Familars

Familiars

I have written about this briefly before. However maybe I can try and be clearer.
A Familiar is not your pet. You can not turn your pet into your familiar.* This is because much like love magick forcing a sentient creature into a bond is just not okay.
A familiar is a very very rare thing one I have seen twice my whole life.
It is essentially part of your soul in animal form. The best example of this was Bow. Now my friend is a faery, dipping in and out of magick through instinct and will.She was a dog person and trained dogs for years. Then came Bow. He was a rescue dog and something happened. He was a gentle giant of a dog, a white German Sheppard. Now my friend is great at training dogs but this was different.They were inseparable. They went almost everywhere together. It was a partnership, it was like he was her twin in dog form. Now I was raised around working dogs both on the farm and my grandparents guide dogs. This wasn't "training" this was something else.
My friend was training to become a midwife ( which is what we call Obstetric nurses ) when part of her spine started to collapse. She was in agony and had to give up the last year of training. It was stopping her walking.
Bow would just lie his head on her or his back to hers as often as he could. Then something magickal happened. She got better. Much better. Her spine healed in ways it wasn't supposed to. My friend found it easier to walk. Then Bow collapsed suddenly one day. After being rushed to the vet he had a collapsed spine. Bow had taken it from her. He died shortly after.
She has had dogs since, though it took about four years to get over Bows death enough to even try. She trained dogs for disabled people for a while. Yet no matter how much she adores her dog, it is not anything like Bow.
*Nor should you try. It is a disservice to a true familial bond. It is not something you seek out, it is something that finds you. You could not go to a bar, pick someone and say "soul-mate". Well you could but it wouldn't make it true. Forcing that relationship because you "want" it stops you from finding your true familiar. Even if the other person consented "yeah, I'll be your soul-mate" it STILL wouldn't make it true.
That doesn't mean there isn't love there or that it is a bad relationship it just isn't your soul-mate.
It doesn't mean your pets won't help you do magick either (the only time my cat wasn't crazy was when she was in circle before she died).
Caring for and loving an animal makes you a better human being. Caring for the neglected and those who have known only pain is a beautiful and amazing thing. Giving shelter to the cold and voice to the voiceless is the most noble thing you could do.
Don't sully that by trying to force a different kind of bond than one that occurs naturally.

Bright Blessings xxx

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