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Building Relationships with Spirits of the Dead
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
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0:00 Intro
0:43 Why work with the Dead?
4:08 The spirits you’ll meet
6:22 Creating relationships & why its important
13:17 How to begin working with them
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I have had to go get dirt for a working for a friend for court ( see abusive ex, restraining order, divorce), so i looked up the 1st female lawyer in my state/city/county. Then if there were female judges. Then what lawyer/judges/ politicians/cops/ladies rights were available. Picked 5 or 6. Found out who was dead, who was nearby. I should not have been so shocked with how many are still alive. Picked up a beer and some minibottles and a pack of cigarettes. Coffee also got shared. Went to the cemetery, found them after leaving my enrty conversation and offering. Introduced myself and explained hey this is an emergency and I need help. I ended up using my coffee and the beer and smokes. Lol. I recommend going back after with a thank you gift. And telling them how it went. It's a southern thing, maybe. Oh and I will leave smokes and mini bottles unopened when visiting because we have a cemetery who have homless people who camp on the area behind and they take care of it so..
When I was a christian I believed that death was the opposite of life. Funny thing is when those close to me passed I never cried because i could just feel them so strongly. Now that I know better am going to visit one of my great friends. We've been parted for so long. Thank you for ur video ❤
Guess I’m a little strange, cemeteries are my favorite places. I love being around the dead. I grew up right next to one and played in as a kid and just never had a fear of them. Also seeing and communicating with the spirits helped me see there was no danger.
The Olsdorfer Friedhof here in Hamburg is not only european biggest cemetery parc, it is my absolutely favorite place!
@@junham317 That’s absolutely my kind of place!!!
There's a cemetery that I've visited a couple times, and there a baby spirit that I'm drawn to and try to spend time with. Last time i brought some apple slices and sat with him while doing my shadow work journal. I left apple slices at different grave sites that i felt needed one for the winter. But i always look out for baby George Carter whenever i visit, and clean up his grave if i need to
I am the care taker of the cemeteries in my tiny town! I do all the mowing, weed wacking, and occasional induction of a new resident. I have my own form of habits I practice when working. Also cemeteries were often used as parks where people would visit and picnic, common in the Victorian era. I only take dirt from my relatives graves.
I love this! I have had a complicated history with cemeteries. My mother died when I was a child and for the longest time I refused to go to visit her because I didn't see the point..."She wasn't there". At the time I was very christian and truly didn't believe the dead were still here. Now that I have deconstructed and found witchcraft I find myself really wanting to connect with those that have passed. Even though I am far from home and have no family in my town, I would like to visit our cemetery and see if I can at least let them know someone is willing to hear them. I do have a question though, how tied to place are spirits of the dead usually? If you are far from an ancestor's burial location, how does that affect their ability to find you? May be a dumb question but I thought I would ask.
Depends on the spirit in my opinion. For ancestors, I don’t believe you need to be at their burial site to connect with them. You are a piece of them, so they’re always accessible to you! I think it’s more helpful to go to a grave or have an item of a spirit you’re not directly connected to.
@@TheWitchOfWonderlust That makes sense! Thank you for your reply! I think I might go introduce myself to the local spirits this weekend!
Their DNA flows through you, on a practical level their genetic survival depends on you - so by that measure it would be in their utmost interest to support and connect with, and look out for you 🙏🏻
I’ve started to visit my local cemetery up the road and HeKate guided me to bury a jar there and said I’d get the justice I deserved. The only crossroads I can find in the city is at the cemetery 😅. I did leave them cherries and chocolate which my guide said was ok to leave as an offering (Bune) and also coins and we chatted with regard to certain people whose names I buried at the crossroads who I wanted the spirits to help me with. They told me their boundaries and what they can and can’t do and we’re very reasonable so it was pleasant. Someone on TikTok threatened to poison every dog in his community for some insane reason so I gave his name to the crossroads and HeKate was pleased. I love going there and just walking around looking at all the tombstones and can tell so much about the families of the dead by the way they take care of their graves. Thankyou for this. I’ve been needing community where I moved to and haven’t found it amongst the living but am finding my experiences with the dead so far to be fulfilling and healing in ways I can’t fully express or describe
My best friend and I just went to the cemetery and walked around..we do this often..It's actually nothing for us ..we are comfortable with honoring the ancestors, our loved ones and united spirits. I give thanks for all you share! ❤
People often feel like cemeteries are creepy, but i have always felt a very comforting peace and safety in them. When my children were little, we would go every day and walk and talk about the headstones and what the people were like. We often would see who could find the oldest grave. I so badly would love to travel to Europe because everything here is just so new, historically speaking. Im sure its a completely different feeling over there 🖤👻
Same. I grew up next to one and I’ve never felt uncomfortable or afraid, on the contrary, that’s where I feel the most comfortable. Guess I’m strange lol.
The thing that we've learnt in this video is, that if someone says no and you can't accept that, they will probably fuck up your life. And it doesn't matter if they're spirits or people.
My grandparents owned a field and house adjacent to our town’s cemetery growing up, and it was a safe town more or less and I often left the property to go play there amongst the headstones. I used to read the names and dates and examine the style of the stones. I always felt a connection there from a young age. I can’t explain it, but it drew me in. I loved it there. Fast forward to high school and senior photos time. I drug my photographer over to take photos of me in that cemetery and he was soooo weirded out. He looked at me quizzically and was like “what are you joining the church when you graduate or something”? I just shook my head and said “I spend my childhood in this cemetery. It’s practically a home to me”. The ohhhhhhkaaaaayyy look he gave me was hilarious 😂. He took the photos and peaced out of there fast 😂. It wasn’t the only place I had photos taken by any means, but it was one of them. Anywho fast forward again and I was married with a child when my grandparents decided to downsize and sell the property. We bought it outright, it wasn’t even a question that I could let go of this place. It was more of a steady presence in my life than any of my mother’s places had been. It was the only stead ground under my feet growing up because my mom could never be happy anywhere. She couldn’t put down roots or be grateful for anything. Nothing was ever good enough for her. She drug me around endlessly and I could never get comfortable anywhere because we wouldn’t stay that long. So anyway back to the property and cemetery-it came with a resident spirit who is calm sometimes and angry and pestering other times. It’s so difficult to know what he wants-we suspect it was the man who built the house and died here in it during the early 1900’s. There are times when he really gets after us and it’s disturbing and we can’t sleep. He certainly likes to interrupt private bathroom times for both my husband and I. Ever see a faucet handle turn on the water full blast on its own while you’re taking a poo? No? Yeah it ain’t fun let me tell you 😂. Or my husband actually because it was him that it happened to. Locked room, only him in it-not within reach of the toilet and the sideways lever handle turned to the on position and the water came out. Me? He opens the shower curtain when I’m laying in the tub. The whole damned thing will slide all the way open when I closed it. To be fair that only happened once-but it was the worst feeling ever. Like a power move. It felt like he wanted me to know that even in my most vulnerable moments of undress in the bathroom that I couldn’t shut him out. The door was locked, no one living got in there to do it. He once spoke to my husband in the dead of night when he got up to use the toilet. We live in a quiet place in a tiny town of farmers etc. We don’t have people wandering the streets at night very often. Teens go to more remote places to avoid being ushered home by police. So anyway he hears “what are you doing?” in a gravely deep man’s voice. He was not sleeping, he was again, going number two (hey he’s a big dude and he eats like it 😂). This got him moving a bit faster on that and he went outside to see if anyone could be out there. All silent and dark. No one was around. Not that it was even possible to hear someone outside on the second floor of a two story house with fans running (and sound machines playing thunderstorm sounds). And especially not when it sounds like the voice came from within that very room. Sometimes it seems like we get transient ghosts from the cemetery as we hear children playing in the hall from our bed even after our kids are grown and out. Weirdly they didn’t really bother the kids, according to them. Son once thought he saw a ghost girl reflection in the microwave door as a middle schooler but who knows. That was it for him. Nothing else happened. Daughter reported having the bathroom light switch to the off position after it had been on while she was in there getting ready for school. It was definitely on because she was doing her hair. Then suddenly it was off and she turned around to see it in the off position. The door was again locked from the inside while she was in there. That’s also happened to me when I was bent over cleaning the tub out. I decidedly needed the light on to see while working so it was on…until it wasn’t. It instantly got too dark to see what I was scrubbing and I was like “what the hell?” Light was off. No one was home but me, I was on the second story with a set of creaky stairs between me and someone who might sneak up and flip the light switch. I would have heard them coming upstairs. So yeah, haunted house here. This video is timely even if I saw it seven months after it posted. Thanks :)
For some reason this video didnt show up on the main channel or in any notifications for me - i had to go onto the local spirits playlist and find it there! Hoping its not a glitch everyone is experiencing as this is definitely a topic I know alot of us will benefit from 🌿
Nope, it was just unlisted!
@@TheWitchOfWonderlust Oh, good to know!! I was clearly just very eager 😂
I love this video! My mom used to take me and my sibling out to a cemetery that had my grandparents and my dad, and one day we found a can of Mountain Dew on his gravestone. It wasn’t opened up or anything like litter, it was just There. And my mom laughed and said “Someone must have come here and known him, he loved Mountain Dew!”
Because I see cemeteries as places spirits spend their time in, I imagine that there are spirits around there all the time. I tend to apologize and say “excuse me” because I could be walking over graves that were completely overgrown, and I mean overgrown to the point that you couldn’t see them at all. I made it a routine to visit my dad and his parents every time I and my family member go there, even if they don’t want to. I have a habit of cleaning some graves by removing the grass that covered them because I felt bad that their graves were forgotten for so long. I don’t know if the spirits would be annoyed by a random stranger doing this, but I hope they don’t. I tend to say “I just wanted to help.”
Idk if it’s important or something related to spirits, but a lot of the times I and my mother light candles, the flame would stay lit despite every time we go it would be windy.
Thank you Olivia! This is perfect. I'm going to New Orleans on Sunday and we're going to a cemetery. I was planning on bringing some dried red poppy flowers as an offering. Love you so much!
As a person who lost their mom at a very young age, I've always had her ashes in my house. I never really knew her at all, I mean, she died when I was five, so for the life of me, I couldn't even recall her voice. So when I started to do research on communication with the dead, I wanted to talk to my mom and learn more about her. I just ended up talking to other spirits in my house; because I was too afraid to talk to my mom.
My internal fear is how many devout Christians are buried locally to me, it feels disrespectful to their beliefs or even counter to my practice to ask them to help someone who is a believer in a different faith. Its why I'm so terrified to reach out to my devout but passed family members.
Tbh you'll probably find that they're bored as shit and would love to say 'hey'. Doesn't have to be spooky or insulting, just be a conduit and see how it goes. Just acknowledge everyone has blind spots/are ignorant of various faiths, but when all is said and done, if you end up meeting Casper, remember he was a fleshy human at some point too just like you are now.
I totally understand that. Some spirits are offput and hate it - but I find the longer a spirit has been a spirit, they tend to mind less. There's no harm in saying hi, as the previous commented stated. They'll let you know if they're down to give it a go or not!
Thank you Olivia. Great content. Great subject. You're beautiful inside and out.
Your videos are hitting more and more close to home Olivia 💀🖤! I’ve been getting confirmation from ancestor to work with the dead. Thanks for the history lesson, always appreciate it !
really good episode. in Brittany the lore is that the guardian spirit is that of the last person buried there who stands guard until another burial, so closing a graveyard is a major deal.
I don't approach a graveyard without asking permission.
My dad is buried in the same graveyard as the real James Bond but usually the place feels very open and empty. You want a creepy grave site hit some of the places in gettysburg, the official site is wonderfully calm but there's something near big round top that does not like me.
For 18 years I had a chill relationship with a cemetery. Loved ones were buried there. And I walked by it every day going to school. You have reminded me of those days. Although I live far away from there now, it gives me a sense of reconnection. Thank you!
I went to a graveyard once to get some dirt for a working. I'd been there a few times before (years before) but didn't "know" anyone there. I asked if it was ok to take some and when I did, it started to rain and get windy. It was a lil disconcerting. Then I saw some trash and picked it up to throw it away and then it stopped raining and got sunny. I think they liked me a little more after that. :)
Well that was good! Love the story!
The timing of this video is perfect! I started reading Walking the Twilight Path after you recommended it, and it’s definitely worth the hype!
Oh my! I literally just bought it too and I'm so happy to have it in my book collection!
Love the video! Informative and beautiful images and editing! I always visit graveyards and cemetery's. I love what you're saying that spirits are people. Some are very introvert and some are extravert. I always thought I have to connect with them very directly with me taking the initiative. But I learned recently from a spirit that I have to me myself. I'm a introvert and I mostly wait for people to come to me. So now I do that, I sit on a bench and wait. And when a spirit connects with me this spirit will lead me to their grave. I don't know what I was thinking earlier. People don't connect with people who are not theirselves so why should spirits?!
I recently started working on a novel about a girl who communicates with spirits at her local cemetery, so thank you for making this video! I'll definitely be revisiting it a lot, and incorporating much of what you said into the story!
Thank you. Very interesting. My cemetery visits have only been to "visit loved ones" that have passed away. I didn't know that there were "guardians of the cemetery", I didn't know that we were "supposed to leave an offering" at the gate.
I love this! I try to go to my family's cemetery every Halloween/Samhain to take care of them but I might make it a more regular occurrence now. I'd be so interested to see what you think of it, as it's one of the cemeteries for my tribe.
Winter is one of my favorite times to do cemetery work, for that very reason of being a less busy time. It's also, at least for me personally, much quieter energetically as well since most plants and animals are in a much more reserved state. That, and its usually MUCH easier to pick up garbage since it usually sticks out so much better in the snow 😅
Every October my daughter and I walk through the oldest ceremony in Portland Oregon..lone fir.. we love walking through and reading the tombstones.. it has a steel gate around it..beautiful
Not sure if this would be considered lucky or privaleged but in our small town I have grown up with one graveyard, one cemetery that is almost center of town, and then the cemetery where my relatives are buried is right beside the school I attended. during recess we played right beside it so as kids we were never afraid of the what a place like this meant, it was part of our lives and still is such. That cemetery I was able to see from my house for the last 30yrs, the area of my family plot and every morning i would say hi (unfortunately houses are now in the way of this) its funny when i tell people that i did this the looks you would get 😊... watching this has given me even more: to become more active in keeping family alive in my heart and keeping my life full not just of memories but joy as well...thank you for sharing
I really like the new angles/backgrounds, you decorated your new home so beautifully! 🖤✨ It looks really cozy.
This was super helpful and interesting! I'm not sure if you talked about this some other time before, but I have a question: What do you think about "rules" like covering your head when visiting a graveyard/cemetery (also because you wore something on your head in many of the clips in this video), or taking another route going home from the cemetery than you took to get there, so no Spirits follow you (if you don't want them to)? Would love to hear what you think about this! 😊
I hope you have an amazing October so far and wish you a wonderful Samhain! 🎃🖤
This was such a helpful video!! Thank you for putting so much time and effort into explaining!!
Legit question: Despite my offering, protective spells and amulets and respectful etiquette, last time I visited a resting ground, there was one spirit that got especially clingy... and followed me home. It took a LOT to get them to leave and they wreaked havoc while they were there (haunted house style havoc). It was a young woman who was extremely angry over the way she died and basically resented ANYONE who was still alive and receptive enough for her to become attached.
My mentor told me that on occasion, there will be such spirits and we have to cleanse as we leave, but I honestly did not feel the attachment until the following day, and this had never happened to me before. I've been hesitant to stroll and visit graveyards since, but I miss the quiet, peaceful strolls and the beautiful connection one can make with these places and the people who dwell in them. Is there any 100% foolproof way of preventing any of them from following me home?
It's always good to give a quick cleansing of yourself before returning home, especially when leaving a cemetery you aren't SUPER familiar with. There's never a 100% foolproof way, but wearing a head covering and doing a small cleansing before heading home has always worked for me.
@@TheWitchOfWonderlustSomeone was saying that we are meant to take all our clothes off before re entering our homes after visiting the cemetery but that seems a bit overkill when I can just smudged with pine needles once inside! How do you suggest cleansing after visiting one please?
I have wards set up so nothing unwanted can enter without my permission so basically all spirits and entities need to stay at the door and cannot pass the boundary. I also ask them to refrain from following me home and stay at the cemetery
Thank you for this helpful video
Cemeteries in urban areas in France/Belgium (and probably other western European countries) are very different than the ones in the UK/Ireland/US. Here it's mostly all concrete, all tombstone aligned, very tightly/neatly, with hardly any access to the soil. They do have trees , but not much other plants. It's slowly changing though and I read that especially after covid, they reviewed their gardening policies in many cemeteries, which is good. It may be different in more rural areas.
The etiquette there is also very different I think, I would never walk barefoot in a cemetery or have a picnic there, that would be considered very disrespectful and I would probably be asked to leave. I once sat on a bench to read and I got a lot of weird looks...
That's too bad.
Really! I've never had any issues with having a picnic or walking barefoot. How unfortunate.
Yes, this is true of Spain as well. Cemeteries here are like buildings of niches, you need to climb the stairs located at intervals to vist the tombs on the upper rows. Flowers are often made of plastic or fabric. Everything is very cold, very unnatural. I once got lost in the immense labirynth of "buildings" looking for a tomb , it was very foggy and all the rows were numbered but there were rows placed diagonally and I got lost without a focal point for reference, everything was dimly lit.
My problem is double with cemeteries, one) I get spirits attached that follow me home, 2) I soak in the energy of the place as well. A nuisance. I talk to spirits, but never in graveyards.Remember, no grass, no trees, no life except for the occasional bird or insect in the summer, only row after row of concrete and stone. Very, very sad. Not a place to engage in any social interaction.
Graveyards in small villages are a tad better because there are cypresses and some plants to cheer things up.
In Spain only gypisies do stay near the grave and do any special activity, others don't. And you don't have room for much anyway, less than two square metres.
I visited many graveyards in Germany and the feeling is so different: You feel like walking and stopping by the tombs, trees are impressive and packed with amazing energy, there's lots of birds, even squirrels,, the smells are comforting hummus, leaves, moss, plants, herbs, flowers. Everything is beautiful.
If I were stuck in my final resting place and someone offered me Apothic Red i'd be so happy i'd take up a physical body once more
What a wonderful and lively lovely soul you sre. So enjoyable and smiles to thank you.
Beautifully done. It needn't be complicated. Also, I adore your sweater with the skulls down the spine! Lovely!
There use to be a graveyard I went too back when I was little! It was so old that it was grown over and trashed :( I would go over there and clean the trash up. They had so much history all the way from the bluebonnet plague! Pretty old I say… but one grave always stood out to me was the bordered graves and outside of it was tiny grave. The tiny grave was a mixed child and back than they weren’t consider legitimate enough. So I would always go and leave offerings to the little boy.
I am clairaudient and spirits at my local cemetery realized that and try to convince me to deliver messages to the living from them all the time😅
The fungi within the cemetery are very interesting to me, since they grow out of dead matter
I’ve wondered about this as I love to forage seasonally and also for medicinal mushrooms like psilocybin for microdosing as it helps with my cptsd and depression and if I would collect from a cemetery it I found them there because not sure if that is kosher or taking in spirits that rest there in my body and brain? Do you know much about this?
Back in the late 1800's till 1940's???? People always visited the cemetery of their loved ones, they would sit on a blanket and have a picnic... It was very common for that... it's a shame that people don't do that anymore .. but every now and then I hang with my dad and chat with him and the other's who are around, we all new each other... Many blessings.
The earth elementals are sometimes rough to work with keep up the good work from Melbourne Australia
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Thank you so much and timely! Well done, thorough and organized....be well
I grew up as a Catholic and was taught to fear grave yards...but I never did. In fact, I always felt a connection to them and the dead. Later in my life, I discovered the joys of Witchcraft and Paganism. Now, I see cemeteries as a place of peace, a place where I can visit the dead and give them comfort. As a male Witch, my Witchy Wife and I feel a comfort from cemeteries, from the Nature Spirits, from the dead.
Your videos are so aesthetic, beautiful, and harmonious
At 5:19 I had a major deja Vu - I've dreamed this - what the frak?!I'm European 😳
Thank you for your video 🌺
Thank you so much for sharing this I think it is very important and right on point. I visit my church graveyard often. Yes I was raised christian, I still have a strong connection to the base of my faith , yet I do not agree or conform to all their teachings or beliefs. I am a full time practicing Witch. Thankfully most of my interactions with members and church itself have been positive and they are somewhat if not all very accepting of my practice and beliefs. I always show honor and respect to the church, graveyard , spirits and nature. Another important fact you might consider is, don't just visit when weather is nice, visit at other times as well....that really goes a long way with certain spirits.
This was a great video. Even before my witchcraft journey started I absolutely loved graveyards and would visit them very frequently so I agree with everything and you did great with this video. I am finally going to start my own RUclips channel but you are one of the first ppl I watched when I started long ago. I love dance and witchcraft and so you have been a fav of mine for awhile. I just hope my channel does succeed but if not I'm still blessed. Ty
This past weekend i took my sister's dog out on a walk through a local cemetery. First time doing that but with autumn leaves and halloween drawing near it was definitely a highlight of october for me. It was a quiet welcoming place.
This is true. I live in Texas and when I visit the grave of Selena, my whole body starts tingling. They're still burying people in that cemetery. There's just a lot of energy there. Grief and love.
I went to an older graveyard yesterday in San Antonio, where the stopped burying people there in the early 1900s, and I didn't really feel anything different than the surrounding streets.
It is quieter than other cemeteries I've been to, and I didn't get that tingling feeling when I'm aware that there are spirits around me.
Blessings to you dear sister, I use and acknowledge your wisdom daily in my practices... a friend actually called me earlier today asking for my help with a banishing of something dark in his mom's house, bothering his kiddo and has made him progressively angrier. I'm going to take the wonderlust approach😂 possibly time for big guns?
This was a helpful video. I am a practicing witch but I watched this video more to learn about connecting with the dead in a paranormal aspect. I am also a paranormal investigator and am always looking for a more respectful way to approach investigations and talking with spirits. I am definitely going to take some of this advice and apply it to the haunted locations I visit, like leaving an offering.
You always have the greatest mugs I’ve ever seen 😍😂
Hi there! Love your content and approach to your practice. Cemeteries have always been a comfortable place for me. Even as a kid! My mom always tells me that when I was little I would feel so at home in them that I'd fall asleep on top of gravestones! To this day visiting cemeteries and graveyards just fills me with such peace that I rarely get anywhere else. I also come from a long and very intense line of folk magic practitioners. And even though I generally stay away from the more hardcore forms of practice I've still learned a lot from my mom. Both of us are extremely sensitive to things beyond so most of our private practice revolves around divination, protection and cleansing. However I've been watching your videos for a little while now hoping to learn more active spellwork. All of this to say thanks for all the efforts you put in these videos! Sending you positive vibes from the Caribbean. Much love.
My husband and I visit the dead folk often 😊🖤 we leave offerings of lavender, incense, candles, and most of the time we just hang out and smoke herbs with them. He's a reaper/funeral director and I'm an aspiring death doula so their presence brings us peace.
I always felt at ease and peaceful in cemeteries, albeit sometimes a little sad or melancholy. Cemeteries always felt like the perfect place to read a book when I was growing up, though I was never allowed to stay in one for more than a few minutes, and never by myself.
[For brief context, my abusive parents joined a Christian fundamentalist cult when I was 6, at 19 I was low-key arrange-married to an abuser also in the cult, and 3 years later I left the cult, him, my family (sort of), and moved away from the area.]
That same year, I visited my family on Christmas Eve to celebrate Christmas with them, they had to pick me up because I didn't have a car at the time (I didn't take one of the cars/my car with me from my ex because I didn't want him to accuse me of stealing).
Anyway, I show up on Christmas Eve, and I see my ex's stocking out and I realize that my mom invited him over for Christmas and I would probably see him the next day.
I went to the graveyard across the street from my family's house as the sun was setting and whisper-ranted and cried and had a full-blown anxiety attack. I remember just feeling at peace there, and that I preferred the company of the dead to that of the living.
The next day my ex *did* show up, but fortunately I'd cried myself out the day before and I ended being not only calm and civil to his face, but I also stood up for myself to him for the first time, and it felt so powerful.
After that awkward conversation where he both said that I could come back if I wanted *and* tried to manipulate me to hurry up and divorce him already (both, in the same conversation, I am not even joking), I went to the same graveyard and just ranted to myself *again* about all this bs going on.
So yeah, cemeteries and graveyards...10/10 would recommend for peace and quiet (at least the ones I've lived near).
I visit a military cemetery that is an hr away when I go visit a metaphysical store every now and then. I bought the beloved dead oracle and used them in the cemetery . I was just walking around shuffling cards and one popped out. The card was witch. I am like all righty then. 😂😂
This video came out at the perfect time for me. Besides being a practitioner, I’m also a researcher and will be studying the art of headstones in a historic cemetery near me. I’ll be spending more time there and want to be chill with the spirits there.
Great video Olivia. These are pretty much bang on my tried & true methods too. Looking back, none of it was ever really pre planned either, it's just sort of evolved that way and worked well. So yeah, can 💯 percent vouch for these methods too 😊👍🏻
What great information! Thank you!
Thank you so much.
You have give me a great idea ❤
I love that sweater!!!
It never bothered me entering cemeteries. I liked looking at the headstones. There's some beautiful artwork. Beautiful statues. I grew up very Catholic. Most of my family has passed away. I feel closer to them there. 😢
I remember there was a cemetery that I didn't like. I have never set foot in it, but I knew I wasn't welcome there. It wasn't like a remote place, either. It was in Westminster, CA, and near a very busy street. Whenever I would pass by it, I just felt eyes staring daggers at me. Sometimes it would even mess with my motorcycle while I was riding passed it. I don't know who/what is there, but they are pissed and are festering.
This was a great video that I sent to some friends who are curious about what I get up to. Thank you for making it
Thank you foe sharing ypur experience. I loved that you mentioned the spirit of the cemetery. ❤
Very interesting very interesting very interesting I'm enjoying this thank you
You seem like such a cool person! I love your videos so much I’ve been a fan since like 2019
Another fantastic video! Thank you for the information! (really love the skully knitted coat!)
As an aside, there's nothing quite like a "thank you" from the spirits.
Way before I started on my spiritual path, when I was in high school and on holiday visiting Poland with my Grandmother, we visited a cemetery where other family members were put to rest. While wandering around, I stopped to clean up some of the gravestones of debris and leaves. The overwhelming feeling of good and thanks almost knocked me off my teenage feet. I really wish I knew then what I know now so I could have stopped and helped out more.
It was wild and still resonates with me almost 30 years later.
I experienced a similar thing after brushing some plants aside and saying hi to the spirits when on holiday with my family in west Wales.
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All souls day or day of the dead is around fall so that is when most people visit their loved ones....
If you ever find yourself over here on the east coast, (and haven't been there already!) you should take a trip to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetary in New York. It's huge, I believe it's 90 acres! ❤ I was there on Halloween 4 years ago in 2019, it's incredible 🎃
Thank you for mentoring the find a grave site.
This video actually answered a question I had. Thankyou❤
There is an amish cemitary i visited a few weeks ago and i feel like a spirit followed me home cuz i took a picture and they didnt like that...i felt they left when i deleted the photo. But the cemetery is incredibly peaceful and do want to visit more, but dont want offend anyone again.
i didnt know there was a difference, cool
Love you and your channel , your my favorite RUclips witch 👻🎃🗝️ I enjoy necromancy and have worked with spirits and the dead for many many moons. I agree and disagree with you on many things but we are all different including spirits. I find that spirits like newbies lol the green bellies who have never communicated with them before. They enjoy the nervousness and fuss over them lol and then some spirits are more laid back and serious on the matter and throw out a bold sign to scare them into retreating. I would love to compare notes and discuss individual dead visits with you , how location and blends of magick impact the spirits themselves and our encounters. Great video tysm for sharing, all hallows eve blessings to you and yours 👻🎃☠️
This is so interesting!
This is just very timely video
Loved this ❤ amazing video.
Question-granny is buried in a cemetery but I know her spirit is with me. Personally feel like we are surrounded by quite a lot of those on the spiritual plane. (I’m an animist) Do you think there are soul spirits who cling to the cemeteries ? I mean there are so many humanoid personalities so wonder if that stays with the soul spirit and some may have “reasons” to stay with their grave?
I have sort of the same question - the souls that are bound to the cemetery, how do they actually leave? Like, move on to other planes and types of existence? Maybe someone can help answer. Thank you 💐
I know of a few who hang around their grave for a sense of community with the other ghosties, or because they just don't have any where else to go any more.
I find it's more of a familiar place that's easier to call the spirits to if need be. I don't think they're just chillin at their graves bored for all eternity haha
I love this video. It cames in the right time, I'm reading a lot about the dead.
Did you know the book Communing with the spirits, from Martin Coleman? It teaches a method to work with the dead, a training. First you create a relationship with your ancestrals, then they attract to you a divinatory spirit and a working spirit. It's very interesting, It would be amazing see your review about it.
Any book recommendations on starting with Necromancy? This video made me very interested
I don't have the mystical abilities to do things like this,
there is any ritual that can unlock these abilities in us?
Lucid Dreaming OOBE,seeing energies etc
Simply make our magical rituals work, instead of being empty actions that cause no reaction
This is awesome! What books do you recommend on this topic?
Love this ❤
I love visiting cemeteries, but I’m hesitant to work with spirits of dead people because most people in history would not accept the person I am today. How can you work with spirits without worry of them being homophobic, sexist, etc and sabotaging your work?
Yes, use love spells on them as you would an ordinary person!
Are you ever uncomfortable with not knowing who the spirit was when they were alive? I mean like, what kind of person they were. I am just curious, because I live in a city wich has a lot of history and many people might have been racists and/or nazis. I kinda just worry, because you never really know who they were. I don't know how to explain this better, what are your thoughts on this?
That's why I think it's really important to do your research on a person before working with them.
I’m assuming that the term ‘grave dirt’ is very literal. But could you please explain this more? What it is, what it’s for, and so on?
Hi Olivia, I did a search for the Magpie Oracle and a few different decks popped up. Could you share the version you use? Also the the other oracle you use for communicating with the spirits? It would be very helpful. Much thanks 😘
😊Hi I want to know how to communicate with ancestral spirits
when I was younger I was always told (by my pagan mom) the etiquette of not stepping where they're buried..
what do you do if you can't tell which side they're buried on (for instance they're not all facing the same way), or do spirits in unmarked graves also get upset at this? if you're leaving an offering and accidentally step where they're buried (the ground, not the stone obviously), do they still get upset? or is this all a myth?
it's something i get super paranoid about, the whole time I'm constantly worrying about stepping where they're buried, and I'd love to hear a death witch's opinion on it.
I have a question. What about the spirits who were heavily Christian based when they were alive and absolutely hated witchcraft or anything that was seen as the devils work and/or simply never believed in it? Do they change opinions as they pass on? What if you try to communicate and they decide they don't like you simply because you're a practitioner?
Are you saying we’re are forever trapped in are grave 😮
What should I do? In our culture we burn the deadbody so there are hardly a cemetery to visit. What you recommend?
I'm pretty new to this practice. Thank you for sharing! Do you have any suggestions for spirits that show up in your home? This has been my experience for my whole life but I'm starting to accept it and want to participate in it.
This was an amazing video💜
I want to visit one that's close at a point in the future.
I do have a question of sorts. Ever since I was young until now, every time I pass one I bite bow my head (in respect). Is that a semi normal thing that others do? I'm curious really.
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hm funny thing I have never felt any spirits in any cemeteries that I have been to , I am not saying that there isnt any but in my experience spirits seem to be around their loved ones off and on . that said i have felt the energy of peoples emotions in burial sites though that is strong because it is like sorrow sad energy , sometimes happy energy ,but mostly sorrow , and other times it just peaceful natures energy . i think people get this emotional energy left behind from living people and spiritual energy mixed up it can feel the same even sometimes create a kind of image of that person that just moved on as if they are there but from what I have sensed its from the emotions of the people, in a way like many haunted locations are not actually haunted its creative energy from people that are constantly there with emotions and also taunting I dont remember the name of this energy but I think there is an old Hebrew name for it .
How was your new year going well for you