Your Intuition Doesn’t Always Feel Mystical

Sometimes intuition feels like:

Not every message comes with goosebumps and signs. Sometimes it’s just your nervous system being smarter than your brain. Trust the boring signals too, they’re usually the most honest.

If you want help interpreting what your intuition’s been trying to say lately, my cards translate subtle energy very well. 🔮🖤

I want to interrogate this concept of expecting messages from a spirit when you connect with it. Someway, somehow, this idea that every time a practitioner communicates with a spirit that spirit is going to have a “message” for them has become common.

I don’t like this approach to spirit work. I feel like it treats spirits as if they are coin operated fortune telling machines or magic eight balls - insert offering receive “message”. Spirits have their own existences outside of us, they aren’t just sitting around, waiting for practitioners to reach out to them so that they can relay information to us regardless of if they have had contact with us before.

I find that if you want a spirit to have something of worth to say to you, quite often you need to initiate the conversation with something that they will find worth replying to, and that is not “do you have any messages for me?” Ask them questions about subjects within their domain, or for help with something that you think they can influence, or my personal favor to teach you something that they are good at. Don’t make them carry on a one sided conversation, be an active participant!

Okay I just wanna pop off about a Kickstarter I'm really excited about and may appeal to some of y'all witchy folk & mediums!!!

It's a SPIRIT BOARD CARD DECK!!!!! Isn't that cool?!!? I've done workshops with Sterling and I talk very highly of her so her releasing this deck is just so rad and so useful! It's only 40 doll hairs to back it & receive the deck, plus shipping!

Here's info from the Kickstarter page:

Use Spirit Says Talking Deck for:

Spirit Communication: Connect with spirits, going beyond traditional archetypes and symbolism

Psychic Development: Practice honing your psychic senses

Tarot Clarifiers: Pull a card when your readings need additional details

Self-Reflection: Intuit messages from your own psyche

What’s Inside the Deck?

Spirit Says Talking Deck is a system for your intuition. The deck includes:

A-Z Alphabet Cards: For spelling out names, initials, places, and direct messages

Numbers 0-10: Perfect for questions on dates, times, or specific amounts

Quick-Response Cards: Yes, No, Maybe, Hello, and Goodbye

Blank Cards: Use these as a signal to trust your intuition or customize them with your own symbols and words

Even if you don't back it, please share if you think it's cool to boost!

They're about halfway there! 🙌🏻

"medium with ectoplasm", William Hope, c. 1920s. silver gelatin print.

Margery Crandon extruding ectoplasm, circa 1924

Καιρέ! I go by Althea (Allie, Alls) or Lyra (Ly, Yra), I'm a Hellenic Polytheist and a pagan (though right now I only worship within the greek pantheon, I won’t limit myself if I ever want to worship outside of it!), also a medium, tarot reader and a witch.

I’m Mexican-Spanish, therefore my mother tongue is spanish and english is my second language (on the works of speaking greek, german and catalan)

she/her / heterosexual

Mind That!!

I am a minor (16), I won’t tolerate any hate, use of AI, or anyone wanting to force beliefs onto others!! Religious and spiritual practices are personal – please remember that.

Which Gods Do I Worship?

I worship Thalassa, Poseidon, Persephone, Hades, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, Dionysus, Asteria, Hestia, Hypnos, Athena, Hera, Zeus, Nike and Hekate but not limited to!

DO NOT INTERACT!!:

I’m also a poet, artist and writer, so maybe I'll share poems or drawings I've done / will do for Them!

Other facts about her:

Cinephile / book lover / music freak / Musical lover / feminist / environmentalist / reality shifter / artist / writer / adhd / ENTP 7w8 / Aquarius sun Aries moon

χάος: the vacant and infinite space which existed according to the ancient cosmogonies previous to the creation of the world, and out of which the gods, men, and all things arose. ("In the beginning there was chaos")

Καιρός:  it refers to the right moment, the opportune moment. The perfect moment. The world takes a breath, and in the pause, before it exhales, fates can be changed.

Harry Boddington - The University of Spiritualism – Psychic Press - 1985

The currently reading pile:

And that's not even getting into the literature review I'm supposed to be doing today, which involves finding a ton of scholarly papers defining and measuring happiness in transgender people!