As long as I am consistent with this, and apply the principal wherever it is applicable, it should be (and has been) effective. Clockwise involves a turn to the right, following the direction of the hands of a. Clockwise and anticlockwise are ways of indicating the direction of a turn. The movement in the counterclockwise direction, starts from the top, heads to the right, goes down. Anything additive or increasing is clockwise. Counterclockwise is the opposite sense of clockwise rotation. Now, for me, if I ever need to push something away, reduce, remove, or destroy something I work in the anti-clockwise direction.
what is the difference between banishing air, and invoking water? or banishing water and invoking air? (one could say 'color' but that just feels clumsy to me, as you are not beginning and ending at the same point.) however, as Witch-cat points out, its also important *how you apply* that shift in paradigm throughout your magical system. none of this "dawing towards or "drawing away" stuff, as this leads to contradictions. my pentagrams always start and end with the element in question and either go clockwise, or counter clockwise from that point. I personally, have reworked the entire system of "how to draw the pentagrams" so that it follows the clockwise/anti-clockwise paradigm. I would second what u/Witch-Cat is saying. Just like how the same fire that scorches people can be used to cauterise a wound, or how "I love you" can become bitter by surrounding "love" with scare-quotes, so too are the individual elements of a ritual informed by the greater context of the ritual surrounding it. What differentiates these isn't just "intention," it's how it's applied. Some people use a counter-clockwise motion to invoke calamity on someone due to the sinister associations with the left-side, some Hoodoo practitioners go with the motion of the sun to curse (by making the person die as the sun "dies" every night), and some witches go counter-clockwise for every rite to symbolise them going against the current path of the universe to cause change. Such binary thinking as "clockwise to banish, clockwise to invoke" will ultimately blind you to the greater uses and meanings of different symbolic tools and actions. Magic is a fluid and mostly poetic art, even in the rigid systems of the GD. Counter-clockwise seems to be most popular in US English, Anticlockwise in other English speaking cultures. The Lesser "Banishing" Ritual of the Pentagram chases away unwanted influences by invoking the name of God and the angels, hence the clockwise circumambulation.īut still, I'd caution against believing too much in that old axiom.
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