I consider myself to be pretty blessed, and I am grateful for that as well as the support & patronage of each of you. Since the world's gone a bit crazy by all accounts, I'd like to share the love and spread some good good fortune around.

I've carried out a substantial ritual with this particular goal in mind, and it is my great hope that each of you will benefit from this act of love & compassion. May your ahead days be beautiful, filled with life, and thoroughly enjoyed!

Have a great rest of your week! :)
Blessings!
​-Chris

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​-Chris

​Last week, I had a conversation with a person that inspired me to write. They'd written me to ask me about my take on the link between two spirits, and this led to a brief discussion on the subject of whether or not a spirit can be assessed according to the feeling or thoughts evokes by their presence, and thus carved a path for this conversation to be had today. If you who sparked this discussion is reading, thank you for the inspiration!

Spirits are like us & very much not like us. They have likes, dislikes, preferences and biases same as we do, but they do not function in quite the same way. Where we have physical bodies which define us, they do not, and thus their manifestations are rather more subtle by comparison.
 
Spirits are made up of substance which interfaces with us through our perceptive faculties. In essence, we perceive them according to how their essence meshes with our own ability to perceive them. If a spirit is made of energy that is akin to electricity, we will often sense them as being electrifying in presence - they bring with them spark-like energies which cascade down the spine like liquid lightning, and so their presence can be felt bodily. A spirit with a greater affinity for water might feel as though it has depth and the capacity to fill a space with itself, and it can sometimes feel like we're trying to breathe through a straw. Their presence seems to ripple, often evoking cool chills that we feel bodily, like water pouring down our heads, faces, backs, and chests. Fire spirits manifest heat and excitement, while Earth-oriented spirits are often dense, heavy, and solid, creating a sensation of being well-rooted to the Earth beneath us.

Each of these are manifestations of the Divine in a manner of speaking. Each of these sensations are an extrapolation of spirit substance interacting with us, and they direct our understanding of what we are connecting with.

These are not the only ways in which spirits communicate, however, and it is not all that they are. Not all spirits have a physicality to them, be it in their ability to create an experience of sensation or physical changes. Some are rather more etherial in manifestation, and are made up of what we would interpret as being thought or emotion, and so their whole existence can be communicated to us solely through how they cause us to think and feel.

Thought and emotional patterns that are not the norm for us are how beings of the less physically manifest variety communicate and interface with us, and so it can become increasingly important to pay careful attention to what we think, feel, and do in response to what we think & feel. More importantly, it is worthwhile to be cognizant that such spirits do exist so that we do not simply steamroll over them when we ask for their help.

Otherwise, we might be given the impression that this spirit does not exist or does not wish to help us, when in fact it is our willingness or lack to connect with them on their terms which can render us successful or unsuccessful in our ventures. My advice to you would be to take careful notes of the ways in which spirits appear to you. Consider what you feel, how you feel, and how those feelings change as a result of the spirit being present. Consider how your thoughts are altered when the mind stops racing, as there are times where the only indication of Presence you'll ever receive is a loud voice in your mind - one that you might cast aside as imagination if not for it being so incredibly different from your own self-talk.

Something to consider. ;)
Many blessings & thank you for reading,
-Chris

Working with secrets is no small part of what I do as a sorcerer. It's no secret, and it's a pretty thoroughly misunderstood practice for most of the modern world. I'd like to talk about it a bit here to give each of you readers some insight into how to form your own spiritual relationships. Those of you who are practiced hands might simply be inspired by this post, and if that occurs I'll chalk this up as a win. ;)

When you're just stepping out into the practice of working with spirits, there's a rather large number of potential entities to choose from. From one grimoire to another, there are literally hundreds of spirits one could pick from; the list seems more or less endless. But you've got your needs and the things you want, so for the most part, people enter and exit this phase pretty readily. 

When a person has exited that phase, then comes the demands phase wherein a person might approach that spirit for a boon. Sometimes it's a small thing, sometimes it's an enormous thing (very often the latter), and sometimes the spirit in question will decide to grant a person's request. When that happens easily, we're off to the races and it becomes almost second nature to form a relationship with the spirit in question because it feels relatively easy & fluid. 

But what about when it's not so easy and fluid? What about the times in which you get no response and no attention? That's when and where people throw their arms up in disgust and discard magic to the rubbish bin. It's in times like these where a more careful, calm, and generous approach is needed. 

It's important to think of spirits as living beings, as that's exactly what they are. They're not cold, disconnected, unliving machines for the most part, and they've got feelings, desires, likes & dislikes same as any one of us. 

If you don't get that amazing response right off the bat, that's ok. You can take that as an opportunity to begin to build a relationship with the spirit. I generally suggest small offerings of incense or prayers being given in a schedule for a period of time (say, six months) as a means of opening the gates so that a closer connection might be formed. 

These offerings can be given daily, every other day, weekly, or biweekly, and they should be given with regularity. By doing this, you're essentially telling the spirit that you're a kind, decent human being who would very much to get to know them and get their help. Over time, this can lead to some extraordinarily beneficial relationship, and they're often much, much stronger than any kind of one-off engagement. 

As you do this, success us usually met with a kind of suffusion of that entity's energy into your life. Common motifs related to the spirit themselves tend to come up with great regularity without you seeking them out, and you may notice that weird social and professional situations begin to go your way when they really don't feel like they shouldn't. 

This occurring is a sign of attention. They may not be agreeing to what you've asked of them initially, but they're still showing some manner of interest and that's a place to start. Continue this process in an ongoing fashion, and you'll find that this relationship will typically deepen of it's own accord. Most tend to develop the ability to hear or otherwise understand the spirit with whom they've been in close communication over the months and years they work with their newfound spirit friends, and when this occurs, one life can enrich another. 

Humans don't share in the experiences of spirits, nor do we share in their experiences. We can share the sensations of the experiences themselves, on both sides of the divide, as a means of educating and elevating these entities as we too are educated and elevated. It's a beautiful system when it works, and it can lead to a fairly stellar understanding of magical ritual processes if one makes the right friends on the other side. 

Something to think on. ;) - Enjoy your Tuesday. 
Blessings,
Chris