Martina Dias wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:57 pm
Thank you, Luna and Tarvos, for your valuable advice.
So is it humanly possible to have several spirits bound to yourself and not feel overwhelmed or lost in a different 'world'? What number of spirits is typical to have bound to self?
Also, I was thinking whether I can have a spirit bound to artwork like sketches and portraits of mythical creatures saved on my phone (I have many). Idk.
Thirdly, is binding necessary if I could self-conjure a spirit and allow it to choose to stay with me?
Thanks a lot! xo
I missed this post last time.
My practical advice would be to start slowly and see how the energies of a conjured companion bound to your spirit (eg by CH) affects you. ..before you add more.
People respond differently to spirits' energies. In addition to that, if you're new to dark arts spirits, CH's advice in more than one of their books that I have is to begin with spirits on the lighter side: eg psy vampires or gargoyles. But I think we can add to that Marid Djinn, which CH describe as being on the lighter side here...
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There's a real potential downside to having only bind to spirit for DA beings: you can't place the vessel away from you if it's too dark for you & you're having acclimation symptoms. (Search the Shop for 'dark arts acclimation'. The info there is very useful.)
I'm not sure CH will bind to intangible things like digital files on a phone. (You can ask them.)
Is a binding necessary? Thinking out loud, there are 2 things in your question.
Firstly, it's actually not thought to be a good idea for those new to such things to try and conjure spirits for themselves, unless or until they have had sufficient training, experience
plus the ability to put in place very effective levels of protection.
The exception would be CH's safe, protected invocations, conjurations and Shop items for this. (Some are free.) Once you've conjured / invoked a spirit this way, they will be harmoniously aligned with you and will be suitable as a companion, due to the expertise and competency that's gone into the magic /spells that make that conjuration be effective.
Why then not leave them as an unbound companion? Why take the next step and have them bound? There seem to be a few advantages to this.
CH sell items in the Shop that we can use to bind unbounds. The way the binding seems to work is to add another level of understanding or commitment between keeper and spirit companion: a commitment of friendship and mutual alignment. You've called them forth, one that's suited to be with you; now you seal that with an
agreement to be your companion, via the spells/magic in the binding.
A binding also seems to give the spirit a place where they can go to; a very useful link to the keeper. The magic involved is expert and perfect for these things. They include tamper proofing. (I'm still referring to CH items.)
A binding can also make it easier for us to work with the spirit companion.