Black Pullet talisman seven: divulging thoughts

The Black Pullet, and why its talismans 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 talismans 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 talisman in general. You choose a particular one, for a particular purpose, and the number is how you know which one you mean.

Talisman seven is the talisman to divulge thoughts. The title states its purpose plainly, and it is worth sitting with that word, divulge, before going further. To divulge is to reveal, to bring out into the open, to make known what was hidden. A talisman for divulging thoughts is therefore a talisman for a situation where something is being held back, where thoughts are not being spoken, and where their being spoken would change the situation.

That is a narrower purpose than it first sounds. It is not a talisman for knowing things in general, or for gaining wisdom, or for seeing the future. It is a talisman for a particular kind of hiddenness: thoughts that someone holds, that have not been said, and that matter to you. Keep that narrowness in mind through the whole article, because it is what keeps the working honest.

Whose thoughts, and why do you need them divulged?

The first question to ask yourself is whose thoughts you have in mind. A general wish to know what everyone is thinking, 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 talisman is working or not. A clearer working is one aimed at a particular situation: a particular person, a particular dealing, a particular decision where an unspoken thought matters.

Ask yourself, in one sentence, what thought you want divulged, and why its being spoken would help. Is it a person's true opinion of a proposal, which they are too polite to state? Is it a hidden objection that is quietly blocking an agreement? Is it a feeling that someone will not admit, even to themselves? Each of those is a different situation, and each would be helped in a different way by the thought being brought into the open. State the sentence before you take up the talisman, and let the talisman serve that sentence.

It is also worth asking what you will do when the thought is divulged. A revealed thought is not always a welcome one, and it is not always a thought you can act on gracefully. If you learn what someone truly thinks, will you be able to hear it without the relationship breaking? Will you change your plans, or will you simply carry a piece of knowledge you wish you did not have? Decide, before you begin, what kinds of action you are actually willing to take on what you learn, because a talisman that reveals something you then ignore, or that you punish the speaker for, is not helping you. It is only complicating the situation.

Divulging, revealing, and reading: neighbouring purposes, kept distinct

Divulging thoughts is not quite the same as reading thoughts, though the two purposes sit near each other in the Black Pullet, and they are easy to blur. Reading a thought is a private act of knowing: you learn what someone thinks, and you keep that knowledge to yourself. Divulging a thought is a bringing-out: the thought is revealed, made known, brought into the open where it can be dealt with. The difference is in where the thought ends up, and in who else gets to hear it.

That difference changes the working. A talisman for reading thoughts serves the wearer alone, quietly. A talisman for divulging thoughts serves a situation, by changing what is spoken in it. If what you actually want is private knowledge, without anything being said aloud, then divulging may be more than you need, and more disruptive than you intend. If what you actually want is for something unspoken to finally be said, so that a decision can be made or a pretence can end, then divulging is the right purpose, and reading alone would leave the situation exactly where it was.

Be honest about which of those you want, and about whether you want the revelation to happen in a particular conversation, or simply at some point, in some way, in the course of events. The clearer you are about the shape of the revelation you seek, the easier it will be to judge, afterwards, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the talisman.

How these talismans are made: by hand, with the proper materials

The rings and silk embroidered talismans from the Black Pullet Grimoire are each hand made with the proper materials. This talisman is a silk satin talisman, made by hand, in that tradition, rather than a printed or machine-made copy of a design.

That is a maker's statement about what makes a talisman, and it deserves respect. A design made by hand carries the maker's hand, her attention, and her time, in every line. A machine-made design carries none of those things, however precise its lines may be. In talisman work, where the design is the working, the hand that makes the design is part of the design's virtue.

That handmade character also sets the right expectation. A talisman made by hand, for you, will not be an exact copy of a photograph of past work. It will be the item listed in the title, made 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, and of the time that went into it.

Working with a talisman for divulging thoughts

When the talisman 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 divulge the thoughts that are being held back in the situation you have named. That statement is the working half of the talisman. Without it, you have a well-made object. With it, you have a talisman with a job.

Carry the talisman where the situation it concerns actually happens, or keep it where the working is done, according to your own practice, and keep it with the situation in mind rather than as a general charm carried without thought. A talisman carried everywhere, for every purpose, quickly becomes background, and background objects are easy to forget. A talisman kept for a named situation stays present in your mind, and that presence is part of how you will notice what changes.

Pay attention to how a divulging happens, if it happens. It may not come as a dramatic confession. It may come as a slip, a remark made more plainly than usual, a letter written more honestly, a conversation that finally says the thing that had been avoided for months. Those quiet openings are often the real action of a talisman like this, and they are easy to miss if you are waiting for a revelation. Note them, and note what you did about them, because the doing is what turns a revealed thought into a changed situation.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for this working: date, the situation in one sentence, the person or dealing concerned, what was unspoken at the start, and what was said afterwards, in plain language. Note the date of anything that was divulged, and note whether it was divulged to you alone, or openly, and whether it changed the decision or the relationship that depended on it. That record, kept over weeks, is what lets you tell whether the talisman is serving the situation, or whether you are simply noticing what you would have noticed anyway.

Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a revelation. Do the work properly, once, observe, and then decide, calmly, whether a second working, a different approach, or no further working is the right next step. Repetition without reflection is not persistence. It is noise, and in a situation where thoughts are already being held back, noise only makes people hold back more.

If nothing is divulged, that is also information. It may mean the thought was not there to divulge, the situation was not ready for it to be spoken, the petition was unclear, or simply that the situation needs a different approach, such as a direct conversation. A talisman 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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