👃 Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - *sniff sniff* Smells Like Magick!

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My Weekly Witchy Challenge Entry - Smells Like Magick!

THE NOSE :nose: KNOWS!

I was going to write about my Magick Potion creations… but I found something new to write about! All of my children have different forms of intuition. And my son’s is the most unusual, even rare form of The Clairs!

What Are “Clairs?”

Image from: ~Salt + Sea Energy

“Clairs” are also known as Clair senses, psychic senses, or having a 6th sense.

  • Clairvoyance: Psychic seeing or clear seeing
  • Clairaudience: Psychic hearing or clear hearing
  • Clairsentience: Psychic feeling or clear feeling
  • Clairalience: Psychic smelling or clear smelling
  • Clairgustance: Psychic tasting or clear tasing
  • Claircognizance: Psychic knowing or clear knowing
    ~Salt + Sea Energy

Since this is a Challenge relating to smell, have you guessed what my son’s ‘Clair’ is? If not… it’s Clairailence! So, my entry this week is about Clear Smelling! I don’t know, but I would guess the only Clair that’s rarer is Clear Tasting.

He and I had a long talk about it yesterday. He worked as a paramedic and saw too many tragic injuries and deaths. So I don’t want to go into more detail because it’s a complex and sensitive topic. With that said, let’s explore Clear Smelling.

# Clairalience
From late 17th century French clair (“clear”) + alience (“smelling”)
Clairalience is the ability for a person to acquire psychic knowledge by means of smelling. ~Wiktionary.org

The most common form of this sense is smelling the perfume, cigar, etc. of someone who has passed. Have you experienced this? I know I have.

To develop your clairalience, smell everything! Do not turn your nose up to the opportunity of smelling the world after rainfall, flowers on a walk, fruit and vegetables in the supermarket, puts during cuddles, coffee in the morning, cooking smells in the evening, candles and incense.
~2021, Shelly F. Knight, Good Grief: The A To Z Approach Of Modern Day Grief Healing


~Image from Holisticism

I Smell

Clairalience: Clear smelling, being able to smell something that is not actually physically present in the 3D realm.

  • “I should’ve trusted my gut.”
  • “i had a feeling that was going to happen.”
  • “i just know it’s going to work out.”

These phrases are seemingly commonplace — but they’re actually hints of intuitive, clairvoyant powers. Do you ever find yourself asking why you didn’t listen to your gut feeling or your inner voice that told you what decision to make or direction to go? That was your clairvoyant self trying to guide you. Or maybe you’ve had an experience seeing an intuitive reader in an attempt to find more clarity on a situation, and left feeling that they affirmed messages that you already knew?
~Holisticism

After my son and I discussed his abilities, I started researching and it took me a while to find anything because I didn’t know what it was called. I thought it was a Clair but not sure. When I finally found a website that included it as one of the clairs, and I knew what to call it I found a lot of information. I was surprised but also fascinated by it and I want to learn more. I have listed more references below if you are interested.

Some authors I found have taken the French word ‘Clair’ and added an English word, such as, ‘scent’ to it! In my opinion, it should be ‘Clairalience’ or ‘Clearscent’ and not a combination. The French version sounds more ‘Magickal’ to me! And that’s my 2 cents!

Thank you @BryWisteria for creating this challenge! I love learning new things. :heart: :nose: :star2:

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