busyThat's actionable information in this case, because many of the usual instructions call for walking around your home to spread incense smoke or saltwater. Possible accommodations include:
* Ward in effigy by using a photograph of your home (exterior house or apartment building), purify and then cast the shielding around that.
* Do the work entirely in your mind, through visualization. This works fine for most people with a strong imagination, solving a small to medium problem.
* Some items such as candles or incense are designed to be set off in one location and spread on their own from there. Think of these as the mystical equivalent of a citronella candle or a flea bomb.
* A shield-witch or wizard can make a pop-up shield packed into an item. It's a self-working artifact. The drawback is that it takes out anything and everything energetic within the space, so if you have other charged or blessed artifacts, have them outside the home before activating it. (These usually have a metaphysical and a physical option for activation, so they can be used by anyone.)
So that's how accommodation of disabilities works in magic. You need to know the limitation (not necessarily its cause), the usual way of doing things, and then use your grasp of magical theory and ritual design to find alternate ways of accomplishing the same thing. Or ask a friend who is good at that sort of thing.
June 18 2016, 01:00:49 UTC 5 years ago
I would think the incense-bomb would act similarly to the pop-up shield... unless you were to key it to your own energy and tell it to ignore that, so that things you had charged, or were even charged by people you knew, it could skip....
The whole pop-up shield kinda reminds me of a Howler. :)
Magick, like Truth, is where you find it. :)
Yes...
June 18 2016, 06:22:43 UTC 5 years ago
It can if you rig it that way, but smoke is more malleable and thus inclined to go around more powerful or permanent things. Unless you light asafoetida, which you shouldn't do indoors.
>> unless you were to key it to your own energy and tell it to ignore that, so that things you had charged, or were even charged by people you knew, it could skip.... <<
Perfectly feasible but a more advanced technique.
>>The whole pop-up shield kinda reminds me of a Howler. :) <<
In terms of automatic activation? Yes.
Re: Yes...
June 18 2016, 16:36:16 UTC 5 years ago
indoors.Fixed that for you. ;) (I don't want to *think* about actually having a use for that.) (I remember getting too much *copal* into my mix; I had windows and doors open and was burning sandalwood for an hour or so... ) (G-d those are old memories.)
Interesting about the smoke... as for keying, I have this tendency to jump ahead; a primitive form of keying was about the second or third thing I ever *Did*...
Did I mention I like the way you think?
Re: Yes...
June 18 2016, 18:17:56 UTC 5 years ago
Once upon a time, my partner introduced me to rogham josh, a lamb yogurt curry which uses that spice. Up to that point I had only seen it in my Pagan reference books with names like "devil's dung" and warnings like "do not burn indoors." Naturally I was disturbed by the idea of eating it. But he showed me several Indian cookbooks asserting that it was a recognized spice there. So we tried the dish, and it was delicious. The household nickname for it is now "Demon-Banishing Lamb."
Some years later, we forgot to bring the asafoetida while traveling, and made the dish without it. Insipid, barely edible. Apparently the funky note from it balances out everything else in the sauce, and is utterly crucial.
As an actual banishing agent, I usually use asafoetida mixed with sea salt, either sprinkled around a boundary or thrown in the washer. Lighting it outdoors is a laaaaast resort.
Re: Yes...
June 18 2016, 19:20:23 UTC 5 years ago
(Imma guess you lot like things spicy? Vindaloo?)
O........kayyyyyy. It's not Indian (at least the dish). It's *Persian*. MMMMMMMMMM. I've only been lucky enough to have had Persian a few times... I miss it. I remember the first time, I had what amounted to a mixed grill, lamb, beef, and ... chicken? meatballs with piles of jasmine, white(?), and saffron frice respectively... napkin, please?
*In the washer.* Innnnnnnnteresting. Hmmmmmmmmmm.....
Re: Yes...
June 18 2016, 19:24:06 UTC 5 years ago
It's like salt. Used properly, you don't taste it, the asafoetida just affects how the other flavors work together. It's supposed to have a kind of musky bitter note.
>> (Imma guess you lot like things spicy? Vindaloo?) <<
I do not. My partner does. The lamb curry is one of our milder dishes.
>> *In the washer.* Innnnnnnnteresting. Hmmmmmmmmmm..... <<
Best way to get rid of gremlins in the washer, which is a problem I have every few years. For the dryer, tie three knots in a sock.
Re: Yes...
June 18 2016, 19:32:20 UTC 5 years ago
OTOH, I've known several serious spice fiends. One fellow, ironically, the second gay guy I ever met, has a love for nuclear vindaloo... the way to get it hot enough (he's Scotch-Irish like me) is for him to say, "Tell the chef, 'make it like YOU like it.'" :D
Once his acupuncturist put him on a bland diet. He was *suffering*... until he rememberd Dr. Lee is from Szechuan province. *whew* Two stars is FINE!
Mogwai!
July 1 2016, 22:57:05 UTC 5 years ago
A *major* spice in Roman times, which went extinct from over harvesting. It was *literally* worth it's weight in silver.
It was also apparently related to asafoetida. I've actually read the instructions for how to make a cheater if you couldn't afford the real thing.
Basically you put asafoetida and pine nuts into a tightly sealed container for some period of time. Later you ground up some of the pine nuts and used that as a substitute for the expensive stuff.
June 18 2016, 04:54:12 UTC 5 years ago
Yes...
June 18 2016, 04:54:59 UTC 5 years ago
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