#clairsenses

[ainu-blog]

An exercise for clairvoyance

For those who want to improve their clairvoyance, I have an exercise for you.

The advantages of this exercise are that you don't have to "find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed," you don't have to go into a trance or turn off your thoughts. It is suitable even for people with aphantasia.

So. Usually, when we go somewhere, we see and, accordingly, pay attention only to the space in front of our eyes. It's as if the world exists only where we look, and the brain doesn't render it behind us. Our task is to see what lies behind us. Since you've just been there, it doesn't feel like imagination, but like remembering, but in real time, because you need to build the image.

First, turn around for a second, when you go somewhere. Our brain remembers lighting very well, and first, going forward, you will "see" spots of light from behind. Then your task is to focus on the dark places, those places that escape from memory. That's when all the magic begins.

After a while, details that you didn't remember will begin to appear on your inner screen. These may be just shapeless spots, there may be outlines of buildings or people, or there may be silhouettes of spirits.

That's the whole exercise. Imagine what's behind, that's it. Then you can complicate it and complete the mental picture of what is behind the house, or focus on where people who pass by you will turn.

How I came up with this. In fact, I'm just tired of meditating on the third eye, because the only thing I got out of it was a headache. Well, maybe all kinds of colored flashes, but no visions or specifics.

In the exercise, the focus shifts to the back, to the center of the brain. The main thing is not to strain your neck, otherwise there should be no negative sensations.

Well, in addition to inner vision and clairvoyance, this way you also boost your memory and perception of the surrounding space.

If anyone wants to try this exercise, please let me know what results you get.

[appalachianoracle]

Clairaudience exercise for differentiating thoughts from messages.

I posted this on discord, but thought I'd share it here, too. This is an excercise I used to use when I was working on differentiating my inner monologue from spiritual messages.

Find a song, or tone, that you are comfortable humming to. Sit comfortably and listen to it, eyes closed. Start humming and feel the vibrations in your chest/throat. If you work with infernal beings using their Enn is a great option, there are loops of people singing them on youtube. Now, focus on your own voice humming at first, notice what you sound like, notice any thoughts coming up and what they sound like, what does your inner voice sound like to you? How is it different from your outer voice? Start by focusing only on what you sound like.

When you feel comfortable in your ability to identify you, you can let your attention move to things around you. Are there sounds in the room you are in, are there messages coming through internally that dont sound like you? Don't rush to answer any of them, listen to them and see if any sound like similar voices. Eventually the messages you have access too will become clearer, and you wont be in a constant struggle of "Was that my thought or a message?"

You can keep practicing this, and you can hum on and off to recenter yourself, or you can keep humming (I use humming/singing to stimulate my throat chakra so I find it's a good thing to do in general.) Give it a try and let me know if it helps!

[skaldish]

The best way I can describe clairsenses is that you’re dreaming while you’re wide awake.

[ev3rythingbootifvl]

You can absolutely like to participate it general group readings for fun or like to give them, but a serious conversation needs to be had about discernment in the tarot community.

I know some people aren’t from the spiritual community and just love to participate in tarot, whatever. But there are some ground “rules” about this stuff.

It’s starts with being real with yourself. carrying a certain accountability and deep trust within yourself. If you are the querent, the person getting the reading, or simply picking a card it’s important that whatever you’re listening to or reading resonates with you. If you’re reading a PAC or listening to a general reading it’s important that you’re actually relating to it, otherwise the reading is not for you.

When I first started getting into tarot and spirituality, the people who were well seasoned always said “ take what resonates and leave what doesn’t”. I wanna break this down a little bit.

If in the middle of a reading you realize it’s not relating to you in any way nor does it match up with your current situation, don’t try to make it fit. a well fitting reading will always feel just right. You will feel absolutely sure about it. If at any point you don’t like or agree with the reading then it’s not for you.. but with that being said, let me get into being honest with yourself when it comes to readings

You’ll know a reading is FOR YOU because you’ll feel it. all that doesn’t resonate is literally back ground noise.

To be extra clear, when something is for you, when something resonates with you, it’s not something you are straight up wishing for, it’s something that is actually happening. Something that has materialized in the real world. You can be wishing for something, it can be resonating and it can be a reality, but there is a difference.

There’s a difference between intuition and wishful thinking. This is where knowing yourself becomes your true anchor.

Intuition is your 6th sense, sort of stemming from the other 5 you already have. It’s a feeling or knowing from a spiritual standpoint which strengthens over time and the more you use it.

Wishful thinking can sometimes be from subconscious influence. Maybe you’re really hoping for an outcome and believe it’ll come to fruition, but there have been no actual signs that confirm it. There’s nothing in reality that has actually rooted that wish. For example let’s say you haven’t dated in a while or you’re missing some excitement in your life concerning relationships, you have a dream that your ex partner is in. Then later in the day you come upon a general reading that says “your ex is coming back”.. would you automatically believe it or brush it off?

I feel everyone is capable of self awareness. Life can be rough sometimes but if you are avoiding something in the back of your mind that needs to be addressed it will come up in a reading or somewhere where Divine is present.

If you are genuinely looking for an answer and can’t find one from general readings, the answer is always in you. I’ve been told by experienced tarot readers that if no one can read you, it’s time to connect with yourself and do your own reading.

To go more into whether you brush off the general “is your ex coming back” reading, you’ve gotta look at what’s actually happening in real life and not what’s going on in your head.

You had the dream, okay what’s next? What was the dream about, what happened in it? What was the theme, meaning what were people talking about/what did you say?

What POV were you in? Were you watching it like a movie or were you an actor?

And now for real life. What type of relationship terms are you on with your ex? Are you on speaking terms? How did you end? Are you blocked or are they blocked? Are they in a relationship?

These are the types of questions you ask yourself to decipher truth from wishful thinking.

Intuition will never have you questioning or doubting yourself. If the answer is yes then it is yes. There is no ‘maybe’. ‘Maybe’ leaves room for confusion, and if there is confusion the truth is vacant.

So like I said there is an inner knowing within yourself that you just trust. If there’s a rock in your pocket and you know the rock is there, would you doubt yourself? Or are you 100% sure the rock is definitely there? With intuition, there isn’t any doubt. But if you are doubting yourself because of lack of trust and self assurance, it’ll become a problem for you, especially with readings. Trust in self isn’t just about confidence. It’s about truth. Even if it’s an ugly truth. If you want true resonance from any reading, it starts with being honest with yourself in order to get exactly what you need from a reading. Not what you want to hear.

And shit, if you don’t want that at all and just want to use general readings or PAC as something to escape your reality, that’s absolutely fine but you make sure you pick readers who specialize in the whimsy and fantasy of tarot and not the readers who are here for the growth of the collective.

Most of all, I think for any general readings, PAC, or group readings, you have to make sure you actually like the tarot reader. Energy is everywhere. I feel it’s a sacred thing. So if you come upon a post or a video, tune into how you’re feeling about it. Not anything about how it looks or anything surface level.. I mean energetically. How does it make you feel? Again it’s all about inner knowing. If you feel negatively about it or you just have an inkling that it won’t make you feel good, that’s your sign to not listen to or read it. We have the free will not to consume anything we don’t like. It is consciously your choice if you interact with something or not. That’s what discernment is. You can absolutely tap into all the readings you want for fun but if you aren’t consciously tapping into your intuition or protecting yourself from energies that aren’t currently compatible with you, that’s cannot be anyone else’s fault. We know in the world there are some things you should stay away from. Things we absolutely should protect ourselves against. This is no different.

Lastly I also wanna point out that just because you get the feeling that you shouldn’t energetically connect with a reading doesn’t mean the reader is a bad person. Sometimes, it’s just about compatibility or timing or whatever else the universe decided. I think of it like finding what is just right for you. Like Goldie Locs, or finding the right therapist, or finding new friends that stick, you know?

[sacredwitch]

Any witches feel weirdly exhausted, too sleepy or can't sleep, are weirdly emotional, hear their left ear ringing and like have no energy anymore after new years or during new years?

[restorativeluciferian]

Ngl it always disturbs me a little when I see people on here depict our shared deities as punitive or shaming. Most often I can tell it's because those individuals have a lot of issues with self-image they have not worked on, which they then perceive within the spirit communications and also project onto other people. But it's also normal to identify oneself closely according to your close relationships, spirit and otherwise, and I always find I have to process a sort of feeling of offense whenever I witness this.

Anyway, if your deity is scolding you over small mistakes or telling you people who have committed suicide are divinely punished, I gently suggest you double check that you are not gravely misunderstanding them. And if you're not... It's perfectly okay to ask yourself if you should relate with spirits who treat you or other living beings terribly.

[oyasumi-i]

Ayiii it’s really important that before you engage in anything Tarot related you learn useful information on what Tarot can and cannot do. Whether or not you want to practice Tarot. There are blogs over there who are helpful.

Tarot does not give physical traits. But your clairs/intuition can. The cards themselves cannot tell you whether your fs will be white or have curly hair, or is younger in age (rather than a youthful personality), or small, etc. Cards are symbolic. They read energy: ever changing and only perceptive things around us. They do not tell about someone’s appearance.

Ex with the same cards from different decks (and the same goes for any card of any deck).

If a reader were to draw these cards because your fs is represented as the King of Cups (core, current or desired personality, mindset…). How are they supposed to tell what they look like from them? Some are white, some are black. Some are creatures or animals, some are humans, some have light hair and some dark hair. Idk how you can tell here. We all have different decks, sometimes the same. Are we going to tell you a generic answer because we pulled the same cards to you than the previous querent? Let alone racist/stereotype biases. In some deck asian people are only represented for the swords (intelligence, mental, speech, clarity) while black are for the wands (energy, stamina, will, power). Are we going to tell you they’re tan or easily tan (that are completly different things btw and don’t tell about someone’s background), or are black or dark skinned? They could as well be mixed and the cards are just telling you they have african ancestry, or they grew up in a black/african community/country (for example white south african).

And the reader has to have knowledge on history, biology and geography to be this precise to tell you someone’s cultural background. Because the Caraibes are for example really mixed. It’s not just Africa and Europe, but also America and Asia. Polynesian have Asian ancestry, but you’ll never read that your fs is from over there. And not all islands have hot temperature (the UK, Ireland for ex). In Europe, it’s as much Asia (Middle east) than ethnic groups (celts, franks, gaul, romans…). Some Spanish and Portugese people have Arabic ancestry too. How are the cards supposed to tell you about that? « They have curly hair » or not because they could just love perms or they could have had curly hair but genetic decided otherwise, or they could have curly hair… but that’s much less guaranteed than if we read on whether they love you or not lol.

I hope though you did met (or will meet) the person that was described to you. I used to believe it when I got readings telling about my fs’s appearance from the cards… but it’s actually more reliable from actual intuition.

Aaand obvisouly, for any form of divination. You MUST take it with a grain of salt.

[vesse-moricaleo-lusifero]

A Little Note About "Intuition"

People experience intuition as something almost external or "other," especially if they’re sensitive, observant, or used to trusting their instincts. It can feel like information arriving rather than being constructed.

That’s usually why people think it's mystical. It feels like information that came without a source.

But feeling like something came from nowhere doesn’t mean it actually did.

What people think of as intuition is usually a pathway of: Strong situational awareness, pattern recognition and intuitive decision-making.

And intuition isn't even a mystical concept. It's got nothing to do with "spirituality".

Clinically, intuition is "rapid, mostly unconscious judgment formed by pattern recognition, accumulated experience, and contextual processing. It is experienced as an immediate sense of knowing without conscious access to the reasoning that produced it."

And it shouldn't be confused with anxiety which loves cosplaying as intuition. Anxiety is a huge aspect of what people claim is "intuition".

"I have a bad feeling about..."

Or

"My gut tells me..."

Again, it's pattern recognition but dressed up in a way that feels like there is a lacking pathway. But if you actually break things down and you're able to follow the root causes, you'll find that it's a lot more reasonable.

…with maybe a dash of confirmation bias when it works out and sticks in memory.

And honestly? It’s still valuable! It is! People who listen to that quiet internal nudge often avoid small disasters ... Such as washer messing up a cycle halfway through. That’s not exactly mystical, but it is useful!

And, as a whole intuition absolutely needs interrogation sometimes. And it rarely gets that follow-up.

It can feel sharp and intentional, but it can also be biased, anxious, trauma-shaped, or just plain wrong.

The same mechanism that says "that washer will break" can also say "this person is dangerous" when really it’s just unfamiliarity or projection.

And demystifying intuition doesn't make it less powerful. It makes it more powerful.

It's more useful if you know how to dig deeper into the causes and understand both yourself, your environment, your behaviour, and how you respond to pattern recognition.

Because that? That's information you can use and actually apply in the future.

If you can break things down, then you can actually determine what was actually a spiritual experience and what's just pattern recognition and expectations.