#spiritshops

It’s true that we all have our own UPG and different experiences. Two spirit workers can meet two completely different spirits both belonging to the same species and wind up with completely different impressions of that species from their encounters. Or two people can observe the same spirit and perceive that spirit’s form or energy a bit differently. Sometimes conflicting UPGs can still both be correct! However, when you see something dangerously off or misleading in the spirit working community, especially when it is endangering the rights of spirits, we believe it’s important to call that out.

Any spirit adoption center or shop that says they have an “exclusive” deal with an entire spirit species is very, very likely lying. And on top of that, it is absolutely objectifying to those spirits to say that you somehow have “exclusive” rights to their entire species. Most spirits are individuals with free will and deserve to be treated as such. Many members of a particular spirit species don’t necessarily even know each other never mind would all be willing to make an agreement about being spirit companions for people through only ONE spirit worker. Though beginners to spirit work may not see how absurd or off such a statement is, let me assure you that this is a very unrealistic and outlandish statement to make about any spirit species.

However, this particularly stands out to me when in reference to the fae. Most fae spirits consider themselves superior to humankind and don’t have a lot of interest in them unless there’s a particular reason for it. Fae species also tend to be very broader, meaning that there are many many members of any given fae species not just a few. So the odds that an entire fae species would ever agree to give one spirit worker the “rights” to conjure them as spirit companions for people is slim to none. As a fae incarnate myself and an experienced fae worker, I feel the need to call out that this is extremely likely to be incorrect information for the gain and reputation of a particular shop or adoption center.

Please double check the facts, learn from your own experience, and remember that sometimes UPG can vary from spirit worker to spirit worker, but sometimes there are limits to what is “real” versus what is for the gain of someone’s reputation online. 

Spirits deserve to be treated as sentient beings with rights, they have their own lives, and I highly recommend only working with spirit shops or adoption centers that treat them and refer to them as such!