How to Raise the Tower of Light as Psychic Protection in Wicca

1. Block out a Supernatural Entity. Be it a haunting or something nasty on the astral plane, we're not always open for business.
2. Block out Background Psychic Noise. This tends to be the myriad emotions found in crowded places.
3. Repel a Psychic Vampire. Ever felt like all your energy has been sapped, or your feelings of inadequacy grow by the second, in the presence of a certain person?
4. Repel Psychic Attacks. Unfortunately witch wars can and sometimes do erupt, reacting with defense means not giving up on 'harm none', even the likes of them.
5. Peace of Mind. Don't laugh, we all have the capacity to freak ourselves out, and throwing up the Tower of Light is one way to trick ourselves into believing we've fought off the baddie. You never know. Perhaps we have.

Those are the five major reasons why Wiccans might seek out psychic protection methods. 

I've personally gone for the Tower of Light several times in the first category. Once in the fourth, wherein my experience in psychic self-defense was fortunately able to cut through my shock in discovering psychic attacks were actually real. Until then, I thought it was all the power of suggestion triggering some serious episodes of headology.

But the vast majority of occasions when I've raised the Tower of Light belong to that final category. I panicked, threw the psychic protection up, took a breather, stopped panicking and brought it down again. I strongly suspect that's true for most Wiccans.

So what do we do? We filter it out. At least those bits which aren't entirely necessary to keep us alive and present in our surroundings. It's all still there. We just learned how to be discerning.  Human beings have such a great capacity for ignoring what it pains them to acknowledge.

In part, this is what we're going to invoke, when we raise the Tower of Light. The rest is reaching into the great Earth energies, and more specifically those we conduit through ourselves, then dragging them like a comfort blanket or a cocoon about our psychic field.

Or, as I like to describe it, sticking a Ready Brek glow onto our auras.

If you have any understanding of Chakhras or the Qabalah, then you'll grasp the esoteric rationale behind the Tower of Light. If you're familiar with the work of Dion Fortune, then what are you doing here?  You already know way more than there's scope to discuss in a basic tutorial like this.

As for everyone else, you'll just have to trust me. The Tower of Light works. Just remember to take it down afterwards, if you want to feel anything ever again.

Step One: Don't Panic

• Stand up (if you're able, no biggie if you can't). Back straight, shoulders back, arms limp, legs slightly apart, relaxed.
• Close your eyes.
• Concentrate on your breathing - inhale for the count of six, hold for three, exhale for the count of six. Continue until it's so natural a rhythm that you don't even have to think about it.

Step Two: Raise your Arms Above your Head

• Keep them relaxed, you're not doing aerobics.
• Palms turned inward, like you're holding a huge beach ball wider than your shoulders.

Step Three: Imagine a Big Ball of Glowing Light

• Turn the beach ball of your imagination into a ball of light. You'll know you've got it, when you feel the warmth in your hands. Some people even glimpse the glow through their closed eyelids.
• Hold the energy. Play with it. Feel it latch onto your hands. Know that it's in your grasp. Let it grow and shrink with the movement of your palms, closer, further away, it's your ball of light.

Step Four: Draw the Light Down Around You

• Lower your arms in an arc on either side.
• Know that you pulled the light downwards attached to your hands.
• Picture the light flowing around your whole body.
• Envision the light continuing down through sheer momentum, as your arms reach their limit.
• Let your hands meet naturally in front of you.
• See the light closing beneath your feet, under the ground/floor. (It's light, it's not confined by matter.)
• Understand that you are standing inside an oval cocoon of moving energy. Within a glowing egg, if you prefer, but not nearly so fragile.

Step Five: Raise your Arms Again

• Note how the cocoon of light moves with you. It's a fortress, but a flexible one. You've bound it to your astral form, not the space in which you stand.

Step Six: Touch the Electric Blue

• Palms out, grasping the still glowing nucleus of the ball above your head.
• Feel the energy of electric blue particles buzzing about inside the golden ball.

Step Seven: Release the Electric Blue

• Lower your arms.
• Picture the electric blue energy zooming through your golden borders.

Now breathe. You have raised the Tower of Light. You ARE the Tower of Light, and you are fabulous! Nothing can attack you on a psychic level, while you are inside there.

Ghosts may stalk unseen, but you will barely know they're there (if you sense them at all). Dodgy witches can chuck their worst in your direction, but it'll all bounce off harming none. The whole world can be in crisis simultaneously - you can chat, act, see, but not feel it as an overwhelming mass. Bring on the psychic vampires and let them starve.

As for your own mind, it's in there with you, but now you've given it all the attention it craves. Let it take the comfort.

And when the universe seems safe again, just do the above in reverse to take down the Tower of Light. Your psychic self-defense worked.