Spiritual/Emotional Energies

(January 6, 2026) Spiritual energy is the amount of force and motivation behind feelings. The greater the heartrate and excitement involved with a feeling, the more powerful it is. Hence many rituals will seek not only to focus on certain feelings, but to also raise the energy of those feelings before releasing them into the spiritual realm.

Spiritually sensitive (empathic) people can feel the spiritual energy in a room. It may be due to the interaction of the people in the room, or it may be due to the correspondences in the room. It may even be due to spiritual imprinting of past events in that space. Without a good theory of consciousness nothing can be ruled out.

(January 6, 2026) Negative energy is the energy of all the feelings which tend to disconnect people from others and from the divine realm. Left unchecked, negative energy will destroy a social group. It can even destroy a society via civil war or by the withdrawal of loyalty by its citizens. Today the commercialization of social media incentivizes the generation and spreading of negative energy because that gets views. Negative energy can be countered although once it gets circulating on a large scale it is very difficult to eliminate. 

(January 5, 2025) If you’ve ever walked into your classroom feeling frazzled and then notice your students begin bouncing off the walls—or entered your room happy and then watched the room settle like still water then you have experienced emotional and/or spiritual energy contagion.

Teachers Can Reset the Rooms Emotional Energy With An "Energy Sweep"

Sometimes negative energy lingers, and emotional contagion can keep spreading long after the initial spark. If this happens teachers should have students close their eyes for a moment.

1. Say: “Let’s breathe out the stress from this morning and make space for a fresh start.”

2. Lead three slow breaths together.

3. Visualize the room filling with bright, clean energy.

Teachers repeatedly told the author of this article that this simple pause resets energy even the toughest days.

References

Emotional Contagion in the Classroom: How Your Energy Sparks Calm—or Chaos—in Student Behavior (July 22, 2025) by The Teach Empowered Blog at https://teachempowered.com/emotional-contagion-in-the-classroom-how-your-energy-sparks-calm-or-chaos-in-student-behavior/

(January 6, 2026) Many ways exist to ritually clean a room of negative energy but like any secular ritual, such as marriage or joining a club, it is a culmination of much preparation on the part of the participant. Anyone without spiritual training can go through the motions of various rituals found online but they will not be effective because their inner being will not have become attuned to the various spiritual powers.

As with any ritual, first think about what you really want to accomplish and how you want to go about doing it then choose 1 of the 4 types of rituals. This is called setting intention. Don't rush it. Next ground yourself to get into the right frame of mind. Perhaps light a candle, say a few words to help focus, and then when ready proceed move clockwise around the room. This corresponds to the movement of the life giving sun from east to west.

1. Herbal smudging based rituals use as some aromatic herb or incense stick to waft smoke around the room. Sage is the most popular all-in-one herb these days. The smoke provides a visual correspondence to the spatial spread of the spell's influence.

2. Water based rituals use a spray of fragrant water instead of smoke to give the spatial correspondence. Alternatively it could be added to the water used for mopping the whole area.

3. Salt based rituals spread plain salt or an salt-herbal mix around the room to later be vacuumed or swept up. 

4. Visualization based rituals use colored light, sounds, and imagination to more directly power the cleansing with the generation of positive energy, that is, the type of feelings which produce connection and love.

(January 7, 2026) This phrase was popularized by the Harry Potter books and movies which described a fanciful, visually appealing version of defending against negative energy.

The best defense is a good offense based upon having a kind loving emotional state. This prevents the opening of negative energy channels open in the first place.  Up to a point we can choose our own happiness by not dwelling on negative emotions. Also helping keep positive channels open are good luck charms if they have been conditioned as correspondences. 

Other defensive habits are:

1. Ground often to get into a loving and understanding frame of mind.

2. Step back from a situation and just observe without judging.

3. Get enough rest and nutrition so you are able to recognize and resist negativity. 

4. Choose positive thoughts and emotions. Don't dwell on the negative.

The ancient runic texts talk about one other method which was controversial even back then. That is "astrology-magic" which required cursing something or some group in order the shift the negative energy of fate from your group to them. Not only did this open up negative energy channels in the crafters of astrology-magic leaving them vulnerable, but it was an attack on someone else who was likely completely innocent.

(January 7, 2026)  Emotional contagion comes easy for empaths. They readily feel the emotions of those around them but unless these feelings can be disciplined empaths become flaky. They become like a leaf in the wind blowing here and there without a life direction of their own.

Those fortunate empaths able to discipline their feelings do that by either developing some consistent mental framework (like the magic path) which can define a life path or by incorporating some "dark" set of powers into their magical practice which they can retreat into when needed. These dark deities are typically Morrigan (Celtic) and Hekate (Druid and classical). Disciplined empaths learn that their emotional energy is valuable so they become wiser in managing who they spend it on. 

In the worse case, empaths fall prey to some external religious dogmatism or conspiracy theory because that provides an easy mental framework which can bring them peace. Yet no matter how hard they try they end up violating those dogmatic rules from time to time which further erodes their self-esteem or motivates them to become even more irrational.

Empaths tend to be self-sacrificing to the detriment of their own well-being. This tends to be exhausting, even more so if they get nothing in return. They often need to recharge by being alone. If they don't get that time  they will become grumpy and ornery. In time, many will prefer to be alone, or at least emotionally distant from others.

(updated January 5, 2026) The rise of science changed humanity's paradigm of reality from 1 realm into 2 realms. Changes in the material realm are done with the energy which was created with the rest of the universe with the Big Bang. Ever since then the universe has been winding down as energy spreads out along all possible paths. Therefore, physical energy exists in a finite amount within the physical universe and is conserved (unless the universe's expansion really is accelerating).

In contrast, the ancient people thought earthly changes were done by spiritual powers residing above the earth plane. This is because the eternal heavenly bodies moved, therefore, that is where the the motion powers must reside. Yet humans and animals also moved so they must have a similar internal celestial spark, a spirit, which connected them to the heavenly bodies. All existed within one realm.

(October 6, 2024)  Awu and A'u are the Druid Akkadian words for "emotional energy." The /n/ at the end of Awen means "revealed." So Awen is "emotion-energy revealed."  The word "Awen" is found in most runic texts with its first mention being in the Minoan Phaistos Disk dating to 1900 BCE.

Emotional energy motivates and inspires people and animals to act. But according to the late Codex Runicus (1190 CE), before awen can have any affect on earth it must be authorized by the astrological powers during the setting of various heavenly bodies.

In modern revivalist Druidry, its inspirational characteristics are found in the classic bardic tale of Taliesin as found in the Gaelic Book of Taliesin dating to the 1200's. Here awen is imparted to famous future poet Taliesin by a magical potion made in a cauldron by Ceridwen (Kerdwin). In these tales awen is always something received as a gift from the divine realm.

Awen and Taliesin are first mentioned in an 830 in a text called the Historia Brittonum (History of the Britain's) which was written in Latin by an unknown Welsh cleric named Nennius. The book says he was one of five men who "flourished in British poetry" during the reign of king Ida who ruled the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia from around 547 until his death in 559. 

Other names in the list with Taliesin are Cain and Talhaearn. (Is this the Cain in the Biblical Genesis story of Cain and Able, the first sons of Adam and Eve?). Nennius says that:

• "Then Talhearn Tad Awen won renown in poetry"

The italicized words have always been assumed to be a proper name but that is incorrect. It is actually a Druid Akkadian phrase:

• "Talhearn, astrology-magic's instigator of emotion-powers revealed, won renown in poetry."

The word "Talhearn" seems to have merged with "Taliesin" in later Welsh bardic tales which is understandable because their underlying Druid Akkadian meanings are similar.

• "The Lord God will give me the sweet Awen, as from the cauldron of Ceridwen."

Amazingly, Gaelic scholars of the 1800's essentially hit upon the correct Akkadian meaning of Awen from its use in Gaelic texts. To quote the British Druid Order website:

• "To discover what Awen is, we should first look at what the word means. The feminine noun,  Awen, has been variously translated as ‘inspiration’, ‘muse’, ‘genius’, or even ‘poetic frenzy’. According to a 19th century Welsh dictionary, the word itself is formed by combining the two words, aw, meaning ‘a fluid, a flowing’, and en, meaning ‘a living principle, a being, a spirit, essential’. So Awen may be rendered literally as ‘a fluid essence’, or ‘flowing spirit’."

References

Williams, Mark (2021) The Celtic Myths That Shape the Way We Think. Thames and Hudson

Image and historical summary from British Druid Order at: https://www.druidry.co.uk/awen-the-holy-spirit-of-druidry/