You're Grounded!

Grounding is super important. But, Why? What even is “grounding?”

What Is Grounding?

Grounding allows children a way to decompress from stressors that make them act out. Similarly, in witchcraft it allows us to remove stress and tension and really gives us a neutral space to practice energy work.

How Does Grounding Work?

Grounding is simply a relaxation process with energy. There are thousands of ways to ground yourself. Simply doing something that de-stresses you will ground you by naturally taking your haywire personal energy and bringing it back to neutral. This is an imperative practice for any witch, but even more so for witches with “superpowers” (disabilities).

Specifically, grounding is the release of energy that makes our aura unstable, which is what causes us to stress the fuck out. Many mundane people do this naturally when they take a moment to decompress after a long and hard day.

Grounding in witchcraft is an active energy work practice. It is taking an energy and transforming it with the opposite energy. For example, if one is stressed because of depression and low vibrations, one should take a high vibration energy and essentially blend it with the low vibrating energy of their personal energy.

Some Popular Witchy Grounding Methods

Transforming Non-Personal Energy

Witches often use this technique to ground. It is by far the easiest and most popular method of grounding and is very versatile.

First, a witch will choose an energy opposite from their personal energy. For example, let us say your stress is related to your insecurities. In this instance, a witch could consider an energy that will give him or her security such as the element of Earth’s energy. Then, he or she would pull that energy and blend it with their personal energy to neutralize it thereby ridding themselves of the energy contrary to their intention.

A witch can do this with any type of non-personal energy: elemental or divine/universal.

Transforming Personal Energy with Different Personal Energy

This method is more difficult because it requires a witch to search her aura for contrary energies and blend them together. This is less targeted than the previous method, and will typically only work if a witch is in conflict with his or her self.

To begin, explore your aura for the energy that ails you. Then, search your aura for the conflicting energy. It helps to visualize pulling the energies together to transform them and massage them between one’s hands.

This method of grounding is useful in situations where you should feel a certain way but don’t. For example, we have issues with celebrating our accomplishments and remain constantly stressed. In this instance, we would find the low vibrating energy causing the conflict within us, and produce personal energy that is celebratory in nature and transform that energy to the low vibrating side of our aura.

Sending Energy

A rather simple method is to send energy away and replace it with a new cleaner energy. This is particularly useful when your aura is filled with stagnant energy.

Simply, gather up all your stagnant energy into a focused orb in between your hands, and send it away. You will likely feel a weight lift off your shoulders and a sense of relaxation set in.

Grounding is Not Meditation

Meditation is a process of clearing one's mind of intrusive thoughts, and while that does have a similar destressing effect, the goal of meditation is to reach a meditative state. Whereas the goal of grounding is to destress via energy manipulation and reach a neutral position magickally. Grounding is incredibly similar to cleansing to create a neutral space.

When Do We Need to Ground?

Grounding should be done before any magickal work including cleansing and casting a circle. After all, cleansing before you ground will be exceedingly more difficult with a distracted and stressed mind. Ideally, you should ground, cleanse, and if you choose to, cast a circle before a magickal working.

What do you do when you ground? Share in the comments!

Love and Learning,

Madeline XOXO