Hey. guise?

[azurelunatic]

Next time Azure-blue falls into a depression, ask her when last she did the LBRP, and kick her ass until she does.

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curious

[boojum.livejournal.com]

LBRP?

Re: curious

[azurelunatic]

Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, for kicking the asses of any negative forces in the area out of the area, and for shielding and so forth.

[dawn-again.livejournal.com]

I should probably try that, but im more a kitchen witch, not all that familiar with High Magic.

One of these days.

[azurelunatic]

That one's pretty simple. The important bits are first centering yourself and getting in touch with whatever it is you get in touch with, then affirming that you are guarded and enlightened by the four cardinal directions, affirming that within your space, ickies don't get to exist, and then re-centering.

[azurelunatic]

I'm more a kitchen witch myself. I don't make a Huge Production out of it. Sure, it helps the first couple times, but after you get comfy with it it's something that's suitable to mutter under your breath while spinning around in an office chair in thirty seconds or less.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

To each their own. I don't particularly like the LBRP, myself, and therefore it doesn't work well. The pentagram seems more of a religious and philosophical symbol to me and doesn't do much for true protection, so just drawing some in the air and calling on names I don't know? nuh-uh. Which there's more to doing it right, but that's what the directions sound like.

Short and happy version is that Az is saying to remind her to do a cleansing when she's been in a funk. Now, if you don't have a particularly effective and favourite simple cleansing ritual, let us know, and we'll give you a handful of ideas to try out and see which one works best with your path. :)

[azurelunatic]

Yep.

Drawing pentagrams works for me on the same principle that holding up crosses in one particular bit of amusing thing works for repelling vampires.

Can't remember where it was from, but someone was faced with a vampire, and held up a cross, because crosses repel vampires. Vampire laughs at them and brushes the cross aside, because the protection of a cross against a vampire is that when someone with faith in the ideas that the cross is representative of holds up the focal point of said faith, vampire is hit by focused blast of "You ain't coming over HERE, buddy!" and takes damage. But to someone with no faith in the power represented by the symbol...

Dunno. Maybe I dreamed it.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

No, there was a movie where a kid holds up a cross to a vampire, and the vampire laughs and continues stalking forward. He makes the mistake of explaining to the teen why it doesn't work, though, saying, "Silly boy. That only works for *believers*." Kid looks at the cross, looks back at the vampire, hold the cross up again more *firmly*, and the vampire recoils.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Then there's the section in Rhiannon Shaw's fic where Aidan walks into the Raven and the silly fledgling challenges her and she ends up exposing her silver oak leaf to the room, and they all have to hide from the glare.

One other young one asks (very politely, later) what exactly that was, since it wasn't a cross. She sends her to go find a library that's open after sunset, and tells her to research pre-Christian religions. :)

[azurelunatic]

Hm. I remember *reading* it, and that it didn't work.

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

And if you don't remember it then, you will get a furious ear-licking. **pets**

[koshall.livejournal.com]

I can't remember which silly vamp movie it was, but I personally liked the one where the vampire looked at the guy holding the cross up to him and said "Oi vey, have you got the wrong vampire." in a heavy Gewish accent.

It made me giggle at any rate...

[azurelunatic]

Would make me snicker too.