ACT OF POWER 3: Cone of Power
Our second Act of Power is an important magical technique called the CONE OF POWER. This is a basic technique which is often used in ritual, usually accompanied by dancing in a deosil circle. We offer it here as a visualization to help you become familiar with the mechanics of it. Once you can do this easily as a visualization, you should try it with dance: as the celebrant’s dance in a circle, they imagine the Cone of Power building just as in the visualization below, then release the Cone just as the dance stops.
The Cone of Power may be used as an energetic vehicle for any goal: either individual goals or a single group goal. Here we treat the group as having individual goals, known only to themselves. You might lead begin like this:
“Let us begin by joining hands.
“Take a moment to focus upon your goal. See it clearly –imagine it fulfilled. Concentrate on it strongly. Focus your magical INTENT upon the goal. Be clear about the goal, know that it is yours.
“Now, imagine a small ball of white energy in your left hand. Feel it –imagine the heat of the energy in your hand, the intensity of it. Imagine it, clear and white, shining –strong and filled with power.
“Now imagine in your right hand a similar ball of energy –not your own but generated by the person to your right. Feel it as strongly as you feel your own ball of energy. Feel its strength and power –imagine it clearly, bright and white and unclouded.
“Now imagine the energy from the ball in your right hand beginning to move toward your left –slowly, slowly, until there is a solid cord of energy between your two hands –a solid cord of energy all the way around the Circle. Now feel that cord of energy begin to move clockwise around the Circle. It begins slowly, but quickly picks up speed.
“Feel the energy moving faster and faster around the Circle. See it become like a solid ring of white light around the Circle, moving through each person: feel the energy as it moves through you.
“Now imagine the energy building as it picks up still more speed –see it begin to spiral upward –just a little at first, then more: see it spiraling higher and higher, narrowing as it grows, to form a cone. A cone of white light rising up from the Circle, spiraling clockwise faster and faster –feel it moving through you: feel its speed and strength.
See the cone spiral faster and faster, becoming brighter and stronger. Think about your goals –see them, imagine them fulfilled, place them into the energy of the ever-spiraling cone.
“Faster and faster it goes, impregnated with our magical intent –focused toward our goals –almost ready!
“Almost ready!
“Now! –See the cone rise up out of the circle…see it rise upward, higher, and higher, carrying our goals into manifestation. The process will be complete when the Circle is opened, but indeed: the goals are accomplished even now.”