lunaseas asked: hey! I was wondering if you had any advice/resources/etc. re: communicating with spirits and deities. I began communicating with a spirit that gave me a strong impression of being a goddess yesterday during a clairvoyance workshop, and I feel like I need to educate myself more on this. any words of wisdom you could pass my way would be appreciated.
Hey!
This is SUPER old, so I’m sorry it’s taken me so long! (To everyone else who has sent me an ask - I’m going to do my best to answer ‘em when I can, I’ve been too busy for comfort lately.)
I do have some advice! To be honest, everyone has a different stance on deity and spirits. Some folks think that deities are too fancy and important to be talking to the likes of us mere mortals… and I, of course, disagree with this view completely. My personal experience with deities has been much more conversational, and I can say the same for plant and animal spirits (though not so much for human spirits, I’m still working on that). My advice would be to open yourself up to communication to these entities. This can be as simple as lighting some incense or a candle with intent, or just by sitting and mentally telling them that you are ready to be spoken to. Try to meditate more, pay attention to the little things. Notice how you feel in certain spaces. Sometimes you’ll be able to feel a different presence, a different feeling. I once communed with the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet and I felt myself engulfed in flames (not unpleasantly, however). That’s how I know her presence. She may show herself differently to you, so if you know someone who has worked with a certain deity that you resonate with, and that deity interacts with you differently, don’t sweat it!
Mentally or verbally speak to them, or write them letters. Through writing letters to my gods back when I had a very close relationship with Hypnos and Thanatos, I would begin to write letters to them, outlining my thoughts, and then it would eventually turn into automatic writing a lot of the time, I wouldn’t be cognizant of what I was writing, but I channelled them in that way. My relations with spirits these days tend to just be simple conversations, almost like telepathy, or through interacting with them in meditation. At first I was interested in the relationship between deity worship and mental illness, wondering if I had DID or something, but after things the spirits and deities told me always came true and were crystal-clear and direct in their description of a future truth, I came to the conclusion that what I was doing and feeling was real. It can be nice to get that confirmation!
Hope that helps a little bit! Open yourself to them and speak freely.
Blessings! xo
