Have you any idea of the panic you can cause a bunch of hardened steelworkers by fainting on the factory floor? Especially when you're a woman. Half of them are afraid to even touch you, convinced something seriously wrong has happened - when actually it was just me being careless with my own energy.

Honestly, the conversations I had after that one. When I finally came to, the estimates from my colleagues at the time ranged from hours to days. I'd guess it was seconds at most in reality (for reference, most of these men were old enough to be my dad, and some of them had granddaughters older than I was). I made it up to the Occupational Health office eventually. Blamed it on my period and not having had breakfast that morning. Didn't stop the full investigation, though, cos the lads genuinely thought they'd exposed me to something dodgy. Insisted on a full gas analysis and everything else.

(I went into some of the actual mechanics of opening and closing a ritual properly on the blog this week, if you want the fuller version of "for the love of God, close the thing properly.")

It took me a good while longer after that to learn energy management properly when it comes to ritual work. Even now it links more to my engineering training than my spiritual one. That's grand, actually. Engineers fix every leak before it becomes serious. That's exactly why I'm so strict now about having a firm close on a ritual. You don't want an energy leak from your own body and self. Dragging you down for days, weeks, or months before you even realise it's happening. It can have a genuinely dramatic effect. (See: entire factory shut down for a gas leak that was actually just me.)

Even a simple "I close this ritual now" is good enough. Learn from my mistakes. Seriously.

And if you are going to faint, maybe don't do it in the middle of a steelworks.

Bríd libh

Órlagh

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