How To Create A Trusting Relationsip With The Universe:

hey! ok so this is just a little rant.

i won’t necessarily say i have lucid dreamed, but i have been in a dream and been aware that i was in one. i just can’t necessarily control it? or i still get caught up in the dream. good thing most of the time when i am aware i’m in a dream it’s not a nightmare. but i noticed that the times when i do tell someone in my dream that i know i’m dreaming, they look at me weird or something suddenly goes off? i can’t explain it.

so one time, i had this clip of a dream of me and my mom were planning on going to a carnival or something. she said something along the lines of “oh maybe it’s not a good idea, i don’t want you to get hurt on one of the rides” or whatever. and since i knew i was dreaming, i said “oh it’s okay, i’m dreaming anyways so let’s go.” then she stood and looked at me with a slightly shocked expression like “girl what?” 💀✋🏼 she looked a bit petrified too, but she just said “okay..” right after like i just didn’t say what i just said.

then there was another clip of a dream i had where my whole family and i believe my friends in that dream were in one room and all of a sudden i blurted out “i’m dreaming!”, then they all stopped where they were. like not in a gradual way but more like they stopped in their places? like robots. then they all started to casually go about their business like they just stopped acting in a film or something 😭😭

there’s been tons of times where this has happened to me. there was even a time when i had a dream that someone was trying to hurt me and i was trying to manifest a knife to defend myself. i tried to manifest it by yelling “knife!!”, but the knife appeared in the other person’s hands and they looked at me like they were confused LMAO, i was like 9 when this happened too; i was aware of what lucid dreaming was and i thought this was me doing it at the time.

i think this is what made me develop the belief that when we dream, our subconscious minds travel to alternate universes where people play into their “roles” to help send us messages from our higher selves or spirit guides 😏🙏🏼

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Difference between Spirituality and Religion...

Shoutout to this anon for this wonderful idea.

Disclaimer : These are my thoughts and belief. You don't have to agree with me on each point.

Spirituality

"Spirituality is having your own experience."

Spirituality let's you discover

Spirituality lets you discover and it empowers you to find your own truth make your own believes and it is your choice whether you believe something or not.

Spirituality believes in Karma

Spirituality is what you give comes back to you be it a good deed or a sin. It will eventually find its way back to you and I believe within this lifetime.

It let's you find your own path

It never asks you to walk on a particular path. Spirituality sets you on your own path- one which the only limits are set by yourself. It’s all about following your own heart.

There are no rules

Spirituality has no rules the only thing it has is freedom. freedom to make your own path ; to make your own decisions ; to make your own belief system.

It is based purely on love and not fear

Spirituality encourages making decisions out of love and the pure desire to be the best you can be, for its own sake.

Spirituality unites people

To spirituality all the truth is same, although there could be different perspectives. Ultimately, spirituality teaches us there are no walls, divisions, borders, races, or cultural divides; we’re all one.

Religion

"Religion is belief in someone else's experience. "

Religion tells you what to believe

Religion is black and white we are taught to what to believe in and what not. We don't have a say in what we are believing it is just we have to close our eyes and believe whatever we are told.

Religion beleives in punishment

Religion has always taught me that whatever crimes I commit in this lifetime be it small or big. I have to pay for it in after life to be honest until this date I have never heard anyone talking about the good things I do in my religion it is always the bad things they give lectures on. A famous quote here is "nobody will notice 1000 good things you have done but 1 mistake and everyone notices it while you also pay for it"

You have to follow someone else's path

Religion talks a lot about ancient gods and old stories. And there are some set believes which you have to follow you can't even alter them a bit it has to be done the way it is. They were made by someone else and we are just following their path.

Religion is rigid

Again the same point but religion is full of rules and there is no freedom like some of the rituals are so so so so planned that everything should go the way it is and you have to do it like your great grandfather's use to do.

In religion their are alot of fears

Throughout religion, there is lots of fear. The afterlife, particularly, is a big one. There are very specific rules that create real problems if they’re not followed.This can lead to psychological complexes and insecurities.But choices made from fear never produce the right results.

Religion seperates people

To each religion, their story is the only way. All others are false. And I don't further need to explain it.

I thought that brief description to each point will help you understand better. So, I added that.

My theory : Now this is my theory and you can have other opinions. So, I think that all religion stems from deep spirituality. Jesus and Prophet Mohammed, for example, all had deeply profound spiritual journeys before they embarked on their own. Each religion has beautiful souls, but anything that carries the negative aspects of religion will hurt the progress of humanity…and the world.

How to Read Reversals in Tarot

Any given reversed card can mean one of three:

The opposite of the upright

The upright watered down

The upright made bad or worse

To illustrate:

If The Devil upright is “addiction”, reversed it is “overcoming addiction” — the opposite.

If the Nine of Cups is “fulfillment”, reversed it is “fulfillment delayed” — watered down.

If the Seven of Swords upright is “manipulation”, reversed it is “betrayal” — made worse.

For every reading, your intuition will tell you which one applies. But remembering these tried-and-tested lists would also be wise:

Cards that Mean the Opposite When Reversed

The Fool

The Magician

The High Priestess

The Empress

The Emperor

The Hierophant

The Lovers

Strength

The Hermit

Justice

The Hanged Man

Death

Temperance

The Devil

The Tower

The Star

The Moon

Four of Wands

Five of Wands

Eight of Wands

Ten of Wands

Two of Cups

Four of Cups

Five of Cups

Six of Cups

Eight of Cups

Queen of Cups

King of Cups

Three of Swords

Four of Swords

Five of Swords

Six of Swords

Eight of Swords

Nine of Swords

Ten of Swords

Knight of Swords

Queen of Swords

King of Swords

Three of Pentacles

Four of Pentacles

Five of Pentacles

Six of Pentacles

Seven of Pentacles

Eight of Pentacles

Queen of Pentacles

King of Pentacles

Cards that are Watered Down When Reversed

The Chariot

Wheel of Fortune

The Sun

Judgement

The World

Ace of Wands

Two of Wands

Three of Wands

Six of Wands

Ace of Cups

Nine of Cups

Ten of Cups

Ace of Swords

Ace of Pentacles

Nine of Pentacles

Ten of Pentacles

“Bad” Cards that are Made Worse When Reversed or “Good” Cards that are Made Bad

Seven of Wands

Nine of Wands

Page of Wands

Knight of Wands

Queen of Wands

King of Wands

Three of Cups

Seven of Cups

Page of Cups

Knight of Cups

Two of Swords

Seven of Swords

Page of Swords

Two of Pentacles

Page of Pentacles

Knight of Pentacles

Thank you for explaining! But what would be energy work? I looked it up and it seems to be some ancient techniques to heal energy balance in the body. I don't know what any of that means. And how would you confirm that it's god and not a trickster identity? I've heard plenty about those.

Hi! I know you're asking the other anon, and I do hope they see this, but I can give some basic answers that hopefully help too :)

Before you do any more research, please read this post!

In witchy and spiritual circles, energy work quite literally refers to working with energy! Your energy, the energy around you, and everything in between. Here's a good post about it (and some other things)! I would actually recommend going through their "energy work" tag for more posts.

When communicating with other beings, I'd say you'll get better at knowing who's who as you do it more. In general though, putting up the proper protections for whatever you're doing, trusting your gut, and knowing when to cut communication (aka banishing in this case) is important. Energy work is actually very helpful for this! One very basic part of energy work is protective work (which often involves visualizing a shield of energy surrounding you) and that is necessary when communicating with other beings. Here's a good post on protection!

If you already work with the law, use that to your advantage! Assume that you're properly protected at all times and that you're always communicating with who you want to communicate with (and/or any being who means no harm). I'd also assume that only the beings you want to communicate with can communicate with you! That's actually what I do with my deities because having them around can still be overwhelming. I imagine this would help a lot with trickster spirits.

Some clues that you may be dealing with someone/thing who's lying about their identity:

if you have a feeling they are (trust your gut!!)

if you find yourself low on energy, constantly or suddenly in a bad mood (for no apparent reason or everything is pissing you off), sudden frequent nightmares

if they constantly change their identity (not necessarily changing their names! most beings will tell you if they want you to refer to them as something else or if they're comfortable with another name. changing their identity for no reason is a whole other thing)

if they get very aggressive or angry when you ask for their real identity or say that you're going to banish them/ask them to leave

if they tell you that you're like... super important or powerful (like a god reincarnated or a high priest/priestess).

if they don't want to tell you their intentions for why they're talking to you

if they can't answer basic questions about themselves or you (or they keep answering with things like "maybe/idk". in general, you'll know the difference between an actual deity who's saying maybe for whatever reason and a trickster who's saying maybe because they don't actually know)

This is just some very basic information. This post isn't comprehensive! I hope none of this scares you because trust me if you have the right information and do the right things, you'll be completely fine. But you do need to know the right information and this post isn't all of it. So again, I don't want to overwhelm or scare you but if you find that you want to go into energy work or communicate with a deity, do more research.

I have a beautiful, protective, invisible force field around me like a giant pearl

The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud//Small Favors, Erin A. Craig//Spirited Away: Themes, SparkNotes//Incantation (2022), Kevin Ko

okay mine was purely accidental.

but best i can explain it, me and a group of friends had begun dabbling in energy work and i had "fell" into a state. it was similar to the void state except everything different from it.

it was everything bright, everything floaty, there was nothing there except floaty clouds and bright lights. there was no one there and then big guys voice came on, he was surprised to see me honestly.

at first, this situation was weird. id have to meditate or at least focus on it to get into this state. time passed weirdly here, as in it didn't exist. usually, the big guy (he likes being called Mica, often changes his voice randomly, but does respond mostly to God) is the one who calls out to me now

his voice randomly pops in from time to time, usually replies immediately if i ask but its easiest to get into the state when praying because im focusing only on him. it takes some effort on my part if i want to talk with him but he just does it randomly that i don't usually have to get into it

it takes quite a bit of energy if you try getting into the state often. i recommend visualizing a portal like thing when getting into it so stay in the state longer instead of staying there for short periods of time but going multiple times

when working with god, or at least how i do it, he doesn't ask you for offerings MUCH but when he does ask you to do shit, pls follow him. he gets petty if you don't 😭

oh this is so interesting!! and this deity is the christian god right? that's so cool actually! that sounds like heaven and it's actually super funny that he was surprised to see you like babe i think you did the equivalent of walking into someone's house 😭