Circle Casting - do you or don't you?

[Beautiful Propaganda]

I definetly cast circles, always, because I'm a danger magnet. Stuff always attacks me, doesn't matter if it's mundane of magical.  

[Morgandria]

Not Like It Matters

I definetly cast circles, always, because I'm a danger magnet. Stuff always attacks me, doesn't matter if it's mundane of magical.

There's something to be said to that. There are things out there that are more likely to attack a heavily shielded or warded person/object/space, on the theory that whatever is being so heavily protected has to be worth cracking the shell on to get at. By layering on protection, you're making yourself a target - some entities will assume you're hiding something from them, some might take the excessive shielding as a challenge, and others will simply want to cause trouble.

Basically: if you make yourself too obvious a target, you are always going to be attacked - whether that's being openly unguarded and incautious, or going the other way and being over-protected.

I suggest perhaps finding a middle way - one or two things that help deter the worst of it, and dealing with individual situations as they arise.  

[GoddessAttuned]

Well even though I consider myself wiccan I am an odd mix of polythesism and eclecticism. I have found a balance of what I think is right, for most any spell or ritual I find that I cleanse the space I am working in, open my circle around me in a circular fashion though I have always imagined it as a small orb that surrounds the entire space that I am working in. And I also tend to envoke the elements and any friends spirits that wish to join me was I work.
Though not everything I do is so elabroate, I may simply light a candle or start an incence stick to envoke a feeling of quality into the room or my life. Then I don't find a need to do such when it is so simple a task.

 

[GoddessAttuned]

Morgandria

Not Like It Matters

I definetly cast circles, always, because I'm a danger magnet. Stuff always attacks me, doesn't matter if it's mundane of magical.

There's something to be said to that. There are things out there that are more likely to attack a heavily shielded or warded person/object/space, on the theory that whatever is being so heavily protected has to be worth cracking the shell on to get at. By layering on protection, you're making yourself a target - some entities will assume you're hiding something from them, some might take the excessive shielding as a challenge, and others will simply want to cause trouble.

Basically: if you make yourself too obvious a target, you are always going to be attacked - whether that's being openly unguarded and incautious, or going the other way and being over-protected.

I suggest perhaps finding a middle way - one or two things that help deter the worst of it, and dealing with individual situations as they arise.

Thats actually a really good way of thinking about it, I would have never thought of it that way.
hmm.
you make wonderful points.