🧲 Energy and Elements - KB to AEON plus Hero

[summit]

Khan Black wasn’t on my bingo card for 2025, but here we are… with the release of AEON, I opted to do at least the recommended minimum to get the most out of it.

Currently, I’m a few loops into stage 2 of Khan Black, so only 10 more weeks or so before I run AEON, if I opt to only do the minimum…I may run a second cycle beforehand, or maybe alongside, idk.

Then there’s Hero: The Light that Blinds…that one is 99% guaranteed to rotate into the stack at the start of the next cycle. I don’t know which stage I’ll run first, but Earth is a good bet as it should have good synergy with the energy development of Khan Black.

It’s going to be an interesting 6-7 months working with my energy in ways I hadn’t planned on…

And this is the basic overview of my experience with Khan Black so far:

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Just a few loops into stage 2 and noticing how different the energy moves compared to stage 1. It’s more subtle and subdued, but not absent – the drive and willingness is still there but the impulse feels like more of a suggestion than a command. On stage 1 I experienced (many) sexual energy surges that led to a couple of experiences of intense pleasure that I hadn’t experienced in months with my girl (we already have a pretty good baseline but this was off the charts for both of us, and she to…

[summit]

Well, if I had to summarize stage 2 of Khan Black in a single word I probably would’ve said “underwhelming” about a week ago…

Not much changed over the course of a single cycle of KB2 after my initial impression of: the sexual energy moves more subtly and it feels subdued.

How I expressed the KB2 vibe with my girl mirrored that sense of subdued sexual energy: I wouldn’t say I was dispassionate during sex, but I didn’t experience anywhere close to the feeling of pleasure that was “off the charts” like I had during my cycle with stage 1 of Khan Black. (We still had good sex, but I noticed a “dip” of some kind in how I tapped into the pleasure…and I didn’t expect a sense of “less” compared to KB1)

In the short term, I was a little put off by the effect. But I realized that I probably should’ve passed on a few sessions and channeled that energy elsewhere. So, I started paying closer attention and did that.

By the end of the cycle, it felt like my sexual energy had balanced out…no hard swings in either direction…and my mood consistently felt pretty good, which translated into more fun.

[summit]

Still on the “KB to AEON” path, but it’s taken a major detour thru Hero-ville…

By the end of the 4th stage of KB, I decided against doing the minimum requirement to run AEON: another round of Khan Black will be good practice at harnessing my sexual energy (which I am not good at yet), and running Alchemist alongside would probably be fun since I’ve never run it.

The details of stages 3 and 4 are in my personal journal entries, but suffice it to say that my sexual energy did increase and express more obviously than stage 2. Those stages also coincided with some considerable recon, but it was most likely a combination of the other subs in the stack plus the stress of other things that happened during those months. Either way, those were major factors in my decision to run KB a second time. So, the second round of KB probably won’t start until Jan 2026 at the earliest, which means I won’t be running AEON until May 2026. That’s not what I had in mind when I started down this path, but it is what it is.

On the Hero side of things the results seem pretty good…and smooth, especially in combination with GLM. But I’ll save that for the next entry.