Apprentice said:
Water! And charming scenery on top of that. Amazing. BTW, I have no issues or fears towards Water.
That is VERY much like I always felt about Water. I can't stress enough how close I've always felt to the Element, let it suffice to say that when I discovered I was an Air person I was very surprised.. even now part of me screams "investigate more" as there's something that clearly tells me I have to get to the bottom of this. I'm also a Water sign (and as far as I can say it's THE most water sign of the zodiac.. I feel Scorpio's got too much fire in it and Cancer too much Earth perhaps.. only one left), so I've always thought this Element was my Element for more than a couple reasons. Maybe you and I are supposed to go down this path and see what it holds in store for us?
As you know, I've always "chosen" one Element and stuck with it for as long as I could before changing either my mind about it or how I felt about it. Say I chose Fire, I'd be super confident about it.. until I would feel it as I was just pushing myself to get higher and would end up feeling the Element itself as kind of 'dull', therefore looking immediately for something else, not necessarily its opposite every time.
With Water, I know very well my limit. I, perhaps stupidly, always found that Invoking Water MUST lead one to cryokinesis, so Ice.. but 'Ice' doesn't equal 'Water', does it? I assume it's about the cold, but Water is more than just that. Emotions, flow, ability to adapt, sexual drive even... and fears. Irrational fears, more like, stuff we have to deal with at some people for sure, whether the fears one has within come from Water or anything else.
With the 'cold in mind', I know that my limit with Water arrives when I start feeling something like a quite literal brain freeze effect. I feel like the Element starts inhabiting the limbs, then the torso, chest, neck, but the head is almost like it's off limits territory. When I feel this effect, I fear my Water training isn't going to last long...
Over the last few days, I've decided to push this more and forget about my fears. Not in the obvious overcharged irresponsible way, but in the sense that I know I can overcome my limit by adapting myself to the Element like I haven't done before.
Yesterday I had a weird effect again...
I was starting to go through with this mentality, determined to prove myself that I can do this, when I felt something like a brain surge. It was almost like all my spine's bioelectricity was suddenly conveyed in my head and it felt pretty discomforting, to say the least.
Thinking in hindsight, I know that earlier in the same day I had felt 'moments' in which this was strong enough to make me alert... not so intense, but enough to alert me of something about to happen to me.
This 'surge' lasted only a few seconds, but the overall impression I got from it was that it was something 'Airy'. Electrical, even.
Let me put it this way... it was almost as if Air wanted to let me know it can be just as dangerous as Water and Ice. Makes sense?
Immediately I thought of Leraje and how she's said to be dangerous thanks to Air, and even though I normally think of this as something difficult to understand, that "Air can't be THAT powerful" UNLESS the Air creates Electricity, I
received somehow the answer.
Air is known to create overthinking, which in turn comes from an unstable ability to focus and calm the energy down (like Earth people who seem better than others at astral senses and divination, in my opinion at least).. too much Air creates overloaded brain, overwhelming bioelectricity, it unbinds blockages, it stimulates and excites, and ultimately it creates 'bioelectrical surges'.
The point here is (or at least the lesson I learned): Air can be fucking dangerous. Fire burns, Water messes with emotion and sickness even, Ice freezes, Earth slows down and theoretically causes the heart to stop... but Air in good enough amount can 'zap one senseless'. I'm not finding the exact medical term right now.. but I think that "bio-shock" is pretty close to the effect Air can have on a target.
Now, why did I feel this while mingling with Water (in a serious enough way)? :/
I remember the early months of last year when I was at work and felt kinda the same type of surge while I was determined to go all the way with Earth.
Honestly, I can't think of a reason other than my Soul or the Gods themselves telling my in a way I can understand that I'm going in a wrong direction and need to change the course ASAP. Pretty sure by now that if I did this with Fire I would meet the same even once again.
The "need" for more air that I had lately (not cold, just air on my skin, to the point of taking off almost all clothes during the day) made me realize the moment the surge had gone that I wasn't 'needing' Water, I just needed to embrace Air.
Noteworthy... (and now that I'm done writing it and coming back I feel so stupid for not noticing this before lol)... that same morning I had (after a too long time) another one of those "sudden heat" energy on my left foot while driving, and I learned to associate this to Leraje trying to make me aware of her. This has been happening like 20 times already, but yesterday I decided to doubt this and asked her to give me a stronger sign, I clearly stated "even if it is painful, I need to know this is you". Hours later, this happens and here I was wondering whether or not Water was the way to go.... fuck my stupidity.
Soooo.....
Long story short, Brother, I had a VERY clear demonstration (haha! "Demon"-stration... :lol: ) of how my dominant Element (and yours) CAN be used against someone else. How overcharging someone with Air can have a really crazy effect... no different at all than literally giving them an electrical shock. I have to keep this in mind very well... tattoo it on my skin if necessary.
I can almost hear Brother GitM's voice telling me I'm obsessed with electricity lol. Guess it was for a good reason that I started getting so into it.
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Another thing that I really feel like sharing after this last couple of days, and it's something that (as I just learned) has a lot to do with the concept of having a 'dominant' Element. I don't know how it works for the Gods, how they can have an Element when their Souls are perfectly balanced already, I just assume that the Element is their personal choice, possibly much like someone's favorite Element... can't be sure, but maybe it's not so important right now and it will make sense later.
After deciding to
go all the way with an Element (in the case of Water and me becoming very tolerant of the cold, which I normally really can't stand) something became very obvious:
when we learn from the Elements and have in mind to become 'Elementalists', we probably often think that we can just summon an Element outside of our body and direct it to someone else, a target. HP Pythia stated that the more we become capable of tolerating the Element ourselves, the more of that Element we can direct and (in the case of Fire, as that's what she made the example with) even incinerating a victim of a black magick spell.
After I became tolerant of the cold in a measure I had never felt, I became very aware of the fact that when our bodies don't feel fearful/submissive/endangered by an Element anymore, we can use it simply by putting it (enough of it and long enough) into an enemy and know that a result will be accomplished. What I now know, is that HOLDING that Element for us is supposed to be a joke, easy as fuck, so much that we feel absolutely normal, but the trick is that we apply OUR NORMAL to the VICTIM'S NORMAL. This causes a rather noticeable change and the victim suffers from whatever it is we're causing them to feel (in the case of an Air Elementalist, the victim will more than likely be "bio-shocked").
My mistake for all this time was to consider an Elementalist as someone who can not hold their Element, and only tries to manipulate it with a very limited capacity to hold it himself/herself, ultimately causing the only damage to himself/herself in the attempt of damaging someone else. (Think "shooting someone with a gun held by the toes and shooting yourself in the foot as a result".)
Brother, I have a feeling I messed that up badly enough to make it difficult to understand.. I hope you get the meaning of this because now that I realize it I know it's really going to help me when I do Elementalist shit. If you don't get it, tell me and I'll try to re-explain it differently.
In my particular case, it seems the only Element I really suck at using is Earth (so lots of rebalancing meditation is needed, Quintessence primarily), but even so, the one I feel strongest in my Soul is Air. So fucking glad now I know how to use it. Suddenly a lot makes more sense.
I myself liked the movie character Frozone from The Incredibles (2004).
BTW, for some years now, I can not sleep under the same blanket my missus is using because I feel it's just too damn hot! I'm using much thinner blanket.
I loved Frozone too.

Cryokinetic characters always fascinated me.. too bad there's never too many who manipulate Air. Thankfully a couple years back I finally made up my mind and said "fuck it, I'm gonna watch the Avatar series and see what it's all about", and that was it.. fell in love with "Airbending" lol. Too bad it was also the one art I felt I wouldn't be able to replicate in this reality. Felt too damn advanced... also, they imply Firebenders can evolve their skills into shooting electricity, but in truth lightning comes from Air manipulation.. Fire I use for healing, Water for emotions and dealing with fears.. and now to deal with cold weather.
By the way, I read your first posts... shiiiit, that's gotta be cold!

Pretty sure I'd love to live in that country though. I'd also love to hear what your English accent sounds like.
Good reminder. Many of our abilities are uncharted but then again it is really easy to become delusional. I feel that you are right in that I'm limiting myself, every now and then, out of inability to acknowledge my real abilities (even I don't know what they are to begin with).
This whole Water and Air experience has taught me something related, I think. This is also something that HP HC pointed out in one of his last posts on people that feel like gods when they're not so advanced at all. In brief, you have to bang your head against your own limits. If you asked me to take a cold shower two weeks ago, I'd have said 'fuck that thought', now I have no problems with it, because I raised my ability to stand the cold. I pushed the limit further and can do something I couldn't before. I think in the case of all four Elements, if one didn't want to use Quintessence not wanting to limit the ability to learn from each, one at a time, I'd say it probably works by pushing the limit one Element at a time, further away from you, until you can manage to hold them all in a decent way, EACH MORE than you can normally/averagely hold your current dominating one. That sounds to me like a decent goal to start with, and probably you should test your abilities once you're that much freer from your limits. Personally, I'm going to start using Air skills and even (as Brother GitM did in one of his last reported sessions here) 'measure' my electrical charge. This is where appliances and Volt counters can be useful. Think of the "potato battery clock" thing.. use yourself to charge a clock. I think GitM was doing the opposite, holding the charge of a charging phone at the same level. You're good with machines, that should easily give you ideas.
And yeah, you did mention your partner seeing snakes before.. I don't know if you visualize Kundalini the same as I do, but I think you should definitely use snakes as a very useful image to prompt your Serpent to rise. Question: what's your missus' dominant Element? Earth by any chance? If she's able to see to a degree she should definitely work on it and cleanse her Soul... I find the "Removing the curse from the Serpent" Ritual to be probably the best I could feel.
I guess it's finally time for me to try out the Water. I've never invoked it before, only into the Sacral so far. The reason I postponed it was that Water can cause depression. Not long ago I was already experiencing it so... it's only natural, I guess, that I'm a bit wary.
I think you really should, yes. Just go slowly, as always. Overcharging really doesn't help, I can tell you that by now. Besides, chances are you'll unawarely absorb the Element even just 'because you made your mind up about it', and will have unawarely programmed yourself to do so, so go more than slowly just in case.
Best of luck, my Brother, let me know how it goes!
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