@therealbohobae: For those of you that insist on me asking 20 different ways whether or not someone is dead, I want you to understand that there are certain energies called tricksters that will give you trick answers like that to your question but your true spirit guide will never play games or give you trick answers. I have been doing this long enough that I am very familiar with the energy that is on my rods and I could even tell when the energy changes out and when a different guide or ancestor is on my rods answering. And I can definitely tell if and when a trickster has been on my rods and I can honestly say I haven’t had that problem since I first started using them. I give classes on how to properly use ride and identify tricksters so I think I know what I’m doing just a little bit.