Hey y’all, I've got a question about animal spirits (tw: pet death)
I’m gonna go into a lot of detail just because I want to make sure that I’m very clear that these experiences are not “normal” for us, we have not sought them out, and that we don’t necessarily want them to continue, I’m simply asking for advice.
My kitty, Zack, recently passed away, and a couple of weeks later, my mom began seeing full body apparitions of him in our living room. Now, I would normally attest this to grief and missing him very dearly, but she’s seen him almost every night, around the same time, just going about the nightly chores. He’s sitting in a place that he normally did not while he was alive, and is just kind of...pleasantly hanging out and looking at her like “oh hey.”
She doesn’t practice any kind of witchcraft, she’s had premonitions in the past, but nothing aside from that; never seen spirits, or apparitions, or anything of that sort. It actually kind of unsettles her; she grew up with a parent who was very superstitious and it affected her negatively, so this isn’t the kind of thing where she’s wanting to see something and experiencing psychosomatic “visions.” She describes his image as being “clear as day” for just a split second, then he’s gone.
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I’ve also begun seeing and “feeling” him. The first time I felt his presence was the day after he passed; I was doing the dishes and I felt...something - the background here is that every night he would come and sit next to me, ask for his “midnight snack” (canned wet food), and every so often I would look down to see if he wanted more, etc. - the whole right side of my body went cold, the hair stood up on end, that sort of thing, and it was not the temperature of the room or the water; it was a warm-ish night and I was wearing dish gloves.
Then I saw him during the day, very briefly, just his face in a very chesire cat way, I wasn’t thinking about him at that particular moment, so I was startled. One morning I was feeding one of our other kitties, who is a black and white fluffy, and I swear to Gods out of the corner of my eye, for a split second, he was completely yellow, like Zack. I cannot stress enough that this isn’t psychosomatic, it happens when we’re not thinking about his passing, not relating certain everyday behaviors to “this is what Zack did when we did X.” I very clearly saw my yellow cat superimposed on my black & white cat. My mom also saw him “ghosting” (as she put it) on the very same cat, while he was trotting over to his dry food.
Now, admittedly, the morning after he passed, in my grief, I told Zack specifically that he could “stay as long as he wanted.”, my mistake, I take responsibility for that, but I’ve since encouraged him to move on, told him that while we love him very much, and that he was the best kitty, this realm is not for him anymore, he needs to go to “the other kitty realm” with our other old-boy, Min. I said he doesn’t have to stay here, we will miss him but it’s best that he pass on.
He was always very stubborn. He’s continued to appear to my mom, the most recent instance being tonight (3/26/2020), and she’s just a little bit freaked out. I don’t feel that this apparition is another spirit mimicking him, or I would have saged the shit out of it. She associates anything paranormal and metaphysical with negative energy, and I want to alleviate her fears. She thinks he’s still here because he wants his ashes buried (we hadn’t planned on keeping them, but long story short, he is now resting in a little box on my shelf.)
So, my question is, why is he still hanging around? What can we do to figure that out? How can we help him move on? Is he “stuck”? How can I “prove” that this is indeed Zack? (mom is also worried that this isn’t actually him) We’ve had other animals pass over the years, due to either sickness or old age; we like taking in the older guys, bc nobody want ‘em, but this is the first time a spirit has been so persistent in being seen.
Alright witchy friends, I need some advice. If you are experienced with animal spirits, your help would much be appreciated.
I recently opened a portal in my room that allows cat spirits to come and go as they please. I also burned some valerian (which smells awful btw) and dried dandelion leaves to attract spirits. My pendulum gave me a strong yes when I asked if cat spirits were in my room, but I’m having trouble interacting with the spirits. I can’t really use a ouija board, and I’m not particularly sensitive to spirits anyways. I’m only lucky enough to catch glimpses and occasionally sense the presence. Very rarely, I’ll hear noises.
I invited them into my room so I could mingle with cat spirits, as well as get some help with spells. However, I’m finding cat spirits to be hard to interact with. Any tips?
Background Info: These are notes on my fae/cat sith roommate, Tentacle Cat, his kitten (Mouse Swarm) and his acquaintance, Allura. She is another cat sithe and identifies as a “curse” maiden. (Someone who absorbs hex/curse/entropic/negative energies and weaves it for baneful magick.) This is all personal experiences
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Cat Toys/Video Games
My physical roommate bought a cat wheel for his physical cats. Tentacle Cat, being a spirit cat, actually plays on the astral/spirit copy of it. He and his kitten also sleeps in the cat condo and entertains themselves with the catnip left out for the physical cats. They also enjoy the cardboard cat scratcher. Being a proud fae, Tentacle Cat is also slightly embarrassed at enjoying human-made toys for kitties.
Tentacle Cat also enjoyed an arcade convention, “California Extreme”. He spent a lot of time playing the spirit copies/astral reflections of the arcade games there. Mouse Swarm, found a pit of plastic balls and just chilled in there all day.
Burger King Run
My contract with Tentacle Cat means keeping milk products stored in the house for his consumption. At one point, his kid drank most of the milk’s energy so we ended up going on a milkshake run to burger king. Boyfriend forgot to bring home a milkshake so this was done to avoid incurring fae wrath on our heads, lmao.
Allura, The Curse Maiden
Name: Allura. (After Allura from the new Voltron anime)
Children: Three kittens.
Appearance: Whitish/Grey fur, With pixie wings and tendrils with the captured hearts of eaten souls
Diet: Invasive seelie fae, Occasional human soul.
Background: I met her through Tentacle Cat, she was hired to purify items cursed/tainted by an demon that used to terrorize me. She absorbed a lot of the energies as I was burning a candle to cleanse things.
As for her wings, they were attained after she hunted winged fae and absorbed their souls in order to devour their energies. Allura also fled the unseelie court because she got sick of devouring souls, only for most of the gained power to be given up to the court nobles. After she sought asylum in the bay area, the local spirits told her to be given a place here, Allura has to hunt and devour invasive colonizing fae.
So I was finally looking forward to getting this giant stupid couch out of my living room now that we finally have one in our game room... except apparently the spirit of my deceased cat still likes to sit/sleep on the arm of it... I'm screwed if i get rid of this thing, aren't I? -_-
A journey to spiritual enlightenment and the path to happiness is something i’m trying to pursue through spirits and other spiritual means. I have my two awesome cat spirits i can’t communicate with because my third eye is closed. And i’m sure i made wishes but i think maybe my kellas cat sidhe needs backup to make them come true. So even though i had said i didn’t want anymore spirits until i was spiritually awakened , i made the decision to get more spirits recently. My cat spirits i got from this seller that i’m not really fond of having bought from based on the sellers response to some of my inquires.So this time i sought after other spirit conjurers and came across what i thought were promising. One of them i was sure i would buy spirits from soon but they take long to respond to emails and it’s been ten days since i have sent the last email.So i decided to not buy or adopt from them and instead went with this other shop that i have come across before and was thinking about buying or adopting from them. They were having a sale and the spirits in their shop were currently cheaper than the other shop i was looking at. The shop i decided to go with is called Creepyhollows and they have many things and many spirits to choose from and spirits that even choose you. Most spirits have info on them in the encyclopedia which i think is nice because they give you spirit associations about things for them and treats they like and you can also find info on the forums which is good. Recently i made a big order of a custom conjure vermillian dragon which is a hybrid of western white & red dragons, two custom conjure gold djinns ( one for gambling luck and the other for wealth prosperity success good luck and unlimited wishes) , a Alya custom conjure and a reverse adoption. I’m hoping with all this spirit power about to come in that we all will be able to get out of my current living situation and finally get to a happier life. One where i finally get away from my so-called human family and move to Oregon for some time. I don’t plan on staying in oregon because like i said i don’t want to live the rest of my life in the US so i will permanently be moving somewhere else. Though i’m only staying in oregon long enough to get certain things done , like getting a passport so i can travel and figuring out where our permanent home is going to be.Also i got a astrology reading from creepyhollows today that i found kind of interesting. One part i found intriguing is that is tells you what spirits are best to work with based on your zodiac sign. According to something i read on link that popped up on google scorpio’s tend to like dark things , which is why i guess i have more of liking for dark arts spirits instead of white but i’m not against working with white arts. I’m not sure on what my two awesome cat spirits are in terms of arts because the seller i got them from left out a lot of important info on their description and i forgot to ask about it. Anyway in my astrology reading i was surprised to see it listed arkan sonney’s because i had been thinking of getting a custom conjured one but was unsure. Another spirit i was surprised by was one called a Barbary Lamb aka Vegetable lamb which seems abit odd based off the info creepyhollows give on them. Two i wasn’t surprised by was merfolk and dark phoenix because i am a water sign in both ways ( scorpio and water rooster) , so i would assume water/water related spirits would be some of the best ones for me to work with. As for Dark phoenix , according to my own research on a scorpio’s animal ( and i don’t mean what animal represents us , like a scorpion) , i found a list of animals that had scorpions included for obvious reasons.However on this list i did see that we had the legendary mythical creature Phoenix as a animal .So being that a phoenix is one of scorpio’s animals , phoenix spirits actually make a lot of sense. So i am considering getting custom conjure arkan sonney , dark phoenix and white arts phoenix and hippocampus and other water related spirits in the future.
Tonight some friends, Tuesday and I made a ouija board and decorated it with Victorian cat images. Then we went to Old City to use it. We contacted 2 cats, and an Irish immigrant who died in 1847 who liked cats; the immigrant called Andrew Jackson a "bitch".
Apparently my personal cosmology is wrong, but also vaguely right. According to the immigrant there is no higher power, but there is a greater energy. The first cat spirit answered Yes to, "Do you live on earth once, and that's it?" and answered No to, "Is reincarnation a system of the Universe?". All we asked of the second cat spirit was to send us a human spirit.
