The Witches Familiar Ep 1: What is a Familiar?

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  • @JimTheDruid-db3ok
    @JimTheDruid-db3ok ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Isnt funny how so frequently the deepest thinkers are like you. The ones who quietly move through life, quietly doing the work and keeping things bright.

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much, this is a lovely comment! Those of us who grow in solitude have plenty of time to expand 🥰✨

  • @eversosleight
    @eversosleight หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I suspect two familiars came into my life (both black cats), one boy and one girl. The boy was rescued as a random kitten. Now fully grown, Doug had been by my side for over 5 years now and he's the sweetest.
    The little girl (Willow) was also rescued as a little kitten crying at my door on a ice cold January night in the dead of winter with tons of snowfall. She was in rough shape, chapped nose, a piece of her ear was missing (I assume bigger animals bullying her) and cold and hungry. I agreed to tend to her for one night. That night turned into 4 years now and she is the most faithful sentient being I've ever encountered. She greets me daily when I arrive from work and she has done more for me in 4 short years than any mentor or teacher ever has.
    Doug and Willow parented a son, Elmer (also Black) before I had them fixed and he features all the best traits of both parents. Elmie is truly a big blessing. I'm humbled that all 3 have entered my life and am grateful to be part of their lives.
    Their contribution to my growth is something I don't take lightly.
    Also, Winnie is adorable 😃👍
    Thanks for sharing.

  • @timetravelkitty425
    @timetravelkitty425 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I rescued a wild baby starling and she became my familiar I realized because she helped me give up a very long heroin addiction. I’m so thankful to my familiars anyway. I liked how you said the different familiar as you had were associated with different phases of your life? I hadn’t really thought of it like that. I practice ceremonial magic and I find that the animals are one of those things that divinity communicates to me through, hence why I’m here trying to find more about familiars in relation to ritual😂

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you so much for sharing your story 🥰 what a lucky little starling to have been saved by you! I do believe familiars can show up with divine time when we need them and that they act as guardians on our spiritual paths! You might find my video about the types of animal spirit guides useful too!
      For ritual, my familiar often brings me nature gifts that I can use in ritual! Or, his connection to the earth might inspire the structure of a ceremony.
      Blessings to you! 🦋✨

  • @jefbowles7745
    @jefbowles7745 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Bless be I looked into your eyes and listened and started crying because I know what you are saying and I also know you have returned from a long sleep welcome back sister you have a very old soul. I asked a shaman medicine woman once how long have I lived before and she said if you can count all the stars in the sky that's how old I am . Bless your gingerbread heart 🎃💥🪄✨🍄💫🌻💥👻✨🧹💥💫

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! I really appreciate that and I'm so glad to hear you resonate with the familiars journey! Many bright blessings to you ✨

  • @veryhappymondays
    @veryhappymondays ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ⏳Perfect timing
    So excited for this series!
    Thank you so much
    🙏🏽✨🕊️

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So glad to have you on this journey!! ✨🐈🥰

  • @angelaatwood46
    @angelaatwood46 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have a deep loving bond with my cat. Not everything is perfect, I need to play with him more. I named him Sheer at first, but then realized I wanted to call him Seer, like a seer. It was kind of a joke because I know animals can see things many people can't. But, how is your take in this, I turned on this video, and it's storming out, and he would like to go into the back room, but instead he came and sat right down beside me. You said they would reveal themselves as a familiar when they see fit. Him coming over after I began playing this video is interesting, and he is an emotional support cat, it's in my lease.❤️ Also, the Humane society let me have him without a few extra dollars, maybe it's because he has FIV but they did that. One time, when a stray cat was in my doorway and I reached to pet it, the cat swiped at me. My cat began growling at it. He was protecting me!

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Angela! Wow thank you for sharing about your little Seer. I think that sounds like a meaningful sign or synchronicity - 100%. I'm betting you'll get more signs and meaningful epiphanies that will bring you the answers you're seeking. It does sounds like, regardless of titles, you have a beautiful partner who is committed to supporting and protecting you - you're a lucky girl! I love the name Seer by the way that's so so beautiful. My first familiar was named Soot and it made me think of him 🐈‍⬛✨

  • @whooah
    @whooah 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yes, i have two familiars right now. Great video.

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so much for watching! ✨

  • @hannadebueno
    @hannadebueno ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for this!

  • @fabiopizzavys
    @fabiopizzavys 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I believe that me reaching this channel needed to happen. What a beautiful video. The way you presented the information and showed your connection with your Familiars soothed me, making me feel better. I hope I can learn from you. Keep up the good work!

  • @Thespiritualsorceress
    @Thespiritualsorceress ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just found your channel and I’m so glad I did because you’re content is so beautiful and I love that fluffy cat 🐈☺️

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aw thank you so much! Winnie puts a little spell on everyone hehe 🐈✨

  • @debravaughn786
    @debravaughn786 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    With tears in my eyes Thank you for that information now I know why ...

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว

      Aw I’m so glad this video found you ✨🐈 blessings and love to you and your familiars! 🥰💕

  • @RoosterChan
    @RoosterChan ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To start off I believe my spirit animal is a rooster. As long as I could remember it was one of my favorite animals. A rooster has appeared in my dreams for as long as I could remember. A rooster came to me when I was struggling during the darkest time in my life. At 14 I had already planned and prepared to end my life when showed up literally 3 days prior to the day i had picked to die.
    He just showed up one day and from that day on became he was my other half. We all just kind of knew his name was Fred and it was as if we shared one mind/soul. I can always tell what he was thinking and vice versa. It's as if he could speak to me without using words, he understood me like nobody else and I had never had a connection like that in my life. It literally felt like we were two halves of the same whole.
    Whenever I would separate from him to go to school or leave my home, I could always feel him. When I come home he would Sprint to me from wherever in the neighborhood he had decided to hang out that day, full speed with his wings out and feathers puffed, dancing for me when he reached me. The crazy part is he just knew I was home, even when I wouldn't call him he knew, even if he didn't see me he knew, he just knew when i was near.
    I remember that he seemed to be able to tell when I needed him. When I will come home on those dark days, He'd be waiting for me on the log near my front gate. He never ran from me and when I hugged, he hugged me right back. Just having him by my side seemed to replenish and charge me.
    I often described Fred as my "guardian angel" because I really didn't know what else to call him. He would never leave my side without a struggle, it actually came to the point where he would force his way inside on some nights as if he could tell how hopeless and drained I was feeling. I swear when he slept by my side, I woke up feeling so rejuvenated and powerful.
    Sadly though, all good things must come to an end. I woke up at nearly 3 in the morning in a cold sweat violently shaking. I ran outside to find that He was attacked by raccoons that had ripped into his outdoor coop 3 days before Christmas and had nearly killed him, taking one of his beautiful red/yellow eyes and tearing his mighty crown comb. He lived and stood strong. But deep down I knew what he was telling me when he looked into my eyes that morning. I knew my guardian was going to leave me soon.
    I blamed myself for his death that followed 3 days after (on Christmas), the raccoons had come back to finish what they had started. Even after I had a more secure coop built for him, the worker hadn't finished securing the door before he left and because I had fallen ill and asleep, my father 'locked' the coop using buckets of cement. Freddy lost his life that night and the next morning before I even went outside, I knew he was gone. I felt as if something had snapped deep down, I felt so empty.
    But over the past five years, I've come to realize that he's still standing right by me, maybe not physically, but he is there looking after me. He gives me little signs all the time, Be it a feather falling into my lap, a stray rooster staring at me for a moment, or a roosters crowing the snap me back to reality when I zone out on the bus. I no longer feel empty but I still do feel a bit incomplete without him. I realize that he came to me what I needed him and left me when I was strong enough to stand on my own. My time with him was short but I wouldn't trade it for the world.
    My Sister is into Wicca and often jokes about how he was my "familiar" but idk. What do you think?

    • @RoosterChan
      @RoosterChan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also, when you are adopted by your new familiar, is it the same soul/Spirit of your last? Is it a reincarnation or is it a completely different being? I've heard it both ways but I want to know your thoughts

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi Hi! First of all, thank you so so much for sharing this beautiful story. I was just in awe while reading this. Secondly, I'm so sorry for the delay in my response! This sounds like a truly magical spirit connection. To me, it does sound like Fred the rooster was a Familiar spirit for you. It is most definitely unbearable when our familiars have short lives or we only get so much time with them. Your story was just so powerful and the way you two could read each others minds and energy is amazing. You described such a deep love and bond between you two. I am just gutted to hear how he died, how tragic. Truly so so tragic for you and Fred. I was so sad to hear your connection in the physical world had been cut short in that way (and on Christmas). My heart goes out to you and Fred. The connection that you just shared seems like something that comes around once in a blue moon and really gives us purpose and an understanding of magic on earth. Thank you again for sharing such a meaningful Familiar story. Stay tuned for a new episode coming any day now! So much love to you ✨🐓

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think this is such a great question that I want to explore in this series. I'm actually not sure on my answer quite yet but there is a specific reason why I have even thought about this myself. I'm going to touch on this once I can explain my thoughts in more detail!

  • @iamreadynow
    @iamreadynow ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, Brianna. Just what I needed…

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm so glad to hear that! Thanks for watching! ✨

  • @RobeonMew
    @RobeonMew ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Demon" isn't a bad word anyway. There are more "Faes" that show evil intentions than Demons, or Daemons have done. Demons and Daemons just work in the background.

    • @RobeonMew
      @RobeonMew ปีที่แล้ว

      But how can you dissern the difference between destiny, coincidence or psychosis?

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely, Fairies can definitely be little tricksters and I recommend not diving into Fae work blindly! Love your question below as well and I'll actually be making a couple videos breaking down what you asked. But just quickly, a psychosis is relatively temporary (generally speaking) where as an awakening or expanding of the consciousness that opens us up to divine destiny is more of a process of unfolding that eventually leads to empowerment. Hope that helps and we'll definitely be diving into this in the future! 💕✨

  • @sb6370
    @sb6370 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder how many here have read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials?

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว

      I haven’t but I love fantasy and it does sound so good! 🥰✨

  • @spiritualmama5497
    @spiritualmama5497 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My boy just died its the most awful pain

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว

      I am so so sorry to hear this 💔 I know how deep that pain can go and I’m sending so much love from afar.

  • @mckenzieeleah
    @mckenzieeleah 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When can we get more familiar videos? 💗

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There will be a new episode by the end of this month! I hadn’t intended for this much time to past but new episodes are coming and I have the next one filmed 🥰✨🐈‍⬛✨🐈

    • @mckenzieeleah
      @mckenzieeleah 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BriannaShambrook yay! Can’t wait 😄💗

  • @notsure7899
    @notsure7899 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks! I've been curious ever since Joan, in Hereditary, prays to the Demon king Paimon and asks him to give them 'good familiars'. But I don't think your lovely orange fluff ball is evil at all. And neither are you.

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you!! Aw my little Winnie is pure earth angel 🥰✨ Thanks for watching! 💕

  • @kukumuniu5658
    @kukumuniu5658 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi :) are You able to see spirits? (auras,energies etc)

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes sometimes! ✨

    • @kukumuniu5658
      @kukumuniu5658 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BriannaShambrook Do you mean aura on photos
      or only in real life, sometimes something flashes before your eyes?
      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
      (and all that remains is our belief that the ritual caused some change)
      I have a problem, or maybe more of a situation
      solution of which is problematic for me.
      I live in a house with many more inhabitants than people and cat.
      The problem is that I cannot communicate with these beings
      I don't know what they want and what their role is,
      two of these beings are my ancestors
      driving away the ancestors by exorcism etc is probably the stupidest solution
      but there are other beings,(3 or 5) neither ex-humans nor ancestors.
      Do you know how to check it ?
      Confirm that someone is actually here
      and then determine what their role is and what they want :(

  • @Jaker2123
    @Jaker2123 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My familiar is literally a spirit! I see him all the time, it’s not a cat I’ve owned in life … so what gives?

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Love this question and I’ll be chatting about this soon! It’s a bit of a loop hole. Familiars are firstly spirit guides that are apart of our soul family. So you can absolutely experience or be connected to a familiar spirit within the spirit world 🥰 we’ll explore this more in an upcoming episode, let me know if you have anymore questions around this!!

  • @shelbym.6862
    @shelbym.6862 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How do you find your animal familiar?

    • @BriannaShambrook
      @BriannaShambrook  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey love! I explain this a bit in the video 💕 There many signs and synchronicities that you won't be able to ignore. If it's an animal that you already have and you maybe didn't know it was your familiar, there will be events, signs and synchronicities too that will lead you to this understanding that your animal is your partner.