Duh Herro!

[Animus]

I need tah speak tah sumboodee who speak-a tah chinese!

Nah... but seriously, I was referenced this site by someone. I'm Animus or Patar, a late-teenaged male who's had a rather fucked up life. I'm new to magic(k), although I (stereotypically) have a dark grey cat familiar. At least I think he's my familiar, maybe he's my fetch. Dunno the difference, too many different meanings. Our souls our bonded together, if that helps to describe our relationship.

About three years ago I suffered an attack by what Christians would call demons---real nasty folk---and ever since then I've been different. Beforehand I'd kind of been reading a lot of new-agey-love-n-light bullshit and began focusing on communication with household pets. I had a moderate amount of success, but had the problem of not "hearing" anything back. I've since lost the ability to communicate with them, and still can't receive anything.

So anyway, what's up?

[Nahemah]

Hi and welcome to the forum. [grin]

[EternalReturn]

Hi [grin] I didn't even thought of talking with animals, that could be interesting to learn [thumbup] How has it been from your experience?

[manonthepath]

Welcome. What was the mode of communication?

[Animus]

What was the mode of communication?

It's literally been years, and I'm not exactly the best with magick/witchcraft (or explaining things) but I'll give it a go.

I was really simple, as such that even at like 12 I was able to do it. I do believe that we already had some sort of bond as outcasts. I was kinda the outsider of my family and at this point my cat was the new pet. We already had a dog, and just lost our dominant male cat to heat stroke. We ended up moving, and still hadn't been adjusting well. It was probably so easy for me to originally communicate with him... we were kindred spirits (literally). I didn't have to, but I was advised when I asked someone else how to do it more easily I was told that by establishing a magical connection between us it may become easier. Like braiding shedded hair of the animal with some hair of yours, weaving the essences together. I dunno if that's legit or not though.

Any way, I began by visualising a connection---like a tether or chord---extending between us and simply talked. As I did, I just sent the general feeling/idea of what I was saying to him. Although, as I mentioned in the OP, I have trouble "receiving" things. I have severe ADHD and I wouldn't be surprised if I wasn't paying enough attention or some such. If anyone had any pointers on this it would be helpful, seeing as it's not just animals that I have this problem with, it's communication in general.

[manonthepath]

I want to help you. What exactly do you mean by "Talked?" Did you hear or intuit actual verbalizations either with your mind or did you actually hear anything? Perhaps by using the term "Talked" you mean something else?

[Rin]

Do you meditate? It's, imo, the most reliable way to open up your spiritual senses, especially sense training (that is, visualization and it's equivalents for hearing and touch - scent/taste if you really want to go all out, but they're not really that important in the scheme of things), although you'd want to include thought observation/void meditation. 5 minutes on each of the senses and 10 minutes of the thought observation would be a good place to start, then increase slowly as you improve and become more disciplined.

A decent system of energy work would be a good idea too, and all of this will increase your capacity for working magic, communicating with animals or spirits and aid in cleansing any residual aftereffects from the attack phenomenon you experienced. It takes a while to strengthen and balance the mind and energetic/spiritual anatomy involved in this kind of thing, but it's worth the hard work. I can give you more specific sources for techniques if you need it.

Although don't expect to be carrying on conversations, I've had limited psychic contact with a pet a few times (also a cat), and it was flashes of sensory input more than any direct communication, and it was entirely accidental. After all, animals don't think the way humans do and they don't communicate the way we do, that's going to carry over to psychic contact. Maybe if you worked harder at it you might be able to find a way to mimic animal communication on a psychic level, but I'm speculating at this stage, it's not something I know much about. And honestly, my experience with cats is that if they want to communicate something to you, they can do it perfectly fine without resorting to psychic communication :p

[Animus]

I mean I physically just talked my way through. I didn't receive anything back, but I do know he heard it cuz his whole demeanor kept changing as I said things. (Meowed lightly + purred when I commented on his handsome eyes, that kind of thing.)

I want to help you. What exactly do you mean by "Talked?" Did you hear or intuit actual verbalizations either with your mind or did you actually hear anything? Perhaps by using the term "Talked" you mean something else?

I could've probably stated this easier, but I talked to him. I'm sure he tried to send something back, but I didn't hear him. I was talking because it seemed to help me communicate with him/maintain my focus. I was trying to project the general idea at the same time.