Stoke the Forge, Tend the Vinehey, if anybody knows anything about thoughtforms/animal familiar spirits and can provide me w/resources, I'm lookin'
The Doctor@SheofVineandForge I'm quite familiar with servitors. Do you have any specific questions?
@drwho yes and no- I'm broadly interested in hearing about your and other people's methodologies in making them. so, like, the 'specific' questions would be broad questions like "what is your subjective experience of creating a servitor?"
"what mental actions do you take to make one?"
"what physical/external work or objects do you use in your process, if at all?"
"what are your recommendations about pitfalls or useful hints?"
etc.. I'm trying to get a place to start from.
"what mental actions do you take to make one?"
"what physical/external work or objects do you use in your process, if at all?"
"what are your recommendations about pitfalls or useful hints?"
etc.. I'm trying to get a place to start from.
@SheofVineandForge Subjective experience: If I have a specific task, a specific need, and a specific outcome, and I build a servitor around those things, I find them very helpful. Trying to make general purpose servitors has never worked for me.
@drwho ahh, gotcha. yeah that is... not really what I want to do. I looked into servitors because there's not a whole lot of traditions that get into the creation of a metaphysical entity- I'm not, first and foremost, seeing the output of this process as a tool with a particular function. I am looking to make something that feels alive, and whose images/symbols/metaphors tie into my other magical interests.
@SheofVineandForge Read up on shamanic allies, then. I think you'll find something you can use or adapt in that tradition.