Planchette

Ritual tools

Planchette is an air ritual tool in the Spiritualist tradition, traditionally made of wood, glass and metal. It is used for automatic writing, spirit communication and channeling. It is aligned to the throat chakra and third eye chakra.

Tradition · Spiritualist
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The planchette is the 19th-century Spiritualist tool of automatic writing; the corpus records the practice and its warnings about unverified communication.

Correspondences

Element
Air
Direction
East
Planet
Mercury

Practice

Magical Uses
Automatic writingSpirit communicationChannelingTrance work

Details

Traditional Material
WoodGlassMetal
Keywords
Automatic writingSpiritsChannelingTrance
Associated Deities
HermesThoth
Cleansing
SmokeMoonlightIntention
Divination Method
Automatic Writing

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