred Geometry Oracle by John Michael Greer (Llewellyn Worldwide ISBN 0-7387-0051-7)