[Tutorial] Dealing with the heatwave

[akenu]

A heatwave has swept across Europe. While we cannot do much with that, we can at least make it a bit more manageable.

To use this spell, you have to charge it first. Hop into a shower and make it as cold as you can withstand. As you adapt to the cold, feel free to make the shower colder.

While in the shower, focus on the cold water flowing around your body. Focus on the feeling of water cooling you down. As you do so, vibrate the following formula: JA MEI ZAMA. Associate the feeling of cold with this formula.

Do the above for a couple of minutes. After that, when you are outside, and you feel too hot, just focus on the feeling you had in the shower and vibrate the formula again.

 

[OberonFromTheHills]

Thank you. Where do those words come from?

 

[HoldAll]

Je mi zima (as in Czech for "I'm cold")?

 

[Morell]

"Mei" might be misspelling. In that case @HoldAll translated it correct.

 

[HoldAll]

Oops, I hope I haven't put a jinx on that spell.

 

[akenu]

Je mi zima (as in Czech for "I'm cold")?

That is correct. It's my way how to quickly create new incantations, take a phrase and modify the letters a little bit.

 

[Morell]

That is correct. It's my way how to quickly create new incantations, take a phrase and modify the letters a little bit.

That's actually good idea.

 

[Divinewhisper07]

Sounds like a terrible news

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Effects of global warming is a serious issue to nature as well us to humans

 

[wilgefortis]

A heatwave has swept across Europe. While we cannot do much with that, we can at least make it a bit more manageable.

To use this spell, you have to charge it first. Hop into a shower and make it as cold as you can withstand. As you adapt to the cold, feel free to make the shower colder.

While in the shower, focus on the cold water flowing around your body. Focus on the feeling of water cooling you down. As you do so, vibrate the following formula: JA MEI ZAMA. Associate the feeling of cold with this formula.

Do the above for a couple of minutes. After that, when you are outside, and you feel too hot, just focus on the feeling you had in the shower and vibrate the formula again.

thanks now I no longer have to be walking about with my makeup melting down my face like I'm some melting wax figure

 

[akenu]

Sounds like a terrible news

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Effects of global warming is a serious issue to nature as well us to humans

Yup

 

[Morell]

It's actually nice to see people using czech language for magic.

 

[akenu]

Well, Bohemia was the center of the Magickal world for quite a while. Edward Kelley's tower, etc.

 

[Beyond Everything]

Europe is heating twice as fast as most of the rest of the planet (unless the AMOC collapses, which would send Europe in the other direction in an equally dire way). The future is very bleak. I've heard of people attempting to use magic and 'deities' to mitigate the general climate trends, but I haven't seen the slightest bit of evidence of it working.

 

[Swampdweller900]

Je mi zima (as in Czech for "I'm cold")?

"Zima" also means "winter" in most Slavic languages. There's a different word for cold entirely, variations of the word holodno/hladno.

For anyone new to extreme heat, a few tips from someone that has spent decades in the desert:

- Stay hydrated!!!!!!!!!! Bring water with you!!!!!! The chances of you being too hydrated are small compared to being too hot.

- It's always cooler under a tree.

- Use evaporation cooling. A wet rag or bandana around a bottle of water will keep it cool. A wet head band or wet bandana around your neck makes a huge difference. A nice breeze and a spray bottle can save lives.

- Light colors reflect heat, light and loose clothes let your sweat become evaporation cooling. There's no bad weather, just bad clothes.

- Take breaks, don't over-exert yourself, and if you ever feel a chill or cold, confused, nauseated, stop sweating, get cramps, or feel dizzy, that's likely heat stroke, and can be deadly. Know your limits.

- It's only June, so for anyone looking long term solutions, if you go for a run or hard workout in the heat of the day for 6 weeks, you'll push your body to adapt faster to the heat. This is the opposite end of the spectrum for cold exposure. Usually, it's better to start this around May and work up to the full summer. For what it's worth, I do hot and cold exposure and once I work up to it, 30-35C is my happy place each summer. Then each fall I work back down with cold exposure to 10-18C as my happy place.

 

[Firetree]

The spell that has saved me at times in this hot climate ;

keep your clothes wet . As it evaporates its very cool in there . Some say ; ''I am not going to do that and walk around in wet clothes .''

Ohhhh ... you will , eventually . The sweat will wet them anyway .

 

[Morell]

Not only clothes. Very effective is watering your head. The hair keep some water on. Cooling the head is very effective for me...

On funny note, I imagine myself a vampire for my practice. These days I imagine myself being a vampire in some sort of Cryo Chamber. Can't explain though, why am I sweating there.

 

[PinealisGlandia]

I shook my wizard staff at the sky and demanded some rain to cool things down. It's rained three times since I did that, small cloudbursts. I'm right in the center of where the heat wave in the USA is and it's been manageable.

 

[akenu]

I shook my wizard staff at the sky and demanded some rain to cool things down. It's rained three times since I did that, small cloudbursts. I'm right in the center of where the heat wave in the USA is and it's been manageable.

Interesting, what kind of wizard staff are you using?

 

[Firetree]

any one of these would do it

You guys STILL got that heat wave going up there ????

 

[PinealisGlandia]

Interesting, what kind of wizard staff are you using?

A good (big) stick I trimmed of all the bark and wrapped in twine. I was going to laquer it, but I put it off for years and it seems to be fine, so I think I'll just hold onto it as it is and replace it with another good big stick if the time ever comes where it's degraded. Pretty sure it's oak, but tbh it's source is "found wood out of someone's yard while I was on a walk".

Having had a few wands and staves in my time, I think the most important part of the stick is that you use it. There's just something about this universe that enjoys a human waving a stick around. It's got good chi. I think shouting helps too, or at least soft-yelling. I don't use any "barbarous words" or anything like that, a near direct quote of what I whisper-shouted (I have neighbors) at the sky: "Rain! Rain! We need rain, so rain! I want rain! Raaaaaaaaain!". Not more than 30 minutes later, we got a little sprinkle. I don't want to oversell it, it really was just a light sprinkle for a minute or two, but it was welcome relief on a 105° day. I feel it's important that I had two witnesses, my wife and our neighbor. We were having a conversation about the heat wave, I mentioned some rain would help break the heat, then I remembered my stick and grabbed it out of the closet to go shake at the sky. Very shortly after that, rain.