Some Problems with Energetic Tracing/Tracking
There are a lot more resources out there on how to energetically trace someone (or something) or track them than there are about the problems with it. So here are some of the things I’ve encountered on what can go wrong with energetic tracking.
1. You picked up the wrong initial energy signature. Let’s use the post office as an example. You may successfully track the package on your doorstep back to where it came from, but where it came from may be a post office in Milwaukee, and the last person who touched it was the postman who lives up the block. If there are other entities or people around your query (and there will be), can you differentiate enough between them? Probably not if you haven’t been practicing for a while.
2. You pick up an energy signature, but because it carries an energy type you’re unfamiliar with, you confuse it for others with similar energy signatures. Let’s say you get attacked in the astral by a mermaid, and you have never ever encountered mermaid energy before. Guess who is probably going to assume that the next mermaid energy you encounter is the same mermaid as whatever attacked you? You are.
3. You pick up the right energy signature, but you lose it along the way or stop following it too soon. Sometimes energy tracking is like following a string, but its entangled all around everyone else’s. Its easy to get completely lost or jump the line from one string to an entirely different one. Just because you end up somewhere doesn’t mean that the somewhere you found is the one that you wanted to find.
4. You pick up the right energy and follow it back to its correct astral origin, but the astral person is entirely estranged from the physical person they are connected to. This can happen a number of ways from soul sharding to having astral selves with lives that are unconnected to their physical ones.
5. And finally, you pick up the right energy signature and follow it back to its correct origin only to find the specific entity or person. It’s your Aunt Sue. You go back to confront her only to find out later that, Oops, it was: an entity pretending to be your Aunt Sue; an entity who your mind comprehends as your Aunt Sue; and/or an entity who has stolen some of the energy from (you guessed it) your Aunt Sue.
These are just some of the many, many many problems with energetic tracking, and why ethically, there are problems with claiming you can trace energy sources back to the mundane world. We may be magic, but we live in a physical world. There are limitations inherent in that.
