Posts tagged “Summoning”
Familiars Part 6: Bonding with Spirits
This is the final part of a series on familiar spirits. You can see the previous entry here or start with the first one here. Let’s say you’ve conjured a big ol’ mess pile of spirits using the Feast. Now what? Getting contact with spirits is easy, but forming a close relationship with one can be significantly harder. [...]
Familiars Part 5: How to Call Them
This is part of a series on familiar spirits. You can see the previous entry here or start with the first one here. Getting a familiar is a big job. Throughout this series I’ve referred to spirits “answering your call.” Summoning. Where do you start? Summoning can be an overwrought affair. Special diagrams, custom incenses, don’t pronounce [...]
Familiars Part 4: Protection
When you’re inviting strange spirits to come for a visit, some would say you need to protect yourself. I guess that’s reasonable. For an easy way to do this, Google “protection spell” -WOW -game and use the first thing that looks good to you. There are so many protection methods out there that I can’t [...]
Familiars: Question Mark?
I’ve been writing a series on familiar spirits (see the last installment). I said that in the next section I would talk about how to summon a familiar for yourself. That’s run into a snag. It’s funny. I actually consider familiars to be a specialization of mine; having worked extensively with them, I assumed it would [...]