A while back my friend Alison Chicosky shared an intriguing idea with me about personifying concepts as a way of working with them as spirits. She shared that she worked with Health, Joy, Beauty, and other concepts as spirits. Her practice made me think of the Dragon Age video game series, where different emotions and concepts are treated as spirits.
For example, in the game there are demons associated with the 7 deadly sins of Pride, Wrath, Envy, Sloth, Lust, Greed and Gluttony. There are also virtuous spirits associated with concepts such as Courage, Curiosity, and Joy, to name a few. Each type of spirit has a specific domain it operates from that is based on the concept it represents.
I’ve played the Dragon Age series since it first came out, and I was always intrigued by how spirits are associated with concepts. I found that it fit in with my elemental magic work, where I worked with non-traditional elements such as Love, Stillness, Creativity and Emptiness. I’ve worked with elements that could be considered concepts because I also think they fit my criteria of what an elemental spirit is.
What this conversation with Alison, as well as the connection I made with a videogame series, did was give me another angle to consider: What if emotions are egregores?
If the answer is yes, how do we work with them as egregores?
We’re going to do a deep dive and explore how you could work with emotions as egregoric entities.
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