Basics of Spirit Communication

Part 1 - The Basics of Spirit Communication Part 2 - Various Spirit Opinions on Divination Communication Part 3 - How Spirits Prefer to Communicate

Warding and Spiritual Protection

Let the shadows

heavy our eyelids.

Let them take

their rightful place for the night.

Ahh.

Energy work for those needing Operation (board game). Extraction. Just of all the goop our spirits pick up on this murky internet.

In part 1 (link) of this series, we talked about the basics of spirit communication and possible pitfalls of using divination tools when communicating with them.

In part 2 (link), we talked about how my family specifically views different ways of communication via divination tools.

Now, we will talk about the two ways that most spirits prefer to communication.

If you've not read part 1 or 2, the most important thing about this series is that spirits are individuals and each one of them has their own skill, talent, and abilities. Some spirits are naturally gifted at some things and others they must spend years building their skills.

With divination, just like you were not born knowing all the ins and outs of tarot, spirits also are not born/hatched/created knowing how to use divination tools. As such, communicating via those methods is something not many spirits are skilled with and usually is only truly learned by those who wish to often speak to humans.

So, how do spirits most often prefer to communicate? How do they communicate with each other?

There are two common answers: Astral Speaking and Telepathy.

Astral Communication

Astral communication is when two beings who can hear astral wave lengths communicate. They have vocal cords, or something biological within their body that makes noise. Then another spirits who has ears, or other biological functions that can pick up on those sound wave lengths, is able to make out the sound. It's exactly like how creatures on the physical plane communicate but somewhere else.

A human can learn how to hear these sounds, both with their physical body and with their astral body, however it takes dedicated practice - usually with patient spirits who are willing to work with you on this.

Text: Ron: Again, I am a dragon. My talking is roars and growls. If you learn the language, I'd be pleased. But it's unlikely. Harp: I'm a shifter, so this is how I prefer to communicate in my human form. Yule: As I cannot use telepathy, it's really important that humans work on their astral hearing so we can talk.

Please keep in mind that I am an experienced spirit worker, so of course those within my family will prefer to talk to me in the way that they communicate with each other.

That said, my entire family communicates with astral speaking aside. Ron and Vinca are dragons who communicate with each other with astral talking (roars), and use telepathy with everyone else. This does mean that Ron and Vinca cannot communicate directly with Yule, which has caused issues in the past.

This is the only communication method that the majority of spirits are created with knowing how to do as it's a biological feature, however there are species that are entirely deaf or do not make any sound. They still communicate with "astral communication" though it may look different. It could be smells, body language, facial features, or an infinite possibility of any other trait.

Astral Communication Rating: Spirit Ease: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Human Ease: 🌟 Reliability: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Overall: 🌟 🌟 🌟 1/2

Telepathy

Telepathy may feel similar to auditory astral communication to humans because neither of them make the physical sound that you're used to hearing in the physical plane.

However, they are very different.

Astral communication, as mentioned above, is when spirits make sound waves. Telepathy is mind to mind communication without any sound being created. Telepathy has the added bonus that you're not limited to just sounds that you're body can make. You can send emotions, sensations, pictures, and more. Anything that happens within your brain can be sent to another person.

I would argue that this is most of the "visions" that people receive from spirits is just telepathy. I know how that sentence sounds, but let me continue. The word vision, in this context, often has the connotation of something important, something from the future or something important happening right now. However, the word telepathy has the connotation of meaning "brain to brain communication" and doesn't have the weight of "important" or "true". A spirit can lie to you, after all.

Text: Harp: I'm a shifter and I hate telepathy. It's the only really way I can communicate as a mongoose. It hurts my head though... Vinca: As Ron said, as dragons this is the most reliable way to communicate with an entity who cannot make our noises. Wolfcub: I'm also a shifter, but I'm good at telepathy and it doesn't hurt me. I prefer it, even in my human form.

And as previously mentioned, Yule cannot use telepathy. Telepathy is definitely less common than astral communication, but it's still a very common practice. Across many different individuals and species, spirits are born knowing how to use telepathy, can learn to use telepathy, can either only send or only receive messages, can do so with pain and great effort, and cannot use telepathy at all.

Within my family, we have a balance of telepathy and astral communication. Vinca and Ron can only communicate with the others with telepathy, Wolfcub prefers telepathy, but it gives Harp a headache and Yule cannot send or receive telepathic messages. Fi and myself are the only ones of the family who are able to proficiently use both astral communication and telepathy, so we often end up as translators (technically Wolfcub is too, but as he is young, we don't put that pressure on him).

We are lucky that Vinca and Ron can hear astral communication and have to use telepathy to send messages. So Yule and Harp can tell them information, and as we are a family, they can often read body language, facial expression, and sounds to know if the message was well received or not.

Telepathy Rating: Spirit Ease: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Human Ease: 🌟 Reliability: 🌟 🌟 🌟 Overall: 🌟 🌟 1/2

All of this is just to showcase how different each spirit is as an individual. Even within our own family unit, everyone has their own way they prefer to talk to each other and the small details of how we do communicate in actuality is the product of years of living together and learning.

Your own experience with spirits will differ vastly as you have different skills than me, and the spirits you interact with will have their own skills and abilities. Learning how to communicate with different spirits is one of the best parts of the journey because it's so full of excitement and the joy of new friendships blooming!

That said, if you are truly starting at square one, here are my families personal ratings, from 1-5 stars all of the types of communication talked about across these 3 posts!

Overall Rating:

Signs: 🌟 Scrying: 🌟1/2 Cartomancy: 🌟🌟1/2 Runes/Curiomancy: 🌟🌟1/2 Telepathy: 🌟🌟1/2 Pendulum: 🌟🌟🌟 Astral Talking: 🌟🌟🌟1/2

If you haven't read my previous posts about basics of spirit communication and divination feel free to do so here:

Part 1 - The Basics of Spirit Communication Part 2 - Various Spirit Opinions on Divination Communication Part 3 - How Spirits Prefer to Communicate

This was all part of Chimera Court's July lesson held in our Discord! We host lessons, classes, and meetings just like this one every month so feel free to stop by in time for our next one!

In part 1 (link), I talked about how different spirits all have their own talents, skills, and opinions about divination tools. But it feels odd to say that, but then not include any actual spirit thoughts on the subject.

So! Let me introduce you to my family:

Yule is a snow angel, Fi is a water sprite, Harp is a mongoose Shifter, Wolfcub is a Keva Hound (a type of wolf shifter), and Vinca and Ron are shift dragons. (I should mention that both Harp and Wolfcub are young, so they've not had as much time to build their skills and uncover their talents as the rest of my family.)

It should be noted though that all spirits, again, are individuals! My family will have their biases as if I couldn't communicate with them, it would be a struggle for us to become so close. But I do hope that having actual spirit's thoughts on each type of communication helps!

Pendulums

So first, let's talk about pendulums. In my first post, I talked about how most spirits (in my experience) are able to quickly learn how to use a pendulum and how they are super easy to make, so I often suggest them for those who are getting started talking to a new spirit.

However, that doesn't mean that all spirits like pendulums or that it should be the standard.

Text: Fi: I love pendulums because I get to bat at them like a cat. Ron: I HATE pendulums. They're inacurate and too small minded for me. How am I to explain myself with a yes/no? Yule: Pendulums are fast and convenient, but they are often inaccurate.

Within my family, the consensus is that pendulums are fine for quick and dirty things, but they're often liked for superficial reasons. They leave little room for an actual conversation or to explain their reasoning for yes/no. It can work well in tandem with other divination tools to double check, but all on its own? Not preferred.

Pendulum Rating:Spirit Ease: 🌟 🌟 🌟 Human Ease: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 Reliability: 🌟 Overall: 🌟 🌟 🌟

Okay, this post got incredibly long, so I'm going to put it under a read more~ If you want to read more about cartomancy, runes, curiomancy, scrying, signs, dream work, and automatic writing, please keep reading on! If you want to jump straight to part 3 where I talk about how spirits prefer to communicate with each other and with humans, then feel free to click through here!