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The right and left column on a pentagram

Stand at the head of a pentagram. With these movements you will be tracing the outline of this pentagram. Starting with your right foot, take three little steps forward and to the right. Experience your right column. Three steps back and to the left, and feel your left column. Starting with your right foot take three steps directly across to your right, moving and feeling into your right column. Now take three steps forwards and toward the left, into your left column. Then three steps back to the head, where you experience both columns. Repeat the exercise and pay attention how you step into the columns.

Try to keep the following in mind during the exercise:
  • How do you experience the transition between the two columns? Do you experience the next column before starting? Do you feel it as you are mid-movement? Or only when you arrive?
  • Can you experience the columns when you do the exercise quickly? Or does it take time get the desired effect?
  • Do the points at the “feet” of the pentagram feel differently than those of the “arms”?
  • Do the columns at the conclusion feel collectively different after you’ve experienced all four individually?