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My favorite magicial creature has changed over the years. When I was younger, I was addicted to unicorns and mermaids. Quite literately, I would watch the last unicorn at every possible chance that I could. As for mermaids, I think you can guess what spawned my liking for that.

Now, I like most all of the magical creatures. Dragons are my main, seeing as I am a dragon magic practicer. I've never really had much of a connection with Griffins or Phoenixes to be honest. It's almost like they don't even hit the edge of my interests. Even now I'm like Pheonixes -shrug-. Though that is kind of hypocritical because every creature needs to have his own respect regardless of what it is.

I personally think that dragons, unicorns, what have you, were actually on this plane at one time. But I think the oppession and negativity from the human race (only with the hunting) made unicorns scarce and they decided to travel to another astral plane. As for dragons, I don't think (because as I've stated before, my dragons and I have never actually discussed anything quite like this. I am not ready to discuss matters like that because I feel like I'm trying to be noisy. You know?) that they were "scared" away from human, I think they got fed up and left. Hell I get fed up with people every day. So I completely understand.

How do I work with them... Kind of a hard question to answer seeing as it's really them who works with me and my limitations. Mostly I ask them to help me raise energy and usually they help me raise my own energy. It's also kind of weird to get relays of what I look like with a massive webbing of orange energy around me, seeing as I don't have natural spirit sight. It's also kind of freaky because my mind cannot get all of the colors that theirs can so some of the image tends to be dull.

I used to have them as support figures. I'd talk to them, involve them in my daily life. I've done energy work with them to produce snow, where I gave them my energy to work with, so they wouldn't have to use theirs. A lot of the time, it's about me giving them my energy to work with because I don't want them to have to use theirs or feel like they have to.

I reached them using a calling ritual. I can't remember everything that I had gathered, but it was on the internet somewhere. xD <3

I agree with that. I think that all these mythical creatures once used to live here, but then the idea came around that magickal things (like witches) were evil, so people started hunting mythical creatures, and then they left to save their lives.

I don't work with them though. I'm far from doing that. I can't even meditate yet. --"

Starlock: I have an equal magnitude of love for faeries in that respect.

Like I said before I would really like to start working with the magical creatures, but I don't know how to go about doing it. I'll probably start with the Unicorn as they have always been very special to me. The first Tarot Deck I bought was the Unicorn Tarot, and in many ways it still speaks to me more than other decks.

Dragons are second on my list mostly because I think their power would overwhelm me if I were to contact them. Granted I still have a deep love for them, I just don't want to get in over my head. I think they'd respect that don't you?

My final point is that working with these entities should be highly respectful. They choose to share them selves with us. Just because we call them doesn't mean they have to answer. They can ignore us if we aren't ready, or they don't like us. So My first step is going to be researching myths about Dragons and Unicorns.

Do you count spirits separate or with magical creatures? That's what the defining factor would be..

So you don't work with them. That's cool. I'd consider angels and demons spirits and a separate category. I mean to me you'd work with them differently then with entities like unicorns, dragons, gryphons and the "fae".

I only have limited experience working with spirits like angels or demons, and it's something I personally would like to explore more often. However I can't seem to find a decent non "new age-all light and happiness" source on how to work with them and contact them. Spirits are important to me, but I don;t really work with them at this point in time.

Another thing I have been thinking about are the Elementals and if they classify as spirits or if they would be in the category of magical creatures. Personally I think they are a bit of both. They have mythology that fits in both categories, but also are their own beings in their own right. Any one else have a thought on this?

Ah, categorizing. There's times I bother with it, and there's times I just ignore it and recognize that thinking about it too much will only short-circuit my brain or bog me down from doing things of more relevant importance.

Everything is Spirit to me, so classing something as spirit is somewhat redundant. But that word, of course, can mean different things. Usually we use spirit to refer to something more ephemeral or non-material. If that's the case, all otherworldly creatures are 'spirits' since they have no corporeal manifestation on our plane of reality. That'd make magical creatures, demons, angels, elements, guides and such all spirits.

But I dunno. This is one of those instances where my brain might short-circuit somewhere. Hence, I'll just say 'I don't know' and possibly an 'I don't care' on top of that. They are what they are. xd