Monitoring Spirits
Like a fly on the wall
I knew that Falcon was going to have me write about this eventually, but I’ve been procrastinating because I worry it makes me sound off-kilter. However, Falcon is being pushy about this, as he’s saying it’s important information for people to be aware of. Monitoring spirits, in their most basic form, are any sort of negative entities that spy on people and their energies. Monitoring spirits don’t just go around spying on people at random, however; they typically only do so when others ask them to.
That’s where Falcon wants me to start this off, as he said that people need to be aware that there’s never an occasion when it’s in your best interest to work with a monitoring spirit. Doing so will always create negative karma for you, it will always come back to bite you, and it is never worth it.
If it’s in your best interest to have information on someone or their energy, ask your guides, and they can tell you directly. If you feel you need to work around your guides and reach out to a monitoring spirit, any spirit that goes against your guides will always be a negative entity. They only cooperate because they know they’ll be able to come back and harm you directly as a result. This is, again, where Falcon is stressing that it is never worth it to get involved with them, regardless of how experienced you believe you are.
Falcon’s adding that if you’re seeking information on someone or their energy and your guides tell you “No,” but you try to pursue it anyway, step back and take a good, hard look at yourself. Question what your true intentions are with this. He’s saying that this isn’t like stalking someone on social media (which isn’t a great pastime either). If you’re attempting to work with monitoring spirits, you’re messing with dark forces, and you will get burned. If you try to go against your guides to work with one of these beings, when it backfires on you — because it will backfire — your guides are not going to step in to protect you, as it’s a lesson you have to learn.
The reason Falcon is so stern with this topic is that the information a monitoring spirit gathers is typically only ever used for malicious purposes, such as spiritual attacks. He’s saying that no good comes from working with them, period. The type of information they gain is typically used to harm people and send ill intentions their way.
While I wish I didn’t have to start off the article with these warnings, you’d be surprised at how many people believe working with these types of spirits is perfectly acceptable, and they’ll try to justify doing so. That’s why the dangers of this can’t be overstated enough. This is not a game, there are consequences, and it is never, ever worth it. You aren’t using these types of spirits; they’re using you.
Falcon is saying that now that the disclaimers have been laid out, he wants me to go into how this actually works and what it looks like on the receiving end. The thing to understand is that, with monitoring spirits, they’re never totally invisible. By universal law, there has to be a way that their presence is somehow made known. This can be through the energy they carry, which is heavy and easily noticeable, or it can be through presenting in physical form.
The latter is exactly why I’ve been hesitant to write about this because, when you haven’t experienced this firsthand, it sounds ridiculous. I want to preface this by saying that I love all sorts of different critters, including insects and spiders. That being said, insects tend to be the forms in which monitoring spirits will present themselves. However, they’ll act very differently than typical insects. This is where Falcon is guiding me to share a few examples.
Before I share these examples, though, I want to emphasize that 99% of the time, a bug is just a bug. These experiences I’ve had are rare exceptions.
Last February, I was sitting in my bed one night doing a tarot reading. As I was laying some cards out in front of me, I looked up just in time to see what I’d thought was a honeybee. It came crawling out from underneath my bedspread, as in, it had been in the sheets on my bed. This startled me, but my immediate thought was that I didn’t want to harm a honeybee, so I went over and picked up one of my chinchilla’s little wood chews, and I got the insect to crawl onto it. From there, I carried it clear to the opposite end of my apartment, to a room that has the only window without a screen. I opened the window and set the piece of wood on the ledge, but rather than flying away, it kept trying to crawl back inside, so I had to close the window, leaving the wood chew out on the ledge, in order to keep the insect outside.
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I was initially pleased with myself, thinking I’d done a kind thing, until Falcon told me that I’d gotten lucky, but warned me not to do that again. He first told me that it was not a honeybee, but rather, a yellow jacket. I didn’t believe him at first, so he told me to look up comparison photos online, and I discovered that he was right. From there, he pointed out a few things I hadn’t considered:
- It was the middle of winter with temperatures below freezing, and I’d been inside all day, keeping my front door and all of my windows closed, so there was no way an insect should have been able to get into my apartment, much less my bedding, without me noticing.
- If it were actually a honeybee, it would’ve stayed in its hive rather than coming into my apartment.
- Yellow jackets typically die off by this time of year due to the freezing temperatures. Even if there had been a way for it to get into my apartment, it shouldn’t have been there, period.
- Yellow jackets are notoriously aggressive, but this one was downright placid, allowing me to hold it on a small piece of wood and carry it from one end of my apartment to the other without it coming after me.
- I had food out from my dinner, but it ignored the food and instead went for my tarot cards.
That’s when he revealed that it hadn’t been a true yellow jacket, but rather, a monitoring spirit. He told me that while he understood I felt bad about crushing an insect, it wasn’t worth the risk. He added that, in the future, I’d be better off squashing it on the spot. He then explained that even if it truly had been a yellow jacket rather than a monitoring spirit, putting it outside in the freezing temperatures was sentencing it to death anyway, so I might as well have finished it off right then and there. Shortly after my encounter with this yellow jacket, something happened that let me know why a monitoring spirit had been sent my way, as well as who had sent it. The timing was more than coincidence.
On another occasion, during the summer, a yellow jacket appeared on top of my microwave. I’d been in the kitchen for a while and hadn’t seen anything enter, and yet suddenly, it was just there, right in front of me. It crawled across the top of my microwave, fell off the side, collapsed onto its back, then just lay there, motionless. The reason Falcon had me share this particular example is that monitoring spirits require energy and intent in order to function, and if the energy and intent of the sender isn’t strong or focused, you might have encounters that look like that.
That’s what brought about this topic to begin with. I had another visitor today. It came in the form of a large fly, but it acted extremely erratically. This was in the middle of the day, so my lights were off, as there was plenty of sunlight coming in through the windows. However, rather than going towards the light from the windows, the fly kept loudly flying into my ceiling. I say “loudly” because, in addition to the sound of it buzzing, it flew into the ceiling so hard that it would make a little “Thunk!” sound each time it hit. This is the result of chaotic, unfocused energy from a monitoring spirit.
Even so, I’m very skeptical and don’t typically assume an insect is a monitoring spirit unless Falcon directly tells me it is. In this case, he told me it was another monitoring spirit, and he even told me who’d sent it, but I was hesitant to believe this. To prove his point, Falcon told me to go over and open the window that the fly had landed directly beside, so I could give it a chance to escape. I went over and opened the window, but suddenly, there was no fly. It was just gone. It had been on the wall next to the window, and then it vanished. There was no place it could’ve gone to where it might have hidden, and it was loud enough that if it had flown anywhere, I would’ve heard it.
Something to add is that if there were a way for insects to enter my apartment, I’d be used to seeing them more frequently. However, the instances I shared above are few and far between. There will be times I may go months before I have another encounter. This is one of the factors that differentiates these situations with monitoring spirits from simple visits from insects. I also want to add that when these insects do enter my space, my cats notice them as well, and my tortoiseshell kitty will try to hunt them down, so I know I’m not imagining them.
They can appear in all sorts of different forms as well. In the examples I shared above, they were large and noticeable, but sometimes, they’ll present as tiny flies or gnats. I’ve even had them present as stink bugs. With those, however, that’s where my tortoiseshell kitty, who also happens to be my familiar, will try to help out. With stink bugs, you don’t want to crush them because they’ll give off an odor that will attract more stink bugs. As such, the best way I’ve found to get rid of them is by flushing them. While my cat doesn’t flush them, what she’s done on more than one occasion is that, when she’s caught them, she’s kept them alive and trapped by burying them in her litter box. Each time she’s done this, they’ve stayed buried until I’ve found them and gotten rid of them, and with how she handled them, they didn’t give off their odor because she knew not to crush them.
While these are examples of how monitoring spirits can present, their forms and behaviors can vary with each situation. An important note Falcon wants me to add is that if you believe there’s a monitoring spirit in your space, ask your guides before jumping to conclusions. Most times, a bug is just a bug. Even if they are a monitoring spirit, it’s not the end of the world if you don’t crush them. Your guides will shield you so that even if these monitoring spirits are physically present, they won’t necessarily get the information they’re after.
Falcon is saying that this article isn’t about creating fear or paranoia. He’s having me share this to make people aware, but at the same time, it’s not a life-or-death matter. Your guides will protect you and keep you safe. He’s saying that if you want to feel like you’re doing something to protect yourself, there’s no harm in spiritually cleansing your space. While smoke cleansing is perfectly fine, you don’t even need to do that much, especially if you’re in a space where you’re unable to do so. You can cleanse your space just as effectively through sound, such as by playing music or singing. Another option is to simply visualize a white light filling and cleansing every corner of your space, protecting your home. As long as you set your intent for cleansing and protection, any of these methods are perfectly effective.
With that, he’s having me bring this to a close, so I hope everyone has a beautiful day!
