Part 2: Yin Magic: How Rituals, Divination, and Protection Change During Exhaustion or the Winter Season

How does magic change with Yin energies?

Continuing on from my blog post about exhaustion and magic, while there may be some truth to this, working in Yin is not simply just “doing less” or “slowing down.” It is adopting the formats of magic altogether as a different set of spirits are involved, along with their mechanics. Below is an overview of what the magic looks like, what actions belong here, and what forms are no longer viable under Yin governance. (I elaborate MUCH more in Finding I Ching Clarity, a 24 part series on understanding the spirits of Yin and Yang, and how their lines interplay within the hexagrams of the I Ching, the oldest oracle still in use).

1. Magic shifts from “casting” to “conduction.”

The idea that magic begins with projection, intention, and will is largely a Western formulation. It emerges from Renaissance ceremonial magic, Enlightenment-era notions of individual agency, and the belief that the practitioner’s mind is the primary instrument of power.