Black Pullet ring eighteen: knowing intentions

The Black Pullet, and why its rings are numbered

The Black Pullet is a grimoire of a particular kind. It is not a book of spirit lists, like the Goetia, but a book of talismans and rings, each made for a particular purpose, each with its own story in the text. The rings of the Black Pullet are numbered, and each number is a different working, for a different aim. That numbering matters, because it means you do not choose a Black Pullet ring in general. You choose a particular one, for a particular purpose, and the number is how you know which one you mean.

Ring eighteen is the ring to know intentions. The title states its purpose plainly, and it is worth sitting with that purpose before going further. To know intentions is to know where a person is headed, what they mean to do, and what direction their dealings with you are taking. An intention is not a whole mind, and it is not a whole character. It is a leaning towards an act, and knowing it tells you, in time, what to expect, and what to prepare for.

This article is about the ring version of eighteen, a ring you wear, not the talisman version, which is a separate piece in its own form. The purpose is the same, to know intentions, but the form is different, and the form matters, because a ring is worn on the hand, carried into meetings, and present in every handshake, signature, and dealing. That presence, on the hand, is part of how a ring for knowing intentions does its work.

Knowing intentions, and what to do with what you know

A ring for knowing intentions raises a question that is easy to overlook: what will you do with what you learn? Knowing someone's intentions is only useful if you are prepared to act on the knowledge, and acting on it is often harder than gaining it. If you learn that someone's intentions are good, will you trust further, and act on that trust? If you learn that they are bad, will you step back, end the dealing, set a boundary, or change your plans? Decide, before you take up the ring, what kinds of action you are actually willing to take on what you learn, because a ring that tells you something you then ignore is not helping you. It is only worrying you.

Be specific about the people and situations you have in mind, too. A general wish to know everyone's intentions, all the time, is not a working. It is a state of suspicion, and suspicion worn constantly will colour every interaction you have, whether the ring is working or not. A clearer working is one aimed at a particular situation: a particular dealing, a particular person, a particular decision where intentions matter. State that situation in one sentence, and let the ring serve that sentence, rather than serving a general unease.

Think about the situations where knowing intentions actually helps. A negotiation, where the other side's real position is hidden. A household or workplace, where someone's friendliness may or may not be sincere. A new acquaintance, whose interest in you may have a second motive. In each case, the advantage is not in knowing everything about the person. It is in knowing, in time, whether their intentions towards you are good or bad, so you can act accordingly, while there is still time to act.

Intentions are narrower, and more useful, than thoughts

Knowing intentions is narrower, and more practical, than reading thoughts in general. A thought is a whole contents of a mind, shifting, contradictory, and often unformed. An intention is a direction, a leaning towards an act, and knowing it tells you where a person is headed, which is often all you need to know, and often more useful than knowing the whole contents of their thinking. A person may think many things about you, in passing, without intending any of them. What matters, for your decisions, is what they intend to do.

That narrowness is a strength, not a limitation. A ring that told you everything a person thought would leave you overwhelmed, and often misled, because passing thoughts are not actions, and not every thought becomes an act. A ring that tells you intentions leaves you with something you can act on: a direction, a warning, a reassurance, a reason to proceed or to step back. Judge the ring on that, on whether it sharpens your sense of where people are headed, not on whether it gives you a transcript of their minds.

It is also worth noting what this ring is not. It is not a ring for knowing the future in general, or for gaining wisdom, or for seeing hidden things of every kind. The Black Pullet has other numbered pieces for other purposes, and this ring serves one of them, knowing intentions, and no more. A ring used for a purpose it was not made for will disappoint you, however well it is made, because it was never the ring for that purpose.

How these rings are made: hand engraved in wax

These are each hand made with the proper materials. The designs are hand engraved right into the wax used to create the rings. No engraving machine is used for this work, since that would take away much of the magic. That last sentence is a maker's statement about what makes a ring, and it deserves respect.

A hand-engraved design carries the maker's hand, her attention, and her time, in every line. A machine-engraved design carries none of those things, however precise its lines may be. In ring and talisman work, where the design is the working, the hand that makes the design is part of the design's virtue. A ring made by hand, slowly, with attention, is a different object from one stamped out by machine, and practitioners who have handled both can feel the difference, in the weight, in the lines, and in the way the ring sits on the hand.

It will be the item listed in the title, one ring, and any other items shown are for information purposes only. That is the right expectation for a handmade piece. Do not expect an exact copy of a photograph. Expect a ring made for you, by hand, to the same design and purpose, with the small differences that handwork always brings. Those differences are not faults. They are the mark of the hand that made it.

Working with a ring for knowing intentions

When the ring arrives, take it up properly before you begin to rely on it. Set aside a quiet time, hold it, and state its purpose in your own words, in one clear sentence: to know the intentions of others towards you, in time to act on what you learn. That statement is the working half of the ring. Without it, you have a well-made object. With it, you have a ring with a job.

Wear the ring where the situations it concerns actually happen: to the meeting, the negotiation, the gathering, the introduction. A ring kept in a drawer while you walk into the very situation it was made for is not doing its work. A ring worn on the hand is present in every dealing, and that presence is part of how it serves you. Keep it on the hand you use for dealings, if that is your practice, and keep it there consistently, so that its presence becomes part of how you enter a situation, not an afterthought.

Pay attention to how the knowledge comes. It may not come as a dramatic revelation. It may come as a sharpening of an impression you already had, a doubt that firms up, a friendliness that suddenly reads as false, or a reassurance that settles a worry you had carried for days. Those quiet shifts are often the real action of a ring like this, and they are easy to miss if you are waiting for a voice or a vision. Note them, and note what you did about them, because the doing is what turns knowledge into protection.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for this working: date, the situation in one sentence, the person, what you sensed about their intentions, and what happened afterwards, in plain language. Note whether your sense of their intentions held true, and whether acting on it helped or hindered you. That record, kept over weeks, is what lets you tell whether the ring is sharpening your judgement, or whether you are simply noticing what you would have noticed anyway.

Do not wear the ring as a general shield against all people, all the time, without a named situation, because that use will turn it into a source of suspicion rather than a tool for judgement. A tool used for everything quickly becomes a tool used for nothing in particular, and a ring for knowing intentions serves best when it serves a particular dealing, a particular decision, or a particular person whose intentions matter. When the situation is settled, put the ring aside, or keep it for the next named situation, deliberately, rather than wearing it out of habit.

If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the intentions were not hidden in the way you thought, the petition was unclear, the situation was not ready to reveal itself, or simply that the situation needs a different approach, such as a direct conversation. A ring is not a substitute for asking a plain question, when a plain question is possible, and sometimes the plain question is the working that was needed all along.

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