greysorcery:

windvexer:

Let’s
start with a big fat

DISCLAIMER

• Growing
  astral limbs can have actual, physical effects on your physical body.
  It can cause soreness, pain, inflammation, rashes, or other symptoms.

• Growing
  astral limbs can suddenly make you uncomfortable where you once were
  not – if you grow a huge astral tail, it may make you suddenly
  uncomfortable sitting down in small school chairs.

• Growing
  astral limbs can cause damage to your astral body that will need
  healing.

• Taking
  care of your physical body takes care of your astral body, to a
  degree. Since you don’t have any physical wings or horns or tails to
  take care of, you will need to spend extra time taking care of these
  astral appendages.

• You
  will have to adjust many grounding/centering/cleansing exercises to
  ensure they do not erase your astral changes.

• Trying
  to shapeshift your entire
  astral body is a bad idea. What we are talking about right now is
  making some sweet dragon spikes or growing cute astral kitty ears. I
  am not talking about
  shapeshifting your entire body, which has far more serious magical
  repercussions.

Begin
with a personal cleansing of any sort to clean off any psychic gunk
you are carrying around.

Decide
what you want to grow. Just choose one small thing, like little demon
horns or a fox tail or a glittering forehead gem. It can be whatever
you want.

Enter
a relaxed state until you feel you are in touch with your
astral/energetic body. You do not need to physically ‘feel’ anything.
If it helps you, prepare a magical ritual to get you in that ‘zone’.

Connect
to a source of power.

Say
or think, “I am going to make changes to my astral body.” Use
your magical will to announce this to the universe and feel the
little ripples of power as you do. You have full control over your
astral body; you can change it as you please.

Say
or think, “I am going to grow some kitty ears/dragon spikes/demon
horns/etc.”

Imagine
exactly what you say to be so. Imagine yourself with the cutest
chobbits ears of all time, or a massive lizard tail, or whatever you
like. Channel the power you have connected to and pour it in to the
area, watching it take form as if it were liquid metal being poured
in to a mold. Fervently will this all to happen and understand that
external power is entering and enlarging your astral body.

At
some point you will likely feel “done”. Use a spell seal (“so
mote it be”) to close the ritual. Your goal is not to create and
perfect the entire addition right now, you just need to make the base
for it.

At
this time you may or may not feel your additions (likely not, if you
cannot feel energy in the first place). But don’t worry about this.
Trust that your magic has been done. This ritual is only necessary to
start off an astral addition; after that, focus and willpower should
do the trick. (Strictly speaking, this ritual is not necessary at
all, you can just skip to the next step. But I think it helps to get
things started).

Now,
it is time to do the detail work. Begin to behave as if this astral
addition was part of your physical body. Think about its appearance,
and how it moves, and how it affects your body. Flap your wings,
swish your tail, perk up your ears. The more thought you put in to
this, the more ‘solid’ and real your astral addition will become.

Once
you have given a little more substance and shape to your addition,
try testing it out in an astral space.

Removing
astral additions

To
remove all astral body mods, do a thorough cleansing and centering
that erases all astral additions and resets your energetic body to
match your physical body.

Reactions
from other people

Most
people do have a sense of the energies around them, whether or not
they realize it.

It
is foolhardy to believe that whatever additions you make to your
astral body will just be aesthetic. People will begin to react to
them. For you, cute horns may be just for fun; in a Christian
community, it could cause people to react badly.

I
may want to transform in to a terrifying Minotaur now and then, but
my need to maintain my relationships with friends, family, and
teachers is greater.

Additions
may also have a greater effect on you than you may initially realize.
As above, so below – what we add on to our astral selves will
affect us. This is why we bother to cleanse ourselves in the first
place – the astral junk that sticks to us has a real effect on our
bodies and minds. If you are interested in astral body mods, start
slow with something small and see how you like it, before you try and
turn in to a full harpy or something.

Seriously. The 3 months it took my wings to grow was seriously the most agonizing time period of my life. A pain so intense and feelings that felt so obnoxiously unnatural that it caused vomiting, sleep deprivation, and prolonged crying sessions. Not even to mention that strange bruises on my shoulder blades.

My exceptions:

A: Growing wings wasn’t a conscious choice for me. I didn’t even know what was happening until they were half way grown.

B: My wings, after they became complete, fold inside of my astral body. By that, I mean that they essentially go away. Whether or not I have them out or have them gone is a conscious decision in most cases.

C: (Idk if this is because I have been using my astral form for a long time and have acquired a skill for it or if I have a natural talent for it???) My astral form takes the shape of my emotions. More often than not, it is an aged version of myself. But it has done full-body changes. It’s been a salamander-humanoid, an avian-humanoid, a single point in space/time, an amorphous semi-solid, and also a version of myself except roughly 200 feet tall.

I can (and often do) grow 1-3 more arms as to help with casting spells on a semi-regular basis. I also fuse my astral weapons with my body on a less-than-regular basis.