Six Clairs, Endless Questions, and a Healthy Suspicion of Your Own Brain

Practical exercises for intuitive exploration, spiritual questions, channeling, and discovering what happens when you stop trying so damn hard to get an answer.

🐦‍⬛ Welcome to the Toolkit

Well, darling. You've met the six clairs, explored the chakras, and learned that intuition is not an excuse to throw discernment out the window and let a suspiciously confident thought run your entire life.

Now it's time to experiment.

This chapter is your practical guide to exploring the six clairs together. You'll find exercises, questions to ask during meditation, prompts for spiritual reflection, and a gentle introduction to what some traditions call channeling.

You don't need to experience all six clairs. You don't need to see visions, hear mysterious voices, or suddenly develop the ability to smell someone's grandmother's favorite perfume from three dimensions away.

Your experiences may be visual, emotional, physical, verbal, conceptual, or simply imaginative.

The goal is not to force psychic experiences. It's to explore what arises, learn how your mind works, and decide thoughtfully what meaning—if any—you want to give those experiences.

Ready to open the toolkit?

Let's make some questionable little discoveries. Responsibly, of course.

Before You Begin — The Ravn Method

Before any exercise, take a moment to settle yourself. Choose a quiet space, relax your body, and set a simple intention.

Then follow these five steps:

1. ASK. Choose one clear question or intention.

2. NOTICE. Pay attention to images, words, emotions, sensations, memories, associations, or other impressions.

3. RECORD. Write down what you noticed before deciding what it means.

4. INTERPRET. Explore possible meanings, including ordinary explanations such as memory, imagination, expectations, and pattern recognition.

5. REFLECT. Ask what you can reasonably learn from the experience and whether anything needs to be checked against real-world information.

You can explore these experiences spiritually without assuming that every impression comes from an external source.

And remember: a blank meditation is not a failed meditation. Sometimes your mind is quiet. Sometimes it's busy. Sometimes it remembers that you forgot to buy milk.

The milk is not necessarily a prophecy.

The Six Clairs — Choose Your Door

Each clair is traditionally associated with a different way of experiencing intuitive impressions. Use the following exercises to explore the style that feels most natural to you.

Clairvoyance - Clear seeing 

Associated with mental imagery, pictures, symbols, and visual impressions.

The practice: Close your eyes if comfortable, sit quietly and observe whether any spontaneous images, moving images or symbols arise. Don't force a vision.

You canexplore past-life imagery through a guided visualization. Ask yourself, "What symbolic story or historical setting might help me reflect on a pattern I'm experiencing today?"

If a scene appears, record its details and emotional themes. Treat it as imaginative or spiritual exploration rather than proof that you have recovered a literal past life.

 Clairaudience — Clear Hearing

Associated with words, sounds, music, and inner auditory impressions.

The practice: Spend a few minutes in quiet meditation. Notice the sounds around you, then observe any words, melodies, or phrases that arise in your mind. You can also try this while relaxing before sleep, when ordinary sleep-related imagery and sounds sometimes occur.

Questions to explore:

• What words or phrases come to mind when I reflect on this situation?

• Is there a question I have been avoiding asking myself?

• What would I say to a friend facing the same challenge?

• What does this song or phrase personally remind me of?

Record the first impression without treating it as an instruction or external message.

If you hear a voice or sound, you do not need to assume that it is a spirit or psychic communication. Inner speech, memory, imagination, and sleep-related experiences can all produce vivid impressions.

 Clairsentience — Clear Feeling

Associated with emotional impressions, bodily sensations, and a felt sense of a situation.

The practice: First, check in with your own emotional and physical state. Then bring a question to mind and notice what changes, if anything. Do you feel relaxed, tense, excited, uncertain, or neutral?

Record the sensation separately from your interpretation.

Questions to explore:

• What am I feeling about this situation?

• What happens in my body when I imagine each option?

• What might this emotion be telling me about my needs or boundaries?

• Am I responding to something observable, a memory, an expectation, or something I don't yet understand?

You can use this exercise when reflecting on relationships, but don't assume that your feelings reveal another person's private emotions or intentions.

Your discomfort deserves attention even when you don't know its cause. You don't need a psychic explanation to respect your boundaries.

 Claircognizance — Clear Knowing

Associated with sudden insights, ideas, and the feeling of knowing something without consciously tracing every step.

The practice: Choose a low-stakes question you've been considering. Write down what you already know, take a short break, and return to it later. Record any new ideas or conclusions that arise.

Questions to explore:

• What possibility have I overlooked?

• What information might I already have but haven't fully considered?

• What is the simplest explanation for this situation?

• What would I need to verify before acting on this impression?

A sudden insight may reflect subconscious processing or pattern recognition. You may also explore it through your spiritual framework.

Either way, test important conclusions against the facts.

Trust the insight enough to examine it. Don't trust it so blindly that you stop examining it.

Clairalience — Clear Smelling

Traditionally associated with intuitive impressions experienced as smells or scents.

The practice: During a quiet reflection, notice whether a particular scent comes to mind. Perhaps you remember flowers, smoke, rain, a familiar home, or someone's perfume.

Ask what the scent reminds you of and whether it connects to a memory, emotion, or association.

Questions to explore:

• What memory does this scent bring to mind?

• What feelings or associations do I connect with it?

• Is there an ordinary source for the smell in my environment?

• What personal meaning might this memory hold?

Don't deliberately expose yourself to smoke, chemicals, or other substances to trigger an experience. If you smell something unusual when no source is apparent, consider ordinary or supernatural explanations (might the perfume somebody used to wear, alcohol if he was alcoholic... things like that).

But a scent can evoke a powerful memory without necessarily being a psychic message.

 Clairgustance — Clear Tasting

Traditionally associated with intuitive impressions experienced as tastes.

The practice: During a quiet reflection, notice whether a taste or food-related association comes to mind spontaneously. You might remember something sweet, bitter, sour, or familiar.

Rather than trying to manufacture a taste, record what you notice and what it reminds you of.

Questions to explore:

• What memory or association comes with this taste?

• What emotions do I connect with that memory?

• Does the taste seem linked to something I recently ate, smelled, or remembered?

• What personal meaning, if any, can I take from the experience?

Please never ingest an unknown substance or eat something because an impression tells you to. 

You can explore the symbolism without turning your kitchen into an occult tasting laboratory.

The raven declines to sample the mysterious liquid.

Ask Better Questions

When exploring intuition or spiritual reflection, the questions you ask can shape how you interpret what happens next.

A question that assumes a particular answer can encourage you to search for evidence that confirms it.

Instead of asking, "Who is sending me this message?" try, "What am I experiencing, and what are the possible explanations?"

Here are some prompts to experiment with.

For self-understanding

• What pattern in my life deserves more attention?

• What am I avoiding acknowledging?

• What do I need more of in my life?

• What am I ready to learn, change, or explore?

• What perspective could help me understand this situation differently?

For spiritual reflection

• What spiritual belief would I like to explore more deeply?

• What does feeling connected mean to me?

• What symbols or themes repeatedly appear in my personal reflections?

• What can I learn from this experience without assuming I know its source?

For past-life exploration

If past lives are part of your spiritual beliefs, you can use guided imagery or meditation to explore the idea symbolically.

Try asking:

• "What story or symbolic scene might help me understand a pattern in my present life?"

• "What themes appear in this imagery, and how do they relate to my current concerns?"

• "What qualities would I like to cultivate in this lifetime?"

• "What am I ready to release, forgive, or understand differently?"

You may experience images, emotions, memories, or nothing in particular.

A vivid scene is not proof of a literal past life, and there is no reliable way to establish from an impression alone that a particular past-life event occurred or caused a present-day problem.

You can still use the exercise for reflection, creativity, and personal meaning.

Explore the story without forcing yourself to believe it is history.

Channeling — Letting Impressions Flow

In some spiritual traditions, channeling refers to receiving or communicating information believed to come through a spiritual source, guide, higher consciousness, or another nonordinary source of knowledge.

People describe this experience in different ways, including intuitive writing, spontaneous imagery, inner words, or a stream of ideas that seems to arrive without deliberate planning.

There is no established scientific method for confirming that such information comes from a spirit or external entity. But you can explore intuitive or automatic writing as a reflective practice.

The Ravn Channeling Exercise

Step 1 — Set an intention.

Choose a gentle, open-ended question, such as:

"What perspective would be useful for me to consider today?"

Avoid questions that assume a spirit is present or that demand a prediction about a serious decision.

Step 2 — Settle yourself.

Sit comfortably and take a few natural breaths. If it suits your spiritual practice, you can light a candle safely or use a symbolic object as a focus.

Step 3 — Write without editing.

For three to five minutes, write down the thoughts, words, images, or associations that arise.

Don't try to make them sound profound. Don't force a result. If nothing comes, stop.

Step 4 — Review the writing.

Read it back later.

Separate what you wrote from what you think it means. Look for useful reflections, familiar ideas, assumptions, or suggestions that deserve further examination.

Step 5 — Check the message.

Ask whether the information is reasonable, consistent with your values, and supported by the facts where facts matter.

Do not treat the writing as unquestionable guidance, a guaranteed prediction, or proof of communication with a particular being.

If the exercise becomes frightening or overwhelming, stop and return to an ordinary grounding activity.

What about channeling for someone else?

If you want to offer an intuitive reading to another person, obtain their consent and explain clearly that you're sharing personal impressions or spiritual interpretations, not verified facts.

You might say:

"I'm going to share the images, feelings, or ideas that come to mind. Take what feels useful, leave what doesn't, and remember that these are impressions—not certainty."

Then ask a broad, non-leading question, such as:

"What might be helpful for you to reflect on right now?"

Write down your impressions before asking for feedback. Avoid fishing for details or presenting vague statements as proof that you know someone's private history.

Give the other person room to disagree.

Never use a reading to make definitive claims about someone's health, trauma, relationships, future, or the intentions of another person. Encourage them to make important decisions using appropriate evidence and support.

A spiritual reading should offer room for reflection, not take away someone's freedom to decide what is true for them.

The Final Experiment — Your Personal Clair Journal

For the next seven days, choose one short exercise each day.

• Day 1: Explore mental imagery and record what you notice.

• Day 2: Pay attention to inner words, sounds, or music during quiet reflection.

• Day 3: Notice your emotional and bodily responses to an ordinary situation.

• Day 4: Record a sudden insight and identify what information might support it.

• Day 5: Explore a scent-related memory or association.

• Day 6: Explore a taste-related memory or association, without trying to manufacture a sensation.

• Day 7: Try intuitive writing and review it later with a thoughtful, skeptical eye.

For each experiment, record:

• What I experienced.

• What was happening at the time.

• What I think it might mean.

• Other possible explanations.

• What, if anything, I can reasonably learn from it.

At the end of the week, look for patterns in your experiences.

Perhaps mental imagery comes naturally to you. Perhaps you're more aware of bodily sensations or sudden ideas. Perhaps you discover that you enjoy symbolic reflection more than any of the other practices.

You might also find that nothing particularly unusual happens.

All of these outcomes are acceptable.

The purpose is not to rank your psychic abilities or prove that one clair is stronger than another.

It's to understand your own experiences and develop a thoughtful approach to exploring them.

DIVINATION TOOLS

Pendulums, Oracle Cards, Dowsing Rods 

Tools don't make you all-knowing. They give you something to work with — and sometimes something to question.

Now it's time to meet some of the tools people use in divination.

A pendulum. A deck of oracle cards. A pair of brass rods that look like they belong in a Victorian ghost investigation.

Wonderful. Let's get into it.

Divination is the practice of using symbols, objects, cards, or other methods to explore questions, possibilities, and interpretations. Different spiritual traditions understand these practices differently. Some see them as ways to connect with spiritual guidance; others use them as tools for meditation, self-reflection, or accessing thoughts they haven't consciously considered.

Again there is no reliable scientific evidence that these tools can independently reveal hidden truths or predict the future with certainty. Movements of pendulums and dowsing rods can be influenced by subtle, often unconscious muscle movements, while cards invite us to interpret images and symbols.

That doesn't mean you cannot find personal meaning in the practice. It simply means that meaning, intuition, and verified information are three different things.

Our goal is to explore these tools with curiosity, intention, and discernment — without handing every object in your house the authority to run your life.

PS: I personally think it is a good habit to  "purify" our tool before and after use. With intention/ light of the source / white sage/ palo santo... whichever you feel more connected to. 

The Pendulum — Small Object, Big Questions

A pendulum is usually a small weighted object suspended from a chain, cord, or string. It might be made of crystal, metal, wood, or another material.

In some spiritual practices, pendulums are used to answer yes-or-no questions, explore intuitive impressions, or assist with meditation.

Some practitioners believe the pendulum responds to spiritual energy. Another explanation is the ideomotor effect: small, unconscious movements of your muscles can make a suspended object move without you deliberately controlling it.

Either way, the pendulum's movement is not independent proof that an answer is true.

How to Begin

Step 1 — Let the pendulum choose you.

Go to a witchy store and look at the pendulum. A pendulum "willing to work with you" will start moving by his own... Not because of the wind, but because of your energy. You'll see the other pendulum not even moving no matter how close the one moving is. Your pendulum should be comfortable to hold. It doesn't need to be expensive, made of a particular crystal, or blessed by a mysterious woman living in a forest.

A simple weight on a string can work just as well for learning the technique.

Step 2 — Find a comfortable position.

Sit at a table, rest your elbow if that helps, and hold the chain between your thumb and index finger. Let the weighted end hang freely.

Relax your shoulders and breathe normally.

Step 3 — Observe the movement.

Some practitioners use a convention in which one movement represents yes, another represents no, and a third represents unclear or neutral.

If you choose to use that convention, establish it before asking your questions. So you ask the pendulum to do a Yes, a no and a maybe. (It will turn clockwise, do a line etc.) but remember that expectation and subtle muscle movements can influence the result.

There is no universally reliable pendulum code. A line can be a maybe for someone and a no to someone else. It's okay.

Step 4 — Begin with low-stakes questions.

Try questions with a yes/no/maybe answer.

For example:

• Am I 25 years old?

• Is blue my favorite color?

• Does cake is my favorite dessert?

You can also try simple questions whose answers you already know, but don't treat apparent accuracy as proof of supernatural ability.

Step 5 — Record your observations.

Write down the question, the movement you observed, your interpretation, and how you felt at the time.

This helps you notice patterns — including times when your expectations may have influenced what you saw.

The Ravn Pendulum Rules

• Don't repeat the same question until you get the answer you want.

• Don't use the pendulum to diagnose illness, identify medication, or make safety-critical decisions.

• Don't use it to decide whether another person loves you, is cheating, or secretly intends to harm you.

• Don't let it replace your judgment, consent, communication, or evidence.

• If you feel anxious, frightened, or compelled to keep asking questions, put it down.

You can also decide to use the little board with the "yes / no / maybe" but they are not necessary at all.

THE PENDULUM CAN SWING ALL IT WANTS. YOU'RE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN DAMN DECISIONS.

Oracle Cards — Symbols, Stories & Your Own Interpretations

Oracle cards are decks of illustrated cards designed around themes, symbols, affirmations, spiritual concepts, animals, archetypes, or personal growth.

Unlike tarot, which commonly follows a recognizable traditional structure, oracle decks can vary enormously in their number of cards, meanings, and methods of use.

Some practitioners use oracle cards for spiritual guidance. Others use them as journaling prompts, meditation aids, or tools for exploring a situation from a new perspective.

You don't need to memorize a thousand rules. You need curiosity, a willingness to reflect, and the ability to question your first interpretation.

How to Use Oracle Cards

Step 1 — Choose your deck.

Select a deck whose artwork, language, and themes appeal to you. You can choose one for self-reflection, shadow work, creativity, relationships, or spiritual exploration.

You don't need to spend a fortune. A deck is a tool, not a measure of your spiritual worth.

Step 2 — Set an intention.

Take a moment to settle yourself. You might say:

I approach this reading with curiosity, honesty, and an open mind. May I reflect on what I need to understand while remaining grounded in reality.

You can use your own words or skip the ritual entirely.

Step 3 — Ask an open-ended question.

Instead of asking, Will my ex come back?, try:

• What am I learning from this relationship?

• What pattern deserves my attention?

• What boundary would support me right now?

• What perspective might I be overlooking?

• What can I do to move forward?

Open-ended questions leave room for reflection rather than forcing a complicated situation into a simple yes or no.

Step 4 — Draw your card.

Shuffle the deck and draw one card, or use a spread described in your guidebook.

Look at the image before reading the explanation. What catches your attention? Which colors, figures, objects, or words stand out?

Step 5 — Interpret before you consult the guidebook.

Write down your first impressions. Then read the card's traditional or creator-provided meaning and compare it with your own.

Ask yourself:

• What does this card mean to me?

• What part of my current situation does it remind me of?

• Am I noticing something useful, or am I forcing the card to confirm what I already want?

• What real-world action, if any, would be constructive?

A Simple Three-Card Spread

Card One — What am I bringing into this situation?

Explore your assumptions, emotions, experiences, or expectations.

Card Two — What deserves my attention?

Look for a perspective, pattern, or question you may have overlooked.

Card Three — What can I do next?

Identify a practical step you can take, regardless of whether you interpret the cards spiritually.

You don't have to treat the cards as predictions. Think of them as mirrors for reflection, not surveillance cameras pointed at the future.

Oracle Card Safety

Be cautious of any reader or deck interpretation that encourages you to fear a curse, pay for an urgent cleansing, cut off everyone you love, or make a major decision based solely on a reading.

A reading should not remove your agency or make you dependent on repeated readings for reassurance.

LET THE CARDS INSPIRE THE QUESTION. DON'T LET THEM WRITE YOUR ENTIRE DAMN FUTURE.

Dowsing Rods — The Brass Thingies

Ah yes. The brass thingies.

Properly known as dowsing rods or baguettes de sourcier, these are commonly L-shaped rods made from brass, copper, or other materials. Some people also use flexible rods or forked branches.

Historically and in contemporary spiritual practices, dowsing has been used to search for underground water, minerals, objects, or other things practitioners believe can be detected through the rods. Some modern practitioners also use them to explore spiritual questions or perceived energy.

However, controlled testing has not established that dowsing rods reliably detect hidden objects, underground water, or invisible spiritual energies beyond ordinary explanations. Rod movements can be influenced by small, unconscious hand and arm movements — another example of the ideomotor effect.

You can still learn how the tools are used and explore the experience as a personal experiment. Just don't confuse a moving rod with a verified answer.

Like the pendulum, you will need to set up the "yes/no and maybe". So ask your rods to do a "yes, a no and a maybe" before asking question other questions.

How to Hold Dowsing Rods

Step 1 — Choose your rods.

Traditional L-shaped rods often have a long section and a shorter handle. The handle allows the rod to rotate freely.

If you use brass rods, make sure the ends are smooth and comfortable to hold.

Step 2 — Hold them lightly.

Hold one rod in each hand, gripping the short handles loosely. Keep the longer sections pointing forward and approximately parallel to one another.

Avoid gripping too tightly. The rods need to be able to move freely.

Step 3 — Stand comfortably.

Choose a clear, level space. Keep your arms relaxed and your rods away from other people.

Observe their starting position. Do they remain parallel, move inward, or cross? Don't force them into a particular position.

Step 4 — Observe movement without assigning meaning immediately.

Some dowsers interpret rods crossing as a positive response or rods separating as a negative response. Others use different conventions.

There is no universally reliable code, and a rod crossing is not proof that something is present.

Record what happened before deciding what it means.

The Dowsing Experiment

For a simple experiment, ask a friend to place an ordinary object under one of several identical opaque containers while you are out of sight. Choose the target randomly, and avoid receiving clues about its location.

Before each attempt, record which container you believe holds the object. Repeat the experiment across multiple trials, and compare your results with what would be expected by chance.

If you get a few answers right, that's interesting — but a small number of successes doesn't establish that the rods detect hidden objects. More rigorous, repeated, well-controlled testing would be needed to assess a claimed effect.

You can also practise holding the rods and observing their movement without assigning hidden meanings to it. This lets you learn the physical technique without needing to believe a particular explanation.

Dowsing Rod Safety

• Practise in a clear area, away from faces, pets, traffic, and trip hazards.

• Never use rods to make decisions about medical conditions, personal safety, or another person's private life.

• Don't assume a rod has identified underground pipes, electrical lines, gas lines, or buried cables. Contact the appropriate utility-location service before digging.

• Don't use dowsing as a substitute for professional surveying or other reliable detection methods.

• If the rods move, record the movement before deciding what caused it.

THE RODS MAY CROSS. YOUR COMMON SENSE SHOULD REMAIN VERY MUCH OPEN.