It’s 1645 and I’m magically restless. My workings.over the past few weeks have been bearing fruit, from those I’ve heard about. I’m not in the process of working through any grimoires, and my work in those areas are being prepared, I guess. My immediate needs are met, shoulder is healing nicely, etc…
Well, it could be the binding I did. Maybe this is their situation, this restlessness. My missing friend from above has seemed to pull out of the deep hole they were in. Wait, getting ahead of myself…
It had been a week. I knew we were already linked in a way, though this was from interactions and magic. Not an intentional one. As rarely as I give credit to it, I’m fairly certain we have had some past life stuff, though I don’t know what. There have been a couple of connections where this rang true. Value of that now is uncertain and should be something that kind of presents itself, if it is needed. Anyway…
I met this person because they were being coerced into becoming a sort of sexual plaything for another magician that desired them. I messaged some general advice and called it good. Hecate was nudging me to look further into it and Belial started doing the same. Before long, I volunteered my help. I hadn’t realized that they would likely succumb in a few months at best. But I did note Hecate and Belial’s urging for me to take the initiative and come in guns blazing. Do what you need to.and ask for forgiveness. Screw It Let’s Do It style.
This led to creating some breathing room so they could fight back, which was what they wanted to do, but the magician’s spells were stronger at that point. The slow, insidious use of some Goetics had sapped their will and ability to fight back fully. The ambush, stemmed from rejection, was working and it was a matter of time - until help arrived.
Once I set up some basic defensive support for them, I bound the main magician working against them. Once they started recovering, their inner fire came back with full force, and that was the last time this magician was anything close to successful. It was really rewarding to see them laughing when the next round was applied.
A few more magicians from their past came forward as time went on, focusing on different things. One was a sleezy mage that was described as a…favorite target type of mine. Another had stripped a lover from them in the past, but that lover was resisting, so the mage was striking at my friend to keep thing in her favor. What was clear to me was that I could see that these problems were being dealt with because this friend was ready to deal with them and make them stronger, more confident in their abilities.
This led to mentoring while providing a little help when asked for, as the crisis was averted. Talk, trading of opinions, etc… They were doing their own offenses successfully, coming into their power.
Which meant that when the radio silence started, something felt off. I knew something was off, but it’s not like we talk about daily stuff. I don’t even know the city they live in and they don’t know mine. Didn’t have relevance.But something was wrong. I could feel it.
Eventually, I decided I was going to act. Banishings of their area, cordcuttings (of unhelpful attachments), and projecting to their astral space. One morning, I made a mental connection to test resistance and found none, but it was a dark place indeed. That evening, I called on the spirits listed above. I did get a response. They were “not okay and you know it”.
The following day, consulting with Belial, I decided to do something that would almost make me as bad as that original mage - I bound the both of us. Not an attachment, but not a true limitation either. Instead, I acted on the areas I had cast for them in the past “health, security, and balance”. With this, I added the intent that 3 people could break it, me, them, and Belial. I also left it sentient enough that if one wants to close it for privacy, they could do so without having to destroy the connection.
If a normal connection feels like a garden hose, this was like a firehose on steroids and this was determined by Belial. It reflects the strength of the line and the anchoring.
Once this was done, I used the Sun/Solar breathing from Helios Unbound to pull sunlight into myself and down the line as I walked outside. I used a similar means to my Dealing with Stress practice learned from Hi’iaka to pull the negative energy from them and disperse it.
By the time I got home and started saying what I had done, it was working. We exchanged scores of messages and they were explaining.what it was.like to.feel.it and gave information that they had picked up on that I had left out or gave clarity for things that hadn’t made sense, but I had noticed. And the times matched.
So, is my restlessness mine? Likely, but could it be theirs? Yeah, it could.
The scenario really hit on some points that are a bit contentious in most circles. Acting that first morning. Unasked for rituals that first evening. The linking the second morning and, certainly, the binding without permission. All of which were “wrong”, but exactly the right thing to do. We suspect that it was engineered by Belial, though we don’t know why. Could be speculation, but his chuckle to both of is, independently, was a sort of confirmation.
So…sometimes you have to do what’s “wrong” to do what’s right. Just…try to get confirmation first.
