Cord cutting is a ritual done to remove unhealthy energetic attachments between
yourself and another person or persons. I believe that Diane Stein was the
first to detail this protocol in her book "Psychic Healing With Spirit
Guides and Angels." I will transcribe her tech and append a number of
variations that may suit your occasion. This is well-worked magickal practice
which has developed considerably since her writing.
It is illuminating to consider what these cords are. The theory is that
they are the visualized energy transfer conduit between two people. One is
usually the donor, and one is usually on the receptive end. It is a
relationship of dependency between a stronger being and a weaker being. If this
is sounding unhealthy already, good! However, it has been theorized that these
conduits are modeled after the umbilical cord. Your first cord cutting ritual
was at birth! That was the severance of the meat of the cord, but there is usually no doubt that
an energetic cord of (hopefully) healthy dependance remains between
baby-child-young adult and their parents. Cords also form along this umbilical
model between friends, lovers, spouses, employees and employers...and
unfortunately between predators (aka energy vampires) and their prey.
Because we are all people somewhere on the spectrum of mental health and
emotional unbalance, with motives from pure to puerile, there are many
opportunities for cords to be formed, whether we like it or not. Some of these
connections are healthy, others codependent, others outright malicious.
Diane Stein's original exercise goes:
"Enter the meditative state, ground and center, do full body
relaxation, and invite in your spirit guides, angels, and God/
Goddess/Source. Place protection around yourself. Look within and
ask your guides to show you the first layer of negative chakra cords
to be removed. Look at your solar plexus first. You will see coming
from that center one or more of what look like electric cords plugged
into it. They will seem ugly, dark, or moldy looking, and of various
sizes and thicknesses.
Pick one to focus upon and ask whom it is connected to. You will see,
feel, or know ther person. If it feels right, ask to cut the cord; if
it doesn't feel right, there will be another time. Cutting the cord
does not harm the other person in any way, it just frees your energy
from that person. To cut the cord, visualize scissors or light doing
the job, or ask your guides to cut it or unplug it like a lamp. The
cord will snap back to the person it came from; if it doesn't or there
is a root of it left, ask your guides to take it away. Send light to
the person who has been released, if you can, then fill yourself with
healing light where the plug came out to heal the chakra."
I was taught a variation of this by
Reclaiming
teachers. We would go to each chakra in turn, starting with the Root Chakra and
proceeding up to Third Eye. If you just do Solar Plexus cords, you would miss
the cords attached to your Heart with an ex who you can't get over, or the Root
Chakra dependencies with a boss who uses your paycheck or job security as a way
to control you, and so forth. I disagree with her that there is any “need to
know” who the cord is shared with. “Needing to Know” is a trait of obsession
which only benefits either the unhealthy attachment at hand, or the tendency to
enter into others in the future.
There is no need to cut cords from the Crown Chakra. This is the chakra of the
Higher Power, and cords to this chakra only attach to the Divine nature we all
share.
We also used actual knives to cut our cords, and the ideal would be your ritual
Athame. I have a very gnarly Boline for this work!
Some cords of love lost or codependency are re-formed out of habit, and this is
why we should repeat this operation every day for a week or so to get over
whatever grief or unhealthy attachment.
Some very persistent Energy Vampires are very aware of this magickal act, and
will know when their feed tube is cut off, and reattach it. I have heard of and
used a couple of these strategies, but really this is a very rare situation
which should be scrutinized to eliminate that the source is not an internal
one.
1) First, realize that any agent who seeks to feed off your energy is
inherently confessing that they are weak and you are strong. This knowledge
will ALWAYS give you the advantage in such a struggle. Most victims feel
powerless compared to their predator, but this is a cheap mind trick which is
often the ONLY developed skill of the vampire. If they were truly more powerful
than you, they would not need you at all.
2) Use
Banishing
oil or
Four
Thieves Vinegar to rinse the ritual knife, athame, scissors, etc., before
and after the cord cutting. Four Thieves Vinegar is used to eliminate and bring
dissolution to enemies, hexes, and the like. The
Witch Bottle
technology is a similar way to diffuse negative magick sent your way.
3) Instead of allowing the cord to "snap back" to the vampire, plug
it back into either the Crown Chakra or another Fountain of positive energy
such as a
Unicorn
Spirit Guide, Guardian
Angel,
or the like. The needy party is then flooded with more energy than they know
what to do with, and become healed by communion with the Divine. Sometimes
otherwise positive romantic relationships can become discordant or veer into
unhealthy or codependent terrain. You might try re-attaching your cords to your
Beloved to the Crown Chakra, to bring the relationship back under the
guardianship of each other's Higher Power.
4) Instead of allowing the cord to snap back, plug it into some large,
immobile, and useless material object, such as a junk van on a wrecker lot, or
a building that is always on the market that nobody will buy. This connection
will cost the parasite more energy than they can afford, and theoretically they
will give up after a few more attempts to re-attach.
5) You can hand the severed cord off to any
God, Goddess,
Spirit Guide, Totem
Animal, or Ancestor that you are on good terms with, and ask them to take
care of this for you.
6) Attach the severed cord to a mirror. Put the mirror in a black bag or pouch
some place away from your home where it will be undisturbed for some time. This
metaphysically causes the perpetrator to reflect on what they are doing and
receive the energy they are giving.
Some of these techniques are tried and true, and others are more experimental
Defense
Against the Dark Arts. I would definitely ask for feedback on how these or
the many other versions have worked for you.
Most importantly, since Nature and Magick abhor a vacuum, return to mundane
life and replace the negative energies with
protection,
self
blessing,
forward focus, and dedication to your own Will. DO NOT OBSESS on your little
problem. (Vampyers love obsession...) Try to think of it as something you will
have to remind yourself to do, like taking an antibiotic on time every day.
Other than that, you have much more important things to do with your life!
Cedar Stevens
Sept 2012
