Is magic clothing a fetish or necessity?

    Clothing as a magic instrument

    Clothing is of a certain energy charge and carries the hidden information just like any other article. Any fabric manufactured of natural components bears the energetic memory of plants, wind and sunlight as well as the energy of anyone who have ever touched this fabric before you get it in the nature of clothing. It has been common practice among shamans and magicians from time immemorial to perform a special rite over clothes in order to take the unwanted information off and charge them with help of power-carrying incantations. Not only magicians abut also ordinary people both utilized clothes for merely practical purposes and turned element of dresses to useful account by treating them as protective and lack-attracting amulets. As for the human energetic structure, there are lots and lots of Nadi channels, through which vital powers are said to flow. Occultists and just sensible people always choose such clothes that get synchronized with individual characteristics of energy channels through their prints and grains and then strengthen the personal power. We may observe that clothes in many cultures are sure to have ornamented borders. There may be intricate patterns, embroidery, laces or just fabric strips of different colour sewn along the border. Borders of dresses are set off not for nothing or for the sheer sake of appearance. They are of the nature of amulets designed to protect all uncovered parts of a human body from the negative energy and invasion of evil spirits. Lines of patterned clothes makes the subtle level’s rhythm more precise and the energy vibrations more intensive rather than the self-coloured fabric. However, the self-coloured fabric itself was also considered by the Slavs the sufficient protection from evil spirits since in ancient times fabrics were manufactured with the help of the equipment decorated with special protective ornaments to be drawn while saying incantations so that evil powers could not infiltrate into the fabric in the course of its manufacture. Protective patterns along the hem, sleeves and the collar designed to shield uncovered parts of the body were also embroidered to the strains of incantations.

     Choice of casual clothes

    In our day-to-day life we do regularly meet various people, feel stressed and visit not really energetically clean places. So it is worth thinking of choosing clothes that will be your talisman and but not the cynosure for all eyes. First of all, detect the most active zodiacal sign of your horoscope, your most important planet and element, which may be done with the help of a professional astrologer. People of high susceptibility are able to sense their most important natural element themselves. However, it doesn’t hurt to consult a competent astrologer as in many cases it is required to strengthen not your dominant element but some other one that is weaker so that your wealth, health and fortune would be improved. Yet through all the variety of styles and colours looking well on different people, natural fabrics such as flax, wool, hemp and cotton are the best amulets for everybody. Ideally, synthetic materials shall be avoided as they cover your physical body only but you still remain unshielded energetically. If it is impossible not to wear synthetics, choose the undergarment of natural fabrics and wear synthetic overclothes only. In case you have already decided which energies of your biofield you would like to intensify, there are general recommendations for four elements in line with zodiacal signs.

     Fire element: orange, yellow and red colours as well as all fire-like shades. Styles: symmetric and regular cut, Slavic style. Ornamental motifs: pronounced geometric patterns, swastikas, triangles, squares, rhombuses, traditional Slavic embroidery, mythical birds, Phoenixes, horses and other solar symbols.  
 
     Water element: white, silvery, metallic, turquoise and dark blue colours as well as all shades of blue. Styles: asymmetry, smooth and roundish cut, free lines, transparent fabrics, long scarves. Ornamental motifs: smooth lines without sharp angles, circles, bud and open lotus patterns, mythical fishes, paisleys, complex Arabic ornaments.
 
      Earth element: beige, ochre, sand, brown, terracotta and pistachio-green colours as well as tints of light-green. Styles: symmetric, classic and tailored style or safari style. Ornamental motifs: pronounced sharp lines, zigzags, polyhedrons, stars, chequered patterns, frets and Celtic ornaments.
 
       Air element: dark blue, azure, grey, shades of purple colour. Styles: asymmetry, extravagance, romanticism, boho style, transparent fabrics and laces. Ornamental motifs: roundish and free lines, spirals, diagonal stripes, clouds, chrysanthemums, cranes, dragons as well as floral and Japanese patters.

       Ritual clothes

    Almost every religion has its unique dress code. Established and unchangeable through centuries dress order maintains the power (a sort of an egregore) passed down from preceding generations and gained by many adepts. Such clothing disposes an adept to harmonize his thoughts and helps him to progress to the particular consciousness state so that he could succeed in his religious practices. Such a tradition to maintain one and the same style of clothing for spiritual practices traces its origin to times immemorial. The specific ritual clothing of a shaman is of great importance for him and descends from one generation to another. The shamanistic clothing gains the egregore’s power and traditions and then endows its owner with supernatural abilities and protects him from the evil thanks to the said power. Every element of the shamanistic quack costume is of importance and holds its own meaning. It is connected with particular natural forces. Ideally, the shaman’s costume combines symbols of the heavens, earth, fire, water and air, the Sun and Moon, the cold and heat, the life, death and rebirth, various totemic animals and other important elements of the universe. Ritual clothes of magicians that belong to Western orders look like loose robes of medieval pilgrims and monks. They are with a face cowling hood and mandarin sleeves as well as are normally without ornaments and any other extravagances. Ornaments as protective clothing elements are essential for mostly ordinary people, who don’t practice magic and are hardly in touch with nature. The loss of touch with nature and abnormal living conditions make townspeople vulnerable to energy thrusts by ill-wishers and evil spirits. When being initiated and trained by the master, a magician learns to be a single whole with all natural elements, perceive and sense them as well as to live in harmony with them every single moment. Making no reference to horoscopes but just through his gut senses, the magician figures out the house in which the Moon is presently positioned or the nearest period of the solar eclipse. The flow of vital forces in his energetic structure is synchronized with rhythms and invisible ornaments of the life itself. Therefore, such trappings as protective clothing ornaments are not essential for magicians any longer so their clothes are quite simple.