#clairtangency

[grimoirey]

🌛 The Five Clairs 🌜

The "clairs" are intuitive senses that correspond to each of the five physical senses, allowing us to receive information beyond ordinary perception.

Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing)

Intuition received visually, often as images, symbols, or colors in the mind’s eye.

Clairtangency (Clear Touch)

Intuitive information received through physical touch, sometimes called psychometry.

Clairgustance (Clear Tasting)

Insight that comes through the sense of taste, often without physically tasting something.

Clairalience (Clear Smelling)

Receiving intuitive impressions via scent, even without a physical source.

Clairaudience (Clear Hearing)

Perception of sounds, words, or messages beyond the physical ear, like hearing a faint voice or music.

Practicing each of these can strengthen your connection to intuitive information.

Here are guided visualizations that engage all five clairs, helping you develop your intuitive senses together:

Visualization Practices for All Five Clairs

The Mystical Garden

Imagine you’re stepping into a lush, mystical garden filled with vibrant plants, unique flowers, and ancient trees.

Clairvoyance: Visualize the colors and shapes of plants around you, noticing any specific symbols or glowing lights that may appear.

Clairtangency: Imagine touching the petals of a flower or the bark of a tree. Sense the texture and feel if it has any emotional energy or history.

Clairgustance: Imagine plucking a berry or leaf and tasting it. Notice its flavor—perhaps sweet, bitter, or herbal. Reflect on any emotions or memories the taste might bring up.

Clairalience: Smell the earthy, floral scents wafting through the garden. Note any emotions, memories, or messages connected to the smells.

Clairaudience: Listen for any sounds in the garden—whispers in the wind, a distant song, or the gentle hum of nature. Allow any messages or phrases to come through.

The Sacred Temple

Visualize walking through an ancient temple filled with artifacts, statues, and sacred symbols.

Clairvoyance: Observe the layout of the temple, colors, and any inscriptions or symbols on the walls.

Clairtangency: Imagine touching the cool stone walls or an old relic, noticing any impressions, emotions, or messages.

Clairgustance: Taste a drop of ceremonial water or a piece of a sacred herb. Sense if the taste connects to a specific energy, emotion, or past memory.

Clairalience: Smell the incense, candles, or earthiness in the temple, and notice any insights that come with it.

Clairaudience: Listen to any sounds, like faint chants, bells, or whispers, letting these bring additional insights.

The Tranquil Beach

Imagine yourself on a quiet beach at dawn, with gentle waves lapping at the shore and soft sands beneath you.

Clairvoyance: See the sunrise colors, shimmering water, and tiny shells or sea creatures around you.

Clairtangency: Feel the sand under your feet or dip your hand into the water, noting any emotional or historical energy.

Clairgustance: Taste the saltiness in the air or imagine tasting the fresh water from a nearby spring. Observe any memories or impressions tied to these tastes.

Clairalience: Smell the salty breeze and hints of seaweed, noticing any feelings or messages tied to the scent.

Clairaudience: Listen to the waves, distant seabirds, or perhaps even a voice in the wind, welcoming any guidance or insight.

The Enchanted Forest

Imagine entering a peaceful, enchanted forest where everything is alive with energy.

Clairvoyance: See the vibrant green trees, glowing mushrooms, or even fairylike lights. Notice any symbols or animals that stand out.

Clairtangency: Touch the bark of a tree or pick up a leaf, sensing any stories or energies.

Clairgustance: Imagine tasting fresh berries or the morning dew on a leaf. Let the flavors spark any emotions, memories, or impressions.

Clairalience: Smell the forest's earthy aroma, noticing any memories or messages it may bring.

Clairaudience: Listen for birdsong, rustling leaves, or even a message whispered by the wind or the trees.

The Celestial Library

Visualize yourself entering a grand, celestial library with glowing books, scrolls, and ethereal light.

Clairvoyance: Notice the colors of the glowing books, floating candles, and shimmering walls.

Clairtangency: Imagine holding a book or scroll—feel its weight and notice any impressions or intuitive knowledge coming through it.

Clairgustance: Picture yourself tasting a drop of “wisdom” elixir or a piece of symbolic fruit. Reflect on any memories, emotions, or insights the taste stirs.

Clairalience: Smell the scent of old pages, leather, or candle wax, observing any emotions or insights tied to the scent.

Clairaudience: Listen for the gentle turning of pages, soft voices, or the faint whisper of wisdom from the library.

Using these visualizations regularly can help you deepen your connection to each clair, opening up intuitive insights in a balanced and comprehensive way. Enjoy exploring these mystical settings!

[anamelessfool]

If I ever comment on artwork of Copia or another Papa "I can smell this photo" please take it as a huge compliment. I have really intense texture/smell sense memory (maybe a kink idk)

Like I know there's "clairvoyance" but there's other clairs as well. Mine dwell in smell and touch (clairsalience, clairtangency). Clairs aren't necessarily about predicting events, they're more about how well one can conjure up a sense and feel it very strongly in that moment. Induced either by imagination or reaction to an object/image.

Anyway yes all the Copias lately have smelled amazing and you're doing a great job

[hauntingsofafuturespast]

Great breakdown of the clairs and how to process/work with them.

Clair-senses & Exercises

Clairvoyance: The ability to see the not so ordinary. Your intuition speaks directly to you in the form of sight. Images form in your mind or interpret information through pictures.

Clairaudience: The ability to hear or interpret information from spirits. Clairaudience is a way of receiving intuitive messages without using your physical ears but rather hearing messages within your mind.

Clairsentiency: The ability to sense the presence or absence of spiritual beings and feel energies.

Clairempathy / Psychic Empathy: The ability to feel another’s feelings as their own. This is different from regular empathy, which is the ability to identify with another’s feelings.

Claircognizance: The ability to just know things out of nowhere. It can tie into Precognition.

Precognition: The ability to know something is going to happen before it does, premonitions.

Clairtangency: The ability to assess metaphysical properties through touch.

Clairalience: The ability to perceive metaphysical smells.

Clairgustance: The ability to perceive the metaphysical through taste.

Artistic and Divine Inspiration: The Poets have given many names to the unprompted artistic impulses found in creatives. The Norse concept for this is oðr. The Welsh and Celtic concept for this is Awen. This is the act of receiving metaphysical or divine information through artistic impulses.

Exercises to Improve Your Clairvoyance Skills

Exercise 1

Sit quietly with your eyes open.

Focus on a still object in front of you.

In your mind, take note of the objects and furniture around you.

If you see shadows, sparks, or movement, keep focused on the item in front of you.

Sit for as long as you feel comfortable.

Make notes on what you saw and felt.

Exercise 2

Sit with your eyes closed.

Clear your mind and thoughts.

Once you feel your thoughts leave you after a comfortable amount of time, focus on your eyelids and that black canvas it is.

Imagine that blank canvas and focus your intentions while keeping an open mind.

Allow whatever images that come to mind to play out. Don’t try to make sense of it.

Document findings in a journal. 

Exercises to Improve Your Clairaudience Skills

Exercise 1

Go to a place where you are most comfortable.

Close your eyes, relax your body, and let hearing be your dominant sense.

Gently tune in to sounds that you don’t normally focus on.

Really pay attention to the layers of sounds and identify what each one is.

Document your findings in a journal or record yourself.

Exercise 2

Sit with your eyes closed.

Clear your mind and thoughts.

Once you feel your thoughts leave, focus on your eyelids and that black canvas it is.

Focus on the sounds around you and slowly try to tune them out.

Imagine an old radio with a frequency dial. Turn the dial through each station.

With an open mind take notice to any sounds chiming through. It’s okay if you hear nothing. Keep moving through each station. You won’t run out of them.

Put your intentions into each turn of the dial taking note of any sound. 

Document your findings in a journal.

Exercises to Improve Your Clairsentiency Skills

Exercise 1

Get more familiar with your energies by touching how your hands, feet, eyes, etcetera feel.

Learn how the environment feels around you rather it be the city or rural areas.

Learn how animals and plants feel from one to the next. Not everything is the same. Become aware of that. Every plant has its own pattern past the base patterns. Every animal has different markings apart from the next. Identify those traits.

Once that is learnt and recognized. Learn to feel the airs around you in different regions if one is able to do so.

Exercise 2

Visit different haunted facilities observing all the key details.

Take note of the atmosphere. How does it feel?

Take note of the emotions you feel during a tour.

Take note of the temperatures surrounding you.

Take note of any odd experiences and the people with you.

Exercise 3

Meditate with a specific spirit.

Take in the surroundings before starting.

Consider your moods beforehand. Noting them down.

Focus on the intentions for communication.

How do you feel during the meditation? What about after?

Did anything in the environment change?

Did temperatures in the environment change?

Did you feel hot or cold?

Did you feel any movements outside yourself?

Document your findings.

Exercise to Improve Your Clairempathy Skills

Ask someone you know to show you a picture of somebody they know very well, but you’ve never met at all.

Look at the picture and feel into it by observing all aspects. Focus on how this person was feeling when the picture was taken.

Ask yourself what kind of person this individual is.

Share your findings with your friend.

Now, ask your friend for feedback. How correct were you? Repeat this exercise as many times as you want with different people. Remember to keep a journal for any findings.

Exercises to Improve Your Claircognizance Skills

Exercise 1

Grab a pen and pull out your notebook. Before you start writing, ask yourself a question. What guidance do I need today? How can I find a resolution with a problem? How can I be helpful today?

Then set a timer for five to twenty minutes and write whatever comes to you. Don’t edit yourself. Express yourself fully and write whatever comes to you.

The more you do this exercise, the easier it will be.

Exercise 2

Meditate before bed falling asleep to a method of relaxation.

Clear your mind during this meditation pushing away any internal thoughts.

Focus your intention on an open mind and dreams. 

If a dream begins let it play out.

Upon waking write down your findings. Keep a dream journal taking note of anything that happens later in this world.

Compare and contrast experiences in this world versus your dreams.

Exercise 3

When topics are being discussed among individuals take note of things you know but have not studied or read about or heard about from any other source.

Document any experiences keeping notes on things if any. 

[angel-of-depravity]

Thinking abt the occasions I do smoke weed (well, I can't really handle flower because it'd be too harsh, but I can do vapes 💗) and then my brain jumped to spectrophilia/phasmophilia (idk which one it is but yknow)

I don't have a whole lotta tolerance, so it doesn't take much

But I'm thinking back to my last birthday when I got entirely too high, felt like I was working on beanbag physics

Managed to make my way back to my own bed after a lil bit, and was kinda in and out right?

Thing is, weed makes my sense of Clairtangency go absolutely haywire (new word for me!! I've been wondering what that one was for a while!! Idk why I didn't Google it sooner but oh well) and not to mention horny as all absolute fuck

And I know I've like, briefly mentioned it, but I have a ghost who's been hanging around for a long time. It's like having a roommate really, and all things considered? The only difference between the living and the dead a lot of the time is a physical form

Lemme tell you, weed in my system to enough of an extent and that practically does not even fuckin matter

I could feel every bit of him all over my fuckin body wherever he wanted to touch me. Hands, mouth, his cock rutting between my thighs against my pussy

I almost came from that alone, and that was just him fucking playing with me

Managed to get on my back after a minute (originally had been on my side and he was cuddled up to me, which isn't unusual whatsoever for us) and he wanted to see how hard I'd cum from his touch and my vibrator

The answer was literally seeing stars is how hard because I was feeling so good. I couldn't even say shit because all I could do was mewl, and when he was laughing at the fact I couldn't even form a sentence? While calling me his pretty girl? Yes please holy fuck

The fact I still had some mind to muffle myself with a pillow (alas, i do not live alone) is a miracle actually because damn I was stupid fuckin high and I was getting railed good

[knowledge-from-the-abyss]

Psychic Abilities

What are psychic abilities? 

Psychic abilities are metaphysical powers that generally cannot be explained or observed by science (although there are scientific studies that are currently trying to understand and delve into psychic abilities). Everyone has access to psychic abilities; the most common psychic ability out there is intuition, that ‘gut feeling’ people get. I will list more psychic abilities down below. 

Please make sure that you are discerning mundane from magical; some of these abilities can and are symptoms of serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, so if these suddenly start happening (especially around the age of 20) please make sure you are checking with your doctor to make sure nothing medically is wrong. 

Clairsenses

Clairvoyance- also known as clear-seeing, this clair allows people to see pictures or images, or even visions in their minds eye or sometimes even manifesting in the real world. This is also a clair that can allow someone to see auras. 

Clairaudience- also known as clear-hearing, this clair allows people to hear deities, spirits and entities, again either in their mind or sometimes manifesting in the real world. This can also manifest as hearing music randomly or having a song repeat over and over and over in your head, or having a deities name constantly on your mind/in your head (this can sometimes be a sign a deity is reaching out or generally trying to get your attention as well). 

Claircognizance- also known as clear-knowing; this can be your intuition going off about something. Just ‘knowing’ that something is going to happen, and then it does. Being able to know what color an object is when its in black and white, etc. 

Clairempathy- also known as clear-emotion; this clair allows the practitioner to sense others emotions, sometimes this can almost manifest as if you are feeling those emotions, even if you aren’t. 

Clairsentience- also known as clear physical feelings; this clair allows someone to feel physical sensations and energies (for instance, feeling like someone is touching your head when no one is physically there). 

Clairtangency- also known as clear-touch; this clair allows someone to receive information through touching objects. This has manifested for me before. I will touch an object and sometimes have gotten downloads of information from that object about the person who previously owned it, or the energies that were commonly around that object. 

Clairsaliance- also known as clear-smelling; this clair is when you can pick up on smells that aren’t necessarily in the physical world. A good example is that sometimes I will smell my deities when they are around me. 

Clairgustance- also known as clear-tasting; this clair is similar to clairsaliance, but with taste. It allows the practitioner to taste different things in the spiritual realm. Similar to clairsaliance, sometimes when I am channeling, I can taste the things my deities have been eating. 

Can psychics read minds? 

This, along with anything you might see about psychics in media (movies, tv shows, etc) is probably fake, at least in the way it is usually presented in these media formats. Using clairsenses, and being able to pick up on subtle cues from the other person, can lead to some ‘mind reading’ or telepathic-like abilities. For example, I know my wife very well, and even if she doesn’t always outwardly say so, I can sense when her mood has shifted. There are other friends that I have been able to do this with as well, including online friends. So the answer to this question is ‘yes, but not in the ways you might think’. I cannot tap into people's minds and see their exact thoughts, but with a combination of my clairsenses, and picking up on cues I see from them, I can figure out what they might be thinking, or how they might be feeling. 

How can I train/hone my clairsenses? 

There are various ways to do this, depending on the clairsenses you’re wanting to hone. Firstly, I recommend figuring out what your strongest clairsenses are. This is basically just about observing yourself and how you experience the world; this can also sometimes correspond to your physical senses. Once you know what clairsenses you have that are strongest, focusing on using those in various settings is a good idea. For instance, if you find that clairvoyance is the strongest clair you have, practicing meditation and seeing things during meditation might be a good idea. 

How do I know it's not just my imagination and it is psychic abilities I’m experiencing? 

This is where discernment and using other tools can come in very handy. Double checking with divination is a very good way to know if you are really using your clairsenses, or if it's just your imagination. There may also be certain emotions or feelings that come with psychic abilities vs imagination. For instance, for me personally, I’ve found that a good way to discern my intuition vs imagination is the emotions that come with it. If I get a sudden feeling about something for instance, I ask myself if there is anxiety or other negative emotions surrounding that situation; if the answer is yes, I often use other tools to figure out if the feeling I’m getting is truly my intuition, or if it's just me being anxious about a certain situation. If there are no emotions that I can figure out are coming from a situation, but something feels ‘off’ I still use discernment, but am more likely to immediately trust the gut feeling I get. In certain situations (like if I’m driving and my gut tells me ‘don’t take this road!) I usually do trust my gut feeling, and later on am often shown why my intuition told me to do that (often it's because of road closures or traffic that my intuition was guiding me to avoid). 

Do mental illnesses (such as autism, ADHD, and dissociative disorders) affect psychic abilities/clarisenses? How do I distinguish the two? 

Yes, mental illnesses can sometimes affect psychic abilities and clairsenses. Again, this is where discernment and using other tools such as divination can come in handy. Practicing can help as well; I have autism and ADHD, and sometimes it’s hard for me to distinguish if it's a deity talking to me, or just my ADHD going ‘brrrrr’. However, as I have practiced over the years, I have learned how to distinguish between the two sometimes; a lot of times my inner voice sounds different than the voices my deities will use, which is a good way to know that I might be hearing something other than my own inner monologue (I also still use divination tools as an extra step to make sure that what I’m hearing is in fact metaphysical). 

What deities do you recommend to help with learning/honing psychic abilities? 

First and foremost, pretty much any deity can help you with learning to hone your psychic abilities; however there are a few (mainly infernals, since I work so heavily with the infernal divine) that I will list that specialize in helping with psychic abilities. 

Hermes is a good option when it comes to seeking help with honing psychic abilities. As messenger to the Greek gods, communication is part of Hermes’ natural wheelhouse; this can go for both mundane and magical communications. He is excellent at helping not only with psychic abilities and clairsenses, but with divination as well. 

Dehuty/Thoth from the Egyptian pantheon is also a very good deity to reach out to for help with psychic communication; he rules over writing and communication. 

Some of the infernals I have listed below are lesser-known or unknown, so the UPG (unverified personal gnosis) listed here are all from my own personal experiences with them.

In my own UPG, the infernal Alcanor is also very good at helping with psychic communication, clairsenses and mediumship. 

Also my own UPG, the infernal Martinet is also excellent at helping with the clairsenses. 

Acuar is another infernal who is listed (VPG, verified personal gnosis) at being good at helping with psychic abilities (especially those that have to do with emotions). 

Lucifuge Rofocale, Azazel and Forneus are also infernals who are listed as being good at helping with psychic abilities. This is also VPG. 

This is not an exhaustive list of course, and in terms of the infernals listed, if you’d like to find out more about them I have more info on them on my Reddit blog; r/DemonStudies. 

Why are some clairsenses/psychic abilities stronger than the others? 

Clairsenses are like muscles; the more you use them, the stronger they will get. That being said, everyone is different; someone who is a runner is going to have very strong legs, but their arms might not be as strong in comparison, but their arms also don’t have to be as strong compared to their legs either. Same goes with clairsenses; the ones you use and focus on more are going to be the strongest ones you have. Some people also have natural talent with certain clairs (again, similar to physical abilities, some people are way better at smelling naturally than others around them, and this might also reflect with them having better clairsaliance as well). You can always hone and practice any psychic abilities even if they are not the ones you are strongest in. 

Do I have to be honed into my clairsenses to do deity work/spirit work? 

You do not have to be honed into your clairsenses to do deity work/spirit work, although from what I’ve seen most people getting into deity work are naturally drawn to honing their psychic abilities as well. 

Can using psychic abilities give me headaches? 

Yes, just like how sometimes you get a headache from eye strain from staring at something too long, using your clairsenses can also give you a headache or affect your physical body in other ways. Taking breaks, allowing your body and mind time to rest, and doing self-care can help to prevent this strain. 

Why do some people hear specific voices for their deities/spirits, while others just hear their ‘inner voice’ as deities/spirits talking to them? 

This comes down to everyone being different and everyone experiencing things differently. Again going back to how people physically experience the world, everyone experiences the physical world slightly differently, one person’s perspective might be different from another person’s. This is the same with clairsenses and how we experience our deities. I know for me, Loki generally smells like cinnamon and smoke (like from a bonfire), but for others, I’ve heard that he smells of just cinnamon, or they say that he smells like cigarette smoke at times.  

Will I be able to hear new deities/spirits I interact with right away? 

The short answer to this question is maybe. Again, this is about personal experiences; for me, when I first started out, I had a lot of trouble hearing new deities that I interacted with, it was very easy for me to pick up on their energies and know they were there, but when it came down to hearing and seeing them, even though I was hearing and seeing the deities I interacted with regularly, it was harder for me to hear and see new ones. Now that I have been doing this for so many years, I do find that I can very easily hear and see the new deities I interact with on a regular basis. So again, this can also be about practicing as well as natural abilities you may have. 

How do I avoid burnout when honing my psychic abilities? 

This is similar to the question about headaches above; taking breaks and self-care are very important when honing your psychic abilities. Also, don’t be hard on yourself if you’re not getting it right away. Again, this is like exercising a muscle; even if you do have natural abilities for the particular clairsense you’re trying to hone, it can still be hard and frustrating at times. Giving yourself grace, and not trying to rush the process will be the best thing you can do for yourself. Don’t compare yourself to others either, learn at your own pace; everyone's practice is different and everyone learns at different paces. 

How do I hone my intuition? 

First and foremost, trusting yourself is a huge part of honing your intuition. Intuition can often be that little voice in the back of your head warning you or telling you about something, or that ‘gut instinct’ many people talk about. Sometimes, it really is ‘just knowing’ something, and trusting that knowledge even when there is no outside evidence is very important. There are also many intuition tests you can do to work on honing (and recognizing!) your intuition and what it feels like. A lot of times I use these intuition tests to test and hone my intuition. Don’t be too hard on yourself either when you get these types of things wrong, sometimes we have off days and it is a learning experience! 

Will every deity/entity want to communicate using clairsenses? 

No, not every deity or entity will want to communicate using the clairsenses; some may prefer to use divination tools or other forms of communication to talk to you. From my experience most deities prefer to work with a combination of some clairsenses (even if thats just you using your intuition to pick up on messages they want to share with you) as well as other forms of communication. 

Are divination tools still useful even after I’ve developed my psychic abilities/clairsenses? 

Yes, divination tools are always very useful especially when it comes to discerning and verifying what you are told through psychic abilities. Using divination alongside psychic abilities is a very good way to make sure you are not going into spiritual psychosis. I always encourage anyone who is getting into any type of spirit or deity work to use divination as a way to discern what they are being told. 

As always I would like to thank my friend @astralscraft for helping me with this; they always ask such wonderful questions that I include and answer in these!

[sierrawitch]

Visualization for the Clairvoyantly Impaired

by autumn sierra

Assuredly, I am not the only individual that struggles with visualization in the witch community. Like some others’ experiences, I was very confused when I was told to “visualize a scene in which your spell is successful”. How does one visualize? Is there a tutorial? What is it supposed to look like? Why do I only see darkness?

After doing a bit of research, I’ve found that clairvoyant/visualization ability is actually the norm. Despite being an artist, writer, and avid reader, I just can’t do it. At least not on command. This isn’t to say I for 100% certainty have the condition known as aphantasia, but it’s very eye opening to now understand why I struggle with visualization meditation in my practice. I simply don’t have the ability.

I began to reflect on what I could do to visualize and subsequently maintain success within my spell work. It occurred to me that clairvoyance isn’t the only psychic sense we can rely on. There are many others at our disposal, it’s just that clairvoyance seems to be the most mainstream.

Clairgustance

Someone “eating with gusto” has always been a compliment to chefs. Clairgustance is the ability to taste or orally detect psychic information. It’s not the most common or widely known, but this clair does have its interesting points.

Clairsalience

Clairsalience is the ability to detect psychic information through the sense of smell. Often called “phantom smells”, detecting aromas through clairsalience arguably happens amongst even the general population quite frequently.

Clairaudience

Audiences are there to listen, just as we are the audiences to psychic messages. Clairaudience is the detection of information through sound. This means hearing voices, noises, songs, etc.

Claircognizance

Claircognizance is the ability to innately know, or have very deep insight. With this clair, intuition is at another level of intensity to the point where one could learn something without ever hearing it from another source. It may not have immediate proof, but it will eventually.

Clairsentience

Clairsentience is feeling psychic information throughout the body in various ways. These can be broken down to external effects similar to environmental change (feeling cold, hot, etc) or an internal change (tightening of the chest, migraine, etc).

Clairempathy

Being an empath is its own superpower, but clairempathy allows one to detect emotions over distance without meeting with someone in person.

Clairtangency

Clairtangency is the clair of the hands, touching and feeling objects and people while understanding their history and energy. This is similar to psychometry, but much more of an instinct than a trained skill.

My Experience

After some more reflection and experimentation, I noticed that I have experienced multiple of these clair senses: clairaudience, claircognizance, and clairsentience.

I had an instance during a (very meager) Samhain ritual a few years ago when I attempted to communicate with deceased loved ones and I experienced my strongest interaction through clairsentience. I did in fact make contact with my dog who had passed away a year prior. It was at this time that I asked her to give me a sign that she was in the room with me, and I felt goosebumps on my skin, as if she were sitting beside me and leaning against me like she always used to. I could feel the slight prickle of her short fur. The feeling grazed against my arm before it vanished, but I knew she was there. I also experience migraines and other symptoms when energies are imbalanced, so perhaps I should look further into communing with this clair sense.

Claircognizance is also something I am familiar with. My strongest experiences with claircognizance have been in instances of drastic change (think the Tower level of change). The first of these was during quarantine in the summer of 2020. The entire time I sat in my home, studying language and doing yoga, watching tv and doing whatever to keep myself entertained, there was a looming feeling of impending change that hovered over me at all times. I prophesied that my family’s lives would be forever altered in the next year, but I wasn’t sure if it would be positive or negative. Within the year, our entire dynamic fell apart, ending in homelessness, divorce, and a terrible struggle to pick up the pieces. Since then, all of my “prophesies” have been accurate in the foretelling of drastic change as it pertains to myself, my environment, and individuals around me, both positively and negatively.

Finally, clairaudience. This was the first clair sense that I had acknowledged as such, and have been able to use throughout my life. As a child, I would listen to music without external stimuli. I’ve experienced rumblings and tinkling of bells, ringing and static, voices, and most recently (with exercise) constructing my own auditory “visualizations”. As a sleep aid, I “visualize” the voice of a woman echoing inside of a room. If I could see the room it would probably be white and very large, like in Bruce Almighty when Jim Carrey meets Morgan Freeman on the 7th at 7:00. The woman sounds around 40 years old, with a Heightened RP British accent. I feel as if I would be sitting in this room as her voice approaches me, and her heels click on the polished floor and echo throughout the space. Yet all I see is black as I hear her say “So, what will we be reviewing today?” And in my thoughts I somehow silently reply with the things that made me feel negatively throughout the day. Although she hears no response, she says “I see. And how do you think that this has affected you?” And I silently reply again, to which she will say something along the lines of “Well, not everything is in your power to control”, or “Give yourself a bit more grace here”, etc. It seems I have created my own therapist, which I never thought would be remotely possible.

Although I lack clairvoyance, these 3 clair senses have been with me all the while. Since I’m most comfortable with clairaudience, perhaps further exercising those psychic muscles will help me “visualize” during spell work and not just at bedtime. This may apply to other practitioners struggling with visualization as well. Consider these senses and experiment with them to see if you also have dormant skills lying in wait for use. Research further into these phenomena and apply them to your life and your practice. You never know what you might unlock within yourself once you try.

[2024-grimoire-challenge]

August Week 4: Sixth Senses

Not everything olds stock in Clair-senses or sixth senses. But we’re going to look into them. If you don’t wish to follow these prompts, look back at previous prompts you may not have gotten enough time for. We will focus on the Clair- versions of the five normal senses and look into the other senses related to them. Let’s dive in.

Let’s look at the etymology of the “Clair” prefix for the words. It is a French word meaning “clear” or “to see clearly/ understand”. So with that context, the Clair-senses would simply mean “clear, unfiltered, pure versions of the senses. Unobstructed and unbiased”.

Monday- Clairvoyance

Research/ introspection - if Clair means clear, Clairvoyance means to see clearly. What other definitions of clairvoyance are there? What does the word mean to you? How does this sense apply to your practice and craft, if at all? What methods are there to gain clairvoyance, if any? What tools would one need to obtain clairvoyance, however briefly?

Research/ new page - herbal research - pick another herb off your list (I’ll bet it seems like it’s getting much smaller now!) and learn everything you possibly can about the herb. From magical uses to mundane! From history to propagation!

Tuesday - Clairaudience

Research/ introspection - Clairaudience would be clear hearing. What other definitions are there? What uses in your craft does Clairaudience have? What tools and situations would it be useful in? How does one achieve or obtain Clairaudience?

Wedneaday - Clairtangency

Research/ introspection - clairtangency would be clear touching. What other definitions for this sense are there? How does one achieve it? What use is it in your craft? What does it mean to you? Practice it! Truly touch and feel some of your magical items and ingredients and journal the experience and what this sense tells you.

Research/ new page - gem research - pick another gem from your list and learn all that you can about it! How it is formed, its chemical makeup, where it is from!

For the next two, it is important to note not to taste or smell things at random, especially if you have several allergies. Never put anything in your mouth without knowing what it is and the effect it will have!

Thursday - Clairsalience

Research/ introspection - this would be clear smelling. As a sense itself smell is indicative of things being good or bad (generally) so with that basic understanding of the base sense, how would this sense influence or be used in your craft and practice? What other definitions are there for this sense?

Friday - Clairgustance

Research/ introspection - this would be clear taste. What can taste tell you? When do you experience this sense? How can you experience this sense? How can this be used if at all, in your craft?

Now that the five basics are out of the way… are there other Clair-senses not listed here? What are they? How do they apply to your craft if at all? How do they connect to you? How do you achieve or utilize them? Ask yourself all the possible questions about them and make a list of them!

-Mod Hazel

(P.S. thank you all for being patient with me the last few months. It has been a challenge for me to get ahead in the posts for this challenge as I am working a lot of overtime and my daughter is struggling with some mental health issues. I’m still here and still working on the challenge! It’s just been slow going! Again, thank you all for the support and for participating!)

[witchesofvaliant]

Divination: Beginner Guide, Clairsenses, & Interpreting - Part 2

Clairsenses

Before we get into specifics, let's clarify the big question in this section: What is a clairsense?

Clairsenses are basically spiritual aids that allow one to gain knowledge through any method of understanding that we would regularly gain knowledge through. And we can gain knowledge through our 5 senses, knowledge given, through emotion, and through sensation.

1: Clairvoyance

This clairsense involves sight, as it means "clear seeing" and can be described as seeing something in the spiritual sense, whether that be a form, color, a scene like a memory, and so on. This can also happen either externally, like seeing it in front of you or outside of you, or it can happen internally, as if seeing it in your mind. Through clairvoyance, you can see people's auras, events that have happened or will happen, or various kinds of spiritual entities.

2: Claircognizance

This clairsense involves knowledge/thinking, and means "clear knowing" as it relates to knowing things that you wouldn't have tangible evidence to know. This often culminates in understanding things you wouldn't otherwise know. It can be confused with clairsentience or even clairempathy, but this is purely the knowledge and thought aspect of clairsensing, and many often end up with a combination of clairsenses going off, either one after another, or at the same time. Claircognizance can have you knowing how a person would react with little knowledge of who they are, and then perhaps seeing that through clairvoyance, or sensing the emotion through clairempathy all around the same moment of each other.

3: Clairaudience

This clairsense is connected to one's hearing, and means "clear hearing", and is best described as hearing sounds or speech in the spiritual sense. This sense is in use when you're hearing speech directly from spirits (including deities), or sounds that you might not normally hear. Like clairvoyance, it can also occur externally or internally, feeling as if it came from in your mind, like hearing a voice in your mind, or from outside of you as if you'd heard someone speak in front of you (it can vary of course, but this is the general example).

4: Clairempathy

This clairsense means "clear emotion". It has to do with gaining understanding through sensing emotion. This is often confused with clairsentience and both can be felt together as well. However, most tend to describe clairempathy as sensing emotion, while clairsentience, as we'll talk about next, is feeling sensations.

5: Clairsentience

This clairsense is connected to sensing feeling, physical feeling, and means "clear feeling". Clairsentience relates to physical sensation, and many also define this as feeling emotion, the empathic part of interacting with someone else, basically. To give a better example and comparison of both clairsentience and clairempathy, would be that while you as a person, may feel your face get hot when you're angry, the understanding that there is rage would be tied to the clairempathy, and the face being hot and even the feeling of what rage feels like would be attached to clairsentience.

6: Clairtangency

This clairsense is connected to one's touch, and is described as "clear touch". Thus, clairtangency relates to sensing through touch, meaning you would gain understanding about an event, an object, a person, etc. when touching that object or person. This practice is also called psychometry. To give a proper example of this, say you touched a necklace, then ended up knowing an event that happened surrounding the necklace, or information on the person that might've previously owned it. From experience, I can also say that you can have other clairsenses come into play in combination with this, as you may have a vision of an event, or feeling the event physically, or sensing the emotion attached to the object/person.

7: Clairsalience

This clairsense is tied to sensing through smell, and means "clear smelling". Clairsalience is fairly straightforward, alike to clairaudience, it basically relates to knowing through smelling, so you may end up smelling some random smell, like perfume or flowers, that can lead you to gaining understanding about something previously unknown. In my experience, it has come up in various ways, I have gotten smells leading me to understand someone's aura, I've gotten odd smells for various spirits, I've had a beautiful smell of flowers in relation to the spiritual as well. At times, it has been in combination with other clairsenses as well.

8: Clairgustance

This clairsense means "clear tasting" and connects to tasting without there being anything physical in the mouth to lead to one having that taste sensation. Fairly straightforward as well, you'd end up gaining information/understanding as you have a certain taste in your mouth, very alike to the way clairsalience would work as well.

Sources:

The Eight Clair Senses: A Visual Guide To The Spiritual Psychic Senses by Ruben Ricart

Dividers by @cafekitsune

[moonsoulastrology]

The 4 primary psychic senses.

●Clairsentient - meaning clear feeling.

●Clairaudient- meaning clear hearing.

●Claircognizant- meaning clear knowing.

●Clairvoyant- meaning clear seeing.

4 more senses that are developed off the primary senses are;

●Clairgustance- meaning clear taste, developed from claircognizance.

●Clairalience- meaning clear smell, developed from clairsentient.

●Clairtangency- meaning clear touch, AKA Psychometry, developed from clairsentience and claircognizance.

●Clairempathy- clear empathy, this is a stronger version of clairsentient but is developed from clairsentient, claircognizance, and clairvoyance. We all have a certain degree of empathy, but to be a true empath it takes developing those 3 primary senses fully.

Once you've developed and exercised one gift the rest will be able to be accessed. Some senses may not be as strong as another, but it doesn't mean you don't possess it. Some people possess these gifts stronger than others, but we are all born with these senses! Due to society conditioning, and the way we are raised most don't develop them the way we are supposed to. That doesn't mean you can't develop them now though! Just because your psychic gifts aren't as strong as the next person doesn't mean you aren't better at something else. Some people aren't meant to access those gifts at 100% and that's okay. So don't get down on yourself if you happen to be having a difficult time developing them. You may be the person that comes into play to help another on their spiritual and healing journey in another way. They can also take time to develop and its not something that's gonna happen in a week's time. Your gonna need to set aside time alone and have determination and stamina, these gifts can take a lot of energy out of you in the beginning. You must have patience, and believe in yourself most importantly!

Before you start you need to ask yourself are you truly prepared to move forward with gifts like these? Are you truly ready to work with the dead? It's not just your spirit guides that will be in contact with you if you develop this gift fully. You will be opening yourself up to negative energy and you must be prepared to deal with that. So before you push yourself to open up, ask yourself honestly if that's something you want to live with for the rest of your life? Also is your family ready for that too? If it's not, that's okay. You can still stretch certain senses to a point where you can pick up on certain energies of others without "piercing the veil" so to speak.

Follow along for more information on how to develop them, turn them up/down, as well as aspects and placements in the natal chart pointing towards being born with a strong gift of the senses!

#AstrologyCommunity #psychicsenses

[yoongleboonglepie]

First, I'm a little lost on the time frame of these events, how long has y/n been at the estates?

Also, how many chapters do you plan for this ff to be, I need to prepare myself for the mental torment of waiting a week in between every update. 😞 And if you end of not finishing this ff I might have to follow in yoongi and y/n's footsteps in chapter 18, except I am y/n and you are yoongi. (Much love 😌🎀🫶?

So Hoseok can feel the emotions and experiences of people by touching them or something of them?

As far as Bear goes, wouldn't it be safer to leave him in the printer? Yes, not ideal for him obviously, but as soon as they get him out, he'll be an immediate target.

Is Canidid (the ghost following y/n, sorry I'm bad with names) directly correlated to the start of the demonic plague effecting the estate? Or did the plague start before her? Did the spiritual unrest of the estate lead to her murdering her children.

Also confused, was it ACTUALLY her that pushed hoseok, or was it just his mind replaying the instance warped while he was searching her memories?

Oma stated that the women of the estate were destined to keep the spirits at bay (at least thats how I took it) so how far back does this plague go, seemingly even before Adelaide's time (which Im still not 100% understanding the time frame of her life, unfortunately I am not good at history 😞) Does it have to do directly with the Worners, or is it something else, like the hotel was built on native burial grounds. (Probably not because there isn't much brought up about the building of the estate.)

I still dont like Hoseok and especially not Jin, now we know they didn't leave y/n for dead, which is good, but they still wouldn't stand up to Mariah despite the obvious fact that there's something wrong. I do hope Hoseok gets surgery tho and they both talk to y/n and get things cleared up. Better late than never.

Also, Hoseok, Jimin, Jungkook, I assume Namjoon and MAYBE Yoongi all like y/n. But we haven't really gotten that many Jin scenes, due to the fact that its a ot7xreader fanfic I can assume he already likes her, but I'm excited to see where his feelings lay. I also am excited to see y/n discover her own feelings, I'm also hoping for a LITTLE bit of guilt for her liking all 7 of them, BUT not an insufferable amount. (I'm sensitive 😞☹️)

Unfortunately I'm not smart enough to make many theories and I wish more people commented on the posts so I could know what other people are thinking.

I am literally not gonna sleep until this next chapter is out btw. Take your time tho, you can't rush magic.

Anyways I think thats everything.

YOURE WRITING IS SO AMAZING OMG PLEASE WRITE A REAL BOOK UDBJSHDJEUH.

Also if you have any ff recs that are even CLOSE to the insanity of this masterpiece PLEASE recommend, I need something to quench my thirst.

Okay have a good day 🎀🫶

Okay this is going to be a long response, so I'm putting a cut!

Let's dive into this 😈

Y/n has been at the estate for approximately 2 months, coming up on 3. I know timelines can get confusing 😆 especially when some chapters take place over only a couple of days when others span over a week or so. So from mid March-mid/late May.

2 As for how long, anywhere between 30-40 Chapters? I'm estimating closer to 40 just because there's still so many parts of this story we can tell, and still have to cover (I'm so sorry y'all, I like to have lots of details 🫣). And there will also definitely be the opportunity for drabbles and extras after it ends because I love these characters so, so much. And if there isn't time to explore something that fits well into the story, it can always fit into fun little extras.

AND DON'T YOU WORRY - If I didn't finish this story I think my wife would help you fulfill the reenactment - she'd hand you the knife to threaten me back to the computer LMAOOOO

3. Hoseok's powers are loosely based on Clairtangency, which is the psychic power of receiving messages or emotions through touch. His power leaves much room to be explored and "trained" for lack of a better word, because the only reason he uses it is for Mariah, not himself. If anything, his relationship with it is similar to Jungkook's where he dislikes having it, however not to the same extent that Jungkook dislikes his own. Moreso Hoseok sees it as an inconvenience or a reminder of what happened to him, not as a point of self-hatred except for when it affects his friends.

4. In regards to Bear, that is a good thought. That is my personal thought as well, but we will have to see where the characters choose to take him and what he says in future chapters 🤭

5. This one I will unfortunately have to leave unanswered, but trust the answers will come with the story 😗

6. So the ghost actually pushed him. The memory was as much Candida's as it was his, which is why he has become so wrapped up in the idea that she is following Y/n. He may not care too much for ghosts, but he knows that one is nasty, and shouldn't be ignored.

7. Again I can't go into too many specifics here quite yet as these questions will eventually be answered, but I can offer a bit more clarification on Adelaide's timeline! So she was born in the late 1800s, and is the grand child of the founder of the hotel. She died in the early 1960's, (so for a storyline reference, about a year or so before the scene of Patti and Bear in the study with the violin). We will learn more about her when the family document comes out within the next week, for people that want more background into the family members!

8. That's an absolutely valid feeling tbh. I like to write my characters with complex moral compasses, and rocky stories. I think it's unrealistic if everyone is 100% perfect and has no character flaws, and can make the characters fall a bit flat. I mentioned this in another ask wayyyy way back - but a lot of them are based on people I know/a much bigger complex theme that if someone would want to hear me ramble about it one day when the story calls for it, I absolutely will LOL. For example, I loosely based some of his experience on my own experience with disability and how difficult that experience can make it for you to establish full independence. His character is a guilty pleasure as well as a social commentary on just how vulnerable becoming disabled can make someone to abuse and mistreatment so quickly. When someone loses 100% control of their life (healthcare, medication, where they live, money etc), it's hard to know the person you have to depend on can be 100% safe, and his experience is unfortunately not uncommon. This is something I can absolutely dive into if anyone wants to hear my full character exploration at a later date, but I will not subject you to all of that in an already long post haha.

9. Yes it is an OT7 fic!! So they will all like MC to some extent. DON'T YOU WORRY YOUR PRETTY LITTLE HEAD, there is definitely a lot more feeling exploration to come. On ALL fronts. Not even just with MC, but also the boys themselves. They all have differing opinions on multi-person relationships, and that will definitely come into play in the upcoming chapters 🤐🤐. I feel like chatting about how they view it wouldn't really be a spoiler? But if people are interested maybe I'll make like a little list or something.

Don't say you're not smart!! You already kind of came up with like...three theories while you typed this, so I think you're selling yourself short here.

I WISH I COULD WRITE A REAL BOOK BUT I DON"T THINK I COULD

Also, I will reblog this with some of my favorite BTS fanfic recs, just give me a second to compile a list haha.

So much love,

~Delyn

[lialovelyschaoticlife]

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[grimoirey]

✨ The Clairs ✨

Main Types of Clairs

Clairvoyance

(Clear Seeing)

The ability to perceive visual information beyond the physical senses. This can include seeing images, colors, symbols, or even visions of future events.

Visualization Exercises

Sit quietly, close your eyes, and visualize objects, scenes, or colors in your mind’s eye. Practice daily with simple images and gradually move to more complex visuals to strengthen your “inner sight.” Meditation on the third eye (between the eyebrows) can also help.

Clairaudience

(Clear Hearing)

The ability to hear sounds or voices that aren’t audible to others, often experienced as inner guidance, hearing someone’s thoughts, or messages from spirits or guides.

Sound Awareness Meditation

Focus on ambient sounds around you, then shift to imagining sounds or inner voices in your mind. Practice discerning subtle sounds in your environment and try listening to soft, repetitive sounds like a ticking clock, letting them guide you inward to hear more subtle messages.

Clairsentience

(Clear Feeling)

A heightened sense of feeling, where someone can intuitively sense emotions, physical sensations, or energies of others or places. This includes physical sensations that convey information.

Body Scanning and Emotion Sensing

Practice a body scan by closing your eyes and paying attention to sensations in each body part. Then, imagine yourself in various environments and “tune in” to sense the emotions associated with each. Journaling afterward can help you interpret the emotions and sensations you pick up.

Claircognizance

(Clear Knowing)

A strong inner knowledge or “gut feeling” without any logical explanation. People with this gift receive sudden insights or knowledge about a person, place, or event.

Intuitive Journaling

Start with a question and free-write the answers that come to mind without filtering them. Over time, this practice can reveal patterns and strengthen your intuitive knowing. Meditation can also help you recognize the feeling of knowing distinct from thought.

Clairalience

(Clear Smelling)

The ability to smell scents that don’t have a physical source nearby, like smelling someone’s perfume after they've passed on or a certain aroma associated with a place or memory.

Scent Memory Practice

Smell different essential oils or spices, then close your eyes and try to recall the scent without it being present. Gradually, this can enhance your ability to “smell” or recall scents intuitively, which may help with connecting to people or memories associated with those smells.

Clairgustance

(Clear Tasting)

The ability to taste something without it being present, often linked to memories or associations that provide information about someone or something.

Taste Meditation

Focus on tasting different foods mindfully, paying attention to each layer of flavor. Then, try to “imagine” the taste of different foods without eating them, as this practice can enhance your ability to pick up tastes associated with people or memories.

Clairtangency

(Clear Touching or Psychometry)

The ability to receive information by touching an object, which can hold energy or memories of people or events connected to it.

Object Reading Practice

Hold an object that belongs to someone and tune into any feelings, images, or thoughts that arise. Let your impressions flow without judgment. Practicing with a variety of objects can help refine your ability to pick up on energies connected to them.

Other Types of Clairs

Clairempathy

(Clear Emotion)

Similar to clairsentience but focused on emotions. People with this ability feel the emotions of others deeply, often as if they were their own, and may intuitively understand others’ emotional states without verbal communication.

Emotion Meditation and Energy Shielding

Practice by focusing on your own emotions and then imagine how others may feel in certain situations. To avoid emotional overwhelm, also practice grounding and shielding by visualizing yourself surrounded by protective light.

Clairkinesthesia

(Clear Movement Awareness)

The ability to feel or sense physical movement that hasn’t occurred yet or even movement on an energetic level, such as shifts in someone’s energy field.

Body Awareness Exercises

Practice sensing subtle movements, such as the feeling of a breeze or the shift of your own muscles. You can also try gentle tai chi or qi gong movements to help you become more sensitive to the flow of energy and movement.

Clairinspiration/Claircreativity

(Clear Inspiration/Creativity)

The sense of receiving creative ideas, such as art, music, writing, or inventions, seemingly from beyond one's own conscious mind. Many artists, writers, and musicians describe a feeling of “receiving” their work from an outside source.

Open-Ended Creative Meditation

Sit quietly with an open mind, asking for inspiration or guidance on a question. Remain in a relaxed, open state, and note any ideas that “pop up.” Regular meditation or creative flow exercises, such as drawing without a plan, can encourage inspiration.

Clairpresence

(Clear Presence Awareness)

The ability to sense the presence of a spirit, entity, or energy without necessarily seeing or hearing it. People often describe this as the feeling of “not being alone” or of a particular being nearby.

Awareness Meditation for Presence Sensing

Practice meditating in silence, attuning to the feeling of your environment. Occasionally pause to sense if there is a “shift” in the atmosphere, such as a feeling of warmth or cold. This helps you discern subtle presences.

Claircosmology

(Clear Universal Knowledge)

This refers to a sense of connection with universal or cosmic knowledge, as if receiving insights about humanity, existence, or spiritual truths. It’s often described as a sudden deep understanding of complex, spiritual, or existential concepts.

Contemplative Meditation

Spend time in contemplation of big questions about life, the universe, or spiritual concepts. Keep an open mind and let insights come naturally. Journaling after meditation can help you capture sudden insights or “downloads” related to universal knowledge.

[freezegirl]

INTRODUCING: THE LADIES OF THE SKYBOURNE HERALD

every school needs a good newspaper with corresponding media outlets, after all, so these six answered the call and took it upon themselves to get the news to the people, in any way, shape or form and, more often than not, by any means necessary.

for someone who fancies herself a true reporter, having the power to perceive the residual information of an object and/or person through touch is handy. it even runs in the family. cynthia randolph (m.arlo k.elly) has the ability of clairtangency while her mom has the ability of clairalience (i.e. she smells things outside the range of normal perception) and her dad has the ability of clairgustance (which means he tastes things outside the range of normal perception). one of her uncles deals with clairaudience (the ability to hear things outside the range of normal perception) and one of her aunts is clairvoyant.

tracy warner (h.erizen g.uardiola) is cynthia's best friend, her right-hand woman, the secret-keeper of the group, and an interesting case. her mom can detect truths and her dad can detect lies. tracy, however, can do both. she can also force you to lie, even if you would rather not. the opposite is true as well: she can force you to tell the truth, even if you don't want to. tracy only needs to be in your close proximity to catch you in a truth or a lie but for tracy's truth and lie compulsion powers to work, though, you need to be directly within her line of sight and you need to be able to hear her speak. you can even try to go against tracy's powers and refuse to spill your guts, but the more you try, the more it hurts. so why not just talk and tell tracy what she wants to hear? the truth shall set you free. (and if tracy is morbidly curious as to how far she can go before you break, well, that's for you to ignore and for her to find out, isn't it?)

sheena rogers (t.aveeta s.zymanowicz) easily detects weaknesses. physical ones, mental ones, emotional ones. hell, even spiritual ones. it's like she was born to poke through weak-ass defenses of any and every kind. it makes sense, then, doesn't it, that she's also on the debate team. sheena's also got a secret love for poetry that no one but her friends know about; at their urging, sheena now publishes in the herald, albeit anonymously. though tracy is the secret-keeper of the group, sheena has some of her own that she keeps locked behind her sunny smiles by any means necessary.

one would think that margaret 'maggie' winters (e.rika p.revost) has elemental powers due to her last name, but that couldn't be further from the truth. maggie does the advice column in the herald and through dear maggie, she hopes to spread a little extra luck around. she doesn't like to jinx people but has been known to do so on cynthia's orders.

jessica bradley (s.age l.inder) can, for an undetermined amount of time, dampen or completely suppress the powers and abilities of anyone within fifty feet of her. at first, she couldn't control it but noawadays, she consciously brings her dampening field in close, so that people's powers and abilities do not get dampened unless they touch her. much like with maggie, jessica has been known to dampen powers on cynthia's orders.

isobel aguirre (m.ellany b.arros) is the youngest of the group and feels like everyone's kid sister. shy and sweet and completely overwhelmed by the fact that she has powers at all (because no one else in her family does), isobel is capable of turning herself completely invisible, which is why the group often uses her for recon. a writer in her own right, isobel has bonded the most with sheena but also follows cynthia around like a little duckling. if cynthia says jump, isobel asks: "how high?"

[coinandcandle]

How do the gods interact with you? How do you know they approve/disapprove of a particular offering or action? How does that mutual connection that a lot of people talk about manifest?

Hey anon!

This is a loaded question cuz it's gonna be different for each person. From my experience, the answers to this run purely on intuition and divination.

The gods can interact with us in many different ways. Sometimes they reach out to you through signs (like animals, numbers, recurring imagery, etc), other times they interact with you through your dreams; and sometimes they interact with you via clairsenses (Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairtangency, Clairsentience, Clairalience, Claircognizance, & Clairgustance).

The best way to find out is to ask, "What does a 'no' look/feel/sound like from you? What about a 'yes'?" and go from there. If you're still not sure, use divination. You could do something as easy as a coin flip "Tails means yes, heads means no." for example.

The mutual connection may never truly happen, not everyone can just automatically know what a deity would or wouldn't want/like/think/feel. But you can form a connection with them on your own terms.

It's very similar to human connections, you know your best friend well enough to answer if they like a certain food or not and you may even be able to guess how they feel about some strong political topic, but you'd have no idea how they feel about a food they've never tried or a song they've never heard so you gotta ask.

Same goes for the gods. You can just ask them if they like or don't like something. You can try out new offerings and ask if they loved it, liked it, hated it, or felt neutral about it.

In my experience, if the Morrigan or Lugh really didn't like something I was doing or offering they let me know by giving me a sudden feeling that seemed like it wasn't my own or like it came out of nowhere.

But some people "hear" their gods, some "see" them, and many "feel" them like me! It's a learning curve but don't get too tied up in the Do's and Don't's, you'll just burn yourself out before you even started. Get to know the deities the way you'd get to know anyone (or anything) start by talking, introduce yourself and tell them about yourself; maybe even throw in why you want to connect with them or why you feel drawn to them.

Keep in mind this is my advice based on my own experiences and opinions, I'd love to know how others would answer this question! <:

[sprerglede]

Clairvoyance abilities is different ways to get information to, like:

Clairvoyance - clear seeing

Clairaudient - clear hearing

Claircognizance - clear knowing

Clairintellect - clear thinking

Clairempathy - clear emotion

Clairsentience - clear physical feeling

Clairtangency - clear touching

Clairsalience - clear smelling

Clairgustance - clear tasting

[psychelis-new]

When did you realize you had a spiritual gift? Does it run in the family? My mom has premonitory dreams, can “see” energy and do that thing where she touches objects/people and can “see” things, and I’ve always wondered if I could do it too, or if it just “skipped” me lol

Hey!

Uhm let me think... When it comes to clairs, especially clairaudience and claircognizance (which are my main ones, together with clairvoyance) I think I kind of always had them since I was little. I never really used them knowing what I was doing but I often knew stuff I wasn't supposed to know of and heard voices in my mind guiding me and keeping me company. I never really knew what it was about though, I kind of found out around 3 years ago, more or less, when I also started digging more into spirituality and tarots (also here on tumblr, btw). It happened by chance but prolly it was just fated to happen at that moment for a specific reason. Maybe it simply was my time to "become aware". I also always had dreams of different type and again I got more aware about my dreams recently, also of the premonitory ones, as I started healing and learning more about the unconscious mind and spirituality (which to me kinda happened simultaneously... well actually I got into spirituality a tad earlier than healing and I am thankful it went this way as it helped me loads). It's like I opened a new channel of communication (it was already open but not knowing how to read the infos I used to get in my dreams or forgetting them, it was kinda "useless").

I am not sure how much of this runs in my closest family, and if it does, no one talks about it: I live in a country where spirituality is often seen as scam so it's not easy to be that open about it nor to really take into consideration the fact that someone may actually have a gift in that sense. If someone guesses something right, for example, it's all a coincidence or luck. Only a few people can make it and not be looked at/labeled as crazy or worse.

I honestly think every person on Earth has some kind of gift, but it's up to them to find theirs (maybe when on a healing path, maybe not everyone can realize theirs out of blockages) and cultivate them or study/practice to make them better. So yeah I do think you too have some type of gift, and you'll find it (/them) out at the right time. Maybe when you'll be really ready to welcome them, maybe suddenly and through something unrelated (maybe not so unrelated, if I think about it now) as it happened with me. I don't think there's someone that is born without being able to do anything... it also depends on the environment you're in and how open you and your family are to that chance, to see it, to find it and welcome it (and on this, it seems you're already in a very good position so just keep staying open and maybe meditate if you can... your Guides may show you your abilities or guide you on the road to find them out). I think we're all here for a reason, generally to help each other (call me a dreamer ;) ), so yeah, I do think you too have some kind of gift. :D (btw I really envy your mother's clairtangency, I'd love to try that but sadly it seems I don't work through touch but mostly through my 3rd eye... I guess we all can see things differently and in different ways which adds to our uniqueness :) )

Take care!