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It's been said- When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

What allows a person to be "ready" for a teacher?

No one can walk the path for you, really. You have to take it yourself. No one can love yourself for you, you have to do that for yourself before anything else.

Is it correct in saying that a teacher is there to provide some amount of clarity? There's only so much someone can help you if you don't help yourself first.

In this sense, don't they act much like a guide does- in terms of that guide being similar to something like tarot, or I-ching.

If our paths are already chosen for us, and our purpose in life is already set...

what, exactly is the point of these tools? of a teacher, or even someone who acts as an oracle?

How much choice do we really have in anything? How much free will?

Currently I'm a bit baffled and conflicted over how these two relate.

It makes sense to say that very few people are ever ready for relationships, by simply looking at divorce rate.

So what does it take to be spiritually ready for a relationship? How complete do you have to be as a person? One has to be past their clouded perceptions of the person they are attracted to here...and they had to have dealt with their own shadow completely and come out the other side; as well as complete self-love?

Then of course there's the topic of tantric yoga, and sex magic. The need to be pure before doing anything of the sort...or isn't it black magic?

I've read before that when two people are together, they resonate, creating a higher/stronger channel than they would by themselves. And that when it no longer works/the forces involved no longer have need of it, the two are brought apart again to make room for something more evolved. How applicable is this to everyday affairs?

Both people change a lot in any given relationship. But how does one know he/she is ready for one?

What of "princess" energy...and sex in general in terms of how it bonds people in intuitive ways?

Hello everyone...

I'm mostly seeking advice here, being new to the forum. Finding a place this active online is really wonderful.

I have friends who could help me with the issues I'm going through, but I have reason to think there is bias it what they have to see and seek an outside opinion.

I've been meditating on/off and studying the metaphysical end of things for the last 5-6 years or so. I'm pretty young(18), and quite naive. I know I need help and have to do more research and reading.

I've had my share of odd experiences...am currently astrally bonded to my boyfriend of one month. Seemingly out of control, we lucid dream of each other, on a semi-regular basis, and there's electricity almost- when we touch. It's been a little crazy, with ups and downs.

He's been scryed with a lightning bolt symbol by a friend of ours, so has no choice but to follow the path he's on. Currently, this friend has reappeared in our lives. He only shows up when he's needed, and is very apt at reading others...a master of his area. I am going to talk to him again one day.

I, on the other hand, can still go in any direction. Right now, I know I'm not ready for things like the LBRP(lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram), although I've already studied some of it, and performed it once last april.

I'm most interested in the concequences/results of the LBRP. Since I did it that one time, a lot has happened. I got into a car accident, totaling my car.(Lucky I live on campus at the college I go to) I was magnitized, by what felt very much by forces out of my control to my current boyfriend, who is more of a partner than anything else, but has acted as a distraction lately. These forces are something we've both felt. When we first connected- he could hear and see everything I was doing apart from him for a few days on end. Moving on, I stopped being a part of my father/brother's lives when they are together. My parents are split up, my brother and dad don't get along- much like I didn't get along with my father at my brother's age(12). I realized for the first time it's not my battle anymore, and I won't have anything to do with the two of them together till they compromise. I'm closer to my mother. I changed my major from psych to education/art. I've changed alot- noticably among my friends.

I only did it once, and not to my full capacity, I can't help but be nervous to do it again. I know ritual magick is my path. The main reason I can't start on LBRP(which is the basis for doing anything else)...is the results from a tarot reading I did last night. The fool, reversed...and a 5swords as final outcomes. Right now, if I keep doing ritual the way I have- starting LBRP would create a lot more changes I don't know if I can handle right now. I don't get enough sleep, don't study enough. The negative influences of that would be destroyed. I have to regain focus, or it will be my ruin.

LBRP, I know- allows you to know yourself better, expands your aura as well. A friend of mine, before I knew him did the LBRP for seven months or so, dedicated every day, with the intention of changing his life. He was living far from home at the time. He got what he put in- his life changed, certainly. His girlfriend broke up with him, he lost his job, and his apartment. What freaked him out enough to go back home was the moment his mother called him. These were all negative influences in his life, the forces involved pushed him in the direction he should be going in by pulling him out of the direction he shouldn't be going. He's working again now, writing a book, getting his life together and planning to go to college one day.

I'd like to know what you guys here think of all this, the LBRP. I couldn't be happier to be here. Tarot/I-ching is really helping point out what directions are right and what I have to fix in my life before I start LBRP. If I don't abolish negative influences in my life, I know once I start LBRP- the forces involved will take over.

And I'm sure everyone has some amount of bias in terms of what they think is a negative influence in their life. I'm scared out of my mind with so many changed, but I'm trying to take it one step at a time.

This entire thread was incredibly helpful. Thanks to all of you.

(Yes, I did draw a circle and define a destination...I feel more focused now....)

Thank-you.

No problem, thank-you. <3