If you feel able to answer - what ways do you use to raise energy during a working?
I don't do much magic and usually use visualisation and then 'feel' the energy within me.
What about you?

Ed

Singing, dancing, walking in a circle and building up the speed Sex, sometimes.

As Pomona says, and anything rhythmical/repetitive, whether of movement or sound or both. Breath control too. Concentration too, maybe on a flame/object/thought. Depends on circumstances though.

I'm like you but, rather than use the energy in me, I feel the energy around me in the circle and draw it to me. It's better to use what's there than to use your own energy, especially if you need a lot of it.

In workings that can prove exhaustive or draining, like Gawain, I find it more effective to channel the energies around me. This has its various reasons, the main being that nature's potential is in the subtle. The subtle goes a very long way. Geostatic energy is actually a very fluid medium, so naturally water is an ideal element- also trees that thrive on underground springs. That does not say the other elements do not have their potential, as it is the megalithic builders knew how to channel earth energies. It is merely a question of their polarity at the appropriate time and place, thus the ability to sense this out, a definite asset to the working. The benefit is that protection becomes unnecessary by the fact of vector force resistence.

These days I find it better for my purpose to examine/sense/feel the overall energy both of a shaping or intended shaping, by doing what is called 'working the balance'. Finding where I was in a working, with consciousness of the flow within and without.
I used to pull various energies or raise energy using the usual methods, especially sex (just because it is effective and fast, lol) but over time I found that I was perhaps too often symbolising and personalising something that was best recognised but not categorised. Hope that is clear enough.

Tend to use the general consensus method of utilising the surrounding energies, no0t that I do much in the way of working really. Its got to be something pretty big with all other routes exhauted first. Although, I am naughty at times, for something small that just needs a nudge will often use my own energy to get the job done

I tend to use dance and song to build up energy in a physical sense, all the time inviting the Loa I'm working with to enter and work through me.

I also use visualisation of light in the appropriate magical colour building up from my feet to my head and then gathering in my hands. I don't use a wand - all my magic uses very physical, tangible things like herbs and candles, so I like to feel the energy streaming from my hands into the objects with which I'm working.

I use wyrd.

That's a very wide term - sometimes it's the energy available in my own reaction to something; or else it might be the energy already present in a situation.

For the best results, it seems to be the energies I can generate myself. But those are used to push wyrd i.e. work with the flow.

As to how: uh, that's difficult. Focus, mainly. Like a laser, narrowing light down to a point.

I used to use visualisation of light and work with candles and incense as a trigger - once this has built up I then tap into the surrounding energies and gather them in and outward! I also used to use a fab cd that had superb drumming rhythm if I needed to build up some serious energy for ritual.
These days standing in the garden and breathing in - feeling the earth and sun and drawing in seems to work well - it does not take much to gather what I need as I do not do so much craft work these days , or at least not much that needs a great deal of oomph!

My own variation of the Middle pillar ritual, but when I need a lot of energy Nei kung mixed with Mantra.

This might be a silly question (i'm sure that someone will tell me if is or not), can certain weather conditions help with the raising or the providing of energy in Magick or Ritual i.e. thunderstorms, gales etc? If so, how?

Weather conditions, yes, though not necessarily heavy weather as forces there tend to run quite amok. Rather highly quasi-static conditions where earth lights are frequent, i.e. still nights with relatively clear skies with some low level mist. Moderate ground winds, however, are also good for kinetic energy gathering. Static charges in conditions of high resistence are highly transcendental.

Heh dont make the mistake I made once of trying to "channel" energy from a thunder Storm... frazzled is not the word lol

I tend to use crystal energy in addition to drawing in energies. Crystals are really good for amplifing, tuning, channeling, containing and protecting the energies i've called.

Eh what?

middle pillar ritual - something to do with sex?

LoL its based on a Ritual used in the Golden Dawn you build up your aura, visulizing energy sphere's using the Tree of life read an exellent book byIsreal regardie.

Mostly I work with crystal and pyramid energies combined, but there are so many ways of raising energy, I suppose the easiest is to create a ball of energy between your hands, always worked a treat for me when I used to do it.

i like chanting visualisation and iv tryed the midle pillar but find it takes too long. Crystals are also a good one for me. if im working out doors i use trees just a touch then visualise.

Very much like myself there. hmmmmm... interesting.