There are two distinct varieties of safe personalized places... one is more for peacfull meditation, and the other is like a energy filling station. There are also any number of ways to make these places but I will cover my favorites here for the sake of brevity.

The first kind can be anywhere that is fairly private, that people will not visit often or come to disturb or bother you while you are in it. I would suggest choosing your own room for starters, or a quiet place in the wilderness if possible.

INDOOR DOMAIN

If it is your own room or the place is indoors, you don't have to do much more than meditating for a short period of time as often as possible (preferably every day). While you meditate clear your mind as usual, and feel the energies of that place condense as if you where creating a barrier or personal energy shield around yourself, but instead of focussing these energies to you, focus them to from a shell around the room. The best way to visualise this is as if the energy hardens and coats the walls of the room. This in fact could even be in a small room or even a coffin if that strikes your fancy. It is also recomended that when you are finished with this stage of the creation process, you find a few peices of Amythest, and place them anywhere in the room that you feel is nescessary. It also couldn't hurt to burn some inscense, and do a blessing or two in any fashion you follow.

All these things not only serve to protect the domain you have made for yourself, but also helps to make it more yours... You add your own energies to those of the room, and make it more like a part of you. This can even be done to an entire household if possible, and is HIGHLY recomended. However if you do not live alone, and especialy have non believers in your houshold, I would suggest you just make one room belong to you alone. Or the existance of such people freely roaming your domain, will serve to weaken the walls you have built, Remember these walls are potent protection from anything outside of them, but can be broken down from inside if care is not taken. Do not worry however, everytime you meditate and reform these walls they are strengthened and renewed.

Take care to occasionaly let the walls down in order to refresh the energies in the room, or it will become stale, and even though energies will never stop flowing even through your walls, they can be weakened severely by them if the walls are not refreshed often by taking them down and building them anew. The other reason for taking down these walls every so often is a lot like when you don't change your sheets or cloths often enough, no matter how clean you are, the cloths will still smell and be soiled by your wastes... The energy you give off continueosly will remain in this room and is unreclaimable. It leaves a trace that after while will make you feel ill... It is especialy advisable that you take down the walls and allow the room to breath after you have had an emotion hard hit, such as a break up, or death... These emotions will linger in the room, and though there is little doubt that while these emotions are running there course they are good for you, once the pain has gone away the leftovers in the room will be harmfull, and may keep you from getting over whatever it was that caused the pain.

It is also wise to clean your room or rearange things in it ever so often for similar reasons, like the Japanese rock gardens, the whole pattern of energy flow will change even if you move just one object in your room. This is good for you, and keeps the energies that come into the room always moving in a fresh way.

OUTDOOR DOMAIN

Choose a place outside that is fairly remote, and/or, does not see much in the way of traffic.

It is set up using similar Methods to the indoor domain, except this time it is not going to be an impregnable wall. It will be more like a border, through wich only what you wish will be able to pass. By that I do not mean that you can keep out the rain, or other people. However the area you have claimed, will, depening on your level of power and respect for the spirits in such a place, protect and nurture you. This place does not have to be maintianed very much by comparison, and does not need to be "Aired out" Like the Home Domain. Also unlike the home domain, It is not Realy yours... It is more like a haven that has accepted you...

Remember all things have enrgy in them, wich can be fed upon or asked by you to do your will. This is a large and dificult subject to explain without makeing an entire web site based on natural spirits and the like, but if you want to get a better Idea look up a book called "The 21 Lessons of Merlin." It can be found at any well stocked book store, and for all intents and purposes one of the best starters books for the druidic enthusiast.

In any case If you want to create this haven of sorts, All you need to do is first find the place you want it to be... Survey it for a while, make sure it is private... And NEVER disturb anything in that region without gaining the permission of the beings in it before hand. Accidental disturbance is fine, but don't go around breaking off tree limbs for fun till you contact the spirits first.

Next mark off either in your mind, or physicaly the boundary of the haven you want, it can be just about any size you want, but keep it humble... A good rule of thumb is if you can't make it from one side of the haven to the other in less than five minutes, it is too big for your needs. In time you can think about making them bigger, but that requires other skills to do safely and properly, for info on that Look in the Afformentioned book in the chapter about the Wild Hunt... In any case make the borders of this haven distinct, either using land marks, or markers you set up. If you wish to place permanent markers such as carvings in trees, or large stones, only do so when you have felt that you are a welcome guest to this area... Otherwise take a fallen stick or carry a canteen of water you have had a chnace to touch with your energy. And mark your proposed territory, The water works best in heavily wooded areas. Sprink the water every so often sparingly, or drag the stick behind you marking your path as best you can, They do not have to fall on or touch the ground, as you are just signifying to the spirits of the area of your intent.

Then go to a spot in the proposed haven, try to find a spot that is friendly to visitors... By that I mean a small clearing with a place to sit, or a large stone upon wich you may sit etc. Get comfy and begin to meditate... Let your energies flow with the universe around you, and when you feel like you are in touch with your surroundings enough, try to send out a message to the spirits. If they are listening, and you where loud enough they will make themselves known to you, in any number of both subtle and grand ways. Usualy however, you will just be snapped out of your trance by a brid call, or sound in the woods. Other times you will be snapped out of the trance by a feeling of being watched or to put it bluntly you will get spooked. Do not allow the fear to grip you, if they wanted you dead, you would be by this point I am sure. Just try and relax, and when you feel that you have made contact, either mentaly project in the most respectful way you can, your request... or similarly speak it aloud. If they agree to your terms you will know somehow, it might be another spooky feeling or another noise. If nothing happens they probably do not want to support your idea, or you havn't given them any reason to do this for you. In fact sometimes you may get revelations about what the spirits want in return... Sometimes in exchange for the rights to use this area, they will want you to protect it, or give them occasional gifts... DO whatever you feel is fair, and above all be respectful!

When a deal has been struck, you will not need to do any more buisness with the spirits, from that point onward this area is yours, and you may do with it what you wish, however you may feel guided by these spirits to do things a certain way. This place however is for all intents yours when you are in it. When you leave it returns to the rightful owners. While you are in this area you will be protected from most dangers, or even strangers. But the level of protection varies from place to place, and the one who is the user of the haven. Most often you will just be free to practice any magick or what have you, as you desire, as well as be able to feed from the things around you. Also all negative energies that are not of a natural kind will not be permitted to enter, and if it does enter It will leave shortly. You will find you will come to know this area and the things that live in it very well indeed if you spend much time in it, and may even discover that there may be some truth to the legends about faries and such. The sky is the limit.

Once you have made the deal, set up your new haven as you see fit so long as it is respectful of the inhabitants of the area. You may carve in runes on the tree's, camp out there, pretty much do whatever. But always respect those spirits in this place, try to remember to great them in some way when you arrive and say good by and thank them when you leave. you can even befreind them, just try talking to them... Like I said the sky is the limit. But never act like the area is only yours, you may do as you wish in it, you may even scare away others by CLAIMING it is yours to them. But never beleive this to be the case. At most you share it.

NEVER EVER without permision set up a permanent dwelling there, unless it is like a small hut or lean to. These are fine because they are made primarily of things found in the haven itself. But if you defile the place by making it a new condo, or something, expect problems. If it is being developed by others you can try to defend the area, but it is not necsessary to do so unless that was a condition of your useing the place. The spirits know that all things must change for better or worse, and if they choose to they will fight back. But more often than not they just either change with the area, or leave it.

be sure to set up some kind of protective circle and place sources of power within your haven, there effects will be mulitplied. Also if you are into magick or the occult in anyway, you will find your spells have more power in your haven then almost anywhere else. If you ever learn the ways of the Druid, you will find ways to actualy make the haven more like your domain. As well as other nifty little perks. I suggest doing some research on Druidism, you might be happy you did.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

In closing I must say I covered a lot of facts for such a small site, feel free to print any of what I have said here for your own use. I would recomend you do anyway. Also the methods for creating a Haven, as well as a Domain, can be altered in any number of ways as you feel nescessary. What works better for you is all it is about. Above all though, no matter what technique you use... When you are creating a Haven, be VERY RESPECTFUL of the spirits and beings in the area. If you keep this in mind, you can't go wrong. You may not get what you want, but you at least won't be in any kind of trouble... Also I can accept that there a many people out there who do not beleive in spirits, this is fine, just remember when enough energy is amassed in one place, the place always gains a persona, Like a haunted house, or old battlefield. Just remember to treat the place with respect, and you will not go wrong.

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