The sixth Black Pullet ring: discovering secrets, made by hand

The Black Pullet, and the sixth ring

The Black Pullet is a grimoire of a particular kind: not a grand system of spirits and hierarchies, but a book of rings and talismans, each with a single, practical purpose, each made by hand, each carrying its own design. A practitioner who works with the Black Pullet is not working with a system in the abstract. He or she is working with one ring, for one purpose, and the discipline of the book is the discipline of singleness: one ring, one purpose, one working, done properly.

This is the 6th Black Pullet ring, used to discover secrets. That purpose, discovering secrets, is worth pausing over, because it is not the same as satisfying curiosity, and it is not the same as prying. Secrets, in the grimoire sense, are things that are hidden, withheld, or kept from you, and that you have a real reason to know: a plan that affects you, a truth about a situation you are in, a piece of information that has been kept from you and that you need in order to act wisely.

Be specific about what secret you mean, before you work with this ring. A vague desire to know everything, about everyone, is not a working. It is a mood, and it will give you a vague result to read afterwards, if it gives you anything at all. A specific question, about a specific matter, in which you have a real stake, is a working, and it is the kind of question this ring is made for.

How the rings are made, and why it matters

That hand work is not a marketing detail. It is the method of the book, and it is how a Black Pullet ring is supposed to be made.

Hand engraving into wax, before casting, means that each ring carries the marks of the hand that made it. The lines are not perfectly uniform, as a machine would make them, and they should not be. They are the record of a person, working slowly, cutting a design into wax, for a single purpose. A practitioner who wears such a ring is wearing something that was made, not manufactured, and that difference is felt, in the hand and in the work, even if it cannot be put into a specification sheet.

You will receive one ring, or one talisman, the item listed in the title, and any other items listed are for information purposes only. That is an important honesty to hold on to. You are not ordering a photograph. You are ordering a ring, made for you, in the design of the sixth ring, and it will be yours, not a copy of someone else's.

Discovering secrets, as a practice

Discovering a secret is not the same as hearing a rumour, and a working for discovery should be judged by a stricter standard than ordinary curiosity. Ask yourself, before you work, whether you have a right to know the thing you are asking about, whether knowing it will help you act wisely, and what you will do with the knowledge once you have it. Those questions are not an ethical lecture. They are practical questions, because a secret discovered without a plan for what to do with it is a burden, not a benefit.

Prepare the working as you would any serious working. Be clear about the question, in one sentence. Write it down. Set aside time and a place for the work, and wear or hold the ring deliberately for that work, rather than wearing it as background jewellery while you do other things. If your practice calls for a candle, or for oil, or for a particular time, follow the practice you already follow, rather than inventing a new one for this ring alone.

After the working, write down what you did, when you did it, what question you asked, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks. Discovery often comes sideways, not in a single revelation: a conversation, a document, a slip, a piece of information that arrives through ordinary channels, but that you now recognise as the answer to your question. A record is what lets you recognise that arrival, rather than dismissing it as coincidence, or missing it altogether.

Working with a ring, in general terms

A ring is a working tool that travels with you, and that travelling is part of its use. You may wear the ring during the working itself, so that the seal is on your hand while you speak your petition. You may hold the ring, or the hand that wears it, over a candle, or lay the ring under a candle, so that the light stands over it for the working. You may put oil on the ring, lightly, if oil belongs to your practice for this kind of work.

Between workings, a ring can be worn as a link to the work, or laid aside in a proper place, as your practice directs. Decide which it is, for this ring, and be consistent about it, so that wearing it means something rather than becoming habit. A ring worn every day, for every purpose, without distinction, will soon stop meaning anything in particular, and a ring kept only for workings will keep its association sharp.

Keep the ring itself in good order. Clean it as its metal requires, inspect it before a working, and store it apart from ordinary jewellery when you are not wearing it. A hand made ring, engraved in wax and then cast, deserves the same care as any other working tool, and that care is part of the work, not a chore around it.

Knowing when to stop, and what to do with what you learn

Do not repeat a discovery working endlessly, asking the same question in different words, in the hope that repetition alone will force an answer. Ask clearly, once, observe over time, and then decide calmly whether a second working, a different approach, or no further working is the right next step. A question asked ten times, with ten slightly different wordings, is not ten workings. It is one working, blurred by impatience.

When you do learn something, act on it wisely, and in the ordinary world as well as in the magical one. A secret about a legal matter, a safety matter, or a medical matter should be dealt with in the ordinary world, by ordinary means, as well as by any magical work you do. Ritual work is not a substitute for dealing with such matters directly, and a practitioner who treats it as one is avoiding the very action the discovery was meant to inform.

Finally, keep what you learn with discretion. A secret discovered through magical work is still a secret, and how you use it, and whom you tell, is part of the working itself. A practitioner who discovers a secret and immediately broadcasts it has not finished the working. He or she has started a different, and often unwise, one.

Discovery, and ordinary investigation alongside it

Magical work for discovery does not replace ordinary investigation, and a practitioner who treats it as a replacement will miss most of what discovery actually involves. If you want to know something, ask, in the ordinary world, where asking is possible. Read the documents that are available to you. Listen, in conversations, for what is actually said, rather than for what you expect to hear. Notice what is already in front of you, in plain sight, that you have been too hurried, or too certain, to see. Much of what passes for hidden knowledge is knowledge that was available all along, to anyone willing to look carefully.

That ordinary work belongs alongside the ring work, not instead of it, and not after it as an afterthought. Do the ordinary investigation first, or at the same time, and let the ring working focus the question, rather than replace the search. A question that has been investigated ordinarily is a sharper question magically, because you know what you already know, what you do not know, and what you actually need to discover, rather than asking, vaguely, for everything to be revealed at once.

When information does arrive, whether through ordinary channels or through the working, test it before you act on it. Is it consistent with what you already know? Does it come from a source you can trust, or from a source with its own interest in the matter? Would you act on it if it had arrived without any magical working at all? Those tests are not scepticism for its own sake. They are the discipline of discovery itself, because a secret that is false, or half true, and acted on as if it were true, does more harm than a secret left undiscovered for a little longer.

A final word on secrets themselves: a secret, once discovered, does not stay discovered on its own. It must be kept, or used, or acted on, with judgement, and that judgement is part of the working, not an afterthought to it. Decide, before you ask, what you will do with an answer, and then, when an answer comes, do what you decided, or decide, deliberately and with reasons, to do something else. A secret handled with that kind of deliberation is a tool. A secret handled impulsively is a liability, however it was discovered.

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