Spirals & Spins

I was thinking about the old "clockwise for invoking, counterclockwise for banishing" canard, an it struck me. If this principle is valid, it means magick energy flows in a spiral. If it flows towards you it follows a clockwise (from your perspective) spin. And if it flows away from you, it flows in a counterclockwise spin.

So the spiral in the image, if we assume it increases in size as it gets closer, would be the approximate shape of the spiral (of course in three dimensions). If so, this could be applied to magical work targeting others. If you wanted to affect someone you would aim it at them and put a counterclockwise spin on it, as it would then be moving from you to them (clockwise from their perspective). It also seems to apply to reiki. Also, if true, could make for some very quick magical defence techniques. This raises some interesting metaphysical questions. 

With the model presented, to draw something to you, you would spin it clockwise on your end. If you look at the LRP (Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram), as you go along the cardinal directions you move in a clockwise direction relative to the ground you stand on, so you are drawing up earth energy

I believe that the idea of Invoking as the 'raising' of energy, and it's association with clockwise motion is a bit of a misunderstanding of the underlying principles o this spiral motion. So even when attempting to cast a 'positive' spell on another person, the motion is often clockwise.

You actually can't 'invoke' anything in to another person as 'invoking' has to do with drawing things in to yourself. The spin is simply the direction you send the energy. Clockwise is inwards (relative to you), counterclockwise is outwards (relative to you). So it's not the type of subtle energy that determines the spin, but where you what it to go.

I think this is where the idea of the quality and the spin got confused, as one normally sends unwanted or 'negative' energy away from oneself, and wanted or 'positive' energy towards oneself. So the associations of positive and negative got confused with clockwise and counterclockwise. This leads to some interesting magical models, for instance, if you want to set up a continuous flow between yourself and a target, you'd want to construct two spirals, one with a clockwise spin and one with a counterclockwise spin.

The classic 'Heart' shape is two golden spirals with opposite spins touching one another.