So yesterday something happened to me that I really don't know what to do with. In the past few weeks I've been talking this spirit with the help of a pendulum. Yesterday, as always, I wanted to connect again, but when I asked if it was the same spirit, it said no. Then I asked (multiple times) if it was another spirit and I never got a straight answer for some reason. After that, I asked some questions unrelated to this situation (like will x thing happen to me tomorrow etc.) and I always got a definitive answer. So I guess the pendulum worked, I was also in the correct headspace to communicate, it just didn't wanna answer that question.
The thing is, that yesterday, before (and tbh during and after) my little pendulum session, I was feeling terribly mentally. So at first obviously I thought that this was influencing the outcome and answers, but as I said, questions not about the 'spirit's' identity were answered right away.
Another strange thing I can't put into place, is that every single answer (that I got) was way more clear, and straightforward than any answer I got before, using the same pendulum.
So this may not even be possible, but could it be something not considered a 'spirit'? I'm of course planning to do some divination with tarot on the matter, but I wanted to know if this is an existing possibility to begin with.
Hello! There are a lot of unknowns here, so let's jump in.
The word spirit is like vegetable. There are no 'vegetables,' it's a term of convenience given to many savory fruits, tubers, and tasty leafs.
That is to say: there is not now and will never be any conclusive, universal rules about what counts as being a spirit versus a different type of nonhuman person.
Individual practitioners or schools of magic may have extensive personal lexicons for terms such as spirit, ghost, living entity, poltergeist, and so on.
Other practitioners, like myself, call every nonhuman intelligence 'spirit' and get on with things.
Someone else might say, "of course, it might not be a spirit! It might be a ghost or an angel."
In my book, either it was a spirit (whether it be a ghost, angel, or otherwise) or you're just tricking yourself and having a conversation with your own subconscious energies.
It is my personal experience that almost no spirits who drop by to chat are interested in answering any questions about their personal identity.
And even spirits which are close friends of mine typically do not tolerate me asking the same question over again.
You're hanging out in your front yard and you put on your green slap bracelet, which as everyone in our society knows, means you want to talk to someone.
"Hey, are you the guy I talked to yesterday?" you ask.
"Nope," says the stranger.
"So you're a different guy?"
"You're a different guy then, right?"
"If you're not the same guy as before, you're different?"
"Please answer my question. If you're not the same guy from before, does that mean you're a different guy?"
"But you ARE different? Or are you the same guy as yesterday?"
"Okay well... any ideas of what lunch will be served tomorrow?"
Framed in other terms, why would any spirit be obligated to answer any question at all? A spirit arriving to a communication session is not an agreement to reply to all questions. I can strike up a conversation with someone at the bus stop but not want to give them any details as to my identity.
Don't forget, identity details (especially names, but also other descriptive factors such as personality, species, area, and interests) can be used by magical practitioners to control and command spirits.
Not to mention that questions of identity, are, well - personal. It's bad manners to grill someone on their identity when you first meet them.
It's not necessarily fair for any of us to go, "aw, but it's just lil ol' me 🥺" and expect that unknown spirits will be immediately ready to answer every single question we ask. Nor is it fair for us to label certain questions as innocuous, and then get suspicious if spirits don't want to answer them.
Spirits enjoy communication for many of the same reasons we do. But no matter how you slice it, it's two-way communication with another being who has its own motivations and interests.
If you wouldn't give the stranger at the bus stop details of your personal identity in the first minute you start up a chat, it's a strange double-standard to expect that random spirits would want to.
It is my belief that it is our own energy which causes the pendulum to physically move.
But the intensity or interest of the spirit can comingle with that to provide stronger results.
A spirit that I can Hear and See very clearly might give the barest little input to a pendulum. I can be chatting clearly and directly with a spirit, question one of their replies, and pull out a pendulum -only to be met with the tiniest of movements as the spirit sarcastically messes with me for not trusting my own Hearing.
A spirit that I can't really Hear or See at all may make huge moments in the pendulum.
A spirit who is barely "present" but who is looking through to me because of my request for communication might move the pendulum only a little, while if they are fully present within the shrine they may move it a lot.
If they are interested, excited, or yelling, the pendulum can move more than if they are apathetic or bored.
The movement of my pendulum is bottlenecked by my own focus, since engagement of my own energy is required to make the pendulum "go" at all.
The movement of the pendulum also increases with practice, as I become more attuned to subtle energies.
So your reading could have been clearer just because the spirit was yelling at you, because it was standing 'right next' to you instead of 20 feet away, because your own skills are improving (as sometimes, jumps are to be expected instead of a smooth uphill curve), or many other reasons.
The following may be of assistance to you:
Practice your pendulum within a quickly cast circle (5 seconds or so spent on it will do). This stops random spirits from coming up to you. Then, invite specific spirits to join you in the circle. This way you should know who you're talking to, and it drastically reduces the randos walking up to chat.
2. Whether or not you're in a circle, specifically invite the spirit you want to talk to. Don't sit down and say, "okay, I'm ready to chat. Are you here, guy?"
Instead, try, "okay, I'm ready to chat. Are you here, guy that I talked to three days ago who doesn't like the color blue and thinks I should switch majors?"
(^^^ notice how even these seemingly surface-level identifiers can be used to reach out to and contact a specific spirit; when you know how little it takes to track the same spirit down, it becomes more understandable why strangers who stop by for a chat don't want to doxx themselves)
3. If you've enjoyed a conversation with a spirit, first ask them if they would be willing to come back and talk at a later time. If the answer is negative, politely thank them and move on. If the answer is affirmative, then ask, "I don't request your real name, but is there anything by which I might call you, so I can find you the next time I want to talk?"
Especially with pendulums, spirits may often concede to allow us to choose a respectful and relevant nickname for them.
4. It is sometimes appropriate to ask clarifying identity questions immediately - this is when you've taken the appropriate steps to make sure only the spirit you want to talk to should be able to arrive.
Suppose you've cast a quick circle and invited in Bob, who doesn't like the color blue. At that point it's appropriate to confirm: "Just to make sure, what was your opinion on my girlfriend?"
Or, say you want to contact the spirit of a tree. You set everything up for the tree and call to the tree. It's appropriate to ask: "are you a dryad? Are you the indweller of this tree?" (the same way someone might knock on a door and say, "are you the homeowner?" it's a different vibe than a bus stop chat).
If you're asking for opinions, the fact that the spirit didn't want to tell you its identity, and your response is to divine on it without its consent in order to gain that information anyway, tells me that it probably made the right choice.
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