Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3943E32C.49F5@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwode Organization: Lucky Mojo Curio Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.lucky.w,alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.witchcraft,alt.pagan.magick Subject: Re: A Familiar References: <3943D68B.4E43@the-zoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 84 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:59:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.142.236 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 960749944 209.204.142.236 (Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:59:04 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:59:04 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.lucky.w:7558 alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic:23917 alt.magick.tyagi:23501 alt.witchcraft:21948 alt.pagan.magick:22583 Elephant wrote: > > A cat has shown up at my door and has more or > less adopted me. It knows when I leave for work, > and walks me to the car. It knows when I get home > from work and is there to greet me. > > I'm not a witch, no have I ever dealt with any > form of magic, but I was wondering if this > cat was some sort of familiar? It's not a black > cat. So far, I haven't noticed anything unusual, > except for the fact that it adopted me. > > Any thoughts???? First: Are you sure that this is not someone else's cat out "visiting"? My daughter was recently appalled to learn that after she went to work in the morning, one of her two cats spent the days at other apartments in her building. In each home, the cat had another name! One day the cat went missing and Althaea posted a notice around the neighborhood -- and within a few hours she got distressed calls from 4 different people who each thought that the cat was THEIR cat! Some of them even had photos of themselves with the cat on their couches! Her cat was a pet-slut!!!! Happily, one of the 4 people had accidently locked the cat in his garage and found her when he went to get his car the next morning and let her loose again. She was fine and went right back "home" to Althaea. Posting a notice about "finding" the cat may resolve the issue of ownership and save someone else a lot of heartbreak. Second: If the cat is truly homeless, are you feeding it yet? Have you invited it into your home yet, or are all your interactions between the door and the car? I recommend Whiskas canned food and Purina Cat Chow. Invite it in. When it becomes comfortable with you, see if it wants to spend the night. (This is an Important Clue: Althaea's slut-kitty never spent the nights with her alternate people; she "asked to be let out" and they thought she slept outdoors; actually she went home to Althaea's to sleep.) Once you are sure that the cat really consideres her- or himself "your" cat and that all the humans in the neighborhood concur, make an appointment with a good small animal veterinarian and get the cat checked for disease, fleas, and, of course, spay-neutering, if needed. A feline infectious leukemia shot is also a good idea. THEN you can consider that you have indeed found a familiar -- and a friend for life! Oh, and familiars need not be black cats, of course -- nor only cats -- familiars are animals with whom one shares a spiritual, mystical, or magical bond. I have a friend whose familiar is a giant red-blue-and-yellow macaw (a kind of parrot-like bird). My husband siva's familiar is a black poodle-cross dog. She "found" him in a storm and while she was outside the house waiting for him, he had a dream of a big black woman (not "black" as in African-American, rather, the colour black), which he took as a sign of the dog's connection with the Hindu goddess Kali, who is often portrayed with black skin. He also took finding the dog as a sign of his Satanism, since black poodles are said in European myth to accompany or embody the Devil (Der Teufel) and in India, a black dog accompanies the god Bhairava, a wrathful form of the god Siva, who is the consort or husband of the goddess Kali. He named her "Eris the Doggess of Discord," afer the ancient Greek Eris the Goddess of Discord. Some of us call her "Fluffy." Good luck! cat yronwode Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html Lucky W Amulet Archive --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html Karezza and Sacred Sex ------ http://www.luckymojo.com/sacredsex.html No personal e-mail, please; just catch me in usenet; i read it daily. Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Send e-mail with your street address to catalogue@luckymojo.com and receive our free 32 page catalogue of hoodoo supplies and amulets Copyright 2000 catherine yronwode. All rights reserved.