Rowan's Witchy Tips 1.1: Terminology is extremely flexible and will vary from person to person, depending on how they were taught. I'd like to spend some time researching witch nomenclature, but for the time being— "energy" refers to the manipulatable, metaphysical stuff that exists in and around us. I'd call it「𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 𝖌𝖔𝖔」but that name probably only appeals to me
Rowan's Witchy Tips #5: Nobody I know will actually take Tip #4 seriously, so here's a crash course:
1) brush up on your fundamentals
2) have a plan set up BEFORE you begin. What with the familiar's role be? How will they achieve that role? Where will they get their energy from?
3) gather up materials— at the bare minimum you will want an object of some significance to you that will store the necessary 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 𝖌𝖔𝖔.
4) Charge up your 𝖌𝖔𝖔 𝖇𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖞 over the course of several weeks
5) do the thing
Witchy Tips #11: Connecting with your own mindscape and going out-of-body are not the same thing— make sure you know the difference~
Witchy Tips #12: Experience can drown out belief, with time. There is no need to believe in something half-heartedly when you can experience it fully.