Journal Akenu - Working with elements

[akenu]

I've devised the following plan for the elemental working:



Each week I will focus on a single element, in the following order:

• Fire
• Air
• Water
• Earth
• Akasha

I've chosen this particular order as: Air naturally divides Fire and Water; Earth is the encompassing element of all three, and Akasha is the final element: the source of the other 4.

My devised plan for the practice:

• Gnostic pentagram ritual with the elemental pentagram of the week (invocation in the morning, banishing during the evening)
• Trataka with the tattva of the element of the week
• Accumulation and release of the element
• Visualization of the tattva whenever the time permits

So, on Monday I will start with the first element in the cycle: Fire. This is the tattva I will use for trataka and visualization:

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[akenu]

The first day was kinda uneventful. Despite a slight boost in confidence, I also got a bit chippy.

One interesting thing happened during my evening travel from the office. On the hot train with a broken AC, I seemed to handle the heat a bit better than the rest of the passengers.

Still, today made it painfully obvious that I haven't worked with elements in a while; hopefully, one week should be enough for each element.

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Day 2 update:

The chippiness faded.

Anyway, two interesting things happened today. Thing number one: Whenever I visualized the tattva, I felt warmth.

Thing number 2: During my evening trataka session, as I gazed at the tattva, it began to change, morphing between red and orange. The following afterimage also seemed to be pulsating.

 

[akenu]

Day 3 was quite uneventful.



On Day 4, while trying to visualize the elemental pentagrams as red, they appeared orange for some reason; I couldn't really control the color myself.



During the day, while I was accumulating the fire element, it dawned on me. I could accumulate the fire element in the morning right after the Gnostic pentagram ritual and practice the release right before the evening ritual. It's not ok I came up with this mid-week, but from tomorrow on, I will do it this way.



Other than that, the fire tattva still glows orange for me even while it is red, but only during the evening trataka, not during the morning gaze.

 

[akenu]

It seems the Fire element has become casual to me. I feel normal with the accumulated element.

However, once I release the element, or even banish it with the Gnostic Pentagram Ritual, it seems I get hotter; it looks like my thermoregulation works better with Agni than without.

And, as always, the tattva seemed to glow orange during the evening trataka session, but not during the morning one.

 

[akenu]

Day 6:

Today it once again seemed that holding the fire element within makes my thermoregulation better than usual.

Other than that, today I broke the habit of doing only the exercises related to the project. I had to mow the lawn and couldn't help but pass the time by chanting the Kalachakra mantra.

Day 7:

The final day of the Fire element is behind me. Today I have used the symbol of Agni for trataka multiple times during the day, and yet again, only the final trataka has shown the symbol as orange.



And once again, it seemed that my body thermoregulates better when the Fire element is within. Heat seems natural, and cold just brushes off my skin. Let's hope that working with the Air element will be as illuminating.



For the next week, the tattva of Air (Vayu):

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Day 8:

This was the first day of working with the Air element (Vayu). I have to say the weather today was pretty cold, and I missed the warm embrace of the Fire element. On the other hand, the windy weather was perfect for the accumulation of lightness in the body.

One weird experience during today's commute makes me think that the Air element has something to do with intuition, but I am not going to describe the event for privacy reasons.

It also felt that the time was sluggish today; it felt unnecessarily long to get through the day.

Another weird thing happened during the evening trataka. The normally blue circle representing the Air tattva suddenly seemed purple for the gaze. The follow-up afterimage was yellow with jagged edges (sort of like flower petals), was spinning fast, and slowly getting smaller. I have no idea how this happened, but it was interesting nonetheless.

After the final release and banishment of the element, I realized my body suddenly felt heavy. I guess the Air element did bring some spring to my walk, and I got used to it during the day.

 

[akenu]

Day 9:

Nothing out of the ordinary happened today. The afterimage of the Air tattva was yellow both during the morning and evening trataka. However, only during the evening trataka was the image spinning.

What is interesting is that the afterimage's color matches the color of Earth's tattva. Maybe the water tattva should be the opposite of the Fire tattva; definitely gotta try to color match it before the new week begins.

Day 10:

Oh boy, where to begin...

First, I am a bit frustrated with the traditional definition of the Air element as being hot and moist. For me is colder and definitely not moist, but light and moving, more windy than anything else.

Today I did some extra reading on the Air element, and interestingly, it is associated with Prana, as the breath of life. So from that perspective, Pranayama and Chi Kung work with the Air element.

Today I've also tried the Posism for the Air element based on Lasenic's work, and I have to say it works for me; the room immediately felt as if a light breeze were passing through.