Spiritual Sensitivity Check
Supervised by Ms.M
Affiliation: KARASU CHANNEL
Traditions studied: 12+ (Western astrology, Four Pillars of Destiny, Nine Star Ki, tarot, runes, palmistry & physiognomy, name numerology, numerology, feng shui, Vedic astrology / Zi Wei, Onmyodo, spiritual reading, and more)
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About this reading: "Reikan" (psychic intuition) is a term long used in Japanese folk belief and ghost-story culture for a special sensitivity to things unseen. It isn't a scientifically proven ability, and this page offers it purely as entertainment. It combines the zodiac animal of your birth year, your birth time (if entered), a small variation drawn from your birth date, and your answers to optional folklore-based questions, and reads how closely you fit the psychic-intuition type from a traditional, folklore-based point of view.
The birth-year animal here changes on January 1. If you were born between January 1 and about February 3, schools that change the year at Risshun (around February 4) would read you as the previous year's animal, so it's worth looking at that sign as well. Also, for birth time, both the 2 a.m. hour and the 3 a.m. hour count as "Ushimitsu-doki" (the witching hour). The traditional Ushimitsu-doki is said to run from about 2:00 to 2:30 a.m., so this is a deliberately broad rule of thumb.
Lore column: The Boy Who Saw a Procession of Demons: Abe no Seimei and the Gift of Kenki
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
In the Heian period, the power to see unseen things was called kenki, "seeing demons," and it is said to have been regarded as an essential gift for an onmyōji. The tale most often told to illustrate it is an episode from the youth of Abe no Seimei. According to the Konjaku Monogatarishū, compiled at the end of the Heian period, the young Seimei was walking at night beside the ox-cart of his teacher, Kamo no Tadayuki, when he saw terrifying demons coming toward the front of the cart.
Tadayuki, asleep inside, was woken by Seimei, saw the demons, and used his arts to hide the whole party so they escaped harm. Recognizing the boy's gift, Tadayuki is said to have taught Seimei everything he knew, "as if pouring water from one jar into another." Reliable contemporary records of Seimei, however, only begin around the age of forty, and such tales of his boyhood are thought to be later legends.
As we see it here, what is truly frightening in this tale is not the demons but the picture it paints: while the grown-up sleeps, only the child notices that something in the dark is wrong. This is our own conjecture, but being able to "see" may always have been both a blessed gift and a loneliness that cannot be shared with those around you. Beneath the urge to test one's own sixth sense may lie a wish to have someone confirm that what you alone have sensed is real.
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